Amos Lavi
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Alila
2003-06-06
Alila
Overview: Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Hezi—who's older, balding and married—rent a room to have an affair, while Ezra, a pot bellied divorcee, supervises an illegal construction site next door. All this racket drives Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, to a mental breakdown. Other characters include illegal Chinese immigrants, a teenage boy who's afraid to serve in the army, and a corrupt police detective.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2003-06-06
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Only Dogs Run Free
2007-10-10
Only Dogs Run Free
Overview: A successful lawyer, who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker, is trying to save a poor family named Siton. The couple's life collapses when the wife get raped by a gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2007-10-10
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Deadline
1987-07-02
Deadline
Overview: An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-02
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A Dangerous Dance
2007-03-22
A Dangerous Dance
Overview: Joseph, a young handsome unemployed from a small town in the South, spends his nights at the local dance-bar. He's the best Latino dancer in town - all the girls fall for him, charmed by his sex appeal - especially Tom, the hottest girl and best dancer in town. In the meantime, in the big city, we meet beautiful Annabelle, the daughter of Ernest, a multi millionaire and her stepmother Suzie. The family lives with the memories of Annabelle's deceased mother, a European prima ballerina who committed suicide.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2007-03-22
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Days of Love
2005-12-22
Days of Love
Overview: Margalit is a simple girl from Ashdod, waiting tables in her father's restaurant, with a dream to make it big in the music industry. It all changes one night when the famous singer Dudu Ben-David performs in Margalit's hometown. He comes to Margalit's pub, discovers her and promises to make her a big star.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2005-12-22
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Promised Land
2004-04-11
Promised Land
Overview: "Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of one girl who most fight for her freedom.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-11
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When Night Falls
1985-01-01
When Night Falls
Overview: Giora (Assi Dayan) runs a bar and dreams of opening a restaurant. He has made a mess of his life — his marriage is in trouble, since he is pathologically cheating on his wife; his parents (Yosef Millo and Orna Porat) have separated; and his father arrives for an extended visit from Nahariya. Giora spends time with his army buddies, recalling their experiences during the War in Lebanon. His father is undergoing a major life crisis and finds both the loneliness of the city and his son's lifestyle unappealing. As a non-Jew in a Jewish society, he feels estranged, an outsider who has never been able to adapt, and contemplates suicide. Eventually, Giora's parents decide to attempt a reconciliation, until tragedy strikes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Schwartz Dynasty
2005-07-21
Schwartz Dynasty
Overview: The Schwartz Dinasty belong to a long tradition of Jewish rabbis. The grandfathers took their faith and turned it into deeds coming to the Land of Israel to start a new life and build a country. Where are their descendants and how are they doing in the Israel of today?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2005-07-21
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Girls
1985-06-06
Girls
Overview: Four weeks of basic training for girls in the IDF: seven girls and two sergeants from different backgrounds (Canadian girl, an immigrant from Russia, Sabra Buckley, etc.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Distortion
2005-05-26
Distortion
Overview: Everyday life in Israel during the "Intifada": suicide-attacks, distresses, tensions. A director must present a new theater play but he just can't write a line. His partner, a documentary filmmaker, is preparing the portrait of a former soldier who opened a trade but went into bankruptcy. This man is ruined, his wife has left home, his son got exiled to Australia. The director, desperate, believes that hiring a private detective to follow his wife is gonna put some salt in his life. Without knowing it, the detective becomes the real director of the play which is getting written step by step.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2005-05-26
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Blink of an Eye
1992-08-26
Blink of an Eye
Overview: An agent with psychic powers comes to the rescue of the kidnapped daughter of the CIA director.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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Driks' Brother
1994-03-30
Driks' Brother
Overview: Adventures of an Israeli soldier who is mistakenly identified as the brother of one of Israel's leading soccer players.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1994-03-30
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Blank Bullet
2010-09-26
Blank Bullet
