Israeli Film: A Reference Guide
by TheWanderingFish | created - 29 Aug 2013 | updated - 9 months ago | PublicFrom the book "Israeli Film: A Reference Guide" by Amy Kronish and Costel Safirman.
Missing from the IMDb:
82. Hasamba ve'Na'Arei HaHefker (aka "Get Zorkin") (dir. Yoel Zilberg)
193. Shalosh Sha'ot Be'Yuni (aka "Three Hours in June") (dir. Ilan Eldad)
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1. Again, Forever (1985)
91 min | Drama
A highly successful lawyer realises, after a cardiac warning, that he may have squandered his life when he left his first wife and all the ideals of youth she stood for, to marry a neurotic poet and join the rat race for money & success.
Director: Oded Kotler | Stars: Yahli Bergman, Nathan Dattner, Efrat Lavie, Ori Levy
Votes: 7
2. Amazing Grace (1992)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama
Against the backdrop of AIDS, the film explores two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Guttman | Stars: Sharon Alexander, Aki Avni, Dvora Bartonov, Ishai Golan
Votes: 171
3. American Citizen (1992)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Sport
An Israeli sports journalist befriends an American basketball pro playing in Israel. Although from very different backgrounds, their love for the game deepens their friendship. Each learns to value the other's culture.
Director: Eitan Green | Stars: Seffie Adir, Icho Avital, Chaim Banai, David Baruch
Votes: 77
4. The Appointed (1990)
94 min | Drama
A rabbi's son rebels against his roots and becomes a magician. A woman enters his life and turns his tricks into metaphysical phenomena. The son is forced to choose between love and living up to his father's expectations.
Director: Daniel Wachsmann | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Shuli Rand, Shabtai Konorti, Tzvi Shissel
Votes: 36
5. Ariana (1971)
90 min | Drama
Director: George Obadiah | Stars: Dassi Hadari, Gabi Amrani, Arieh Elias, Pnina Gary
6. Atalia (1984)
90 min | Drama
Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair ... See full summary »
Directors: Tzvika Kertzner, Akiva Tevet | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Yftach Katzur, Dan Toren, Raphael Klatchkin
Votes: 24
7. Attraction (1988)
90 min | Drama
Director: Naftali Alter | Stars: Irit Alter, Ron Appleberg, Liat Farris, Hanan Goldblatt
8. August Snow (1993)
82 min | Drama
Director: Hagai Levi | Stars: Rami Heuberger, Avigail Ariely, Ya'ackov Banai, Gali Ben-Nir
Votes: 11
9. Aunt Clara (1977)
94 min | Drama
Clara, a Polish born Jew, living in Tel Aviv of the 1970's, has her ideas about how people should behave, and runs everybody's life accordingly: her husband, her sisters, their husbands, ... See full summary »
Director: Avraham Heffner | Stars: Hanna Maron, Ruth Segal, Shmuel Bunim, Yosef Carmon
Votes: 29
10. Avanti Popolo (1986)
84 min | Drama, War
June 11th 1967, the Six-Day War is over and the cease fire has just begun. We follow the journey of Gassan and Haled, two Egyptian soldiers whose only wish is to make their way through the ... See full summary »
Director: Rafi Bukai | Stars: Salim Daw, Suhel Haddad, Tuvia Gelber, Danny Segev
Votes: 430
11. Avoda (1935)
50 min | Documentary, Music
This documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state.
Director: Helmar Lerski
Votes: 43
12. Aya: Imagined Autobiography (1994)
87 min | Biography, Drama
Aya is a woman who, since early childhood, has been driven by her father's ambition to see her become successful. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams ad fantasy alternate with reality.
Director: Michal Bat-Adam | Stars: Michal Zoharetz, Shira Lew-Munk, Liat Goren, Gedalia Besser
Votes: 42
13. Bar 51 (1986)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama
After the mother's death, the siblings leave the family home and go to Tel Aviv. They both intend to start a new life. They meet the transgender Apolonia, the owner of Bar 51, who offers them help and work.
