Israeli films - 1980s

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Israeli films of the 80s

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1. Avanti Popolo (1986)

84 min | Drama, War

June 11th 1967, the Six-Day War is over and the cease fire has just begun. We follow the journey of Gassan and Haled, two Egyptian soldiers whose only wish is to make their way through the ... See full summary »

Director: Rafi Bukai | Stars: Salim Daw, Suhel Haddad, Tuvia Gelber, Danny Segev

Votes: 429

2. 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

3. One of Us (1989)

110 min | Drama

A few Palestinian guerilla's break into an Israeli camp in the occupied territories. They kill a few Israeli soldiers before they are killed, apart from one who dies in the camp after being... See full summary »

Director: Uri Barbash | Stars: Alon Aboutboul, Sharon Alexander, Yoel Ben-Simhon, Oded Kimhi

Votes: 121

4. Ricochets (1986)

91 min | Drama, War

The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.

Director: Eli Cohen | Stars: Alon Aboutboul, Shaul Mizrahi, Roni Pinkovitch, Dudu Ben-Zeev

Votes: 117

5. 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

6. Late Summer Blues (1987)

101 min | Drama, Romance

A group of close friends celebrate the bittersweet changes coming to their lives during the summer of their high-school graduation: adult responsibilities, adult romance -- and the ... See full summary »

Director: Renen Schorr | Stars: Dor Zweigenboim, Yoav Tzafir, Shahar Segal, Omri Dolev

Votes: 303

7. Shell Shock (1988)

R | 96 min | Drama

Two shell-shocked veterans struggle to overcome their pain.

Director: Yoel Sharon | Stars: Anat Atzmon, Gili Ben-Ozilio, Amnon Berenson, Stanislav Chaplin

Votes: 13 | Gross: $0.00M

8. Dead End Street (1982)

86 min | Drama

Based on a true story. Alice, a young street walker, receives an opportunity of a lifetime when a television crew casts her to star in a documentary about prostitution in Tel-Aviv. Alice, a... See full summary »

Director: Yaky Yosha | Stars: Anat Atzmon, Yehoram Gaon, Gila Almagor, Gabi Amrani

Votes: 36

10. Eastern Wind (1982)

88 min | Drama

Named after the hot desert wind that periodically blows through the Middle East sending temperatures and tempers soaring to potentially explosive heights. Set in an old farming village in ... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Wachsmann | Stars: Shlomo Tarshish, Yasein Shawaf, Ruth Geller, Hemda Levi

Votes: 53

11. Lool (1988)

94 min | Comedy

A collection of skits and songs from Israeli television shows from the 1970s.

Directors: Boaz Davidson, Uri Zohar | Stars: Dori Ben-Ze'ev, Arik Einstein, Uri Gross, Shalom Hanoch

Votes: 72

12. Into the Night (1985)

97 min | Drama

A common crisis changes the complicated relationship between a father and his middle-aged son, both trapped in unhappy marriages.

Director: Eitan Green | Stars: Assi Dayan, Yosef Millo, Orna Porat, Dani Roth

Votes: 28

15. Indian in the Sun (1981)

60 min | Drama

The story revolves around Laufer, an Israeli soldier from the wealthy suburbs of northern Tel Aviv, who is ordered to accompany another soldier, known only as "the Indian", to prison.

Director: Ram Loevy | Stars: Rami Danon, Riki Eliah, Haim Garfi, Moshe Ivgy

Votes: 10

16. Bar 51 (1986)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama

After the mother's death, the siblings leave the family home and go to Tel Aviv. They both intend to start a new life. They meet the transgender Apolonia, the owner of Bar 51, who offers them help and work.

Director: Amos Guttman | Stars: Smadar Kilchinsky, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Ada Valerie-Tal, Rahel Shor

Votes: 82

17. Drifting (1982)

80 min | Drama

A young gay Israeli man works in his grandmother's store while dreaming of becoming a film-maker.

