Israeli films - 1990s
Israeli films of the 90s
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- DirectorDaniel WachsmannStarsRonit ElkabetzShuli RandShabtai KonortiA rabbi's son rebels against his roots and becomes a magician. A woman enters his life and turns his tricks into metaphysical phenomena. The son is forced to choose between love and living up to his father's expectations.
- DirectorDror ShaulStarsRami HeubergerAmi SmolartchikTsach ShpitsenMivtza 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 takes place in Israel, in the fictional kibbutz "Asisim".
- DirectorSavi GabizonStarsMoshe IvgySharon HacohenSinai PeterComedy about life among Tel Aviv's 30-something bourgeoisie is nothing if not proof that self-absorbed, would-be hipsters are the same the world over. The central character is Asher, an unbecoming depressive and all-round schlemiel who publishes a book on 'How to Be an Idiot', and finds himself becoming the guru of a self-help circle. A liberal sprinkling of sight gags and non-sequiturs - and even a slight flavour of Almodóvar in the sexual absurdities - keeps things lively.
- DirectorShmuel HasfariStarsGila AlmagorRonit ElkabetzEti AdarA Westernized teenager struggles to come to terms with the white magic practiced by members of her family.
- DirectorAri FolmanOri SivanStarsLucy DubinchikHalil ElohevJohnny PetersonThe year is 1999 and the storyline is actually a number of subplots all revolving around the 13-year old Clara, a girl who can predict the future and has telekinetic powers. The subplots include a boy in her class who has a crush on her, his family, her family, and her principal who keeps talking French for some strange reason.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsYaël AbecassisYoram HattabMeital BerdahTwo sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.
- DirectorEytan FoxStarsDalit KahanBoaz Gur-LaviYair LapidThe Gulf War, January 1991. Talila Katz, a yuppie Tel Avivian creative director at an ad agency falls in love with clumsy food engineer Noah Ne'eman. The war, with its Scud missiles bombarding Israel and disrupting everyday life, is the backdrop for this pair's love story, told with satirical bite that only Irit Linur [screenplay / novel] can provide.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsOren ShaboSami HuriYael HadarOctober 1973, a week before the Yom Kippur War. Five young men and one woman are on the verge of change, of facing new challenges, of beginning a new life. Vulcan Junction is a nostalgic voyage to the last days of innocence, last days of arrogance, last moments before a whole country is engulfed by a war that will change it forever.
- DirectorRon NinioStarsUri GavrielSasson GabayHanna Azoulay HasfariMoshe (Sasson Gabay), a hard-living quarry worker in 1950s Israel is determined to get back at his boss, Nissim (Uri Gavriel), for stealing the woman he loved back in Casablanca - before either of them had immigrated to Israel. The running feud between the two brings life at the quarry, and at the migrant transit camp where they both currently live to a boiling point.
- DirectorAmos GuttmanStarsSharon AlexanderAki AvniDvora BartonovAgainst the backdrop of AIDS, the film explores two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in New York: Thomas is ill, detached, in search of hard drugs. Jonathan tries to connect with him. Meanwhile, Thomas's grandmother, facing old age, has become bitter, particularly toward her hard-working daughter. They worry about Thomas. A few blocks away, Jonathan's mother, brother and sister maintain their sometimes bickering relationships, watching Jonathan brave adulthood.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsShaul MizrahiDafna DekelJuliano Mer-KhamisA biopic about Israel's most successful and famous Mizrahi artist, Zohar Argov, his rise to fame, drug addiction and eventual suicide.
- DirectorEyal HalfonStarsEvgenia DodinaYoram HattabAmos LaviWhen a small, run-down circus comes to a Palestinian town, it changes the lives of the West Bank villagers.
- DirectorAyelet MenahemiNirit YaronStarsYaël AbecassisSharon AlexanderDoron AvrahamiThree stories about three women: one is trying to find the right guy; one is trying to get a divorce from her runaway husband so she takes hostages; one turns Tel Aviv upside down in order to save a kitten trapped in a storm drain.
- DirectorUri BarbashStarsEli DankerMiri FabianNurit Galron
- DirectorOrna Ben-Dor NivStarsEtti AnkriLouise AsherGedalia BesserA brother and sister arrive alone in the new country of Israel after World War II where they hope to find their lost mother. The complexities of life with colorful characters in the refugee transit camp and nearby kibbutz makes it hard to reconcile their real lives with their deeper dream of still finding the Newland.
- DirectorTzvi ShisselStarsArik EinsteinMoni MoshonovShlomo Bar-Aba
- DirectorYeud LevanonStarsBruria AlbeckLian AllweisAmnon MeskinBased on a novel by Amos Oz..
- DirectorAssi DayanStarsRivka NeumanShmil Ben AriUri KlauznerThe second chapter in Assi Dayan's trilogy centers on three marginal characters from "Life According to Agfa". Malka, a whore with a Romanian accent who dreams of becoming a singer, Levi, her pimp and Moshe, a homeless man who dreams that Malka will love him and follows Malka and Levi. Levi navigates the trio in a grotesque and turbulent world in which people have lost the purpose of their existence.
- DirectorAssi DayanStarsGil AlonIdan AltermanBoaz AvniMickey Baum is told by his doctor he has cancer and will die in 92 minutes. During his final hour he makes arrangements while recalling his short life and trying to understand the reality in which he has lived.
- DirectorZe'ev RevachStarsYigal AdikaDalia BegerZahava Ben
- DirectorJulie ShlesStarsZvika HadarEsti ZakheimAryeh MoskonaDavid 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 dream, so he links up with Romanian immigrant Shimon, who is an expert magician.
- DirectorHaim BouzagloStarsGil FrankIdit TepersonDavid DaninoMuki, a reserve soldier serving in Lebanon just before the IDF's retreat,is trying to document his soon to come death.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsMoshe IvgyMohammad BakriSalim DawAn Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup (mondial), he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is made.