Director: Amos Guttman | Stars: Smadar Kilchinsky, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Ada Valerie-Tal, Rahel Shor
Votes: 82
14. Before Tomorrow (1969)
90 min | Drama
Composed of two short films. The first one "Spring" (26 minutes) is about a young couple falling in love. Almost dialogue free and shot in an experimental style. The second film "Fall" (46 ... See full summary »
Director: Ellida Geira | Stars: Arieh Elias, Rina Ganor, Ruth Harris, Yisrael Poliakov
Votes: 9
15. Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama
Two 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... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, Markus Stockhausen, Benjamin Levi
Votes: 97
16. Besame Mucho (2000)
114 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
This is a film about the lifes of a few people, living in south Tel-Aviv, and slightly connected to the life of crime. Each of'em has his dreams his complections, his.. beauty. So they form... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Pitchhadze | Stars: Ryan Early, Carmel Betto, Eli Danker, Ayala Verete
Votes: 60
17. Beyond the Walls (1984)
R | 103 min | Drama
In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed ... See full summary »
Director: Uri Barbash | Stars: Arnon Zadok, Mohammad Bakri, Hillel Ne'eman, Assi Dayan
Votes: 369
18. The Big Dig (1969)
95 min | Comedy
A 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.
Director: Ephraim Kishon | Stars: Bomba Tzur, Nissim Azikri, Shraga Friedman, Avner Hizkiyahu
Votes: 688
19. Big Eyes (1974)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
Benny Furman is a basketball headcoach who can't decide what he realy wants.
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Alona Einstein, Arik Einstein, Sima Eliyahu, Yisrael Segal
Votes: 205
20. A Bit of Luck (1992)
90 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Ze'ev Revach | Stars: Yigal Adika, Dalia Beger, Zahava Ben, Orly Ben-Garti
Votes: 85
21. Ha-Banana Hashehora (1976)
85 min | Adventure, Comedy
Avram, an Hassadic hippie; Hassan, an Arab inventor; and Tex, a nonchalant Jew, with so different backgrounds and characters, share a liberal view about sexuality. In a world abiding by the... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Hayeem | Stars: Nazim Jabrin, Danny Kinrot, Genia Maimon, Pnina Mankin
Votes: 10
22. Brennender Sand (1960)
98 min | Adventure
A group of adventurers search for a treasure of ancient biblical scrolls that the;y believe are hidden in the lost city of Petra, somewhere in Jordan. According to legend, no one has ever ... See full summary »
Director: Raphael Nussbaum | Stars: Daliah Lavi, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Abraham Eisenberg, Uri Zohar
Votes: 44
23. Dummy in a Circle (1993)
93 min | Drama, Music
Based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai, Blind Man's Bluff takes a bittersweet look at the life of a young Israeli woman. Trying to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and ... See full summary »
Director: Aner Preminger | Stars: Hagit Dasberg, Nicole Casel, Gedalia Besser, Anat Waxman
Votes: 13
24. The Dress (1969)
85 min | Drama
Three short stories of life in Tel Aviv; A girl meets a boy in a library and has to decide what to do next; A young husband comes home to meet his wife's boyfriend; A young clerk opens a ... See full summary »
Director: Judd Ne'eman | Stars: Assi Dayan, Liora Rivlin, Motti Barkan, Amir Orion
Votes: 26
25. Braids (1989)
90 min | Drama
Based on a true story, Braids tells the tale of So'ad, a 14-year-old Jewish girl imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1947 for her participation in the Zionist movement.
Director: Yitzhak Halutzi | Stars: Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Tchia Danon, Arieh Elias, Adib Jahschan
26. Bread (1986)
90 min | Drama
Director: Ram Loevy | Stars: Etti Ankri, Rivka Bahar, Rami Danon, Moshe Ivgy
Votes: 19
27. Broken Wings (2002)
R | 87 min | Drama
Daphne 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'.
