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1. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Votes: 316,054 | Gross: $18.10M
2. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
After her husband leaves her, young mother of two Miriam "Midge" Maisel discovers that she has a talent for stand-up comedy. Could this be her calling?
Stars: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle
Votes: 143,008
3. The Fabelmans (2022)
PG-13 | 151 min | Drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch
Votes: 116,986
4. The Goldbergs (2013–2023)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
This ABC show takes place in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania in the 1980s and follows the lives of a family named The Goldbergs.
Stars: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, Hayley Orrantia
Votes: 40,964
5. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Votes: 743,491 | Gross: $57.60M
6. This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
After their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes, and might-have-beens.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver
Votes: 89,286 | Gross: $34.29M
7. Licorice Pizza (2021)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits
Votes: 140,357
8. The First Wives Club (1996)
PG | 103 min | Comedy
Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.
Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith
Votes: 54,241 | Gross: $105.49M
9. A Small Light (2023)
TV-14 | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History
Follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II.
Stars: Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Billie Boullet
Votes: 12,172
10. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)
134 min | Drama, History
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala
Votes: 2,737
11. Shiva Baby (2020)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Drama
At a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy and ex girlfriend.
Director: Emma Seligman | Stars: Rachel Sennott, Danny Deferrari, Fred Melamed, Polly Draper
Votes: 33,292
12. Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
TV-G | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels.
Stars: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Laurence Olivier, James Mason
Votes: 24,894
13. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Heather Matarazzo, Christina Brucato, Victoria Davis, Christina Vidal
Votes: 37,193 | Gross: $4.77M
14. Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter.
Director: Cooper Raiff | Stars: Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Evan Assante, Vanessa Burghardt
Votes: 26,530
15. Ragtime (1981)
PG | 155 min | Drama
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Brad Dourif
Votes: 10,561 | Gross: $21.02M
16. 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: 92,463
17. A Walk on the Moon (1999)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Director: Tony Goldwyn | Stars: Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Bobby Boriello, Anna Paquin
Votes: 9,216 | Gross: $4.74M
18. Death Wish 3 (1985)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam
Votes: 17,401 | Gross: $16.12M
19. Two Lovers (2008)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce
Votes: 43,550 | Gross: $3.15M
20. Little Fockers (2010)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
Family-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. Does his son-in-law, the male nurse Greg Focker, have what it takes?
Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson
Votes: 119,075 | Gross: $148.38M
21. The Devil's Arithmetic (1999 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
A 16-year-old American girl with an apathetic view towards her Jewish family history finds herself pulled through time into 1941 to a small Polish village where the Nazis have just begun their genocidal propaganda.
Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman, Mimi Rogers
Votes: 4,487
22. The Tale (2018)
TV-MA | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.
Director: Jennifer Fox | Stars: Laura Dern, Jason Ritter, Common, Elizabeth Debicki
Votes: 19,715
23. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Bill Bernstein, Claire Bloom
Votes: 60,806 | Gross: $18.25M
24. Clone High (2002–2003)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The greatest minds of the world have been cloned, and are now attending high school together.
Stars: Will Forte, Phil Lord, Michael McDonald, Christa Miller
Votes: 9,018
25. Shtisel (2013–2021)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama
A Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem reckons with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life.
Stars: Doval'e Glickman, Michael Aloni, Neta Riskin, Shira Haas
Votes: 8,157
26. As They Made Us (2022)
R | 100 min | Drama
A divorced mom tries to make peace with her dysfunctional family as she finds a second chance at love.
Director: Mayim Bialik | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Dianna Agron, Simon Helberg, Candice Bergen
Votes: 1,658
27. Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Director: Tamara Jenkins | Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Bryna Weiss, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 14,622 | Gross: $5.48M
28. A Fortunate Man (2018)
TV-14 | 162 min | Drama, Romance
A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite, but the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Esben Smed, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Benjamin Kitter, Julie Christiansen
Votes: 7,373
29. Taking Woodstock (2009)
R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton
Votes: 30,013 | Gross: $7.44M
30. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Family
A Jewish family in Berlin family must flee the Nazis. First, they go to Zürich. From there they go to Paris, and finally to London.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Riva Krymalowski, Marinus Hohmann, Carla Juri, Oliver Masucci
Votes: 3,382
31. Family Practice (2018)
89 min | Drama
Simon has a turbulent bond with his father. During his parents' vacation, Simon starts a risky flirtation with his dad's lover, becoming entrapped in the complicated family web.
