30 Best Israeli comedy movies
The funniest, best Israeli comedies that I have seen. if you have suggestions for movies that i haven't included, i'll be glad to hear them
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- DirectorUri ZoharStarsArik EinsteinUri ZoharSima EliyahuGote and Eli are two aging friends who don't want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who's fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in Altman's restaurant.
- DirectorEphraim KishonStarsTopolGeula NuniGila AlmagorThe sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
- DirectorEran KolirinStarsSasson GabayRonit ElkabetzSaleh BakriA band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
- DirectorTalya LavieStarsDana IvgyNelly TagarShani KleinA unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base bide their time as they count down the minutes until they can return to civilian life.
- DirectorAssi DayanStarsGil AlonIdan AltermanBoaz AvniMickey Baum is told by his doctor he has cancer and will die in 92 minutes. During his final hour he makes arrangements while recalling his short life and trying to understand the reality in which he has lived.
- DirectorEphraim KishonStarsTopolGila AlmagorAvner HizkiyahuA good-natured but incorrigible layabout becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging in his boundless zeal for mischief and romance.
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsEitan SnehHana RotAvraham MorThis romantic comedy takes place in Israel during the Austerity period of the 1950s as 13-year-old Alex is about to attend his Bar Mitzvah. Alex has a typical Polish mother and father who suffer quietly in their apartment which because of the difficult economic situation they are compelled to share with a Persian tenant named Faruk who tries to fight his baldness with different creams. Alex falls in love with the new girl in his class, Mimi. Everything changes when his aunt Lola arrives in Israel from Poland to search for lost love. They were together when she lived in Poland but he vanished when Nazis conquered the country. Alex falls for his aunt and she gives him more than just maternal love. The film describes exactly the ambiance that dominated the country in 1950s Austerity Israel--the black markets, the radio broadcasts concentrating on the search for lost relatives, the music of the 1950s, the clothes and dresses and pastimes.
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYehuda BarkanYosef ShiloachZe'ev RevachThe story is about two twin brothers, Azriel and Gavriel (both played by Yehuda Barkan). Azriel is a shy and religious Jew who works in a fruit shop in Jaffa. Gavriel, is a hoodlum and a good-for-nothing hustler who runs a Snooker Bar. Gavriel and his friend Hanuka make easy money by swindling innocent people into gambling on Snooker games. One day Gavriel is forced to renew contact with his brother, because he is in trouble with a gangster who won the bet on a snooker game, and the only way to pay is by selling the family estate which is co-owned by Gavriel and his brother Azriel.
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYftach KatzurAnat AtzmonJonathan SagallThree friends live their lives in 1950s Israel, each looking for someone to love.
- DirectorAssi DayanStarsYisrael PoliakovGavri BanaiShaike LeviSwindler Sergio Konstanza owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky Army reserve unit whose Sergeant has his eye on one of Mr. Hasson's daughters, although Mr. Hasson won't let her get married until her older sister is safely married and situated.
- DirectorShemi ZarhinStarsOshri CohenArieh EliasEsti ZakheimThe new math teacher and new school principal discover the 16-year-old underachiever failing classes is really a genius, and the kid's own family's too busy relying on him to mend family fences to notice his brilliance either.
- DirectorAyelet MenahemiStarsMili AvitalBaoQi ChenAlon AboutboulAt thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings -- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing -- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
- DirectorSharon MaymonErez TadmorStarsItzik CohenIrit KaplanDvir BenedekA comedy about a 'coming out' of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.
- DirectorAssi DayanStarsRivka NeumanShmil Ben AriUri KlauznerThe second chapter in Assi Dayan's trilogy centers on three marginal characters from "Life According to Agfa". Malka, a whore with a Romanian accent who dreams of becoming a singer, Levi, her pimp and Moshe, a homeless man who dreams that Malka will love him and follows Malka and Levi. Levi navigates the trio in a grotesque and turbulent world in which people have lost the purpose of their existence.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsNeta GartyLiraz CharhiAure AtikaAs a family from India moves in to a desert neighborhood in Southern Israel in the 1960's, the family's eldest, beautiful daughter discovers friendship and romance with the lovely local French girl. The film also explores the hardships and surprises that come with the integration of multiple families from different ethnic backgrounds (from the diaspora) and their struggle with immigration and prejudice.