Director: Nir Bergman | Stars: Orly Silbersatz, Maya Maron, Nitai Gvirtz, Daniel Magon
Votes: 2,493 | Gross: $0.41M
28. Burning Land (1984)
95 min | Drama
Director: Serge Ankri | Stars: Jacques Ovadiah, Gerard Ben-Imo, Miriam Nataf, Alexis Dupont
29. Burning Memory (1989)
93 min | Drama
A man walks amongst an inferno of flames, shell-shocked. When he's back home, he starts group therapy in a military rehab center, meeting all kinds of fellow soldiers who, like him, have ... See full summary »
Director: Yossi Somer | Stars: Dani Roth, Poly Reshef, Etti Ankri, Alon Oleartchik
Votes: 11
30. But Where Is Daniel Wax? (1972)
94 min | Drama
10 years after he left Israel and "played it big-time in America", Benny Shpitz returns for a visit, self-exploring his youth, friends, dreams, beliefs and idol, Daniel Wax, who symbolized ... See full summary »
Director: Avraham Heffner | Stars: Lior Yieniy, Yishai Shahar, Esther Zewko, Yael Heffner
Votes: 101
31. Ceasefire (1950)
69 min | Drama, War
Gideon was wounded in battle near Jerusalem by an Arab sniper. He was saved by a woman, and then evacuated to recovery in the hospital. After recovering, he decides to return to his kibbutz... See full summary »
Director: Amram Amar | Stars: Roger Attali, Eli Behar, Yitzhak Frej, Esther Frieder
32. The Cellar (1963)
76 min | Drama
Director: Natan Gross | Stars: Zaharira Harifai, Hannah Kahane, David Smadar, Shimon Yisraeli
Votes: 8
33. Charlie and a Half (1974)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charlie passes himself off as a rich businessman but gets by through fleecing suckers with 3-Card Monte. Miko is a street kid who spends his time with Charlie instead of going to school; ... See full summary »
Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Yehuda Barkan, Ze'ev Revach, Arieh Elias, Edna Fliedel
Votes: 621
34. Ha-Behirah V'Hagoral (1993)
118 min | Documentary
Director: Tsipi Reibenbach | Stars: Fruma Grinberg, Yitzhak Grinberg
Votes: 9
35. Weekend Circles (1980)
86 min | Drama
Director: Idit Shehori | Stars: Noa Cohen-Raz, Motti Dichne, Galit Gil, Amos Lavi
Votes: 12
36. Circus Palestina (1998)
83 min | Drama
When a small, run-down circus comes to a Palestinian town, it changes the lives of the West Bank villagers.
Director: Eyal Halfon | Stars: Evgenia Dodina, Yoram Hattab, Amos Lavi, Bassam Zo'amat
Votes: 90
37. Clouds Over Israel (1966)
85 min | Drama, War
A Bedouin woman hides an Israeli pilot from Egyptian soldiers. While the Egyptian soldiers torture her to get information, the Israeli soldiers rescue her.
Director: Ilan Eldad | Stars: Yiftach Spector, Ehud Banai, Dina Doron, Hadara Azoulai
Votes: 17
38. Coffee with Lemon (1994)
92 min | Drama
Director: Leonid Gorovets | Stars: Aleksandr Abdulov, Tatyana Vasileva, Bruria Albeck, Valery Guryev
Votes: 19
39. The Winchell Affair (1979)
104 min | Drama
Director: Avraham Heffner | Stars: Hazi Carmel, Dov Feigin, Shimon Finkel, Devora Kastelnitz
40. Esh Tzolevet (1989)
90 min | Drama, Romance, War
Director: Gideon Ganani | Stars: Alan Bergreen, John Deeks, Arieh Elias, Dani Friedman
Votes: 15
41. Cup Final (1991)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, War
An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup (mondial), he and his capturers share the... See full summary »
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Moshe Ivgy, Mohammad Bakri, Salim Daw, Bassam Zo'amat
Votes: 204
42. Daddy Come to the Fair (1995)
76 min | Documentary
A documentary that follows Mordechai Vilozny, who travels back to Auschwitz from which he was liberated nearly 50 years ago. He travels back to Poland with his Israeli-born son, who is a ... See full summary »
Director: Nitza Gonen
43. Dalia and the Sailors (1964)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
Daliah sneaks into a cargo ship bound to Israel. The sailors will do anything to hide from the though captain her and catch her attention.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Benny Amdurski, Mordecai Arnon, Ya'ackov Ben-Sira, Mordechai Ben-Ze'ev
