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by RoyMusayov | created - 23 Dec 2017 | updated - 24 Dec 2017 | PublicModernist Israeli film movment of the 60s & 70s
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1. Hole in the Moon (1964)
90 min | Comedy
A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing ... See full summary »
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Uri Zohar, Avraham Heffner, Arik Lavie, Shmulik Kraus
Votes: 174
2. Slow Down (1967)
18 min | Short, Drama
A short film which penetrates the essence of a quarrel and reconciliation between an elderly couple in Tel Aviv of 1967.
Director: Avraham Heffner | Stars: Avraham Ben-Yosef, Fanny Lubitsch
Votes: 36
3. The Dress (1969)
85 min | Drama
Three short stories of life in Tel Aviv; A girl meets a boy in a library and has to decide what to do next; A young husband comes home to meet his wife's boyfriend; A young clerk opens a ... See full summary »
Director: Judd Ne'eman | Stars: Assi Dayan, Liora Rivlin, Motti Barkan, Amir Orion
Votes: 26
4. Women in the Other Room (1967)
80 min | Drama
Director: Isaac Zepel Yeshurun | Stars: Amnon Berenson, Natan Cogan, Ruth Segal, Tziona Tuchterman
5. Three Days and a Child (1967)
90 min | Drama
Based on a short story by Abraham B. Jehoshua, the movie follows Eli (Oded Kotler) taking care of an old girlfriend's child for three days. He wants him to get hurt, he worries about him. Will the child survive the three days? Will Eli?
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Oded Kotler, Shai Oshorov, Judith Solé, Misha Asherov
Votes: 174
6. Scouting Patrol (1967)
98 min | Drama, War
Israeli soldiers cross the border into hostile Arab territory to kidnap an enemy terrorist. After the man is captured, the Israeli unit receives warning of an enemy counter attack, and the unit is forced to trek through the desert on foot.
Director: Micha Shagrir | Stars: Illi Gorlitzky, Lior Yieniy, Ze'ev Revach, Eli Cohen
7. Iris (1968)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Journalist in midlife crisis is having an affair with a young girl.
Director: David Greenberg | Stars: Shmulik Kraus, Liora Ramon, Gideon Shemer, Tirzeh Arbel
Votes: 27
8. Dreams (1969)
85 min | Drama
Director: Ya'akov Vardi | Stars: Pnina Gary, Pinhas Koren, Oded Teomi, Ninet Dinar
9. Blaze on the Water (1969)
90 min | Drama
Director: Ya'ackov Hame'iri | Stars: Ya'akov Alperin, Ya'ackov Banai, Avner Hizkiyahu, Lily Klass
10. Before Tomorrow (1969)
90 min | Drama
Composed of two short films. The first one "Spring" (26 minutes) is about a young couple falling in love. Almost dialogue free and shot in an experimental style. The second film "Fall" (46 ... See full summary »
Director: Ellida Geira | Stars: Arieh Elias, Rina Ganor, Ruth Harris, Yisrael Poliakov
Votes: 9
11. Siege (1969)
100 min | Drama
Story of a war-widow pressured by her friends to behave in the role of the heroic widow, and the journey she takes in a country of people under siege.
Director: Gilberto Tofano | Stars: Eran Agmon, Gila Almagor, Yael Aviv, Dahn Ben Amotz
Votes: 116
12. A Woman's Case (1969)
82 min | Drama
A story of the influence of modern life on a woman, who meets a man in a sculptor's studio, has an affair, and is found dead.
