Acting
Michal Bat-Adam
Born March 2, 1945 · Afula, Israel (age 81)
No biography available.
Known For
The Impossible Spy · 1987The Impossible Spy
★ 5.91987
MovieDramaThriller
This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
The Ambassador · 1985The Ambassador
★ 5.21985
MovieDramaThriller
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
Rita Working Title · 2007Rita Working Title
★ 7.52007
MovieDrama
The director writes a script. Characters from her past and characters she meets on the street and elsewhere, sneak into the story and take control of her. As she writes, she sees herself in all female characters and her close friend Gadi, who is an actor by profession, in all male characters. Writing the script gives the director a chance to take a fresh look at the life and destiny she creates, life, which is actually her life, and it gives us a chance to take a look at the sources of inspiration and the creative process.
The Lover · 1985The Lover
★ 4.41985
MovieRomanceDrama
Adam is trying to fix his marriage but both his wife Asia and teenage daughter Dafi are too busy with their lovers.
Love at Second Sight · 1999Love at Second Sight
★ 7.31999
MovieDrama
Renowned Israeli filmmaker and actress Michal Bat-Adam produced, wrote, and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. The beautiful Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film.
Moments · 1979Moments
★ 5.41979
MovieDrama
Anne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There's tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. Flash back five years to their meeting, on a train to Jerusalem. Yola invites Anne to stay at her hotel, and over the next five days, their friendship builds from talk about their lives to an explosive menage a trois when Avi joins them on fourth day. Back in the present, can Yola have both Avi and Anne, or are the women futilely chasing rainbows?
Boy Takes Girl · 1982Boy Takes Girl
★ 5.21982
MovieDrama
When ten-year-old Aya is left at a kibbutz where children are housed by age instead of gender, not only does she have to get used to dealing with a lot of children, making friends and enemies, she also has to get used to sharing her room with boys... and sharing the showers with them too.
Atalia · 1984Atalia
★ 7.81984
MovieDrama
Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair with her daughter's classmate, Matti, an idealistic 19-year-old rejected by the army.
Movies
The Impossible Spy · 1987The Impossible Spy
★ 5.91987
MovieDramaThriller
This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
The Ambassador · 1985The Ambassador
★ 5.21985
MovieDramaThriller
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
Rita Working Title · 2007Rita Working Title
★ 7.52007
MovieDrama
The director writes a script. Characters from her past and characters she meets on the street and elsewhere, sneak into the story and take control of her. As she writes, she sees herself in all female characters and her close friend Gadi, who is an actor by profession, in all male characters. Writing the script gives the director a chance to take a fresh look at the life and destiny she creates, life, which is actually her life, and it gives us a chance to take a look at the sources of inspiration and the creative process.
The Lover · 1985The Lover
★ 4.41985
MovieRomanceDrama
Adam is trying to fix his marriage but both his wife Asia and teenage daughter Dafi are too busy with their lovers.
Love at Second Sight · 1999Love at Second Sight
★ 7.31999
MovieDrama
Renowned Israeli filmmaker and actress Michal Bat-Adam produced, wrote, and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. The beautiful Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film.
Moments · 1979Moments
★ 5.41979
MovieDrama
Anne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There's tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. Flash back five years to their meeting, on a train to Jerusalem. Yola invites Anne to stay at her hotel, and over the next five days, their friendship builds from talk about their lives to an explosive menage a trois when Avi joins them on fourth day. Back in the present, can Yola have both Avi and Anne, or are the women futilely chasing rainbows?
Boy Takes Girl · 1982Boy Takes Girl
★ 5.21982
MovieDrama
When ten-year-old Aya is left at a kibbutz where children are housed by age instead of gender, not only does she have to get used to dealing with a lot of children, making friends and enemies, she also has to get used to sharing her room with boys... and sharing the showers with them too.
Atalia · 1984Atalia
★ 7.81984
MovieDrama
Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair with her daughter's classmate, Matti, an idealistic 19-year-old rejected by the army.
Madame Rosa · 1977Madame Rosa
★ 6.81977
MovieDramaComedy
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.
Hanna K. · 1983Hanna K.
