Ya'ackov Banai

Acting

Ya'ackov Banai

Acting credits

The Omen poster
7.4

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

The Omen

1976

Not Without My Daughter poster
6.7

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

Not Without My Daughter

1991

An Electric Blanket Named Moshe poster
6.5

The 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. The result is a black comedy that combines the elements of the film "Bourekas" with poetic enlightening moments, all in the special, confident and blatant style of Assi Dayan.

An Electric Blanket Named Moshe

1994

Operation Black September poster
10.0

Terrorist Palestine organization hijacks a jet.

Operation Black September

1976

Death of a Jew poster
8.0

A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live.

Death of a Jew

1969

The Policeman poster
6.9

Azulai is a policeman in Jaffa, whose incompetence is only matched by his soft-heartedness. His superiors want to send him to early retirement, but he would like to stay on the force, and the criminals of Jaffa don't want to see him leave either...

The Policeman

1971

Lahat B'Mayim poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lahat B'Mayim

Sallah poster
6.8

Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of a big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.

Sallah

1964

Eight in the Footstep of One poster
7.3

A charming film about a group of children on a kibbutz in Israel who foil a plot by spies to blow up a Mirage jet during a military parade.

Eight in the Footstep of One

1964

Madron poster
4.9

A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.

Madron

1970

Marriage Games poster
8.0

A popular wise man/folk healer is anxious to marry off his daughter, but she refuses all his suggested suitors.

Marriage Games

1973

Only Today poster
9.0

The vegetables seller from the market falls in love with the university student.

Only Today

1976

Mr. Leon poster
7.8

In a rendition of a father-daughter conflict based on misunderstandings, this melodrama focuses on Annette (Nurit Cohen) who has left home for the city where she is unexpectedly offered a leading role in a movie. She is excited as she returns home to tell her news to her father (Zeev Revach) -- a truly conservative shopkeeper -- but she is equally anxiety-ridden about his likely reaction.

Mr. Leon

1982

Sunstroke poster
8.5

A movie about a last summer in the life of four friends just before they go to the army during early 1980's Tel-Aviv summer before the war in Lebanon.

Sunstroke

1984