Votes: 23
44. Daughters, Daughters (1973)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A man with eight daughters, and no hope of an heir, takes a mistress to console himself. He finally consults a magician who gives him a list of instructions on how to make a son. Soon his wife is pregnant again.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Shaike Ophir, Zaharira Harifai, Yosef Shiloach, Michal Bat-Adam
Votes: 83
45. Yom Yom (1998)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A slice of life - day after day - in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi's marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe's angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Dalit Kahan
Votes: 184 | Gross: $0.00M
46. Dead End Street (1982)
86 min | Drama
Based on a true story. Alice, a young street walker, receives an opportunity of a lifetime when a television crew casts her to star in a documentary about prostitution in Tel-Aviv. Alice, a... See full summary »
Director: Yaky Yosha | Stars: Anat Atzmon, Yehoram Gaon, Gila Almagor, Gabi Amrani
Votes: 36
47. Third Side of the Coin (1960)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein, Yaakov Malkin
Votes: 232
48. Desperado Square (2001)
98 min | Drama
In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has had a dream in which his father orders ... See full summary »
Director: Benny Toraty | Stars: Yosef Shiloach, Yona Elian, Mohammad Bakri, Uri Gavriel
Votes: 174
49. Diary 1973-1983 (1983)
330 min | Documentary
Shot over a ten-year period, Diary is not only the political, professional, and personal diary of a man, but is a testimony on the turbulent reality of a war-torn country, Israel. In six ... See full summary »
Director: David Perlov | Stars: David Perlov, Mira Perlov, Yael Perlov, Neomi Perlov
Votes: 188
50. The Distance (1994)
85 min | Drama
A 35-year-old architect returns from America to his native home in Israel to visit his ageing parents. He watches as a young Russian woman fills the void he has left in his parents' life.
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Chaim Hadaya, Genia Chernik, Yitzhak Shiloh, Ruth Farhi
Votes: 11
51. Dizengoff 99 (1979)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Gidi Gov, Gali Atari, Anat Atzmon, Meir Suissa
Votes: 255
52. I Don't Give a Damn (1987)
R | 102 min | Drama
Director: Shmuel Imberman | Stars: Ika Zohar, Anat Waxman, Shmuel Vilozni, Shlomo Tarshish
Votes: 70
54. Double Edge (1992)
PG-13 | 81 min | Drama, Thriller
Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is greeted by David, an Israeli officer and writer who's also the nephew of Jerusalem's mayor.
Director: Amos Kollek | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Amos Kollek, Shmuel Shiloh, Mohammad Bakri
Votes: 179
55. Dreamboat (1964)
80 min | Drama, Family
A group of children embrace an eccentric old man, and working together, build a ship on a rooftop.
Directors: Amatsia Hiuni, Puchu | Stars: Yehuda Gur-Aryeh, Yehuda Fuchs, Dvora Kedar, Mordecai Arnon
Votes: 9
56. The Dreamer (1970)
R | 85 min | Drama
The love story of a young man who is attached to an older woman until the appearance of a younger girl interrupts him. He has an affair with the younger girl but his love for the older woman makes him return to the nursing home.
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Tuvia Tavi, Liora Rivlin, Berta Litwina, Shlomo Bar-Shavit
Votes: 13
57. Dreams of Innocence (1994)
85 min | Drama
Little Benjamin and Margalit are raised in the boondocks of Israel by their long-suffering mother, but they have in them something of their father, who can't stay in a place with no prospect of riches and excitement.
Director: Dina Zvi-Riklis | Stars: Efrat Aviv, Maya De-Fries, Tomer Even, Levana Finkelstein
Votes: 16
58. Drifting (1982)
80 min | Drama
A young gay Israeli man works in his grandmother's store while dreaming of becoming a film-maker.
