| Nehama (2019) | 8.2 | |
| Paradise Now (2005) | 7.4 | |
| When Heroes Fly (2018) | 7.1 | |
| Tehran (2020) | 7.6 | |
| Walk on Water (2004) | 7.3 |
Israeli movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
New films
| Manayek (2020) | 8.0 | |
| Dismissed (2021) | 7.9 | |
| The Girl from Oslo (2021) | 6.3 | |
| Sublet (2020) | 7.0 | |
| Synonyms (2019) | 6.3 |
List of israeli movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Three Israeli friends start selling Malabi dessert at their stall. They unknowingly use an ingredient that gets customers high, attracting people worldwide.
Style:
humorous, sexy, not serious, realistic, multicultural ...
Plot:
silly humor, twentysomething life, fall in love, love triangle, buddies, friends, love and romance, food, israeli, friendship, street vendor, media sensation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, tel aviv israel, latin america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
TV show
Story:
You've probably heard this story before. A boy comes out of the closet to his parents. A huge scandal breaks out. The parents insist they will never accept him. They demand that he change. Well . . . We want to tell you this story again, but in ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, lgbt, sexuality, tradition, israeli, bar mitzvah, gay couple, lgbtq, parenthood, relationship problems, parents and children, fatherhood ...
Place:
israel
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Amos, a 28-year-old baker, still lives with his parents and works in the family business. Noa is the most famous woman in the country and the beautiful daughter of a hotel magnate. Noa and Amos will meet by mistake, but it's a meeting neither ...
Style:
romantic comedy, rom com, feel good, lighthearted, emotional
Plot:
love story, relationships, impossible love, rich woman poor man, meet cute, israeli, celebrity, unrequited love, fame, love and romance, fashion model, love triangle ...
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Michal is 32 years old. She became religious 12 years ago, and only now is she getting married. A month before the wedding, while checking out the catering for the event, the groom has a change of heart and the wedding is called off. Michal feels ...
Style:
romantic drama, religious drama, emotional, existential, sweet
Plot:
wedding planning, wedding day, israeli, female protagonist, self discovery, religious community, wedding, matchmaking, female empowerment, miraculous event, bittersweet, resilience ...
Place:
palestine, israel
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Orit, Natalie and Mor are three sisters, and they are unsuccessful at everything.
Style:
captivating, humorous, funny, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
sisters, relationships, sister sister relationship, girl power, sister, three sisters, israeli, family relations, humour, life, problem solving, sexual humor ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel
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110
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The black comedy starts with the death of Avishai Sar-Shalom, a renowned economist and leading Nobel prize candidate. His body is found by his four close old friends, and moments before calling an ambulance, one of them brings up with an idea. Only ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, semi serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
nobel prize, death, cover up, satire, corpse, childhood friend, israeli, problem, hidden corpse, secret, irony, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.
Style:
psychological, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, family business, family relations, parents and children, workplace, disagreement, aging, unfulfillment, loss of partner, store, estrangement, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ovadia Rachmim is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for 5 years. A small time gangster named Shalom, offers Ovadia a job, to be a debts collector, offering him a lot of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating
Plot:
gangster, husband wife relationship, israeli, parenthood, fatherhood, family problems, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, couple relations, criminal, outlaw gang ...
Place:
palestine, tel aviv israel, israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Plot:
getting home, deportation, communication problem, hopes, family relations, stewardess, interracial relations, society, journey, israeli, love, judaism ...
Place:
israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bentzi, Momo, and Yuda'leh are three teenage boys growing up in 1950's Israel, which is not much different from 1950's America if you believe what you see in the film. Of course they are obsessed with one thing - sex. Bentzi is ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, homoerotic, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
sex, horniness, unrequited love, teenage pregnancy, nymphomaniac, teenager, erotica, israeli, looking for sex, unwanted pregnancy, virginity, party ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Going Steady aka Lemon Popsicle 2 is the sequel to the 1978 Israeli film Lemon Popsicle. The movie basically follows the daily lives of several teenagers as they are "coming of age" in what appears to be the late 50's (maybe early ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, sexual, teen sex comedy, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night
Plot:
israeli, young lovers, looking for sex, teenager, smoking, prom, beach, sexy teenager, nudity, suburbs, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain ...
