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Films from the country "israel", sorted by revenue
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Waltz with Bashir (2008)
, 1h30Directed by Ari Folman
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Historical, Animation
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about religion, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films
Actors Robin Wright, Ari Folman, Yehezkel Lazarov
In 1982, Ari Folman was a nineteen-year-old infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In 2006, he meets with a friend from his army service period, who tells him of the nightmares connected to his experiences from the Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find that he remembers nothing from that period. Later that night he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the reality of which he is unable to clearly recall. In his memory, he and his soldier comrades are bathing at night by the seaside in Beirut under the light of flares descending over the city.
Lemon Tree (2008)
, 1h46Directed by Eran Riklis
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Amos Lavi, Makram J. Khoury, Yaïr Lapid
The Israeli Defense Minister Israel Navon (Doron Tavory) moves to a house on the border between Israel and the West Bank, with the building sitting on the Israeli side just next to the dividing line. The Israeli Secret Service views the neighboring lemon grove of Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass), a Palestinian widow whose family has cared for the area for generations, as a threat to the Minister and his wife. The security forces soon set up a guard post and a barbed wire fence around the grove. They then obtain an order to uproot the lemon trees.
This Is Sodom (2010)
Origin Israel
Genres Comedy, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Eyal Kitzis, Asi Cohen, Tal Friedman, Alma Zack
The film starts with God (Eyal Kitzis) meeting Abraham (Moti Kirschenbaum) to sell monotheism. After Abraham declines, God promises to end Abraham's theft problem by destroying the city of Sodom, where the thieves are coming from, within three days. Abraham asks God to get his nephew Lot (Dov Navon) out of the city before he destroys it. God replays the command to his subordinates Raphael (Yuval Semo) and Michael (Maor Cohen).
Live and Become (2005)
, 2h20Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films set in Africa, Films about alcoholism, Films about children, Films about immigration, Films about religion, La précarité, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Sirak M. Sabahat, Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Lana Ettinger, Patrick Descamps, Hervé Pauchon
Shlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him “Go, live, and become,” as he leaves her to board the plane. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries: not being Jewish and having left his birth mother.
Lemon Popsicle (1978)
, 1h35Directed by Boaz Davidson
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films about virginity
Actors Zachi Noy, Jonathan Sagall, Anat Atzmon
Nili (Niki in the English language release, played by Anat Atzmon), a beautiful new girl comes to the school of a trio of friends; Benzi (Benjy in the English release), Momo (Bobby in the English release) and Yudale (Huey in the English release). Benzi (played by Yftach Katzur), the typical "nice guy" of the three immediately falls in love with Nili. However, Nili prefers the more pushy and experienced Momo (played by Jonathan Sagall), who is keen to have sex with Nili, a virgin. Later, it is revealed that Momo had impregnated and dumped Nili. Benzi, hoping to start a relationship with her, helps Nili get an abortion and emotionally consoles her, only to see that she soon returns to the arms of Momo.
Footnote (2011)
, 1h45Directed by Joseph Cedar
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Lior Ashkenazi, Alma Zack, Yuval Scharf
Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar Aba) is a philologist who researches the different versions and phrasings of the Jerusalem Talmud. He and his son Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi) are both professors at the Talmudic Research department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Fill the Void (2012)
, 1h30Directed by Rama Burshtein
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Hadas Yaron
Shira Mendelman, an 18-year-old Haredi girl living in Tel Aviv, is looking forward to an arranged marriage with a young man whom she likes. However, on Purim, her family suffers a tragedy when Shira's older sister Esther dies in childbirth. Shira's father subsequently delays the engagement so as not to have to deal with an empty house so soon after Esther's death. Esther's husband, Yochay, begins to regularly bring their son, Mordechai, to the Mendelman's house, where Shira cares for him.
Foxtrot (2017)
Directed by Samuel Maoz
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler
Michael et Dafna, mariés depuis 30 ans, mènent une vie heureuse à Tel Aviv. Leur fils aîné Yonatan effectue son service militaire sur un poste frontière, en plein désert. Un matin, des soldats sonnent à la porte du foyer familial. Le choc de l’annonce va réveiller chez Michael une blessure profonde, enfouie depuis toujours. Le couple est bouleversé. Les masques tombent.
