| The Band's Visit (2007) | 7.5 | |
| The Bubble (2006) | 7.2 | |
| Tehran (2020) | 7.6 | |
| Yossi & Jagger (2002) | 7.1 | |
| Surrogate (2008) | 6.2 |
Israeli movies and TV shows – page 2
Best films
New films
| Nehama (2019) | 8.2 | |
| Hit & Run (2021) | 7.0 | |
| Kings (2022) | 8.0 | |
| Synonyms (2019) | 6.3 | |
| Dismissed (2021) | 7.9 |
List of israeli movies
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
An Israeli satire show featuring satirical references to current affairs of the past week through parodies of the people involved, as well as the thoughts of recurring characters. One of the most watched and influential shows on Israeli TV.
Style:
parody, witty, humorous, cynical, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
politics, political satire, society, state affairs, politically correct, media satire, artists and showbiz, israeli, satire, comedy team, impersonation, absurdism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don't want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who's fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in altman's restaurant.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, uplifting, sexual, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
israeli, lifeguard, nudity, beach, friendship, infidelity, rock, adolescence vs adulthood, voyeurism, womanizer, buddies, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, tel aviv 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, offbeat, touching, psychotronic
Plot:
israeli, israeli culture, supernatural, social relations, family relations, teenage love, foreknowledge, high school life, small town, family life, high school, mathematics ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, near future
Place:
israel, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
During his journey to Jerusalem young James learns the meaning of being Israeli.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, contemplative, clever ...
Plot:
wisdom of life, culture clash, friendship, fish out of water, immigrant, society, social differences, racism, teaching the ways of the world, misfit, boss and employee, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, 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 ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, hopes, children, midlife crisis, family life, human nature, couple relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, love and romance, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, islamic ...
Plot:
wedding, politics, occupation, ethnic, border, hijab, wedding ceremony, arranged marriage, nationalism, culture clash, love and romance, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
middle east, syria, israel, palestine
Is relevant?
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, small town life, unemployment, social decay, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, tel aviv israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defense minister and his wife move next door; the Secret Service orders the trees removed for security. The stoic Salma seeks ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, politics, injustice, widow, occupation, reconciliation, rules and policies, hopes, life is a bitch, society, legal ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, jerusalem, persia ...
Is relevant?
4K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Israel, Italy, India, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
Style:
realistic, stylized, emotional, sentimental, breathtaking ...
Plot:
politics, orphan, hopes, arab, refugee, injustice, rebellion, human spirit, society, fall in love, idealism, rebelliousness ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, persia, palestinian authority ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, disorder, society, introspection, occupation, adolescence vs adulthood, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
Is relevant?
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, contemplative ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
rabbi, judaism, orthodox jew, women's rights, love and romance, family relations, matchmaking, moral dilemma, wedding planning, introspection, society, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, belgium, tel aviv israel, israel
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a ...
Style:
dark, suspense, tense, brutal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, violence, vigilante, serial killer, violent, vengeance, vigilantism, death, brutality, murder, torture, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, tel aviv israel
Is relevant?
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, realistic, touching
Plot:
teenage life, impossible love, friendship, teenage love, hopes, introspection, social misfits, misfit, friends, disorder, culture clash, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1982 ...
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Avi Nesher's new film tracks the complex relationship between a Jerusalem Graffiti artist and a mysterious modern day prophet who is imprisoned in an abandoned apartment across the Artist's window.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, witty, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
amateur detective, lifestyle, investigation, society, religions or cults, artists and showbiz, israeli, supernatural power, hidden camera, rabbi, private detective, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, jerusalem
Is relevant?
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 ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, spy, terrorism, danger, undercover, moral dilemma, double agent, special agent, society, informant, israeli ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestinian authority, venice
Is relevant?
252K
Genre: 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, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, assassination, mossad, vengeance, judaism, politics, terrorist, vigilante, revenge, spy, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, germany, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?
Style:
tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, moral dilemma, betrayal, double agent, parents and children, who to trust, family relations, workplace situations, dishonesty, manipulation, secret agent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot:
impossible love, friendship, teenage love, teenage life, self discovery, starting over, couples, family life, false accusation, fall in love, society, politics ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three parallel stories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
israeli, gulf war, immigrant, society, opposites attract, couple relations, love and romance, couples, pregnancy, wartime life, fall in love, police ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
boy, friendship, refugee, battle zone, danger, military, military life, soldier, israeli, on the road, man boy relationship, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place:
middle east, palestine, beirut lebanon, lebanon
Is relevant?
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:
rough, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
soldier, bomb squad, israeli, military life, danger, evacuation, battle zone, military base, military, militia, officer, bombing ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 80s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Atlantica is a dark and edgy comedy about a failing rock band from Jerusalem that gets its shot at a long awaited success when a tour guide with inspirations of becoming a band manager joins them. The band members dream of fame and glory while their ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, dark comedy, indie film
Plot:
satire, rock band, israeli, music business, ambition, musician, music, desire for fame, record producer, direction and purpose, ambitious, music industry ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Eleven years after falling out, four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, reunite for one final mission: to find Yaeli, a former lover of one of them and sister of another. Their journey will take them deep into the Colombian jungle but, ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot:
israeli, disappearance, israeli army, jungle, soldier, girlfriend, friendship, investigation, danger, rivalry, ptsd, person thought dead is alive ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
colombia, israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, clever, exciting ...
Plot:
boy, kindergarten, israeli, female teacher, obsession, dedicated educator, teaching the ways of the world, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, prodigy, single parent, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, madrid, tel aviv israel, jerusalem ...
Is relevant?
266
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 13, Yoni is growing up. Fast. But not fast enough for this diminutive young man who is obsessed with getting bigger, taller and stronger. On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, Yoni has no choice but to “become a man” when he’s faced ...
Style:
sincere, touching, atmospheric, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, family life, physical appearance, teenage life, dysfunctional family, misfit, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, mental illness, mentally challenged, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Is relevant?
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, independent film ...
Plot:
rabbi, orthodox jew, charity, religious, childlessness, uninvited guest, redemption, religions or cults, couples, family relations, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
Style:
sincere, road movie, captivating, humorous, serious ...
Plot:
self discovery, on the road, human nature, bittersweet, righting the wronged, selflessness, bribery, redemption, friendship, israeli, hopes, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, romania, europe ...
Is relevant?
796
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family relations, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family feud, interracial relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, life turned upside down, family business, realism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, persia
Is relevant?
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:
melancholic, romantic drama, art house, psychological, sensual ...
Plot:
loneliness, urban, character study, intimacy, israeli, self discovery, alienation, obsession, casual sex, young adult, love hate relationship, street life ...
Place:
tel aviv israel, palestine
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