Kahana, a banker, suspects his wife is having an affair with the devious Dr. Lux. He hires the notorious Detective Schwartz to catch the cheating couple, but it's not going to be easy. Will Dr. Lux bamboozle everyone and win Kahana's wife as well?
An Israeli mother wrestles with her own grief and that of her four
children while working two jobs to keep their family together, after the
death of her husband. Winner of 9 Israeli Film Academy awards.
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join
the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about
their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an
outcast in the settlement.
Charlie v hetzi (Charlie and a half). 2001. Hebrew DVD C
An uncommon comedy about a small time extortionist, his half-pint
assistant, and a slick scammer who charm their way through a continuing
series of clever cons.
A witty romantic thriller about a policewoman who, while on the job as
an underworld decoy, discovers the infuriating truth about her married
boss/lover.
Three friends try to bridge the gap between love, lust, and marriage. Omer is a happy newlywed until his bride talks about wanting a baby. Uri is caught between his pushy father and the love of his life. Zidane is a ladies' man who meets his match.
The Israelis have just invaded Lebanon and the World Cup soccer
tournament is taking place in Barcelona. Israeli reserve soldier Cohen, a
rabid soccer fan, has tickets to the finals but is taken hostage en route
to Beirut.
A coming of age story based on the autiobiographical memoir by Gila
Almagor. It tells the story of a group of teenagers living in a youth
village for orphans who survived the Nazi concentration camps. When life
becomes unbearable, the teens find refuge under the beautiful Domim Tree.
In Tel Aviv, a Jewish professor, an Arab garbage collector, and a nun
embark on an adventure in pursuit of their uncommon interests. The film
celebrates the differences that distinguish us, and the enduring
friendships that emerge when we accept them.
Victor, a poor worker with seven kids, and Michel, an upscale gay
hairdresser, are identical twins who haven't seen each other for 20 years.
Now reunited, they pull off a scam of switched identites that has everyone
fooled...or not.
Presents Gila Almagor's autobiographical film, based on her book,
about a Holocaust survivor who immigrates with her daughter to the newly
founded Israeli state. Aviya is a spunky 10 year old girl who, like her
mother, is a survivor in the face of persecution.
The story of two Hasidic sisters in the Mea Shearim area of
Jerusalem. Rivka and her husband are deeply in love, but he obeys his
rabbi father and divorces her after 10 childless years of marriage.
Rivka's sister Malka loves a man who has left Hasidism after joining the
army, but accepts the marriage her parents have arranged to the rabbi's
assistant.
A group of European Jewish refugees arrive in Palestine in the
critical year of 1948. Carried on deck of the freighter, Kedma, they come
ashore to find not the Promised Land, but a war torn desert in the bloody
throes of transformation into the state of Israel. Rescued from a British
Army ambush at beachside by Palmach Jewish guerillas, the refugees are
remade into soldiers expected to offer their lives to defend a nation that
does not yet exist in a land they have never known.
Film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and
Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. We are led on a day
that begins with quiet city streets , but ends with death, destruction and
devastation of both body and mind.
Grandpa Kuni offers five million dollars to the first of his twin
grandsons to marry a nice Jewish woman and move to Israel. Hebrew with
English subtitles.
An Israeli man in the midst of a mid-life crisis leaves his family in
Jerusalem, travels secretly to Tel Aviv, enters a fictitious marriage, and
is mistaken for an Arab laborer.
Three brothers: a teacher, an electrician, and a career military
officer, must make funeral arrangements for their grandmother. A hilarious
mock military operation unfolds. Little goes according to plan.
On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139, enroute from Tel Aviv to
Paris, was hijacked by Arab and German terrorists and commandeered to
Entebbe, Uganda. The Israeli government negotiates while secretly planning
one of the most daring rescues ever attempted.
Or has a part-time job at a restaurant, but her full-time job is
taking care of her mother, whose survival skills have deteriorated after
years of prostitution. Now Or must decide if she wants to keep caring for
her mother or have a life of her own.
Comedy set in 1962 and narrated from the perspective of a 10-year-old
boy whose parents cannot agree whether to move to Canada or remain in
Israel. Hebrew with English subtitles.
A romantic comedy about an ordinary couple who move from their native
town of Afula to Tel Aviv in an attempt to fulfill the man's dream of
becoming a magician.
Released after serving 3 years in prison, a convict settles in a
secluded house by the sea, hoping to rekindle the relationship he was
forced to abandon.
The story of a young doctor who accompanies his boss and his wife to
India to rescue their dying daughter. The magic of India, the unusual
relationship between the boss and his wife, and the wife's persistant
advances are too powerful to resist.
Follow the important moments in the lives of three outspoken and
humorous young ladies. One is on the hunt for Mr. Right, one takes
hostages in a desperate attempt to find her estranged husband and another
puts Tel Aviv on edge trying to save a kitten.
Depicts the stakes behind an Israeli settlement. Menachem is a highly
respected soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, who is also a devout
student of a controversial settlement leader. Despite doubt and suspicion,
Menachem is given permission to lead an Army unit that includes his friend
and fellow students. As the Rabbi of Menachem's settlement's agenda, the
Army's control, and his friends desperation build to a boil, Menachem's
secret passion for the Rabbi's daughter threatens destruction. A violent
scheme to blow up Temple Mount puts all allegiances to the test.
In 1970 Israel, during the height of the War of Attrition, a group of
Israeli soldiers with singing talent are formed into an entertainment
troupe and sent to the front to raise morale.
A matchmaker without suitable suitors, look alikes who don't match, and daughters who deceive are the unlikely heroes of this madcap comedy about lovers and other strangers.
The elder of a Palestinian village under Israeli military rule, wants
permission to hold a traditional wedding for his son that will go past the
imposed curfew. The Army commander agrees on the condition that he and his
officers be invited as guests of honor at the ceremony.
Set in the Sephardic Jewish Community in the Old City of Jerusalem at
the end of the 19th century, a woman who still finds herself childless
after 15 years of marriage urges her husband to take a second wife who can
bear him a child.
A young girl, dressed as a boy, goes off with her father and a band of
traveling musicians into the Polish countryside. A classic Yiddish
language musical-comedy.
In spite of blood ties to both Jewish and Arab populations, Moshe
leads a rootless existence. Grown weary of his wife and ambivalent about
his needy young mistress, the only relationships he doesn't complicate are
with his parents and best friend.
A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers.
The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not
always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away,
as a snowy and desolate outpost is guarded from attack.
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