Gabi Amrani

Love in Suspenders (2019)

Tami is a widow in her 60s and Beno is a widower in his 70s. She is optimistic, always smiling, and still talking to her husband who has been dead for a few years already. Beno is tougher on the outside, but also still suffering from the loss of his wife. ...

Late Kaddish (2019)

On the day his mother dies, Alex can't gather enough people for the funeral, to say the traditional Jewish Kadish prayer on his mother's grave. So at the Rabbi's suggestion, Alex sets out on a journey to find people to help him. However he soon comes to re ...

Herod Islands (2018)

The Jews (2016)

Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust. ...

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court. ...

A Place in Heaven (2013)

A young officer returns to his base after a daring mission. The cook's assistant, a religious Holocaust survivor, is envious of him. He believes that there is a place in heaven reserved for the brave officer who endangers his life for the sake of his Jewis ...

Someone to Run With (2006)

Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself unrecognizably - ...

Don Quixote in Jerusalem (2005)

Don Quixote and Sancho Pancha arrive in Israel in the year 2005. They reach a hill on the Jerusalem by-pass road overlooking the wall, which divides Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They inspect their target. The two men are already in their 70's. Qui ...

Stones (2004)

Michale is a thirty year old woman. She works with her father in a Tel Aviv accounting office providing services to important religious institutions. She divides her time between her child, her husband, her work and the man with whom she is having an affai ...

To Be a Star (2003)

Tzuri is a ruthless theater arts tutor who is very strict with his students. When one of his young female students is found beaten up, not so far from his apartment, he is suspended from his job despite having nothing to do with it. Shocked and looking to ...

Requiem (1999)

The last play directed by Hanoch Levin. The plot follows three grieving characters: The Old Man, The Mother, and The Mule Driver, as they look for remedy from passers-by and confront the realities of death and the loss of their loved ones. Set in a small, ...

Primal Justice (1998)

The Flying Camel (1994)

An enchanting comedy about a Jewish professor and an Arab sanitation worker who discover a utterly surprising similarity in their uncommon interests. THE FLYING CAMEL is a celebration of the differences that signify each person as an individual and the bon ...

Deadly Heroes (1993)

Ex-Navy SEAL Brad Cartowski is injured during an attack at Athens airport by terrorists who kidnap his wife and fly her on a hijacked plane to North Africa. Cartowski goes in pursuit, aided by another ex-SEAL, Cody Grant. Cartowski soon finds the terrorist ...

Zohar (1993)

Based on real life story of Israeli oriental singer Zohar Argov, who grew up in a poor family, became rich & famous but the drugs brought him down. ...

Killing Streets (1991)

A young Marine is kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon. His twin brother, frustrated at his inability to get any kind of information from the government about his brother's plight, travels to Lebanon with a plan for his own rescue operation. ...

Steal the Sky (1988)

An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter. ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad (1987)

The prisoner sentence to a very long time gets visitation home in order to meet his wife. The only problem is that he got a company - one of the prison guards. ...

Smell and Smile (1985)

When Igor immigrates from Russia to Israel, he is recruited into the mandatory Israeli army reserve service. When his commanders learn the army food causes him to have very noisy farts, they order him to utilize this to defuse mines. ...

Best Defense (1984)

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait. ...

The Hairdresser (1984)

Victor, is a poor worker with seven kids, and Michel, an upscale gay hairdresser, are identical twins who haven't seen each other for 20 years. Now reunited, they pull off a scam of switched identities that has everyone fooled ... or not. ...

Sahara (1983)

Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara desert. ...

A Woman Called Golda (1982)

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...

Dead End (1982)

Yaky Yosha's 1982 Israeli drama Kvish Lelo Motza (aka Dead End Street) observes the trials and travails of a young prostitute named Alice (Anat Atzmon) who is thrust into jail alongside her pimp and hustler boyfriend. In desperation, Alice devises a scheme ...

King for a Day (1982)

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 porter had been sending back money and describing himself as a wel ...

A Crazy Dad (1981)

A hardworking Israeli auto garage owner wants his two sons to get a college education, but the one supposedly studying medicine in New York returns home as a hippie freak and with a girl friend. The other student son lives in Tel Aviv and is plagued by his ...

It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980)

A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her husband. She hires two charming gunrunners as help, but they suspect her shady competitor. ...

Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith (1979)

A religious drama about Christ's parents, the events leading up to his birth, and the effect on the lives of the well-known biblical figures of the time. ...

Lo La'alot Yoter (1979)

Operation Thunderbolt (1977)

In 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, ...

Save the Lifeguard (1977)

Comedy about day to day life of a Gordon beach lifeguard and his friends. ...

A Movie and Breakfast (1977)

A story about Rafi and Tsipi - newlyweds leaving with their parents. ...

Lupo Goes to New York (1976)

Lupo is leaving Israel moving to New York and misses his family. ...

Beautiful Troubles (1976)

Armand is a part-time hairdresser, on the run from women who are exhausted of his womanizing habits; Ofra has just escaped marriage to an inarticulate bridegroom. They encounter one another at a rooming house, and by helping each other escape their untenab ...

Tzanani Family (1976)

Zion Tzanani, a Yemeni shoe salesman is caught up in a bitter rivalry with his neighbour, Israel Ben-Naim, a Persian shoe salesman. The situation turns even more toxic when Shimshona, Yemeni Zion's daughter, starts seeing Herzl, Persian Israel's son. And a ...

Nahtche and the General (1972)

Comedy which revolves around the exploits of Nahtche and his constant success in disentangling himself from the grip of the persons who are after him and whom he is leading by the nose. ...

Salomonico (1972)

The story of Salomonico who works in the Tel Aviv Port and tries to defend his house and his life. ...

The Great Telephone Robbery (1972)

Meshulam, a lowly bank clerk, has two hobbies: crime novels, and the ability to calculate investment interest in his head. When he learns of a local gang's plot to rob the bank, Meshulam realizes that this is his chance to make himself the hero of his own ...

The Policeman (1971)

Azulai is a policeman in Jaffa, whose incompetence is only matched by his soft-heartedness. His superiors want to send him to early retirement, but he would like to stay on the force, and the criminals of Jaffa don't want to see him leave either... ...

Ariana (1971)

Fishke Bemilu'im (1971)

Madron (1970)

A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter. ...

Eagles Attack At Dawn (1970)

Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. The sold ...

Lupo! (1970)

Menahem Golan directs this warmhearted comedy. A wily widower that deals in used furniture fights progress (and city hall). His home slated to be bulldozed, his business in trouble and his daughter poised to leave the nest with her wealthy fiancé, small- ...

Sinai Commados (1968)

At the start of the 1967 Six-Day War (June 5-10) between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations, a team of eight Israeli commandos, with their female boat captain in tow, are sent on a suicide mission deep into the Sinai to destroy an important Arab radar ...

Fish, Football and Girls (1968)

The story of a soccer team, respectable families, a corrupt night club owner, and a young lad to guide all to a happy ending. ...

Sinai Commandos (1967)

Israeli commandos on a deadly mission to take out a radar installation. ...

He Walked Through the Fields (1967)

Uri, the first son of a "kibbutz", comes home from 2 years of studying. He finds his father has joined the British army, and his mother is with another man. He meets Mika - a new immigrant from Poland - and quickly falls in love with her. He is then torn b ...

Ervinka (1967)

A good-natured but incorrigible layabout becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging in his boundless zeal for mischief and romance. ...

Herod Islands (2018)