Director: Jeshua Dreyfus | Stars: Dimitri Stapfer, Katja Kolm, Dani Levy, Sibylle Canonica
Votes: 228
32. Fred Claus (2007)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Fred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole to help Santa and the elves prepare for Christmas in exchange for cash.
Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins
Votes: 47,809 | Gross: $72.01M
33. Summer of Rockets (2019)
60 min | Drama
Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain.
Stars: Toby Stephens, Keeley Hawes, Lily Sacofsky, Linus Roache
Votes: 2,163
34. I'll Find You (2019)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A Catholic opera singer and Jewish violin virtuoso dream of performing together at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York City, but the German invasion of Poland tears them apart.
Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Adelaide Clemens, Leo Suter, Stephen Dorff, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 1,381
35. Betrayed (2020)
126 min | Drama, History, War
The Braude family's experiences when Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany and Jews were arrested and deported.
Director: Eirik Svensson | Stars: Jakob Oftebro, Pia Halvorsen, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Carl Martin Eggesbø
Votes: 2,415
36. House of Promises (2022–2023)
45 min | Drama, Romance
Berlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden. They are marked by poverty and crime.
Stars: Naemi Florez, Ludwig Simon, Alexander Scheer, Nina Kunzendorf
Votes: 613
37. Girl Play (2004)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Two real-life lesbian actresses meet by chance when they are cast as lovers in a local stage play, and end up actually falling in love.
Director: Lee Friedlander | Stars: Robin Greenspan, Lacie Harmon, Mink Stole, Dom DeLuise
Votes: 869
38. The Diary of Anne Frank (2016)
128 min | Drama, War
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Director: Hans Steinbichler | Stars: Lea van Acken, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Noethen, Stella Kunkat
Votes: 1,641
39. Then She Found Me (2007)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
April, 39, wants a baby but her husband leaves her. When her adoptive mother dies, she's contacted by her biological mother, a TV talk show host. April starts seeing the divorced dad of one of her students at school.
Director: Helen Hunt | Stars: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick
Votes: 10,233 | Gross: $3.74M
40. Ridley Road (2021)
Not Rated | 229 min | Drama, Thriller
When Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and he is caught between life and death, Vivien finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country.
Stars: Agnes O'Casey, Rory Kinnear, Henry Wilton-Hunt, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 2,894
41. Sarah's Key (2010)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, War
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot
Votes: 17,929 | Gross: $7.69M
42. Filling in the Blanks (2023)
94 min | Documentary
When 54 year old Jon Baime takes a DNA test, his world and sense of self identity is shattered by a family secret.
Director: Jon Baime | Stars: Jon Baime, Philip Schaefer
Votes: 304
43. Homicide (1991)
R | 102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Vincent Guastaferro, J.J. Johnston
Votes: 8,174 | Gross: $2.97M
44. Liberty Heights (1999)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Ben Foster
Votes: 7,047 | Gross: $3.73M
45. Used People (1992)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice... See full summary »
Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni
Votes: 1,710 | Gross: $17.96M
46. One Small Hitch (2013)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
Josh's girlfriend wants to get married. Molly's boyfriend is married. Josh and Molly fly to the wedding in Chicago together and pretend to be engaged to make their parents happy. Comedy follows...does romance?
Director: John Burgess | Stars: Shane McRae, Aubrey Dollar, Daniel J. Travanti, Janet Ulrich Brooks
Votes: 5,393 | Gross: $0.01M
47. Mahler (1974)
PG | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Composer Gustav Mahler's (Robert Powell) life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife (Georgina Hale) discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin
Votes: 3,062
48. Made for Each Other (2023 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Follows a sculptor who uses magic to create her ideal man and bring him into reality, but she then starts to fall for her real-life friend and learns to appreciate the flaws that make love perfectly imperfect.
Director: Jeff Beesley | Stars: Alexandra Turshen, Matt Cohen, Aaron O'Connell, Illeana Douglas
Votes: 705
49. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
R | 94 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi
Votes: 7,677 | Gross: $0.60M
50. 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: 4,976