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Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

R
| 3h 49min | Drama, Crime
4.2/5 (with 2,468 votes)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

New York, I Love You(2008)

R
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 226 votes)

New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.

A Serious Man(2009)

R
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 962 votes)

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Son of Saul(2015)

R
| 1h 47min | War, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 489 votes)

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

The Cobbler(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 39min | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 733 votes)

Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.

Fritz the Cat(1972)

NC-17
| 1h 18min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 134 votes)

A swinging, hypocritical college student cat raises hell in a satirical vision of the 1960s.

Directed by Ralph Bakshi

The Vigil(2020)

PG-13
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 148 votes)

A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.

Directed by Keith Thomas - With Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Fred Melamed, Lynn Cohen, Moshe Lobel

In Darkness(2011)

R
| 2h 25min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 79 votes)

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 own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland).

Mother Night(1996)

1h 54min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

Fatal Instinct(1993)

PG-13
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 55 votes)

Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana, is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.

The History of Love(2016)

2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.3/5 (with 42 votes)

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch(2018)

1h 34min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 61 votes)

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 like her. The situation gets even more complicated, when Motti secretly falls in love with the non-Jewish girl Laura, a so-called Shiksa.

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Run Boy Run(2013)

1h 48min | Drama, War
3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.

The Shop on Main Street(1965)

2h 8min | Drama, War
4.0/5 (with 47 votes)

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.

The Man Who Cried(2000)

3.1/5 (with 98 votes)

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

Shoah(1985)

NR
| 9h 26min | Documentary, History
4.2/5 (with 78 votes)

Various aspects of the Holocaust, as told entirely through interviews with survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis.

Directed by Claude Lanzmann - With Raul Hilberg, Claude Lanzmann, Jan Karski, Szymon Srebrnik, Mordechaï Podchlebnik, Rudolf Vrba, ...

Filip(2023)

2h 5min | Drama, History, War
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

During World War II, a Polish food server at a luxury German hotel tempts fate as he romances local women while hiding his Jewish identity.

Directed by Michał Kwieciński - With Eryk Kulm, Victor Meutelet, Caroline Hartig, Zoe, Sandra Drzymalska, Maja Szopa, ...

Menashe(2017)

1h 22min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.

Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein - With Menashe Lustig

Hester Street(1975)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

Demon(2015)

R
| 1h 34min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 53 votes)

A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.

Fugitive Pieces(2007)

1h 44min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

My Neighbor Adolf(2022)

1h 36min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.

Directed by Leonid Prudovsky - With David Hayman, Udo Kier

Taxi!(1931)

NR
| 1h 9min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.

Aviya's Summer(1988)

1h 35min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

A young girl and her mother both carry the scars of their experiences during the holocaust in this drama from Israel. In 1951, Aviya is a ten-year-old girl being raised by her single mother, Henya, in a small village in Israel. Henya is a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, and has come out of the experience considerably worse for wear; she's haunted by the memories of her past, and has become emotionally unstable. Circumstances for her and her daughter are hardly improved by the poverty of the newly wounded state of Israel, and their own difficult economic circumstances. Aviya, meanwhile, is obsessed with finding her missing father, and wonders if he might be the man who has just moved into their village. Henya, however, knows better, and knows why Aviya's father is never coming back to them.

Ushpizin(2004)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, married nearly five years and childless, are broke and praying for a miracle...

Directed by Gidi Dar - With Shuli Rand, Shaul Mizrahi, Ilan Ganani, Avraham Abutbul, Michael Weigel

Man Is a Woman(1998)

NR
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.

Solomon and Gaenor(1999)

R
| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.

The Last Suit(2017)

1h 31min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Cranky, crafty and always immaculately dressed, aged master tailor Abraham Bursztein finds himself facing his winter years in a retirement home after discovering his children have sold his home out from under him. Not one to go quietly, Abraham unexpectedly travels to Poland in order to deliver a suit to a childhood friend who saved his life during the Nazi occupation.

Directed by Pablo Solarz - With Miguel Ángel Solá, Ángela Molina, Natalia Verbeke

Waiting for the Messiah(2000)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, and wonders when he'll discover sex. Santamaria, middle aged, loses his bank job and is dismissed by his wife; he finds stolen wallets in dumpsters to return to their owners. Ariel tells Santamaria's story to a TV reporter who profiles lives on the street. She's Laura, in a relationship with another woman, but perhaps available. Ariel desires Laura, while Santamaria courts Elsa, a washroom attendant who's husband is in prison. Christmas and Hanukkah approach; can anyone connect?

From Hell to Hell(1997)

1h 42min | Drama, War
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Directed by Dmitry Astrakhan - With Alla Kliouka Schaffer, Anja Kling, Gennady Nazarov
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