Alon Aboutboul
Also Known As: Alon Moni Abutbul , Alon Abutbul
Biography: Alon Abutbul is an actor and director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kiryat Ata, Israel
Birthday: May 28, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rambo III
Overview: Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-24
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The Bells are Ringing for Ahuva Ozeri
Overview: In 1999, after a 23-year absence, gifted musician Ahuva Ozeri is planning a comeback. She's recording a new album - The Bells are Ringing. Ahuva, considered the queen of the Middle Eastern music, sits at home and makes a living as a cook at a meat restaurant. She hopes to break out again with the new album. But at the end of the recording, she is diagnosed with throat cancer and undergoes surgery where her vocal cords are cut. She loses her voice forever, but the album is very successful. It managed to cross audiences and becomes a consensus. This film is based on rare never before-seen materials, sketching her life's course.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2020-12-12
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Ricochets
Overview: The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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One of Us
Overview: A few Palestinian guerilla's break into an Israeli camp in the occupied territories. They kill a few Israeli soldiers before they are killed, apart from one who dies in the camp after being captured alive. The Israeli military dispatch an investigator to the camp to see if there was cold blooded murder (people at the camp had claimed he was shot while trying to escape). It turns out that the investigator dispatched is a friend of the camp commander - the rest of the plot is basically about the position of both of these characters as regards being honest or faithful to ones friends. There is unbearable tension, increased by the fact that they are both very strongly attracted to one of the female soldiers on the camp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Kululush
Overview: he film tells the story of two brothers from a poor neighbourhood in Tel Aviv where almost all the residents are of Iraqi descent. Avi lives with his domineering and manipulative grandmother. The return of Roni, Avi's elder brother from Europe, awakens old demons as Roni, a compulsive gambler, stakes all on the football games of Avi's beloved team, Bnei Yehuda. Avi has to choose whether to remain pure and risk losing everything, or sully his hands in order to save his world. A charming and at times hilarious look at the Mizrahi subculture of soccer-worship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Body of Lies
Overview: The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-09
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The Seven Days
Overview: The Ohaion family is mourning the death of one of their relatives. In keeping with tradition, they gather together in the home of the deceased and stay there for seven days. Forced to put up with one another day and night, the brothers and sisters soon let their bitterness and arguments override the sense of communal reverence. The atmosphere becomes unbearable and long-buried truths finally surface.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-05
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Nina's Tragedies
Overview: The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2003-04-04
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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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Hapnimiyah
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-03-18
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Beaufort
Overview: BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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A Speck on the Eyelash
Overview: Can Fear be a self fulfilling prophecy? A husband, a wife and their best friend return from a ski vacation. The husband suspects that his wife has fallen in love with the friend. He confronts his friend rather than his wife. The friend dismisses the accusation. Is he lying? and if not, how will these doubts affect him, and will he view the wife differently from now on? And the wife: Is she indeed in love? if so, will she do something about it? If not, will she sense the suspicions around her? could she not? And the husband: should he discover that he was wrong, would he be able to stop that which he had begun with mere words? An anxiety that settled in the mind of one, takes over his life and rocks the lives of two
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Noodle
Overview: 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 comic-drama in which two human beings -- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing -- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2007-07-26
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All My Loving
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Photo Roman
Overview: A daydreaming highschool girl, who wants to become an author, is writing a story about her soldier boyfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Dark Knight Rises
Overview: Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-17
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The Order
Overview: When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a sacred scroll, he'll have to outwit officials and a ruthless sect. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, Rudy battles a faction of religious zealots determined to see a holy war at all costs.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-05
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Passover Fever
Overview: On the evening of Passover dinner holiday ,a family gathering reveals the delicate relationships between parents, brothers,sisters, husbands and wives. Secrets and lies force them to understand how fragile everything is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1995-06-06
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A Place by the Sea
Overview: A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to haunt them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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Shalom Leben Dodi
Overview: A stormy night in the house of persian israelis begins when their beloved cousin escapes from prison
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Planet Blue
Overview: A hilarious fantasy about "an almost normal guy who almost reached the blue planet," this 1995 cult classic drew sell-out crowds to Israeli movie houses for over six years. It's a cosmic comedy will take you through the wild beyond on an amazing journey to a thoroughly unexpected place!
