Mostly Clean Israeli Movies
Here is a list of Israeli movies I have seen all of the way through and rated (shown by a blue star). The films are family friendly for the most part - for more details you can click on "View content advisory" on each film's page. You can see which of these films are available for streaming on my trakt.tv list.
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- DirectorJonathan GevaStarsYoav SadianIdan BarkaiBar MinielyA boy struggles at home and at school with bullies after his brother is killed. When he befriends and shelters a mythical creature, it helps him outsmart his tormenters and overcome his grief.A story for children about a creature that wanders into Jerusalem and is befriended by a boy, in the spirit of E.T., the Iron Giant, and many similar films.
- DirectorDan TurgemanStarsDan TurgemanRaymonde AbecassisAvital AbergelA triangle love affair between an Israeli London based businessman, his fiancée and her sister in a small village in northern Israel.An entertaining story with quirky characters, including elements of romance, creativity, and superstition. Depicts simple life in a village in Israel.
- DirectorAsaf KormanStarsEfrat AvivDaniel GadDaniel MoreshetJonathan arrives in a different and innovative universe than usual and tries to save his universe again.A movie targeted to teens, Galis: Connect is based on the sci-fi TV show Galis and explores an alternate world where technology creates a sense of complacency and is used wrongly for power.
- DirectorDan WolmanStarsAdi BielskiAvraham Aviv AlushAlex AnskyA love story based on actual events set during the turbulent period of pre-state Israel 1947-48.This film tells of a complicated romance between a woman aspiring to be an actress and a man in the Palmach, prior to the founding of Israel. It also explores life on a moshav and a kibbutz.
- DirectorElad KeidanStarsItay TiranUri KlauznerMichaela EshetA story of two men in the old part of Haifa. Both are walking up and down the mountain in opposing directions. This setting provides a philosophical panorama on the condition of the individual, society, loyalty, identity, and life in general.This film has a simple backdrop about a man wandering around Haifa, but it tells a clever story about him and others he comes across.
- DirectorAyelet MenahemiStarsMili AvitalBaoQi ChenAlon AboutboulAt thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings -- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing -- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.A heartwarming story about an Israeli trying to reunite an immigrant child with his Chinese mother.
- DirectorEphraim KishonStarsTopolGeula NuniGila AlmagorThe sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.This Israeli film classic explores an immigrant family living in a temporary settlement, with Chaim Topol as the very funny lead. The film is full of misunderstandings and stereotypes from the comic writer Ephraim Kishon.
- DirectorAmichai GreenbergStarsOri PfefferRivka GurHagit DasbergYoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.In this movie a historian searches for evidence around a Holocaust atrocity, and while researching comes across a secret about his own family.
- DirectorEla ThierStarsNoa RotsteinDalena LeGuy SageeFrom different worlds, Ellie and Thuy form a powerful bond that helps Ellie cope with the hardships of adjusting to her new life in the states.Based on a true story, this film tells about an Israeli girl coming to America in the 80s, writing letters to her friend back home and befriending a Vietnamese girl. The film presents some interesting contrasts between American and Israeli lifestyles, along with family, economical, and political dynamics.
- DirectorMatti HarariArik LubetzkiStarsMoran RosenblattReymonde AmsellemShlomi KoriatRebecca Abarnabel, a single daughter born into an Orthodox Jewish family, is tired of the lifestyle that her father, Reuven, has forced upon her. She and her mother, Victoria, go on a life-changing journey between worlds.A woman from a dysfunctional Orthodox family is drawn to the secular lifestyle, particularly that of living on a kibbutz. Tension ensues as she makes choices she wants but her family disagrees with.
- DirectorRama BurshteinStarsNoa KolerAmos TamamOz ZehaviWhen her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down.An Orthodox woman refuses to cancel a wedding her fiancé walked away from, seeking a new husband to take his place.
- DirectorEitan AnnerStarsGilat AnkoriLudi BokenAnia BuksteinIn present day Jerusalem, a city increasingly dominated by religious fanaticism, Naomi, a secular young woman seeks refuge from the pressure of her life as a concert pianist. Overwhelmed by the expectations of her parents and her colleagues in Tel Aviv, Naomi seeks anonymity and solitude in the ancient city. Despite her intentions to stay alone, however, Naomi quickly makes two unexpected connections- one with a musically gifted Ultra-Orthodox young boy who lives in her building and the other, with Fabrizio, a charismatic Italian monk and organist. While these relationships allow Naomi to reconnect with her love of music and sense of meaning, they also make her a target in her new community. Faced with escalating isolation and violence, Naomi must learn to use music as a bridge to overcome towering religious barriers.A woman pianist moves to Jerusalem for peace and a break, but tensions arise due to her secular habits and interest in Christian organ playing in an Orthodox neighborhood.
