Judaism movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant judaism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, dramatic, touching, sincere and historical drama films and TV shows about / with judaism, family relations, religion, dialogue, runaway, anti semitism, mentor, storytelling, culture clash and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as judaism: Eyes Wide Open (2009), One Night with the King (2006), Munich (2005), Fill the Void (2012), Minyan (2020), Left Luggage (1998), God Is Great and I'm Not (2001), The Believer (2001), Unorthodox (2020), The Case for Christ (2017).

List of judaism movies

Eyes Wide Open (2009)
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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One Night with the King (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: This amazing biblical drama chronicles the brave and historic legend of Hadassah, a Jewish orphan with exceptional beauty who rises to become Queen Esther of Persia and saves Persian Jews from genocide. By revealing her heritage to the king, Esther ...
Style: biblical, serious, inspirational, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: ancient history, old testament, medieval, destiny, judaism, christian, courage, bible, queen, royal court, female protagonist, betrayal ...
Time: biblical epic, year 2006, 5th century
Place: persia, iran, asia, jerusalem, egypt ...
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 7.5
 252K
Munich (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style: political, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, espionage, assassination, mossad, vengeance, judaism, politics, terrorist, vigilante, revenge, spy, murder ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, germany, europe ...
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Fill the Void (2012)
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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 6.5
 1K
Minyan (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sincere, touching, gay cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay love, judaism, gay interest, closeted homosexual, gay sex, gay couple, gay romance, male nudity, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
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 7.3
 3K
Left Luggage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
Plot: judaism, holocaust survivor, orthodox jew, racism, skinny dipping, life, tragedy, nazi, justice, culture clash, depression, mentor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, year 1972, 70s
Place: europe, israel, antwerp, belgium, poland
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God Is Great and I'm Not (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: judaism, love affair, fall in love, youth, love and romance, society, culture clash, looking for love, couples, spirituality, religion, jewess ...
Time: year 2001
Place: israel, france
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 7.1
 43K
The Believer (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, bleak, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, politics, identity crisis, fascism, violence spree, anger ...
Time: year 2001, y2k, 60s, 20th century
Place: israel, new york, usa, argentina, germany
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 8.0
 98K
Unorthodox (2020)
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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The Case for Christ (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
Style: christian film, disturbing, biblical, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: christianity, christian, atheist, investigation, journalist, faith, religion, reporter, trial, court case, religious, interview ...
Time: year 2017, year 1980, year 1987
Place: chicago, los angeles, california, indiana, jerusalem ...
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Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Style: biblical, epic, stylized, period piece, breathtaking ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: ancient egypt, religion, old testament, moses, christian, belief in god, god, bible, ancient history, christianity, judaism, slavery ...
Time: middle ages, biblical epic, year 2014, 2010s, 14th century ...
Place: egypt, holy land, middle east, xian, israel
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 6.9
 29K
School Ties (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man ...
Style: emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids
Plot: high school, coming of age, friendship, preparatory school, anti semitism, american football, justice, boarding school life, prejudice, judaism, working class, youth ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1992, 80s
Place: israel, massachusetts, harvard university, usa, boston
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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, kids
Plot: childhood, judaism, friendship between boys, afterlife, friendship, coming of age, boy, youth, catholicism, mentor, rabbi, religion ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, 1930s ...
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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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, light, emotional, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: jewelry, judaism, women, stereotypes, love and romance, self discovery, love affair, introspection, orthodox jew, infidelity, job, divorce ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, israel, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
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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, thought provoking, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, tradition, jewish culture, broadway, milkman, anti semitism, dancing, forbidden love, tradition versus modernity, butcher ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: ukraine, israel, russia, ussr, europe ...
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 7.1
 76K
Agora (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Malta, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Style: philosophical, epic, historical drama, sincere, sexy ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, mathematics, destiny, atheism, impossible love, political unrest, antiquity, historical character, ancient world, religions or cults, unrequited love ...
Time: middle ages, ancient times, medieval times, 5th century
Place: ancient greece, alexandria egypt, egypt, greece, rome italy ...
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 6.0
 1K
To Dust (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, dark comedy, satirical
Plot: judaism, grief, criminal underworld, loss of wife, jewish family, adult humor, satire, bereavement, dark humor, faith, religious faith, absurd humor ...
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Crossing Delancey (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: matchmaking, fall in love, judaism, love and romance, thirtysomething life, couple relations, workplace, self discovery, parents and children, unfulfilled love, eligible bachelor, dating ...
Time: 80s, 18th century
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, new york state, manhattan new york city ...
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Jacob the Liar (1974)
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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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
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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 5.5
 2K
The Jews (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A French-Jewish actor seeks counseling and discusses a number of stereotypes concerning Jewish people. Told in the form of short stories that accompany each stereotype.
Style: black comedy, anthology
Plot: mossad, judaism, racism, female nudity, time travel, religion, racial discrimination, criticism of religion, sketch, redhead, crucifix, baby ...
Place: indiana, france, paris france
Is relevant?
 8.5
 1.0M
The Pianist (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style: emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place: poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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 7.4
 63K
Ida (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style: art house, emotional, visually stunning, cerebral, melancholic ...
Plot: nun, family secret, faith, world war two, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, suicide, character study, confronting the past, orphan ...
Time: 60s, post world war two, 2010s, year 2016, 90s ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, israel, europe, denmark
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 7.1
 161K
Defiance (2008)
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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The Holy Office (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century Mexico (known as New Spain at the time). Many Spanish Catholics of Moorish or Jewish origin found it expedient to flee to the New World to ...
Style: period piece, religious drama, historical drama, serious, bleak ...
Plot: judaism, religious persecution, inquisition, torture, anti semitism, catholic church, oppression, family tragedy, heresy, betrayal, superstition, religious hypocrisy ...
Time: 16th century
Is relevant?
 6.6
 17K
Yentl (1983)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
Style: costume drama, period piece, emotional, touching, thinking ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: gender, judaism, skinny dipping, gender bender, arm wrestling, women, dancing, transsexual, feminist, woman dressed as man, transgender, destiny ...
Time: year 1983, 1900s, 20th century
Place: israel
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 6.3
 33K
Risen (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in ...
Style: biblical, christian film, atmospheric, costume drama, historical drama ...
Audience: family friendly, kids
Plot: christianity, apostle, investigation, jesus christ, roman empire, jesus, desert, messiah, resurrection, crucifixion of jesus, religion, religious ...
Time: 1st century, biblical epic, 1930s
Place: jerusalem, china, rome italy, spain, latin america ...
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The Merchant of Venice (2004)
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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 7.1
 158K
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, the film follows a high school student who is also a successful child actor.
Style: period piece, captivating, teen, comedy drama, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, closeted homosexual, first love, actor, jealousy, teenage boy, political campaign, brother brother relationship, age difference, atheism, gay relationship, friendship ...
Time: year 1973, 2020s, 70s, year 1939, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, pasadena california
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The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the ...
Style: biblical, captivating, christian film, uplifting, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, toddlers, pre-teens ...
Plot: slavery, religion, ancient egypt, desert, bible, christian, ancient history, hopes, self discovery, freedom, pharaoh, prince ...
Time: 90s, biblical epic, year 1998
Place: egypt, africa, north africa
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