Movies & TV Shows/Series by Riva Filmproduktion at a glance

27 movies found (page 1/1):

Lemon Tree(2008)

1h 46min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?

Directed by Eran Riklis - With Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman, Doron Tavori, Tarik Kopty, Amos Lavi, ...

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Eyes Wide Open(2009)

1h 30min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in Jerusalem's Orthodox community is respected by friends and family. However, when he hires handsome runaway student Ezri to assist with his business, sexual tensions bristle and the pair cautiously embark on a love affair. Meanwhile, a neighbouring shopkeeper persists in seeing a man of her own choosing, even though she's been promised by her father to another. As forbidden truths come to the fore, these lovers are forced to either confront or relent in the face of a centuries-old religious community, with startling results.

Directed by Haim Tabakman - With Ran Danker, Zohar Strauss, Tinkerbell, Isaac Sharry, Haim Zanati, Tzahi Grad, ...

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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem(2014)

1h 55min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 52 votes)

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.

Directed by Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz - With Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai, Simon Abkarian, Menashe Noy, Rami Danon, Roberto Pollack, ...

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The Surprise(2015)

1h 42min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the contract.

Directed by Mike van Diem - With Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Georgina Verbaan, Jan Decleir, Henry Goodman, Pierre Bokma, Tamar Baruch, ...

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I, Anna(2012)

1h 33min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery

2.8/5 (with 15 votes)

A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.

Directed by Barnaby Southcombe - With Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Marsan, Jodhi May, Ralph Brown, ...

The Wound(2017)

1h 28min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.

Directed by John Trengove - With Nakhane Touré

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Dancing Arabs(2014)

1h 44min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.

Directed by Eran Riklis - With Yaël Abecassis, Michael Moshonov, Ali Suliman, Norman Issa, Kais Nashef, Rona Lipaz-Michael, ...

Sibel(2019)

1h 35min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 36 votes)

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.

Directed by Guillaume Giovanetti, Çağla Zencirci - With Damla Sönmez

Shelter(2017)

1h 33min | Thriller

2.8/5 (with 13 votes)

Naomi, 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.

Directed by Eran Riklis - With Golshifteh Farahani, Lior Ashkenazi, Doraid Liddawi, Haluk Bilginer, Mark Waschke

Gaza Mon Amour(2021)

1h 27min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.

Directed by Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser - With Salim Daw, Hiam Abbass

Bonnie and Bonnie(2019)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 25 votes)

Shattering the patriarchal concept that a true crime duo requires a man, Bonnie and Bonnie showcases the development of true friendship between two strong and independent women, determined to make their mark on the world.

Directed by Ali Hakim - With Emma Drogunova, Sarah Mahita, Kasem Hoxha

Life Is Not for Cowards(2013)

1h 38min | Comedy, Drama

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

After the sudden death of his wife, the lives of Markus Färber and his daughter Kim fall into disarray. Markus’ attempt to bring back normality into their everyday lives fails - he can’t let go of the past. 15 year-old Kim feels left alone with her feelings of guilt. But then she falls in love with the cool school dropout Alex. The two of them run off to Denmark to the place of Kim’s carefree childhood. Together with his mother Gerlinde and her cheerful home care Paula, Markus sets off in search of his daughter. A trip full of surprises and a journey back to life.

Directed by André Erkau - With Wotan Wilke Möhring, Christine Schorn, Frederick Lau, Rosalie Thomass, Nina Petri

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Wellness für Paare(2016)

1h 30min | TV Movie, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into : relational therapy. It's truth time, for some liberating, forcing others to face their secrets of dysfunctional relationship.

Directed by Jan Georg Schütte - With Anke Engelke, Devid Striesow, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Magdalena Boczarska, Michael Wittenborn, Katharina Marie Schubert, ...

Norwegian Dream(2023)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.

Snow and the Bear(2022)

1h 33min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young nurse starts a new assignment in a small isolated village in the farthest reaches of Turkey, a place that seems asleep in an endless winter. A thick layer of snow covers the souls as well as the lands. But under the snow, unspeakable secrets hibernate.

