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Films from the country "israel", sorted by revenue
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My Father My Lord (2007)
, 1h12Directed by David Volach
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Assi Dayan (אסי דיין)
Rabbi Avraham and his wife Esther have one son, Menachem, whose birth they regard as miraculous. Menachem's curiosity about the world is repeatedly stymied by his father, who in one instance forces him to rip up an "idolatrous" picture. Foreshadowed by an instance of Shiluach haken a trip to the Dead Sea, the eponymous "summer vacation.
Disengagement (2007)
, 1h55Directed by Amos Gitaï
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Juliette Binoche, Jeanne Moreau, Dana Ivgy, Hiam Abbass, Amos Gitaï
Following the death of her father, Ana (Binoche) and her adopted brother Uli (Liron Levo) meet in Avignon. It is stated in her father's will that Ana can't receive her inheritance until she has found the child she abandoned as a teenager. This journey leads her to Gaza during the 2005 Israeli disengagement, a time fraught with danger and uncertainty.
The Debt (2007)
, 1h40Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Gila Almagor, Netta Garti, Edgar Selge, Itay Tiran, Yehezkel Lazarov
The film is not based on actual fact, and centers on an Israeli-Mossad team who in 1964 capture a notorious Nazi doctor who had performed human experimentation in a German extermination camp, and, when he escapes from them, they report him as being shot once in the head and killed during his attempted escape. In the following years, the agents receive numerous accolades for their actions, with none suspecting the truth, but in the late 1990s, they learn he may be alive, repentant, and likely to expose the truth of the events.
Live and Become (2005)
, 2h20Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films set in Africa, Films about alcoholism, Films about children, Films about immigration, Films about religion, La précarité, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Sirak M. Sabahat, Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Lana Ettinger, Patrick Descamps, Hervé Pauchon
Shlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him “Go, live, and become,” as he leaves her to board the plane. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries: not being Jewish and having left his birth mother.
Close to Home (2005)
, 1h30Directed by Vidi Bilu
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Lana Ettinger
Jérusalem. Smadar et Mirit, deux jeunes israéliennes âgées de 18 ans, accomplissent leur service militaire dans les forces armées du Magav, les gardes frontières de l'État d'Israël. Affectées à une portion de quartier précise (à la porte de Jaffa), leur mission consiste à contrôler des palestiniens afin de prémunir contre d'éventuels attentats. Les deux jeunes filles, aux caractères différents, l'une réservée et consciencieuse quant à sa mission, et l'autre plus désinvolte et originale, se trouvent à la fois confrontées à la pression de leur hiérarchie, et la soumission aux ordres, et la rébellion envers celle-ci.
The Syrian Bride (2004)
, 1h37Directed by Eran Riklis
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about families, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Hiam Abbass, Makram J. Khoury, Clara Khoury, Ashraf Barhom, Julie-Anne Roth, Melanie Peres
Set in the summer of 2000, Mona (Clara Khoury), a young Druze woman living at Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, is about to marry a successful Syrian actor. Following the hostilities between Israel and Syria there is now the demilitarised UNDOF zone between occupied Golan and Syria observed by United Nations staff. Crossing of the zone is extremely rare as it is only granted by both sides under special circumstances. It has taken 6 months to obtain permission from the Israeli administration for Mona to leave the Golan. When Mona crosses she will not be able to return to her family on the Golan even to visit. Mona is a bit hesitant also because she doesn't know her husband-to-be.
Alila (2003)
, 2h2Directed by Amos Gitaï
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Ronit Elkabetz, Amos Lavi
Instead of written credits at the beginning of the film, Gitai reads out the credits, introduces himself to the viewer, and explains that Alila is based on the novel Returning Lost Love. The rest of the movie is made up of forty individual single shot scenes depicting the lives of several Israelis. The character's lives overlap and collide. 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 immigrants, a teenage boy who's afraid to serve in the army, and a corrupt police officer. In each scene the camera moves through walls, over desks, and around rooms in order to keep focused on the character it's following, in moments of drama as well as in moments of mudane daily activity.
Kedma (2002)
, 1h40Directed by Amos Gitaï
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Moni Moshonov, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Sendi Bar, Yaël Abecassis
The film is a historical tragedy set during the opening stages of Israel's 1948 War of Independence. The film follows the fate of a group of refugees from the Holocaust who are illegally brought to Israel by the Palmach. When they arrive, they are chased by British soldiers. Once they escape, they are immediately drafted into the war, and take part in a grueling battle against Arab irregulars. The film centers on two long monologues, one by an Arab peasant who pledges to oppose the Jews forever; and one by an emotionally demolished refugee who laments the seemingly endless suffering of his people. Gitai intended the film to be a more realistic answer to the romanticized depiction of the war in Otto Preminger's Exodus. The final shot of Kedma is identical to the final shot of Preminger's film.
A Place by the Sea (1988)
, 1h35Directed by Raphaël Rebibo
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Actors Alon Abutbul
Perla (Anat Zahor) une ancienne call-girl et son petit ami Gaby (Alon Aboutboul) qui vient de sortir de prison pour un crime qu'il n'a pas commis, veulent démarrer une nouvelle vie.
Forced Witness (1984)
, 1h44Directed by Raphaël Rebibo
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Anat Atzmon, Uri Gavriel, Mosko Alkalai
Ronit (Anat Atzmon), divorcée avec un enfant, est témoin du viol de sa voisine.
The Magician of Lublin (1979)
, 1h45Directed by Menahem Golan
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Alan Arkin, Louise Fletcher, Shelley Winters, Valerie Perrine, Lou Jacobi, Zachi Noy
Yasha Mazur (Alan Arkin) is a turn-of-the-20th-century Jewish stage magician, womaniser, conman, and mystic. His great ambition is to figure out how to fly - an ambition he eventually achieves but not as a magic trick. He tours the western reaches of the old Russian Empire.