Best Israeli Movies
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Israeli Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: realistic, serious, humorous, touching, sentimental and sincere. Plot: israeli, family relations, society, father son relationship, love and romance, hebrew, death, culture clash, friendship and love. Genre: Drama, Romance and Comedy. Country: Israel, USA and France.
Best Israeli Movies
TOP Movies: Broken Wings (2002), The Slut (2011), Yana's Friends (1999), The Debt (2007), Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003), The Band's Visit (2007), $9.99 (2008), Sand Storm (2016), Noodle (2007), A Borrowed Identity (2014), Zero Motivation (2014), Jeruzalem (2015), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (2023), One Week and a Day (2016), Yossi & Jagger (2002), Baba Joon (2015), Aviva, My Love (2006), Epilogue (2012), Maria's Lovers (1984), Iron Eagle (1986).
List of Best Movies
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
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tamar, an attractive single mother, lives alone in a small village with her two daughters. Unsatisfied, she attempts to fill her many voids through meaningless sexual rendezvous.
Style:
sexy, sincere, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
sex, slut, farm, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, looking for sex, sexual relations, lifestyle, fall in love, introspection, starting over, single parent, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel
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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
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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, Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds out ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
secret relationship, high school, prodigy, self discovery, teenage life, dysfunctional family, youth, human nature, fall in love, teenage love, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
culture clash, musician, israeli, orchestra, small town, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, melancholy, desert, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, maghreb, alexandria egypt ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Israel, Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms ...
Style:
surreal, adult animation, ironic, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
meaning of life, life philosophy, stop motion, self discovery, human nature, introspection, society, social misfits, hopes, apartment building, suicide, butterfly effect ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
australia, middle east, new orleans, california, israel ...
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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, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
Plot:
mother daughter conflict, second wife, second marriage, bedouin, impossible love, family problems, women in society, marriage, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel, middle east, indiana, palestine
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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
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, 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: Action, Adventure, 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:
scary, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, psychological ...
Plot:
tourist, found footage, supernatural, ancient, apocalypse, demon, zombie, soldier, zombie outbreak, church, muslim, danger ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 20th century, year 1972, 21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem, palestine, asia, tel aviv israel
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids. Destined to inherit the ...
Style:
3d animation, fairy tale, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, ocean, teenage girl, teenager, female protagonist, kraken, mermaid, shapeshifting, prom, mean girl, underwater, father daughter relationship ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.
Plot:
mourning, cancer, neighbor, cannabis, funeral, hospital, death, taxi, kitten, beach, neighbor neighbor relationship, dentist ...
Place:
palestine
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolete outpost is ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, homoerotic, realistic, sincere, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, homosexuality, gay relationship, gay soldier, israeli, gay lead character, gay love, glbt, gay slur, gay romance, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, lebanon, palestine
Is relevant?
424
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built with his own two hands after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. When his son Moti turns thirteen, Yitzhak teaches him the trade, hoping that he will continue the proud family tradition. But Moti ...
Style:
tension, emotional, realistic, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, father son conflict, village life, parenting, fatherhood, bittersweet, stubbornness, family honor, patriarchy, identity crisis, rebellion ...
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?
205
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them. After years of struggle, the two refuse to let go of their communal dreams, and of their revolutionary plans to build a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
elderly, introspection, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, idealism, anti capitalism, social decay, husband wife relationship, elderly lovers, public health, old age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, sincere, sexual, sentimental ...
Plot:
marital problem, world war two, couples, soldier, fall in love, human nature, homecoming, love affair, small town, passion, husband and wife, wedding ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted ...
Style:
light, realistic, exciting, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, manly, girls' night, teens
Plot:
air force, fighter jet, airplane, fighter plane, rescue, brutality, u.s. air force, lone hero, captivity, colonel, military, parent child relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
middle east, north africa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The world of Eternia in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Grayskull, which he has won after seizing Grayskull and the surrounding city using a cosmic key developed by the locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner ...
Style:
cult classic, crying, surprise ending, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, good versus evil, sword fight, evil man, time travel, inventor, violence, supernatural power, medieval, skeleton, female warrior, warrior ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, desert, love affair, culture clash, woman in danger, life is a bitch, society, social differences, forbidden love, crime and punishment, injustice, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
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
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
friendship, racial discrimination, desert, ethnic, female pubic hair, immigrant, settler, social differences, culture clash, teenage life, teenage love, society ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
world war two, interfaith relationship, friends, forbidden love, friendship, fall in love, father daughter relationship, couples, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, social differences ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
jerusalem, middle east, israel, palestine
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A gay New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
Style:
art house, humorous, captivating, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay sex, lgbt, writers, gay lead character, male nudity, gay love, lgbtq, beach, marijuana, gay couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, usa, mediterranean sea, palestine, middle east ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Georgia, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Iranian female judokas Leila and her coach Maryam, travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway through the Judo World Championships, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering ...
Style:
suspense thriller, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
championship, moral dilemma, athlete and trainer, threat, judo, iranian, women's rights, female athlete, female protagonist, refugee, blood, flashback ...
Place:
iran
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: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and ...
Style:
political, grindhouse, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, cannon, world war two, concentration camp, women's prison, writers, women, secret mission, wartime, wartime life, spy, world war ...
Place:
israel, middle east, hungary
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
giant spider, creature feature, desert, animal attack, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, space and aliens, danger, journalism, monster, killer animal, news reporter ...
Time:
90s
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