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Plot Summary:
Guy Nehama has a wife he loves, a job in a high-tech company he despises, and 5 children that he doesn't really know. He finds himself in the midst of a mid-life crisis, feeling that because of his family he gave up on a career as a stand-up comedian. When his wife dies in a car accident, he starts chasing after his old dream. On the way he loses everything - the co-worker who is secretly in love with him, his brother's friendship and even - his children. Nehama is obsessed with his love for his dead wife. He tries to figure out what secrets she kept from him. Until he has to wake up and choose between his dream as an artist and his children.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 55 min
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The Missing (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ne'elamim (The Missing) is a compelling young adult skewed thriller which follows Emma and Alon, a brother and sister who move to a small town and quickly find out that nothing is quite as it seems in their new neighborhood, which is awash with murky happenings. The ground water supply has been geologically poisoned, and three teenagers from their high school died under mysterious circumstances a few months earlier - but when an unexplainable photograph of them surfaces, the siblings begin to doubt that they know the full story, as per the official log-line.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min
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Magpie (2019)
Plot Summary:
After serving 17 years in prison for a murder conviction, Asa Katz receives an early release on the condition that he continues to cooperate with the police as their jailhouse informant. Asa returns to his old neighborhood and to his older brother, David, a successful realtor who made his money in dubious business dealings. Conflicting interests put Asa in precarious situations, and he finds himself torn between his life of crime and his work with the police, all the while skillfully navigating both worlds to his advantage.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration:
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Dismissed (2021)
Plot Summary:
Noa, an officer lacking interpersonal abilities, commands orientation training for the first time and has to deal with particularly difficult soldiers, a staff that does not know what to make of her and an intolerant system.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
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The Jews Are Coming (2014)
Plot Summary:
Satire sketches, examining the history of the Jewish people since biblical times.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Israel
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: witty, clever, humorous, controversial, dark comedy, offbeat, not serious, biting, suspense
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People That Are Not Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
Joy can't let go of her ex, but doesn't seem to be able to fall for the new guy. In the meantime she keeps having casual sex with strangers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: student film
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Rehearsals (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two theater writers are forced to work together just when they're going through a breakup in their relationship. They are joined by two egotistical TV stars.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 33 min
Plot tags:
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Ron (2015)
Plot Summary:
Despite his attempts to take charge of his life, Ron remains quite the same. At 36 years old, he has grown accustomed to his gray and dull daily routine, and as he looks back he sees his best years waving at him. He hasn’t found love, a career or even a general direction of meaning, and that begins weighing on his soul. In an attempt to pull himself together, he reconnects with an old flame and tries to break his habits in order to achieve a little piece of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 23 min
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The Last Band in Lebanon (2016)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about three military band reservists who wake to discover that the Israeli army has withdrawn from Lebanon and left them behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The 90 Minute War (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted 100 years. 100 years of war, bloodshed, bitterness, suffering. 100 years of stalemate, intransigence and failed peace deals. And now, it’s all over! They’ve finally found the solution: A game of soccer. The winner gets to stay. The loser leaves forever. And no whining.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Israel, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, mockumentary
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Nevsu (2017)
Plot Summary:
An Israeli sitcom focusing on a Jewish-Ethiopian-Israeli family whose son (Yossi Vasa) is married to a Jewish-Ashkenazi-Israeli woman (Meyrav Feldman). The mixed family navigates the prejudices and tensions involved in raising their five-year old daughter. What ensues is a clash of modern day cultures. Winner of the International Emmy Award for best comedy series 2018.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, intercultural, inter cultural
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Tzomet Miller (2016)
Plot Summary:
When showbiz and everyday life intertwine. an inside look at the life of one of Israel's most popular and prolific comedians, Adir Miller. Stand-up comedian, creator and star of the popular comedy, Traffic Light, Adir gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of show business. Along with his eccentric and megalomaniacal agent, Adir struggles to prove his abilities as a "serious" actor because everyone typecasts him as a "funny guy".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom
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La Famiglia (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious family sitcom that follows the lives of a perfectly normal suburban family living in the divorce capital of the country. With many reasons to be happy, they have even more reasons to go to therapy – their sex life, his best friend, her complaints, and of course, his mother. Their therapy sessions provide the entertaining basis for the series, through which we flashback to the comical, stand-alone scenes from their daily life. Each episode is a new therapy session in which they bring up the most embarrassing, bizarre, awkward and insane moments that are a part of every family’s life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Zaguri (2014)
Plot Summary:
A soldier named Aviel returns to his family because of his grandfather's death, after ten years of not speaking to them.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Wajib (2017)
Plot Summary:
After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Colombia, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: social, comedy drama
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The Champion (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, telenovela
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Zero Motivation (2014)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit. In Hebrew with subtitles.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, satirical, absurd, witty, talky, humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, cynical, semi serious
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Tel Aviv On Fire (2018)
Plot Summary:
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Luxembourg, Israel, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, inspirational, thought provoking, intense, comedy drama
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The Day We Met (1990)
Plot Summary:
After being called for his mandatory yearly Israeli army reserve duty, Arik Schwartzman finds himself looking for a uniform wearing serial rapist. He is aided by Natalie, a young female soldier who looks for her lost father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Footnote (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition. The Israel Prize, Israel's most prestigious national award, is the jewel that brings these two to a final, bitter confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: melancholic, meditative, surreal, captivating, tragicomedy, clever, stylized, thought provoking, independent film, existential
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Sallah (1964)
Plot Summary:
Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of the big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: black comedy, black and white, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, intercultural, suspense, inter cultural
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The Arbitrator (2007)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the story of Nadav Feldman , a young social worker , who discovers that he is adopted and finds himself in the depths of his biological father's family, Baruch Asulin, a leader of an organized crime syndicate in Israel known as "Ha-Borer"(The Arbitrator), due to his activities as an arbitrator in disputes in the underworld. The series focuses on the combination of dramatic stretches , the conflict between the norms of society including crime, especially norms and codes of conduct of the underworld. Among other highlights of the series, in a satirical way, the contrast between certain behaviors of some of the heroes of the series (as a demonstration of piety) and other behaviors (such as the blatant disregard for human life).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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Sacred (1999)
Plot Summary:
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva's rabbi, who is Meir's father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: "a barren woman is no woman." Rivka's sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular. The rabbi arranges Malka's marriage to Yossef, whose agitation when fulfilling religious duties approaches the grotesque. Can the sisters sort out their hearts' desires within this patriarchal world? If not, have they any other options?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: philosophical, thinking, sincere, clever, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, controversial, gloomy
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Arab Labor (2007)
Plot Summary:
Amjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, cynical, semi serious, thought provoking, realistic, talky, biting, suspense
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The Human Resources Manager (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Romania
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, sincere, road movie, humorous, captivating, touching, serious, realistic, grotesque
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HaMidrasha (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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Daughters, Daughters (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003)
Plot Summary:
16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds out Shlomi is actually a genius and tries to get him into a more suitable curriculum. However, Shlomi is more interested in taking care of his family and his new love interest, the beautiful girl next door.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, sincere, uplifting, realistic, semi serious
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One Week and a Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 953
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Lost Islands (2008)
Plot Summary:
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, emotional, sentimental, realistic, stylized
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Fauda (2015)
Plot Summary:
A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, intense, psychological thriller, political, dramatic, thrilling