Here we've displayed a list of the best Israeli films : On the Map(2016), The Gatekeepers(2012), The Band's Visit(2007), The Settlers(2016), Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films(2014), The Other Son(2012), The Farewell Party(2014), Yossi & Jagger(2002), Orchestra of Exiles(2012), Aida's Secrets(2016), Private(2004), Dancing in Jaffa(2013) ... ...
Documentary
USA|Israel
2016
85 Minutes
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ON THE MAP tells the against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv's 1977 European Championship, which took place at a time when the Middle East was still reeling from the 1973 Yom Kippur War,... See full summary »
Documentary
Israel|France
2012
96 Minutes
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A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
Comedy, Drama
Israel|USA|France
2007
86 Minutes
Sasson Gabay Ronit Elkabetz Saleh Bakri Khalifa Natour Rubi Moskovitz Uri Gavriel Imad Jabarin Hilla Sarjon
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A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Documentary
France|Germany|Israel|Canada
2016
110 Minutes
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An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Documentary
UK|Israel|Australia|USA
2014
106 Minutes
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The history of the independent film company, The Cannon Film Group, Inc..
Drama
France
2012
105 Minutes
Emmanuelle Devos Pascal Elbé Jules Sitruk Mehdi Dehbi Areen Omari Khalifa Natour Mahmud Shalaby Diana Zriek Marie Wisselmann Bruno Podalydès Ezra Dagan
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Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Comedy, Drama
Israel|Germany
2014
90 Minutes
Tal Granit Ilan Dar Levana Finkelstein Ze'ev Revach Hanna Rieber Aliza Rosen Rafi Tabor Yosef Carmon Ruth Geller Michael Koresh Idit Teperson
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Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
Drama
Israel
2002
67 Minutes
Yehuda Levi Ohad Knoller Assi Cohen Aya Steinovitz Hani Furstenberg Sharon Raginiano Yuval Semo Yaniv Moyal Hanan Savyon Erez Kahana
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Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border.
Documentary
USA|Israel
2012
85 Minutes
Zubin Mehta Itzhak Perlman Joshua Bell Pinchas Zukerman Leon Botstein
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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 ... See full summary »
Documentary
Germany|Israel|Canada|USA
2016
90 Minutes
Shaul Schwarz
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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 ... See full summary »
War, Drama
Italy
2004
93 Minutes
Lior Miller Mohammad Bakri Tomer Russo Areen Omari Hend Ayoub Karem Emad Hassan Aly Marco Alsaying Sarah Hamzeh Amir Hasayen Niv Shafir Sahar Lachmy
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A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
Documentary
USA|Israel
2013
86 Minutes
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Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.
Drama, Action, War
Israel
2007
125 Minutes
Alon Moni Aboutboul Eli Altonio Daniel Brook Oshri Cohen Gal Friedman Ohad Knoller
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The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.
Drama, Action
UK
2001
90 Minutes
Christopher Lambert Kerry Fox Vincent Regan Cal Macaninch Nicolas de Pruysenaere Donald Sumpter Maryam d'Abo Oliver Haden Hendrick Haese William Armstrong
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A failed parole officer framed for murder must enlist the help of his former clients to clear his name.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Israel|USA
2016
118 Minutes
Richard Gere Lior Ashkenazi Michael Sheen Steve Buscemi Charlotte Gainsbourg Dan Stevens Hank Azaria Harris Yulin Josh Charles Yehuda Almagor Neta Riskin
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Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.
Romance
Israel|USA
1990
85 Minutes
Adrian Pasdar Cecilia Peck Machram Hurt Amon Zadok Margrit Polak Michael Morim Amos Lavi Hanna Azulai Barry Primus Yaffit Mazar
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An epic love story set against the backdrop of Middle East turmoil.
Comedy
USA
2008
113 Minutes
Adam Sandler John Turturro Emmanuelle Chriqui Nick Swardson Rob Schneider Kevin Nealon Lainie Kazan Ido Mosseri Dave Matthews Michael Buffer Charlotte Rae
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An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
Action
1986
148 Minutes
Steven Bauer Rod Steiger Colleen Dewhurst Michael York Robert Joy Laurent Malet Lino Ventura Leslie Hope
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Israel's secret service assembles a team of commandos to avenge the 1972 murders of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich.
Drama
1986
96 Minutes
John Shea Eli Wallach Sasson Gabay Michal Bat-Adam Rami Danon Chaim Jeraffi Jacques Cohen Anat Barzilai
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Recruited by an Israeli spy chief (Eli Wallach) in 1959, Egyptian-born accountant Elie Cohen (John Shea) spies in Syria.