54 Films & TV Shows Set In Israel During The 20th Century
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Damascus Cover
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ธ๐พ 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
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 1970s248 passengers were held hostage. For seven days, the world was held captive. โ 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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Operation Finale
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฆ๐ท Argentina The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sAfter World War II, Hitlerโs deadliest lieutenant escaped. โ 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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The Road to Where
๐ฎ๐ฑ 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
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1970s The 2010sOn Judgement Day, Hell Shall Inherit The Earth. โ 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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The German Neighbor
๐ฆ๐ท Argentina ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960s The 2010sIn 1960 Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial. In 2016, Renate -a young German translator who lives in Buenos Aires- is hired to translate it. Her work shows the unusual life and remarkable trial defense of Eichmann.
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Above and Beyond
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1940sIn 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence.
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Atlit
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1990sIn October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves unwilling to sell. That's when the sisters start seeing apparitions of their dead parents.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine The 1950s The 1940sThe story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.
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The Matchmaker
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960s The 2000sDuring the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
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Waltz with Bashir
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1980s The 2000sAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
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Eichmann
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960sBased upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.
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Black Book
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1950s The 1940sTo fight the enemy, she must become one of them. โ In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
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ร Jerusalem
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1940sA tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
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Munich
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐พ Cyprus ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. โ 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.
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Live and Become
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1980s The 1990sIn 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
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To Take A Wife
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1970sA Story of Tradition, Love and Fear โ The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
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Turn Left at the End of the World
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960sThe year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, while the quiet Indians see the Moroccans as Ignorant and coarse. In this cultural war two girls, Moroccan and Indian, discover the sexual revolution of the 60's.
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Broken Wings
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1980sDaphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
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Kedma
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1940sIn May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
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Kippur
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1970sThe film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind. Various scenes are awash in the surreal, as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue helicopter's open door, watching with tranquil desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the blades creating a hypnotic state. It is not a traditional blood, guts and glory film. There are no men in battle, only the rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces.
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Love at Second Sight
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1990sRenowned Israeli filmmaker and actress Michal Bat-Adam produced, wrote, and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. The beautiful Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film.
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The Minion
New York ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1990sWhen the Millenium ends... Armageddon begins! โ New York, Christmas Eve, 1999 - at the dawn of the new millennium - a subway construction crew unearths an eight hundred year old Celtic skeleton and a mysterious key. Archeologist Karen Goodleaf is called in to determine the meaning of the discovery. News of the discovery reaches a Middle East monastery where the warrior monks knowns as the Knights Templer - an ancient sect entrusted with protecting holy relics - choose their best pupil, Lukas (Dolph Lundgren) to face the diabolical threat. As Lukas races to New York, an evil Minion seizes Karen and uses its body like a parasite and host. Lukas arrives just in time to rescue Karen and despatch the Minion. The Minion takes hold of another host - revealing that it is immortal. As it cuts a path of destruction through the city, decimating a parking garage and leaving a trail of death, Karen realizes that the Minion can't be killed - but only delayed from finding a new host.
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The Assignment
Quebec ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1980sJack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
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My Heart Is Mine Alone
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sHelma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schรผler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schรผler makes her way to Jerusalem even as Benn discovers the true nature of the Nazi ideology he had once championed. Lena Stolze and Cornelius Obonya star.
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