Director: Amos Guttman | Stars: Jonathan Sagall, Ami Traub, Ben Levin, Dita Arel

Votes: 88

18. Sunstroke (1984)

88 min | Drama, Music

"Makat Shemesh" ("Summertime Blues") is the last summer before the army, an early 1980's Tel-Aviv summer, at the dawn of the war (the "first" war) in Lebanon. Four friends are walking on ... See full summary »

Director: Yaky Yosha | Stars: Irit Alter, Anat Atzmon, Ya'ackov Banai, Yuval Banai

Votes: 15

19. Rage and Glory (1984)

118 min | Drama, History

An avowed anarchist and Stern Gang hitman is sent to Jerusalem to assassinate a senior British officer creating much tension within the already troubled cell and almost brings its collapse,... See full summary »

Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Juliano Mer-Khamis, Roni Pinkovitch, Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Tuvia Gelber

Votes: 110

20. 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

22. The Lover (1985)

R | 90 min | Drama

Gabriel makes arrangement with garage-owner Adam to pay for repairs to his grandmother's car by giving his depressed wife French lessons. But the relationship goes beyond that of teacher and pupil as a passionate love affair develops.

Director: Michal Bat-Adam | Stars: Yehoram Gaon, Michal Bat-Adam, Roberto Pollack, Fanny Lubitsch

Votes: 111

23. Stigma (1982)

R | 105 min | Drama

A young Israeli soldier suffers a personal crisis after being released from a psychiatric hospital and returns home to find that his wife has left him taking their son with her.

Director: Uri Barbash | Stars: Arnon Zadok, Dalik Wollinitz, Ofra Weingarten, Ze'ev Shimshoni

Votes: 16

25. The Vulture (1981)

96 min | Drama

Boaz, a reserve soldier returns from the battlefield and becomes involved in editing a memorial album dedicated to a friend who was killed before his eyes. He becomes increasingly involved ... See full summary »

Director: Yaky Yosha | Stars: Shraga Harpaz, Shimon Finkel, Hanna Maron, Nitza Shaul

Votes: 40

26. Growing Pains (1980)

90 min | Drama

A coming-of-age story combined with a love interest between a boy and girl from different social stratum told during the years of teenage turmoil after high school the barriers of ... See full summary »

Director: Ze'ev Revach | Stars: Doron Tzioni, Sharon Alexander, Dalia Shimko, Dalia Beger

Votes: 15

27. Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Romance, War

44 Metascore

A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.

Director: Moshé Mizrahi | Stars: Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor, Anat Atzmon

Votes: 2,744 | Gross: $0.28M

28. Greenfields (1989)

92 min | Drama

From legendary writer-director Yitzhak Yeshurun comes a drama about the true meaning of flag and family. The so-called Israeli war of attrition forced Shmuel Braverman to leave Israel and ... See full summary »

Director: Isaac Zepel Yeshurun | Stars: Johnny Arbid, Sharon Brandon, Lia Dultzkaya, Shmuel Edelman

Votes: 21

29. Soldier of the Night (1984)

R | 86 min | Drama

Set in the early eighties in Israel, "Soldier of the Night" is a horror film. It is the first Israeli horror film ever made. A beautiful young woman (Iris) meets an attractive young man (... See full summary »

Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Yehuda Efroni, Iris Kanner, Yftach Katzur, Hillel Ne'eman

Votes: 34

30. Hide and Seek (1980)

90 min | Drama

Twelve year-old Uri reports his teacher Balaban as a suspected spy when he observes him meeting with a young arab man. Only later does he discover that Balaban's interest in the young arab is romantic rather than political.

Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Gila Almagor, Benyamin Armon, Chaim Hadaya, Efrat Lavie

Votes: 46

31. Gloves (1986)

92 min | Drama

Based on a novel by Dan Tzelkah.

Directors: Rafi Adar, Ami Amir | Stars: Sharon Hacohen, Ezra Kafri, Antonio Marsina, Amnon Meskin

32. Nadia (1986)

90 min | Drama

A story about an Arab girl in a Jewish school.

