Synagogue movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant synagogue movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, captivating, melancholic and dramatic films and TV shows about / with synagogue, judaism, family relations, rabbi, society, father son relationship, religion, culture clash, husband wife relationship and anti semitism plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as synagogue: A Serious Man (2009), Eyes Wide Open (2009), Cabaret (1972), The Golem (2018), To Take a Wife (2004), The Believer (2001), Jesus (2018), Between the Temples (2024), Sons of God (2017), The Jazz Singer (1980).
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158K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style:
cult classic, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cerebral ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, rabbi, existentialism, teacher, suburban life, synagogue, divorce, bar mitzvah, jewish stereotype, life, religion ...
Time:
year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
minnesota, bolivia, usa, poland, israel ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, erotic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay love, gay, forbidden love, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, married man, gay sex, gay bashing, gay student, judaism, homosexuality, infatuation ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem, palestine, middle east, persia
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64K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Style:
satirical, stylized, atmospheric, period piece, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
nazi, gay, fascism, lgbtq, cabaret, gay interest, decadence, world war two, closeted homosexual, dancing, politics, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
rabbi, farce, chase, racial stereotype, on the run, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, prosecution, partner, disorder, on the road, synagogue ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1973
Place:
france, paris france, new york, usa, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Israel, Ukraine, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, exciting, scary
Audience:
adult
Plot:
golem, rabbi, legend, survival horror, ancient, ritual, supernatural horror, folklore, supernatural, husband wife relationship, folk horror, magic ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
lithuania, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lovers, extramarital affair, coercion, conflict, family feud, marriage, divorce, israeli, dysfunctional family, synagogue, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, bleak, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, politics, identity crisis, fascism, violence spree, anger ...
Time:
year 2001, y2k, 60s, 20th century
Place:
israel, new york, usa, argentina, germany
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316
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Jesus is their apostles spread the peace and respect wherever they go. Performing miracles and arousing the wrath of Jewish priests until condemned to crucifixion for them.
Style:
christian film, realistic, serious, epic, emotional ...
Plot:
jesus, roman, christianity, temptation, clergy, religions or cults, christian, sin, religion, heroes, society, miraculous event ...
Place:
palestine
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, contemplative, religious drama
Plot:
grief, music teacher, teacher student relationship, crisis of faith, soul searching, jewish culture, bittersweet, synagogue, second chance, slow burn, ritual, identity ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Story:
A NYPD detective teams up with a Hasidic Jew to solve a murder in the Hasidic community.
Style:
detective, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
murder investigation, investigation, murder, murder mystery, crime solving, criminal, forensics, sleuth, murderer, police detective, crime investigation, police investigation ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style:
touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
father son relationship, music, tradition, generation gap, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, dancing, religions or cults, desire for fame, follow your dream, estrangement ...
Time:
70s, year 1980, 80s
Place:
california, new york, usa, los angeles, venice california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, depressing, romantic drama, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian sex, sex scene, forbidden love, infidelity, funeral, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
london, middle east, israel
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29K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, period piece, inspirational ...
Plot:
court, racism, lawyer, courtroom, injustice, african american, racial segregation, african american protagonist, racial discrimination, trial, jury, justice ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1954, year 1967
Place:
new york, connecticut, maryland, philadelphia, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
Style:
tense, bleak, enigmatic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, gay romance, homosexuality, gay interest, gay best friend, painter, best friend, male male relationship, gay lead character ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, beirut lebanon, lebanon
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Style:
cynical, dark comedy, black comedy, intense, stylized ...
Plot:
twins, dysfunctional family, weed, brutality, profanity, drug, marijuana, character study, road trip, twin brother, gangster, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
TV show
Story:
Passion, beauty, and brilliant storytelling are all on display in this six-hour-plus epic from Italian director Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Powell is superb in the title role, and with the overwhelming success of this TV movie throughout the world, ...
Style:
biblical, epic, serious, atmospheric, period piece ...
Plot:
jesus, christianity, jesus christ, faith, self sacrifice, christian, new testament, religion, prophet, bible, apostle, god or devil ...
Time:
1st century, biblical epic, 1930s
Place:
holy land, jerusalem, ancient greece, italy, tibet ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
Style:
clever, touching, enigmatic, stylized, independent film ...
Plot:
strongman, nazi, anti semitism, strong man, politics, fascism, small town, trial, fight, rabbi, occult, against humanity ...
Time:
1930s, year 2001, 20th century, year 1932
Place:
poland, germany, berlin germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style:
period piece, freeze frame, thought provoking, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot:
judaism, dance, wedding, tradition, jewish culture, broadway, milkman, anti semitism, dancing, forbidden love, tradition versus modernity, butcher ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
ukraine, israel, russia, ussr, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her colored chauffeur Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, period piece, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
racism, elderly, civil rights, friendship, old age, master and servant, chauffeur, racial segregation, cemetery, segregation, elevator, gardening ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, year 1989 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia, southern usa, usa, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, dysfunctional family, gays and lesbians, gender, jewish family, gay love, gay sex, gay couple, lgbt, family relations, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
NYPD Detective Avraham Avraham's belief in mankind is his superpower when it comes to uncovering the truth. Guided by a deep sense of spirituality and religious principles, Avraham is left to question his own humanity when a seemingly routine ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, crime drama, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, criminal, spirituality, changing lives, police investigation, crime investigation, forensics, uncover truth, crime solving, police detective, detective inspector, police procedural ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, controversial, clever, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, coming of age, boy, circus, nazi, wartime life, magic realism, cheating wife, extramarital affair, infidelity, beach ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1939 ...
Place:
germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
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3K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, Germany, USA, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Netherlands, UK, Malta, Morocco
Duration: 77 min.
TV show
Story:
The film is notable for presenting a more human Jesus, compared to more solemn portrayals in earlier films; here Jesus laughs and cries like anyone else. Among other things, he weeps at Joseph’s funeral, throws stones in Lake Galilee when meeting ...
Style:
biblical, epic, christian film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
jesus christ, jesus, bible, christianity, religions or cults, hopes, sin, faith, death of protagonist, judaism, belief in god, christian ...
Time:
1st century
Place:
palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Avalon is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical series of four "Baltimore Films": Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in the early 1950s and explores the themes ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, cult classic, semi autobiographical, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
thanksgiving, immigrant, culture clash, american history, immigration, children, television, hospital, family drama, independence day, cultural difference, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 1910s, year 1948, 20th century, 1900s ...
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, poland, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
youth, rabbi, winter, rural area, teen romance, classical music, judaism, prairie, religious differences, mine, stand up comedy, voice over narration ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
canada, middle east
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, escapades, hopes, life is a bitch, society, life turned upside down, circus, election, judaism, youth, starvation ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
slovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe, palestine ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
childhood, judaism, friendship between boys, afterlife, friendship, coming of age, boy, youth, catholicism, mentor, rabbi, religion ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, 1930s ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating ...
Style:
sad, historical drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, interfaith relationship, anti semitism, couples, death of lover, conquering, family relations, bittersweet, opposites attract, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 1999, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
wales, england
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1K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, non-linear ...
Plot:
racism, punk, war trauma, gang, vandalism, society, youth, downfall, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, teenage life, prison life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
holland
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must play nanny to three dysfunctional upper class kids in order to spy on their computer hacked dad.
Style:
humorous, teen, feel good, hilarious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
cross dressing, fbi, nanny, hidden identity, undercover agent, cheerleading, special agent, impersonation, working undercover, law enforcement, black, hip hop ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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