Movies and TV shows set in jerusalem – page 4
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List of movies set in jerusalem
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Kuwait, Syria, Jordan
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
It revolves around the two grandsons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Hassan and Hussein, and their relationship with their companions, sedition that occurred between them and their companions after the killing of Usman ibn Affan.
Plot:
arab culture, islam, conspiracy, true crime, tribe, male protagonist, army, throne, politics, horse, arabic history, civil war ...
Time:
6th century, 7th century
Place:
palestine, jerusalem, iraq, egypt
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A college professor and maverick exorcist recruits a bunch of gifted college misfits to help him on his most dangerous quest yet.
Style:
vintage
Plot:
gift, weapons, love interest, college, catholic church, code, holy grail, nazi, catholic priest, cannabis, knights templar, catholic ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
jerusalem, portugal, united kingdom
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Sweden, UK, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Morocco
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Style:
captivating, epic, exciting, scenic, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
medieval, knight, crusader, monastery, crusade, knights templar, nordic, sword fight, cavalry, ancient, religion, heroes ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 12th century
Place:
eastern europe, morocco, middle east, europe, jerusalem ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
politics, undercover, political intrigue, danger, state affairs, government agency, government facility, international crisis, mossad, nuclear, terrorism, spy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
israel, middle east, lebanon, jerusalem, france ...
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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
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Israel, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rabbi, culture clash, fish out of water, midlife crisis, religions or cults, society, nothing goes right, disorder, husband wife relationship, israeli, immigrant, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, france, paris france, europe, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Style:
sincere, sexy, touching, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
adoption, racism, boy, rescue, refugee, rabbi, hidden identity, love of one's life, fall in love, hopes, orphan, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 90s
Place:
africa, israel, middle east, palestine, paris france ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mossad, terrorism, bodyguard, espionage, undercover, female assassin, murder of a nude woman, female warrior, secret agent, assassination, assassination attempt, vengeance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new york, jerusalem, austria, zurich switzerland, tel aviv israel ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rayford Steele is an airline pilot whose relationship with his wife has gone sour;he ponders having an affair with an attractive flight attendant, Hattie Durham. In the midst of a flight to London, a number of their passengers mysteriously ...
Style:
inspirational, suspenseful, tense, serious, christian film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disaster, redemption, natural disaster, god, chaos, stewardess, supernatural, danger, save the world, journalism, race against time, post apocalypse ...
Time:
90s, future, 2000s
Place:
england, israel, london, europe, chicago ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Emily Boynton, stepmother to the three Boynton children -- Lennox, Raymond and Carol -- and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from ...
Style:
talky, independent film, slasher, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, murder mystery, whodunit, passionate kiss, investigation, murder, hercule poirot, dysfunctional family, lawyer, conspiracy, blackmail, ship ...
Time:
year 1937, 1930s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new jersey, holy land, italy, europe, jerusalem ...
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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: 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, retro, cult classic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
arab, arab israeli conflict, military, fortress, israeli army, war, conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, struggle, husband wife relationship, desert, adultery ...
Time:
1940s, year 1966, 20th century, year 1948, year 1947
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem, tel aviv israel
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Major Ronan Jackson (Devon Sawa), an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator (Robert Patrick), is shot down while flying through Syrian airspace. After miraculously surviving the crash, Jackson is taken ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, exciting
Plot:
torture, male male relationship, muscleman, imperialism, airplane shot down, machismo, tough guy, pow, terrorist, rescue, islam, military ...
Place:
syria, palestine, jerusalem
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the ...
Style:
biblical, uplifting, epic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
jesus christ, christianity, bible, destiny, resurrection, betrayal, ambition, supernatural ability, supernatural, leadership, tragic hero, reincarnation ...
Time:
1st century, biblical epic
Place:
jerusalem, middle east, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Directed by Moshé Mizrahi.
Plot:
polygamy, orphan, synagogue, teenage girl, arab, mother in law daughter in law relationship, self sacrifice, menage a trois, jealousy, religion, rabbi, gossip ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
middle east, jerusalem
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, ...
