| Shtisel (2013) | 8.6 | |
| A Serious Man (2009) | 7.0 | |
| Yentl (1983) | 6.6 | |
| Fill the Void (2012) | 6.7 | |
| Irena's Vow (2023) | 6.8 |
Orthodox jew movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant orthodox jew movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, independent film, captivating and emotional films and TV shows about / with orthodox jew, judaism, religion, family relations, rabbi, israeli, religious, society, love and romance and male female relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in Israel, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as orthodox jew: Fill the Void (2012), Felix and Meira (2014), Unorthodox (2020), Sacred (1999), Shtisel (2013), Under Water (2003), Ushpizin (2004), Eyes Wide Open (2009), Menashe (2017), A Stranger Among Us (1992).
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List of orthodox jew movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
rabbi, judaism, orthodox jew, women's rights, love and romance, family relations, matchmaking, moral dilemma, wedding planning, introspection, society, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, belgium, tel aviv israel, israel
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
orthodox jew, infidelity, unlikely couple, society, fall in love, religions or cults, forbidden love, love story, social differences, friendship, cheating wife, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, israel, new york, brooklyn new york city, montreal ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.
Style:
uplifting, gothic, social, touching, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jewish family, judaism, orthodox jew, escape, women, musician, atheism, sex, husband wife relationship, feminist, follow your dream, new life ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york, berlin germany, brooklyn new york city
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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: 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, Family, Sport
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Yonatan, Michal's dad, turned orthodox and left her family when she was very yang. 7 years later, when he appears at her mother's funeral, all the anger and tensions in the family are brought up again. Michal on the other hand, is very ...
Style:
emotional, tension, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, swimming, father daughter relationship, judaism, family drama, funeral, identity, religious conversion, father figure, domestic drama, grief, introspection ...
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, married nearly five years and ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
rabbi, orthodox jew, charity, religious, childlessness, uninvited guest, redemption, religions or cults, couples, family relations, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure, and growing increasingly scared and depressed, she forces ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, bleak, dark, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, jewish girl, orthodox jew, religion, obsessive compulsive disorder, ritual, religious, girl, self discovery, self acceptance, teenage girl, adolescence ...
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, erotic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay love, gay, forbidden love, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, married man, gay sex, gay bashing, gay student, judaism, homosexuality, infatuation ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem, palestine, middle east, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.
Style:
spiritual, hispanic
Plot:
orthodox jew, single father, religious, widower, father son relationship, supermarket, society, fatherhood, faith, parent child relationship, judaism, child custody ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, 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: 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: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, forbidden love, lesbian interest, nude painting, religions or cults, lesbianism, rabbi, best friend, selflessness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her life.
Style:
touching, light, emotional, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
jewelry, judaism, women, stereotypes, love and romance, self discovery, love affair, introspection, orthodox jew, infidelity, job, divorce ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, israel, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, lifestyle, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, social differences, infidelity, youth, male female relationship ...
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, thinking, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, orthodox jew, jewish culture, religion, judaism, friendship, rabbi, culture clash, chosen one, world war two, family drama ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1944
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california, israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, depressing, romantic drama, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian sex, sex scene, forbidden love, infidelity, funeral, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
london, middle east, israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In an alternate reality of present day Israel, a Haredi wheeler-dealer named Broide makes his living smuggling minor contraband between the secular “State of Israel” and the ultra-Orthodox “Haredi Autonomy” in Jerusalem. One day he receives ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
dystopia, kidnapping, alternate reality, child abduction, religious conflict, social problems, family problems, social issues, relationships, changing lives, life is a bitch, love interest ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem, tel aviv israel, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
Style:
satirical, psychological, disturbing, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
bar mitzvah, orthodox jew, feminism, relationship problems, social problems, crisis of faith, satire, family problems, faith, community, arab culture, israeli ...
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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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
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing ...
Style:
black and white, art house, grim, tense, motivational
Plot:
holocaust, orthodox jew, world war two, guilt, village, world war, judaism, villain, nazism, holocaust survivor, dilemma, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1945, post world war two, 1940s
Place:
hungary
Is relevant?
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: 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, humorous, contemplative, captivating, surreal
Plot:
rabbi, matchmaking, family dinner, looking for love, self discovery, family relations, fall in love, couples, love and romance, society, friendship, interfaith relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, israel, tel aviv israel, zurich switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, grief, boxing, family drama, loss of spouse, mourning, reconciliation, regret, forgiveness, elderly man, bittersweet, small town ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, queer cinema
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, lgbt, heterosexuality, sauna, jewish family, bare chested male, jewish culture, homosexuality, homosexual, gay parent, gay father ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, new york, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
israeli, gulf war, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings relations, family life, jewish family, brother brother relationship, divorce, death of brother ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
israel, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they ...
Style:
melancholic, serious, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, understanding, love and romance, wedding planning, looking for love, teachers and students, gender, boss and employee, male female relationship, dedicated educator, female friendship, sociology ...
Place:
usa, middle east, israel, new york
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.
Style:
scary, suspense, atmospheric, tense, demonic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, supernatural horror, evil force, supernatural, family in danger, father daughter relationship, danger, demonic possession, possessed girl, ghost, parents and children, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
america, middle east, usa, seattle
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's struggle to integrate his faith and traditions with the ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
judaism, identity crisis, religious conflict, self discovery, character study, coming of age, spirituality, tradition, urban, getting home, friendship, isolation ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, middle east, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Josh is on track at law school and a place at his father's firm. As his family prepares for their traditional Passover celebrations, Josh hits a brick wall in the form of the alluring and troubled -and not quite Jewish enough- Cheryth. As ...
Plot:
school, family relations, interfaith relationship, university student, dinner, demonstration, orthodox jew, dormitory, rabbi, protest, israeli, culture clash ...
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