Israeli movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant israeli movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, touching, tense and psychological films and TV shows about / with israeli, family relations, hebrew, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, society, cigarette smoking, male nudity, female nudity and judaism plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in Israel, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as israeli: Surrogate (2008), Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003), The House on Chelouche Street (1973), Nina's Tragedies (2003), In Between (2016), The Bubble (2006), Princess (2014), To Take a Wife (2004), Or (My Treasure) (2004), The Cakemaker (2017).
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List of israeli movies
177
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
Eli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. They meet once a week and practice a relationship and intimacy in laboratory conditions. The ...
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
israeli, therapy, male female relationship, childhood trauma, laboratory, sex crime, trauma, male nudity, female nudity, male pubic hair, nudity, female pubic hair ...
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds out ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
secret relationship, high school, prodigy, self discovery, teenage life, dysfunctional family, youth, human nature, fall in love, teenage love, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
Style:
semi autobiographical, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, older woman younger man relationship, israeli, young romance, youth, coming of age, teenage boy, british soldier, labor strike, loss of virginity, age difference, world war two ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
palestine, africa, middle east, israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, sweet, semi serious ...
Plot:
incestuous desire, peeping tom, longing, sexual obsession, aunt nephew relationship, infatuation, unrequited love, coming of age, israeli, first love, voyeur, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and ...
Style:
sincere, unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
israeli, arab, dating, judaism, friendship, student, female friendship, young woman, university, drug use, roommate, single woman ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, indiana, jerusalem ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay sex, sex, male nudity, gay love, gay, lgbtq, forbidden love, israeli, gay interest, lgbt, gay soldier ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel, palestine, idaho ...
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839
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
Style:
realistic, serious, erotic, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
forbidden sex, pedophilia, mother daughter relationship, teenage sexuality, dysfunctional family, rape, family relations, parents and children, friendship, pedophile, friends, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lovers, extramarital affair, coercion, conflict, family feud, marriage, divorce, israeli, dysfunctional family, synagogue, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, down on your luck, escort, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, indiana, persia, israel ...
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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:
sexy, melancholic, psychological, tense, social ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbtq, gay lead character, gay relationship, closeted gay, love, lgbt, bisexual man, gay romance, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2017, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel, berlin germany, palestine, germany, jerusalem
Is relevant?
311
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Israel, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their friends, they form a group, which discusses the future ...
Plot:
conflict, israeli, israeli palestinian conflict, immigrant, utopia, family relations, zionism, sex, bookstore, husband wife relationship, world war two, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
palestine, israel, tel aviv israel
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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, touching, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
arranged marriage, israeli, culture clash, forbidden love, social differences, fall in love, love and romance, family problems, couples, parents and children, family life, self discovery ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 70s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Egon Schultz, the last Nazi criminal, is extradited by Syria to Israel. Hoffman, A wealthy businessman and son of a holocaust survivor, puts out a 2 million dollar contract on his head and a group of people turned Nazi-Hunters make their way through ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspenseful, serious, dark ...
Plot:
israeli, holocaust, hitman, revenge, nazi hunter, survivor, assassin, justice, trauma, retribution, vigilante justice, war crime ...
Time:
2000s, near future
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, tel aviv israel, germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
sumo, friendship, israeli, physical appearance, ambition, self discovery, buddies, job seeking, couple relations, athlete and trainer, family relations, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, dramatic, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, aids, israeli, sexuality, family drama, lgbt, humanism, identity, illness, empathy, gay, grief ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
12K
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, arab israeli conflict, confined, sergeant, tank, israeli, israeli soldier, army vs civilians, military life, mission gone awry, moral dilemma, danger ...
Time:
year 1982, year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine, big ben london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Naor's Friends is an Israeli television sitcom created by Naor Zion for the Israeli Channel 10. The series premiered on November 14, 2006 and series 3 started airing on April 5, 2011. The Israeli comedian Naor Zion completely wrote and directed ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
friends, israeli, friendship, looking for love, lifestyle, buddies, couples, wooing, singleness, silly humor, looking for sex, city life ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A personal movie inspired by Maoz’s experience as a soldier, through a tragic yet universal story of grief.
