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1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,228 | Gross: $44.82M
2. Am Rand der Hoffnung (2006)
50 min | Documentary
In summer 2005 Israel withdraws from the Gaza-strip. While the world has its eyes fixed on the small area on the Mediterranean, life goes on in its own absurd way in the Westbank. The focus... See full summary »
Director: Gerd Schneider | Star: Ramadan Mohammed Affanah
Votes: 14
3. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,625 | Gross: $0.06M
4. Asmaa (2011)
96 min | Drama
A woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.
Director: Amr Salama | Stars: Hind Sabri, Maged El-Kidwani, Hany Adel, Dana Abed
Votes: 4,830
5. The Message (1976)
PG | 207 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."
Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Abdallah Gheith, Mona Wassef, Hamdy Gheith, Ali Achmed Taram
Votes: 10,538
6. Promises (2001)
106 min | Documentary
Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. The three filmmakers ... See full summary »
Directors: B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro, Carlos Bolado | Stars: Moishe Bar Am, B.Z. Goldberg, Shlomo Green, Sanabel Hassan
Votes: 2,723 | Gross: $0.24M
7. Operation Grandma (1999 TV Movie)
54 min | Comedy
Mivtza Savta ("Operation Grandma") is a satirical Israeli comedy about three very different brothers trying to get around many obstacles to bury their grandmother on her kibbutz. The story ... See full summary »
Director: Dror Shaul | Stars: Rami Heuberger, Ami Smolartchik, Tsach Shpitsen, Einat Weitzman
Votes: 1,136
8. Occupation 101 (2006)
90 min | Documentary
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.
Directors: Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish | Stars: James Akins, Arik Ascherman, Bishop Barltlett Jr., Phyllis Bennis
Votes: 1,905
9. Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
A documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contains some interviews with the children in this conflict.
Director: Tony Stark | Stars: John Pilger, Fatima Abed-Rabo, Amjad Abu Laban, Mustafa Barghouthi
Votes: 453
10. My Champion (2010)
Not Rated | 51 min | Documentary, Sport
With his title as 'Boxing Champion of Israel' and a one way ticket, Merhav Mohar takes off for the United States to realize his dream, of becoming boxing champion of the world. The film ... See full summary »
Directors: Ari Davidovich, Gideon Boaz | Star: Merhav Mohar
Votes: 16
11. Honey (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen, Ayse Altay
Votes: 7,479
12. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
Director: Ari Folman | Stars: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan
Votes: 60,395 | Gross: $2.28M
13. The Other Son (2012)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Director: Lorraine Lévy | Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi
Votes: 3,775 | Gross: $1.16M
14. Lemon Tree (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman, Doron Tavory
Votes: 6,878 | Gross: $0.57M
15. Syrian Bride (2004)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the... See full summary »
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Clara Khoury, Ashraf Barhom
Votes: 3,479 | Gross: $0.38M
16. Exodus (1960)
Approved | 208 min | Action, Drama, War
The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford
Votes: 11,373 | Gross: $18.97M
17. Walk on Water (2004)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer
Votes: 7,046 | Gross: $2.71M
18. West Beirut (1998)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: ... See full summary »
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas, Rola Al Amin
Votes: 4,859 | Gross: $0.34M
19. Live and Become (2005)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama
A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe
Votes: 6,309
Beautiful story of the problems of integration of the Falashas in the Israeli society. Fantastic.
20. O Jerusalem (2006)
R | 100 min | Drama, History
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the country of Israel is being created.
Director: Élie Chouraqui | Stars: JJ Feild, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maria Papas, Patrick Bruel
Votes: 972 | Gross: $0.23M
21. Lebanon (2009)
R | 93 min | Drama, War
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
Director: Samuel Maoz | Stars: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov
Votes: 11,960 | Gross: $0.37M
22. The Secret of the Grain (2007)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche
Votes: 7,906 | Gross: $0.09M
23. Sword of Gideon (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 173 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Robert Joy, Laurent Malet
Votes: 1,340
24. Arranged (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn... See full summary »
Directors: Diane Crespo, Stefan C. Schaefer | Stars: Zoe Lister-Jones, Francis Benhamou, Mimi Lieber, John Rothman
Votes: 3,102 | Gross: $0.02M
25. Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
Director: Haim Tabakman | Stars: Zohar Strauss, Ran Khalil Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad
Votes: 6,571 | Gross: $0.02M
Brokeback mountain, Kosher version. Still reminds us that despite Tel Aviv's liberal lifestyle, orthodox raised jews still has lotsa trouble with homosexuality. After all it's kinda condemned by the book...
