Jewish Movies Directory



The following is an A to Z Jewish Movies Directory of all Jewish related Movies.

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  • Ас из ассов.(+) L'as des as 1982
    Франция, 1982, Приключения. на Олимпиаде 1936 года в Берлине, ренер сборной Франции по боксу (Бельмондо) вынужден взять под свою защиту еврейского мальчика Симона Розенблюма и его многочисленную родню.
    L'as des as. 1982 French boxer Jo Cavalier risks to save Jewish family during 1936 Olympics, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I.
  • An American Tail (1986)It's the animated story of a young mouse. It tells the story of the Mousekewitz family's immigration to America through New York City in 1886.
  • An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
  • Anne Frank remembered 2004 (+)
  • A Serious Man (2009) The black comedy-drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
  • A Stranger Among Us (Sidney Lumet, 1992) A New York City homicide detective, goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic diamond-cutter.

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    B

  • Ben-Hur (1959)(+) The film is about a Jewish prince who is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend. 11 Academy Awards.
  • Бабий Яр (2002) Украина. В ролях: Элина Быстрицкая, Игорь Васильев.
    Бабий Яр, овраг на бывшей окраине Киева, который стал символом гибели евреев от рук нацистов в СССР во время Второй мировой войны.
  • Babiy Yar (2003)
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gene Saks, 1986) American comedy film about Jewish teen living in an unusually hectic Brooklyn, N.Y., household.

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    C

  • Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)(+) (Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Yul Brunner, Angie Dickinson) (archive footage -Joseph Stalin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,Winston Churchill) Describes the birth of Israel, from a military standpoint of an American Jewish Colonel in 1948.
  • The Chosen (1981)(+) Describes life of 2 young Jews, living in America during the WWII. One is the son of a reformed Jew, and the other is the son of a hasidic Jew.

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    D

  • The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
  • Defiance (2008)(+) Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Poland escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join up with Russian resistance fighters. Based on a true story.
  • Дамский портной 1990, Damskiy portnoy (1990)
    Последние день и ночь из жизни еврейской семьи из Киева, расстрелянной фашистами осенью 1941 года в Киеве.
    Set in Kiev, Russia, on 29 September 1941, this feature chronicles the last 24 hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar.
    Режиссер Леонид Горовец
    Актеры Иннокентий Смоктуновский, Татьяна Васильева, Елена Козелькова.

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    E

  • Exodus (1960)
  • Enemies: A Love Story (1989) (novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer) Holocaust survivor Herman Broder (Ron Silver) living in New York in 1949.
  • Everything Is Illuminated (Лив Шрайбер / Liev Schreiber) [2005, США, комедия, драма].Свет вокруг
    Молодой американец еврейского происхождения пытается найти женщину, которая спасла его дедушку во времена Второй Мировой Войны в украинской деревне.
    A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of an eccentric local.
  • Eyes Wide Open (Haim Tabakman, 2009 Israeli film) A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love.
  • Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland, 1990) It is based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German Jewish boy who
    escaped the Holocaust by masquerading not just as a non-Jew, but as an elite "Nazi" German.

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    F

  • Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
  • Frisco Kid 1979 The movie is a Western comedy featuring Gene Wilder as Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi who is traveling to San Francisco in 1850s, and Harrison Ford as a bank robber who befriends him.
  • Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein, 2012) Israeli drama film written and directed by Rama Burshtein. It focuses on life among the
    Haredi Jewish community in Tel Aviv.

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    G

  • Gentleman's Agreement (1947)(+) With Gregory Peck. A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism.
  • God Is Great, I’m Not (Pascale Bailly, 2001) (French: Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite) A troubled woman wants to convert to Judaism.
  • Go For Zucker (Dani Levy, 2004) German - Alles auf Zucker! The film is about modern Jewish identity in present-day Germany.

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    H

  • Harry and Tonto (1974)(+) The bittersweet story of an old Jewish man taking a road trip with his cat Tonto.
  • The Hebrew hammer 100% kosher 2003 (+). Comedy about a Jewish superhero known as The Hebrew Hammer who must save Hanukkah.
  • Hand In Hand. 1960
  • Hester Street (1975)
    Hester Street is a 1975 romantic film based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl:
    The story of Jewish immigrants who come to the Lower East side of New York City in 1896 from Russia
  • Homicide (David Mamet, 1991) A Jewish homicide detective investigates a local case involving robbery and the murder of a Jewish shopkeeper.

