Jewish woman movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant jewish woman movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional and period drama films and TV shows about / with jewish woman, female nudity, family relations, husband wife relationship, world war two, love, female protagonist, betrayal, couples and women plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jewish woman: The Bloom of Yesterday (2016), La Storia (2024), Fill the Void (2012), Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020), Unorthodox (2020), An Englishman's Castle (1978), Shelter (2017), Loving Leah (2009), Ageless Love (2021), We Were the Lucky Ones (2024).
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List of jewish woman movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
holocaust, angry, punched in the face, cat, jujitsu, addiction, love, mental illness, topless woman, masturbation, telephone call, male objectification ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
germany, vienna
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany
TV show
Story:
Set mostly in Rome between 1940 and 1948 “La Storia” looks at fascism, World War II and Italy’s early postwar period through a female prism. Ida, a half Jewish widow with a teen-age son named Nino, is raped by a drunken German soldier and gets ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot:
world war two, fascism, teacher, jewish woman, single parent, single mother, kids and family, female protagonist, life is a bitch, jewish family, carabinieri, rape ...
Time:
year 1947, year 1944, 1930s, year 1942, year 1945 ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
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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: 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: 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: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in an alternative 1970s where Germany won the Second World War and occupied Europe, a soap opera called 'An Englishman's Castle' plays out through writer Peter Ingram.
Style:
political thriller, thought provoking, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alternate history, dystopia, nazi occupation, totalitarian regime, resistance, underground movement, collaboration, social commentary, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, propaganda, betrayal ...
Time:
70s, 1940s
Place:
united kingdom, britain
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Israel, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
LEMON TREE meets JOHN LE CARRÉ in a subtle thriller set in Germany involving Mona, a Lebanese woman (Golshifteh Farahani), and Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent (Neta Riskin) sent to protect their informant while recovering from plastic surgery for ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
mossad, isis, terrorist, plastic surgery, female secret agent, presumed dead, female protagonist, monastery, grave, flashback, assassination, terrorism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
hamburg germany, israel, lebanon, beirut lebanon, germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
marriage of convenience, fall in love, couples, society, religions or cults, death in the family, hopeless romantic, cardiologist, family relations, family tradition, love and romance, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., brooklyn new york city, usa
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This extraordinary story begins in the late 1960’s during turbulent times when Yale, 23, idealistic and fresh out of college meets Nina, 37 and widowed with 5 children. Yale’s parents aren’t thrilled about the budding relationship, yet despite ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lifestyle, love affair, couples, social problems, couple relations, family relations, coping, jewish family, jewish life, overcoming, husband wife relationship, social issues ...
Time:
60s
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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: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding ...
Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, jewish history, world war, jewish girl, courage, hiding, holocaust, anti semitism, diary, tragedy, memories, biopic ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
Esther, the Queen tells the story of a beautiful young lady, and Jewish at a time when her people were persecuted and she must avoid all of being extinct. The drama takes place in Persian Empire, where King Ahasuerus called all the virgins of the ...
Style:
novela, soap opera, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
bible, royal court, persian culture, male female relationship, relationships, prime minister, emperor, couple relations, couples, empire, queen, czar ...
Place:
persia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
In cosmopolitan 1950s Istanbul, a mother with a troubled past works at a nightclub to reconnect with and help the rebellious daughter she couldn’t raise.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, mother daughter conflict, ethnicity, nightclub, social history, female protagonist, jewess, family problems, ex convict, jewish woman, troubled past, social problems ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, religious drama, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, women's rights, world war two, biopic, auschwitz, european history, nazi germany, tragedy, persecution, nazism, oppression, martyrdom ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families overcome all the obstacles, along with racial discriminations ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot:
world war two, greek, lovers, love, nazi, brutality, composer, german occupation, couples, society, love and romance, danger ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, an investigator tries to unravel the mysterious murder of a prominent attorney's wife.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic
Plot:
unsolved crime, investigation, jewish woman, homicide detective, world war two, murder investigation, nazi occupation, sleuth, detective inspector, cold case, forensics, police detective ...
Place:
warsaw poland, poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown ...
Style:
humorous, witty, atmospheric, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick
Plot:
jewish family, female protagonist, comedian, stand up comedian, female comedian, career, strong female lead, divorce, husband wife relationship, judaism, feminist, lifestyle change ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, future, 2010s, 60s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, funny, stylized, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
farce, drug lord, father daughter relationship, gangster, vengeance, old man, voice over narration, female police officer, male bonding, friendship between men, retirement, long lost daughter ...
Time:
year 1968, 90s, 60s
Place:
miami, florida, usa, miami beach, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore in 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, period drama
Plot:
murder mystery, racism, investigative journalism, investigative reporter, murder investigation, crime investigation, journalism, secret, female reporter, women, problem, undercover ...
Time:
60s, 1940s, year 1967, year 1966
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
Style:
sad, tragicomedy, social, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
forgery, cat, female protagonist, female writer, writers, lesbian, living alone, lgbt, accomplice, drinking, deception, letter ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 2014, year 1939, year 1994 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, nazi officer, gestapo, german soldier, nazi occupation, royalty, espionage, conspiracy, german army, love, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 1920s, year 1934
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Style:
psychotronic, detective, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, aviation, air disaster, stewardess, disaster, flight attendant, airport security, pilot, murder, doctor, bank robber, jewish woman ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, serious, emotional, touching, sad ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, holocaust, gay love, gay brother, gay relationship, gay club, gay couple, lgbt, nazi, gay son, world war two, betrayal ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Who Will You Be When the World Ends? - When it is announced that the world will end in 7 years, a young woman must decide what is truly important to her in life and what she is willing to sacrifice to reach her goals.
Style:
thought provoking, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
apocalypse, philosophy, existentialism, female protagonist, space travel, loneliness, near death experience, heroine, sole survivor, survivor, space mission, race against time ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Style:
psychological, romantic drama, touching, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
psychiatrist, sexualized violence, love, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, suicide attempt, sexual abuse, women, dysfunctional family, trauma, memory, book ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, southern usa, south carolina, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rebecca, from an upper class Los Angeles family, and Henry, from choir-singing, tradition-bound Midwestern roots, are in love. Henry pops the question just before Christmas and the kids plan on gathering their families for the holidays in order to ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, engagement, couples, family relations, unlikely couple, family gatherings, love and romance, culture clash, parents and children, disorder, society, thanksgiving ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way during ...
Style:
cult classic, historical drama, period piece, retro, anamorphic ...
Plot:
western hero, brother brother relationship, gunfight, modern western, wyatt earp, husband wife relationship, wagon train, modern west, civil war, gunslinger, old west, historical event ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 90s, 1880s, 1860s ...
Place:
arizona, kansas, tucson arizona, missouri, alaska ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Antonio Capurro, un ladruncolo travestito da prete, viene arrestato dal maresciallo Cottone. In seguito, durante un bombardamento il lestofante riesce a impossessarsi della divisa del poliziotto, lasciandogli l'abito ...
Style:
slapstick comedy, slapstick
Plot:
world war two, resistance, fascism, truce, bombing, body swapping, jewish woman, nazi occupation, fake identity, carabinieri, police, police officer ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
italy
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, not serious, biting ...
Plot:
bare breasts, sex, female pubic hair, nudity, female nudity, satire, soul, couples, estrangement, music, gender, performer's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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