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1. Black Book (2006)
R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn
Votes: 80,671 | Gross: $4.40M
2. 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: 11,441 | Gross: $18.97M
3. Tantura (2022)
94 min | Documentary, History
In the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.
Director: Alon Schwarz | Stars: Avigdor Feldman, Yoav Gelber, Teddy Katz, Ilan Pappe
Votes: 1,290
4. A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
The 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.
Director: Natalie Portman | Stars: Natalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler, Moni Moshonov
Votes: 4,356 | Gross: $0.57M
5. Sublet (2020)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: John Benjamin Hickey, Niv Nissim, Lihi Kornowski, Miki Kam
Votes: 2,984
6. 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: 7,054 | Gross: $2.71M
7. Judith (1966)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, War
A beautiful woman who survived a concentration camp goes to Israel in 1948 to track down her Nazi husband who had betrayed her.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Sophia Loren, Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins, Hans Verner
Votes: 461
8. 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: 6,321
9. Fiona (1998)
85 min | Drama
Despite the fact that Fiona has lived apart from her mother, they lead parallel lives as bi-sexual prostitutes. The meeting of the two women spells tragedy for the mother and hope for the daughter.
Director: Amos Kollek | Stars: Anna Thomson, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Anna Grace
Votes: 647
10. The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs (1998– )
300 min | Documentary, History, War
Decision-makers from Israel, the Arab states, Russia and the US tell the inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict. Charts the evolution of tensions, violence and peace efforts from 1948 to 1998.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, King Hussein, Shimon Peres, Abba Eban
Votes: 302
11. Evergreen (1985)
360 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Based on the novel by Belva Plain, covering a time span from 1909 to 1959. The story begins in New York's Lower East Side with the arrival of Polish-Jewish immigrant Anna (Lesley Ann Warren... See full summary »
Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, Armand Assante, Ian McShane, Betty Buckley
Votes: 159
12. Sweet Mud (2006)
90 min | Drama
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
Director: Dror Shaul | Stars: Tomer Steinhof, Ronit Yudkevitz, Shai Avivi, Pini Tavger
Votes: 766
13. Sallah Shabati (1964)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The 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... See full summary »
Director: Ephraim Kishon | Stars: Topol, Geula Nuni, Gila Almagor, Albert Cohen
Votes: 1,168
14. Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land (2012)
Not Rated | 46 min | Documentary
When many people think of Israel, it is often in terms of modern war or ancient religion. But there is much more to the Jewish state than missiles and prayers. In his debut as a documentary... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Lucas, Yariv Mozer | Stars: Mickey Gitzen, Nitzan Horowitz, Tzipi Livni, Ilan Gilon
Votes: 86
15. Alumim (2021– )
50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Follows a group of boys from the margins of Israeli society who become the main suspects of a girl's rape and their lives are thrown into upheaval.
Stars: Yoalah Brinson, Yehuda Levi, Shani Cohen, Yaniv Biton
Votes: 155
16. La Última Luna (2005)
105 min | Drama
Palestine 1914. One morning in July, Soliman, a young Palestinian Christian, and Jacob, his Jewish friend, begin to build a house in Beit-Sajour, in the Judean hills, with stones brought ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Aymann Abuloff, Tamara Acosta, Alejandro Goic, Francisca Merino
Votes: 85
17. Not Quite Paradise (1985)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
While working in a kibbutz (an Israeli voluntary farming collective community), a tourist and a female worker fall in love. However, he can't stay and she can't leave her work. Will love triumph?
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Joanna Pacula, Sam Robards, Todd Graff, Kevin McNally
Votes: 147
18. 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: 1,138
19. My Father's Secrets (2022)
74 min | Animation, Drama
My Father's Secrets is an intimate, funny and thought-provoking film that focuses on a family's journey to reconciliation after facing the trauma of the Holocaust. Based on the autobiographical novel by Israeli author Michel Kichka.
Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Michèle Bernier, Jacques Gamblin, Arthur Dupont, Esteban Oertil
Votes: 117
20. Sword in the Desert (1949)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler
Votes: 320
21. Censored Voices (2015)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, History
CENSORED VOICES combines raw original recordings of Israeli soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, using archival newsreel footage as a stark reminder of how far the region remains from peace.
