Rabbi movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of rabbi movies
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, Fantasy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hannah Stern, an American-born Jewish adolescent, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives; however, Hannah begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, time travel, anti semitism, nazi, world war, human spirit, against humanity, hopes, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a haredi family in Jerusalem. Shulem Schtisel the father of a large family is dealing with his younger son who he wants to see married soon. His daughter, Giti is dealing in secret with marital problems while his other son Zvi Arie ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, serious, mysterious ...
Plot:
jewish family, jewish culture, orthodox jew, family relations, parents and children, dating, looking for love, religions or cults, society, love and romance, unfulfillment, retirement home ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, holocaust survivor, boy, chess, hitler youth, little boy, rabbi, family relations, survival, anti semitism ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, germany, black sea, new york, vienna ...
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Avi Nesher's new film tracks the complex relationship between a Jerusalem Graffiti artist and a mysterious modern day prophet who is imprisoned in an abandoned apartment across the Artist's window.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, witty, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
amateur detective, lifestyle, investigation, society, religions or cults, artists and showbiz, israeli, supernatural power, hidden camera, rabbi, private detective, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, jerusalem
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, History
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Croatia, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, naked man, taboo, male nudity, sexuality, renaissance, theater, human nature, painter, performer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
16th century, 2010s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
forbidden love, sexual content, world war two, soldier, couples, war, family relations, against humanity, age difference, wartime, rabbi, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, year 1939, year 1940
Place:
poland, europe, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.
Style:
grindhouse, hilarious, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
restaurant, cannon, brooklyn bridge, food, rabbi, family relations, religions or cults, friends, couples, parents and children, loan, family life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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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, serious, realistic, tense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
police, murder, undercover, orthodox jew, police investigation, police corruption, judaism, investigation, police detective, conspiracy theory, brutality, who done it ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
new york, israel, usa, new jersey, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, South Africa, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Charlie Berns (William H. Macy) is a veteran Hollywood movie producer who has given up on his career and life. That is until his idealistic screenwriter nephew (Jason Ritter) comes bearing the script of a lifetime and Charlie decides to give his ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, kidnapping, movie studio, hollywood, disorder, showbiz, artists and showbiz, actor's life, down on your luck, missing person, desire for fame, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2008, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
usa, south africa, cape town south africa, london, los angeles ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style:
scary, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twins, afterlife, possession, demonic possession, supernatural horror, brutality, insect, death, masked killer, ghost, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
Style:
sexual, black and white, suspense, gothic, gothic horror ...
Plot:
nun, religion, medieval, renaissance, folk horror, forbidden love, curses spells and rituals, terror, abbess, sexual repression, literary, witchcraft ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, year 1961, near future
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality.
Style:
anthology, parody, sex comedy, sexy, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
zoophilia, satire, sex, mad scientist, surrealism, sarcasm, sex scene, bestiality, sexology, transsexuality, looking for sex, nudity ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, political, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
culture clash, illegal alien, extramarital affair, illegal immigrant, female nudity, deportation, society, social differences, state affairs, life is a bitch, fighting the system, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, bangladesh, tijuana mexico, san diego california ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a warehouse fire, museum director Groof and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Groof is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed ...
Style:
psychotronic, sinister, classic horror, grindhouse, weird
Plot:
survival horror, inspector, mysterious death, museum, kaiju, paranormal, rabbi, curse, schizophrenia, corpse, warehouse, fire ...
Time:
year 1967
Place:
london
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3K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An urban couple Ranjan Mathew and Priya have just moved to Kochi when powers of the supernatural start to take over their lives. How they tide over the forces forms the story.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, enigmatic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
ghost, spirit, revenge, exorcism, paranormal activity, supernatural power, rescue, possessed human, husband wife relationship, ancient mystery, supernatural, fear ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make ...
Style:
pre war
Plot:
world war two, fascism, border crossing, refugee, suicide, accusation, concentration camp, hitler youth, rabbi, torah, jewish life, national socialism ...
Time:
year 1982, 1940s, 1930s, year 1938, year 1940
Place:
vienna, paris france, prague, marseille
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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: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, slapstick, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
robin hood, farce, medieval, satire, wedding, king, righting the wronged, chastity belt, bow and arrow, virgin, arson, blind man ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 20th century, 90s, 12th century ...
Place:
england, arizona, jerusalem, new jersey, egypt
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Yearning to be married Fran Goldman is forced to reassess his strategy of love after being dumped by his fiancée four weeks before the wedding.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
looking for love, breakup, starting over, couples, couple relations, singleness, battle of the sexes, friends, buddies, hopes, love and romance, rabbi ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Srugim is an Israeli television drama which originally aired on Yes TV between 2008 and 2012. It was directed by Eliezer "Laizy" Shapiro, who co-created it with Hava Divon. The series depicted the lives of five national religious single ...
Style:
contemplative, sentimental, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
social relations, friendship, best friend, couples, introspection, couple relations, friends, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, society, singleness ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, asia, jerusalem
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wedding, jewish family, cousin cousin relationship, funeral, love and romance, disorder, rivalry, ego clash, fall in love, couples, nothing goes right, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, french riviera, new york, saint tropez ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beautiful Palestinian woman.
Style:
realistic, tense, emotional, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, political unrest, terrorism, couples, politics, danger, unfulfillment, undercover, society, femme fatale, life turned upside down, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestinian authority, middle east, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Beautiful and precocious Rivka is a twelve-year-old Jewish girl who believes in Jesus. She and her father attend a Messianic Jewish congregation in their community. But when her father suddenly dies, Rivka's life changes forever. She ends up ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional, christian film ...
Plot:
society, love and romance, family relations, youth, culture clash, coming of age, social relations, religions or cults, fall in love, death of father, religion, christian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain ...
Style:
philosophical, thinking, controversial, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
marital abuse, orthodox jew, religion, judaism, israeli, arranged marriage, arab, feminism, women, couples, strong female presence, family relations ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
israel, middle east, persia, palestine, jerusalem
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
John Safran vs God is an eight-part television documentary series by John Safran which was broadcast on SBS TV of Australia in 2004. It has been described in a media release as "John Safran's most audacious project yet". It had a much ...
Style:
semi serious, cynical, humorous, controversial, talky ...
Plot:
satire, society, religions or cults, world spanning, mythology, religion, monastery, curse, buddhism, hinduism, confession, islam ...
Time:
21st century
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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: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A retelling of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, based on the idea that he was a black man whose death was a racially motivated hate crime.
Style:
biblical
Plot:
jesus, christian, easter, new testament, roman, bible, disciple, rabbi, traitor, faith, betrayal, racism ...
Time:
1st century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each ...
Style:
psychological, sexual, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
love affair, mental institution, mental illness, psychology, nazi occupation, tragic hero, power relations, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, society, experimenting, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
switzerland, russia, europe, zurich switzerland, geneva switzerland ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is ...
Style:
psychological, neo western, disturbing, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual content, cowboy, rebellious daughter, delusion, dangerous attraction, love and romance, parents and children, crazy love, father daughter relationship, psychopath, mental illness, hipster ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
south dakota, california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
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