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The Robe(1953)

NR
| 2h 15min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 96 votes)

Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.

Directed by Henry Koster - With Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson, Dean Jagger, ...
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Waltz with Bashir(2008)

1h 30min | Drama, Animation, War, Documentary
3.9/5 (with 416 votes)

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Directed by Ari Folman
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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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Paradise Now(2005)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 106 votes)

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Directed by Hany Abu-Assad - With Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Hiam Abbass, Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Barhom, ...
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It Must Be Heaven(2019)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 63 votes)

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Directed by Elia Suleiman - With Gael García Bernal, Ali Suliman

The Time That Remains(2009)

PG-13
| 1h 49min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.

Directed by Elia Suleiman - With Elia Suleiman, Ali Suliman, Amer Hlehel, Doraid Liddawi, Saleh Bakri, Ziad Bakri, ...

War Photographer(2001)

1h 36min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 28 votes)

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Directed by Christian Frei - With James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour

Divine Intervention(2003)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, Ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't.

Directed by Elia Suleiman - With Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher, Salwa Nakkara, Menashe Noy, David Belle, ...

Farha(2022)

1h 32min | Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.

Directed by Darin Sallam - With Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Karam Taher
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Chronicle of a Disappearance(1996)

1h 28min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.

Directed by Elia Suleiman - With Elia Suleiman

Wajib(2017)

1h 40min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.

Directed by Annemarie Jacir - With Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Maria Zreik, Tarik Kopty, Henry Andrawes, Ruba Blal, ...

Inch'Allah(2012)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.

Directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette - With Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Sivan Levy, Yousef Sweid, Carlo Brandt, Marie-Thérèse Fortin, ...
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The Gate of the Sun(2004)

4h 38min | War, Romance / Love, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.

Directed by Yousry Nasrallah - With Hiam Abbass, Béatrice Dalle, Bassem Samra

Five Broken Cameras(2011)

NR
| 1h 30min | War, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.

Directed by Guy Davidi, Emad Burnat

Justine(1969)

1h 56min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.

Directed by George Cukor, Joseph Strick - With Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Michael York, Anna Karina, John Vernon, Robert Forster, ...

The Present(2020)

24min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

Directed by Farah Nabulsi
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200 Meters(2020)

1h 36min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

Directed by Ameen Nayfeh - With Ali Suliman, Lana Zreik, Gassan Abbas

The Lighthorsemen(1987)

PG
| 2h 11min | War, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. Recuperating in hospital, he meets a sympathetic nurse, Anne... The regiment is called upon for a bold flanking attack on Beersheba. But how do you convince the Turks the main attack will come at Gaza? And how do you attack across a desert without water?

Directed by Simon Wincer - With Peter Phelps, Sigrid Thornton, Tony Bonner, Gary Sweet, John Walton, Tim McKenzie, ...

Pomegranates and Myrrh(2009)

1h 35min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she loves until she returns to the dance, defying societys taboos. At the dance Kamar is confronted with Kais, a Palestinian returnee. Sparks fly between Kamar and Kais, creating more than a passionate, emotional dance for the both of them. Matters become even more complicated when Zaid's sentence is extended. Kamar's life is thrown into turmoil as she becomes increasingly attached to Kais, and caught in the midst of her desire to dance and breaking the family and society taboos of the prisoner's wife's role while life under occupation rages on.

Directed by Najwa Najjar - With Hiam Abbass
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Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War(1971)

1h 9min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution.

Directed by Masao Adachi, Kōji Wakamatsu

Giraffada(2014)

1h 25min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies. His mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv ...

Directed by Rani Massalha - With Saleh Bakri, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Mohammad Bakri, Roschdy Zem, Doraid Liddawi

Maradona's Legs(2019)

20min | Drama, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

During the 1990 World Cup, two young Palestinian boys are on a quest for “Maradona’s legs”; the last missing sticker that they need in order to complete their world cup album and win a free Atari.

The Ambassador(1985)

PG
| 1h 37min | Drama, War
2.4/5 (with 10 votes)

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.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson, Fabio Testi, Donald Pleasence, Sasson Gabai, ...

The Tower(2018)

1h 14min | Animation, Drama
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.

Directed by Mats Grorud

What Walaa Wants(2018)

1h 29min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank while her mother was in prison, Walaa dreams of being a policewoman, wearing a uniform, avoiding marriage, and earning a salary. Despite discouragement from her family, Walaa applies - and gets in. But her own rebellious behavior and a complicated relationship with her mother are a challenge, as are the circumstances under which she lives. Following Walaa from 15 to 21, this first-ever look inside the Palestinian police academy brings us the story of a young woman navigating formidable obstacles, learning which rules to break and follow, and disproving the negative predictions from her surroundings and the world at large.

Directed by Christy Garland

Screwdriver(2018)

1h 48min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Palestinian director Bassam Jarbawi's debut feature film tackles the physical and emotional toll of one man's return home after 15 years in an Israeli jail.

Salt of This Sea(2008)

1h 49min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. However, she soon finds that her simple plan is a complicated undertaking — one that takes her further from her comfort zone than she'd imagined.

Directed by Annemarie Jacir - With Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Danny Glover, Ishai Golan, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Edna Blilious, ...
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Wedding in Galilee(1987)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?

Directed by Michel Khleifi - With Juliano Mer-Khamis, Makram Khoury, Yussuf Abu Warda

A Woman Called Golda(1982)

4h | TV Movie, Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Directed by Alan Gibson - With Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Judy Davis, Robert Loggia, Leonard Nimoy

In Vitro(2019)

28min | Science Fiction

Decades after an eco-disaster engulfs the biblical city of Bethlehem, two scientists from different generations discuss memory, exile and nostalgia in this symbolic speculative fiction.

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