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51. Back to Berlin (2018)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Back to Berlin is the first biker flick-meets-holocaust feature documentary. Eleven motor bikers have a mission to take the Maccabiah torch from Israel to the site of the infamous 1936 ... See full summary »
Directors: Catherine Lurie, Catherine Lurie-Alt | Stars: Yoran Maron, Dan Marom, Joseph Gottdenker, Maximillian Marco Katz
Votes: 118
52. Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Celebrates the contributions of Jewish major leaguers and the special meaning that baseball has had in the lives of American Jews.
Director: Peter Miller | Stars: Martin Abramowitz, Maury Allen, Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bronfman
Votes: 127
53. Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)
51 min | Drama, History, Music
The amazing story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtrack to Christmas.
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Larry Weinstein, Ben Sidran, Jennifer 8. Lee, Ophira Eisenberg
Votes: 134
54. Leedvermaak (1989)
92 min | Drama
Nico and Leo are getting married. Their entire family and both their exes are in attendance. Some of these are performing musical numbers on stage. But memories of the war and the fact that... See full summary »
Director: Frans Weisz | Stars: Kitty Courbois, Peter Oosthoek, Catherine ten Bruggencate, Pierre Bokma
Votes: 115
55. The Street (1976)
10 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.
Director: Caroline Leaf | Stars: Mort Ransen, Sarah Dwight, John Hood, Vera Leitman
Votes: 834
56. The Heart of New York (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
In the Jewish enclave of New York's lower East Side, hapless inventor Mendel is constantly in debt since he uses all his (and other people's) money to tinker with machines that will make ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe Smith, Charles Dale, George Sidney, Ruth Hall
Votes: 193
57. A Father's Job (2021)
Short, Drama
A Father's Job tells the story of a Jewish woman's fate in the middle of the last century in Germany. Step by step connections become apparent and result in an overall view that doesn't ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Christian Wagner | Stars: Dorothee Frauenlob, Christian Harting, Jessica Stautz, Stefan Woelk
Votes: 5
58. The Burial Society (2002)
R | 94 min | Thriller
Sheldon Kasner gets drawn into the underworld of money laundering and concocts an elaborate scheme involving the "Chevrah Kadisha", the society of devout Jewish men who prepare bodies for burial.
Director: Nicholas Racz | Stars: Rob LaBelle, Jan Rubes, Allan Rich, Bill Meilen
Votes: 211
59. Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann (1999)
126 min | Documentary
Only two Jews who were born in the town of Czernowitz still survive, after the turmoils of the twentieth century, and they are now both in their nineties.
Director: Volker Koepp
Votes: 148
60. Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (2005)
90 min | Documentary, History
The battle to keep Yiddish Theater alive into the 21st century continues.
Director: Dan Katzir | Stars: Julie Alexander, Mike Burstyn, Felix Fibich, Shifra Lerer
Votes: 61 | Gross: $0.04M
61. Avoda (1935)
50 min | Documentary, Music
This documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state.
Director: Helmar Lerski
Votes: 44
62. Island of Roses (1995)
55 min | Documentary
This film visits the Los Angeles community of "Rhodeslis"--Jews who lived on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes from 1492 to World War II--who have passed down their traditions, food, songs... See full summary »
Director: Gregori Viens | Star: Rebecca Amato Levy
63. Grandpa's Funeral (1995 TV Movie)
29 min | Comedy
The family is preparing silently, small talk, the grandpa's funeral. The daughters are already missing him; the youngest can not accept that she is not immortal.
