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1. Disobedience (2017)
R | 114 min | Drama
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola, Anton Lesser
Votes: 36,237 | Gross: $3.48M
2. Unorthodox (2020)
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama
Story of a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who flees her arranged marriage and religious community to start a new life abroad.
Stars: Shira Haas, Amit Rahav, Jeff Wilbusch, Alex Reid
Votes: 92,791
3. The Believer (2001)
R | 98 min | Drama
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
Director: Henry Bean | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Peter Meadows, Garret Dillahunt
Votes: 41,236 | Gross: $0.41M
4. Keeping the Faith (2000)
PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two friends, a priest and a rabbi, fall in love with the same woman they knew in their youth, but the religious position of both men denies them romance.
Director: Edward Norton | Stars: Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft
Votes: 53,282 | Gross: $37.05M
5. Bushwick (2017)
TV-MA | 94 min | Action, Thriller
When a U.S. based military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood, 20-year-old Lucy and war veteran Stupe must depend on each other to survive.
Directors: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion | Stars: Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Angelic Zambrana, Jeremie Harris
Votes: 13,915
6. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
G | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy
A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Louis de Funès, Miou-Miou, Suzy Delair, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 14,829 | Gross: $0.95M
7. Yosi, the Regretful Spy (2022–2023)
TV-MA | 367 min | Drama, History, Thriller
An Argentinean intelligence agent infiltrates the Jewish community to gather information that is then allegedly used to perpetrate two of the worst terrorist attacks in Latin American history, leaving over 100 dead.
Stars: Natalia Oreiro, Gustavo Bassani, Alejandro Awada, Carla Quevedo
Votes: 1,380
8. Norman (2016)
R | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.
Director: Joseph Cedar | Stars: Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 6,554 | Gross: $3.81M
9. The Round Up (2010)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, History, War
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Director: Rose Bosch | Stars: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué
Votes: 9,393
10. The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Young Jewish man bucks orthodox traditions (and mother's meddling) by shaving, shopping outside the faithful, and considering a shiksa for a wife.
Director: Michael Steiner | Stars: Joel Basman, Noémie Schmidt, Udo Samel, Sunnyi Melles
Votes: 4,989
11. Tango Shalom (2021)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Family, Music
A Tango dancer and a rabbi develop a plan to enter a dance competition without sacrificing his orthodox beliefs. Family, tolerance, and community are tested one dazzling dance step at a time.
Director: Gabriel Bologna | Stars: Lainie Kazan, Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez
Votes: 455
12. One of Us (IV) (2017)
95 min | Documentary
Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | Stars: Etty, Chani Getter, Ari Hershkowitz, Luzer Twersky
Votes: 7,144
13. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
PG | 110 min | Drama
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.
Director: Cao Hamburger | Stars: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Daniela Piepszyk, Paulo Autran
Votes: 6,671 | Gross: $0.76M
14. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
PG | 122 min | Documentary, History, War
The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
Director: Mark Jonathan Harris | Stars: Judi Dench, Lory Cahn, Kurt Fuchel, Eva Hayman
Votes: 1,971 | Gross: $0.37M
15. Full-Court Miracle (2003 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Drama, Family, Sport
An African American college basketball star becomes the head coach of a yeshiva's struggling basketball team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a knee injury forces him to leave the game. Based on the true story of Lamont Carr.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Alex D. Linz, Richard T. Jones, R.H. Thomson, Sean Marquette
Votes: 1,136
16. The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
Directors: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar | Stars: François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 3,780 | Gross: $0.02M
17. The Long Way Home (1997)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Director: Mark Jonathan Harris | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Israel Lau, Livia Shacter, Abraham Klausner
Votes: 1,275
18. Closeness (2017)
118 min | Drama
In the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Darya Zhovner, Atrem Cipin, Nazir Zhukov, Veniamin Kac
Votes: 3,305
19. Simon Magus (1999)
101 min | Mystery, Fantasy, Romance
Simon (Noah Taylor) is an outcast from his Jewish community, because he claims that the devil talks to him, and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid (Stuart Townsend) asks ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Hopkins | Stars: Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend, Embeth Davidtz, Rutger Hauer
Votes: 619 | Gross: $0.04M
20. Would I Lie to You? (1997)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community.
Director: Thomas Gilou | Stars: Richard Anconina, Richard Bohringer, Amira Casar, Vincent Elbaz
Votes: 4,916
21. Keep the Change (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.
Director: Rachel Israel | Stars: Jessica Walter, Christina Brucato, Tibor Feldman, Sondra James
Votes: 950 | Gross: $0.20M
22. Tikkun (2015)
Unrated | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
An ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.
