Uri Gavriel

Cabaret Total (2025)

Assi, a failing actor, returns from army reserve duty to his hometown in Southern Israel. While he dreams of becoming a successful theater actor in Tel Aviv, he teaches high-school drama acting classes by day, and acts in a small cabaret show in the local ...

Jaffa's Stories (2024)

Five stories that combine fairy tales and fantasy with wisdom, crime, and lots of original and unique humor. The common denominator in all of them is the Jaffa atmosphere as seen through the eyes of Jaffa's community: the Big Solomon, the boy Jacob, Hazuka ...

Second Tour (2023)

A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, who ...

Don't Wait for Me (2021)

Matan arrives in a crime neighborhood after his father goes bankrupt and loses their home. ...

Herod Islands (2018)

Mary Magdalene (2018)

In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus. ...

One Week and a Day (2016)

When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for. ...

Anna (2015)

On a hot summer day, Anna embarks on a little journey in the deserted desert town she lives in. She tries to find a man to give her a comforting touch, even for a brief moment . ...

Farewell Baghdad (2014)

Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist. ...

Ana Arabia (2013)

Filmed in one sequence-shot of 1 hour and 25 minutes, Ana Arabia is a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts, Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave at the "border" between Jaffa and Bat Yam, in Israel. One day, Yael, a young ...

Byzantium (2013)

Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium. ...

The Ballad of the Weeping Spring (2012)

A beautiful drama about love, friendship and the power of art to transform. Seeking redemption for a mysterious past and a dark secret, musician Yosef Tawila is on a quest to gather the members of his troupe, which disbanded for twenty years. ...

The Attack (2012)

An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing. ...

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the myster ...

Little Simico's Great Fantasy (2011)

Simico smallest is a fantasist about 30, nice neighborhood, a working Jackie's hummus. Simico engaged to a girl named Mazi who dreams about a big wedding with all the attractions, but his greatest fantasy is to create a blockbuster movie about strippers, a ...

Miral (2010)

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict. ...

Arabian Nights: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (2009)

To stay alive, Scheherazade must tell the King a new chapter of a story every night. She tells a story about a poor man named Ali Baba, who discovers a treasure hidden in a secret cave. Through Scheherazade's storytelling, both she and the King come to und ...

The Band's Visit (2007)

A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town. ...

The Kingdom (2007)

A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East. ...

What a Wonderful Place (2005)

When a five girls are brought to Israel from Russia for prostitution, one of them (Jana) loses her bag near the Israeli border. Zeltzer, a farm owner from Negev, finds it and sees Jana's photos... ...

Black Jack (2004)

Black Jack is the coming-of-age story of Jacky, a young, frivolous adventurer, searching for an identity and thirsty for love. As he is swept into the world of crime, he falls in love with a beautiful casino dealer and learns from her that in order to surv ...

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 ...

The Syrian Bride (2004)

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each ot ...

Desperado Square (2001)

In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has had a dream in which his father orders him to re-open the old neighborhood movie theater, thus breaking the ...

Escape: Human Cargo (1998)

An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due to the US policy of noninterference in SA, the embassy won't help him. He must escape. ...

Shuly's Fiance (1997)

A family is waiting for Shuli's fiancé to come and propose to her. But instead of him they're getting a very different guest. ...

Short Stories About Love (1997)

These 9 short television dramas brought young Hebrew writers together with a new generation of film-makers. The prevailing topic is love between young urbanites: a stranger wins the heart of a young girl about to be married in'Habachur Shel Shuli' / 'Shuli ...

Forever Young (1996)

Based on the true story of a deadly desert crash that ended four young people's lives. A videotape was found in the crashed vehicle. It included astonishing footage of the last moments of the 4 young men. This terrible accident inflamed Israel so much that ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)

After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is follow ...

Prison Heat (1993)

Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials and that's where the fun begins. ...

Blink of an Eye (1992)

An agent with psychic powers comes to the rescue of the kidnapped daughter of the CIA director. ...

The Human Shield (1992)

The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors. ...

The Finest Hour (1992)

Macho Lawrence 'Larry' Hammer and frailer Dean Mazzoli initially rival as U.S. Navy SEAL trainees, but become buddies in instructor chief petty officer Bosco's merciless training class. The friends date two girls, but both love Barbara, who chooses to marr ...

Tel Aviv Stories (1992)

Three 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. ...

The Quarry (1990)

Israel, Fifties... Two men are fighting for the love of one woman in the quarry. ...

Riding the Edge (1989)

Teenage cyclist rescues his dad from terrorists in the Middle East. "Iron Eagle" on a motorcycle. ...

Iron Eagle II (1988)

Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the ...

Steal the Sky (1988)

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

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 ...

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. ...

On a Narrow Bridge (1985)

The story of an impossible love in the Occupied Territories between an Israeli officer and a Palestinian teacher, both torn apart by conflicting loyalties. ...

Forced Testimony (1984)

The young, recently divorced mother Ronit lives only for her young son and a future with a new man. But then she witnesses the rape of her neighbor Betty and is supposed to identify the perpetrator. His brother, however, does everything in his power to pre ...

Hanna K. (1983)

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman's beliefs are challenged when she's appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. However, she bears witness to some of ...

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. ...

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 ...

Herod Islands (2018)