Director: Mor Loushy | Star: Amos Oz
Votes: 322 | Gross: $0.03M
22. Tanned Legs (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Arthur Lake, June Clyde, Dorothy Revier, Ann Pennington
Votes: 188
23. Third Side of the Coin (1960)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein, Yaakov Malkin
Votes: 232
24. My Australia (2011)
97 min | Drama
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy ... See full summary »
Director: Ami Drozd | Stars: Aleksandra Poplawska, Jakub Wróblewski, Lukasz Sikora, Lillian Ruth-Chilovsky
Votes: 103
25. The Kibbutz (2011)
60 min | Documentary
The history of the kibbutzim in Israel.
Star: Modi Bar-On
Votes: 6
26. Cocktail Molotov (1980)
R | 100 min | Drama
Paris, May 1968. Anne, a seventeen-year-old high school student of bourgeois origin, loves Frédéric, a boy from a modest background. The teenager runs away and decides to go to work in an Israeli kibbutz with her boyfriend.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Élise Caron, François Cluzet, Philippe Lebas, Geneviève Fontanel
Votes: 156
27. Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, Markus Stockhausen, Benjamin Levi
Votes: 97
28. Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment (2010)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary, History
Inventing Our Life examines the 100 year history of Israel's kibbutz movement, one of the world's longest running and most successful experiments in pure communism. Recreating its glorious ... See full summary »
Director: Toby Perl Freilich
Votes: 25 | Gross: $0.01M
29. 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: 115
30. The Going Up of David Lev (1973 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Family
A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips school and, with the help of a friendly ... See full summary »
Director: James F. Collier | Stars: Brandon Cruz, Melvyn Douglas, Claire Bloom, Topol
Votes: 22
31. Brothers (I) (2008)
116 min | Drama
A religious fundamentalist Jewish lawyer arrives in Israel to both reacquaint himself with his secular brother and work an explosive trial dealing with the conscription of fundamentalist Jewish students into the Israel Defense Force.
Director: Igaal Niddam | Stars: Baruch Brener, Micha Celektar, Itai Ganot, Sharon Malki-Shemesh
Votes: 47
32. Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (2016)
84 min | Documentary
At 21, Saar was expelled from his religious kibbutz and fled to the UK. There he created a new family with the London Gay Men's Chorus and now, after 19 years, Saar reaches out to his old family in the hope of a reconciliation.
Directors: Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann, Alexander Bodin Saphir | Stars: Saar Maoz, Alon, London Gay Men's Chorus Band, Elimelekh
Votes: 334
33. Apples and Oranges (2021)
80 min | Documentary
Kibbutz volunteering began in an eclipse. The idealistic and rebellious 1960s generation was charmed by the old communist ideology as it came to life in the Israeli Kibbutz. The 1967 ... See full summary »
Director: Yoav Brill
Votes: 18
34. The Earth Cries Out (1949)
90 min | Drama, War
After having been interned in a concentration camp by the Nazis, Professor Taumen, a Jewish surgeon, and his future daughter-in-law leave Italy for Palestine. Once there they are guided by ... See full summary »
Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Marina Berti, Andrea Checchi, Vivi Gioi, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 68
35. The Inner Tour (2001)
97 min | Documentary, History
Documentarian Ra'anan Alexandrowicz accompanies a Palestinian tour group on a three-day sight-seeing trip to Israel.
Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Votes: 124
36. Barefoot (2011–2012)
60 min | Drama
The story of 3 generations in one kibbutz.
Stars: Ohad Knoller, Danny Niv, Vered Feldman, Yehezkel Lazarov
Votes: 10
37. Journey of a Lifetime (1961– )
15 min | Documentary
A newly married couple travel through the Middle East visiting sites mentioned in the Bible. These 15 min episodes were filmed in colour for ABC TV (UK) in the early 1960s.