Director: Amnon Rubinstein | Stars: Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Meir Banai, Yuval Banai, Ossi Hillel

Votes: 19

33. Fictitious Marriage (1988)

90 min | Drama

Eldad is about to go abroad, but changes his mind at the last minute. Instead of going home to Jerusalem, he disguises himself and takes a cheap hotel room in Tel Aviv. There he meets the ... See full summary »

Director: Haim Bouzaglo | Stars: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Irit Sheleg, Adib Jahschan, Adiv Shagen

Votes: 87

34. Noa at 17 (1982)

86 min | Drama

Set in Israel 1951, Noa is a member of a youth movement who fights for her individuality, her right to doubt and question all beliefs - all conformisms. An ideological battle takes place ... See full summary »

Director: Isaac Zepel Yeshurun | Stars: Moshe Havazelet, Adi Ne'eman, Osnat Ofer, Shmuel Shiloh

Votes: 62

35. Once We Were Dreamers (1987)

PG | 120 min | Drama

A commune of young Jews from Europe establish a settlement in the Sinai Desert after World War I.

Director: Uri Barbash | Stars: Kelly McGillis, John Shea, Arnon Zadok, Christine Boisson

Votes: 86

37. The Summer of Aviya (1988)

95 min | Biography, Drama

A ten year old girl spends her summer with her overly protective mother, a mentally scarred holocaust survivor, while hopefully trying to find her real father in the newly established state of Israel.

Director: Eli Cohen | Stars: Gila Almagor, Kaipu Cohen, Eli Cohen, Marina Rossetti

Votes: 431

38. Koko Is 19 (1985)

86 min | Drama, Music

The film tells the story of a rock group in Jerusalem. Two good friends, Koko and Pini, play guitar and are the lead singers in a rock group. They make good music together, but another ... See full summary »

Director: Dan Verete | Stars: Udi Cohen, Shifra Ha'efrati, Meir Dadon, David Danino

Votes: 21

39. The Smile of the Lamb (1986)

95 min | Drama

Based on a novel by David Grossman.

Director: Shimon Dotan | Stars: Tuncel Kurtiz, Rami Danon, Makram Khoury, Dan Muggia

Votes: 47

41. Esther (1986)

97 min | Drama

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Simone Benyamini, Mohammad Bakri, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Zare Vartanian

Votes: 83

42. Lena (1980)

88 min | Drama

The story of a woman trying to free her husband from a Russian prison camp. She lives in Israel, organizes strikes, and gains public and press support. But her public life begins to clash ... See full summary »

Director: Eitan Green | Stars: Yitzhak Bareket, Boris Botwinick, Ruth Geller, Doval'e Glickman

44. House Committe Rivalry (1986)

90 min | Comedy

A story about two rivals for the head of the building through a chain of amusing mistakes and how they had to collaborate to save the building.

Director: Avi Cohen | Stars: Shaike Levi, Yisrael Poliakov, Gavri Banai, Alon Aboutboul

Votes: 55

45. On a Narrow Bridge (1985)

100 min | Drama, Romance

An impossible love affair between Benny, a lawyer doing his reserve millitary duty, and Leyla, a Librarian from the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Director: Nissim Dayan | Stars: Yussuf Abu-Warda, Jacques Cohen, Rachel Dayan, Uri Gavriel

Votes: 15

46. Streets of Yesterday (1989)

92 min | Drama

This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing Israeli intelligence officer.

Director: Judd Ne'eman | Stars: Alon Aboutboul, Steven Berkoff, Jon Finch, Hans Peter Hallwachs

Votes: 23

47. Prom Queen (1986)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

Enrike, a young Israeli boarding-school student, falls in love with Malka, the most popular girl in his class. Malka tires of their relationship and takes up with Shalom, Enrike's best friend.

Director: Isaac Zepel Yeshurun | Stars: Alon Aboutboul, Johnny Arbid, Doron Avrahami, Rami Baruch

Votes: 10

48. A Thin Line (1980)

90 min | Drama

Explores the relationship between an eleven-year-old girl and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment of insensitivity and cruelty.