Style:
social, surreal, political, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot:
israeli army, bare breasts, camel, israeli, israeli soldier, dementia, grief, loss of son, marijuana, accidental death, judaism, dialogue ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, switzerland
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162
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Marcel Ben David is a former police officer that joins PMTA (initials in Hebrew for: Tel Aviv District Attorney), and herself in the middle of an entangled corruption story. A suspenseful legal drama with Chen Amsalem, Shlomo Bar-Aba and Oshri Cohen.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, captivating, clever, serious ...
Plot:
corruption, investigation, district attorney, israeli, judiciary, attorney general, police interrogation, lawyer, judge, court, legal, cover up ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tel aviv israel, israel, jerusalem
Is relevant?
175
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The series begins one night at the height of the bachelor party of Eyal Malka on the family yacht, one of the largest crime families in Israel. Until they board the yacht and assassinate all the men and soldiers of the family. The women of the Malka ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
crime family, revenge, israeli, mafia, family drama, women, female protagonist, widow, murder, assassination, dysfunctional family, political conspiracy ...
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Syria
TV show
Story:
The series sheds light on the Palestinian issue, through the story of a Palestinian rural family in the 1930s, passing through many important events, until the setback of June 1967, and how the family members survived despite the dangers of war.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, family saga ...
Plot:
occupation, conflict, islam, israeli, arab israeli conflict, refugee, social problems, wartime life, identity crisis, family bonds, diaspora, exile ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
palestine, middle east
Is relevant?
105
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Guy Nehama has a wife he loves, a job in a high-tech company he despises, and 5 children that he doesn't really know. He finds himself in the midst of a mid-life crisis, feeling that because of his family he gave up on a career as a stand-up ...
Style:
emotional, semi serious, psychological, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, israeli, parenthood, male protagonist, loss, widower, grief, mourning, family drama, fatherhood, social problems, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel, palestine
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
A hilarious family sitcom that follows the lives of a perfectly normal suburban family living in the divorce capital of the country. With many reasons to be happy, they have even more reasons to go to therapy – their sex life, his best friend, her ...
Style:
sitcom, entertaining, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
slice of life, satire, israeli, therapist, eccentric family, husband wife relationship, relationships, family relations, suburban life, flashback, mother in law, sexual humor ...
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is greeted by David, an Israeli officer and writer who's also the nephew of Jerusalem's mayor
Style:
political thriller, tense, intercultural, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
israeli, photojournalist, urban, journalism, political intrigue, secrets, conspiracy, military, officer, espionage, moral ambiguity, investigation ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
middle east, jerusalem, israel, new york
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Genre: Crime, 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, terrorist, rebellion, danger, state affairs, terrorism, social decay, swat, rebelliousness, society, social differences, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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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:
cult classic, not serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
israeli, conservative, israeli culture, soldier, desert, satire, silly humor, disorder, nothing goes right, daring rescue, chases and races, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
israel, middle east, egypt, palestine, asia
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Genre: Biography, 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, sincere, touching, social, art house ...
Plot:
unhappy wife, judge, divorce, courtroom drama, marital separation, fighting the system, rebellion, discrimination, injustice, legal action, society, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, maghreb, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of the big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish ...
Style:
black comedy, black and white, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
israeli, islam, arab culture, satire, immigrant, family relations, society, fighting the system, rebellion, family life, large family, refugee camp ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
investigation, world war two, war, nazi, mossad, espionage, war crime, war criminal, holocaust, israeli, nazi hunter, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, year 1964, post world war two, 60s ...
Place:
germany, hamburg germany, israel, west germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a haredi family in Jerusalem. Shulem Schtisel the father of a large family is dealing with his younger son who he wants to see married soon. His daughter, Giti is dealing in secret with marital problems while his other son Zvi Arie ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, serious, mysterious ...
Plot:
jewish family, jewish culture, orthodox jew, family relations, parents and children, dating, looking for love, religions or cults, society, love and romance, unfulfillment, retirement home ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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