Director: Amos Guttman | Stars: Jonathan Sagall, Ami Traub, Ben Levin, Dita Arel
Votes: 88
59. Because of That War (1988)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary about the life experience of the Holocaust generation and its own second generation - children born in Israel, who grew up in the shadow of their parents' memories of the Holocaust.
Director: Orna Ben-Dor Niv | Stars: Yehuda Poliker, Ya'ackov Gilad, Yael Birenbaum, Yonatan Birenbaum
Votes: 40
60. The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field (1997)
93 min | Drama, Romance
From birth, Hanan and Lea were destined to be together, a promise made by their fathers and heard in Heaven. But Lea's father betrays this promise, kindling a conflict that will pit the ... See full summary »
Director: Yossi Somer | Stars: Yehezkel Lazarov, Ayelet Zurer, Igal Naor, Orna Porat
Votes: 102
61. Eight in the Footstep of One (1964)
90 min | Drama, Family
A charming film about a group of children on a kibbutz in Israel who foil a plot by spies to blow up a Mirage jet during a military parade.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Ya'ackov Banai, Geula Gill, Ruth Golan, Elisheva Michaeli
Votes: 20
62. The 81st Blow (1974)
92 min | Documentary
Historical documentary made up of footage and stills shot by the Nazis. A compilation of testimony from witnesses who appeared at the Eichmann trial provides a telling narrative.
Directors: David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich, Haim Gouri
Votes: 54
63. El Dorado (1963)
88 min | Drama
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Topol, Gila Almagor, Yossi Yadin, Shaike Ophir
Votes: 33
64. Electric Blanket (1994)
90 min | Drama
The second chapter in Assi Dayan's trilogy centers on three marginal characters from "Life According to Agfa". Malka, a whore with a Romanian accent who dreams of becoming a singer, Levi, ... See full summary »
Director: Assi Dayan | Stars: Rivka Neuman, Shmil Ben Ari, Uri Klauzner, Gil Alon
Votes: 99
65. Rutenberg (2003)
90 min | Drama
Cohen takes an elliptical approach in telling the story of Pinchas Rutenberg, a visionary, complex, and larger-than-life figure, who, amongst other things, brought electricity to Jewish ... See full summary »
Director: Eli Cohen | Stars: Menashe Noy, Ayelet Zurer, Lior Ashkenazi, Mark Ivanir
Votes: 36
66. The End of Milton Levy (1981)
98 min | Drama
Director: Nissim Dayan | Stars: Rachel Dayan, Doval'e Glickman, Avner Hizkiyahu, Oshik Levi
Votes: 9
67. Ervinka (1967)
95 min | Comedy
A good-natured but incorrigible layabout becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging in his boundless zeal for mischief and romance.
Director: Ephraim Kishon | Stars: Topol, Gila Almagor, Avner Hizkiyahu, Yossi Banai
Votes: 135
68. Escape to the Sun (1972)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and ... See full summary »
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Josephine Chaplin, John Ireland, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 80
69. Every Bastard a King (1968)
GP | 100 min | Drama, War
During the Six-Day War, an Israeli pilot, hoping to bring peace to his country, fly his plane towards Egypt to hopefully commiserate with Abdel Nasser. Shot down en route, he finds himself halfway between the Egyptian and Israeli armies.
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Yehoram Gaon, Oded Kotler, Pier Angeli, William Berger
Votes: 69
70. The Faithful City (1952)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, History, War
Produced in Israel in English with an international cast, "The Faithful City" depicts some of the courage, patience, bravery and understanding that attended the birth of Israel as a free ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Lejtes | Stars: Jamie Smith, Ben Josef, John Slater, Rahel Marcus
71. Fantasy on a Romantic Theme (1977)
90 min | Drama
Director: Vitek Tracz | Stars: Nissim Azikri, Yehuda Fuchs, Yardena Gurevitz, Raphael Klatchkin
Votes: 22
72. Fellow Travellers (1983)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Judd Ne'eman | Stars: Gidi Gov, Yossi Pollak, Shmulik Kraus, Yussuf Abu-Warda
Votes: 17
73. Field Diary (1982)
83 min | Documentary
In 1982, Amos Gitai and a film crew travel around the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as tensions mount, leading to the Israeli army's invasion of Lebanon. Gitai ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Star: Amos Gitai
Votes: 61
74. Fifty Fifty (1971)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Fifty Fifty is a comedy that takes place in Tel Aviv during the early 70's. Grossman is a bakery owner who wins the lottery, however, he holds only half of the winning ticket. The other ... See full summary »
Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Zeev Berlinsky, Nissim Azikri, Aliza Yitzhaki, Assi Dayan
Votes: 19
75. First Love (1982)
90 min | Drama
The ex-lover of a middle class woman appears on her birthday after 20 years. Both the mother and the daughter are romantically attracted to him.