26. Liam (2000)
R | 90 min | Drama
A family falls into poverty during the Depression.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Dave Hart
Votes: 2,674 | Gross: $1.01M
27. The Band's Visit (2007)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Director: Eran Kolirin | Stars: Sasson Gabay, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour
Votes: 14,148 | Gross: $3.05M
28. Footnote (2011)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.
Director: Joseph Cedar | Stars: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Aliza Rosen, Alma Zack
Votes: 6,321 | Gross: $2.01M
29. One Day in September (1999)
R | 94 min | Documentary, History, Sport
The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey, Gerald Seymour
Votes: 6,242 | Gross: $0.16M
30. A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2010)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Tal is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. ... See full summary »
Director: Thierry Binisti | Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud Shalaby, Hiam Abbass, Riff Cohen
Votes: 1,133 | Gross: $0.00M
31. Ajami (2009)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama
Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani
Votes: 6,527 | Gross: $0.62M
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32. 5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, War
A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi | Stars: Emad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Yasin Burnat
Votes: 6,636 | Gross: $0.11M
33. Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin (2011)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Polat Alemdar and his crew is in Palestine and fight against Israel special agents.
Director: Zübeyr Sasmaz | Stars: Necati Sasmaz, Gürkan Uygun, Kenan Çoban, Nur Fettahoglu
Votes: 9,651
34. Miral (2010)
R | 112 min | Drama, History
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Willem Dafoe, Asma Al Shiukhy
Votes: 3,585 | Gross: $0.37M
35. Paradise Now (2005)
PG-13 | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Hamza Abu-Aiaash
Votes: 24,068 | Gross: $1.45M
36. Zaytoun (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee helps an Israeli fighter pilot escape from PLO captivity because he wants to visit his ancestral family home. En route through war-torn Lebanon their relationship develops into a close bond.
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni, Loai Nofi
Votes: 1,726 | Gross: $0.04M
37. Cairo 678 (2010)
100 min | Drama
Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
Director: Mohamed Diab | Stars: Nilli Karim, Bushra, Maged El-Kidwani, Basem Samrah
Votes: 4,791
38. A House in Jerusalem (1998)
90 min | Documentary
Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel? Amos Gitai returns to the house in West Jerusalem he profiled in 1980. He interviews members of the Jewish families who live ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai
Votes: 43
39. A History of Israeli Cinema (2009)
Not Rated | 208 min | Documentary
The first 1933 - 1978 starts with the Zionist movement and ends with the first re-visitation of that history. The second 1978 - 2005 starts at the beginning of the political wave until the ... See full summary »
Director: Raphaël Nadjari | Stars: Naftali Alter, Mohammad Bakri, Haim Bouzaglo, Joseph Cedar
Votes: 44
40. A Search for Solid Ground: The Intifada Through Israeli Eyes (1990)
60 min | Documentary
Filmed over the summer of 1989, A Search for Solid Ground shows how Israelis viewed the first Palestinian Intifda. It is told from the point of view of Israeli residents, government officials and opponents, soldiers and students.
Director: Steve Brand | Stars: Alan Afterman, Benjamin Arnon, Zev Avianski, Nir Barkat
41. A Summer in La Goulette (1996)
TV-PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French ... See full summary »
Director: Férid Boughedir | Stars: Sonia Mankaï, Ava Cohen-Jonathan, Sarah Pariente, Mustapha Adouani
Votes: 852
42. A Woman Called Golda (1982 TV Movie)
191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Franklin Cover, Judy Davis
Votes: 1,056
43. Afula Express (1997)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
David is a garage electrician, who dreamt all of his life of becoming a magician, but had no luck in it. His girlfriend Batya wants an ordinary life, but David is still looking for his ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Shles | Stars: Zvika Hadar, Esti Zakheim, Aryeh Moskona, Orli Perl
Votes: 207
44. Aiming High: The History of the Israeli Air Force (1998 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is much more than a fighting machine; it is a central element of Israel's identity. This film includes exclusive access, to profile the people who make the IAF ... See full summary »
Director: Nissim Mossek
45. Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) (2010)
86 min | Documentary, Family
Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. "Aisheen" is a tribute to life.
