Palestinian-israeli conflict movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant palestinian-israeli conflict movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking, bleak, tense and disturbing films and TV shows about / with palestinian-israeli conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, middle east conflict, terrorism, jewish, terrorist, politics, society, danger and suspense plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and War genres shot in USA, Israel, France and other countries.
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palestinian-israeli conflict movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as palestinian-israeli conflict: Farha (2021), Kiss Me Before It Blows Up (2020), A Private War (2018), Spy Game (2001), Beirut (2018), Tokyo Sonata (2008), A Borrowed Identity (2014), Bethlehem (2013), Our Music (2004), Free Zone (2005).

List of palestinian-israeli conflict movies

 8.2
 79K
Farha (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.
Plot: suspense, teenager, palestinian-israeli conflict, father daughter relationship, female friendship, exile, identity, coming of age
Time: 1940s
Place: palestine
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Kiss Me Before It Blows Up (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A subversive love story between clashing cultures and families, KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and an Palestinian man, chaos follows. What ...
Style: light, captivating, romantic, entertaining
Plot: lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian, culture clash, woman woman relationship, lesbian teen, generation gap, love affair, relationships, mother daughter conflict, woman, fall in love ...
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 6.7
 20K
A Private War (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
Style: tense, disturbing, rough, political, bloody ...
Plot: war correspondent, kurd, mission, journalism, death of child, hospital, photographer, dictator, women, life is a bitch, war, uncover truth ...
Time: year 1991, year 2011, year 2001, year 2003, year 2012 ...
Place: syria, baghdad iraq, iraq, london, sri lanka ...
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 7.0
 160K
Spy Game (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Japan, France, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Veteran spy Nathan Muir is on the verge of retiring from the CIA when he learns that his one-time protégé and close friend, Tom Bishop, is a political prisoner sentenced to die in Beijing. Although their friendship has been marred by bad blood and ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, stylized, rough, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, cia, mentor, terrorist, working undercover, suspense, undercover, secret agents, conspiracy, political corruption, cold war ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: china, washington d.c., saigon, cyprus, munich germany ...
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 6.5
 23K
Beirut (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A former U. S. diplomat returns to service in order to save a former colleague in Beirut.
Style: political, suspenseful, rough, bleak, social
Plot: terrorist, hostage, terrorism, mission, intrigue, arab, spy, espionage, attack, fight, heroes, war ...
Time: year 1972, year 1982, 70s, 80s
Place: middle east, lebanon, palestine, israel, beirut lebanon
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 7.5
 11K
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ryûhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) is keeping a secret from his wife, Megumi (Kyôko Koizumi), and his two teenage sons. Even though he leaves the house every day, he's not really going to work. He's going to an employment office. He ...
Style: lyrical, talky, stylized, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, rebellion, youth, unemployment, job seeking, housewife, layoff, hopes, family secret, chinawoman, family problems, social problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, middle east, asia, china
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A Borrowed Identity (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
Plot: teenage life, boarding school, friendship, teenage love, introspection, hopes, disorder, friends, immigrants, social misfits, misfit, fish out of water ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1982, year 1991 ...
Place: israel, middle east
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 7.1
 2K
Bethlehem (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur, the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited Sanfur when he was just 15, and developed a ...
Style: tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, spy, terrorism, special agents, undercover, moral dilemma, double agent, society, informant, murder, teenager, jewish ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: israel, palestinian authority, middle east, venice
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 6.8
 3K
Our Music (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from ...
Style: intellectual, meditative, philosophical, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: politics, life philosophy, existentialism, self discovery, greed, society, human nature, anti war, journalist, poetry, religion, bosnian war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, tokyo, france, former yugoslavia ...
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 5.7
 3K
Free Zone (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Belgium, France, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large of sum of money.
Style: road movie, serious, thought provoking, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: female protagonist, border crossing, on the road, breakup, society, friendship, taxi, israeli, american, culture clash, political unrest, jewish ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: israel, jordan, jerusalem, middle east, saudi arabia ...
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 5.2
 933
Rosebud (1975)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, yacht, hostage, terrorist, spy, boat, intrigue, open ending, secret agents, kidnapping, cave, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: middle east, israel, french riviera, jerusalem, hamburg germany ...
