Jewish ghetto movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant jewish ghetto movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, tense, dramatic and captivating films and TV shows about / with jewish ghetto, world war two, anti semitism, holocaust, nazi, ghetto, judaism, death, wartime life and holocaust survivor plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in Germany, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jewish ghetto: War Girls (2017), Hidden in Silence (1996), Uprising (2001), The Island on Bird Street (1997), Return to the Hiding Place (2013), Europa Europa (1990), In Darkness (2011), The Painted Bird (2019), Jakob the Liar (1999), The Last Letter (2002).
List of jewish ghetto movies
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Three young women join the resistance during German occupation of Poland.
Style:
sincere, suspense, rough, thought provoking, touching
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, struggle for survival, young woman, female friendship, strong female lead, wartime life, jewish family, jewish girl, hiding place, martial law, wartime ...
Place:
warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is ...
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, period drama, political drama
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, catholic, jewish ghetto, holocaust survivor, world war, world war one, christian, family relations, factory worker, ss officer ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style:
captivating, rough, serious, political, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, heroism, resistance, jewish ghetto, nazi, survival, politics, rebellion, shoah, wartime life, against humanity ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, warsaw poland, poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Style:
period piece, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, jewish ghetto, youth, wartime life, ghetto, boy, nazi, judaism, ethics, boy strangling, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
jewish ghetto, world war, christian, saving a life, jew persecution, resistance fighter, wartime life, nazi soldier, nazi occupation, war, life is a bitch, nazism ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are ...
Style:
political, retro, realistic, surreal, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, circumcision, male nudity, woman peeing, hitler youth, children in wartime, physical exam, war, coming of age, genocide, nazi germany ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 1930s
Place:
germany, poland, berlin germany, eastern europe, latvia ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style:
harsh, sincere, uplifting, social, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, shoah, survival, genocide, outside help, hitler youth, judaism, world war, sewer ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1945 ...
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, europe, israel
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
A young Jewish boy in Poland seeks refuge in the forest during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, exciting, visual, controversial ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, man boy relationship, intolerance, abuse of power, sexual abuse, existentialism, little boy, child protagonist, zoophilia, survival, abuse ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 2010s, 1930s
Place:
eastern europe, poland, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style:
sad, cult classic, emotional, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, shoah, nazi, gestapo, world war, radio, judaism, hopes, lie, death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1942, year 1939 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style:
bleak, poignant, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, persecution, world war two, jewish ghetto, anti semitism, mature, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, mother son relationship, witness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, ukraine
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16K
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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161K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style:
sincere, period piece, epic, historical drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, genocide, partisan, shoah, judaism, world war, red army, hopes, rebellion ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, germany, indiana, europe, russia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
judaism, little boy, boy, jewish culture, youth, renaissance, elderly man, piano, ghetto, baby, animal death, death threat ...
Time:
year 1975, 1920s
Place:
eastern europe, middle east, canada, montreal
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Set in 1942, The Jewish wife she worked for before the war hires her to take her young daughter to the countryside until the war is over.
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, employer employee relationship, friendship, mother daughter relationship, little girl, jewish girl, traitor, forest, old woman, ghetto, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Germany, Bulgaria, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Style:
historical drama, art house, slow cinema, reflective, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, male pubic hair, male nudity, massacre, jewish ghetto, holocaust, ethnic cleansing, controversy, moral ambiguity, memory, minimalism, haunting ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 1940s
Place:
eastern europe, romania
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: East Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, uplifting, gloomy ...
Plot:
holocaust, judaism, world war two, shoah, nazi, death, friendship, gestapo, hopes, genocide, holocaust survivor, military ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 70s
Place:
east germany, israel, poland, germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
TV show
Story:
In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, nazi occupation, world war two, nazi, anti semitism, persecution, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, community, nazism, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam, netherlands
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sincere, crying ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, holocaust, storytelling, school, love, young lovers, forbidden love, identity, friendship, camp, world war two, angel of death ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, poland, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle.
Style:
thought provoking, mockumentary, independent film, dieselpunk, semi documentary ...
Plot:
world war two, dystopia, nazi, alternate history, holocaust, resistance, german occupation, politics, fascism, war, distopia, liberation ...
Time:
year 1940, year 1945, 1910s, distant future, 1940s ...
Place:
england, europe, dunkirk, madagascar, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, fascism, deportation, concentration camp, hopes, nazi occupation, wartime life, political unrest ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, budapest, italy, spain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, USA, Czech Republic, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), King of the Persians, whose empire now extends from India to Egypt after the defeat of the Babylonians, is holding a celebratory banquet for his people in the citadel of Susa to display his wealth and splendor. When he summons ...
Style:
biblical, christian film
Plot:
bible, old testament, jewish ghetto, faith, antiquity, biblical stories, christianity, conservative, peplum, israeli, ancient world, jesus ...
Time:
biblical epic, 5th century
Place:
persia, iran, canada
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, holocaust survivor, german occupation, world war two, nazi, genocide, nazi concentration camp, shoah, world war, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, france, middle east, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
jewish ghetto, anti semitism, killing spree, bureaucracy, judaism, prison, serial killer, time travel, zionism, justice, prison rape, injustice ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
israel, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, visually stunning, talky ...
Plot:
shakespeare, renaissance, love and romance, religious intolerance, tudors, women, gay subtext, friends, judaism, culture clash, trial, prejudice ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, year 2004, medieval times ...
Place:
venice, italy, israel, middle east, europe ...
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