
Lior Ashkenazi
Actor · b. 1968 · Ramat Gan, Israel
Lior Ashkenazi (born in Ramat Gan, 1969), is an award-winning Israeli screen and stage actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lior Ashkenazi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies23
Movie5.8ThrillerDramaIn 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
7 Days in Entebbe
2018 · 461 votes
Movie6.3DramaHistorySet during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction. She must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world.
Golda
2023 · 220 votes
Movie5.5ComedyThrillerA financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016 · 203 votes
Movie6.6ComedyCrimeThe twisted paths of three very different men brutally collide due to a chain of unspeakable murders: a grieving father who has been doomed to seek vengeance and a police detective who boldly crosses the narrow boundary between law and crime meet a religion teacher suspected of being the murderer.
MovieDramaA young Israeli women moves to Paris to study fashion. after a chance encounter turns into rape, she faces an unwanted child and seeks revenge against the man who killed her dreams.
Blue Marks
2026
Movie6.9DramaEyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country, during which Axel challenges Eyal's values.
Movie6.2DramaRomanceThe movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. The movie looks at young people's lives in Tel Aviv through the POVs of gays and straights, Jews and Arabs, men and women.
Movie6.7DramaA troubled family must face facts when tragedy strikes their son's desolate military post.
Movie6.3ComedyDramaZaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.
Movie7.0ComedyJerusalem, Israel. Professors Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, father and son, have dedicated their lives to the study of the Jewish scriptures. Eliezer is a stubborn and methodical scholar who has never been recognized for his work; Uriel is a rising star, someone admired and praised by his colleagues. The fragile balance that has kept their personal relationship almost intact is broken in an unexpected way by a simple phone call.
Movie5.3ThrillerNaomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.
Shelter
2017 · 32 votes
MovieDramaFamilyA poetic Jerusalem told through the eyes of Aaron, a simple Wailing Wall guard that follows a mysterious beautiful woman's notes in the holy stones of Jerusalem.
Movie5.7DramaComedyFrench film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?
Hello Goodbye
2008 · 21 votes
Movie6.9DramaRomanceThe sequel to "Yossi and Jagger" finds character Yossi (Ohad Knoller) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his otherwise staid routine and sends him on a spontaneous pilgrimage to Tel Aviv. It is on the roads of southern Israel that he reignites the fire of his former self.
Movie7.0DramaA successful lawyer, who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker, is trying to save a poor family named Siton. The couple's life collapses when the wife get raped by a gang.
Movie5.8HorrorA brother and sister who run away from home find sanctuary in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into the trap of a psychopathic killer, the brother sets out on a race against time to find help. In a twist of fate the rescue of the sister becomes inadvertently intertwined with the lives of a group of young tennis players, a ranger and his dog, as well as a team of policemen.
Movie5.5DramaThrough the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page that they both need to turn for good.
Movie3.3DramaRomanceA young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel.
Ultimatum
2009 · 3 votes
Movie6.0FantasyHorrorA hardened vampire hunter and a journalist travel to a village in Transylvania to investigate a mysterious event that happened in Zalesky Castle. The duo are guided by a young Romanian girl and joined by a Korean television reality show team as they attempt to untangle the community’s secrets.
The Wanderers: The Quest of The Demon Hunter
2018 · 6 votes
Movie5.0DramaThrillerUri, a 50 year old family man, has a romantic secret relationship with Oded, a young man from their small town in the south of Israel. During a trip in the desert, the two are forced to deal with the tragic consequences of their type of relationship.
Movie8.3ComedyA rude loud-mouthed Israeli tricks "Comedy Central" into giving him a movie budget which in return ruins the lives of everyone around him and descends into chaos. An indie Israeli satire.
Movie4.7ComedyMusicA group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
MovieDramaHistoryThe life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state power, set against the Great Purge of the 1930s and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Series18
TV6.5ComedyDrama
TV7.4NewsComedyAn Israeli satire show featuring satirical references to current affairs of the past week through parodies of the people involved, as well as the thoughts of recurring characters. One of the most watched and influential shows on Israeli TV.
TV7.5DramaThe true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.
We Were the Lucky Ones
2024 · 88 votes
TV7.2ComedyA comic series telling the tale of a failing supermarket in a backwards town and following the daily events that take place within the supermarket. The series goes into the details of everything we don’t know about the behind the scenes occurrences in the supermarket – the relationships between the employees forced to work in a place they feel no loyalty for, the customers with their baseless and petty demands, the management’s abusive attitude towards the employees, and the private lives of the workers at the bottom of the employment hierarchy.
TV6.9Action & AdventureDramaA happily married man's life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife's killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of an ex-lover, he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him.
Hit & Run
2021 · 129 votes
TV10.0CrimeKids
TV9.0DramaBeTipul is an Israeli television drama revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then seeks psychological treatment for himself. Filmmaker Ari Folman served as the head writer of the series.
TV9.0
TV7.5War & PoliticsDramaOn October 6th 1973, the Middle East was shaken by the biggest war it had ever seen. A war that should have been the last one, and that forever changed the region.
TV7.3DramaThree Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants in the summer of 2014, leading to the retaliatory killing of 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir and a conflict that forever changes the lives of Jews and Arabs alike.
Our Boys
2019 · 36 votes
TVComedyShira (Adi Ezroni, "Prisoners of War") is a successful art director in an advertising agency. She is blonde, beautiful, intelligent and complicated like the rest of us. She just wants someone normal to share her life with. Yuval (Lior Ashkenazi, "Valley of Tears") is a florist with a fascinating past and a lot of money. He also wants to find that special one, so they go on a date together - a date that starts very badly but evolves in a completely different direction. Suzie (Yael Sharoni, "Srugim") is a beautician at a laser institute and married to Mickey (Lior Raz, "Fauda") - a businessman who mostly gives the impression of a busy person, but all that keeps him busy are his side stories.
TV7.0DramaComedyTwo neighbors in their late 40s – a single woman and a newly separated man – find themselves living door- to- door in the same apartment building, and embark on enter a hesitant, obstacle-filled romantic relationship.
TVComedyIsraeli remake of the popular American sitcom "Married... with Children (1987-1997)".
TV7.3DramaA police forensics officer, traumatized by the horrors he has seen and processed, leaves his job, wife and son and lives on the streets as a homeless wanderer. Try as he does he is unable to completely forget the past and finds himself in a struggle to unlock its secrets and see that justice is done.
TV6.8CrimeMysteryAfter a flight from Tel Aviv to Bangkok vanishes in mid-air, with no signs of an explosion, crash or hijacking, the entire world is left mesmerised. Yonatan Georgy is a recently blind intelligence officer returning to work, tasked with investigating the plane's disappearance - with his wife and children on board. At the same time, families of the passengers start realising they didn't know their loved ones as well as they thought.
TV9.0DramaWorld renowned musician and orchestra conductor, Noah Gamliel, abandons fame and fortune to return home, tend to his ailing father and take over the local choir. Unbeknownst to his family and closest friends he is actually facing the toughest challenge in his personal and professional life.
TV
TVאבידות ומציאות
2007