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    I

  • Из ада в ад 1996(+) (FROM HELL TO HELL). Фильм Дмитрия Астрахана охватывает трагичный эпизод еврейской истории: период Второй Мировой Войны и послевоенное время (в частности, Кельцкий погром, Польша 1946).
  • Irena Sendler 2009 (+) Movie story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazi's for saving the lives of nearly 2500 Jewish children.
  • Изыди! 1991 Режиссер: Дмитрий Астрахан
    Фильм снят по мотивам произведений Шолом-Алейхема, Александра Куприна, Исаака Бабеля.
    Мотл Рабинович отмечал открытие своего маленького дела. Село Антоновка гуляло весело, не чуя грядущей беды.
    По-русски хмельное, по-еврейски ироничное гульбище вселяло надежду, что ничего плохого не случится...
  • Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013) Anna found that Anna's actual name is Ida Lebenstein. Ida's parents had been Jews who were
    murdered late in the German occupation of Poland during World War II.
  • Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) The film is about a team of Jewish soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II

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    J

  • Jewish Luck (1925)(+) Jidische Glickn (1925) Silent with subtitles. Soviet movie with Solomon Mikhoels who was killed by Stalin's order in 1948. adaptation of Sholom Aleichem’s story, "Mendel the Matchmaker."
    Еврейское счастье. Режиссёр Александр Грановский, Госкино, Москва, 1925. В главной роли Соломон Михоэлс. Фильм снят по мотивам рассказов Шолом-Алейхема, с главным героем — Менахемом-Мендлом. Кинокартина описывает положение еврейской бедноты, загнанной царским режимом за черту еврейской оседлости.
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.(1999) (+) British musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

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    K

  • Комиссар 1968.(+) Фильм сделан в 1967 году по мотивам одного из ранних рассказов В.Гроссмана "В городе Бердычеве", который Максим Горький считал одним из самых лучших рассказов о гражданской войне.
  • Корчак/Korczak, 1990 (+) Анджей Вайда /Andrzej Wajda/ Реальная история об известном педагоге Януше Корчаке, который руководил домом для еврейских сирот в Варшавском гетто. Несмотря на давление нацистов, доктор Корчак отказался оставить детей, даже ради своего спасения и погиб вместе с ними в концлагере Треблинка.
    Korczak 1990 Directed by Andrzej Wajda. The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak in the Warsaw ghetto till he boards the train to Treblinka with his orphans.
  • Keeping up with the Steins (2006)(+) This movie is good to see for all pre-bar mitzvah kids and their parents.

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    L

  • The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998)(+) The life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first extraordinary Jewish baseball player.
  • Life Is Beautiful (1998) In 1939, an Italian Jew, falls in love and will have to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
  • Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1997) In 1930 a young Jewish man in Italy falls in love with a girl. By the year 1939 they are married and have a son.

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    M

  • Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973)(+) The mad adventures of rabbi Jacob. Comedy. Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
  • Masada (1981) Mini-Series or (1984) A true story of Jews, commanded by Elazar ben Ya'ir, who fled Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
  • Munich (2005) Movie based on true events of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

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    N

  • Нечестная конкуренция 2001 (+) Concorrenza sleale /
    Concurrence déloyale / Unfair Competition (2001) Gérard Depardieu, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy The story of two rival families from Milan, one Jewish and the other Catholic, who are competing merchants in 1938 Rome.

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    O

  • Operation Thunderbolt (“Mivtsa Yonatan” Menahem Golan, 1987) is a 1977 Israeli film based on an actual event – the hijacking
    of a flight and the freeing of hostages (Operation Entebbe) at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976.

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    P

  • Попугай, говорящий на идиш 1990 (+)

    Во время Второй мировой войны в Прибалтике были уничтожены почти все евреи, почти не осталось тех, кто когда-то говорил на идиш. Чудом уцелел молодой Янкель Лапидус из города Вильно. Он будет и наемным легионером, и попадет в плен, и пройдет по Сицилии с армией союзников, и окажется в Индокитае. И везде ему, недотепе Янкелю, будут сопутствовать слава и успех...


    Режиссер Эфраим Севела
    Актеры Рамаз Иоселиани, Авангард Леонтьев, Мария Полицеймако
  • Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998) American surrealist psychological thriller film.
  • Paradise (2016) Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy Режиссер: Андрей Кончаловский

    Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.
    Ольга, русская аристократка, эмигрантка и участница французского Сопротивления попадает в концентрационный лагерь.

