Bar mitzvah movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant bar mitzvah movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, feel good and independent film films and TV shows about / with bar mitzvah, coming of age, friendship, family relations, husband wife relationship, restaurant, father son relationship, lifestyle, sex and dancing plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bar mitzvah: Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), A Serious Man (2009), Sixty Six (2006), Alex Is Lovesick (1986), The First Wives Club (1996), Addicted to Fresno (2015), Safe Men (1998), Queer Duck: The Movie (2006), Keeping Up with the Steins (2006), Hey Arnold! (1996).

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Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.
Style: disturbing, satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, bipolar disorder, party, autism, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, relationships, teenage girl, social problems, male female relationship, satire, lifestyle ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new jersey
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 7.0
 149K
A Serious Man (2009)
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: dark comedy, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cynical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, professor, rabbi, teacher, suburban life, divorce, marijuana, religion, mysticism, life, neighbor ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: minnesota, usa, poland, bolivia, israel ...
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 6.7
 3K
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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The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just ...
Style: light, captivating, humorous, contemplative, surreal
Plot: rabbi, matchmaking, family dinner, family relations, looking for love, self discovery, fall in love, couples, love and romance, society, friendship, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, israel, tel aviv israel, zurich switzerland
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Alex Is Lovesick (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, israeli, israeli culture, aunt, black market, bar mitzvah, family relations, love and romance, society, young heroes, fall in love ...
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: middle east, israel
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: divorce, revenge, battle of the sexes, friendship, female protagonist, female bonding, feminism, women, dancing, breakup, feminist, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 60s, year 1969
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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Addicted to Fresno (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two co-dependent sisters, a recovering sex addict and a lonely lesbian who work as hotel maids in Fresno, go to ludicrous lengths to cover up an accidental crime.
Style: humorous, captivating, tense, light, funny ...
Plot: lesbian, sex addict, sex scene, sister sister relationship, cover-up, sibling relationship, murder, accidental death, stealing money, friendship, women, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.8
 4K
Safe Men (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic ...
Style: light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy ...
Plot: safecracker, heist, mistaken identity, organized crime, comedy of errors, cons and scams, gangster, farce, caper, justice, crime boss, unlikely criminals ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
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Queer Duck: The Movie (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Queer Duck: The Movie is the relentlessly funny, feature-length extension of the animated series Queer Duck, created by frequent The Simpsons scripter Mike Reiss. Sexually scandalous yet sweet, the movie is a cascade of pop-culture stereotypes of ...
Style: not serious, humorous, witty, feel good, adult animation ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: sexual humor, gay, gay stereotype, friendship, disorder, misfit, fall in love, couple relations, sexual relations, lifestyle, duck, gender bending ...
Time: 2000s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
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Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
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, social differences, eccentric family, lifestyle, couples, family gatherings, family life, estrangement, parents and children, youth, coming of age, judaism ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: california, usa, new mexico, los angeles
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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
Style: captivating, psychological, satirical, teen comedy
Audience: teen drama
Plot: middle school, young girl, coming of age, teenage girl, student, relationship problems, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, love affair, male female relationship, satire, love story ...
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 7.6
 36K
Hey Arnold! (1996)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, South Korea, China, Taiwan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, retro, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, boys' night, family friendly
Plot: friendship, grandparent and grandchild, youth, friends, everyday life, boy, mischievous children, child's point of view, elementary school, working class, crossover, pop culture ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.6
 56K
Shine (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Style: inspirational, emotional, feel good, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: music, classical music, piano, biopic, pianist, prodigy, schizophrenia, child prodigy, psychology, father son relationship, mental illness, genius ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, 70s
Place: australia, middle east, oceania, london, south australia
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The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and comes up with a lovely, artistic way to help herself and others who have suffered heartbreak.
Style: captivating, entertaining, feel good, rom com, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: broken heart, breakup, art gallery, chance meeting, masseuse, curator, romantic friendship, male female friendship, new life, love, memorabilia, teenager ...
Time: year 2014, year 2006
Place: harvard university, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, paris france
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The Kindergarten Teacher (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, clever, captivating ...
Plot: kindergarten, boy, obsession, israeli, female teacher, teaching the ways of the world, dedicated educator, teachers and students, family relations, prodigy, losing-it hero, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, jerusalem, madrid, boston ...
