Lies My Father Told Me (1975), Alan & Naomi (1992), The Man Who Cried (2000), An American Pickle (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jewish Immigration movies.
Storyline: David (Jeffrey Lynas) is a young Jewish boy growing up in Montreal in the 1920s. His father, Harry (Len Birman), a self-consumed inventor who yearns for assimilation and acceptance, is not religious. His loving grandfather Zaida (Yossi Yadin) is devout, with his heart still back on the old continent. Every Sunday, as David and Zaida collect scrap metal in a horse and carriage, grandfather preaches Judaism to grandson. David must come to his own conclusions on his Jewish identity and faith.
Plot Keywords: boy, grandfather, father, mother, uncle, horse, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Jewish boy (Lukas Haas) uses dolls to communicate with a war-shocked refugee girl (Vanessa Zaoui) in 1944 Brooklyn.
Plot Keywords: friend, jew, young boy, young girl, mother, father, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United States in 1927, leaving behind his young daughter Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke). Father has promised his family that he'll send for Fegele as soon as he can, but authorities make life hard for the Jewish population, and Fegele is forced to flee with relatives to England. Fegele is adopted by a British family, which renames her Suzie and raises her with little acknowledgment of her ethnic heritage. As she grows to adulthood, Suzie (Christina Ricci) becomes a gifted vocalist and gets a job singing in a nigh club revue in Paris. Before she leaves England, her adopted family presents Suzie with a picture of her father, still believed to be living in America, and she decides she will go to the United States some day and find him. In Paris, Suzie makes friends with Lola (Cate Blanchett), a Russian showgirl in the market for a rich husband. Lola becomes involved with ...
Plot Keywords: young woman, dancer, gypsy, opera singer, opera director, father, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A simple Jewish man named Herschel Greenbaum works in a pickle factory in Brooklyn. One day he falls into a vat of brine and stays there, perfectly preserved, for 100 years. He comes back to life and goes to stay with his great-great-grandson, Ben, in contemporary Brooklyn.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: factory worker, computer programmer, eastern european man, touching, endearing, amusing, brooklyn ...
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