Albert Iluz
Also Known As: Albert Ilouz, Albert Illouz
Biography: Albert Iluz is an actor and writer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Morocco
Birthday: January 17, 1952
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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The Holy Land
Overview: A coming-of-age saga set against the tense backdrop of Arab-Israeli politics. Mendy is a young Rabbinical student whose mind is too full of curiosity about the world that exists outside the restrictions of Orthodox Judaism. Recognizing his distraction, Mendy's teacher suggests that he visit a prostitute to get it out of his system. But on a fateful night, when he meets Sacha, a captivating Russian expatriate, who works in a Tel Aviv bordello, his appetite for outside experience only grows stronger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2001-04-04
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A Matter of Size
Overview: 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 Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs. "A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2009-04-27
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Roses Gate
Overview: A dramatic, neo-realist Moroccan-speaking comedy, centered on the Vaknin family - a Moroccan Jewish family that immigrated to the picturesque town of "Bab El Ward" (an imaginary town symbolizing the whole periphery).
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2023-03-30
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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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My Daughter My Love
Overview: Shimon, a 70-year-old widower, travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2023-07-18
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More Than I Deserve
Overview: Pinchas (12) and his mother Tamara (39) are new immigrants from Russia. Pinchas spends most of his time alone, while Tamara works hard to put food on the table. Pinhas learns that his classmates are preparing for their Bar Mitzvah ceremonies. He follows his religious neighbor, Shimon Amazaleg (36) and asks for his help to prepare for his Bar Mitzvah.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2023-02-09
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Something Sweet
Overview: In a small agricultural village in northern Israel, on the day of the middle-sister's wedding, Maya, the youngest of the three sisters, arrives to the celebration with Alon, a sharp Israeli businessman living in London. Alon's enchantment with the close-knit family, the simplicity of village life and serene landscape, opens his heart to an almost unattainable closeness with Tamar, the oldest sister, and re-acquaintance with his alienated father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2004-07-28
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Summer Story
Overview: Coming of age story about a friendship between 12 years old Gal and 19 years old Haya in Israeli moshav where both are living.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2004-11-25
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Delta Force 3: The Killing Game
Overview: A terrorist places an atom bomb somewhere in an American metropolis. The president of the U.S. has no other choice; he has to call Delta Force.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Victor Young Perez
Overview: Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-20
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Hill Start
Overview: A Comic drama that tells the story of the Geva family - a bourgeois family from Jerusalem. When the mother of the family, Ora, goes into a coma after a car accident, the family members try to bring her back in every way possible.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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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
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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First Reel
Overview: Two IDF soldiers patronize Palestinians in the West Bank. The movie was shelved by Tel-Aviv University for political reasons, and was kept in the University's legal counsel in a safe for seven years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Hellbound
Overview: Two Chicago police officers are sent to investigate the brutal murder of a rabbi. As the investigation begins, Shatter and Jackson are summoned to Israel for questioning. Upon arrival they realize that they are, in fact, pursuing a supernatural being.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-21
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Hot
Overview: A rumor spreads through a small desert town that a girl has been raped. A respected veteran tries to stop the girl's cousin, a soldier in vacation, from taking the law into his own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2015-05-01
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Zur Hadasim
Overview: Shaul, Etti, Illana and Eddi. Each one of these in his own unique, special way, is trying to improve in life. In the end, their desires become revealing dreams that all wish to attain or, at least, to get close to their objectives. The heterogeneous group consisting of Shaul, Etti, Illana and Eddi wake to reality and, in Zur Hadassim, they discover that their dream has always been and always will be ?close to our heart, but far from our reach?.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Patriots
Overview: Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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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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Worth Every Penny
Overview: An animated voyage into the realm of payed sex encounters. The texts are taken from internet forums, where sex consumers compare and rate the quality of prostitutes performance.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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The Ambassador
Overview: An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-11
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Rachel from Ofakim
Overview: On the morning of the October 7 attack, Rachel and David Edri were held hostage in their home in Ofakim by a terrorist squad. For 20 hours the couple survived alone with the terrorists until they were rescued by the security forces. During the hours, Rachel offered the terrorists food and drinks, talked with them and took care of one of the wounded.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2024-10-12
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Big Shots
Overview: Four men whose combined intellect does not reach into the triple digits decide to steal a safe full of foreign currency - not from a local bank, but from the police station.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1982-08-29
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Red Flower
Overview: At half past six in the morning on October 7th, a red alarm brings us together with Annette and Albert, a couple of veterans from Sderot. The son who visited them on the eve of Simchat Torah was found with his friends at the Nuva party, from the terrorist attacks of Hamas outside the window of their house overlooking the Sderot police station. 25 hours in the life of the couple, intense drama outside and inside the house, from the window and the television screens, the same horror is reflected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2024-10-17
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Cabaret Total
Overview: Assi, a failing actor, returns from army reserve duty to his hometown in Southern Israel. While he dreams of becoming a successful theater actor in Tel Aviv, he teaches high-school drama acting classes by day, and acts in a small cabaret show in the local community center by night. An unexpected event makes him famous - as the public enemy number one. His new reality would force him to decide if he should lay low and conform, or use his theatrical skills to speak up about the corruption of society - as he juggles through the grand circus that is his life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2025-02-13
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