Style:
philosophical, thinking, controversial, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
marital abuse, orthodox jew, religion, judaism, israeli, arranged marriage, arab, feminism, women, couples, strong female presence, family relations ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
israel, middle east, persia, palestine, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
rescue, soldier, military life, military, life is a bitch, danger, battle zone, realism, israeli, conflict, sex scene, israeli army ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, syria, iraq ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Comedy
Country: France, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, meditative, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
culture clash, lovers apart, politics, hopes, lovers reunited, danger, society, couples, israeli, arab, conflict, hospital ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, jerusalem, argentina ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
politics, soldier, military life, friendship, terrorism, women, danger, israeli, third world, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt ...
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, palestine
Is relevant?
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, biting ...
Plot:
love, politics, journalist, marriage, interracial relations, family life, satire, identity crisis, social differences, culture clash, couples, under the surface ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. She soon ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, politics, state affairs, social differences, love affair, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, discrimination, political unrest, israeli, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, persia, new york ...
Is relevant?
491
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Srugim is an Israeli television drama which originally aired on Yes TV between 2008 and 2012. It was directed by Eliezer "Laizy" Shapiro, who co-created it with Hava Divon. The series depicted the lives of five national religious single ...
Style:
contemplative, sentimental, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
social relations, friendship, best friend, couples, introspection, couple relations, friends, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, society, singleness ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, asia, jerusalem
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, USA, India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, Robin Wright decides to take her final job: preserving her likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, cerebral, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, moral dilemma, flying a kite, female protagonist, hallucination, actor's life, lifestyle, child illness, parallel world, escape from reality, one last job, society ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
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:
thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, doctors and patients, political unrest, injustice, society, wartime life, friendship, life is a bitch, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, palestinian authority, jerusalem
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Palestine
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The drama, the story of three childhood friends and a young woman who are torn apart in their fight for freedom, is billed as the first fully-financed film to come out of the Palestinian cinema industry.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful, mind blowing, controversial ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, power of love, friendship, moral dilemma, resistance, confession, gain trust, family relations, danger, love affair, terrorism, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, palestinian authority, maghreb, israel
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: Israel, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv's hip-hop club scene.
Style:
thrilling, beautiful
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, israeli, music, musician's life, musician, relationships, love interest, husband wife relationship, problem, social problems, male female relationship, lifestyle ...
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Izzy Bachar, a police internal affairs investigator, discovers just before retirement that his long time friend Barak, a senior police officer, is accused to be corrupt. Life as he knows it breaks into pieces.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense
Plot:
friendship, dirty cop, corruption, investigation, internal affairs, israeli, friends, police officer, partner, partners against crime, law enforcement, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, ukraine, middle east, palestine
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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:
adult animation, rough, experimental, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
politics, military, mass murder, memory loss, soldier, haunted by the past, guilt, male pubic hair, catastrophe, memory, mission, army ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
lebanon, israel, middle east, palestine, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense ...
Plot:
war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, holocaust, nazi, mission, world war, israeli, chase, manhunt, secret agent ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, year 1939, year 1954, year 1945 ...
Place:
israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv 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, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
wedding, beach, israeli, honeymoon, family relations, estrangement, friendship, maid, couples, hopes, lifestyle, orphan ...
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, mediterranean sea, asia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The film revolves around an engineer working for an oil company in Dubai. He had to return to Egypt after twenty years. He was surprised that the Israeli Embassy was next to his apartment and was trying hard to sell the apartment at first.
Style:
captivating, satirical, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
apartment building, satire, arab, embassy, social problems, political unrest, political activism, social issues, israeli, political satire, social commentary, nationalism ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
cairo egypt, palestine, middle east, dubai
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The heart-wrenching story of a gay man's determination to fulfill his dream of adopting a child. Cultures clash as the plot thickens from the outset until the finale leaving the viewer drawn into an intricate web of conceit and passion.
Style:
sincere, contemplative, psychological, entertaining, unusual plot structure
Plot:
lgbt, gay, family relations, gay adoption, gay lead character, parents and children, gay couple, couple relations, love affair, gays and lesbians, love, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A Brazilian telenovela that follows the people of Israel on their way out of the Egyptian captivity to their eponymous "Promised Land". Loosely based on the Biblical narrative, the key characters and incidents are retained, but extended ...
Style:
biblical, novela, harsh, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
bible, moses, exodus, religious, mission, warrior, israeli, bible story, determination, troops, faith, desert ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
egypt
Is relevant?
103
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Kings will tell the story of the nation of Israel, from the moment when the last judge, the prophet Samuel, is used by God to guide His people, to the sad fall of Jerusalem, caused by the armies of Babylon.
Style:
biblical, novela, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
king, religious, kingdom, bible, religious faith, belief in god, bible story, israeli, faith, old testament, biblical stories, tragedy ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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