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1995-06-06
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Clean Sweep
Overview: A stylish Israeli crime comedy, Mars Turkey tells the story of Reuven, a police captain in charge of protecting Shimon, the last remaining witness in a trial against crime-lord Patrick Sarusi. Seeing as how Patrick has managed to get to all the other witnesses, Reuven is so desperate to keep Shimon alive that he assigns himself to watch-duty, with the intention of never letting Shimon out of his sight. But as the trial draws near, events start spinning out of control when, in an act of desperation, Reuven sends his sexually frustrated mistress, Aya, to plant a bug in Patrick's apartment. Encouraged by Patrick's neighbor, Aya decides to confront Reuven about his sexual inadequacy and his vain promises to her about leaving his wife, just as Patrick slips out of house-arrest. Will Reuven be able to keep his mind on the job while his love life melts down in front of his eyes?
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2001-02-22
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The Belly Dancer
Overview: Debbie, a young belly dancer, her dangerous yet charming lover, a criminal, and a dance club owner tell the story about love and crimes, friendship and betrayal.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-10
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A Place in Heaven
Overview: A young officer returns to his base after a daring mission. The cook's assistant, a religious Holocaust survivor, is envious of him. He believes that there is a place in heaven reserved for the brave officer who endangers his life for the sake of his Jewish brethren. The officer, in the spirit of the Zionist ethos, is secular and a non-believer. At the moment, he is so hungry that, for a plate of shaksuka, he is prepared to sign a contract transferring his secured place in heaven to the cook. Some forty years later, the present time of the movie, the tables have turned - the officer, now a retired general, is on his death bed in the hospital. His son who, to his father's horror, has found religion, is in a race against time. Before his father dies, he has to find that cook's assistant who, forty years earlier, bought his place in heaven. If and when he finds him, the son has to nullify the contract. If he doesn't, his father will go to hell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2013-09-27
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Bruriah
Overview: A story of Bruriah from Talmud is shown as in present time...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2008-06-06
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She's Coming Home
Overview: At the end of a lengthy relationship, Michal, 33, returns to her parents' small, cramped apartment in Herzliya, a sleepy, bourgeois suburb. Michal is a young, promising director, who should be devoting her time to writing a screenplay, but instead shuts herself up in her room, frustrated, and spends most of her time sleeping. Things change when Michal meets Zeev - the principal of the local high school, a 50 year old married man, and falls in love. The forbidden passion and stormy emotions that develop between Michal and Zeev reminiscent of first love. Unaware, Michal becomes a teenager all over again. But this time, contrary to her earlier adolescence, Michal rebels. The apartment, too small to contain two parents and a 30 year old teenager, is transformed into a pressure cooker teeming with conflict. Can Michal commit, give her all and fulfill her love and passion? Or is she too attached to the fantasy youth that she has created to break away? Perhaps she is just too busy rebelling?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2013-03-13
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King Bibi
Overview: Twenty years before the spectacle of Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu already understood the political benefits of a toxic relationship with the media, and direct communication with the public. King Bibi explores Netanyahu's rise to power, relying solely on archival footage of his media performances over the years: from his days as a popular guest expert on American TV, through his public confession of adultery, and his mastery of the art of social media. From one studio to another, "Bibi" evolved from Israel's great political hope, to a controversial figure whom some perceive as Israel's savior, and others - as a cynical politician who will stop at nothing to retain his power.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2018-08-05
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Adjusting Sights
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2003-03-05
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Im Hukim
Overview: Zaza, a kid from a family who have recently immigrated to Israel, steals money from his parents' closet. Zara wants to buy a card for his album collection, like all the other children in the area. His father refuses to accept such behaviour from a member of the family and wants Zara to confess. To test Zaza's conscience he is forced to punish Zara's younger brother Dato.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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MK Ultra
Overview: Set during the true and unconscionable Central Intelligence Agency MK ULTRA drug experimentations in the early 1960s. The journey of Ford Strauss, a brilliant psychiatrist, whose moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit as he is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi Mental Hospital.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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Deadly Heroes
Overview: Ex-Navy SEAL Brad Cartowski is injured during an attack at Athens airport by terrorists who kidnap his wife and fly her on a hijacked plane to North Africa. Cartowski goes in pursuit, aided by another ex-SEAL, Cody Grant. Cartowski soon finds the terrorists' hide-out but is captured and electro-tortured before he manages to escape. He soon returns with reinforcements to rescue his wife and to wreak vengeance on Carlos, head of the terrorist ring.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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London Has Fallen
Overview: In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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The Cage
Overview: Directed by Amit Goren.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Love at Second Sight
Overview: Renowned Israeli filmmaker and actress Michal Bat-Adam produced, wrote, and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. The beautiful Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1999-01-02
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The Dealers
Overview: The Dealers tells the story of Rami and Avishay, 27 years old friends that share an apartment in a small Jerusalem neighborhood. They spend their days smoking and playing in a soccer team with other losers, which its coach Zvika is determined to take the "Jerusalem neighborhood cup" with. In need for money they get entangled in a drug deal with Sagi, a local gangster, which forces them to learn the hard way about taking responsibility, loyalty, and friendship. The movie is a humorous view of the colorful, multi culture, unique and somehow funny Israeli society.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2012-01-18
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Boyka: Undisputed IV
Overview: In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-01
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Septembers of Shiraz
Overview: In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-15
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Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon
Overview: In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.