Director: Patricia Resnick | Stars: Dori Brenner, Jon Favreau, Steven Gilborn, Julie Hayden
64. Kike Like Me (2007 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
With "Gentleman's Agreement" as his jumping off point, Jamie Kastner asks who's a Jew, and does it matter. He'll answer the question, "Are you Jewish?" with a yes to see how people react. ... See full summary »
Director: Jamie Kastner | Stars: Jamie Kastner, Pat Buchanan, Avraham B. Yehoshua, Carol Gould
Votes: 132
65. The Muses of Bashevis Singer (2014)
72 min | Documentary, Biography
Many books, biographies and articles have been written about the life and work of Isaac Bashevis Singer. An exclusive discovery of the filmmakers brings to light a hitherto unknown chapter ... See full summary »
Directors: Shaul Betser, Asaf Galay | Stars: Janet Hadda, Florence Noiville, Bilhah Rubinstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Votes: 11
66. Alle Juden raus! (1991)
82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This film traces the story of the German-Jewish Auerbach family of Oppingen, Germany, from 1933 through 1945. The film begins with home movies in the 1930s and follows Inge Auerbach from ... See full summary »
Director: Emanuel Rund | Stars: Edith Auerbacher, Inge Auerbacher, Regina Auerbacher
Votes: 28
67. Unattached (2007)
24 min | Documentary, Short
Director: J.J. Adler | Stars: Naomi Aborn, Marc Adler, Gabriel Berger, Evan Hakalir
Votes: 8
68. As If Nothing Happened (1999 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama
Based on the personal experience of the director, this film focuses on one family waiting to hear news of a son who may be involved in a terrorist incident.
Director: Ayelet Bargur | Stars: Assi Dayan, Hana Drory, Tal Kapitolnik, Guy Loel
Votes: 7
69. Sarah Thaha Thoufeek (2020)
63 min | Documentary
The magical story of Sarah, Thaha and Thoufeek unfolds in a port town named Mattancherry, a strip of land in the city of Cochin, India. Theirs is an inspiring tale of brotherhood and communal harmony from India for the world to learn from.
Director: Sarath Kottikkal
70. Un beso a esta tierra (1995)
93 min | Documentary
In exploring the history of Jewish immigration to Mexico, A Kiss To This Land presents fragments of memories and oral histories together with vivid depiction of Jews in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s.
Director: Daniel Goldberg Lerner | Stars: Moisés Amkie, Zelig Schnadower, Susana Sevilla
Votes: 16
71. Sidewalk Soldiers (2002)
71 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about Fundamentalist-Evangelical Christian support of Israel.
Director: Todd Albertson | Star: George Meyers
Votes: 39
72. A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' (1983 TV Movie)
35 min | Documentary, Music
A behind-the-scenes look at the hard work that went into creating this Oscar-winning film about a young woman determined to pursue her dreams of learning in a world controlled by men. ... See full summary »
Stars: Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin, Iain Johnstone
Votes: 96
73. Klezmer on Fish Street (2004)
85 min | Documentary
An examination of the Jewish culture that thrives in 21st-century Poland despite the absence of a large Jewish population.
Director: Yale Strom
Votes: 16
74. The Nose Job Jew (2000)
6 min | Short
Tim is a Jew who doesn't feel he looks Jewish enough, and does as much as he possibly can to appear closer to his ethnic heritage. Complications arise when he starts dating Maya, a girl ... See full summary »
Director: Micah Smith | Stars: Tim Novikoff, Libby Clearfield, Stanley Allen Sherman, Judith Sloan
Votes: 15
75. Romance of a Jewess (1908)
10 min | Drama, Short
This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Florence Lawrence, George Gebhardt, Gladys Egan, John R. Cumpson
Votes: 143
76. Alia (II) (2015)
47 min | Documentary, Biography
Alia is an aging Moroccan immigrant in Israel who cannot leave the confines of her council flat due to her deteriorating health. Through the power of Art she transforms her narrowing physical world.
Director: Noam Edry | Star: Alia Edery
77. The Same Snowy Ground (2020)
43 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A journey through a place of an eternal past; where the grandson of a Jewish partisan sets out to experience the dramatic events and places that shaped his grandfather's war time.
