Moshe Ivgy

Amor (2016)

After Daniel travelled for a long period in Europe, he is coming back to his childhood home, in a small village in Israel. He wants to find Lilah, the woman of his life. Lilah, a former ballet teacher, has been paralyzed on her bed for three years. Daniel ...

212 (2016)

Another nearly-ordinary winter day in the life of 64-year-old Doron, director of a municipal home for the aged: the rain is pouring, someone nabbed his reserved parking spot, and Bela Schorr, occupant of Room 212, passed away that morning. ...

The 90 Minute War (2016)

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted 100 years. 100 years of war, bloodshed, bitterness, suffering. 100 years of stalemate, intransigence and failed peace deals. And now, it's all over! They've finally found the solution: A game of soccer. The winne ...

Youth (2013)

Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to change ...

Hunting Elephants (2013)

In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father. ...

The Cutoff Man (2012)

Gabi cuts off the water supply to people who don't pay their bills. There's no choice, it's either that or unemployment. The more he cuts off, the more money he makes. Like a thief he sneaks into back yards, where the water meters are and like an executor ...

My Lovely Sister (2011)

A love triangle between the primitively superstitious Rahma, her rude husband Robert, and the ghost of Rahma's beautiful sister Marie who died from the pain of banishment. ...

There Were Nights (2010)

Gony's father lost his reputation, his pride and his desire to live after serving a short prison sentence twenty years ago. A little later he lost his wife, Gony's mother, to cancer. Since then, at age seven, Gony, an only child, has served as her father's ...

Ultimatum (2009)

A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel. ...

Out of the Blue (2008)

A working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. But a few more people are involved. Here, the guy is married and his daughter has a crush on the weatherman. The weatherman wants to marry the cosmetics queen from the billboards. The cosmet ...

Restless (2008)

Moshe Amar is a once poet and now a "businessman" who left his wife with their new born in Israel twenty years ago and spent them in the land of limitless possibilities trying to leave a mark of immortality but, up to that point, only got the marks that fr ...

The Seven Days (2008)

The Ohaion family is mourning the death of one of their relatives. In keeping with tradition, they gather together in the home of the deceased and stay there for seven days. Forced to put up with one another day and night, the brothers and sisters soon let ...

Road Marks (2006)

Gili sees his father as a vampire feeding off the energy and vitality of his family. With no real ability to resist, he watches his father humiliate his mother and his little brother. Reluctantly, he joins a family trip to the desert which leads to a terri ...

Munich (2005)

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute th ...

Metallic Blues (2004)

A man enters the car and drives it to a local car dealer where he hopes to sell it. It seems that he has moved back from Canada and cannot afford the tax on the car. The dealership is manned by two. One appears to be the worker of the pair - keeping the ca ...

Campfire (2004)

The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East. ...

Spartan (2004)

U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a politic ...

Life Is Life (2003)

Cafe Tales (2003)

Cafe Tales is the story of five Israeli men and their efforts to save a local cafe from demolition. ...

Yellow Asphalt (2001)

Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. Retribution? In ...

The Investigation Must Go On (2000)

An excessively ambitious police investigator pursues a tip that a singer with underworld ties is responsible for a recent robbery/homicide, becoming obsessed with the case and the suspect's wife. ...

On Air (1999)

"On Air" (aka "Zman Avir") is a 1999 Israeli film directed and written by Isaac Zepel Yeshurun. The film is an allegory of the complex Israeli society and tells the story of a former member of the Shin-Bet with family problems who leaves on a secret missio ...

Day After Day (1998)

In spite of blood ties to both Haifa's Jewish and Arab populations, Moshe leads a rootless existence. Grown weary of his impatient wife Didi and ambivalent about his needy young mistress Grisha, the only relationships Moshe doesn't complicate are with his ...

Dangerous Acts (1998)

On the day he is released from prison, Yisarael appears on the doorstep of the woman whose life he had changed. A weird relationship develops between the two. ...

The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field (1997)

This mythic love story set in a timeless, lavishly colorful and mystical Jerusalem incorporates hard rock, striking set design, computer-generated imagery and modern-day tensions between the secular and the Orthodox worlds. Hanan, a handsome young traveler ...

Game Over (1996)

This 1990s film from Israel focuses on a group of teenagers who go on the run after accidentally killing someone. ...

Lovesick on Nana Street (1995)

The touching story of Victor, who lives with his mother in the really bad part of town and runs an illegal TV cable station. One day he sees the beautiful Michaela and falls madly in love with her. So desperate to make her love him back he finally snaps, a ...

Max and Morris (1994)

A popular Israeli musical comedy about petty criminals. ...

The Patriots (1994)

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist. ...

Dreams of Innocence (1994)

Little Benjamin and Margalit are raised in the boondocks of Israel by their long-suffering mother, but they have in them something of their father, who can't stay in a place with no prospect of riches and excitement. ...

The Mummy Lives (1993)

An Egyptian noble, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, returns from the grave 3,000 years later and becomes obsessed with a woman whom he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover. ...

The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein (1993)

In this surreal comedy, a ghost monk convinces Itzik, a keychain importer living with his mother, to take revenge on those who are responsible for his pathetic situation. Surprisingly, the collaboration with the monk improves Itzic's life. ...

Shuroo (1991)

A comedy about not so successful businessman who suddenly becomes a spiritual leader of a new cult. ...

Cup Final (1991)

An 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, he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is made. ...

Breath of Life (1991)

Drama based on a true incident showing how a seemingly minor event, the theft of a cigarette from a guard, in the lives of 6 political prisoners in Iran ultimately leads to the death of one of the group. The film focuses on one man's need for relief from t ...

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990)

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. ...

The Poet (1988)

It was an entirely routine case: at four in the morning a car had run over a drunk old woman and left. And now the young Trainee Detective Mejzlík was trying to find out which car it was. A trainee inspector takes that very seriously. ...

Deadline (1987)

An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war. ...

Bread (1987)

A bakery in a development town in the Negev is shutting down, and Shlomo Elmalich is fired without severance pay after 20 years of work. The workers take to the streets in protest, but Shlomo locks himself in his home, shutting his family in with him. ...

Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)

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. ...

Night Movie (1986)

An Israeli soldier finds himself handcuffed to a young Arab man for a night, leading to unexpected changes in attitudes for the man during a thunderstorm. ...

Battle of the Chairmanship (1986)

A funny comedy about a battle for a chairmanship of condo association. ...

The Ambassador (1985)

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened. ...

Kuni Leml in Cairo (1983)

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 some antique coins valued at a million dollars. Kuni's twin brother's ...

Big Shots (1982)

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. ...

Mr. Leon (1982)

In a rendition of a father-daughter conflict based on misunderstandings, this melodrama focuses on Annette (Nurit Cohen) who has left home for the city where she is unexpectedly offered a leading role in a movie. She is excited as she returns home to tell ...

Morning Star (1980)

A story about a young fisherman Avi who doesn't lose his optimism even during the most difficult times. ...

And on the Third Day (2010)

This film describes Israel as a country already far beyond identity crises in which anarchy is everywhere, violence is the norm and life is ruled by the world view of "the stupid, the evil and the corrupt". ...