Genres: Adventure War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Morning Star
Overview: A story about a young fisherman Avi who doesn't lose his optimism even during the most difficult times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1980-05-09
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Out of the Blue
Overview: A working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. But a few more people are involved. Here, the guy is married and his daughter has a crush on the weatherman. The weatherman wants to marry the cosmetics queen from the billboards. The cosmetics queen kind of likes the guy's sidekick. The sidekick kind of likes the guy's daughter, although she's in high school and the age difference would raise anyone's eyebrows.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-01
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Is That You?
Overview: IS THAT YOU? Is the story of RONNIE, 60 year old Israeli film projectionist, who has been fired from his job and is going now to the U.S. in a search for RACHEL, the love of his youth IS THAT YOU? Is a romantic, road trip journey to 'The Road Not Taken' in life created by Award Winning filmmaker Dani Menkin (HBO Cinemax-39 Pounds of Love, Je Taime, I Love You Terminal, Dolphin Boy).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-06
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Harmonia
Overview: Sarah, a morose harpist in the Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra, is married to Abraham, the charismatic conductor of the group. They have no children. When Hagar, a young horn player from East Jerusalem joins the Orchestra, Sarah's world erupts. A unique friendship evolves between the two women. Hagar, feeling Sarah’s pain from not having children, offers to have a baby for Sarah. Ismail, born to Hagar and Abraham, is a wild and gifted pianist whom Sarah raises as her own. When Ismail discovers the true identity of his mother, his world – and that of those around him – falls apart. Harmonia maintains the unique essence of the biblical story from Genesis and adds a personal and human perspective.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-11
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Beirut
Overview: In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-11
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Prom Queen
Overview: Enrike, a young Israeli boarding-school student, falls in love with Malka, the most popular girl in his class. Malka tires of their relationship and takes up with Shalom, Enrike's best friend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Peaches & Cream
Overview: An existential comedy about a neurotic film director whose fears of failure, death and losing control all surface on the night his new film is released - a hysterical unforgettable night at least for him his band of eccentric friends.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2019-07-27
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Forgiveness
Overview: The days are wartime in southern Israel. It is the beginning of the Jewish year, according to Jewish religious law, ten days of repentance are the days of asking forgiveness. Nissan an Orthodox Jew, feels that he will not be able to continue his life unless he receives forgiveness from his friend Shaul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Lansky
Overview: When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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Killing Streets
Overview: A young Marine is kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon. His twin brother, frustrated at his inability to get any kind of information from the government about his brother's plight, travels to Lebanon with a plan for his own rescue operation.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-23
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Streets of Yesterday
Overview: This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing Israeli intelligence officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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Short Stories About Love
Overview: Israeli short films mini-series.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Noble Savage
Overview: Eli is a teenager struggling with an eating disorder, and every aspect of his life is on the brink of disaster. He lives in a seedy neighborhood in Southern Tel Aviv with his mother and her new husband, two ex-junkies, while his alcoholic father is an unemployed artist and street philosopher. Eli's desperate efforts to unite his family spin out of control, when a minor family dispute erupts into a cataclysmic tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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Bar 51
Overview: After the death of their mother, Thomas and his sister Mariana leave their hometown for a brighter future in the city. They become patrons of a marginal bar in Tel Aviv, Bar 51, whose regulars serve as a backdrop for Thomas’s obsessive love for his sister, and her desire to break free and make a life of her own.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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הירושה
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Gentila
Overview: A drama about four malcontent and oddly matched characters on a three-day journey. Each an outcast: Gadi, a petty criminal on parole seeking to make his way back into mainstream society; Yitzhak, his pensive, naive, and serious younger brother; Shoshana, a serious criminal who insists on tormenting the group; and a young, pregnant, Russian immigrant who has left her husband an meets up with the other three in a coffee shop. The characters together define their obvious marginalization from society and their search for individual dignity.
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 1998-12-24
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A Five Minute Walk
Overview: Tel Aviv cop Amir Samo (Sharon Alexander) was on the brink of nabbing a notorious pimp and drug dealer when the scumbag framed him for harassment and got him suspended. Derided by the press and the criminal underworld, Samo seeks solace in the local pub. There, he encounters Michal (Tal Kahana), a despondent barmaid saddled with a wannabe film director boyfriend (Adam Horowitz). Alon Abutbul and Noa Tishby co-star.
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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