Movies and TV shows set in israel

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in israel ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional, tense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with israeli, hebrew, conflict, military, dancing, family relations, society, female nudity, judaism and world war two plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres shot in Israel, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as israel: Fucking Different Tel Aviv (2009), Hot Bubblegum (1981), Tehran (2020), The House on Chelouche Street (1973), Prisoners of War (2009), Forgiveness (2006), That Lovely Girl (2014), A Borrowed Identity (2014), Late Marriage (2001), The Secrets (2007).

List of movies set in israel

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Fucking Different Tel Aviv (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 14 gay and lesbian filmmakers from Tel Aviv present short films about their sexuality.
Style: thought provoking, touching, sexy, anthology, offbeat ...
Plot: gender, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, gays and lesbians, couples, sexual relations, religion, politics, graphic violence, israeli, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
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Hot Bubblegum (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Momo and Yudale take turns mounting Bentzi's foreign buxom cousin, but Yudale and her get stuck together. Momo raises the bar even further by proving the rumors of an accepting older buxom piano tutor, Fritzi. Bentzi looks for love.
Style: realistic, teen sex comedy, humorous, not serious, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: looking for sex, teenager, sexual humor, friends, youth, teenage life, young lovers, teenage love, beach, love and romance, adolescent girl, strong sexual content ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: israel
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 7.6
 23K
Tehran (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, UK, Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A Mossad agent embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker in her home town of Tehran.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Plot: mossad, covert operation, computer, hacker, danger, spy, israeli, secret agent, investigation, criminal, terrorist group, hostage ...
Place: tehran iran, israel, iran, middle east, palestine
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The House on Chelouche Street (1973)
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: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Plot: israeli, coming of age, youth, young romance, british soldier, widow, teenage boy, virgin, labor strike, loss of virginity, communist, conflict ...
Time: 1940s
Place: israel, palestine, africa, middle east
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Prisoners of War (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: TJFF presents the pilot episode of the award-winning Israeli series that inspired the American hit, Homeland. Set in 2008, this first episode focuses on two Israeli soldiers being released after 17 years of captivity in Lebanon. It powerfully ...
Style: psychological, captivating, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot: mossad, terrorism, torture, pow, investigation, homecoming, soldier, haunted by the past, twists and turns, spy, government agency, family relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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 6.5
 106
Forgiveness (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to ...
Style: emotional, rough, uplifting, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: mental institution, haunted by the past, uncover truth, human spirit, memory loss, culture clash, hopes, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, conflict, israeli, male nudity ...
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, usa
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That Lovely Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter...
Style: serious, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: incest, father daughter incest, incestuous sex, sex with father, father daughter sex, sex with daughter, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, incestuous relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, tel aviv israel
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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, realistic, touching
Plot: boarding school, teenage life, friendship, teenage love, hopes, introspection, bare breasts, social misfits, misfit, friends, disorder, impossible love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1982 ...
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
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Late Marriage (2001)
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: culture clash, social differences, love and romance, fall in love, couples, family problems, family life, parents and children, self discovery, society, couple relations, israeli ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine
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 7.0
 2K
The Secrets (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian interest, religions or cults, rabbi, lgbtq, best friend, self discovery, selflessness, nude painting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine
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Zero Motivation (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their ...
Style: funny, satirical, talky, witty, humorous ...
Plot: office, kick-butt women, military, military base, friendship, virginity, soldier, female soldier, israeli, best friend, military life, hapless soldier ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine
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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: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, soldier, diary, military, wartime life, military life, youth, society, life is a bitch, occupation, political unrest, loss of family member ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, palestinian authority, middle east
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Beyond Friendship (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, UK, Italy, Greece, Israel, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
Style: captivating, disturbing, serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot: rebellion, friendship, military, battles, rivalry, danger, state affairs, rebelliousness, politics, political unrest, wartime life, conflict ...
Time: 1940s
Place: israel, palestine, jerusalem, middle east, greece ...
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 4.8
 11K
Jeruzalem (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, exciting, psychotronic ...
Plot: tourist, supernatural, found footage, curses spells and rituals, demon, apocalypse, zombie outbreak, zombie, muslim, church, transformation, danger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1972, 21st century
Place: israel, jerusalem, tel aviv israel, palestine, asia
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 8.3
 38K
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, suspense, intense ...
Plot: espionage, israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, war on terror, terror, israeli, assassination, murder, danger, chase, mossad, spy ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
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 6.1
 786
Kedma (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Israel, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, sad, tense ...
Plot: military, immigrant, survival, tragic love, culture clash, life is a bitch, danger, society, against humanity, political unrest, hopes, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: israel, middle east, palestine
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)
Genre: 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, touching, sincere, art house, detective ...
Plot: unhappy wife, judge, courtroom drama, divorce, fighting the system, rebellion, marital separation, discrimination, injustice, legal action, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, maghreb, middle east
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 7.1
 762
Sweet Mud (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: youth, suicide, coming of age, teenage crush, dysfunctional family, escape from reality, grownups, family problems, family relations, social misfits, society, escape attempt ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: israel, middle east
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 6.8
 4K
Sand Storm (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, social
Plot: second marriage, second wife, bedouin, family problems, mother daughter conflict, women in society, marriage, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, relationship problems, female protagonist ...
Time: 2010s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, indiana
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 6.8
 72K
The Debt (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mossad, spy, war criminal, cold war, secret agent, nazi hunter, espionage, nazi, kidnapping, female protagonist, corruption, moral ambiguity ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1997 ...
Place: israel, middle east, germany, east germany, berlin germany ...
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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: captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, sad ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, spy, terrorism, special agent, undercover, moral dilemma, danger, double agent, society, informant, israeli, murder ...
Time: year 2013, year 2005, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, venice, palestinian authority
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Wedding in Galilee (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: arab, farm, wedding, colonialism, arab israeli conflict, foreign legion, legion, international relations, conflict, village, bride and groom, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: palestine, israel, persia, middle east
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Valley of Tears (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: On October 6th 1973, the Middle East was shaken by the biggest war it had ever seen. A war that should have been the last one, and that forever changed the region.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: israeli army, israeli palestinian conflict, military, war, soldier, military base, protector, military life, struggle for survival, fight, warrior, battles ...
Time: year 1973, 70s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, syria, egypt
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The Other Son (2012)
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, parents and children, life turned upside down, disorder, introspection, society, occupation, family in crisis, interracial relations ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
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7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Malta
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: rescue mission, terrorist, terrorism, counter terrorism, airplane hijack, politics, airplane, hijacking, hijacker, death threat, hostage, israeli ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: israel, uganda, jerusalem, frankfurt germany, athens greece
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Lemon Popsicle (1978)
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, erotic, touching, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: nymphomaniac, horniness, unrequited love, teenage pregnancy, erotica, teenager, sex, israeli, looking for sex, sleaze, adolescence, virginity ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, 60s
Place: israel
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The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, non-linear, brutal ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mossad, spy, refugee, resort, saving a life, team, business, nothing goes right, terrorism, nazi, secret, distopia ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 2010s
Place: israel, sudan, africa, palestine, ethiopia
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 7.5
 237K
Munich (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
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, suspense, brutal, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, mossad, judaism, politics, murder, spy, terrorist, islamic terrorism, cia ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, germany, europe ...
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Operation Finale (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
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, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense, art house ...
Plot: war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, chase, manhunt, israeli, secret agent, spy ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1960, year 1945 ...
Place: israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
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 6.2
 729
Princess (2014)
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: serious, realistic, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: teenage sexuality, parents and children, family relations, friendship, mother daughter relationship, friends, israeli, pedophile, child, woman, women, role playing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
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