54 Films & TV Shows Set In Israel During The 20th Century
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Mother Night
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960s The 1940s The 1930sThe truth is more shocking than the uniform he wears... HE WAS AN AMERICAN SPY. โ An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
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The Seventh Coin
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1990sAn independent film starring Peter O'Toole and directed by Dror Soref. In modern-day Jerusalem, an Arab boy and a beautiful American tourist are accidentally entrusted with a priceless coin from the age of King Herod. Soon the two are falling in love and running for their lives from Emil Saber, a man obsessed with possessing the fabled coin at any cost.
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For Sasha
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960sIsrael, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. They are visited by Simon, Michel and Paul, three friends from Paris who have come to celebrate Laura's twentieth birthday. Simon is obsessed by the death of the girl he loved and during the birthday evening, attempts to find someone to blame amongst his friends. Laura alone knows that the young girl died of a broken heart. She also loved Sacha.
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The Passport
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฌ๐ช Georgia ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1980sA man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
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Berlin-Jerusalem
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1930sTwo interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian Jew and revolutionary, goes from Minsk to Palestine to live on a collective. She promotes feminism and laments a shift in the men from self-defense to aggression. Her friend, Else Lasker-Schuler (1869 - 1945), expressionist poet and German Jew, is in Berlin, writing, caring for her son, watching Hitler's movement take power. She goes to Jerusalem and imagines a park for Arab and Jew. Her poems, voiced from within, capture her experience. The film meditates on the violence at the root of Israel's birth: of the Nazis and of the Zionists.
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The Thousand Wives of Naftali Siman-Tov
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1920sThe Bukharan neighborhood of Jerusalem in the 1920s Naftali is a wealthy trader and a middle-aged widow whose all his former wives have mysteriously passed away and he is afraid to remarry with a belief that he has a curse on him. The matchmaker presses and the old woman coaxes and finally carries Flora, a 24-year-old virgin, but not to infect her with a curse, he avoids any physical contact with her. The plot gets complicated when Flora gets hurt as a result of her relationship with the fabric merchant, and Naftali, who can't bear the shame, turns his anger on his young wife.
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Steal the Sky
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 1960sAn Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.
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Himmo, King of Jerusalem
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1940sAdapted from Yoram Kaniuk's best-selling novel, this heart-rending love story unfolds during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. A young and beautiful volunteer nurse is drawn to the enigmatic Himmo, a mortally wounded and mutilated soldier who cannot speak or move.
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The Impossible Spy
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 1960sThis is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
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Late Summer Blues
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1970sA group of close friends celebrate the bittersweet changes coming to their lives during the summer of their high-school graduation: adult responsibilities, adult romance -- and the soberingly adult fact that some of their number are being drafted into the Israeli army. This has very much the feel of a high-school beach-party movie -- with music, and in Hebrew -- until a sudden and disturbingly realistic reminder of their own mortality finally slashes through the kids' cheerful, close-knit obliviousness.
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The Delta Force
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1980sThey don't negotiate with terrorists... they blow them away! โ A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
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Alex Is Lovesick
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1950sThis feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young hustlers dreaming of nude girls, his schoolmaster is a nervous Russian immigrant. The street speech is full of Polish, Russian, and Farsi slang, full of the small talk that had later entered the everyday speech. The soundtrack, which is quite remarkable, is built solely on the American music of the period. Everyone in the feature finds one's love and happiness.
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Sunstroke
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1980sLast summer before the army... Last summer altogether โ A movie about a last summer in the life of four friends just before they go to the army during early 1980's Tel-Aviv summer before the war in Lebanon.
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Diary
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ง๐ท Brazil The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1950s The 2000sA film diary in which Perlov films the minutiae of his and his family's day-to-day life. From these small bits, he builds up a broad picture of life in Israel in the '70s and '80s.
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The Soldier
Pennsylvania Kansas Ontario ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ง๐พ Belarus ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia The 20th CenturyYou don't assign him. You unleash him. โ Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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A Woman Called Golda
Wisconsin ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1970s The 1960sThe story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Going Steady
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960sGoing Steady aka Lemon Popsicle 2 is the sequel to the 1978 Israeli film Lemon Popsicle. The movie basically follows the daily lives of several teenagers as they are "coming of age" in what appears to be the late 50's (maybe early 60's).
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99 Dizengoff Street
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1970sIn the easy-going, sexually-liberated 1970's Tel Aviv, three young friends, struggling filmmaker Nati, his impressionable girlfriend Ossi and his geeky friend Mushon, move in together in a small apartment in Dizengoff Street number 99. By day, they work a boring desk office job but by night the city is their playground. Their overall goal is to make their way into the commercial movie making business, but harsh realities and romances often sidetrack them. Their fourth friend and Nati's older other girlfriend is aspiring musician, Miri.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฆ๐ท Argentina The 1960sWhen Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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Lemon Popsicle
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1950sThree boys, one summer... Only one thing on her mind! โ Bentzi, Momo, and Yuda'leh are three teenage boys growing up in 1950's Israel, which is not much different from 1950's America if you believe what you see in the film. Of course they are obsessed with one thing - sex. Bentzi is interested in the beautiful Nili, but she prefers his friend Momo.
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The Troupe
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960sClash between new and old military band members threatens the band's stability. โ The movie, set in the Israeli 1969 War of Attrition, tells the story of a prestigious military band, and the tensions and ego crises new band members cause when joining the band. Will the band survive?
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The Omen
England ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐น Italy District of Columbia The 1970sIt is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it. โ Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesnโt know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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Raid on Entebbe
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 1970sBased on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..
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The Jerusalem File
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960sTerror and sudden death erupt in a city torn apart by violence. โ An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
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Three Days and a Child
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960sBased on a short story by Abraham B. Jehoshua, the movie follows Eli (Oded Kotler) taking care of an old girlfriend's child for three days. He wants him to get hurt, he worries about him. Will the child survive the three days? Will Eli?
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