Director: Michal Bat-Adam | Stars: Gila Almagor, Alexander Peleg, Liat Pansky, Aya Veirov

Votes: 36

49. On the Fringe (1987)

88 min | Drama

Set against the scenic backdrop of a vibrant New England fall... a story of homecoming and healing unfolds when Kurt (Dan Clay) hits the streets of Garrison Falls, New Hampshire. Traveling ... See full summary »

Director: Ze'ev Revach | Stars: Ze'ev Revach, Hanny Nahmias, Eli Danker, Yona Elian

Votes: 30

52. 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

53. A Thousand Little Kisses (1981)

110 min | Drama

In contemporary Tel Aviv, a mother and daughter confront each other after the death of the father/husband and the discovery of the dead man's secret affair. The daughter is drawn ... See full summary »

Director: Mira Recanati | Stars: Dina Doron, Rivka Neuman, Gad Roll, Rina Otchital

Votes: 14

55. 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

56. Big Shots (1982)

95 min | Drama

Four men whose combined intellect does not reach into the triple digits decide to steal a safe full of foreign currency - not from a local bank, but from the police station. Based on a ... See full summary »

Director: Jacob Goldwasser | Stars: Uri Gavriel, Moshe Ivgy, Makram Khoury, Zadok Zarum

Votes: 165

60. The Secret of Yolanda (1982)

85 min | Drama

A beautiful deaf-mute is courted by both her riding instructor and personal guardian in this hot-and-heavy romance story.

Director: Joel Silberg | Stars: Asher Tzarfati, Shraga Harpaz, Shraga Lanzerer, Miri Aloni

Votes: 34

61. First Love (1982)

90 min | Drama

The ex-lover of a middle class woman appears on her birthday after 20 years. Both the mother and the daughter are romantically attracted to him.

Director: Uzi Peres | Stars: Gila Almagor, Yftach Katzur, Debby Hess, Hanan Goldblatt

Votes: 11

62. Burning Memory (1989)

93 min | Drama

A man walks amongst an inferno of flames, shell-shocked. When he's back home, he starts group therapy in a military rehab center, meeting all kinds of fellow soldiers who, like him, have ... See full summary »

Director: Yossi Somer | Stars: Dani Roth, Poly Reshef, Etti Ankri, Alon Oleartchik

Votes: 11

63. The Valley Train (1989)

85 min | Drama

An adolescent boy in a kibbutz of the 1960s. A relationship between the boy and a young kibbutznik who serves in an elite unit. The boy dreams of resuming the train that once passed through... See full summary »

Director: Jonathan Paz | Stars: Erez Koren, Neta Moran, Dan Turgeman, Ami Ushpitz

Votes: 13

64. Melech LeYom Ehad (1980)

88 min | Comedy

A hotel porter, who a long time ago divorced his wife and his daughter with her in America, is alarmed when a beautiful girl arrives at his hotel looking for her supposedly rich father. The... See full summary »

Director: Assi Dayan | Stars: Gabi Amrani, Hanan Goldblatt, Caroline Langford, Eyal Geffen

Votes: 32

67. Transit (1980)

87 min | Drama

A Jewish refugee in Israel

Director: Daniel Wachsmann | Stars: Fitcho Ben-Zur, Gedalia Besser, Yair Elazar, Ruth Geller

Votes: 19

74. Hasamba Ve-Shodedey Ha-Susim (1985)

88 min | Adventure, Family

The film is based on the most popular series of pocket books, ever written in Israel (over a million copies sold). The story takes place in Israel of the 1940's, when the Israel was part of... See full summary »

Director: Hillel Damron | Stars: Seffy Rivlin, Sharon Kilchinsky, Udi Eran, Tuvia Dublero

Votes: 11

75. 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

76. Breaking (1985)

90 min | Comedy, Music

A group of actors goes to the Negev to film a rock Opera about David and Goliath. The budget is slim so the actors have to find solutions and defend their honor.

Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Izhar Ashdot, Gali Atari, Nathan Dattner, Arik Sinai

Votes: 20

77. Braids (1989)

90 min | Drama

Based on a true story, Braids tells the tale of So'ad, a 14-year-old Jewish girl imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1947 for her participation in the Zionist movement.

