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Life of Brian
🇮🇱 Israel The 1st Century The 1st Century BCHe wasn't the messiah. He was a very naughty boy. — 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
🇮🇱 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
🇮🇱 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
🇮🇱 Israel 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
🇮🇱 Israel The 1950sThree boys, one summer... Only one thing on her mind! — 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
🇮🇱 IsraelThe first time was only a warning. — 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 empire—and 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
🇮🇱 Israel 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
🇮🇱 Israel The 1960sClash between new and old military band members threatens the band's stability. — 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
🇮🇱 Israel 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
🇮🇱 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
🇮🇱 Israel The 1970sIt is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it. — Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer
🇮🇱 IsraelSergio 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
🇮🇱 Israel 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
🇮🇱 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
🇮🇱 IsraelThe kidnapping . . . . The masquerade . . . The murder trial . . . . Perhaps the most suspenseful shocker of our time. — 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
🇮🇱 Israel Ancient History1975 Indian Film
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Kazablan
🇮🇱 IsraelAn embittered gang leader seeks the respect of his neighbors and the love of a young woman — 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
🇮🇱 Israel 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
🇮🇱 IsraelThe unanimous hit of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival - An Israeli love story you will never forget. — 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
🇮🇱 Israel The 1960sTerror and sudden death erupt in a city torn apart by violence. — 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
🇮🇱 IsraelA romantic drama about Nurith - a young girl who tries to become a singer.
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Fifty Fifty
🇮🇱 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
🇮🇱 IsraelA moving story of a sportsman...Football is his whole life. — 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
🇮🇱 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
🇮🇱 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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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 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 Ancient History1963 film starring Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair and Prem Nazir
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Exodus
🇮🇱 Israel 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
🇮🇱 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
🇮🇱 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
🇮🇱 IsraelTwo 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 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 Ancient HistoryThe first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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Shanti Sandesham
🇮🇱 Israel 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.
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