Ayelet Zurer
Also Known As: Αγιελέτ Ζουρέρ, איילת זורר, Ayelet Julie Zurer, آیلت زورر
Biography: Ayelet Zurer (Hebrew: איילת זורר; born 28 June 1969) is an Israeli TV and film actress. She began her career on the Israeli teen drama Inyan Shel Zman and has starred in numerous Israeli TV and film roles. She received awards for Best Actress at the Israeli Academy Awards in 2003 and Best Actress by the Israeli Academy of Television in 2006 and 2013. Zurer has also appeared in numerous Hollywood films, such as Munich (2005), Vantage Point (2008), Angels & Demons (2009), Man of Steel (2013), and Ben-Hur (2016). She also portrayed Vanessa Marianna-Fisk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Daredevil (2015–2018) and its upcoming revival series Daredevil: Born Again (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ayelet Zurer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Israel
Birthday: June 28, 1969
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Gender: Female
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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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Vantage Point
Overview: During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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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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Angels & Demons
Overview: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-23
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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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Adam Resurrected
Overview: After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Fugitive Pieces
Overview: A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Man of Steel
Overview: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-12
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The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field
Overview: This mythic love story set in a timeless, lavishly colorful and mystical Jerusalem incorporates hard rock, striking set design, computer-generated imagery and modern-day tensions between the secular and the Orthodox worlds. Hanan, a handsome young traveler - who has pierced ears and wears grungy flannel shirts - falls in love with Lea, the beautiful daughter of a leader in the religious community. Unbeknownst to the couple, a deal was struck, years earlier, in which they were promised to each other by their fathers. When Hanan consults with a master of Kabbala, a set of mysteriously forbidden eleventh-century texts unleashes untold powers, merging the erotic with the divine and affirming love's infinite potential to transcend all obstacles. The lovers are played by Yehezkel Lazarov (Waltz with Bashir) and Ayelet Z'urer (Angels & Demons; Vantage Point). (from sfjff.org)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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For Sasha
Overview: Israel, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. They are visited by Simon, Michel and Paul, three friends from Paris who have come to celebrate Laura's twentieth birthday. Simon is obsessed by the death of the girl he loved and during the birthday evening, attempts to find someone to blame amongst his friends. Laura alone knows that the young girl died of a broken heart. She also loved Sacha.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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Hide Away
Overview: A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-30
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Ingenious
Overview: A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-01
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Maktub
Overview: The body of a middle aged woman is discovered and a promising young police officer is assigned to this case. His name is Ataf and he is of Druze origin - a small sect of people whose religion is secret and who hold a firm belief in reincarnation. Through the course of his investigation, Ataf begins to experience some strange nightmares that carry him to his past. Soon after he begins his search for a clue to these nightmares, and realises that the murder case and his dreams are somehow connected. More than that - the connection has to do with his former life that ended tragically when his present life began.
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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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.
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2004-07-28
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Desperado Square
Overview: In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has had a dream in which his father orders him to re-open the old neighborhood movie theater, thus breaking the vow that Morris had made years before never to screen movies again. Nissim and his brother George, together with Aharon Gabardine, who was the projectionist back in the old days, are determined to fulfill Morris' request. The same day Nissim has his dream, Avram Mandabon, Morris' brother, returns for his brother's memorial after a 25-year absence. His reappearance causes old family feuds to resurface.
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2001-05-10
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Apparat
Overview: A middle aged, married couple spend a night at their desert cabin. What was planned as an anniversary getaway erupts into a brutalizing void of two tortured souls.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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Last Days in the Desert
Overview: On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting himself up for a dramatic test.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-13
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Ben-Hur
Overview: A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
Genres: Action History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein
Overview: In this surreal comedy, a ghost monk convinces Itzik, a keychain importer living with his mother, to take revenge on those who are responsible for his pathetic situation. Surprisingly, the collaboration with the monk improves Itzic's life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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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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Darling Companion
Overview: The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Last Knights
Overview: When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-03
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Milada
Overview: The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and shown in film clips. The film focuses on the time from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took over, but also goes back a little further in Horáková's life into the late 1930s
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog
Overview: Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.
Genres: Family Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-22
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Halo4ForwardUntoDawn
Overview: Set against the backdrop of a United Nations Space Command (UNSC) military academy, a group of highborn cadets are training to be the next generation of soldiers in the UNSC’s ongoing war with insurrectionists in the outer colonial planets. Among these cadets, Thomas Lasky struggles with his doubts about this war, and with the burden of expectations he may not be able to carry. As Lasky comes to terms with his potential as a military leader, the terrifying alien alliance known as the Covenant arrives and turns his world upside down. Inspired by the Master Chief, he must decide what it means to be a hero.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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