Jewish family movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant jewish family movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, emotional, captivating, historical drama and serious films and TV shows about / with jewish family, family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, female nudity, religion, judaism, family drama, rabbi and society plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and War genres shot in USA, France, Israel and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jewish family: Shtisel (2013), Shiva Baby (2020), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Unorthodox (2020), My Name is Sara (2019), Sarah's Key (2010), Eyes Wide Open (2009), Betrayed (2020), A Call to Remember (1997), This Is Where I Leave You (2014).
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List of jewish family movies
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: 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: 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: 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: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, suspense, entertaining
Plot:
holocaust, jewish girl, world war two, stolen identity, jewish family, teenage girl, small village, child protagonist, life is a bitch, jewess, wartime, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1942, 1940s
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother ...
Style:
emotional, sexy, disturbing, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, jewish family, nazism, shoah, separation from family, occupation, death, guilt, suicide of mother, investigation, journalism, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 1942, 20th century, 2000s, year 2010, 1940s ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, paris france, france, new york, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, erotic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay love, gay, forbidden love, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, married man, gay sex, gay bashing, gay student, judaism, homosexuality, infatuation ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem, palestine, middle east, persia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war ...
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
world war two, refugee, police, boxer, jewish family, nazi collaborator, female nudity, german occupation, jew persecution, resistance fighter, bare chested male, bureaucrat ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1939, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
oslo norway
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just ...
Style:
light, humorous, contemplative, captivating, surreal
Plot:
rabbi, matchmaking, family dinner, looking for love, self discovery, family relations, fall in love, couples, love and romance, society, friendship, interfaith relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, israel, tel aviv israel, zurich switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Paula Tobias, a Holocaust survivor who has suffered the ultimate personal tragedy of losing her spouse and children during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Now re-married and living in America during the late 1960's with husband David, they ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, realistic
Plot:
holocaust survivor, holocaust, loss of family, family drama, depression, ptsd, missing person, moral dilemma, family secret, assimilation, trauma, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
70s, 60s, year 1967
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, infidelity, family drama, family gatherings, childhood home, homecoming, children, family relations, loneliness, family home, brother sister relationship, extramarital affair ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s. The premise was partially based on the childhood of executive producer and ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching ...
Plot:
interfaith relationship, jewish family, skirt, family relations, coming of age, family life, friends, youth, society, misfit, social misfits, social differences ...
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 50s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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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: USA, Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.
Style:
spiritual, hispanic
Plot:
orthodox jew, single father, religious, widower, father son relationship, supermarket, society, fatherhood, faith, parent child relationship, judaism, child custody ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual ...
Style:
funny, semi autobiographical, realistic, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
coming of age, jewish family, dysfunctional family, great depression, past, stage play, little boy, boy, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, gambling ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1937
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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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
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style:
cult classic, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cerebral ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, rabbi, existentialism, teacher, suburban life, synagogue, divorce, bar mitzvah, jewish stereotype, life, religion ...
Time:
year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
minnesota, bolivia, usa, poland, israel ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, dysfunctional family, gays and lesbians, gender, jewish family, gay love, gay sex, gay couple, lgbt, family relations, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
israeli, gulf war, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings relations, family life, jewish family, brother brother relationship, divorce, death of brother ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style:
clever, sentimental, emotional, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Austria
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
On his quest for happiness, Per decides to leave Jutland and an upbringing in a strict religious home. He runs from his family and his patriarch father, and sets sail towards Copenhagen to become an engineer. Parallel to his studies, he works on a ...
Style:
disturbing, romantic, touching, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
religion, engineer, jewish family, poverty, nordic, love interest, loner, pride, love affair, adaptation, hopes, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
austria, copenhagen
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
State of Grace is an American comedy-drama series that ran for two seasons on the Fox Network's Fox Family channel during 2001 and 2002.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, sitcom ...
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, jewish family, family relations, youth, family life, teenager, best friend, friends, protective parent, coming of age, school ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
usa, north carolina
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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: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
jewish family, siblings, buddies, womanizer, love and romance, couples, family relations, eccentric family, siblings relations, mate swapping, twentysomething life, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's quest ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, clever ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
youth, friendship, coming of age, misfit, family relations, eccentric family, switching roles, self discovery, high school life, teenage life, parents and children, fish out of water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, israel, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, accusation, jewish family, auschwitz, holocaust, anti semitism, deportation, tragedy, female protagonist, betrayal, loss, prejudice ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Australia, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Style:
dramatic, historical drama, powerful, period drama
Plot:
child, rescue, jewish family, immigration, czech history, refugee, children, based on real people, biopic, world war two, deportation, war hero ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, 20th century, 1940s, year 1987
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, london
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a relatively normal life. One day their 10-year old son disappears. He has been sent to a deportation camp which seems like paradise except ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, medical horror, period piece, historical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, suffering, holocaust, jewish family, persecution, oppression, survival, deportation, anti war, loss of innocence, family drama ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, hungary
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
The events unfold from 1924 to the present day. Almost the entire epoch is involved, with all the historical characters of our country. The picture is a drama of a Jewish family, which the viewer will follow for 100 years, with the change of epochs, ...
Style:
family saga, historical drama, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
family history, jewish family, storytelling, husband wife relationship, social relations, love, lifestyle, society, architect, transformation, survival, memory ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
russia
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