Shmil Ben Ari

Acting

Shmil Ben Ari

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem poster
7.5

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

2014

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

חלונות poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

חלונות

2015

The Art Of Waiting poster
7.7

Liran and Tali, a couple in their thirties who dream of having a child together, are one day told that they will have to undergo fertility treatments. What seems simple at first turns out to be very complex.

The Art Of Waiting

2019

בין השמשות poster
9.0

Dusk presents several interlinked stories of Israeli reality, all occurring on the same day and all dealing with a crucial moment in the relationship between parents and children.

בין השמשות

2010

Dr. Pomerantz poster
7.1

Doctor Yoel Pomerantz is a washed-up, self-loathing psychologist who lives on the 12th floor of a high-rise with his Aspberger's son, Yoav, who spends his days pretending to be a traffic cop and proudly giving out parking tickets. Dr. Pomerantz sees a few patients a week, barely enough to keep he and Yoav in ramen noodles and with a roof over their heads. In addition, he works shifts at a suicide hotline. When he gets desperate financially, he recruits hotline callers to see him privately, which is discovered and results in his getting unceremoniously fired.

Dr. Pomerantz

2012

Half a Ton Bronze poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Half a Ton Bronze

2010

Homeport poster
8.0

A ship engineer returns home after years at sea and tries to rebuild his life. The working-class hero tries to defend the world he has built for himself and his men. Motivated men and determined women fill the city and the port of Ashdod. "Home Port," a sun-drenched social drama that is based on the desire to build a life for yourself even on unstable ground.

Homeport

2016

2000s · 6 titles

Live and Become poster
7.4

In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

Live and Become

2005

Colombian Love poster
5.1

Tali 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...

Colombian Love

2004

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

Nina's Tragedies poster
5.5

The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.

Nina's Tragedies

2003

The Last Suspect poster
8.0

Danny Breznitz, late 40s, a detective in the Tel Aviv Police, is hospitalized following a near-fatal car accident. His relationship with his sexy mistress, Eva, early 30s, is falling apart, and his obsession with her is pushing Eva even further away. Living in the same apartment with Ruthie, his wife, are the only remains of their childless marriage. Following convalescence, Breznitz is handed an insignificant case by his hostile superior which he considers beneath him. But when an unknown body is found in the woods, and nobody cares, Dani finds a cause he can believe in. He makes a tour-de-force of Israel's "low- life" – an Arab intellectual who wants to admit to a murder he has not committed, a prostitute turned hairdresser, a pimp who poses as a born-again Jew, a homosexual artist who was excommunicated by his parents. The journey becomes an obsession that threatens to kill him but Breznitz wouldn't stop until he reveals the shocking truth...

The Last Suspect

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Diana’s Child

2005

1990s · 11 titles

Prison Heat poster
4.8

Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials and that's where the fun begins.

Prison Heat

1993

Bedouin Sand poster
7.3

Nine-year-old Roy likes a bottle of colored sand. A bedouin in Sinai tries to sell it to him.

Bedouin Sand

1997

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

Urban Feel poster
4.6

An estranged couple receives an unexpected visitor who throws everything in their family off balance.

Urban Feel

1999

Buzz poster
7.0

The story of the two teenagers that murdered a taxi driver without a reason caused a great shock in Israel. it was on all newspapers and on TV. Those two teenagers lived amongst normative and supporting families, and despite that turned to the life of crime. The movie tries to show what happened before that murder and the things which, may have, led to it.

Buzz

1998

The Saturday Morning Murder poster
NR

When a revered senior analyst is found dead at the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Society headquarters, Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon penetrates the elite, mysterious world of the institute to find the killer.

The Saturday Morning Murder

1991

The Legend of the Silent Man poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Legend of the Silent Man

1998

The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein poster
7.5

In this surreal comedy, a ghost monk convinces Itzik, a keychain importer living with his mother, to take revenge on those who are responsible for his pathetic situation. Surprisingly, the collaboration with the monk improves Itzic's life.

The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein

1993

Life According To Agfa poster
7.1

The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname for a famous mental health institution in Israel. The pub's name hints at the characters and the events which occur in the pub and which befall its owner (Daliah), the employees and customers. The plot unfolds with a streak of violence which takes a surprising turn.

Life According To Agfa

1992

White Night poster
6.0

A film depicting the process of weaning a criminal prisoner, Charlie, from drugs, with the help of another prisoner, Shlomo, and with the help of several key personnel from the prison service, who lend a hand to the success of the project. The film also depicts the bond of friendship that is formed between the two prisoners who grew up around different social ideologies, and the place, despite its difficult nature, manages to connect extremes, bridge the gaps and create a deep and positive friendship.

White Night

1996

Dogs Are Color Blind poster
8.5

A couple finds themselves in a ransacked apartment after a robbery that sends them on a bizarre nighttime journey. The wife embarks on a passionate sexual adventure with a rude cop, and the husband meets a prostitute and her violent pimp. And that's just the beginning. A film in which several plot lines intersect, featuring cops and robbers, prostitutes and reformed criminals, sports fans, and dogs that... don't bark in green.

Dogs Are Color Blind

1996

Series credits

Manayek poster
6.4

Izzy Bachar, a police internal affairs investigator, discovers just before retirement that his long time friend Barak, a senior police officer, is accused to be corrupt. Life as he knows it breaks into pieces.

Manayek

2020

Hostages poster
6.1

The night before a high profile operation on the PM, the surgeon due to perform the procedure is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly take control of her and her family and order her to kill the PM.

Hostages

2013

Split poster
9.0

Split is an Israeli supernatural drama series. It is directed by Shai Kapon and airs on the HOT VOD Young channel.It is produced by the Dori Media Group through its subsidiary Dori Media Darset.

Split

2009

Rehearsals poster
8.4

Two theater writers are forced to work together just when they're going through a breakup in their relationship. They are joined by two egotistical TV stars.

Rehearsals

2020

Ha-Ex Ha-Mitologi poster
NR

A woman explores all of her past relationships after a psychic tells her she's already dated her future husband.

Ha-Ex Ha-Mitologi

2007

השמועה poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

השמועה

2026

Jerusalem Brew poster
8.0

The series opens as widow Shimon Sadeh, a successful general contractor, is finishing the year of mourning for his deceased wife. He marries Leah, his daughter's piano teacher. Shimon's eldest son, Ephraim, has become ultra-Orthodox, identifying with his grandfather, Eliahu, who lives with the family and has close bonds and a strong influence. The middle child, Itzik, rejects both going into his father's business to be a musician; and Orthodoxy. Strong-willed, feisty Ariella is finishing high school and considering her options. Many scenes take place in the small Tunisian synagogue headed by Eliahu, and involve the power struggles among the regulars there. The gut-punching drama is largely the work of Oscar-winning director Yankul Goldwasser, who previously directed the popular series Reaching for Heaven; and young director Nir Bergman, who won the Israeli Academy Award for his first film, Broken Wings.

Jerusalem Brew

2003