Jewish girl movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant jewish girl movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, period drama, historical drama, disturbing and psychological films and TV shows about / with jewish girl, world war two, holocaust, girl, coming of age, anti semitism, wartime life, jewish family, friendship and wartime plots mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres shot in USA, Poland, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jewish girl: My Name is Sara (2019), The Crossing (2020), Lea and Darija (2011), The Beheaded Rooster (2007), Sarah's Key (2010), Jojo Rabbit (2019), War of the Buttons (2011), Just Beyond This Forest (1991), White Bird (2023), My Daughter, Anne Frank (2015).

List of jewish girl movies

My Name is Sara (2019)
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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Holocaust Part Two - The Memories, Delusions, Revenge (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A secret group of Jewish activists locate and murder the doctors and soldiers who tortured their relations in a notorious extermination camp.
Style: sexploitation film
Plot: nazi exploitation, world war two, swastika, nazi, sex, sex horror, rape, sexploitation, revenge, exploitation, erotica, jewish girl ...
Time: 1940s, 70s
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 6.4
 1K
The Crossing (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: world war two, child, wartime life, jew persecution, jewish girl, children, life is a bitch, wartime, child in peril, scolding, father son relationship, father figure ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
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Voices from the Heartland: Slaves of the Lord (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
Story: In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure, and growing increasingly scared and depressed, she forces ...
Style: psychological, captivating, bleak, dark, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: coming of age, jewish girl, orthodox jew, religion, obsessive compulsive disorder, ritual, religious, girl, self discovery, self acceptance, teenage girl, adolescence ...
Place: israel
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 387
Lea and Darija (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It’s inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theatre venues, they were praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European ...
Style: suspense, rough, disturbing, educational, entertaining ...
Plot: world war two, best friend, female protagonist, jewish girl, nazi germany, tragedy, teenage girl, concentration camp, sibling relationship, siblings, jewess, girl ...
Time: year 1941
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The Beheaded Rooster (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very ...
Style: historical drama, dramatic, period piece, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, world war two, friendship, loss of innocence, adolescence, first love, social change, bittersweet, identity crisis, small town, social commentary, provincial life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: transylvania, romania
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 7.5
 19K
Sarah's Key (2010)
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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 7.9
 483K
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: New Zealand, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must ...
Style: black comedy, cute, sad, dark comedy, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, boy, nazi, satire, jewish girl, coming of age, nazism, first love, hitler youth, hitler, imaginary friend ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, year 1945, year 2019, year 1944
Place: germany, los angeles, central europe, europe
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War of the Buttons (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: jewish girl, youth, friendship, world war two, mischievous children, village, young heroes, fall in love, coming of age, disorder, social relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france, europe
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Just Beyond This Forest (1991)
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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 7.4
 8K
White Bird (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Julian Albans, the bully who left Beecher Prep, is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. As a girl in Nazi-occupied France, the young Grandmère goes into hiding with the help of a ...
Style: period drama
Plot: hitler youth, best friend, teenage boy, jewish girl, young boy, wartime life, coming of age, holocaust, private school, nazi propaganda, bullying, kindness ...
Time: 1940s, 2020s
Place: france
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My Daughter, Anne Frank (2015)
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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Farewell To Autumn (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Decadence, homosexuality, excess wealth, infidelity, alcoholism and drugs all played a major role in the decline of aristocracy.
Style: postmodern
Plot: gay, gay subtext, male pubic hair, jewish girl, double wedding, writers, bisexual, lost civilization, decadence, homosexual, tragic event, aristocracy ...
Place: poland
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 5.3
 122
Valiant Hearts (2021)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, tension ...
Plot: world war two, jew persecution, anti semitism, persecution, occupied france, french resistance, nazi occupation, life is a bitch, jewish life, friendship, children, jewish family ...
Time: 1940s
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 6.4
 187
War Girls (2017)
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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 7.1
 4K
Loving Leah (2009)
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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Lady in the Lake (2024)
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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Story of Annette Zelman (2022)
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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 577
Charlotte (2021)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, France, Belgium, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which ...
Style: adult animation, captivating, disturbing, psychological, 2d animation
Plot: world war two, female protagonist, female artist, painter, artist, historical figure, painting, artists' life, life, life is a bitch, social problems, art ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 1930s, year 1943, year 1940 ...
Place: berlin germany, south of france, france, cote d'azur
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Scent of Quinces (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman gets more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl causes his downfall.
Plot: world war two, partisan, jewish girl, nudity, girl, wealth, traitor, colonel, bombing, bakery, nazi, muslim ...
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, sarajevo
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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
Style: anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war two, french resistance, occupation, gestapo, nazi occupation, children in wartime, resistance, resistance movement, nazi, wartime life, world war, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s, year 1974, 20th century, year 1944
Place: vichy, france, israel, europe, germany
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 6.9
 518
Joanna (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved ...
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, sincere
Plot: nazi occupation, world war two, officer, loneliness, hiding place, secret, treason, jewish girl, girl, wartime life, holocaust, sacrifice ...
Place: poland
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Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
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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 2K
Cruise (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the wrong side of the tracks falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.
Style: sexy, touching, disturbing, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: love, hot and sexy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, macho man, love affair, jewish girl, lust, young girl, lifestyle, gain trust, entertainment, wooing ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: usa, long island
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
Style: heartbreaking, bleak, reflective, historical drama, tension ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, children in wartime, tragedy, persecution, holocaust, fear, loss, anti semitism, isolation, teenage protagonist, peril ...
Time: 1940s
Place: amsterdam
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 5.9
 4K
Clueless (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Clueless is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season. The show then spent its last two seasons on UPN ...
Style: sitcom, sweet, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: high school, teenager, high school student, occupation, pretty girl, education, best friend, shopping, shopping mall, friends, fashion, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: beverly hills, los angeles, california, usa
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The Remains of the Day (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, breathtaking, romantic drama, romantic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: melancholy, nazi, love, nazism, butler, aristocracy, manor, british, class differences, master servant relationship, domestic servant, master and servant ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, ancient times, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place: england, britain, europe, germany
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 6.7
 58
Unloved (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
Style: historical drama, melancholic, romantic drama, historical romance, tense ...
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, tragedy, forbidden love, nazi occupation, survival, violence, cultural conflict, young lovers, identity crisis, betrayal, small town ...
Time: year 1939
Place: poland
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Birth Certificate (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the ...
Style: tension, poignant, grim, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: world war two, children, orphanage, brutality, fear, hiding, occupation, concentration camp, soldier, trauma, loss, realism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, europe, central europe
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A Friendship in Vienna (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade ...
Plot: 13 year old, friendship between girls, nazi occupation, christmas, world war two, redhead girl, girl, mother daughter relationship, friendship, train, school, friend ...
Time: year 1938, 1930s
Place: vienna, austria
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