
Hana Laslo
Actor · b. 1953 · Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel
Laslo rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of comedy routines in which she portrayed such characters as 'Safta Zapta' and 'Clara the cleaning woman.' In 2005 she won the Best Actress Award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Free Zone. Her parents were both Holocaust survivors. In 1972–1973, she served in the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command musical troupe. She was married to Israeli media proprietor Aviv Giladi, with whom she has two sons - Ben and Itamar. Her eldest, Ben Giladi, is a film producer that works for Len Blavatnik's AI-Film and operates between London, LA and Tel-Aviv. Her daughter-in-law is Israeli Actress Romi Aboulafia. Hanna was also married and divorced businessman Benny Bloch.
Movies19
Movie6.1DramaWarAfter again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.
Adam Resurrected
2008 · 110 votes
Movie5.6DramaRebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money.
Free Zone
2005 · 59 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA minor politician, suffering with a temporary sexual disorder that is soon to be written about in the local press, is sent anonymously to Eilat for rest and pleasantries. His wife, believing he was on a trip abroad also goes to Eilat on the advice of her friend.
Movie4.2DramaOn a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.
A Tramway in Jerusalem
2018 · 6 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaYou left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
Movie4.9HistoryRomanceThe film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that multifaceted microcosm, a gathering peaceful hideout, can find shelter from male bullying and arrogance.
Movie6.8DramaRuth, a housewife in a suburb of Jerusalem, divided into two parts, appears as pliable as Play-Doh. While she should be taking care of her ten-year-old daughter and the household, her routine is falling apart and she is falling further into depression. Israel is just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967. The historical events echo in the lives of the characters only from a great distance. The female characters within the family wage a more important battle for their own identity. The director intentionally chose the parallel stories of three female protagonists: ten-year-old Michal who is just starting to acknowledge her sexuality, a single university student and Ruth, a trapped housewife.
Movie8.0ComedySergio Konstanza, a swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Sergeant is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
Movie5.3ComedyDramaLife in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Hezi—who's older, balding and married—rent a room to have an affair, while Ezra, a pot bellied divorcee, supervises an illegal construction site next door. All this racket drives Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, to a mental breakdown. Other characters include illegal Chinese immigrants, a teenage boy who's afraid to serve in the army, and a corrupt police detective.
Movie7.5AnimationFamilyBased on the series who based on the virtual friendly world ‘Mikmak’
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
Movie6.0DramaA diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and generations come together in highly theatrical encounters, they grapple with the current state of affairs. In a poignant metaphor inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s famous play “Rhinoceros”, some begin to turn into rhinoceroses, while others resist.
Shikun
2024 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaWarKilling as many commies as he can is the goal of a hatred consumed private in the Israeli Army. The memory of his torture in a Russian mental hospital has driven him to revenge. Persuading his friends and lovers to join him in his quest, he sets out on a mission of blood and vengeance. Sigourney Weaver stars as the brave woman who must love and trust a madman.
Madman
1978 · 2 votes
Movie4.9ComedyRomanceNervous about his upcoming wedding, a man faces temptation from another woman.
Movie5.1DramaWhat is going on behind the closed doors of the women-only secret club? The first rule is that love is prohibited. When Sophie falls in love with a mysterious man, she must choose between her last chance for true love to her loyalty to the club.
Movie6.4DramaThrillerThe 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 their bitterness and arguments override the sense of communal reverence. The atmosphere becomes unbearable and long-buried truths finally surface.
Movie8.5ComedyDramaSolomon Belfer, child who arrives to kibbutz after his father fled the country. He dreames of the moment when his father sent him a plane ticket, and he will leave the kibbutz. Meanwhile, he lies in his room and refuses to join the life of the community ...
Movie7.5ComedyA comedy about a millionaire who pretends to be not a millionaire...
Movie6.2ComedyComedy about day to day life of a Gordon beach lifeguard and his friends.
Series11
TV6.5ComedyDrama
TV7.9DramaAkiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.
TVRealityThe Israeli version of the popular British TV show Strictly Come Dancing. The show features local celebrities partnered with professional ballroom dancers, competing to be the most successful dancers in the contest. Each week the couple that gains the least votes from the show's judges and spectators is eliminated. Viewers vote for their favorites, in order to save them from elimination, via phone, SMS and online. Over 350,000 votes were cast on the show's 3rd season finale.
TV6.3Action & AdventureDramaCadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
TVKids
TVComedyIsrael's favorite comedians sit on a couch and share the funniest, most embarrassing and strange experiences of their lives, which all viewers at home also know from their lives. A 10-episode series that deals with topics that are closest to man. The stories focus on experiences about love, money, faith, parenting, adolescence careers and more.
TVDramaFamily
TV9.0ComedyAn Israeli sitcom focusing on a Jewish-Ethiopian-Israeli family whose son is married to a Jewish-Ashkenazi-Israeli woman. The mixed family navigates the prejudices and tensions involved in raising their five-year old daughter. What ensues is a clash of modern day cultures.
TV10.0ComedyA new comedy drama from Keshet 12, created, written and directed by comedian Adir Miller. The series follows Gidi, a regular IDF soldier who experiences a double shock: After receiving terminal medical news that led him on a journey of rebellion and disintegration, he discovers that there was a mistake in the tests. Now, healthy but surrounded by the ruins he caused with his own hands, he must choose between trying to repair the fragments and embarking on a completely new path, far from the familiar path of his life.
TV9.0DramaThe love story between Dr. Amalia Levy, a renowned breast cancer surgeon, and her patient, Micah Hadad, a promising young politician, starts when the two of them discover, on the very same day, that they have cancer. Breast cancer. So, this isn't quite love at first sight but more love at first lump. As they each grapple with the aftermath of the diagnosis and treatment, and its impact on their professional lives and family dynamics, they find solace in their shared poignant moments, and realize that the worst thing that ever happened to them is also the best thing to happen to them.
TV8.0ComedyDramaNava and Hava were two young singers in an army singing troupe. 40 years later they meet, the meeting ignites the courage to ask for what they lost.