One Day in September (1999), Promises (2001), My Father My Lord (2007), Foxtrot (2017), In Search of Israeli Cuisine (2016), Live and Become (2005), Late Marriage (2001), The Attack (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Israel movies.
Storyline: After WWII, Jewish Holocaust survivors are moved into Displaced Persons' camps. After delays, more physical hardship, and years of uncertainty, they are permitted to begin new lives in Israel and the U.S.—Eileen Berdon <eberdon@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, jewish, holocaust, survivors, refugees, documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On an ordinary day, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event, only find there is no delegation to meet them, nor any arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva. When they find their own ride, they arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, led by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly lunch owner, Dina, who offers to put them up for the night. As the band settles in as best it can, each of the members attempts to get along with the natives in their own way. What follows is a special night of quiet happenings and confessions as the band makes its own impact on the town and the town on them.
Plot Keywords: music, war, comedy, humanity, cultural clash, friendship, peace ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a covert operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew?
Plot Keywords: history, politics, thriller, revenge, espionage, action, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Palestinians Said and Khaled, now in young adulthood, have been lifelong friends living in Nablus in the West Bank. They have both had what they consider a difficult life, now working side-by-side in unfulfilling jobs as auto mechanics in a small garage, being unfulfilling as difficult as the jobs were to get. Those difficult lives includes feeling like they are prisoners in the West Bank, Said who has only left the region once on a medical issue when he was six. They blame all their problems on the oppression by the Israelis. As such, they have volunteered and have been accepted by a Palestinian resistance group to carry out a suicide bombing mission in Tel Aviv: after the initial response to the first bomb, the second bomb would be detonated at the same site. Following the bombing, the resistance group would release pre-taped video messages of Said and Khaled confessing to the bombing in the name of God. The mission would require Said and Khaled to cross "illegally" into Israel. ...
Plot Keywords: war, political, conflict, terrorism, humanity, moral dilemma, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lifta is the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated. Its ruins serve as a haunting backdrop for a confrontation between the two mega-narratives that underlie the Arab-Israeli conflict; the Nakba and the Holocaust.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, culture, conflict, heritage, memory, displacement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenager embarks on a murderous crime spree with a friend he hopes to impress.
Plot Keywords: spy, cold war, true story, history, thriller, war, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three Arab-Israeli women share an apartment in Tel Aviv and try to balance their traditions with the modern world.
Plot Keywords: women, cultural conflict, identity, freedom, tradition, modern life, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thomas, a young and talented German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who dies in a car crash. Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking answers. Keeping his secret for himself, he starts working for Anat, his lover's widow, who owns a small café. Although not fully kosher and despised by the religious, his delicious cakes turn the place into a city attraction. Finding himself involved in Anat's life in a way far beyond his anticipation, Thomas will stretch his lie to a point of no return.—Film Base Berlin
Plot Keywords: drama, lgbt, romance, germany, jewish culture, family, grief ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition. The Israel Prize, Israel's most prestigious national award, is the jewel that brings these two to a final, bitter confrontation.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, father-son relationship, jewish culture, satire, literature, honor, misunderstanding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Yossi is a Commander at an Israeli outpost near Lebanon. He is however involved in a secret, passionate love affair with his second in command (nicknamed Jagger). The two will often sneak off from the outpost to spend time together. A failed ambush during a full moon leaves Jagger mortally wounded and forces Yossi to finally express his love.—Phazed-101
Plot Keywords: war, lgbt, romance, military, forbidden love, tragedy, soldiers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Some stories get lost in the turmoil of their times. It is often only in retrospect that we can discover the true shapers of history. One such man is the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman. Orchestra of Exiles explores this great man's 4-year odyssey, which culminates in the founding of the orchestra that would become the Israel Philharmonic. His fascinating story touches many of the major themes of the 20th century and the unfolding drama of his life is riveting. During the darkest days of a Europe being torn apart by anti- Semitism and Nazi aggression, Huberman's extraordinary efforts saved hundreds of Jewish families from the approaching holocaust and his achievements changed the landscape of cultural history. Before the Nazis came to power Huberman was focused only on building his own monumental career but witnessing Hitler's agenda was a call to action that Huberman could not ignore. Huberman's personal transformation and subsequent heroic struggle to get Jewish musicians out of Europe to found this orchestra will be at the heart of this film.—Josh Aronson
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, music, jewish culture, world war ii, exile, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Though initially wary of one another, two Israeli teenagers (Smadar Sayar, Naama Schendar) bond over their shared dislike of military duty.
Plot Keywords: war, military, friendship, conflict, daily life, social pressure, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Palestinian family with five children lives outside town, near Israeli settlements. Samia, the wife, wants to leave; so does one teen son. Mohammad, the patriarch, is adamant that he is staying. Two of his adolescent children want to fight. His is the passive aggression of non-violent witness. Israeli soldiers burst into the home, taking over the second floor. At night, the family is locked in the living room. We see the effects of the occupation on the children and on the marriage. Through the eyes of Miriam, the older daughter, we watch the soldiers from her hiding place. Jamal, the eldest son, sets a trap with a grenade. Characters call upon Allah. Chaos and death are close.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: war, comrades, military, conflict, soldiers, frontline, humanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Family secrets, lies, high drama and generations of contemporary history unspool in this international story that begins with World War II and concludes with an emotional 21st-century family reunion. Izak was born inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1945 and sent for adoption in Israel. Secret details of his birth mother, an unknown brother in Canada and his father's true identity slowly emerge in this extremely personal investigative film. Timely questions of identity, resilience, compassion and the plight of displaced persons are brought to life as Izak and Shep, the almost 70-year-old brothers, finally meet in Canada, then head to a nursing home in Quebec to introduce Shep to his elderly mother, Aida, for the first time.—Chris McDonald
Plot Keywords: documentary, family secrets, identity, germany, canada, emotional journey, war trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a infantry platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot handle. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the most emblematic act of uncivilized problem solving: war.
Plot Keywords: war, military, soldiers, psychological stress, confined space, survival, fear ...
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