194 Films & TV Shows Set In Israel
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Legend of Destruction
🇮🇱 Israel The 1st CenturyWhat had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious messianic zeal and the friction between social classes proved disastrous and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple.
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Ahed's Knee
🇮🇱 IsraelAn Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom in his country, the other against the death of his mother.
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Asia
🇮🇱 IsraelAsia is the single mother of 17-year-old Vika. Vika's deteriorating health urges Asia to finally find her voice as a mother and to embrace and cherish their time together.
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Here We Are
🇮🇱 IsraelAharon has devoted his life to raising his son Uri. They live together in a gentle routine, away from the real world. But Uri is autistic, and now as a young adult it might be time for him to live in a specialized home. While on their way to the institution, Aharon decides to run away with his son and hits the road, knowing that Uri is not ready for this separation. Or is it, in fact, his father who is not ready?
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Laila in Haifa
🇮🇱 IsraelThe film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that multifaceted microcosm, a gathering peaceful hideout, can find shelter from male bullying and arrogance.
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The Rhine Flows to the Mediterranean Sea
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇱 PolandIn associative montages of images and conversations with people in Germany, Poland and ultimately in Israel, this film explores persistent traumas, mechanisms of repressing the pain, and attempts at reconciliation. What kind of dialogue is possible between relatives of perpetrators and victims? How does one’s identity or membership in a community mould one’s awareness and perception? With these questions in mind after his return, Avnon also takes a different view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is visibly inscribed in the social space of his home town of Haifa.
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Crescendo
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 PalestineThis German musical drama – German if we speak about the production country, and international when it comes to its essence – stars Peter Simonischek, the incredible mature actor who played the lead in Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, which became one of the most notable premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. His character in Crescendo resembles the one he played in Ade’s film, and if in the latter he portrayed a wonderful father to his daughter, the former features him as a father to the entire symphonic orchestra assembled from young Israeli-Palestinian musicians. The conductor tries to turn this potentially volatile ensemble into a professional unit, guided by his own principles of an artistic director – but that doesn’t work – and he has to engage his human feelings towards those young ‘participants’ of someone else’s war. In the end, music – the eternal art – will help them make peace.
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Drive
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇳 IndiaA getaway driver is attracted to a female neighbor whose husband owes money to a local gangster. As a result he is drawn deeper into a dangerous underworld.
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The Operative
🇩🇪 Germany 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇷 IranEvery secret has a price. — A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
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Damascus Cover
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇱 Israel 🇸🇾 Syria The 1980sA spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
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7 Days in Entebbe
🇮🇱 Israel 🇺🇬 Uganda The 1970s248 passengers were held hostage. For seven days, the world was held captive. — In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
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Longing
🇮🇱 IsraelAriel, a well-off, childless man, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of parenthood and change his life forever.
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Samson
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 PalestineChosen. Betrayed. Redeemed. — After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God.
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Operation Finale
🇮🇱 Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sAfter World War II, Hitler’s deadliest lieutenant escaped. — In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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Red Cow
🇮🇱 IsraelRed Cow is a coming-of-age film that takes place in the days leading up to the assassination of Rabin and depicts the life of Benny, 16, orphaned from mother at birth and the only child of Joshua - a religious, right-wing extremist, in those critical junctures when she is forming her sexual, religious and political awareness.
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Flawless
🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇮🇱 IsraelEden a 17-year-old high school student discovers that her two best friends are planning to sell their kidneys to pay for cosmetic surgery and a dress for prom. Eden, who is secretly a trans woman, realizes that this may be the answer to her prayers. She joins the others on their journey to Kiev to exchange their kidneys for the flawless body of their dreams. Their trip does not go as planned and when Eden's secret is exposed, all three of them need to come to terms with the prejudices they have and redefine who they really want to be in this world.
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Tel Aviv on Fire
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 PalestineSalam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.
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The Other Story
🇮🇱 IsraelTto rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.
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Sand Storm
🇮🇱 Israel The 2010sA Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
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Foxtrot
🇮🇱 IsraelMichael and Daphna receive terrible news about their soldier son, who serves in a desolate checkpoint in the middle of nowhere.
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Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club
🇮🇱 IsraelWhat is going on behind the closed doors of the women-only secret club? The first rule is that love is prohibited. When Sophie falls in love with a mysterious man, she must choose between her last chance for true love to her loyalty to the club.
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The Cakemaker
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇱 IsraelThomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who has frequent business visits in Berlin. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking for answers regarding his death. Under a fabricated identity, Thomas infiltrates the life of Anat, his lover’s newly widowed wife, who owns a small Café in downtown Jerusalem. Thomas starts to work for her, creating German cakes and cookies that bring her Café to life. Thomas finds himself involved in Anat’s life in a way far beyond his anticipation. To protect the truth he will stretch his lie to a point of no return.
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The Road to Where
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sIsrael 1948. A house by the sea in Jaffa, from which Palestinian families have had to flee in haste, becomes the home of Jewish survivors who managed to escape the inferno in Europe. Out of the turmoil of their existence, under the shadow of the unresolved conflict between Jews and Arabs, rises a desperate cry for.
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Jeruzalem
🇮🇱 Israel The 1970s The 2010sOn Judgement Day, Hell Shall Inherit The Earth. — When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city
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In Between
🇮🇱 IsraelThe film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and choose.
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