Jewish culture movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant jewish culture movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, entertaining, realistic, feel good, emotional and sentimental films and TV shows about / with jewish culture, religion, family relations, family drama, redemption, friendship, bittersweet, judaism, rabbi and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Israel, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jewish culture: Shtisel (2013), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), My Father My Lord (2007), Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020), Shiva Baby (2020), The Chosen (1981), Tikkun (2015), Stolen Summer (2002), Sunshine (1999), Ivan & Abraham (1993).
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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, 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
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
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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: 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: 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
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Haim-Aaron is a bright, ultra-orthodox religious scholar living in Jerusalem. His talents and devotion are envied by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, Haim-Aaron collapses and loses consciousness. The paramedics announce his death, ...
Style:
suspense, serious, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
jewish family, father son relationship, nightmare, fasting, resurrection, loss of faith, religion, near death experience, reanimation, backfire, parent child relationship, dream ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
jerusalem, israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
childhood, judaism, friendship between boys, afterlife, friendship, coming of age, boy, youth, catholicism, mentor, rabbi, religion ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, 1930s ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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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
Country: France, Belarus
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. ...
Style:
black and white
Plot:
interfaith relationship, youth, intolerance, gypsy, circumcision, runaway, friendship, friend, coming of age, christian, racism, religion ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
poland
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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: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In ‘Jew,’ comic Ari Shaffir delivers a raunchy love letter to the religion he says he left behind.
Style:
funny, entertaining, captivating, satirical, feel good ...
Plot:
stand up comedy, satire, judaism, comedy club, jewish culture, religion, humour, joke, public speaking, stand up comedian, social satire, comedian ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, humorous, touching, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, rabbi, love triangle, priest, love, catholicism, friendship, judaism, women, unrequited love, jewish culture, religion ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
cat, rabbi, butterfly effect, jewish culture, obsessive quest, on the road, disorder, racism, animal that acts human, misfit partners, pets, religions or cults ...
Time:
2010s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
africa, algeria, middle east
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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, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, youth, family drama, eccentricity, cancer, uncle nephew relationship, children, child hero, social justice, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his ...
Style:
melancholic, meditative, surreal, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
father son relationship, greed, israeli, secrets, existentialism, parents and children, family problems, ambition, estrangement, religions or cults, moral dilemma, writers ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, jerusalem, seattle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.
Style:
atmospheric, art house, independent film, period drama, moody
Plot:
magician, jewish culture, stage magic, european, theater, character study, ambition, obsession, moral ambiguity, midlife crisis, existential crisis, melancholy ...
Time:
year 1979, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Simon Grünberg (12) never cared for his Jewish heritage, while his divorced parents bicker whether he should to his bar mithzva as father Frank wants, or save his foreskin as mother Hannah holds. When he falls in love at first sight of the new ...
Style:
romantic, lighthearted, satirical
Plot:
adolescence, coming of age, bar mitzvah, jewish culture, self discovery, first love, family conflict, cultural conflict, family drama, boy, divorce, teen romance ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Israel, Iceland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry (James Caan) suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica (Rosanna ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
rabbi, religion, jewish culture, family relations, family drama, farming, cardiologist, village life, lifestyle change, doctor, identity, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
holy land, israel, new york, palestine
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
January 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Thousands of Jews have been confined to the Warsaw ghetto for more than a year. Outside, life goes on; inside, they struggle to survive another day. Still, on a cold winter night, a group of ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, theatre group, jew persecution, jewish culture, nazi occupied poland, confined, survival, tragedy, persecution, social problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
poland, iberian peninsula
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
An Israeli sitcom focusing on a Jewish-Ethiopian-Israeli family whose son (Yossi Vasa) is married to a Jewish-Ashkenazi-Israeli woman (Meyrav Feldman). The mixed family navigates the prejudices and tensions involved in raising their five-year old ...
Style:
satirical, sitcom, intercultural, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
culture clash, jewish culture, parents and children, lifestyle, eccentric family, cultural difference, satire, identity, daughter, marriage, social commentary, prejudice ...
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel
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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: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Steve & Chuma , two criminals are the sole survivors of a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Jerusalem. They decide to change their ways and become flesh and blood angels. They go on a journey of wish fulfilment for people who write requests on ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, thrilling, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
desire, terrorist attack, redemption, second chance, jewish culture, sole survivor, social problems, changing lives, wish come true, friendship, religion, faith ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel, jerusalem, middle east, palestine
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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: 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: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The comedy tells the story of Hermanotheus, brother of Micalateia and typical Hebrew of the year zero, companion, good shepherd and obedient. He receives the divine mission to guide his people to the land of Godah, in a satire on the biblical story ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ironic ...
Plot:
satire, religion, irony, jewish culture, religious faith, religious, brother brother relationship, religious conversion, faith, irreverent, ancient, stage play ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Story:
A NYPD detective teams up with a Hasidic Jew to solve a murder in the Hasidic community.
Style:
detective, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
murder investigation, investigation, murder, murder mystery, crime solving, criminal, forensics, sleuth, murderer, police detective, crime investigation, police investigation ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city
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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: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Jewish family, Gad's parents discover their son's unconditional love for the Virgin Mary ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, captivating, light, humorous ...
Plot:
religious conversion, catholicism, jewish family, family relations, parent child relationship, family conflict, family drama, religious, family life, religious faith, jewish culture, catholic ...
Place:
paris france, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Country: Morocco
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After leaving Morocco amidst racial tensions spurred by the Yom Kippur war, the son of a once famous Jewish musician travels to his home country to bury his father. As he meets the members of the band, his life unexpectedly transforms.
Style:
reflective, melancholic, intercultural, art house, period drama
Plot:
grief, loss, identity, orchestra, mourning, family drama, jewish culture, healing, friendship, reconciliation, community, memory ...
Place:
morocco, africa
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