Style:
art house, expressionism
Plot:
open marriage, art, writers, art exhibition, officer, death of child, assault, world war one, death of son, german expressionism, poet, physician ...
Place:
jerusalem, switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dramatization of the controversial best-seller that posits an alternate version of the birth of Christianity. In this version, Jesus planned for His crucifixion by taking a drug that would simulate death. After His unconscious body was placed in the ...
Style:
serious, historical drama, thought provoking, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
jesus christ, jesus, alternate history, bible, crucifix, conspiracy, resurrection, moral ambiguity, iconoclastic, power struggle, political unrest, political intrigue ...
Time:
1st century
Place:
jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.
Style:
erotic, philosophical, romantic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
gay sex, gay love, gay romance, gay, unrequited love, gay lead character, homoeroticism, skinny dipping, romantic friendship, brother brother relationship, male nudity, countdown ...
Place:
hong kong, china, tel aviv israel, jerusalem, australia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA, Czech Republic, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story:
Director Roger Young (JOSEPH AND JESUS) presents this dramatic television miniseries that recounts the life of Paul (Johannes Brandrup) the Apostle of Jesus Christ. Originally known as Paul of Tarsus, Paul tortured and persecuted Christians until he ...
Style:
biblical, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
christianity, folk hero, apostle, christian, state affairs, bible, legends and myths, heroes, faith, bible story, father son relationship, new testament ...
Time:
1st century
Place:
holy land, rome italy, jerusalem
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
During the first century A.D., Judah Ben-Hur is a young Hebrew prince who is thrown into slavery by the Romans after a tragic accident. He sets out to win his way back to his home on a heroic journey of discovery. Judah's love for a beautiful ...
Style:
epic, exciting, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
friendship, human spirit, heroes, betrayal, rivalry, society, captivity, battles, corrupted ruler, redemption, hopes, getting home ...
Time:
1st century, ancient times, 1920s
Place:
israel, jerusalem, holy land
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet in Jerusalem involving a Palestinian woman and an Israeli man.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, against the odds, unlikely couple, opposites attract, social differences, religions or cults, couples, fall in love, love and romance, society, young lovers, tragic love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, 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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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, sparks fly when a Jew and a Muslim fall in love in New York. David (David Moscow), TV host of "Sex & Happiness", becomes smitten with the voluptuous Layla (Shiva Rose) - a mysterious, sensual dancer who ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, meet the parents, culture clash, fall in love, love and romance, couples, parents and children, hopes, unlikely couple, family relations, desire, belly dancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, kurdistan, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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990
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
Style:
romantic, romantic drama, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, destiny, love, memory, storytelling, adultery, death, marital infidelity, lost love, stranger, infidelity, couples ...
Time:
year 1997
Place:
paris france, middle east, montmartre paris, london, israel ...
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698
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
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this spiritual thriller, an ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of Apocalypse. Gillen Lane (Casper Van Dien) is a expert on theology and mythology who has gained international fame as a ...
Style:
futuristic, christian film, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
christian, heroic mission, religious, religion, destiny, new world order, heroes, society, danger, escapades, chaos, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1999, future, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, israel, middle east, italy, jerusalem ...
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthday. Michael doesn't fully understand where he is, or why he's there. A guardian angel ...
Style:
offbeat, feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, preschool
Plot:
heaven, holiday, christmas, afterlife, youth, supernatural, god, religions or cults, disorder, animal life, family relations, ancient history ...
Time:
1st century b.c.
Place:
jerusalem
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity ...
Style:
grindhouse, offbeat, apocalyptic, semi documentary, contemplative ...
Plot:
dystopia, rock and roll, rock star, social commentary, swing, angry, marxist, pop music, human experiment, distopia, social satire, satire ...
Time:
year 1967, future, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, birmingham alabama, europe, jerusalem, london
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the ...
Style:
period piece, epic, entertaining, exciting, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night, teens ...
Plot:
knight, robin hood, good versus evil, archer, sword fight, chase, swashbuckler, justice, medieval, folk hero, courage, sword and shield ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, ancient times, 19th century, 12th century
Place:
england, britain, europe, israel, jerusalem ...
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