Movies: Michal Bat-Adam

Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. Th...

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

Explores the relationship between an eleven-year-old daughter and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment of insensitivity and cruelty....

Bibi, an innocent boy from the countryside, moves in with his grandmother in Tel Aviv. Spoiled by the sensual pleasures of the big city, he soon succeeds as a professional “orgasmologist” and has to stand trial for immorality....

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The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but fate intervenes as Rachel's sister sleeps with Jacob and bears him a child....

Romantic drama about a young woman discovering herself through the art of acting....

Autumn 1996. Avner, a highly-regarded Professor of Arts and his young wife, Ilana, come to visit the family farm run by Rachel and Shouki, (his children from a first marriage) and Menahem (the brother of his deceased first wife). Avner is in pain and...

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....

Aya is a woman who, since early childhood, has been driven by her father's ambition to see her become successful. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams and fantasy alternate with reality....

Israel 1948. A house by the sea in Jaffa, from which Palestinian families have had to flee in haste, becomes the home of Jewish survivors who managed to escape the inferno in Europe. Out of the turmoil of their existence, under the shadow of the unre...

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....

The Bukharan neighborhood of Jerusalem in the 1920s Naftali is a wealthy trader and a middle-aged widow whose all his former wives have mysteriously passed away and he is afraid to remarry with a belief that he has a curse on him. The matchmaker pres...

This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother dies. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction...

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witnes...

This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfull...

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. H...

Hila is a single mother of a 7-year-old girl named Naomi. Hila discovers that Shaul, her daughter's father, has returned to Israel with his family after years abroad. Shaul does not know that he is Naomi's father and is not even aware of her existenc...

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Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair with her daughter's classmate, Matti, an idealistic 19-year-old ...