Jewish life movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant jewish life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, touching and sentimental films and TV shows about / with jewish life, family relations, holocaust, world war two, coming of age, judaism, anti semitism, jewish family, family and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres shot in USA, Germany, Israel and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jewish life: Minyan (2020), Plan A (2021), Shtisel (2013), Indignation (2016), Sunshine (1999), We Were the Lucky Ones (2024), Ageless Love (2021), Redemption Road (2017), Irena's Vow (2023), My Daughter, Anne Frank (2015).
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List of jewish life movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sincere, touching, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, judaism, gay interest, closeted homosexual, gay sex, gay couple, gay romance, male nudity, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families were killed by the Nazis. They ...
Style:
suspenseful, historical drama, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, saboteur, jew persecution, revenge, secret mission, world war two, jewish life, diversion, holocaust survivor, jewish history, loss of family, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
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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: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, Poland, Latvia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, ghetto, social worker, rescue, wartime life, nazi, historical figure, world war, against humanity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
Style:
intellectual, melancholic, exciting, stylized, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual repression, adolescence, existentialism, atheist, lgbtq, coming of age, adaptation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, love, student ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1951, year 2016, 20th century ...
Place:
ohio, new jersey, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style:
costume drama, erotic, saga, family saga, sad ...
Plot:
holocaust, sex scene, politics, love affair, political unrest, world war two, illicit affair, fascism, nazi, family life, siblings relations, jewish culture ...
Time:
19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
eastern europe, hungary, israel, sarajevo, serbia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.
Style:
historical drama, emotional, psychological, captivating, family saga ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, jewish family, jew persecution, family reunited, holocaust survivor, survival, world war, nazi occupation, jewish life, orthodox jew, jewish woman ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This extraordinary story begins in the late 1960’s during turbulent times when Yale, 23, idealistic and fresh out of college meets Nina, 37 and widowed with 5 children. Yale’s parents aren’t thrilled about the budding relationship, yet despite ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lifestyle, love affair, couples, social problems, couple relations, family relations, coping, jewish family, jewish life, overcoming, husband wife relationship, social issues ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Cuba
Duration: 203 min.
Story:
In the fall of 1938, two Jewish children from Berlin are sent to England by their parents to escape Nazi persecution.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
world war two, nazi, judge, jew persecution, jewish family, life is a bitch, jewish life, problem, family problems, orthodox jew, smoking, female nudity ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, period drama
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, nazism, female protagonist, holocaust, jewish history, wartime, problem, nazi germany, wartime life, jewish life, social problems ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding ...
Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, jewish history, world war, jewish girl, courage, hiding, holocaust, anti semitism, diary, tragedy, memories, biopic ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story:
After the death of Joshua, the Hebrew people begin to "go their own way", turning their backs on God and beginning to worship pagan gods. But when the prophet Jeremiah tries to warn them, his own people try to stone him, calling him a ...
Style:
novela, saga, historical drama, biblical, captivating ...
Plot:
religious, jewish history, babylon, religious conflict, jewish man, lifestyle, jewish culture, jewish life, religion, religious faith, election, faith ...
Place:
jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, anti semitism, persecution, occupied france, french resistance, nazi occupation, life is a bitch, jewish life, friendship, children, jewish family ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Secrets, lies, surprises and more are explored in this rich selection of gay short films from Israel.
The 6 short films are: Three (2018); A Trip to the Desert (2016); Rubber Dolphin (2018); Stav (2018); After His Death (2017); Leave of Absence ...
Style:
touching, compassionate, thought provoking, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot:
gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay interest, homosexuality, male male relationship, homosexual, affair, friendship, forbidden love, threesome, fall in love ...
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, Hungary, Germany, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, touching, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violinist, mysterious disappearance, shoah, polish, family relations, investigation, wartime life, private investigation, wartime, war, musician's life, tragedy ...
Time:
year 1943, year 1953, 20th century, 1950s, 80s ...
Place:
london, new york, england, israel, poland ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
All hilarity breaks loose in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations of Fiedlers collide in a crazy family reunion. As they prepare for the biggest Bar Mitzvah on the block, they begin to see that they're much more alike ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
rabbi, eccentric family, social differences, lifestyle, couples, family life, family gatherings, estrangement, parents and children, coming of age, youth, bar mitzvah ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new mexico, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.
Style:
disturbing, entertaining, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, divorced mother, street life, female protagonist, relationship problems, relationships, parents and children, eccentric family, family life, family problems, choice, dysfunctional family ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955.
Style:
period piece, frightening, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, racism, interracial relations, white male black female relationship, friendship, love, interracial romance, adolescence, family relations, high school, culture clash, interracial ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, atlantic city new jersey, belgium ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, talky, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
sugar daddy, jewish family, jewish culture, lesbian interest, lgbt, lgbtq, funeral, unfaithful husband, prostitute, parent child relationship, sex, ex girlfriend ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Comedy, History
Country: Israel
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Satire sketches, examining the history of the Jewish people since biblical times.
Style:
controversial, witty, clever, humorous, sketch comedy ...
Plot:
satire, political satire, bible, society, disorder, jewish history, bible story, social commentary, national identity, irreverent, dark humor, israeli ...
Place:
israel, palestine, holy land, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
Plot:
judaism, holocaust survivor, orthodox jew, racism, skinny dipping, life, tragedy, nazi, justice, culture clash, depression, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, year 1972, 70s
Place:
europe, israel, antwerp, belgium, poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy (following God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore and Santa Fe) Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, ...
Style:
bilingual
Plot:
world war two, trafficking, red army, holocaust, black market, us military, socialism, refugee, immigrant, jewish life, theater, skating ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s, year 1944, year 1986, post world war two
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Style:
touching, humorous, dark comedy, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dark humor, ventriloquist, eccentricity, unemployment, lifestyle, looking for love, siblings relations, parents and children, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, small town, shyness ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
new jersey
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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: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style:
sad, cult classic, emotional, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, shoah, nazi, gestapo, world war, radio, judaism, hopes, lie, death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1942, year 1939 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, love story, relationships, sex, older woman younger man sex, artist, therapy, therapist, family relations, impossible love, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bobby Gold is a career cop who is reassigned from a hunt for a cop killer to the investigation of the murder of an old Jewish woman in Baltimore, and in the process finds himself exploring his own sense of identity.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, judaism, police, conspiracy, murder, cop, police investigation, blackmail, guard dog, boy, rottweiler, black lives matter ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Netherlands, Romania, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Style:
humorous, sad, surprise ending, feel good, road movie ...
Plot:
holocaust, train, nazi, world war two, shoah, judaism, deportation, great ending, railway, wartime life, bittersweet, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1998, year 1941
Place:
eastern europe, germany, palestine, europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina, Portugal, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, erotic ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, hidden identity, opposites attract, eccentric family, family life, love and romance, society, dishonesty, family gatherings, social differences, comedy of errors ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
Style:
realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
culture clash, dysfunctional family, parents and children, love and romance, sibling relationship, family problems, estrangement, couples, holocaust, couple relations, gender, politics ...
Time:
80s
Place:
germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe
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