Makram J. Khoury

Acting

Makram J. Khoury

Born 1945-05-30 · Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

Makram J. Khoury  is an Israeli Arab, born May 30, 1945 in Jerusalem. He was the youngest artist and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest civic honor in Israel. He is one of the most accomplished and well-known Israeli Arab actors.

Acting credits

Munich poster
7.1

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Munich

2005

The Physician poster
7.3

England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

The Physician

2013

Unlocked poster
6.3

After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised...

Unlocked

2017

The Body poster
5.5

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.....

The Body

2001

The Master and Margarita poster
6.8

A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.

The Master and Margarita

2024

Spider in the Web poster
5.0

A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.

Spider in the Web

2019

Cairo Conspiracy poster
6.8

A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.

Cairo Conspiracy

2022

A Tale of Love and Darkness poster
5.7

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2015

A Tale of Love and Darkness poster
5.7

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2015

Voice Over poster
7.2

Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white

Voice Over

2018

Lemon Tree poster
7.0

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?

Lemon Tree

2008

Desert Dancer poster
6.9

Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban.

Desert Dancer

2014

Abulele poster
6.5

Adam (10) meets Abulele, an ancient, huge, friendly and invisible monster. When a government Special Forces unit arrives to capture Abulele, Adam has to put his past behind, in order to save his friend, and learn when you really love someone, you're never alone.

Abulele

2015

The Cut poster
5.9

In 1915, a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night, he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.

The Cut

2014

Torn Apart poster
6.7

A Jew and an Arab in Israel become romantically involved, much to their family's dismay.

Torn Apart

1990

Miral poster
5.8

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

Miral

2010

The Smile of the Lamb poster
5.3

This Israeli-made film is set along the battle-torn West Bank. Military governor Makram Khouri tries to flush out some fugitive PLO activists by hanging the rotting, stinking carcass of a dead donkey in a village square. Israeli doctor Rami Danon forgets his animosity towards the PLO and, out of compassion, cuts the carcass down. For disobeying Khouri's orders, Danon becomes as much a fugitive as the Palestinians. While in hiding, Danon befriends Arab hermit Tuncel Kurtiz, whose adopted son is a member of the PLO.

The Smile of the Lamb

1986

Laila in Haifa poster
4.9

The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that multifaceted microcosm, a gathering peaceful hideout, can find shelter from male bullying and arrogance.

Laila in Haifa

2021

A House in Jerusalem poster
5.8

Mourning her mother’s death and struggling to adjust to her new life in Israel, a young girl bonds with the lonely spirit of a Palestinian child.

A House in Jerusalem

2023

The Way of the Wind poster
NR

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.

The Way of the Wind

The City poster
NR

Danish-Arabian Yusif arrives in the mythical Middle Eastern city of Medina with his pregnant wife Sarah, and is falsely accused of killing a street boy, brutalized in prison, and stripped of everything he held dear. After escaping, he embarks on a journey through Medina’s darkest corners in a desperate bid to return to Denmark, though he may never find his way home.

The City

2015

The Patriots poster
6.7

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.

The Patriots

1994

Crossfire poster
9.0

A film based on true events, set against the backdrop of 1947-8 in Tel Aviv in the Jewish quarter. A story of Miriam Seidmann, a Jewish girl and George Khoury, an Arab who meet by chance and fall in love.

Crossfire

1989

Double Edge poster
4.3

Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is greeted by David, an Israeli officer and writer who's also the nephew of Jerusalem's mayor

Double Edge

1992

Behind the camera