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff
Votes: 65
46. Alex Holeh Ahavah (1986)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This romantic comedy takes place in Israel during the Austerity period of the 1950s as 13-year-old Alex is about to attend his Bar Mitzvah. Alex has a typical Polish mother and father who ... See full summary »
Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Eitan Sneh, Hana Rot, Avraham Mor, Hinna Rozovska
Votes: 827
47. Alila (2003)
123 min | Comedy, Drama
Slice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv.
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laslo, Uri Klauzner, Liron Levo
Votes: 645 | Gross: $0.05M
48. Amreeka (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
Director: Cherien Dabis | Stars: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat
Votes: 3,684 | Gross: $0.62M
49. Avoda (1935)
50 min | Documentary, Music
This documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state.
Director: Helmar Lerski
Votes: 43
50. Bab el shams (2004)
278 min | Romance, Drama, War
In the beginning was Palestine, and the story of Younes (Orwa Nyrabia) began, known as Abou Salem, known as the Man, said to be the father of Ibrahim, fighting the English from the age of ... See full synopsis »
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Rim Turki, Orwa Nyrabia, Basel Khayyat, Hala Omran
Votes: 402
51. Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2005)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
The story of a blind dervish Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar, together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
Director: Nacer Khemir | Stars: Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam Hamid, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohamed Grayaâ
Votes: 3,754
52. Ben Gurion Remembers (1972)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Simon Hesera | Stars: Issor Arrel, Ehud Avriel, David Ben-Gurion, Winston Churchill
Votes: 16
53. Boy Meets Girl (1982)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Two doctors from Tel Aviv join 'Doctors Without Borders' and travel to Thailand to help out Cambodian refugees. They leave their daughter, Aya (aged 10) at a kibbutz where the children are ... See full summary »
Director: Michal Bat-Adam | Stars: Gabi Eldor, Ilan Dar, Shai Golan, Gill Dontchevsky
Votes: 103
54. Two Girls from Egypt (2010)
125 min | Drama
Two virgin women in a society where marriage is part of the female identity
Director: Mohamed Amin | Stars: Zeina, Saba Mubarak, Eyad Nassar, Ahmad Wafiq
Votes: 689
55. Bethlehem (I) (2013)
99 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the... See full summary »
Director: Yuval Adler | Stars: Tsahi Halevi, Shadi Mar'i, Hitham Omari, Michal Shtamler
Votes: 2,259
56. Al qods fee yom akhar (2002)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Comedy
About a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: she must either choose a husband ... See full summary »
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Clara Khoury, Khalifa Natour, Ismael Dabbag, Walid Abed Elsalam
Votes: 511
57. Checkpoint (2011)
19 min | Short, Action, Drama
Suleiman, an eleven year old Palestinian boy, lives in a small village in the Gaza strip. Every month, he goes with his father to the ruins of a destroyed village. Though he doesn't ... See full summary »
Director: Ruben Amar | Stars: Abdallah El Akal, Hussein Yassin Mahajne, Zaki Hinnawi, Vitali Friedland
Votes: 52
58. Omar (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Eyad Hourani, Samer Bisharat
Votes: 15,487 | Gross: $0.36M
59. The Attack (2012)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An Palestinian surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsallem, Evgenia Dodina, Dvir Benedek
Votes: 4,554 | Gross: $1.71M
60. Salt of This Sea (2008)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Dana Drigov
Votes: 1,459 | Gross: $0.01M
61. Under the Bombs (2007)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
Director: Philippe Aractingi | Stars: Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Rawia Elchab, Bshara Atallah
Votes: 1,769
62. Bonim V'Lohamim (1997)
50 min | Documentary
This historic document of Palestine during the tumultuous 1920s includes footage from three rare films by Ya'akov Ben Dov, the father of Hebrew cinema. Preserved in a joint project by the ... See full summary »
Director: Ya'akov Gross
Votes: 6
63. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Comedy
The new math teacher and new school principal discover the 16-year-old underachiever failing classes is really a genius, and the kid's own family's too busy relying on him to mend family fences to notice his brilliance either.