Director: Yitzhak Halutzi | Stars: Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Tchia Danon, Arieh Elias, Adib Jahschan

78. Again, Forever (1985)

91 min | Drama

A highly successful lawyer realises, after a cardiac warning, that he may have squandered his life when he left his first wife and all the ideals of youth she stood for, to marry a neurotic poet and join the rat race for money & success.

Director: Oded Kotler | Stars: Yahli Bergman, Nathan Dattner, Efrat Lavie, Ori Levy

Votes: 7

81. The Last Winter (1983)

R | 89 min | Drama, War

Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.

Director: Riki Shelach Nissimoff | Stars: Yona Elian, Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Macht, Zipora Peled

Votes: 114

83. Tel Aviv-Berlin (1987)

90 min | Drama

The tranquility of a small Tel-Aviv family is shattered as Benjamin, a concentration camp survivor, is forced to choose between two figures from his past. A beautiful Berlin woman who ... See full summary »

Director: Tzipi Trope | Stars: Shmuel Vilozni, Rivka Neuman, Anat Harpaz, Zohar Aloni

Votes: 10

86. Tel Aviv-Los Angeles (1988)

90 min | Drama

Modi Gazit is a average comedian whose agent tries to promote him. After he fails in a TV audition he and his girlfriend plan a scam which will make him appear live on TV. After he manages ... See full summary »

Director: Shmuel Imberman | Stars: Dudu Topaz, Avigail Ariely, Jacques Cohen, Bracha Ne'eman

Votes: 22

87. Abba Ganuv (1987)

87 min | Drama, Comedy

Respectable single father and tour boat captain Chico fights tooth and nail to maintain custody of his dear son Ben while developing a romantic relationship with beautiful lawyer Galia.

Director: Jacob Goldwasser | Stars: Yehuda Barkan, Alona Kimhi, Ben Tzion, Keren Mor

Votes: 192

92. Girls (1985)

96 min | Comedy

Four weeks of basic training for girls in the IDF: seven girls and two sergeants from different backgrounds.

Director: Nadav Levitan | Stars: Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Anat Topol, Chelli Goldenberg, Caroline Langford

Votes: 58

93. 5 and 5 (1980)

89 min | Comedy, Musical

A squad of tired soldiers is getting ready for a vacation after training; they accept the gracious invitation of a nearby village to spend their time there, while the village boys are away ... See full summary »

Director: Shmuel Imberman | Stars: Gilat Ankori, Ya'ackov Bodo, Shula Chen, Yoni Chen

Votes: 30

95. The 17th Bride (1985)

95 min | Drama

Set in a war-torn village in Czechoslovakia, the story centers on a strong Jewish woman who enters into marriage with a man she dislikes believing it will save her from deportation to a labor camp.

Director: Nadav Levitan | Stars: Lisa Hartman, Rosemary Leach, John Grillo, Barry Angel

Votes: 27

96. Kuni Leml in Cairo (1983)

90 min | Drama

Rabbi Kuni Lemle has just finished a Torah and is going to donate it to a congregation in Cairo. In exchange for the Torah scroll, the congregation in Cairo will give Kuni's congregation ... See full summary »

Director: Joel Silberg | Stars: Zeev Berlinsky, Igor Borisov, Mike Burstyn, Dalia Gur

Votes: 34

97. A Married Couple (1983)

90 min | Drama

A Married Couple is a 1983 Israeli drama film directed by Yitzhak Yeshurun. The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Director: Isaac Zepel Yeshurun | Stars: Yaron London, Miri Fabian, Ruth Harlap, Sharon Lehner

Votes: 10

99. Million Dollar Madness (1986)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy

Ephraim Rubin (Seffy Rivlin) is a bank manager. His life is one big mess: his bitch wife and son make his life miserable at home, and at work he is under tons of pressure. One day he ... See full summary »

Director: Naftali Alter | Stars: Seffy Rivlin, Arik Lavie, Dina Doron, Anat Waxman

Votes: 17



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