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    R

  • Raid on Entebbe 1977(+)

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    S

  • Schindler's List (1993) This film is about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jews from concentration camps.
  • School Ties (1992)(+) This movie is about a Jewish boy who goes to an elite prep school on an athletic scholarship in the 1950's and hides his religion.
  • Shining Through (1992)(+) During World War Two, Aryan-looking Linda (Melanie Griffith)(her mother is a Irish American and her father a German Jew) gets a job in the American War Department and becomes a spy. A film that presents a very sensitive issue being a Jew in high school in 1950s
  • Shanghai ghetto 2002 (+) A documentary about Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi persecution to the only place that was open to them - Shanghai, China.
  • Сотворение любви. 2006 (+) Оригинальное название: Mirajul Dragostei. "Сотворение любви" рассказывает о свате-еврее, которого зовут Мотл-Шотхен. Как настоящий посредник между людьми и мирами, он ходит из села в село, из дома в дом и создает гармонию человеческих судеб. Отдельное место занимает в фильме молдавская крестьянка, спасшая от ужасов фашизма еврейскую семью.
  • Сквозь слёзы. (Laughter Through Tears) 1928 сценарий: Шолом Алейхем, Григорий Гричер-Чериковер, И. Сквирский
  • Shoah (1985) Franco-British documentary film directed by Claude Lanzmann about the Holocaust.

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories -- survivors, bystanders and perpetrators

  • Sobibor (2018) In October 1943 prisoners of the Sobibor camp led by a lieutenant

    of Red Army, the Jew Alexander Pechersky, is being rebelled - the only successful uprising in the Nazi death camp.

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    T

  • The Ten Commandments (1956) This motion picture tells the biblical story of Moses and his leading of the Israelites to the Promised Land.
  • They Came for Good, A History of The Jews in The United States (1654-1880) (PBS 2001)
  • The Jewish Americans (PBS Special - 2008)(+).It is a three-parts documentary that explores 350 years of Jewish American history. Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin, THE JEWISH AMERICANS is a journey through time, from the first settlement in 1654 to the present.
  • The Jewish People: A Story of Survival (PBS 2008)(+). This is the story of Jewish survival. From slavery to the loss of their homeland; from exile to anti-Semitism; from pogroms to near annihilation in the Holocaust
  • Tobruk1967 - A group of Allied Jewish commandos in 1941 have the task of destroying Rommel's fuel supplies in the Sahara during World War II.
  • The Jewish Gauchos (1975)
  • The Chosen (1981 film) drama film directed by Jeremy Kagan, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Chaim Potok ublished in 1967.
  • The Pianist (2002) by Roman Polanski. The True Story of a Polish Jewish radio station pianist Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945.
  • The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells, 1998) The animated epic biblical musical drama film.
  • The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, 1965). Czechoslovak film about the Aryanization programme during World War II in the Slovak State.
  • The Spy (Netflix Mini-Series 2019)The Spy is an English-language French espionage thriller television miniseries written and directed by Israeli
    director Gideon Raff and Max Perry based on the life of Israel's top Mossad spy Eli Cohen in Syria, portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen.
    It is based on the book L'espion qui venait d'Israël (English: The Spy Who Came From Israel), written by Uri Dan and Yeshayahu Ben Porat.
  • The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, 1964) The first American movie to deal with the Jewish holocaust from the viewpoint of a survivor.
  • The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927) Cantor Rabinowitz wants his son to carry on the generations-old family tradition and become a cantor at the synagogue in the Jewish ghetto of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
    But his thirteen-year-old son want to be a jazzman.
  • The Governess (Sandra Goldbacher, 1998) Set in the 1830s, the story of Sephardic London Jews.

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    V

  • Voyage of the Damned The True Story of Survival 1976 - In 1939 a ship with refugee Jews tried to escape from Nazi Germany to Caribbean countries, and was denied permission to land.

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    W

  • When Jews Were Funny 2013 - documentary "When Jews Were Funny" is a Surveys the history of Jewish comedy. Jewish comedians talk about the unique brilliance of Jewish humour.
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    Y

  • The Young Lions (1958)(+) This film follows the lives of three soldiers: one German and two Americans (one is a Jew), paralleling their experiences in World War II until they meet up at the end.
  • Yentl (1983)(+) (Musical) In an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel is the boyishly klutzy daughter (Barbra Streisand) and only child of long widowed Rebbe, circa 1904, disguises herself as a boy in order to pursue her passion for studying holy scripture.
  • Yanush Korchak (2004)

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    Things You Wouldn't Know W/O the Movies
  • It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting.
  • A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
  • If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.
  • Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization.
  • It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
  • When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.
  • No one involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.
  • Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.
  • When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
  • You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.
  • Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds, unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
  • An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight-year-old child.
  • Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on.

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