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The Passion of the Christ(2004)

K-16
| 2h 7min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,854 votes)

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.

Directed by Mel Gibson - With Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci, Hristo Shopov, Rosalinda Celentano, Sergio Rubini, ...

Life of Brian(1979)

13
| 1h 34min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 1,878 votes)

Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

Directed by Terry Jones - With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, ...
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Chariots of Fire(1981)

2h 3min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 368 votes)

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

Directed by Hugh Hudson - With Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Cheryl Campbell, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud, Ian Holm, ...
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob(1973)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 427 votes)

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.

Directed by Gérard Oury - With Louis de Funès, Marcel Dalio, Renzo Montagnani, Miou-Miou, Suzy Delair, Claude Giraud, ...

Jakob the Liar(1999)

2h | Comedy, Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 150 votes)

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 ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

Directed by Peter Kassovitz, Marek Brodzki - With Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Bob Balaban, Michael Jeter, ...
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Europa Europa(1990)

1h 52min | History, Drama, War
3.7/5 (with 99 votes)

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.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland - With Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Delphine Forest, Artur Barcis, André Wilms, ...

Exodus(1960)

3h 28min | War, Drama
3.3/5 (with 90 votes)

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth, ...

Lili Marleen(1981)

2h | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 29 votes)

The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - With Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Erik Schumann, Hark Bohm, ...

Only Human(2004)

1h 33min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins. He accidentally drops a block of frozen soup out the flat window, probably killing a passerby. Leni initiates a cover-up and Rafi figures out the body is probably Leni's father. The body disappears and without telling the rest of the family what they know, Leni and Rafi organize a search for dad. Mom is sure he's having an affair. Leni's belly-dancing sister kisses Rafi. Her brother grabs a rifle to shoot the Arab. Can anything be put right?

Directed by Teresa de Pelegrí, Dominic Harari - With Guillermo Toledo, Fernando Ramallo, Norma Aleandro, Marián Aguilera, María Botto, Mario Martín, ...

Empty Nest(2008)

1h 31min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.

Directed by Daniel Burman - With Oscar Martínez, Cecilia Roth, Inés Efron, Arturo Goetz, Osmar Núñez, Jean Pierre Noher, ...

The Story of a Murder(1965)

1h 35min | Drama

In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman, who wanted to avenge the death of her parents. Zwischenzahl, a former SA member, was apparently involved in the deportation of her parents to a concentration camp during the war. Ruth cannot bear the horrible events and the death of her parents and wants to open the eyes of the town′s residents.

Directed by Joachim Hasler - With Angelica Domröse, Ulrich Thein, Siegfried Weiß, Martin Flörchinger, Hans Klering, Willi Schwabe, ...

Seekers of Happiness(1936)

1h 24min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

During the 1920s, many impoverished Jews searching for a better life made their way to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family's immigration to Birobidzhan and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area.

Directed by Vladimir Korsh-Sablin, Iosif Shapiro - With Maria Blumental-Tamarina