Israeli culture movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant israeli culture movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, semi serious, captivating and humorous films and TV shows about / with israeli culture, jewish, judaism, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, society, female nudity, husband wife relationship and dancing plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in Israel, France, Germany and other countries.
israeli culture
TOP 10 movies tagged as israeli culture: Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer (1976), Hot Bubblegum (1981), Saint Clara (1996), Alex Is Lovesick (1986), Late Marriage (2001), Broken Wings (2002), Munich (2005), Ushpizin (2004), Beaufort (2007).
List of israeli culture movies
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as ...
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
jewish, arab, military, israeli army, arab israeli conflict, war, israeli culture, world war two, terrorism, judaism, heroes, battles ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1947, year 1948
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, tel aviv israel
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sergio Konstanza, a Swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Seargent is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, cult film, weird ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jewish, israeli culture, soldier, desert, silly humor, satire, disorder, military, nothing goes right, dishonesty, track down, daring rescue ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
israel, egypt, asia, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Momo and Yudale take turns mounting Bentzi's foreign buxom cousin, but Yudale and her get stuck together. Momo raises the bar even further by proving the rumors of an accepting older buxom piano tutor, Fritzi. Bentzi looks for love.
Style:
realistic, teen sex comedy, humorous, sexy, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
looking for sex, teenager, sexual humor, friends, youth, buddies, teenage life, young lovers, teenage love, beach, love and romance, strong sexual content ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The year is 1999 and the storyline is actually a number of sub-plots all revolving around the 13-year old Clara, a girl that can predict the future and has telekinetic powers. The sub-plots include a boy in her class who has a crush on her, his ...
Style:
surreal, semi serious, touching, psychotronic, offbeat
Plot:
israeli culture, supernatural, social relations, mathematics, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, high school, family life, high school life, small town, foreknowledge ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, near future
Place:
middle east, israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, israeli culture, jewish, aunt, black market, bar mitzvah, family relations, society, young heroes, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jewish, family relations, erection, culture clash, social differences, fall in love, love and romance, couples, family problems, parents and children, family life, society ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
israel, tokyo, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Style:
emotional, touching, lyrical, depressing, stylized ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, jewish, hopes, children, human nature, couple relations, family life, midlife crisis, life is a bitch, single parent, love and romance, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sweet ...
Plot:
desert, racial discrimination, friendship, ethnic, immigrants, teenage life, culture clash, social differences, teenage love, settler, society, family relations ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
political, suspenseful, intense, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, jewish, spy, mossad, politics, murder, judaism, terrorist, secret agents ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, germany, beirut lebanon, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, married nearly five years and ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
rabbi, charity, orthodox jew, jewish, religious, uninvited guest, redemption, couples, family relations, religions or cults, couple relations, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, tense ...
Plot:
military, soldier, war, military life, evacuation, confined, military base, battle zone, militia, violence, officer, bombing ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian interest, lesbianism, religions or cults, rabbi, lgbtq, best friends, self discovery, selflessness, lesbian love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
wedding, honeymoon, estrangement, family relations, friendship, city life, maid, couples, lifestyle, orphan, hopes, parents and children ...
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel, asia, mediterranean sea ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, writer's life, family problems, working class, dysfunctional family, creative block, small town life, small town, social decay, unemployment, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
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Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, USA, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Much awarded animated documentary, in which director and Israeli army veteran Ari Folman interviews friends and former soldiers about their memories of the 1982 Lebanon war and especially the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. The usage on ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, adult animation, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
war, politics, jewish, memory loss, soldier, military, nightmare, haunted by the past, guilt, mass murder, catastrophe, tragic event ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
israel, lebanon, middle east, beirut lebanon, palestine
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, parents and children, teenage love, family in crisis, family problems, small town, fall in love, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
rabbi, cat, jewish culture, pets, misfit partners, religions or cults, partners, obsessive quest, disorder, on the road, racism, animal that acts human ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
algeria, africa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his ...
Style:
melancholic, meditative, surreal, thought provoking, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
rivalry, jewish, father son relationship, greed, secrets, existentialism, family problems, parents and children, ambition, estrangement, religions or cults, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, tokyo, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot:
military, tank, war, military life, mission gone awry, moral dilemma, leadership, confined, behind enemy lines, battle zone, deathtrap, lebanese ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, big ben london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Style:
sentimental, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
matchmaking, looking for love, love and romance, best friends, teenage life, apprentice, jewish, male female relationship, adaptation, holocaust, summer, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
middle east, israel
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
TJFF presents the pilot episode of the award-winning Israeli series that inspired the American hit, Homeland. Set in 2008, this first episode focuses on two Israeli soldiers being released after 17 years of captivity in Lebanon. It powerfully ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
terrorism, mossad, torture, pow, investigation, homecoming, soldier, haunted by the past, twists and turns, spy, government agency, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
rabbi, orthodox jew, judaism, arranged marriage, love and romance, family relations, matchmaking, moral dilemma, women's rights, society, introspection, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, belgium, tel aviv israel, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
judge, unhappy wife, courtroom drama, divorce, fighting the system, rebellion, marital separation, injustice, life is a bitch, unsupportive spouse, society, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their ...
Style:
funny, witty, talky, satirical, absurd ...
Plot:
office, military, female soldier, military base, virginity, friendship, soldier, kick-butt women, women, jewish, best friends, military life ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
israel, russia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search for the wife and son of his dead lover.
Style:
melancholic, sexy, tense, psychological, social ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, bisexual man, closeted gay, gay interest, lgbt, love, lgbtq, family relations, love and romance, gay lead character, religion, male objectification ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jerusalem, berlin germany, israel
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Joy can't let go of her ex, but doesn't seem to be able to fall for the new guy. In the meantime she keeps having casual sex with strangers.
Style:
student film
Plot:
israeli culture, sex scene, female protagonist, dancing, female nudity, oral sex, telephone call, headphones, bare breasts, cunnilingus, talking to the camera, female full frontal nudity ...
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