Director: Shemi Zarhin | Stars: Oshri Cohen, Arieh Elias, Esti Zakheim, Aya Steinovitz
Votes: 1,208
64. Campfire (2004)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Director: Joseph Cedar | Stars: Michaela Eshet, Hani Furstenberg, Moshe Ivgy, Maya Maron
Votes: 686
65. Can You Hear Me? Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight for Peace (2006)
51 min | Documentary, War
Can You Hear Me? Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight for Peace is the first documentary film to explore in depth the role of Israeli and Palestinian women peace activists dealing with one ... See full summary »
Directors: Lilly Rivlin, Margaret Murphy | Stars: Maha Abu Dayyah Shamas, Wedad Abu Dayyeh, Lily Habash, Leah Shakdiel
66. Captain Abu Raed (2007)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
When an old airport janitor finds a captain's hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.
Director: Amin Matalqa | Stars: Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous, Odai Qedese
Votes: 1,754
67. Caramel (2007)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Yasmine Al Massri
Votes: 14,599 | Gross: $1.06M
68. Carmel (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Biography, History
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Eliran Eyal, Samuel Fuller
Votes: 107
69. Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
Approved | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1947, following the U.N. decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, a former U.S. Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Senta Berger
Votes: 3,821
70. Arotzim Shel Za'am (2003)
72 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary about two Israeli rap music performers, one Jewish (Kobi Shimoni, known as Subliminal) and the other Arab (Tamer Nafar, known as TN).
Director: Anat Halachmi | Stars: Subliminal, Tamer Nafar, Yoav Eliasi, Suhell Nafar
Votes: 25
71. Checkpoint (2003)
80 min | Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Yoav Shamir's depiction of the checkpoints that the Israel Defense Forces man in the Palestinian Authority.
Director: Yoav Shamir
Votes: 548
72. Checkpoint rock: Canciones desde Palestina (2009)
73 min | Documentary
Come on an incredible journey through Palestine, guided by some of its best-known, most inspiring musicians! From singers Habib Al Deek and Muthana Sha'baan, to rappers DAM and Safaa ... See full summary »
Directors: Javier Corcuera, Fermín Muguruza
Votes: 36
74. Yaldey Hashemesh (2007)
70 min | Documentary, History
An intimate portrait of the children who were part of Israel's first kibbutzim.
Director: Ran Tal
Votes: 114
75.
La case de l'oncle Doc (1997–2017)
Episode:
Chronique d'un siège, Ramallah avril 2002
(2003)
55 min | Documentary
Director: Samir Abdallah
76. Clouds Over Israel (1966)
85 min | Drama, War
A Bedouin woman hides an Israeli pilot from Egyptian soldiers. While the Egyptian soldiers torture her to get information, the Israeli soldiers rescue her.
Director: Ilan Eldad | Stars: Yiftach Spector, Ehud Banai, Dina Doron, Hadara Azoulai
Votes: 17
77. Am Yisrael Hai (1981)
85 min | Comedy
A minor politician, suffering with a temporary sexual disorder that is soon to be written about in the local press, is sent anonymously to Eilat for rest and pleasantries. His wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Assi Dayan | Stars: Devora Bakon, Gary Eckstein, Ariel Forman, Isaac Gayer
Votes: 19
78. Atalia (1984)
90 min | Drama
Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair ... See full summary »
Directors: Tzvika Kertzner, Akiva Tevet | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Yftach Katzur, Dan Toren, Raphael Klatchkin
Votes: 24
79. Arna's Children (2004)
84 min | Documentary
Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.
Directors: Danniel Danniel, Juliano Mer-Khamis | Stars: Arna Mer Khamis, Juliano Mer-Khamis
Votes: 261
80. Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay (2005)
100 min | Documentary
A documentary on the treatment of Palestianians by members of the Israeli army.
Director: Avi Mograbi | Star: Shredi Jabarin
Votes: 228
81. Beyond the Walls (1984)
R | 103 min | Drama
In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed ... See full summary »
Director: Uri Barbash | Stars: Arnon Zadok, Mohammad Bakri, Hillel Ne'eman, Assi Dayan
Votes: 369
82. Burning Mooki (2008)
93 min | Drama
When Mooky is fifteen, his beloved father dies a sudden death, and his place is taken by Yanek - an impulsive, rough, yet generous man who is regarded as a controversial figure due to his ... See full summary »
Directors: Lena Chaplin, Stanislav Chaplin | Stars: Yehuda Almagor, Efrat Ben-Zur, Yoav Koresh, Sivan Levy
Votes: 13
83. Cohen on the Bridge: Rescue at Entebbe (2012)
20 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
A rescue like no other... Animated story of the 1976 hostage rescue in Entebbe , Uganda, narrated in first-person by the first commando to enter the building, through the perspective of his own family's rescue in the holocaust.