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The Song of Names (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, Hungary
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: captivating, touching, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, violinist, musician, mysterious disappearance, family relations, polish, investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, tragedy, war, wartime ...
Time: year 1951, 80s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place: poland, new york, london, warsaw poland, israel ...
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 6.2
 2K
Abe (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. But the 12-year-old kid from Brooklyn who loves food and cooking, prefers, well, Abe. ...
Style: entertaining, culinary, feel good, light, realistic ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: cooking and food, food, jewish mother, boy, boyhood, family dinner, cookery, mentor, hobby, teenager, family problems, brawl ...
Place: new york
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 6.5
 299K
It Chapter Two (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Because every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry, Maine, it chapter two brings the chapters - who've long since gone their separate ways - back together as adults, nearly three decades after the events of the first film.
Style: scary, slasher, bloody, epic, spooky ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: clown, evil clown, killer clown, stephen king, fear, group of friends, evil, panic, carnival, murder, asthma, kids in trouble ...
Time: year 2019, 80s, year 1989, 2010s, year 2016
Place: maine, los angeles, new york, usa
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The Last Movie Star (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Vic Edwards was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, known for his mustachioed good looks and cocky swagger. With his Hollywood glory a distant memory, the now-octogenarian Vic is prompted to reassess his life with the passing of his beloved ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: aging, old man, nostalgia, hollywood, washed up star, actor's life, depression, celebrity, artists and showbiz, loneliness, lifestyle, goth girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nashville tennessee, los angeles, usa, tennessee
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Unstrung Heroes (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, youth, mental illness, terminal illness, eccentricity, family drama, insanity, cancer, child hero, social justice, children ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place: los angeles
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 6.8
 11K
Patti Cake$ (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, exciting, independent film ...
Plot: fat woman, rap, musician, aspiring musician, black american, rapper, friendship, loneliness, aspiration, depression, overweight woman, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2017
Place: new jersey, new york
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 6.4
 332K
The Dictator (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Style: funny, absurd, hilarious, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: satire, dictator, farce, culture clash, dark humor, un, fictional country, prejudice, society, megalomaniac, head of state, dissident ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 1973, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: new york, usa, middle east, asia, israel ...
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 6.1
 353
The Wonders (2013)
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: lifestyle, investigation, amateur detective, society, religions or cults, artists and showbiz, israeli, supernatural power, hidden camera, rabbi, private detective, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, jerusalem
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 6.8
 56K
Rent (2005)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village, New York, USA. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark ...
Style: sentimental, stylized, lyrical, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: aids, lesbian, bohemian life, gay, drug abuse, friendship, broadway, addiction, music, christmas, drug addiction, hiv ...
Time: 80s, future, year 2005, 90s, year 1989 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, usa, santa fe new mexico ...
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 4.7
 728
Pyrates (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As soon as they meet Ari and Sam get into a pretty passionate - and combustible - relationship. Indeed, the scenes of their rendezvous often seem reminiscent of the Chicago Fire. But the course of true flaming lust never runs true, and as they try ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, lovers reunited, love triangle, love affair, lifestyle, love and romance, supernatural ability, danger, disaster, fire, sex, nightclub ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: chicago, usa, wisconsin
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Poolhall Junkies (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Style: clever, witty, entertaining, stylized, serious ...
Plot: gambling, billiards, con men, con artists, gangster, vengeance, underdog, friendship, life philosophy, money, betrayal, justice ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century
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The Opposite of Sex (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
Style: biting, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, sex, lgbt, coming of age, gay man has sex with a woman, lgbtq, satire, pregnancy, age difference, dark humor, death, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, canada, las vegas, los angeles, palm springs california ...
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All Over the Guy (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
Style: sentimental, feel good, romantic, witty, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, love, friends, lgbt, gay interest, happy ending, lgbtq, storytelling, opposites attract, sex, odd couple, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's quest ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: youth, friendship, coming of age, family relations, misfit, eccentric family, switching roles, self discovery, social relations, friends, fish out of water, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, israel
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 6.3
 7K
The Infidel (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: satire, culture clash, muslim, hijab, taxi driver, self discovery, social differences, adoption, society, dark humor, rabbi, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, middle east, europe, london
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