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The Patient (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges.
Style: dramatic, thrilling, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, killer, violence, wife, murder, secret, murderer, psychotherapist, loss of wife, homicidal maniac, illness, disorder ...
Time: 2020s
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Roe v. Wade (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history.
Style: psychological, suspense, thought provoking, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: abortion, conspiracy, court, lawsuit, women's rights, court case, courtroom drama, social problems, family problems, civil rights, social relations, human rights ...
Time: 70s
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Untogether (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Once considered a teen prodigy, a recovering addict sobers up and tries to get her writing career back on track. She begins a relationship with a rising author known for his wartime memoirs.
Style: captivating
Plot: writers, relationships, rock star, relationship problems, musician, older man younger woman relationship, relationship vs career, writer's life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, couple relations, siblings ...
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The Assistant (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural. During the Depression, drifter Frank Alpine (Gil Bellows) and hobo Ward ...
Style: detective, independent film
Plot: anti semitism, drifter, assistant, guilt, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, great depression, robbery, father daughter relationship, brutality, love, violence ...
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Family Prayers (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s.
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: gambler, youth, comic book, parents, bet, bookies, family relations, girl, little girl, newspaper, party, cigarette smoking ...
Time: year 1993, year 1969, 60s
Place: los angeles, vietnam, california
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Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Having been adopted by the madam of a southwestern brothel, a now adult Adrian must cope with the fact that he's Satan's kid, and not living up to his expectations.
Style: creepy, psychotronic, surprise ending
Plot: occult, evil child, demon, childbirth, satanic ritual, religion, faith, exorcism, doom, satan, witch, child born of rape ...
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God on Trial (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
Style: thought provoking, serious, disturbing, tense, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, atrocity, genocide, debate, war crime, injustice, confined, life is a bitch, human nature, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1940s
Place: europe, palestine, poland, israel, germany
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The Great New Wonderful (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, witty, clever ...
Plot: 9/11, therapy, family relations, mental illness, office, immigrant, bittersweet, rise to the top, terrorism, love and romance, ambition, misfit ...
Time: year 2002, september 11 2001, year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, italy, manhattan new york city ...
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Last Embrace (1979)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: spy, murder, obsession, conspiracy, niagara falls, paranoia, betrayal, brothel, forced prostitution, nudity, female nudity, suspicion ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: austin texas, new york, usa, mexico
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 6.8
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Broken Promise (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the face of insurmountable odds, one man will risk everything to take back his country. Czechoslovakia, 1943, and the world is enveloped by the dark clouds of war. Showing unimaginable bravery, a Jewish teenager manages to escape the clutches of ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, student film
Plot: football, nazi occupation, brother brother relationship, football player, monastery, christian, world war, dictatorship, dictator, soccer, shoah, military ...
Place: slovakia, czechoslovakia
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Pressure Point (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Style: political, psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, psychopath, prison, african, colonialism, nazi, therapy, black, blaxploitation, mental disorder, legion, foreign legion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, year 1942
Place: madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york
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Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a film based on the life of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi occupied Holland. When war breaks out Anne & her family, Otto her father, Edith her mother & Margot her sister move from Germany ...
Style: uplifting, sincere, emotional, bleak, sad ...
Plot: holocaust, genocide, against humanity, world war two, starvation, concentration camp, ss, survival, childhood, hopes, anti semitism, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland, netherlands
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Whisky (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship. the owner of a sock ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, realistic, humorous, comedy drama ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, factory, family relations, comedy of errors, hidden identity, couple relations, love and romance, disorder, family gatherings, farce, dishonesty, elderly ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america, argentina
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All My Loved Ones (1999)
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, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, society, life turned upside down, election, youth, judaism, circus, starvation ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: slovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe, palestine ...
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Live and Become (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Style: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: adoption, racism, boy, family relations, rescue, refugee, rabbi, hidden identity, love of one's life, fall in love, orphan, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 80s
Place: africa, israel, middle east, palestine, paris france ...
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Suzie Gold (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Suzie Gold is a twentysomething torn between the nice Jewish boy her family is keen on and the non-Jewish boy she loves.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, touching
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, unrequited love, love and romance, society, fall in love, family relations, love triangle, family gatherings, parents and children, interracial relations, judaism, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, middle east, london
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A Stranger Among Us (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in!
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police investigation, orthodox jew, police, judaism, police corruption, brutality, conspiracy theory, unlikely friendships, investigation, who done it, master criminal ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: new york, israel, usa
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Stolen Summer (2002)
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
Plot: judaism, afterlife, friendship, childhood, coming of age, youth, boy, catholicism, mentor, friendship between boys, family relations, rabbi ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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Solomon & Gaenor (1999)
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: independent film, historical drama, sad, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, anti semitism, couples, conquering, family relations, interfaith relationship, bittersweet, single parent, fall in love, life is a bitch, opposites attract, love and romance ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1999, 1910s, 20th century
Place: wales, england
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Skin (2008)
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, bleak, disturbing, non-linear ...
Plot: racism, gang, skinhead, vandalism, rebelliousness, downfall, life is a bitch, society, youth, teenage life, anti semitism, prison life ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: holland
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Sixty Six (2006)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, humorous, indie film ...
Plot: soccer, youth, coming of age, family relations, world cup, nothing goes right, football, parents and children, family life, husband wife relationship, child's point of view, judaism ...
Time: 60s, year 2006, 20th century
Place: brighton, england, london, europe
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style: touching, humorous, independent film, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, infidelity, family gatherings, homecoming, childhood home, death of father, children, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new england
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Mrs. Harris (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
Style: clever, realistic, serious, biting, witty ...
Plot: crimes of passion, murder, vengeance, destructive relationship, obsession, addiction, couples, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, year 1976, 60s, 70s
Place: florida, virginia, philadelphia, new york
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The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Style: sexy, period piece, talky, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot: shakespeare, renaissance, religious intolerance, women, friends, love and romance, judaism, trial, prejudice, segregation, culture clash, life is a bitch ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times, year 2004
Place: venice, italy, israel, middle east, europe
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Max (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Canada, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolph Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, realistic, avant garde ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, abstract art, friendship, art, painter, biopic, propaganda, anti semitism, controversy, world war one, self discovery ...
Time: 1920s, year 2002, 1910s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: germany, middle east, austria, europe, munich germany
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My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: jealous husband, love story, brutality, dishonesty, lifestyle, couples, relationship vs career, couple relations, actor's life, journalism, women, relationships ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
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The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Place: scotland, england, london, britain, middle east ...
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style: disturbing, compassionate, emotional, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot: fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, anti semitism, assassination, tennis, family relations, brother sister relationship, family life, nazi germany, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970
Place: italy, europe, africa
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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather ...
Style: touching, road movie, tragicomedy, clever, scenic ...
Plot: holocaust, on the road, journey, culture clash, nazi, collector, self discovery, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: ukraine, eastern europe, europe, berlin germany, odessa ukraine ...
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Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Style: talky, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: divorce, holocaust, world war two, infidelity, love and romance, twists and turns, pregnancy, bigamy, peasant, self discovery, human nature, dark humor ...
Time: post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1989
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa ...
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