- DirectorReshef LeviStarsOshri CohenMichael MoshonovShmil Ben AriA family in the 80s with five kids get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYehuda BarkanZe'ev RevachArieh EliasCharlie passes himself off as a rich businessman but gets by through fleecing suckers with 3-Card Monte. Miko is a street kid who spends his time with Charlie instead of going to school; his sister unsuccessfully tries to raise him on her own. The plot follows Charlie's attempts to conquer the heart of Gila, a rich girl whose parents are trying to get her married to an American millionaire, something she doesn't want.
- DirectorEphraim KishonStarsBomba TzurNissim AzikriShraga FriedmanA slapstick comedy lampooning bureaucracy and the madness of everyday life in Israel centers on an escaped lunatic who digs up the streets of Tel-Aviv with a drill.
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYftach KatzurYvonne MikloshZachi NoyTeenage romance, parties and sex in 1950s Tel Aviv. Music is at the core of the lives of these teenagers. This is a comedy about three friends.
- DirectorJoel SilbergStarsGila AlmagorGilat AnkoriMarlene BajaliA mother comes to her son's base to keep him fed.
- DirectorJacob GoldwasserStarsYehuda BarkanAlona KimhiBen TzionRespectable single father and tour boat captain Chico fights tooth and nail to maintain custody of his dear son Ben while developing a romantic relationship with beautiful lawyer Galia.
- DirectorZe'ev RevachStarsZe'ev RevachJacques CohenShaike OphirA thief is released from prison and with the help of his friend he tries to avenge the policeman who caught him.
- DirectorMaya KenigStarsGur BentwichElya InbarTzahi GradA father and his daughter, during the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon.
- DirectorShay KanotStarsMili AvitalAssi CohenYael AppleboumTali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends' wedding, which ended in disaster, they have a big fight, which leads to Ori proposing. But there is trouble in paradise when Ori's conservative father meets Tali, and all hell breaks loose... After Tali destroys Ori's highly religious sister's life's work and 'offends' him horribly, Mr. Cohen feels his honor has been abused and refuses contact with his son, unless Tali apologizes publicly. Zidane is a young bachelor with nothing to do and a strong affection for weed. After an encounter with a prostitute he's reunited with since knowing each other in junior high, Zidane has a near-death experience and tries to change his life. After a failed attempt to reignite an old affair in Colombia, and a relationship with a beautiful doctor, Zidane realizes who he really loves and what he'll do for her. Omer and Yael are a newly married couple who are way past the honeymoon phase. Omer, a bitter man only recently released from the army, becomes addicted to marijuana, while Yael waits for him to agree to have a baby. While he's planning to become a bachelor again, Yael meets an Arabic drug dealer and falls in love with him.
- DirectorIlan HeitnerStarsBenny AvniMarina GordonNir Levy
- DirectorAdam SandersonMuli SegevDror ShohetStarsOrna BanaiAssi CohenMaor CohenWhen ancient Sodom is doomed to destruction due to its people's corrupt ways, Lot is the only righteous man destined to be spared.
- DirectorGur BentwichStarsGur BentwichHerman BroodMaor CohenThree friends concoct the ultimate love drug, TLV, and fall in love with the same woman, Renana. Years later, Renana's ex-lovers team up to rescue her from an Indian prison.
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYehuda BarkanGabi AmraniYehuda EfroniLupo is leaving Israel, moving to New York and misses his family.
- DirectorOded DavidoffStarsAlon AboutboulYael HadarGal ZaidA police captain needs to balance between protecting the last remaining witness in a trial, and his rapidly disintegrating love life.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsGidi GovLiron NirgadSassi KeshetComedic musical about an army singing group.