Director: Avishai Sivan | Stars: Aharon Trietel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich, Gur Sheinberg
Votes: 504 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Cloudy Sunday (2015)
116 min | Drama, Music, War
During the tumultuous 1943, against the backdrop of a German-occupied Thessaloniki, two star-crossed lovers struggle to surmount prejudice and fear, as the brutalities against the town's persecuted Jewish community escalate.
Director: Manousos Manousakis | Stars: Andreas Konstantinou, Vasiliki Troufakou, Adrian Frieling, Gerasimos Skiadaressis
Votes: 1,979
24. Perlasca: Un eroe italiano (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 104 min | Biography, Drama, History
The real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa and in the Spanish Civil War where he received safe conduct ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Negrin | Stars: Luca Zingaretti, Jérôme Anger, Amanda Sandrelli, Franco Castellano
Votes: 548
25. Ivan & Abraham (1993)
105 min | Drama
The action of the movie takes place in the thirties before the Jewish pogrom in the border town of Poland, which became a kind of emigration zone. Two teenagers - Ivan and Abram - run away from the dictates of adults into a big life.
Director: Yolande Zauberman | Stars: Roma Alexandrovitch, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Vladimir Mashkov, Mariya Lipkina
Votes: 277 | Gross: $0.16M
26. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998)
PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
The life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first major Jewish baseball star in the Major Leagues.
Director: Aviva Kempner | Stars: Reeve Brenner, Hank Greenberg, Walter Matthau, Alan Dershowitz
Votes: 818 | Gross: $1.70M
27. Edict of Expulsion 1492
110 min | Adventure, Drama, History | Pre-production
The Edict of Expulsion of the Sephardic Jews in Spain went public with the Alhambra Decree in April 1492. The charter declared that no Jews were permitted to remain within the Spanish ... See full summary »
Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Robert Maillet, Kabir Bedi, Bill Oberst Jr., Kevin Duffy
28. Theresienstadt (1945)
28 min | Documentary, Short, History
Nazi propaganda film depicting the notorious Theresienstadt concentration camp as a sort of idyllic rest stop, in an attempt to convince world opinion that there was no such thing as Nazi death camps.
Directors: Kurt Gerron, Karel Pecený | Stars: Paul Eppstein, Karel Fischer, Kurt Gerron, Frau Görtz
Votes: 163
29. Trembling Before G-d (2001)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
A cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.
Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski | Stars: Shlomo Ashkinazy, Steve Greenberg, Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Naomi Mark
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.62M
30. Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York (2023)
Documentary, History
Once a failing city that by 1990 had over 2,200 murders and 93,000 violent robberies annually, New York went on to be the revitalized word capital.
Director: Matthew Taylor | Stars: Nicole Gelinas, Michael Goodwin, Larry Mone, Fred Seigel
Votes: 28
32. The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side (2019– )
Comedy
The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side is a deep dive into a unique New York City universe undergoing a dramatic change. The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a space in cultural conflict ... See full summary »
Stars: Sammy Gluck, Nat Panariello, Mario Janson, Lester Greene
Votes: 9
33. Mendy (2003)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Vardy | Stars: Deana Barone, Elizabeth Cano, Kristen Cecala, Spencer Chandler
Votes: 133
34. Aliyah DaDa (2015)
115 min | Documentary
A documentary about the Jewish people in Romania and their several migrations towards Israel, across history and changing political frames - everything presented in a self-proclaimed dadaist style.