Director: Uzi Peres | Stars: Gila Almagor, Yftach Katzur, Debby Hess, Hanan Goldblatt
Votes: 11
76. Floch (1972)
90 min | Drama
Floch, a seventy year old man loses his son, daughter in-law and grandson, who are all killed in a car accident. He goes into deep depression and feels that he can't leave this world ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Avraham Chalfi, Lula Yackobovitz, Ofra Doron, Yisrael Segal
Votes: 31
77. The Flying Camel (1994)
93 min | Comedy
A Jewish professor, an Arab trash collector, and a novice Catholic nun encounter each other in a junk yard. Together the threesome decide to rebuild a statue of a flying camel that was the ... See full summary »
Director: Rami Na'aman | Stars: Yigal Adika, Mosko Alkalai, Gabi Amrani, Gilat Ankori
Votes: 43
78. Forced Testimony (1984)
104 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Raphael Rebibo | Stars: Anat Atzmon, Uri Gavriel, Tzadok Tzarrom, Mosko Alkalai
Votes: 22
79. Foreign Sister (2000)
124 min | Drama
Fifty-year-old Naomi is a woman who has everything, including a handsome husband and nice kids, but she is collapsing under the ordinariness of her successful life. She loses herself in the... See full summary »
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Tamar Yerushalmi, Askala Marcus, Zvi Salton, Miriam Nevo
Votes: 24
80. The Fox in the Chicken Coop (1978)
90 min | Comedy
Amitz Dolniker, an Israeli politician who speaks way to much has a heart attack in the middle of his speech. In the ambulance on the way to the hospital the doctor orders him to "go ... See full summary »
Director: Ephraim Kishon | Stars: Shaike Ophir, Seffy Rivlin, Zaharira Harifai, Ya'ackov Bodo
Votes: 91
81. Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim (1996)
358 min | Documentary, History
Documentary about the history of Jerusalem.
Director: Ron Havilio
Votes: 36
82. Hasamba & the Black Handkerchief Gang (1971)
90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A group of girls and boys set up a secret society called "Hasamba"; their adventures take place, first during the British Mandate and the struggle for statehood of Israel, and then as they ... See full summary »
Director: Joel Silberg | Stars: Shlomo Artzi, Ze'ev Revach, Dubi Gal, Amos Tal-Shir
Votes: 56
83. Giraffes (2001)
115 min | Action, Drama
One dramatic evening mixes the fates of three young women who live in the same apartment building in a big city.
