Afula Express (1997)
Género : Comedia, Drama, Romance
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 35M
Director : Julie Shles
Sinopsis
David is a garage electrician, who dreamt all of his life of becoming a magician, but had no luck in it. His girlfriend Batya wants an ordinary life, but David is still looking for his dream, so he links up with Romanian immigrant Shimon, who is an expert magician.
Individual memories of a group of teenage Holocaust survivors in Israel creates sharp conflicts among them.
Avi Nesher's new film tracks the complex relationship between a Jerusalem Graffiti artist and a mysterious modern day prophet who is imprisoned in an abandoned apartment across the Artist's window.
Aviya tiene sólo un deseo: Vivir con su madre, deseo que se verá cumplido cuando ésta se presenta en el internado, donde Aviya ha vivido los últimos cinco años, y se la lleva a vivir con ella. La madre de Aviya tiene tatuado un número en el antebrazo y es considerada como una extranjera en su propio país, donde todo está organizado para "olvidar" el pasado. Pese a un entorno poco favorable, Aviya aprenderá a admirarla y a quererla. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cuando un par de hermanas israelíes distanciadas -una que se quedó en la casa de la infancia para cuidar a su padre enfermo, la otra que partió para una nueva vida en Tel Aviv- se reúnen, deben reconciliarse con las circunstancias que las separaron.
Ya'ara, a blind PhD candidate in Mathematics at Princeton University, hears of her cousin Talia's suicide. Ya'ara rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them, and was always the one who believed and led Ya'ara to believe, that in spite of her blindness, Ya'ara could see everything. Ya'ara joins Talia's family for the traditional 7-day mourning period and there, she discovers the secrets of Talia's life and embarks on an investigation trying to discover the reason that led Talia to commit suicide.
Two people meet again after more than 50 years. They were lovers once, but their lives took different turns: she married his best friend. Fifty years later, they meet again and passion flares up. But is it possible to pick up the thread of a life that unraveled fifty years ago? The story of a wonderful last love affair, which is relived with the intensity of a first.
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
Milena, una mujer de 50 años, lleva una vida tranquila y próspera junto a su marido Vlada, un antiguo miembro de las fuerzas especiales de policía durante las guerras de Yugoslavia –actualmente un exitoso promotor inmobiliario- y los dos hijos de ambos. Tras un chequeo rutinario en el que los médicos intuyen síntomas de cáncer, Milena sufre un pequeño ataque de histeria y comienza a limpiar su casa en profundidad. En el transcurso de esta tarea, encuentra una cinta de vídeo con imágenes de las actividades llevadas a cabo por Vlada durante la guerra, que incluyen el asesinato de civiles. A partir de este momento, seguimos la evolución de Milena y sus esfuerzos por enfrentarse a la realidad, mientras intenta preservar lo único que le queda en la vida: su familia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un edificio de apartamentos en las afueras de Tel Aviv. El anciano Schwartz disfruta de una existencia tranquila en compañía de Linda, la joven filipina que cuida de él. Sus vecinos –Aviram, que no sale de casa sin su perro, y la divorciada Mali, que tiene una relación sentimental con Ilan, un hombre más joven que ella– apenas le habían molestado hasta ahora. Pero, desde hace poco, el caos se ha apoderado del edificio y a diario se escuchan gritos y gemidos. ¿Será porque Hezi ha alquilado discretamente un apartamento para poder hacer el amor con Gabi? ¿O que los nuevos vecinos han decidido ampliar su vivienda hacia el patio sin solicitar los permisos necesarios? Tampoco a Mali le faltan los problemas. Su ex marido ha contratado a los obreros chinos de sus vecinos, que no tienen papeles, y por si fuera poco, su hijo Eyal acaba de desertar del servicio militar.
Tto rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom - cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.
Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.
Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.
Una niña tiene que decidir con quién casarse: un pobre campesino o un rico propietario de un club nocturno.
En 1975, Nicolas Philibert, un joven ayudante de dirección, participó en la película de René Allio "Yo, Pierre Riviére, habiendo matado a mi madre, mi hermana y mi hermano...", inspirada en un crimen que tuvo lugar en Normandía hace 140 años. Esta película debía su singularidad al hecho de que los miembros del equipo artístico eran los propios granjeros de la región. Treinta años después de rodar aquella película, Nicolas Philibert decide reencontrarse con los actores. Algunos ya no viven y otros han emigrado, pero en un absoluto proceso de investigación, Philibert intenta recuperarlos para que nos hablen sobre su vida y nos cuenten cómo les ha afectado su participación en aquella película.
Con la actuación estelar del actor y teniente Clark Gable, el film nos ofrece una visión privilegiada del día a día en la vida de los pilotos de bombarderos B-17 estadounidenses en sus bases de Inglaterra, su preparación y entrenamiento; así como los peligros a los que deben hacer frente en las continuas misiones de bombardeo sobre la Europa ocupada.
On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.
Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.