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, emotional, touching, psychological and sincere films and TV shows about / with israeli, female nudity, family relations, male nudity, hebrew, sex scene, society, youth, couples and love and romance plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in Israel, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as israel: Urban Tale (2012), Prisoners of War (2009), Zero Motivation (2014), S#x Acts (2012), Fucking Different Tel Aviv (2009), Fauda (2015), Tehran (2020), Nina's Tragedies (2003), Things Behind the Sun (2006), Sacred (1999).
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List of movies set in israel
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their ...
Style:
contemplative, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
siblings relations, sexual content, brother sister incest, brother sister sex, incestuous sex, female pubic hair, female nudity, teenage sexuality, last wish, obsessive quest, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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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:
terrorism, mossad, torture, pow, investigation, homecoming, soldier, haunted by the past, twists and turns, held captive, spy, government agency ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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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, witty, talky, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
office, kick-butt women, satire, military, virginity, female soldier, military base, soldier, friendship, female pubic hair, israeli army, israeli ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, russia, tokyo
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school. Their encounters get more and more sexual, each ...
Style:
realistic, sexual, sexy, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
teenage life, youth, sex scene, sexual promiscuity, sexual relations, sexual abuse, casual sex, male masturbation, school, life is a bitch, hot and sexy, erotic art ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
14 gay and lesbian filmmakers from Tel Aviv present short films about their sexuality.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, touching, anthology, witty ...
Plot:
gender, couple relations, love and romance, looking for love, couples, gays and lesbians, sexual relations, religion, politics, graphic violence, lesbian couple, glbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
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:
serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, espionage, war on terror, terrorist, mossad, covert operation, israeli, assassination, terror, murder, danger, government agency ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, belgium
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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, exciting, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
mossad, covert operation, computer, terrorist group, danger, israeli, hacker, spy, secret agent, hostage, criminal, computer hacker ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel, tehran iran, iran, middle east, palestine
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 64 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Alice, an ambitious 47 year old female film director who becomes obsessed with 24 year old femme-fatale Sophie and eventually surrenders all moral integrity in order to achieve power, success and unlimited relevance.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex scene, female nudity, older woman younger woman relationship, ambitious woman, film industry, lesbian attraction, seductress, femme fatale, female protagonist, manipulative woman, mysterious disappearance, mind game ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot:
serial rapist, sex crime, mother daughter relationship, women, husband wife conflict, research, police station, political activist, trauma, repression, survivor, female friendship ...
Place:
israel
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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:
sexy, sexual, realistic, teen sex comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
looking for sex, buddies, young lovers, friends, youth, teenage life, teenage love, sexual attraction, beach, love and romance, strong sexual content, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two women reunite in London, where they go over the details of a life-changing event which occurred when they were teenagers in Jerusalem.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
lesbian interest, haunted by the past, introspection, friendship, hopes, starting over, society, youth, immigrant, political unrest, female pubic hair, lesbian ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
palestine, europe, london, england, palestinian authority ...
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
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:
uplifting, psychological, emotional, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
mental institution, haunted by the past, uncover truth, human spirit, culture clash, memory loss, life is a bitch, hopes, mentally unstable, conflict, israeli, israeli palestinian conflict ...
Place:
israel, palestine, usa, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 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:
serious, realistic
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, arab, farm, wedding, bride and groom, arab israeli conflict, wedding day, international relations, foreign legion, conflict, colonialism, legion ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, persia, middle east, palestine
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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
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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
Is relevant?
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:
father daughter incest, incest, incestuous sex, sex with father, father daughter sex, sex with daughter, inbreeding, incestuous relationship, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, tel aviv israel, israel
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The year is 1964. Rachel Brener is one of 3 young Mossad agents teem who caught "THE SURGEON OF BIRKENAU" - a Nazi monster who was never brought to trial in Israel. The official reason was that he was shot to death while trying to escape ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense
Plot:
nazi, haunted by the past, mission gone awry, undercover, elderly, secret agent, against humanity, gain trust, spy, world war two, cavalry, third world ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s, year 1964, year 1997
Place:
germany, palestine, ukraine, middle east, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.
Style:
contemplative, psychological, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, midlife crisis, family life, couple relations, introspection, obsession, hopes, surrealism, husband wife relationship, lie, routine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, 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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Na'ama is seventeen. She lives in a sleepy suburbia. She is bored. With detached parents and a rebellious older sister, her life at home is a mess. It all changes when a new girl appears at school. She's introduced to a world of drugs, ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, romantic, emotional, deep ...
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian, lesbian relationship, first lesbian experience, lesbian love, lesbian sex, gay interest, lgbtq, nightclub, school, lgbt, sibling relationship ...
Place:
israel, indiana
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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, suspense, suspenseful, non-linear, brutal ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mossad, spy, refugee, saving a life, team, business, resort, nothing goes right, terrorism, secret, nazi, scuba diving ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 80s
Place:
israel, sudan, africa, palestine, ethiopia ...
Is relevant?
797
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, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, suicide, teenage crush, coming of age, escape from reality, dysfunctional family, grownups, society, social misfits, family problems, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place:
israel, middle east
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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: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
making love, sexually dissatisfied wife, horny wife, cheating wife, age difference, male female relationship, older man younger woman sex, unrequited love, forbidden love, love, midlife crisis, sex scene ...
Place:
germany, israel
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