Watermarks (2004), Divan (2003), Demon (2015), Five Days Without Nora (2008), Late Marriage (2001), Off and Running (2009), Lies My Father Told Me (1975), Mahler (1975) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jewish Culture movies.
Storyline: Taking its name from the Hebrew word for strength, the Hakoah Vienna sports club produced a host of talented female swimmers, who thrived in opposition to anti-Semitic trends that began to color Austrian society in the early 20th century. The club was a casualty of Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, but several of the women who were team members went on to live long, colorful lives. Now senior citizens, they're reunited in this documentary about sports, survival and bravery.
Plot Keywords: documentary, jewish, holocaust, history, women, sports, austria ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this film, documentarian Pearl Gluck chronicles her Hasidic Jewish upbringing and her subsequent, more secular life as a Manhattanite. Gluck then documents her return trip to her old neighborhood, where she tries to reconcile with her devout father, who hopes that she will move back to Brooklyn. Gluck strikes an on-camera compromise with her dad, and agrees to trek to Hungary in order to find a long-lost family heirloom -- a couch that many notable rabbis have crashed on.
Plot Keywords: documentary, jewish culture, family, tradition, immigration, identity, poland ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man (Andrzej Grabowski) tries to save his daughter's (Agnieszka Zulewska) wedding party when her new husband (Itay Tiran) becomes possessed by a restless spirit.
Plot Keywords: supernatural, demonic possession, psychological thriller, polish film, jewish culture, folklore, identity crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman's suicide just before Passover creates many complications for her ex-husband (Fernando Luján) and their family.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, mexican, jewish culture, black comedy, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pair from the republic of Georgia force their son (Lior Louie Ashkenazi) to meet Jewish women even though he is in love with a Moroccan divorcee (Ronit Elkabetz).
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, marriage, cultural conflict, tradition, modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The focus of this film rests on Avery Klein-Cloud, a teenage African-American girl living in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her Caucasian Jewish lesbian mothers and two brothers who are also of other races. When Avery decides to contact her birth mother, this development triggers a major identity crisis for the college-bound teen, leading to troubling behavior that threatens her promising academic career and her relationship with her adoptive family. Can Avery reconcile her roots with her everyday life?
Plot Keywords: documentary, family, race, adoption, identity, coming of age, african american ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: drama, family, coming of age, jewish culture, childhood, father-son relationship, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) flashes back on his tortured life during his final train trip to Vienna.
Plot Keywords: biography, musician, composer, 1970s, british film, art film, classical music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1970 a Jewish neighbor (Germano Haiut) takes in a Brazilian boy (Michel Joelsas) whose parents are fugitives and whose grandfather has unexpectedly died.
Plot Keywords: family, coming of age, 1970s, soccer, childhood, jewish culture, solitude ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik....
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, family, tradition, jewish culture, religion, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, new york, intellectual, relationships, dialogue-driven ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Judah Rosenthal is an ophthalmologist and a pillar of the community who has a big problem: his mistress Dolores Paley has told him that he is to leave his wife and marry her - as he had promised to do - or she will tell everyone of their affair. When he intercepts a letter Dolores has written to his wife Miriam, he is frantic. He confesses all to his shady brother Jack who assures him that he has friends who can take care of her. Meanwhile, filmmaker Cliff Stern is having his own problems. He's been working on a documentary film for some time but has yet to complete it. He and his wife Wendy have long ago stopped loving one another and are clearly on their way to divorce. He falls in love with Halley Reed who works with a producer, Lester. Cliff soon finds himself making a documentary about Lester and hates every minute of it.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, moral dilemma, black comedy, philosophy, ethics, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Baseball Hall-of-Famer Hank Greenberg is told through archival film footage and interviews with Jewish and non-Jewish fans, his former teammates, his friends, and his family. As a great first baseman with the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg endured antisemitism and became a hero and source of inspiration throughout the Jewish community, not incidentally leading the Tigers to Major League dominance in the 1930s.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: documentary, sports, biography, history, jewish culture, america, athlete ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hungary, 1943. An elderly Jewish couple, Job and Roza, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: rural life, family relationships, test of humanity, historical drama, child's perspective, moral dilemma, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. When timid accountant Leo Bloom reviews Max's accounting books, the two hit upon a way to make a fortune by producing a sure-fire flop. The play which is to be their gold mine? "Springtime for Hitler."
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, satire, broadway, song and dance, black comedy, producers ...
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