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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Master and Margarita
2024
as Caiaphas
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
2023
as Shlomi
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
2022
as Sheikh Negm
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
2022
as Sheikh Kamel
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
2022
as Gaon
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
2021
as Kamal
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
2019
as Nader
A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.

The Tower
2018
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
2018
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
2018
Screenplay
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
2018
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
2017
as Yazid Khaleel
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
2015
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
2015
as Hani
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
2015
as Halawani
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
2015
as Al Hilwani
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
2015
as Shylock
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
2015
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
2015
as Mafous
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
2014
as Omar Nasreddin
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
2014
as Mehdi
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
2014
as Narrator (voice)
"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
2014
as Prime Minister
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.

Magic Men
2014
as Avraham Kofinas
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
2013
as Imam
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
2013
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
2013
as Colonel Hazem Ashraf
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
2012
as Abu Majda
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
2010
as Governor Khatib
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
2009
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Italians
2009
as Hamed
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
2008
as Abu Kamal
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
2007
as Julian
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
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
2006
as Dr. Isaac Shemesh
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
2005
as Wael Zwaiter
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
2005
as Samir aka "The American"
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
2004
as Hammed
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
2001
as Nasir Hamid
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
1997
as Mukhtar
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
1995
as Abu Iman
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
1994
as Barak
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
1992
as Ahmed Shafik
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
1990
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
1989
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
1987
as The governor
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
1986
as Col. Moshe Katzman
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
1985
Directed by Nissim Dayan.

Kasach
1984
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
Directed by Nissim Dayan.

Big Shots
1982
as Ben-Shooshan
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
N/A
as Jonas
A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.