194 Films & TV Shows Set In Israel
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Life of Brian
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century The 1st Century BCHe wasn't the messiah. He was a very naughty boy. โ Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
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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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Damien: Omen II
Illinois ๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelThe first time was only a warning. โ Since the sudden and highly suspicious death of his parents, 12-year-old Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empireโand the world. Anyone attempting to unravel the secrets of Damien's sinister past or fiendish future meets with a swift and cruel demise.
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The Small One
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCOrdered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Joseph buys Small One and uses him to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.
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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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Karunamayudu
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyA 160-minute version of the life of Jesus Christ filmed entirely with a cast and crew of Christian Indians in India.
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Warhead
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelA weapons expert is reluctantly sent on a mission to a middle-east warzone to locate a lost nuclear warhead and dismantle it before it falls into the wrong hands. But before he can complete his work, he is taken prisoner and thrust into the conflict, and finds himself looking out for more than just the warhead
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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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Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ช๐ฌ EgyptSergio Konstanza, a Swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Seargent is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
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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 Sell Out
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelThis action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
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The Man in the Glass Booth
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelThe kidnapping . . . . The masquerade . . . The murder trial . . . . Perhaps the most suspenseful shocker of our time. โ Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished when, one day, Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being not a Jewish businessman but a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt--but their own.
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Thomasleeha
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient History1975 Indian Film
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Kazablan
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelAn embittered gang leader seeks the respect of his neighbors and the love of a young woman โ An adaptation of a popular Israeli stage musical. Kazablan is an army veteran turned gang leader in the Israeli port of Jaffa who masks his feelings of bitterness with a lot of bravado. He's sweet on Rachel, a young woman who lives with her father and stepmother. The budding relationship scandalizes the neighbors (not to mention Rachel's parents) and infuriates Yanush, a middle-aged shoe store owner who wants Rachel for himself. (Yanush feels he's entitled to marry Rachel since they're both Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern European origins, whereas Kazablan is a Sephardic Jew from Morocco.) The neighborhood has something else to worry about besides the antics of Kazablan and his gang: the city wants to tear down their crumbling homes. The residents pool their resources to save their houses, but the money that's collected is stolen. When he's jailed for the theft, Kazablan must find a way to clear himself.
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Jesus
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryKing Herod has ruled Judea for over 37 years and believes himself to be supreme. When three wise men from the Far East come to visit him, he is initially pleased, but this pleasure turns to anger when he finds out that they have traveled all the way to witness the birth of the son of God. After they depart, he instructs his Prime Minister to kill all children under the age of 2 years. Herod's instructions are carried out, but they don't find the baby Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem. Jesus, son of Joseph and virgin Mary, has been destined to lead mankind to a better path but must face many challenges, temptations and betrayal from ones he trusted the most, humiliation, torture, crucifixion, and resurrection.
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I Love You Rosa
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelThe unanimous hit of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival - An Israeli love story you will never forget. โ This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother dies. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction, but as time passes in the story, the situation changes.
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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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Nurith
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelA romantic drama about Nurith - a young girl who tries to become a singer.
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Fifty Fifty
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelIn this Israeli comedy, the baker has half a winning lottery ticket, and his deceased partner has the other. In order to benefit from winning, somebody needs to put the two together. The baker searches stealthily for the missing half, so do the dead partner's son-in-law and a group of thieves who hear of this potential windfall. There is some slapstick as this group chases one or another of its member through the streets and shops of Tel-Aviv
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Bloomfield
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelA moving story of a sportsman...Football is his whole life. โ An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game.
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The Big Dig
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelA slapstick comedy lampooning bureaucracy and the madness of everyday life in Israel centers on an escaped lunatic who digs up the streets of Tel-Aviv with a drill
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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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