Director: Matan Tal
78. Tomorrow's a Wonderful Day (1947)
50 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Helmar Lerski | Stars: Sam Balter, Benjamin Hildesheimer, Jimmie Lipton
Votes: 35
79. Mori, Shabazi's Riddle (2018)
55 min | Documentary
Very few details are known about Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, but 400 years after his death, Shabazi is as popular as ever and is considered one of the greatest Yemenite poets. The film takes the ... See full summary »
Director: Israela Shaer-Meoded | Stars: Lea Avraham, Adi Keissar
80. True Child of Vienna (2000)
52 min | Documentary
Imre and Max Rochlitz, two brothers who fled Nazi Vienna in 1938 when they were in their early teens, return to the sites of their childhood: their High School, their apartment, the ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Rochlitz
81. Song of Radauti (1978)
25 min | Documentary, Short
A look at the Jewish community in Radauti, Romania, from 1974 to 1976.
Director: Laurence Salzmann | Stars: Laurence Salzmann, Joseph Tyrnauer
82. Santa Fe (1986 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Santa Fe begins where Corti's 1982 film God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore leaves off. In 1940, a ship arrives in New York harbor filled with exhausted Jewish immigrants desperate to begin ... See full summary »
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Valda Aviks, Gabriel Barylli, Monica Bleibtreu, Tilli Breidenbach
Votes: 112
83. If Not Now (2015– )
30 min | Documentary
Avri Gilad and Jacky Levi embark on a journey in the footsteps of the Chapters of the Fathers. This documentary journey brings them together with the people and stories that form the basis ... See full summary »
Stars: Avri Gilad, Jackey Levi
86. People of the Graphic Novel (2012)
11 min | Short
Director: Sam Ball | Stars: Josh Kornbluth, Joann Sfar
88. Ruah Kaddim - Chronika Marokait (2003)
60 min | Documentary, History
The story of Moroccan Jewry in Israel.
Stars: Oved Abutbul, Reuven Abergel, Arie Deri, Erez Biton
89. The Victim and the Executioner: My Thoughts on Jussie Smollett and Victim Culture (2019 Video)
55 min | News
Star: Owen Benjamin
90. Isa: The People's Diva (2000)
56 min | Documentary
Isa Kremer lived life to the fullest as the premiere singer of authentic Yiddish songs. The first woman to perform Yiddish songs on the concert stage, she legitimized the language as a ... See full summary »
Directors: Ted Schillinger, Nina Feinberg
92. Nicht mehr Nacht und noch nicht Morgen (2000)
90 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Peter Leippe
93. A bissele Glik (2009 TV Movie)
33 min | Documentary
Director: Christian Schüller | Stars: Arkady Gendler, Roman Grinberg, Dora Napadensky
95. Kosher Friendly (2001 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
Rebirth of the Jewish Community of Wroclaw, Poland after the fall of Communism.
Directors: Benny Brunner, Joseph Rochlitz
96. The Levines (2000)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A geriatric lovefest. Can Mr. and Mrs. Levine reignite their passion through their love of film.
Director: Lee Miller | Stars: Avalon Master, Bernie Master
97. Juifs d'Orient, une histoire multimillénaire (2023)
71 min | Documentary
Director: Alain Fleischer | Stars: Benjamin Stora, Jack Lang, Laure Adler, Hélène Cixous
99. Tikkun (2002)
52 min | Documentary
"If I saw someone else screaming like my mother, I would be sure that person was mentally disturbed, if it wasn't 100% authentic..." This is what Israel Meir says about his mother, Rabbanit... See full summary »
Director: Taliya Finkel | Star: Lea Kook
Votes: 22
100. How to Kosher a Kitchen and Why (1976)
22 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary about "Kashruth" in the Jewish home. Presents how to prepare kosher food and to keep kosher. Designed for Jews who do not practice this biblical enjoinment.
Director: Morris Anton | Stars: Solomon Kahane, Abraham Lieberman