In 1982, he played Allan in the sexually-themed romantic comedy "Soup for One", directed and written by Jonathan Kaufer and produced by Marvin Worth. Rubinek appeared in Taylor Hackford's "Against All Odds" (1984), Alan Alda's "Sweet Liberty" as director Bo Hopkins, Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" (1987), as a lawyer, "The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick" (1988), as a fun-loving rabbi, Brian De Palma's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1990), again as a lawyer, and in a lead part as a rabbi in "The Quarrel" (1991). He is noted for his performance in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" (1992) as a pulp fiction writer. He had a notable role in Tony Scott's "True Romance" (1993) as a pompous, cocaine-addicted film producer based on Joel Silver and Harvey Weinstein.