Director: Andrew Wainrib
84. Divine Intervention (2002)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War
Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
Director: Elia Suleiman | Stars: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher
Votes: 3,947 | Gross: $0.39M
85. Destiny (1997)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Safia El Emari
Votes: 3,199
86. Escaping Tel Aviv (2009)
119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An Egyptian woman discovers that her husband is in fact a Jewish Mossad agent working for Israel. He takes her and their two children to Israel by force and tries to convince her to live ... See full summary »
Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Sherif Mounir, Karim Abdel Aziz, Mona Zaki, Kinda Alloush
Votes: 6,188
87. September 11 (2002)
Unrated | 134 min | Drama
The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shôhei Imamura, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic | Stars: Maryam Karimi, Mohamad Dolati, Agelem Habibi, Esmat Vahedi
Votes: 5,924
88. Big Eyes (1974)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
Benny Furman is a basketball headcoach who can't decide what he realy wants.
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Alona Einstein, Arik Einstein, Sima Eliyahu, Yisrael Segal
Votes: 205
89. Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story (2012)
Unrated | 87 min | Documentary
The story of Yonatan Netanyahu, commander of an elite Israeli army commando unit who was killed during Operation Entebbe, a hostage-rescue mission carried out at Entebbe Airport in Uganda ... See full summary »
Directors: Jonathan Gruber, Ari Daniel Pinchot | Stars: Yiftach R. Atir, Shai Avital, Omer Bar-Lev, Ehud Barak
Votes: 186 | Gross: $0.11M
90. No Names on the Doors (1997)
84 min | Drama
No Names on the Doors is set a modern kibbutz, where social transformation can no longer be kept at bay. Spectres of Arab invasion lurk in the background; financial pressures and the ... See full summary »
Director: Nadav Levitan | Stars: Chava Alberstein, Mosko Alkalai, Avi Pnini, Dorit Lev-Ari
Votes: 11
91. Ervinka (1967)
95 min | Comedy
A good-natured but incorrigible layabout becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging in his boundless zeal for mischief and romance.
Director: Ephraim Kishon | Stars: Topol, Gila Almagor, Avner Hizkiyahu, Yossi Banai
Votes: 135
93. Diameter of the Bomb (2005)
86 min | Documentary
A documentary about a group of disparate people in Israel and the Occupied Territories, all connected by a single catastrophic suicide bomb.
Directors: Andrew Quigley, Steven Silver
Votes: 62
94. Falasha (1983)
72 min | Documentary
True story of the plight & persecution of Ethiopian Jewry (Black Jews) and of Operation Moses, which was organized in response, transporting thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel by means of secret airlifts from Sudan.
Director: Simcha Jacobovici | Star: Simcha Jacobovici
Votes: 13
95. The Gatekeepers (2012)
PG-13 | 101 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
Director: Dror Moreh | Stars: Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Avi Dichter, Yaakov Peri
Votes: 5,886 | Gross: $2.42M
96. Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.
Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki, Isabelle Renauld
Votes: 11,605 | Gross: $2.82M
97. The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
Directors: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar | Stars: François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 3,763 | Gross: $0.02M
98. Yossi (2012)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Romance
This sequel to "Yossi and Jagger" finds Dr. Yossi Gutmann reminiscing about his love ten years after his death. When he encounters a group of young soldiers, one of them, Tom, reignites his romantic feelings.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Ohad Knoller, Shlomo Sadan, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi
Votes: 3,258 | Gross: $0.12M
99. The Flat (2011)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
As a documentarian cleans out the flat that belonged to his grandparents--both immigrants from Nazi Germany--he uncovers clues pointing to a complicated, shocking story.
Director: Arnon Goldfinger | Stars: Michael Adler, Yaron Amit, Avrham Barkai, Meital Beili
Votes: 1,509 | Gross: $0.47M
100. When Pigs Have Wings (2011)
98 min | Comedy
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting : imagine... See full summary »
Director: Sylvain Estibal | Stars: Sasson Gabay, Baya Belal, Myriam Tekaïa, Gassan Abbas
Votes: 3,516
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