194 Films & TV Shows Set In Israel
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A Woman's Case
🇮🇱 IsraelA story of the influence of modern life on a woman, who meets a man in a sculptor's studio, has an affair, and is found dead.
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Cast a Giant Shadow
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sOutnumbered - unarmed - unprepared - they stunned the world with their incredible victory! — An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
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Snapaka Yohanan
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient History1963 film starring Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair and Prem Nazir
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Exodus
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sBased on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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David and Goliath
🇮🇱 IsraelOrson Welles stars in this familiar Old Testament tale about the Philistines and the Israelites. When the Philistines attack, the Israelites are hopeless against the fierce giant Goliath and don't know what to do. King Saul takes the advice of the prophets and sends an adolescent shepherd, David, into battle to conquer the oversized Philistine. David is victorious and becomes the King of Israel.
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A Story of David
🇮🇱 IsraelDirected by Bob McNaught. King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul's armies. Now Saul, egged on by his Edomite counselor Doeg, attempts to have David killed. Saul's son, and David's best friend, Jonathan, conspires to help David, who is reluctant to fight back against his own people the Israelites.
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Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sThe passionate love story of a fighting Irishman and an Israeli lass. — First movie produced in Israel deals with the outbreak of hostilities during the war for independence in 1947.
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The Silver Chalice
🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇱 Israel The 1st CenturyI bid you seek the lost silver cup... for sin is rising like the swollen rivers... — A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
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Barabbas
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel The 1st CenturyThe story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
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The Juggler
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sThe story of a man of passions ! — A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
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The Queen of Sheba
🇮🇱 IsraelFabulous Spectacle! Colorful Magnificence! Barbaric Splendor! — The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
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David and Bathsheba
🇮🇱 IsraelMighty as Goliath! — King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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The Earth Cries Out
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 PalestineTwo Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
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Life of St. Paul
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
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Nathan der Weise
🇮🇱 Israel The 12th CenturySilent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin and the (initially anonymous) Templar bridge their gaps between Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
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Jerusalem Liberated
🇮🇱 Israel The 11th CenturyThe film is set during the Crusades and describes Godfrey of Bouillon's conquest of Jerusalem in 1099.
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From the Manger to the Cross
🇮🇱 IsraelThe life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.
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Ben Hur
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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Shanti Sandesham
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryIndian version of the Jesus story. Following Jesus' birth he performs many miracles and gathers a band of followers. He runs into trouble with the authorities and the Romans execute him. He rises again and ascends to heaven.