Hanukkah movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant hanukkah movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, feel good, humorous, touching, sentimental and emotional films and TV shows about / with hanukkah, family relations, storytelling, mentor, catastrophe, culture clash, runaway, dialogue, friendship and family plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hanukkah: The Hebrew Hammer (2003), Double Holiday (2019), Will You Merry Me? (2008), Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020), Hitched for the Holidays (2012), God Is Great and I'm Not (2001), Hanukkah on Rye (2022), Waiting for the Messiah (2000), Caillou's Holiday Movie (2003), The Holiday (2006).
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List of hanukkah movies
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus's evil son.
Style:
parody, humorous, satirical, stylized, not serious ...
Plot:
hanukkah, christmas, satire, holiday, blaxploitation, good versus evil, vigilantism, religions or cults, obsessive quest, secret identity, buddies, society ...
Time:
70s
Place:
jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Rebecca must throw the company holiday party with office rival, Chris. It coincides with Hanukkah, so she must juggle her work, family traditions, and nemesis to make the party a success.
Style:
entertaining, sweet, captivating, disturbing, romantic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, hanukkah, christmas season, male female relationship, love, christmas romance, fall in love, lifestyle, couples, christmas spirit, love affair ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rebecca, from an upper class Los Angeles family, and Henry, from choir-singing, tradition-bound Midwestern roots, are in love. Henry pops the question just before Christmas and the kids plan on gathering their families for the holidays in order to ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, engagement, couples, family relations, unlikely couple, family gatherings, love and romance, culture clash, parents and children, disorder, society, thanksgiving ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
As Christina prepares her restaurant for its busiest time of year, she gets back a DNA test revealing that she’s Jewish. The discovery leads her to a new family and an unlikely romance over eight nights.
Style:
entertaining, romantic, feel good, emotional
Plot:
christmas, hanukkah, christmas eve, female protagonist, christmas season, love, cynic, celebration, jewish culture, cliche, jewish woman, christmas romance ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A couple of single adults agree to pose as each others significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families from harassing them, only to find that their feelings for each other are real.
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
pretend relationship, christmas, holiday, family relations, fall in love, couples, family gatherings, fake relationship, hanukkah, new year's eve, newspaper office, advertising agency ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
judaism, love affair, fall in love, youth, love and romance, society, culture clash, looking for love, couples, spirituality, religion, jewess ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
israel, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A matchmaker connects Molly and Jacob, but their new romance is put to the test when they realize that they are competing deli owners. Will a Hanukkah miracle keep them together?
Style:
feel good, romantic comedy, lighthearted, sitcom, humorous ...
Plot:
matchmaker, christmas, holiday romance, hanukkah, jewish culture, romantic rivalry, meet cute, celebration, wooing, miraculous event, competitiveness, reconciliation ...
Place:
lower east side manhattan new york city, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, and wonders when he'll discover sex. ...
Style:
serious, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
unemployment, forbidden love, social differences, society, life is a bitch, love and romance, family relations, couples, parents and children, pregnancy, judaism, loss of job ...
Time:
90s
Place:
israel, latin america, argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
The cast of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” delivers an abundance of feel-good holiday cheer as they perform their favorite Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s songs and share their fondest holiday memories.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, lighthearted, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
holiday, christmas, friendship, teenager, family relations, heartwarming, teenage life, love and romance, follow your dream, christmas season, teenage love, parents and children ...
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Genre: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Caillou learns about winter holiday traditions from around the world. He and his entire family celebrate Christmas, sharing, giving and caring.
Style:
feel good, funny, captivating, sincere, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot:
christmas, holiday, winter, friendship, christmas present, christmas season, children, friends, celebration, generosity, heartwarming, parenting ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
holiday, christmas, love and romance, love, happy ending, love story, couples, fall in love, multiple storylines, snow, looking for love, christmas spirit ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, england, london, california, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While Rachel is stuck in a time loop, reliving the night of her parents' Hanukkah party, she leans on the boy her grandmother is trying to set her up with to make it out.
Style:
captivating, semi serious
Plot:
time loop, meet cute, holiday, relationships, couple relations, couples, repeated scene, family relations, male female relationship, repeated event, teamwork, love affair ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
new jersey, brooklyn new york city, new york
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
Style:
touching, witty, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
divorce, marriage, broadway, dancing, biopic, women, showgirl, gambling debt, mother daughter relationship, gambler, theatrical producer, showbiz ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, baltimore, chicago ...
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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: 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, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, emotional, touching, thinking ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
gender, judaism, skinny dipping, gender bender, arm wrestling, women, dancing, transsexual, feminist, woman dressed as man, transgender, destiny ...
Time:
year 1983, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the ...
Style:
biblical, captivating, christian film, uplifting, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, toddlers, pre-teens ...
Plot:
slavery, religion, ancient egypt, desert, bible, christian, ancient history, hopes, self discovery, freedom, pharaoh, prince ...
Time:
90s, biblical epic, year 1998
Place:
egypt, africa, north africa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who ...
Style:
humorous, funny, parody, teen, harsh ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
summer camp, looking for sex, sex, camp, virginity, lifeguard, lesbian, rescue, farce, satire, coming of age, stoner ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 2000s, year 1981
Place:
maine, italy
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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, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
holocaust, closeted homosexual, on the road, culture clash, journey, self discovery, collector, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, europe, odessa ukraine, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
political, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, assassination, mossad, vengeance, judaism, politics, terrorist, vigilante, revenge, spy, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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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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161K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style:
sincere, period piece, epic, historical drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, genocide, partisan, shoah, judaism, world war, red army, hopes, rebellion ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, germany, indiana, europe, russia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.
Style:
captivating, unusual plot structure, funny, surreal, inspirational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time traveler, immigrant, time travel, fish out of water, jewish culture, family relations, twists and turns, inventions and discoveries, disorder, loss of wife, twitter, cemetery ...
Time:
edwardian era, 2020s, year 1919, year 2019, 2010s ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, canada, new york
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Adam Sandler invites you to share some holiday cheer in the new, no-holds-barred musical comedy Adam Sandler's 8 Crazy Nights. Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far.
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, hilarious, christmas classics ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
basketball, holiday, christmas, stupidity, justice, drunkenness, courtroom, friendship, disorder, troublemaker, twins, xmas ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new hampshire, new england, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sarah is headed back to her hometown for Hanukkah with news of her engagement. Upon returning she finds out that her father had a heart attack and things have gotten out of hand.
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychotronic
Plot:
love story, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, parents and children, love interest, family problems, love affair, relationship problems, love and romance, couple relations, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style:
sexy, teen, sex comedy, clever, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
womanizer, sex, relationships, infidelity, couples, friendship, obsession, friends to lovers, dating, friends, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, france, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A feel-good comedy about the laughter, excitement and fun that come with being a kid! Joshua is a thoughtful 10-year-old looking for some simple answers to life's eternal questions. The problem is that no one - including his concerned parents ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, light, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, happy ending, religion, life philosophy, existentialism, boys' school, death in the family, teenage life, baseball, boy, friendship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
philadelphia, usa, rome italy
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