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 7.4
 24K
Paradise Now (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France, Germany, Netherlands, Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paradise Now is filmed from the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel. This is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, controversial, political ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, suicide, freedom, friendship, bomb, israeli palestinian conflict, manipulation, self sacrifice, occupation, destiny, mission gone awry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority, jerusalem ...
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Out in the Dark (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue in this striking debut feature from Israeli director Michael Mayer.
Style: emotional, sincere, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay relationship, forbidden love, gay couple, gay student, homosexuality, gay love, gay sex, love affair, family relations, male homosexuality, lgbtq ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, tel aviv israel, palestinian authority, tel aviv ...
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 6.9
 6K
September 11 (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, USA, Iran
Duration: 134 min.
Story: 11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
Style: disturbing, stylized, factual, intellectual, talky ...
Plot: terrorism, war on terror, politics, justice, 9/11, skyscraper, state affairs, injustice, innocence lost, life is a bitch, love affair, jewish ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s
Place: usa, new york, iran, middle east, palestine ...
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 4.5
 824
Drones (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Drones begins in the Nevada desert, where new girl Sue Lawson joins airman Jack in a hot, windowless bunker from which they manoeuvre unmanned drones across the plains of Afghanistan. Their first day at work is awkward but polite, with Jack all too ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: terrorism, moral dilemma, desert, suspense, u.s. military, technology, us military, palestinian-israeli conflict, computer game, strong female presence, middle east conflict, israeli palestinian conflict ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
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Walk on Water (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: gay, hitman, redemption, murder, spy, lgbt, family secret, gay slur, machismo, mossad, introspection, working undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, berlin germany, germany, argentina, jerusalem ...
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- ...
Style: ridiculous, funny, humorous, exciting, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: hidden identity, culture clash, follow your dream, love and romance, farce, couples, taxi, starting over, american dream, stereotypes, uninhibited rivalry, understanding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, israel, usa, middle east, tel aviv israel ...
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Waltz with Bashir (2008)
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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Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
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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 6.8
 3K
Inch'Allah (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, political unrest, doctors and patients, society, injustice, life is a bitch, wartime life, friendship, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, jewish ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, jerusalem, palestinian authority
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 6.3
 1K
Policeman (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, bleak
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, fighting the system, terrorism, rebellion, state affairs, social decay, swat team, society, rebelliousness, social differences, politics, terrorist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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Under the Bombs (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Lebanon, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, offbeat ...
Plot: friendship, on the road, bombing, unlikely couple, missing person, couples, family relations, war, couple relations, wartime life, parents and children, demolished city ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: lebanon
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 6.6
 40
Mouna (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mouna is a Palestinian photographer living in Tel Aviv, moments before her big professional break. When a military operation in Gaza goes out of hand, she is faced with the realities of both worlds she lives in, and with the close relationships with ...
Plot: sex, female photographer, relationships, palestinian-israeli conflict, art exhibition, domestic violence, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, middle east conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, photograph
Place: tel aviv, tel aviv israel, palestine, israel
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 7.6
 44K
Messiah (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, controversial, cult film ...
Plot: religion, messiah, cia, prophet, cia agent, politics, isis, jesus, disorder, society, media, investigation ...
Place: middle east, israel, texas
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 8.5
 233
Arab Labor (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Amjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra.
Style: sitcom, humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: marriage, love, journalist, politics, interracial relations, family life, satire, culture clash, identity crisis, social differences, under the surface, couples ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, jerusalem
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 8.3
 32K
Fauda (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, intense, political ...
Plot: war on terror, israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, terror, espionage, covert operation, operation, disguise, government agency, murder, assassination, israeli ...
Place: palestine, israel
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The Honourable Woman (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, spy, political unrest, powerful corporation, family relations, secret service, state affairs, muslim, political intrigue, mistrust, undercover, cia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, england, israel, usa ...
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 8.4
 2K
The Promise (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 356 min.
TV show
Story: A young British girl travels to Israel/Palestine, retracing the steps of her grandfather - a British soldier stationed there in the 1940s.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: jewish, israeli palestinian conflict, soldier, diary, military, military life, wartime life, youth, society, life is a bitch, occupation, political unrest ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, palestinian authority, middle east
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