Makram J. Khoury

Makram J. Khoury

1945-05-30 Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine 52 Credits

Biography

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.

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The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

2024

as Caiaphas

7.0
Acting

Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer's works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is ca...

A House in Jerusalem

A House in Jerusalem

2023

as Shlomi

5.8
Acting

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.

Cairo Conspiracy

Cairo Conspiracy

2022

as Sheikh Negm

6.7
Acting

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...

The Taste of Apples Is Red

The Taste of Apples Is Red

2022

as Sheikh Kamel

5.7
Acting

In the Druze mountain villages between Syria and Israel, Kamel, a respected sheik, must make an impossible decision between family and duty when his e...

Nicht ganz Koscher

Nicht ganz Koscher

2022

as Gaon

7.8
Acting

Three religions. Two men. One mission. Ben has gone off into the desert. In order to escape the matchmaking attempts of his family in Jerusalem, he ag...

Laila in Haifa

Laila in Haifa

2021

as Kamal

4.9
Acting

The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of I...

Spider in the Web

Spider in the Web

2019

as Nader

4.9
Acting

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

The Tower

The Tower

2018

6.8
Acting

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out...

A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

2018

4.0
Acting

Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud D...

A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

2018

Screenplay

4.0
Writing

Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud D...

Voice Over

Voice Over

2018

7.2
Acting

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 ...

Unlocked

Unlocked

2017

as Yazid Khaleel

6.2
Acting

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 c...

Wounded Land

Wounded Land

2015

8.0
Acting

Police officer Kobi Amar and his Region Commander Yehuda Neumann have been partners at the Haifa police force for years, but now, they face a critical...

Abulele

Abulele

2015

as Hani

6.6
Acting

Adam (10) meets Abulele, an ancient, huge, friendly and invisible monster. When a government Special Forces unit arrives to capture Abulele, Adam has ...

A Tale of Love and Darkness

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2015

as Halawani

5.7
Acting

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...

A Tale of Love and Darkness

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2015

as Al Hilwani

5.7
Acting

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...

RSC Live: The Merchant of Venice

RSC Live: The Merchant of Venice

2015

as Shylock

Acting

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all - as long as they come prepared to do busi...

Al Medina

Al Medina

2015

Acting

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 bo...

Atlit

Atlit

2015

as Mafous

5.1
Acting

In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves u...

The Cut

The Cut

2014

as Omar Nasreddin

5.9
Acting

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 daughter...

Desert Dancer

Desert Dancer

2014

as Mehdi

6.9
Acting

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

Write Down, I Am an Arab

Write Down, I Am an Arab

2014

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

"Write Down, I am an Arab" tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab world...

Farewell Baghdad

Farewell Baghdad

2014

as Prime Minister

8.0
Acting

Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.

Magic Men

Magic Men

2014

as Avraham Kofinas

4.2
Acting

An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for hi...

The Physician

The Physician

2013

as Imam

7.3
Acting

England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many ye...

Sweets

Sweets

2013

5.2
Acting

Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. '...

Complicit

Complicit

2013

as Colonel Hazem Ashraf

5.5
Acting

An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or ...

Inheritance

Inheritance

2012

as Abu Majda

4.7
Acting

A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebano...

Miral

Miral

2010

as Governor Khatib

5.7
Acting

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.

Carmel

Carmel

2009

7.0
Acting

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Italians

Italians

2009

as Hamed

5.7
Acting

Two stories of Italians abroad: in Dubai, a truck driver who smuggles Ferraris for a living teaches the tricks of the trade to his young disciple; in ...

Lemon Tree

Lemon Tree

2008

as Abu Kamal

6.9
Acting

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 mov...

Shred of Hope

Shred of Hope

2007

as Julian

10.0
Acting

Shred of Hope (2007) It is winter, Julian is heading to work, as always. On his face signs of trouble are noticeable, but maybe it isn't so, maybe it...

Djihad!

2006

as Médecin de l'hôpital

6.0
Acting

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French...

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

2006

as Dr. Isaac Shemesh

4.8
Acting

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was bui...

Munich

Munich

2005

as Wael Zwaiter

7.1
Acting

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black Septem...

Free Zone

Free Zone

2005

as Samir aka "The American"

5.5
Acting

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, a...

The Syrian Bride

The Syrian Bride

2004

as Hammed

6.6
Acting

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, ...

The Body

The Body

2001

as Nasir Hamid

5.5
Acting

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 cru...

The Milky Way

The Milky Way

1997

as Mukhtar

Acting

1964, a village in Galilee. The Mukhtar collaborates with Israeli military rule. Someone is forging work permits, and the Mukhtar's son and a steady m...

Tale of the Three Jewels

Tale of the Three Jewels

1995

as Abu Iman

6.8
Acting

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Romani girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore natur...

The Patriots

The Patriots

1994

as Barak

6.6
Acting

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...

Double Edge

Double Edge

1992

as Ahmed Shafik

5.0
Acting

Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is greeted by David, an Israeli officer and writer who's al...

Canticle of Stones

Canticle of Stones

1990

5.3
Acting

Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come...

Crossfire

Crossfire

1989

Acting

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 Geor...

Wedding in Galilee

Wedding in Galilee

1987

as The governor

6.2
Acting

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers a...

The Smile of the Lamb

The Smile of the Lamb

1986

as Col. Moshe Katzman

4.8
Acting

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 hangi...

On a Narrow Bridge

On a Narrow Bridge

1985

Acting

Directed by Nissim Dayan.

Kasach

Kasach

1984

6.0
Acting

Crossover! All the stars of the 80s Israelian Mizrahi Music were brought. He is a rising star at the underground Mizrahi scene, She is an internation...

Michel Ezra Safra and Sons

1983

Acting

Directed by Nissim Dayan.

Big Shots

Big Shots

1982

as Ben-Shooshan

6.1
Acting

Four men whose combined intellect does not reach into the triple digits decide to steal a safe full of foreign currency - not from a local bank, but f...

The Way of the Wind

The Way of the Wind

N/A

as Jonas

Acting

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.