Directed by Selcen Ergun - With Merve Dizdar, Erkan Bektaş, Asiye Dinçsoy

Once Upon a Time in Indian Country(2017)

1h 37min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.

Directed by İlker Çatak

Upperdog(2009)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.

Directed by Sara Johnsen

That Lovely Girl(2014)

1h 34min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter...

Directed by Keren Yedaya - With Yaël Abecassis, Tzahi Grad, Maayan Turjeman

An Enemy to Die For(2012)

1h 46min | History, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.

Directed by Peter Dalle - With Sven Nordin

Ganz nah bei Dir(2009)

1h 28min | Drama, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The lonely bank-employee Phillip follows a strict pattern of somewhat compulsive actions keeping his encounters with strangers to a minimum. When his home one day is robbed of all content and he later meets the enchanting blind cellist Lina, he finds, however, he needs to start improvising and taking chances.

Directed by Almut Getto - With Bastian Trost, Katharina Schüttler, Andreas Patton

1918 Aufstand der Matrosen(2018)

1h 29min | History, Drama, Documentary

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Jens Becker

Yona(2014)

1h 40min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on the turbulent life story of the poet Yona Wallach. The film focuses on the period in which she was just a young village girl, a war orphan, clawing her way through the world of Hebrew poetry. With the outbreak consciousness and transition from the village to the big city, Jonah, which examines the limits of herself and wants to know everything, experienced a mental breakdown. Spirit of the times, Jonah was treated LSD. The struggle to return to write and occupy its own place heavy charge her, but earns her immortality on the Hebrew poetry shelf.

Directed by Nir Bergman

Beautiful Bitch(2007)

1h 43min | Drama, Documentary

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The story opens with Bica, a solvent abusing waif, trying in vain to evade the Romanian police with her infant brother in tow. Separated from her sibling she is taken to Germany, concealed in the trunk of a car. There she is trained as a thief, picking the pockets of strangers to fill those of her patron. One of her victims is the separated father of Milka, a brat with razor sharp tongue. From this unlikely start a friendship forms and Bica gets a glimpse into a world of material security, if not emotional closeness...

Directed by Martin Theo Krieger - With Katharina Derr, Patrick von Blume, Sina Tkotsch, Igor Dolgatschew, Tom Lass, Therese Hämer, ...

Voice of My Father(2012)

1h 28min | Drama, Kids & Family

1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A haunting sociopolitical drama blending fiction and documentary to elucidate the turbulent history of a Kurdish family. Mehmet (co-director Zeynel Dogan) lives with his pregnant wife in Diyarbakir, eastern Turkey. His father was fatally injured while working in Saudi Arabia and all he has left is an audio tape letter. Now he is to become a father himself, he visits his mother to ask about more of these cassettes but she’s evasive, reluctant to upset Mehmet’s view of his father with the whole dark story.

Directed by Orhan Eskiköy, Zeynel Doğan - With Zeynel Doğan

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The Blue Wave(2013)

1h 37min | Drama

1.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Deniz and her friends, who have been apart for the summer, have much to tell each other. While adults are busy with their professional lives, Deniz and her friends are still confused about their university plans. Through the worries of their daily routines, they make plans for the future, yet the challenges of teenage years/adolescence are burdensome. Deniz desires a life that is different than the ideals of her friends. A song nobody has heard of, a hopeless love, solitude. A different world, but where exactly?

Directed by Zeynep Dadak, Merve Kayan

Cornea(2023)

1h 25min | Thriller, Drama

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A psychological drama with thriller elements about despair of love. Forty year old Thomas stalks his ex-wife while struggling with his emotions.

Vienne avant la nuit(2017)

1h 20min | Documentary

3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

The documentary filmmaker Robert Bober revisits the world of his great-grandfather, who left Poland to live in the modern and cosmopolitan city of Vienna, home to intellectuals such as Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and Arthur Schnitzler, on the eve of the National Socialist regime's rise to power, which put an end to the city's status as Europe's cultural capital. What emerges is an emotionally powerful double portrait that reveals a search for identity with universal resonance.

Directed by Robert Bober

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