★ 6.21983
MovieDrama
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman's beliefs are challenged when she's appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. However, she bears witness to some of its sovereign costs when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
The Road to Where · 2016The Road to Where
★ 7.02016
MovieDrama
Israel 1948. A house by the sea in Jaffa, from which Palestinian families have had to flee in haste, becomes the home of Jewish survivors who managed to escape the inferno in Europe. Out of the turmoil of their existence, under the shadow of the unresolved conflict between Jews and Arabs, rises a desperate cry for.
The House on Chelouche Street · 1973The House on Chelouche Street
★ 6.51973
MovieDrama
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
Hila · 2023Hila
★ 4.52023
MovieDrama
Hila is a single mother of a 7-year-old girl named Naomi. Hila discovers that Shaul, her daughter's father, has returned to Israel with his family after years abroad. Shaul does not know that he is Naomi's father and is not even aware of her existence. Hila, who is still obsessively in love with Shaul, tries to talk to him but he avoids her, leading her towards a mental breakdown. When Hila's heart finally opens to another man, she is attacked by anxiety, fearing she will lose Shaul forever.
Fellow Travellers · 1983Fellow Travellers
★ 7.01983
Movie
Yoni, an Israeli pop singer, and Walid, a Palestinian Arab professor, raise money from a German source in order to build a Palestinian college within Israel. But both are trapped in a deadly struggle: Palestinian radicals attempt to use Yoni and Walid to purchase arms, while the Israeli secret police try use them to locate Arab extremists.
Aya: Imagined Autobiography · 1994Aya: Imagined Autobiography
★ 7.51994
Movie
Aya is a woman who, since early childhood, has been driven by her father's ambition to see her become successful. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams and fantasy alternate with reality.
Moshe Mizrahi – Climbing the Mountain · 2026Moshe Mizrahi – Climbing the Mountain
2026
MovieDocumentary
Michal Bat-Adam films her life with her partner, Oscar-winning director Moshe Mizrahi, and their son Daniel. A story of their life walking on parallel paths, struggling to maintain their love and creative partnership even when the sea separates them.
I Love You Rosa · 1972I Love You Rosa
★ 5.71972
MovieRomanceDrama
This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother dies. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction, but as time passes in the story, the situation changes.
Daughters, Daughters · 1974Daughters, Daughters
★ 6.41974
MovieComedyDrama
In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.
The Deserter's Wife · 1991The Deserter's Wife
★ 6.31991
Movie
Nina (Fanny Ardant) is a French concert pianist, Ilan (Sharon Alexander) is an Israeli computer specialist visiting Paris. A romance springs up between them, and they get married. Not long afterward, Ilan is called into the Israeli army to serve his obligatory tour of duty. Things are heating up with Saddam Hussein (it is just before the Gulf War), who has just invaded Kuwait. Nina receives a call from the military informing her that her husband was wounded in combat. She rushes to his side and soon discovers that he was wounded by Israeli soldiers while he was in the process of deserting his post. It is clear from his own zombie-fied behavior that this allegation is true. Despite this horrifying revelation, she still loves him, but becomes increasingly estranged from the society around her because she feels shunned. On top of all this, she must soon make her concert debut with the Israel Philharmonic.
Rachel's Man · 1976Rachel's Man
★ 9.01976
MovieDrama
The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but fate intervenes as Rachel's sister sleeps with Jacob and bears him a child.
La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd · 1979La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
★ 8.51979
Movie
Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.
Eagles Attack At Dawn · 1970Eagles Attack At Dawn
★ 7.71970
MovieDramaAction
Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. The soldiers must use both cunning and boldness if they are to help their fellow Israelis regain their freedom.
Life Is Life · 2003Life Is Life
★ 7.02003
Movie
A Thousand and One Wives · 1989A Thousand and One Wives
★ 8.51989
MovieDrama
The Bukharan neighborhood of Jerusalem in the 1920s Naftali is a wealthy trader and a middle-aged widow whose all his former wives have mysteriously passed away and he is afraid to remarry with a belief that he has a curse on him. The matchmaker presses and the old woman coaxes and finally carries Flora, a 24-year-old virgin, but not to infect her with a curse, he avoids any physical contact with her. The plot gets complicated when Flora gets hurt as a result of her relationship with the fabric merchant, and Naftali, who can't bear the shame, turns his anger on his young wife.