Stars: John Bonney, Anne Lawson, Yusef Saad
Votes: 13
38. Four Hours a Day (2022)
56 min | Documentary
The mental scars of mothers in Israel's kibbutz movement whose babies were taken away to be raised communally, with mothers allowed only 4 hours per day with their children, following the ideology of time. Based on Orian Chaplin's book.
Director: Ayelet Dekel
39. Children of the Fall: Director's Cut (2017)
111 min | Horror
The official Director's cut of the Israeli Social Commentary Slasher film, that follows Rachel Strode in her journey to find a home and solace, which is interrupted by a mysterious killer that strikes on the eve of Yom Kippour.
Director: Eitan Gafny | Stars: Aki Avni, Noa Maiman, Yafit Shalev, Michael Ironside
40. The Secretary (2019)
72 min | Documentary
An earth shattering drama that began with a pioneering and idealistic love story, continued through the establishment of a family, education and community leadership and concluded with a ... See full summary »
Director: Mooly Landsman
41. An Intimate Story (1981)
87 min | Drama
Reveals at close range the two levels of emotions existing in individual lives in a kibbutz. An atmosphere of warmth and concern is expressed as Leah's repeated miscarriages cause the ... See full summary »
Director: Nadav Levitan | Stars: Chava Alberstein, Gilat Ankori, Peter Freistadt, Alexander Peleg
Votes: 11
42. My Own Daughter (1998)
50 min | Documentary
In this emotionally wrenching film, Sivan, a 23 year old woman, attempts to cope with the painful past of her father's abusive behavior. In addition to understanding her father's actions, ... See full summary »
Director: Mooly Landsman
43. Eight Twenty Eight (2007 Video)
60 min | Documentary
A personal poetic look at one of the most fascinating social experiments in human history - the Kibbutz. This is the story of the filmmaker's re-encounter with the kibbutz where he grew up, after a long absence.
Director: Lavi Ben Gal
44. Beautiful Valley (2011)
85 min | Drama
The world of Hanna Mendelssohn, an 80 year old widow, disintegrates as the Kibbutz which she helped to found undergoes privatization.
Director: Hadar Friedlich | Stars: Batia Bar, Gili Ben-Ozilio, Hadar Avigad, Eli Ben-rey
Votes: 33
45. Zanav Shel Afifon (2001 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama
Mickey is a 12 year old tomboy, whose parents are going under divorce. She spends every summer vacation with her grandparents, Ya'akov and Elza. Ya'akov is an old-fashioned farmer who runs ... See full summary »
Director: Shiri Tsur | Stars: Lenny Shahaf, Gaya Traub, Natan Sgan-Cohen, Miriam Gavrieli
46. Black to the Promised Land (1992)
95 min | Documentary
This documentary follows a group of African-American high school students from Brooklyn who go with their teacher to work on a kibbutz in Israel for a few months. The students also visit Jerusalem for a day.
Director: Madeleine Ali | Stars: Renée Owens, Tisha Pretlow, Andrew Gordon, Nelson Heggs
Votes: 24
47. Keeping the Kibbutz (2010)
TV-G | 54 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Chronicling the changing kibbutz through the eyes of some of its most devoted members, Keeping the Kibbutz examines the challenges faced by a community in transition. While some members ... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Crosbie, Tessa Moran
Votes: 10
48. The Deadly Game of Nations (1983)
57 min | Documentary, War
With Israel as an example, the reality of how military force is deemed necessary to maintain national sovereignty and the price involved is examined.
Director: Paul Cowan | Stars: Gwynne Dyer, Ronald France, Éric Gaudry, Elizabeth Lesieur
Votes: 14
49. Portret (2006)
23 min | Short, Drama
An encounter between Jonathan, a shy young man, and Alex, an aging painter, which will change both their lives forever. Between the walls of the studio stretch lines of love, beauty and death.
Director: Tomer Bahat | Stars: Daniel Sapir, Yossi Yablonka
50. Letter to Jonas (1992)
45 min | Drama
Camilla and Louise are digging in the desert sand of Israel. They are looking for relics of the past, but while doing so, self-deception and life-lies appear. This mars their conception of life and shakes their relationship.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Stine Bierlich, Maria Grip, Etienne Glaser, Assi Dayan
Votes: 35