Shaike Ophir

Sleeping Beauty (1987)

Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault. ...

America 3000 (1986)

900 years after a nuclear war in the USA, mankind is back to the stone ages. Amazon women rule the tribes, while the men are weak and dumb - either kept as slaves or living wild as animals. Only Korvis and a friend are intelligent enough to flee and found ...

The Delta Force (1986)

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to ...

King Solomon's Mines (1985)

Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sini ...

The Magician of Lublin (1979)

Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater. ...

Wrong Number (1979)

Ze'evik and Srool are hiding in Tiberias from the angry customer to whom they owe money. ...

The Fox in the Chicken Coop (1978)

Amitz Dolniker, an Israeli politician who speaks way to much has a heart attack in the middle of his speech. In the ambulance on the way to the hospital the doctor orders him to "go someplace quite, rest, and don't make speeches". His young assistant immed ...

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, ...

Half a Million Black (1977)

Two comedians borrow 500,000 Israeli pounds from an entrepreneur who launders the mafia money via his night club in order to produce a musical "Awaiting Godo". ...

Theft from a Thief (1977)

A thief is released from prison and with the help of his friend he tries to avenge the policeman who caught him. ...

500000 Black (1977)

500000 Black 1977 ...

The Garden (1977)

Abraham, an old man, has a fruit garden in Jerusalem that is threatened by a number of people who want to buy him out or chase him off. One day, the old man finds a mute young woman (Melanie Griffith), confused after being attacked by thugs, wandering in h ...

Diamonds (1975)

Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists ...

The Father (1975)

Daughters, Daughters (1974)

In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son. ...

The House on Chelouche Street (1973)

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. ...

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 ...

Carlos (1971)

In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poors in his silver mines. But Carlos' indecision and his love for his young and beautiful stepmother ...

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... ...

The Big Dig (1969)

A slapstick comedy lampooning bureaucracy and the madness of everyday life in Israel centers on an escaped lunatic who digs up the streets of Tel-Aviv with a drill. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Moishe Air-Condition (1966)

A comedy about Moishe, a soldier in the army whose nickname is Moishe Air-Condition. ...

Dalia and the Sailors (1964)

Daliah sneaks into a cargo ship bound to Israel. The sailors will do anything to hide from the though captain her and catch her attention. ...

Hole in the Moon (1964)

A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvisation to illustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas' "Hallelujah the hills" (1962), it's an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious a ...

El Dorado (1963)

Sherman, who is on trial for murder, is found not guilty thanks to reasonable doubt, however; having stood trial leaves the young felon a changed man. He falls head over heels with his defence attorney's bright daughter and is even willing to turn his back ...

The Fifth Column (1960)

A TV film made as part of The Buick-Electra Playhouse. ...

Hansel and Gretel (1958)

Musical adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story broadcast as a live television special on NBC. ...

Tel Aviv Taxi (1956)

A Tel Aviv taxi breaks down, and while the driver attempts to repair it, the passengers take shelter and relate tales to each other. One man relates how he became a hero, in a comic fashion, while on Army maneuvers; an elderly woman tells of her first visi ...

Without Home (1956)

The story is set in 1926, Yemen. Naama, a popular nightclub singer, learns of her Jewish roots whilst around her, a series of violent Antisemitic attacks, orchestrated by the local Arab population, continues. Following an encounter with a shepherd and a Je ...

Wrong Number (1979)

Ze'evik and Srool are hiding in Tiberias from the angry customer to whom they owe money. ...

Half a Million Black (1977)

Two comedians borrow 500,000 Israeli pounds from an entrepreneur who launders the mafia money via his night club in order to produce a musical "Awaiting Godo". ...

500000 Black (1977)

500000 Black 1977 ...

Daughters, Daughters (1974)

In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son. ...

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. ...