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 realistic, captivating, serious, touching, independent film and humorous films and TV shows about / with jewish culture, family relations, judaism, society, rabbi, religion, father son relationship, parents and children, synagogue and jewish family plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Israel and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jewish culture: Shtisel (2013), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Shiva Baby (2020), The Chosen (1981), Tikkun (2015), The Rabbi's Cat (2011), Sunshine (1999), Stolen Summer (2002), Footnote (2011), Keeping the Faith (2000).

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Shtisel (2013)
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, serious, talky, mysterious ...
Plot: jewish family, jewish culture, orthodox jew, family relations, dating, parents and children, looking for love, religions or cults, love and romance, society, unfulfillment, retirement home ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: israel, jerusalem
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
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, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, broadway, tradition, village, dancing, jewish culture, father daughter relationship, milkman, arranged marriage, anti semitism ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, russia, israel, ussr, europe ...
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 32K
Shiva Baby (2020)
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, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: sugar daddy, lesbian interest, jewish culture, lgbt, jewish family, funeral, unfaithful husband, prostitute, parent child relationship, bisexual, lgbtq, deception ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: israel
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 7.2
 2K
The Chosen (1981)
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, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, orthodox jew, religion, jewish culture, judaism, friendship, father son relationship, culture clash, chosen one, holocaust, family drama, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1944
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Tikkun (2015)
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: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: jewish family, father son relationship, nightmare, fasting, loss of faith, dream, religion, near death experience, necrophilia, reanimation, backfire, parent child relationship ...
Time: 2010s
Place: jerusalem, israel, palestine
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The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
Genre: Animation, 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: semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: rabbi, cat, jewish culture, pets, misfit partners, religions or cults, partner, obsessive quest, on the road, disorder, racism, animal that acts human ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place: algeria, africa, middle east
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 7.5
 16K
Sunshine (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK, USA
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, family saga, sad, saga ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, fascism, sex scene, nazi, anti semitism, society, political unrest, siblings relations, family life, politics, revolution ...
Time: 19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, eastern europe, israel, serbia, sarajevo ...
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Stolen Summer (2002)
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
Plot: judaism, afterlife, friendship, childhood, coming of age, youth, boy, catholicism, mentor, friendship between boys, family relations, rabbi ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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 7.1
 6K
Footnote (2011)
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, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot: father son relationship, greed, israeli, secrets, existentialism, parents and children, family problems, ambition, religions or cults, estrangement, moral dilemma, writers ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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Keeping the Faith (2000)
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, humorous, touching, funny, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: rabbi, love story, love triangle, priest, catholicism, friendship, love and romance, love, judaism, women, unrequited love, jewish culture ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his ...
Style: independent film
Plot: youth, rabbi, winter, rural area, classical music, teen romance, judaism, prairie, religious differences, mine, stand up comedy, voice over narration ...
Time: 1950s
Place: canada, middle east
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The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, disturbing, light ...
Plot: rabbi, farce, chase, on the run, racial stereotype, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, prosecution, disorder, on the road, partner, false identity ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, new york, usa
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Sons of God (2017)
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, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: murder, police detective, criminal, jewish culture, homicide detective, forensics, investigation, crime investigation, who done it, sleuth, police investigation, crime solving ...
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The Rich and Lazarus (2017)
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, thrilling, psychological, captivating, soap opera
Plot: jewish history, jewish life, religious faith, faith, religious, problem, election, jewish man, religion, jewish culture, lifestyle, novel
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 5.9
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Stay With Us (2022)
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: feel good, humorous, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot: family relations, catholicism, religion, jewish family, religious, belief in god, faith, jewish culture, catholic church, religious conversion, religious faith, catholic ...
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Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020)
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, emotional, feel good, romantic
Plot: christmas, hanukkah, cliche, jewish woman, celebration, love, female protagonist, jewish culture, christmas eve, cynic, christmas season, christmas romance ...
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An American Pickle (2020)
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: unusual plot structure, captivating, surreal, funny, feel good ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time traveler, time travel, immigrant, fish out of water, family relations, twists and turns, inventions and discoveries, disorder, jewish culture, hanukkah, life lesson, inspiration ...
Time: edwardian era, 2020s, 2010s, year 1919, 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, canada
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Go for Zucker (2004)
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, estrangement, couples, family problems, holocaust, politics, human nature, couple relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe
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A Stranger Among Us (1992)
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, realistic, serious, tense, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police investigation, orthodox jew, police, judaism, police corruption, brutality, conspiracy theory, unlikely friendships, investigation, who done it, master criminal ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: new york, israel, usa
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Santa Fe (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Picking up where "God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore" leaves off, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging ...
Plot: world war two, jewish culture, immigration, immigrant, jewish history, english class, writing a novel, job seeking, fired from the job, drowning, debt, brooklyn bridge ...
Time: year 1986, year 1942, year 1941
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, santa fe new mexico
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A Price Above Rubies (1998)
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, emotional, light, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: judaism, women, stereotypes, loneliness, self discovery, love and romance, love affair, introspection, jewelry, job, infidelity, orthodox jew ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, israel, lower east side manhattan new york city
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The Nanny (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nanny, children, female protagonist, family relations, butler, unlikely couple, fish out of water, society, workplace, fall in love, love and romance, eligible bachelor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Uprising (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style: uplifting, captivating, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, resistance, anti semitism, nazi, ghetto, heroism, rebellion, human spirit, shoah, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, warsaw poland, europe, poland
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style: disturbing, compassionate, emotional, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot: fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, anti semitism, assassination, tennis, family relations, brother sister relationship, family life, nazi germany, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970
Place: italy, europe, africa
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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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Attachment (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Maja, a Danish actress past her prime, falls in love with Leah, a young Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah’s mother, an overbearing woman who could hold dark ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, ritual, mother daughter relationship, lesbian love, relationships, lgbt, gay love, lesbian couple, lesbian, lesbianism, lesbian friend, lesbian attraction ...
Time: 2020s
Place: denmark, london
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 6.8
 460
Broken Promise (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the face of insurmountable odds, one man will risk everything to take back his country. Czechoslovakia, 1943, and the world is enveloped by the dark clouds of war. Showing unimaginable bravery, a Jewish teenager manages to escape the clutches of ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, student film
Plot: football, nazi occupation, brother brother relationship, football player, monastery, christian, world war, dictatorship, dictator, soccer, shoah, military ...
Place: slovakia, czechoslovakia
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The Omega Code (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this spiritual thriller, an ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of Apocalypse. Gillen Lane (Casper Van Dien) is a expert on theology and mythology who has gained international fame as a ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, serious, suspenseful, christian film ...
Plot: christian, good versus evil, religious, religion, destiny, heroes, heroic mission, save the world, society, danger, escapades, chaos ...
Time: year 1999, 21st century
Place: rome italy, israel, middle east, italy, palestine ...
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Man Is a Woman (1998)
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, touching, humorous, queer cinema
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, jewish family, heterosexuality, glbt, wedding, family relations, patriarchy, dream girl, cousin cousin relationship, sauna ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
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My Father My Lord (2007)
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: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, life is a bitch, society, introspection, clergy, hopes, rabbi, family problems, religions or cults, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
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