Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "anti-semitic-slur"

1. American History X (1998)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama

Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.

Director: Tony Kaye | Stars: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien

Votes: 1,187,600 | Gross: $6.72M

2. Casino (1995)

R | 178 min | Crime, Drama

In Las Vegas, two best friends - a casino executive and a mafia enforcer - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods

Votes: 564,847 | Gross: $42.44M

3. American Gangster (2007)

R | 157 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin

Votes: 453,036 | Gross: $130.16M

4. The Fabelmans (2022)

PG-13 | 151 min | Drama

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch

Votes: 117,228

5. As Good as It Gets (1997)

PG-13 | 139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Votes: 318,787 | Gross: $148.48M

6. Alpha Dog (2006)

R | 122 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Johnny and his pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother Zach, then assign his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder. They develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control.

Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Willis

Votes: 108,054 | Gross: $15.23M

7. Porky's (1981)

R | 94 min | Comedy

In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson

Votes: 45,782 | Gross: $111.29M

8. Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Votes: 91,068 | Gross: $63.86M

9. 42 (2013)

PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process.

Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie

Votes: 102,837 | Gross: $95.00M

10. The Widow Couderc (1971)

TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Romance

John, an escaped convict, takes refuge on the farm of Widow Couderc. He becomes the older woman's lover and admits that he's on the run. The widow's in-laws, who despise her,

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier

Votes: 2,102

11. Defiance (I) (2008)

R | 137 min | Action, Drama, History

Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos

Votes: 155,765 | Gross: $28.64M

12. An Education (2009)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams

Votes: 138,196 | Gross: $12.57M

13. Black Book (2006)

R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn

Votes: 80,596 | Gross: $4.40M

14. Barton Fink (1991)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner

Votes: 129,057 | Gross: $6.15M

15. The Believer (2001)

R | 98 min | Drama

A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.

Director: Henry Bean | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Peter Meadows, Garret Dillahunt

Votes: 41,176 | Gross: $0.41M

16. Marathon Man (1976)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane

Votes: 70,317 | Gross: $21.71M

17. Private Parts (1997)

R | 109 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV personality, an author and a movie star.

Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Howard Stern, Mary McCormack, Robin Quivers, Fred Norris

Votes: 39,222 | Gross: $41.20M

18. If.... (1968)

R | 111 min | Crime, Drama

In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.

Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan

Votes: 25,215

19. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

PG | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.

Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman

Votes: 18,114

20. Maps to the Stars (2014)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack

Votes: 42,900 | Gross: $0.35M

21. The Merchant of Venice (2004)

R | 131 min | Drama, Romance

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.

Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons

Votes: 38,286 | Gross: $3.77M

22. Where the Truth Lies (2005)

R | 107 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, David Hayman

Votes: 18,776 | Gross: $0.87M

23. Marshall (2017)

PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown

Votes: 26,849 | Gross: $10.05M

24. Soldier of Orange (1977)

R | 165 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

During World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of the Netherlands.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Susan Penhaligon, Edward Fox

Votes: 13,888

25. L.I.E. (2001)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama

A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.

Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay

Votes: 10,459 | Gross: $1.14M

26. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Romance

A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm

Votes: 17,795

27. Taking Woodstock (2009)

R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton

Votes: 30,019 | Gross: $7.44M

28. White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama

A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden

Votes: 13,235 | Gross: $2.32M

29. State and Main (2000)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

Director: David Mamet | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon, Michael Higgins

Votes: 22,203 | Gross: $6.92M

30. The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.

Directors: Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman | Stars: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts

Votes: 5,836 | Gross: $0.46M

31. Charlotte (III) (2021)

Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon's life in the south of France between 1941 and 1943, before she was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. Inspired by her memoir "Life? or Theatre?".

Directors: Tahir Rana, Éric Warin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Marion Cotillard, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 484

32. The Confession (1970)

GP | 139 min | Drama, Thriller

A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold

Votes: 4,821 | Gross: $0.33M

33. The Infidel (2010)

TV-PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish.

Director: Josh Appignanesi | Stars: Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Archie Panjabi, Igal Naor

Votes: 6,960

34. Gigantic (2008)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A mattress salesman's plan to adopt a Chinese baby is augmented by the arrival of a young woman who comes to his workplace, falls asleep on one of the beds, and upon waking starts to affect his life.