- DirectorGidi DarStarsShuli RandMichal Bat-Sheva RandShaul MizrahiAn Orthodox Jewish couple's faith is tested after praying to the Lord for a child on the Succoth holiday.An Orthodox religious couple prepares a sukka for Sukkot and invites old friends as their guests, from the husband's non-religious days.
- DirectorItai LevStarsAvigail ArielyTzion BaruchDaniel DamidovA film about a special road trip of 3 good friends.A young girl hears a noise no one else does during a field trip, feels that it arose due to an accident, and sets off with a group of kids to help.
- DirectorNatalie PortmanStarsNatalie PortmanGilad KahanaAmir TesslerThe story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.A movie exploring the weight of culture, history, and familial tensions for a boy and his family in the early days of Israel, based on Amos Oz's famous autobiographical novel.
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYossi PollakGideon SingerMona SilbersteinAzit is a German Shepherd that was trained to help soldiers, and finds occasions both at home and on the battlefield to show her courage.
- DirectorBenny ToratyStarsUri GavrielYigal AdikaLirit BalabanJossef Tawila, the legendary tar player of the band Ensemble Tourqouise along with Avram Mufradi composed the Crying Spring Symphony. In the debut evening of the symphony's playing a car accident occurred, as Tawila fell during driving, killing two of the orchestra's members. Surviving the accident, Tawila, Avram Mufradi and Margaret (Tawila's spouse, being the band's singer), who turned to a wheel chair invalid. Tawila is judges and sentences for a few imprisonment years. After his release from jail he abandons his beloved one and music, opens a pub and sinks into a depression. The movie describes the happenings twenty years after the accident. One day on Tawila's threshold appears Amram, Avram Mufradi's son, telling him his father is dying of cancer and asking him to complete assemble an ensemble that will play The Crying Spring Symphony. Tawila decides to make his old friend's last wish come true and goes out to extract the best players for an ensemble to play the piece before his perishGreat for fans of Middle Eastern music, with the known Israeli singers Dudu Tassa and Ishtar. This movie shows a quest to honor a musician.
- DirectorVardit BiluDalia HagerStarsSmadar SayarNaama SchendarDanny GevaRebellious and outgoing Smadar can't stand types like Mirit. Mirit, introverted and frightened, keeps away from the likes of Smadar. But the two are thrown together as they are assigned to a patrol in Jerusalem as part of their compulsory military service. Their job is to stop Palestinian passersby, to ask for their identity cards, and to write down their details on special forms. You don't move from this place, don't sit down, don't smoke, don't eat, don't talk on your cell phones, says their commander, leaving them alone on the street with their patrol forms. What will they do now? This is the story of two 18-year-old girls who are busy with their own worlds--falling in love, break-ups, and the volatile relationship between the two--in an attempt to ignore the political reality in a city that slowly makes its way into their lives. As women, this film is our own way of soul searching, about our army service and the occupationThis film explores the soldier experience for two women, along with their job at checkpoints with Palestinians. It includes their personal and ethical dilemmas.
- DirectorJoseph CedarStarsShlomo Bar-AbaLior AshkenaziAliza RosenEliezer 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.A pensive film about literature, research, and the politics behind winning awards.
- DirectorRa'anan AlexandrowiczStarsSiyabonga Melongisi ShibeSalim DawArieh EliasDuring his journey to Jerusalem young James learns the meaning of being Israeli.This film touches on a lot of issues in Israeli society: Race, economic standing, immigration, and exploitation.
- DirectorEmil Ben-ShimonStarsEvelin HagoelIgal NaorOrna BanaiA bar mitzvah mishap causes a major rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem.A synagogue balcony collapses in an Orthodox community, and disagreement arises on how to proceed afterwards.
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzSimon AbkarianGilbert MelkiThe story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.A film exploring the complications of an unhappy family life, tradition, and expectations.
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzSimon AbkarianGabi AmraniAfter a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.A woman seeks to get a divorce agreement in a religious court in a film portraying the tricky state of marriages and divorces in Israel.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsYehoram GaonGila AlmagorAssi DayanIn July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages. This movie is based on the true facts and follows the events since the flight's take-off and until the hostages' return to Israel.An old-fashioned classic about the famous operation to rescue Israeli hostages at Entebbe, with Yehoram Gaon as Yoni.
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzMoshe IvgyYaël AbecassisWhen one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.A family gathers for a Shiv'ah when one of the members dies, and the dynamic introduces conflicts and arguments between them.