Jewish american movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant jewish american movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspense, clever, humorous, intense and independent film films and TV shows about / with jewish american, dialogue, storytelling, mentor, death, murder, brutality, husband wife relationship, violence and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jewish american: Oppenheimer (2023), Then She Found Me (2007), A Real Pain (2024), Casino (1995), Licorice Pizza (2021), Mistletoe & Menorahs (2019), The In-Laws (1979), Carlito's Way (1993), Deep Cover (1992), The Flight Before Christmas (2015).
Best films
New films
| Good Time (2017) | 7.3 | |
| It Chapter Two (2019) | 6.5 | |
| Black Christmas (2019) | 3.5 | |
| Oppenheimer (2023) | 8.2 | |
| Molly's Game (2017) | 7.4 |
List of jewish american movies
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style:
period piece, epic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear, scientist, world war two, atomic bomb, american politics, physics, laboratory, arizona desert, top secret, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, desert ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 1950s, year 1954, year 1943 ...
Place:
new mexico, england, zurich switzerland, north america, soviet union ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with ...
Style:
romantic, touching, romantic comedy, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, jewish wedding, mother daughter conflict, jewish american, depression, eccentricity, loneliness, love and romance, betrayal, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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138K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Style:
compassionate, witty, buddy comedy, depressing
Plot:
travel, concentration camp, cousin cousin relationship, grief, jewish american, holocaust, cousin, airplane, cell phone, jewish man, tour guide, judaism ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, new york
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613K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style:
realistic, clever, rough, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, betrayal, money, gambling, greed, criminal heroes, mobster, cosa nostra ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1973 ...
Place:
las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, the film follows a high school student who is also a successful child actor.
Style:
period piece, captivating, teen, comedy drama, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, closeted homosexual, first love, actor, jealousy, teenage boy, political campaign, brother brother relationship, age difference, atheism, gay relationship, friendship ...
Time:
year 1973, 2020s, 70s, year 1939, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, pasadena california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a determined toy company executive, Christy, must learn about Hanukkah in a hurry in order to land a big account, she enlists the help of her co-worker's friend Jonathan, who happens to also be in desperate need of turning his bachelor pad ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas romance, judaism, breakup, christmas party, opposites attract, jewish american, high school teacher, winter, snow, christmas eve, holiday ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures ...
Style:
funny, exciting, humorous, witty, spy action ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
armored car robbery, dentist, dictator, masked robber, spy, screwball, wedding, chase, car chase, fictional country, helicopter, bank ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
central america, latin america, washington d.c., new jersey, new york ...
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246K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, tense, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, nightclub, tragic hero, drug dealing, voyeurism, violence, drug, gunfight, drug lord, prison ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1993
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, south america, harlem ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, suspense, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
undercover, undercover cop, blaxploitation, murder, police investigation, gangster, drug, betrayal, organized crime, racial slur, black, urban ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, year 1972, 70s
Place:
los angeles, cleveland ohio, ohio, california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two strangers who both happen to be in marketing, share a room at a bed-and-breakfast when a snowstorm strands their flight in Montana on Christmas Eve.
Style:
sweet, humorous, light, road movie, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, hotel, love, holiday, christmas romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chance meeting, unlikely couple, obsessive quest, nothing goes right, love and romance, forces of nature ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The Cassandra Crossing is an all-star disaster spectacular telling of the terrifying odyssey of 1000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train. A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, train, terrorism, race against time, plague, survival, railway, train crash, quarantine, undercover, train wreck, disease ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
poland, europe, switzerland, germany, geneva switzerland ...
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
bloody, scary, disturbing, brutal, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, gory, eating human flesh, sadistic horror, survival, ant, decapitation, sadistic violence, amazon ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style:
touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, summer, gay love, love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, homosexuality, first love, gay interest, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 2010s, 2000s, year 2017
Place:
italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, gothic, horror comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
werewolf, monster, nightmare, transformation, supernatural, full moon, violence, monster as victim, gory, wolf, ghost, hospital ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom, northern england ...
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226K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After taking a pounding from Lang, the humbled champ turns to former bitter ...
Style:
inspirational, captivating, suspenseful, action packed, saga ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
boxing, boxer, revenge, comeback, training, underdog, friendship between men, celebrity, fight, tough guy, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, los angeles ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
alien invasion, extraterrestrial, invasion, end of the world, ufo, space and aliens, evil alien, first contact, survival, alien encounter, alien, creature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future, year 1996, jurassic
Place:
new york, washington d.c., usa, bombay india, london ...
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101K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Style:
detective, period piece, costume drama, biting, satirical ...
Plot:
murder, whodunit, society, murder mystery, country estate, estate, high society, murder investigation, butler, police investigation, twists and turns, servant ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, pre world war two, year 2001 ...
Place:
england, detroit, london
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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: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
Style:
sexy, humorous, clever, offbeat, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, strong female character, prison life, prison, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian interest, women's prison, women in prison, lesbian love, lesbian romance ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york state, idaho, usa, new york
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452K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire.
Style:
dark comedy, realistic, stylized, black comedy, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly
Plot:
organized crime, gangster, marijuana, money, gang, criminal underworld, british, crime boss, tough guy, gang war, sarcasm, swearing ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
Style:
adult animation, dark comedy, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
street gang, coming of age, flashback, female nudity, violence, gang violence, erotica, teen angst, hamburger, surrealism, cheating, prostitute ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Style:
talky, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
radio, social commentary, paranoid, radio dj, death, murder, introspection, racism, anonymity, twists and turns, liberal, media ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
texas, usa, dallas texas
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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: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.
Style:
period piece, suspense, educational, psychotronic
Plot:
biopic, escape artist, magic, illusion, seance, spectacle, spiritualism, fame, husband wife relationship, death, ambition, obsession ...
Time:
turn of the century, victorian era, 1900s, 1890s, 1910s ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, political
Plot:
holocaust, anti semitism, courtroom drama, world war two, memory, biopic, legal battle, justice, defamation, auschwitz, family life, activism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
ambiguous ending, melancholic, epic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, betrayal, childhood friend, gunfight, murder, corruption, flashback ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, america, china ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, contemplative, religious drama
Plot:
grief, music teacher, teacher student relationship, crisis of faith, soul searching, jewish culture, bittersweet, synagogue, second chance, slow burn, ritual, identity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lackluster sex life and career that's gone kaput, Rachel visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, humorous, erotic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stripper, sexuality, strip club, friendship, female pubic hair, lap dance, orgasm, prostitute, bare breasts, exhibitionism, prostitution, sexual repression ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Style:
romantic comedy, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, gay, cat, father son relationship, homosexual, beatnik, aspiring actor, bohemian, abortion, judaism, journey, beat generation ...
Time:
1950s, year 1976, 20th century, 50s, year 1953
Place:
greenwich village manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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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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