Overview: Inspired by the unfortunate event of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin we are proud to bring you the dramatic feature of Haim Bouzaglo, Blank Bullet. Amos Snir, the head of the Shin Bet, has just 60 hours during which time he must prevent the next political assassination. The year is 2004 and the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has recently announced his intention for Israel to disengage from the Gaza Strip. In the wake of the announcement Sharon has received numerous death threats and Snir has been trying to cancel all Sharon's public appearances. However, Sharon is determined to appear at the Yad VaShem Museum for the Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony where he is to be the key speaker. The ceremony is due to take place in three days.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2010-09-26
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King of Beggars
2007-09-06
King of Beggars
Overview: Fishke, a lame Jewish bath attendant, stands up against the on going persecutions and killings of Jews and forms the first Jewish platoon in Russia of the 16th century.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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God's Sandbox
2002-06-06
God's Sandbox
Overview: A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn apart when the American is exposed to a tribal ritual.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2002-06-06
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My Uncle Mario
2004-07-01
My Uncle Mario
Overview: A young boy delivers food in the summer vacation for this mother, who has some sort of a restaurant. Suddenly his uncle Mario, who lives in Italy, visits them by surprise. The boy's life changes when he follows his uncle one night to an appointment. After that night things will never be the same.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2004-07-01
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Circus Palestina
1998-11-26
Circus Palestina
Overview: While on tour in the West Bank, a small circus troupe from Eastern Europe finds that one of its featured attractions -- its lion -- is missing. The search for the beast draws together an unlikely alliance, but the united effort becomes more complicated as it continues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1998-11-26
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Honor
2010-05-03
Honor
Overview: Two Israeli criminal families with Moroccan roots suffer the tragedies of their respective lives.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2010-05-03
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Joint
1996-01-01
Joint
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Michel Ezra Safra and Sons
1983-01-02
Michel Ezra Safra and Sons
Overview: Directed by Nissim Dayan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-02
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Escape: Human Cargo
1998-03-22
Escape: Human Cargo
Overview: An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due to the US policy of noninterference in SA, the embassy won't help him. He must escape.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-22
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Sh'Chur
1994-01-02
Sh'Chur
Overview: A Jewish Moroccan immigrant family living in Israel is nearly destroyed by conflicts resulting from generational differences in this arresting Israeli drama. It begins as Cheli, a successful but emotionally troubled talk show host who has been unable to deal with her traumatic childhood is traveling to attend her father's funeral. She is accompanied by her mentally ill sister Pnina and her adopted estranged daughter. It is a hellish trip and as they travel, flashbacks chronicle their painful youth. Rachel had always wanted to break away from her family's Moroccan heritage and so spent much time trying make herself fit in with her Israeli peers. She was humiliated by her poor, ignorant family. Her father was an overbearing, blindly religious fanatic and their mother was a witch who manipulated the family by casting spells. She feared her mother, and despised her insane sister, to whom she was very cruel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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The Dreamers
1987-01-01
The Dreamers
Overview: Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles the beginning of the modern Jewish struggle for a homeland.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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In the Ninth Month
2002-04-24
In the Ninth Month
Overview: The legend of The Sack Man, a mysterious figure who roams at night, stealing babies and selling them to the Zionist jews, is making the tensions rise in the city of Araba after a child has gone missing. Ahmed, who's brother was deported to Lebanon by the Israeli authorities, is the main suspect. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Ahmed must navigate protecting his son, his family, and his secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2002-04-24
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ג'אנם ג'אנם
2006-11-01
ג'אנם ג'אנם
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Carmel
2009-07-12
Carmel
Overview: Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2009-07-12
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Lemon Tree
2008-02-08
Lemon Tree
Overview: Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Flash
1987-01-01
Flash
Overview: Flash (1987) A couple becomes hostage when a frantic soldier takes over their house. This social drama depicts the state of the Israeli society following the devastating 1984 war.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Munich
2005-12-23
Munich
Overview: 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 execute those responsible for the attack.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-23
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