Director: Jacques Katmor | Stars: Aharon Almog, Tirzeh Arbel, Adar Eshet, Hillit Katmor
Votes: 95
13. Take Off (1970)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Gavri Banai, Lihi Efron, Josie Katz, Shaike Levi
Votes: 12
14. From the Other Side (1970)
70 min | Drama
Director: Menachem Binetski | Stars: Rahel Levi, Rachel Ravid, Asher Tzarfati, Rafi Tzur
15. Shablul (1970)
80 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A musical, semi-documentary motion picture considering the making of "Shablul", a rock album by Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch. The film demonstrates fragments of being, a few funny ... See full summary »
Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Arik Einstein, Shalom Hanoch, Yehudit Sula, Tzvi Shissel
Votes: 53
16. The Dreamer (1970)
R | 85 min | Drama
The love story of a young man who is attached to an older woman until the appearance of a younger girl interrupts him. He has an affair with the younger girl but his love for the older woman makes him return to the nursing home.
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Tuvia Tavi, Liora Rivlin, Berta Litwina, Shlomo Bar-Shavit
Votes: 13
17. The Pill (1972)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy
Director: David Perlov | Stars: Idit Astruck, Nissim Azikri, Yossi Banai, Mordechai Ben-Ze'ev
Votes: 22
18. Floch (1972)
90 min | Drama
Floch, a seventy year old man loses his son, daughter in-law and grandson, who are all killed in a car accident. He goes into deep depression and feels that he can't leave this world ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Avraham Chalfi, Lula Yackobovitz, Ofra Doron, Yisrael Segal
Votes: 31
19. Metzitzim (1972)
90 min | Comedy
Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don't want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who's fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in Altman's restaurant.
Director: Uri Zohar | Stars: Arik Einstein, Uri Zohar, Sima Eliyahu, Mona Silberstein
Votes: 503
20. I Love You Rosa (1972)
77 min | Drama
The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa, in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Under a (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty to marry his childless sister-in-law on the death of his brother.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Gabi Otterman, Moshe Tal, Levana Finkelstein
Votes: 250
21. Light Out of Nowhere (1973)
94 min | Drama
Director: Nissim Dayan | Stars: Victor Atar, Shlomo Bassan, Baruch Berkin, Rolf Brin
Votes: 19
22. The House on Chelouche Street (1973)
PG | 110 min | Drama
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Gila Almagor, Shaike Ophir, Yosef Shiloach, Michal Bat-Adam
Votes: 278
23. Diary 1973-1983 (1983)
330 min | Documentary
Shot over a ten-year period, Diary is not only the political, professional, and personal diary of a man, but is a testimony on the turbulent reality of a war-torn country, Israel. In six ... See full summary »
Director: David Perlov | Stars: David Perlov, Mira Perlov, Yael Perlov, Neomi Perlov
Votes: 188
24. Shalom (Wayfarer's Prayer) (1973)
94 min | Drama
Shalom, a young Israeli at the outset of his life, was born into a bourgeois family in Tel-Aviv. His parents wish he would go to college, but Shalom doesn't feel like studying. His father ... See full summary »
Director: Yaky Yosha | Stars: Rafi Adar, Nissim Azikri, Avraham Ben-Yosef, Israel Gurion
Votes: 20
25. But Where Is Daniel Wax? (1972)
94 min | Drama
10 years after he left Israel and "played it big-time in America", Benny Shpitz returns for a visit, self-exploring his youth, friends, dreams, beliefs and idol, Daniel Wax, who symbolized ... See full summary »
Director: Avraham Heffner | Stars: Lior Yieniy, Yishai Shahar, Esther Zewko, Yael Heffner
Votes: 101
26. 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
27. My Michael (1974)
95 min | Drama
Based on a novel by Amos Oz. A couple in Jerusalem before the six day war in 1967, fall in love, get married, have a child and drift apart. With Michael away at war, his wife starts ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Irit Alter, Ruth Farhi, Oded Kotler, Efrat Lavie
Votes: 54
28. Daughters, Daughters (1973)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A man with eight daughters, and no hope of an heir, takes a mistress to console himself. He finally consults a magician who gives him a list of instructions on how to make a son. Soon his wife is pregnant again.
Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Shaike Ophir, Zaharira Harifai, Yosef Shiloach, Michal Bat-Adam
Votes: 83
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