Director: Matt Aselton | Stars: Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Edward Asner

Votes: 9,953 | Gross: $0.10M

35. Bye Bye Germany (2017)

102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.

Director: Sam Garbarski | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Tim Seyfi, Mark Ivanir

Votes: 1,773 | Gross: $0.07M

36. Stavisky (1974)

PG | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer, Anny Duperey

Votes: 2,506 | Gross: $0.01M

37. The Two of Us (1967)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama

In German-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist, Luce Fabiole

Votes: 2,513 | Gross: $0.05M

38. The Glass Shield (1994)

PG-13 | 109 min | Crime, Drama

Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct.

Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Erich Anderson, Richard Anderson

Votes: 3,577 | Gross: $3.31M

39. Max Schmeling (2010)

Not Rated | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Max Schmeling's fights against Joe Louis are listed in the best ten boxing matches of all time.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Henry Maske, Heino Ferch, Susanne Wuest, Vladimir Weigl

Votes: 1,222

40. The Good Humor Man (2005)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

A mischievous high school sophomore faces a conflict of conscience vs. character when his best friend becomes linked to the death of a youth from another clique in suburban Middle America circa '76.

Director: Tenney Fairchild | Stars: Nathan Stevens, Cameron Richardson, Jorge Garcia, Jason Segel

Votes: 662

41. Le président (1961)

110 min | Thriller

At 73, France's ex-president, Emile Beaufort, faces declining health, but he still plays a vigorous role behind the scenes as a philosopher and, potentially, as a power broker. In ... See full summary »

Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Renée Faure, Henri Crémieux

Votes: 1,071

42. Carl Peters (1941)

110 min | Biography, Drama, History

Film about the exploits of famed German explorer Dr. Carl Peters.

Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Karl Dannemann, Fritz Odemar, Herbert Hübner

Votes: 62

43. L'affaire Dreyfus (1899)

13 min | Short, Biography, Drama

Dramatized re-enactments of the events of the Dreyfus-affair from 1894 to 1899.

Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès

Votes: 711

44. Robert und Bertram (1939)

87 min | Comedy

Two vagabonds escape from jail and steal jewelry at a wedding to help a poor innkeeper pay his debts.

Director: Hans H. Zerlett | Stars: Rudi Godden, Kurt Seifert, Carla Rust, Fritz Kampers

Votes: 38

45. Van den vos Reynaerde (1943)

12 min | Animation, Short

An anti-semitic story in which Jews are portrayed as tax-collecting rhinos who destroy the life of the animals after the old king dies. It is left to the fox, Reynaert to destroy the rhino and save the other animals.

Director: Egbert van Putten

Votes: 17

46. Call Her Lotte (2014)

17 min | Short, Drama, War

The deep friendship between young theater actresses Maria and her Jewish friend Lea gradually starts to break as Marias husband Hans goes from being a young adventurer to a high ranking SS ... See full summary »

Director: Annekathrin Wetzel | Stars: Lola Dockhorn, Maria Ehrich, Kai-Peter Malina, Peter Kollmann

Votes: 25

47. American Mobsters

Crime, Drama, Thriller | Announced

Wanting to retire, the patriarch of an organized crime family recruits his nephew to help silence his enemies and take control of his empire.

Star: John Maciag

48. All in the Family (1971–1979)
Episode: Stephanie's Conversion (1979)

TV-PG | Comedy, Drama

The Reverand Chong visits Edith to tell her that Stephanie is Jewish. Archie wants her to convert, but Edith backs Stephanie's decision.

Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Danielle Brisebois, Clyde Kusatsu

Votes: 164

49. G-Spot (2005–2009)
Episode: Gigi Gets a Job (2005)

28 min | Comedy

Driven to a shrink's office, Gigi is saved from anti-depressants by a call from her agent with news of an exciting new job. She is also caught red-handed lying about her age. And she thinks she is in love, not knowing he is anti-Semitic.

Director: David Wu | Stars: Brigitte Bako, Heather Hanson, Kimberly Huie, Kristin Lehman

50. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode: Cool Winter Blues (1992)

Drama

Lilly decides to change her pastor to one who believe in integration of black and white people. Nathan develops a crush on Diane.

Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch