Oshri Cohen

Acting

Oshri Cohen

Born 1984-01-11 · Israel

Oshri Cohen (born January 11, 1984) is an Israeli actor. He started his way as a kid at the Beit Lessin Theater in Tel Aviv. In 2006 Cohen won the Israeli Theater's award for "Promise of the Year." Today he is a part of the Israel national theater "Habima" with a play called: All His Life in Front of Him, based on a French novel. In addition to television roles, Cohen has performed in films such as Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi and Campfire. In 2007 Cohen starred in the Israeli war film Beaufort, which tells the true story of the last unit of soldiers on the legendary Beaufort outpost. He has also starred in Lost Islands (2008) and Lebanon (2009), which won the Leone d'Oro at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oshri Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Agora poster
7.0

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

Agora

2009

The Engineer poster
6.0

As Israel is rocked by a series of terrorist bombings, a US senator's daughter is killed in one bloody explosion. Now, ex-Mossad agent Etan must lead an elite, covert team of agents and mercenaries to find the man responsible—the elusive “Engineer.” Can they find and destroy the madman before more innocent lives are lost?

The Engineer

2023

Working Woman poster
6.3

While her husband struggles to keep his restaurant in business, a mother of three lands a job as an assistant to a powerful, but sexually harrassive realtor and brings herself to fight back.

Working Woman

2019

Campfire poster
6.3

The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.

Campfire

2004

Kicking Out Shoshana poster
4.9

Ami Shoshan is the star of the "Sons of Jerusalem" football club, a team known for its violent, racist and homophobic fans. One unfortunate evening Shoshan flirts with a beautiful woman not knowing that she is the mistress of a local Mafia boss, “Blackie” Bokovza. The punishment for this offence is that Ami must summon a press conference and announce that he is gay.

Kicking Out Shoshana

2014

Lebanon poster
6.6

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

Lebanon

2009

Silent poster
6.0

The life of Avihao (Morris Cohen), a television personality with an excessively big mouth, is getting more and more complicated: his mother Sarah (Levna Finkelstein) stopped talking, fell into complete silence and his father does not understand why. Aviv (Oshari Cohen), his beloved former student, unexpectedly becomes the leading candidate in the prime ministerial elections even though no one knows what he has to say. He doesn't give interviews, doesn't talk, doesn't give speeches - he just stays silent all the way to victory, a silence that challenges Avihao to the point of risking his career and his family.

Silent

2022

King Khat poster
10.0

Imagine that you are a renowned chemist, who invents a legal psychoactive drug. Imagine that you push it as a start-up and become the most notorious drug baron of the 21st century. Imagine that all of this is true. How to make a documentary out of this unbelievable story? Let’s animate it, give it rhythm and take the audience on a journey where the high-tech world and academia meet the fauna of the Haifa underworld.

King Khat

2023

Beaufort poster
6.3

BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.

Beaufort

2007

Festigal: Superheroes poster
NR

The 2005 iteration of the Festigal. A group of superheroes battles against evil villains, and only an ordinary schoolboy can help them.

Festigal: Superheroes

2005

To Be a Star poster
7.0

Tzuri is a ruthless theater arts tutor who is very strict with his students. When one of his young female students is found beaten up, not so far from his apartment, he is suspended from his job despite having nothing to do with it. Shocked and looking to care for the safety of the student, he winds up in a hostel for runaway teens. Tzuri tries to teach the power of the arts to the distressed teens, as a way to help them communicate and process their personal struggles - while also finding some love and tenderness within himself.

To Be a Star

2003

Haven poster
8.5

During the Second Lebanon War, Motti and Keren, a young orthodox couple from the North of Israel, looks for a place to stay to escape the bombings and stress of their hometown near the border. They end up at the heart of suburbia, in Tel Aviv, at the bourgeois apartment Yali and Boaz. The spacious apartment suddenly seems crowded and small when tensions between the couples begin to mount. The situation is further complicated as Keren's obvious pregnancy adds to the pain of Boaz and Yali, who cannot have children of their own. The shifting relationships between the four serve to examine the tensions and complexities of Israeli society today.

Haven

2013

Four by Four poster
5.5

Oded wants to look cool in front of his boss, so he lies about knowing a secret beach in Sinai peninsula. Moti, the crazy CEO, decides to take Oded, and two other employees, to the terror-stricken peninsula.

Four by Four

2016

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi poster
6.4

16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds out Shlomi is actually a genius and tries to get him into a more suitable curriculum. However, Shlomi is more interested in taking care of his family and his new love interest, the beautiful girl next door.

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi

2003

Lost Islands poster
6.3

A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.

Lost Islands

2008

Treasures of the Red Sea poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Treasures of the Red Sea

2001

What Doesn't Kill You poster
7.0

After a rare diagnosis, Lily's attempts to flee from war torn Israel are thwarted when the airport shuts down and her zany cousin forces her to party.

What Doesn't Kill You

2015

פיצה חדשה poster
NR

These days, even ordering pizza is dangerous. NEW WORLD (pizza) ORDER is the first episode of "Project OUT" - short films about the little man VS the government and technology.

פיצה חדשה