Lior Ashkenazi
Also Known As: ליאור אשכנזי, 莉奧·阿什肯納齊
Biography: Lior Ashkenazi (born in Ramat Gan, 1969), is an award-winning Israeli screen and stage actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lior Ashkenazi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ramat Gan, Israel
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Birthday: December 28, 1968
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Male
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Walk on Water
Overview: Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country, during which Axel challenges Eyal's values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2004-02-05
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One More Story
Overview: Yarden Gat is young, brilliant, creative and doesn't really believe in love. However when she decides to go on a date anyway, she soon dicovers herself telling about the time she worked for a newspaper, slept with her married boss and following his order ruined her single romanticist best friend's life, when she sends him on many dates only to write about it humiliatingly in the paper. Maybe not the best story for a first date? depends on the date...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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haneelam
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Genres: Action Drama Horror War
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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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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Golda
Overview: Set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction. She must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-23
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Hello Goodbye
Overview: 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 where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-26
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Late Marriage
Overview: 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 parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2001-10-24
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גב האומה על הבמה
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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Gift From Above
Overview: A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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Footnote
Overview: Jerusalem, Israel. Professors Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, father and son, have dedicated their lives to the study of the Jewish scriptures. Eliezer is a stubborn and methodical scholar who has never been recognized for his work; Uriel is a rising star, someone admired and praised by his colleagues. The fragile balance that has kept their personal relationship almost intact is broken in an unexpected way by a simple phone call.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2011-05-25
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Rabies
Overview: A brother and sister who run away from home find sanctuary in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into the trap of a psychopathic killer, the brother sets out on a race against time to find help. In a twist of fate the rescue of the sister becomes inadvertently intertwined with the lives of a group of young tennis players, a ranger and his dog, as well as a team of policemen.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2010-12-02
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Encirclements
Overview: When thirteen year old Aharon,is selected for the great honor of carrying the big Torah book around the neighborhood in 'Simchat Torah' celebrations, he feels life is finally about to change for the better. But his selection causes age-old tensions between his parents to surface, and the symbolic happy ritual becomes a life-threatening struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2014-06-18
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Eli & Ben
Overview: The life of the Yassif family becomes almost impossible when the father who is the city architect, is charged with taking bribes.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2008-06-06
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Sima Vaknin A Witch
Overview: Sima Vaknin is a widow who wants to build a small residantial unit in her backyard but meets a strong resistance from her neighbor Wasserman. Sima angry curses him and curse becomes true. The rumor spread quickly and suddenly mass pilgrims are at Sima's door to receive a blessing or order a curse.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2003-07-17
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Karaoke
Overview: Meir (Sasson Gabay of The Band’s Visit and Shtisel) and Tova (Rita Shukrun) are a long-married couple living in an upscale high-rise in Tel Aviv. Itzik (Lior Ashkenazi) is their new neighbor, a worldly modeling agent and bachelor. The couple attend Itzik’s karaoke parties and soon become obsessed with him, competing with each other, and other residents of the building, for his attention.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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Yossi
Overview: The sequel to "Yossi and Jagger" finds character Yossi (Ohad Knoller) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his otherwise staid routine and sends him on a spontaneous pilgrimage to Tel Aviv. It is on the roads of southern Israel that he reignites the fire of his former self.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Salt of the Earth
Overview: They were four friends in heart and soul. Blood Brothers that were that were bound together by their army experience. They were good people and decent citizens. They had love, careers, hopes, a future - but they wanted more. And they wanted to commit the perfect crime...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2006-07-13
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Big Bad Wolves
Overview: Tel Aviv, Israel. The twisted paths of three very different men brutally collide due to a chain of unspeakable murders: a grieving father who has been doomed to seek vengeance and a police detective who boldly crosses the narrow boundary between law and crime meet a religion teacher suspected of being the murderer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2013-04-21
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Cupcakes
Overview: A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2013-03-13
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The Dune
Overview: Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page that they both need to turn for good.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-13
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Mosolov's Suitcase
Overview: The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state power, set against the Great Purge of the 1930s and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
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Seret Efes
Overview: A rude loud-mouthed Israeli tricks "Comedy Central" into giving him a movie budget which in return ruins the lives of everyone around him and descends into chaos. An indie Israeli satire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2015-01-29
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Overview: A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Ish HaHashmal
Overview: Cohen takes an elliptical approach in telling the story of Pinchas Rutenberg, a visionary, complex, and larger-than-life figure, who, amongst other things, brought electricity to Jewish Palestine in the early 20th century by building a hydroelectric power station in Nahararyim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2003-01-02
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Cat's Luck
Overview: Beni and Reuven, childhood friends and brothers-in-law, work together as TV technicians. They are called for a simple repair job in a place they find abandoned and unlocked, with the door wide open. Inside, they are surprised to find a dead body, unaware that the crime scene they have stumbled upon belongs to a known criminal. They make every possible mistake, turning themselves into the prime suspects of the murder case. From this point forward, they try to stay away from both the crime family and the police.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2024-06-05
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The Wanderers: The Quest of The Demon Hunter
Overview: A hardened vampire hunter and a journalist travel to a village in Transylvania to investigate a mysterious event that happened in Zalesky Castle. The duo are guided by a young Romanian girl and joined by a Korean television reality show team as they attempt to untangle the community’s secrets.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Foxtrot
Overview: A troubled family must face facts when tragedy strikes their son's desolate military post.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2017-09-02
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Shelter
Overview: Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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7 Days in Entebbe
Overview: In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Esau
Overview: A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime - to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-04
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Our Way Back
Overview: Uri, a 50 year old family man, has a romantic secret relationship with Oded, a young man from their small town in the south of Israel. During a trip in the desert, the two are forced to deal with the tragic consequences of their type of relationship.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2018-03-31
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Ultimatum
Overview: A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-30
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Dear God
Overview: A poetic Jerusalem told through the eyes of Aaron, a simple Wailing Wall guard that follows a mysterious beautiful woman's notes in the holy stones of Jerusalem.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-27
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The Covenant
Overview: Lumo Project Films presents The Covenant, a captivating film rooted in the Torah, bringing to life the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and more. A Word-for word narration of the first five books of the Bible.
Genres: Drama History Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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