Director: Oana Giurgiu | Stars: Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara
Votes: 145
35. Santa Fe (1986 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Santa Fe begins where Corti's 1982 film God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore leaves off. In 1940, a ship arrives in New York harbor filled with exhausted Jewish immigrants desperate to begin ... See full summary »
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Valda Aviks, Gabriel Barylli, Monica Bleibtreu, Tilli Breidenbach
Votes: 112
36. Canvey: The Promised Island (2018 TV Movie)
40 min | Documentary
Stamford Hill, London has been home to Europe's largest community of Hasidic Jews since the 1800s. Soaring rents have forced them to look for a new home in an unlikely location and with help from the unlikeliest of champions.
Director: Riete Oord
Votes: 10
37. There Are Jews Here (2016)
90 min | Documentary
Most American Jews live in large cities where they are free to define themselves in any way they wish. But almost invisible to most of the country are roughly one million Jews scattered ... See full summary »
Directors: Brad Lichtenstein, Morgan Elise Johnson
Votes: 6
38. Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
92 min | Documentary, History
The history of Hollywood's handling of the Nazis and its later depiction of the Holocaust they perpetrated.
Director: Daniel Anker | Stars: Gene Hackman, Norma Barzman, Jack Benny, Michael Berenbaum
Votes: 663 | Gross: $0.02M
39. Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah (2013)
86 min | Documentary
Kamal Hachkar explores the 2000-year-old Mellah in his family's village of Tinghir, Morocco, and follows the trail of the town's once substantial Jewish population to its emigres and ... See full summary »
Director: Kamal Hachkar
Votes: 12
40. The Last Tribe (2011)
Documentary
This humorous and intimate account of the Jewish immigrants who arrived in England - thinking that they'd arrived in America - charts their rags to riches story from the ghettos of Eastern ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Glass | Star: Benjamin Casper
Votes: 19
41. The Heart of New York (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
In the Jewish enclave of New York's lower East Side, hapless inventor Mendel is constantly in debt since he uses all his (and other people's) money to tinker with machines that will make ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe Smith, Charles Dale, George Sidney, Ruth Hall
Votes: 193
42. Memories of the Warsaw Ghetto (2016)
63 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Told through the memories and drawings of little Genio and narrated by family friend, Bernard Bragg, 'Memories of the Warsaw Ghetto' is a docudrama film about a boyhood resident of that ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Genievsky | Stars: Pam Balcke, Peter Balcke, Bronek Bergman, Eugene Bergman
43. J£w$ Got Mone¥ (2012)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Did you know that one in five Jewish persons in New York lives in poverty? This is one of the facts brought to light by "Jews Got Money," which aims to debunk clichés on Jewish wealth. ... See full summary »
Director: Sasha Andreas
44. Israel: The Story of the Jewish People (1965)
30 min | Animation, Short, History
One of the first American film introductions to Israel, this vitally interesting country - both objective and thought-provoking. Philip Stapp's animation carries us back 3000 years into ... See full summary »
Directors: Julien Bryan, Philip Stapp | Stars: Arthur J. Balfour, David Ben-Gurion, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann
45. Brownsville Black and White (2000)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, History
Brownsville Black and White is the story of sixty years of Black/Jewish relations in the Brooklyn Community of Brownsville. The film is a poignant examination of group cooperation, urban ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Broadman
Votes: 9
46. Exodus to Berlin (2001)
90 min | Documentary
The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe unleashed anti-semitism in the former Soviet bloc, creating the first massive exodus of Jews since the end of World War II. Today, in bittersweet... See full summary »
Directors: Jeff Kamen, Peter Laufer
47. We Have A Dream (2016)
18 min | Short
"There is something that I must say to my people...This is Our Hope!" (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 28 August 1963). During the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, leaders within the American ... See full summary »
Director: Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham | Stars: Menachem Begin, David Ben-Gurion, Eugene Carson Blake, Eva Jessye Choir
49. Spadina (1984)
56 min
A documentary that chronicles the origins of Toronto's modern Jewish community 1920s-1950s, centered on the garment trade on Spadina Avenue and nearby Kensington Market, the early epicenter of Jewish settlement.
Director: David Troster
50. Delta Jews (1998)
64 min | Documentary, History
Documentary about the history of the Jewish community in Mississippi Delta and their relationship to the local white Christian community and the African American community.
Director: Mike DeWitt