Kippur(2000)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 52

The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. ...



Kadosh(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.



Rabin, the Last Day(2015)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Itzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.



Alila(2003)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Slice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv.



Free Zone(2005)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Two women embark on a road trip after they are brought together by circumstance. Rebecca (Portman) flees her hotel after a fight with her mother-in-law (Maura) and hails a taxi driven by Hanna (Lazlo).



Yom Yom(1998)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 35

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 ...



Kedma(2002)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.



Plus tard(2008)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.



Laila in Haifa(2020)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Laila In Haifa is set over one fateful night in a club in the port town of Haifa and explores the interweaving stories of five women. The film aims to present a snapshot of contemporary ...



Disengagement(2007)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.



Carmel(2009)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 4

From Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary ...



Promised Land(2004)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of ...



Eden(2001)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Is the story of Samantha and Dov Ernst, American Zionists who emigrated to Palestine. Kalkofsky, a German Jew and bookseller, left behind his family in Europe. He accommodates Silvia, a young revolutionary against British rule.



Roses à crédit(2010)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself ...



A Tramway in Jerusalem(2018)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.



Esther(1986)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia. Esther, using information from ...



Berlin-Yerushalaim(1989)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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...



Naissance d'un Golem(1991)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes to mediate on the act of creation. What...



Golem, l'esprit de l'exil(1992)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced...



Golem, le jardin pétrifié(1993)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in ...




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