Director: Tzahi Grad | Stars: Meital Dohan, Liat Glick, Tinkerbell, Micha Celektar
Votes: 97
84. Fortuna (1966)
M/PG | 115 min | Drama
The tragic story of a girl who has been promised to a wealthy aristocrat at the age of four. Horrified by her prospective husband, she runs away with her lover, but she is pursued by her father and brothers.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Ahuva Goren, Gila Almagor, Gavri Banai, Yossi Banai
Votes: 12
85. Az Men Git, Nemt Men (1982)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Alfred Steinhardt | Stars: Ya'akov Alperin, Ya'ackov Bodo, Rachel Dayan, Carol Feldman
86. Greenfields (1989)
92 min | Drama
From legendary writer-director Yitzhak Yeshurun comes a drama about the true meaning of flag and family. The so-called Israeli war of attrition forced Shmuel Braverman to leave Israel and ... See full summary »
Director: Isaac Zepel Yeshurun | Stars: Johnny Arbid, Sharon Brandon, Lia Dultzkaya, Shmuel Edelman
Votes: 21
87. Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer (1976)
92 min | Comedy
Swindler Sergio Konstanza owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky Army reserve unit whose Sergeant has his eye on one of Mr. Hasson's daughters, although ... See full summary »
Director: Assi Dayan | Stars: Yisrael Poliakov, Gavri Banai, Shaike Levi, Nitza Shaul
Votes: 1,527
88. Eastern Wind (1982)
88 min | Drama
Named after the hot desert wind that periodically blows through the Middle East sending temperatures and tempers soaring to potentially explosive heights. Set in an old farming village in ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Wachsmann | Stars: Shlomo Tarshish, Yasein Shawaf, Ruth Geller, Hemda Levi
Votes: 53
89. He Walked Through the Fields (1967)
90 min | Drama
Based on the novel by Moshe Shamìr.
Director: Yosef Millo | Stars: Assi Dayan, Iris Yotvat, Shraga Friedman, Yosef Millo
Votes: 85
90. The Hero's Wife (1963)
90 min | Drama
Directors: Peter Frye, Bomba Tzur | Stars: Eitan Ivri, Baruch Kelem, Melvin Keller, Batya Lancet
91. Hide and Seek (1980)
90 min | Drama
Twelve year-old Uri reports his teacher Balaban as a suspected spy when he observes him meeting with a young arab man. Only later does he discover that Balaban's interest in the young arab is romantic rather than political.
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Gila Almagor, Benyamin Armon, Chaim Hadaya, Efrat Lavie
Votes: 46
92. The Highway Queen (1971)
107 min | Drama
A story of a street walker, who tries to leave the world of prostitution when she gets pregnant.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Yehuda Barkan, Gila Almagor, Miriam Bernstein-Cohen, Leah Koenig
Votes: 37
93. Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955)
Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1948, four Israeli soldiers recount the events that led them to take up arms while preparing for a final mission in the hours leading up to a truce.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Edward Mulhare, Haya Harareet, Michael Shillo, Michael Wager
Votes: 635
94. Himmo, King of Jerusalem (1987)
84 min | Drama
Adapted 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Guttman | Stars: Icho Avital, Shay Capon, Amiram Gabriel, Avi Gilor
Votes: 45
95. Hole in the Moon (1964)
90 min | Comedy
A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing ... See full summary »
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Uri Zohar, Avraham Heffner, Arik Lavie, Shmulik Kraus
Votes: 174
96. The House on Chelouche Street (1973)
PG | 110 min | Drama
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Gila Almagor, Shaike Ophir, Yosef Shiloach, Michal Bat-Adam
Votes: 278
97. I Like Mike (1961)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
An Israeli woman wants her daughter to marry Mike, the rich American son of an oil tycoon. However, she is already in love with a poor soldier, and Mike only has eyes for a Yemenite whose picture he sees in the paper.
Director: Peter Frye | Stars: Batya Lancet, Gideon Singer, Zeev Berlinsky, Ilana Rovina
Votes: 20
98. I Love You Rosa (1972)
77 min | Drama
The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa, in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Under a (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty to marry his childless sister-in-law on the death of his brother.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Gabi Otterman, Moshe Tal, Levana Finkelstein
Votes: 250
99. I Am a Jerusalemite (1971)
100 min | Documentary, Musical
Jerusalem-born singer Yehoram Gaon takes a musical tour through his native city, highlighting its attractions, culture and people.
Director: Yehoram Gaon | Stars: Yehoram Gaon, Rahel Zimmerman, Hanny Nahmias
Votes: 19
100. An Intimate Story (1981)
87 min | Drama
Reveals at close range the two levels of emotions existing in individual lives in a kibbutz. An atmosphere of warmth and concern is expressed as Leah's repeated miscarriages cause the ... See full summary »
Director: Nadav Levitan | Stars: Chava Alberstein, Gilat Ankori, Peter Freistadt, Alexander Peleg
Votes: 11
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