Ajami (2009)
, 1h58Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Gangster films
The film contains five story lines, each of which is presented in a non-chronological fashion. Some events are shown multiple times from varying perspectives. A young Israeli Arab boy, Nasri, who lives in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, narrates the film.
Lebanon (2009)
, 1h32Directed by Samuel Maoz
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Reymond Amsalem, Ashraf Barhom, Abdallah El Akal
The film depicts warfare as witnessed exclusively from the inside of a tank. The crew's window to the outside world is a gunsight. As a way of adding realism to the effect, every change in the horizontal and vertical viewing directions is accompanied by the hydraulic whine of the traversing gun turret. The film is set during the 1982 Lebanon War. There are four Israeli soldiers inside: the driver in the tank's hull, the loader, the gunner and the commander in the turret. For part of the time there is also the body of a dead Israeli soldier (kept there until it is airlifted away), a Syrian POW, a visiting higher officer, and a visiting Phalangist (Lebanese Maronite Catholic allied with Israel) who threatens the POW with torture and a gruesome death.
The Bubble (2006)
, 1h57Directed by Eytan Fox
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Yousef (Joe) Sweid, Ohad Knoller, Lior Ashkenazi, Daniela Wircer, Alon Friedman, Ruba Blal
Noam, a young Israeli reservist working at a checkpoint while on reserve duty, is crushed when he witnesses a Palestinian woman giving birth to a dead baby; he also locks eyes with a young Palestinian man there, Ashraf. He then gets back to Tel Aviv as he has finished his military service. There he shares a flat with another gay man, Yali, and a woman, Lulu, who works in a soap shop. The three roommates live a generally bohemian life.
Jellyfish (2007)
, 1h18Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shira Geffen
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Sarah Adler, Joe Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji, Assi Dayan (אסי דיין), Shira Geffen
Le jour de son mariage, Keren se casse la jambe et doit renoncer à sa lune de miel aux Caraïbes... Une mystérieuse petite fille sortie de la mer change la vie de Batya, la jeune femme qui la recueille et qu'elle suit comme son ombre... Joy, une employée de maison en exil va, sans le vouloir, renouer les liens entre une vieille femme sévère et sa fille... Bouteilles jetées à la mer, fragments d'humanités qui flirtent avec l'absurde... Dans un joyeux désordre chacun cherche sa place, l'amour, l'oubli ou sa mémoire, car telle est la vie à Tel-Aviv...
Trembling Before G-d (2001)
, 1h24Directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Origin Israel
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Trembling Before G-d interviews and follows several gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, many only seen in silhouette, and also interviews several rabbis and psychologists regarding their views on homosexuality in Orthodox Judaism. The film repeatedly returns to several characters:
$9.99 (2009)
, 1h18Directed by Tatia Rosenthal
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Animation
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Anthony LaPaglia, Josef Ber, Samuel Johnson, Claudia Karvan
The film mainly focuses on 28-year-old Dave Peck, who is unemployed but prefers the search for the meaning of life to the search for gainful employment. While looking in a magazine, Dave finds an advertisement for a book that will tell him the meaning of life "for the low price of $9.99." Dave, fascinated by this, begins his journey in his Sydney apartment to find the true meaning of life.
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
, 1h38Directed by Natalie Portman
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Natalie Portman, Makram J. Khoury, Dina Doron, Ohad Knoller
L'histoire du film débute en 1945, l'année de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, juste avant la Guerre israélo-arabe de 1948-1949. Une famille juive d'Europe migre vers la Palestine encore mandataire du Royaume-Uni afin d'éviter les persécutions. Le couple de Fania et d'Arieh Oz ne s'entend plus. Tandis qu'Arieh est plutôt confiant pour son avenir, Fania est traumatisée par la guerre et le fait d'avoir dû fuir son pays. Tous les deux ne restent ensemble que grâce à leur fils de 10 ans, Amos. Il découvre la poésie et la littérature selon un certain point de vue, expliqué par sa mère. Au fil du temps, constatant que la nouvelle vie dont elle rêvait ne voit pas le jour, Fania devient de plus en plus triste et finit même par se suicider, laissant à son fils une certaine vision de la littérature qui l'influencera dans ses écrits toute sa vie. L'histoire se termine en 1953, cinq ans après la proclamation de l'État d’Israël, quand Amos, maintenant âgé de 18 ans, s'en va habiter dans un kibboutz.