Here we've displayed a list of the best Jew films : The Pianist(2002), The Shop on Main Street(1965), Another Road Home(2004), The Children of Chabannes(1999), Anne Frank Remembered(1995), The Ten Commandments(1956), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas(2008), Against the Tide(2009), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport(2000), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold(1966), The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg(1999), Korczak(1990) ... ...
War, Drama, History
UK|France|Poland|Germany|USA
2002
148 Minutes
Adrien Brody Thomas Kretschmann Frank Finlay Maureen Lipman Emilia Fox Ed Stoppard Julia Rayner Jessica Kate Meyer Ruth Platt
musician pianist military officer jew bleak powerful disturbing warsaw radio station attic holocaust music world war ii adaptation escape pursuit 1940s
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Drama
Czechoslovakia
1965
128 Minutes
Elmar Klos Jozef Kroner Ida Kaminska Hana Slivkova Frantisek Zvarik Helena Zvaríková Martin Hollý Martin Gregor Adam Matejka Mikulás Ladizinský Eugen Senaj
nazi storekeeper jew deaf person bleak somber intense czechoslovakia small town nazism anti-semitism holocaust collaboration corruption sacrifice rescue temptation 1940s
A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
Documentary
USA
2004
77 Minutes
author parent caretaker daughter muslim jew emotional fascinating powerful jerusalem patterson, n.j. new york city jordan italy religious differences cultural differences reunion family homecoming israeli-palestinian conflict
The Personal Story Of An Israeli's Quest To Find Her Palestinian Caregiver
Documentary
USA
1999
92 Minutes
Norbert Bikales Wolfie Blumenreich Rene Castille Collette Dony-Pascal Jerry Gerard Peter Gossels Lydia Jablonski Ruth Keller Serge Klarsfeld Yvonne Labrousse
father daughter jew foreigner teacher child moving inspiring france countryside school village holocaust courage deception french resistance château de chabannes rescue sacrifice 1990s
In the spirit of Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les Enfants" and Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," the Emmy® Award-winning film "The Children of Chabannes" (93 minutes), has been praised as ... See full summary »
Documentary
UK|USA|Netherlands
1995
115 Minutes
Glenn Close Anne Frank Edith Frank Margot Frank
father mother sister friend refugee jew emotional touching moving netherlands amsterdam hideout anne frank anti-semitism nazism survival family holocaust growing up discovery
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1956
220 Minutes
Charlton Heston Yul Brynner Edward G. Robinson Anne Baxter Yvonne De Carlo Debra Paget John Derek Cedric Hardwicke Nina Foch Martha Scott Judith Anderson
prophet slave god jew ruler moses inspiring spectacular emotional profound melodramatic egypt red sea desert redemption religion exile escape sacrifice rise
Moses, an Egyptian Prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.
Drama
UK|USA
2008
94 Minutes
David Thewlis Vera Farmiga Rupert Friend Asa Butterfield Jack Scanlon Amber Beattie Cara Horgan Richard Johnson Sheila Hancock David Hayman Jim Norton
commander son jew mother sister bleak engaging touching germany concentration camp awakening holocaust compassion religious persecution friendship discovery transformation growing up 1940s
Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Documentary
USA
2009
102 Minutes
american jew jewish immigrant holocaust survivor historian expert documentarian activist interviewee fascinating gripping moving emotional inspiring united states holocaust world war ii jewish culture jewish identity survival
'Against The Tide' examines the conflict that erupted in the American Jewish community over the best means to rescue the European Jews trying to escape the Holocaust. It tells the little ... See full summary »
Documentary
UK|USA
2000
122 Minutes
Alexander Gordon
jew child german czech foster child british man bleak chilling england foster home germany czechoslovakia austria world war ii refugees adoption nazis kindertransport holocaust escape
The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
1966
112 Minutes
Richard Burton Claire Bloom Oskar Werner Peter Van Eyck George Voskovec Sam Wanamaker Cyril Cusack Michael Hordern Bernard Lee
spy drunk intelligence officer interrogator jew communist bleak brooding gritty suspenseful tense london east berlin courtroom betrayal espionage cold war drinking sacrifice underdog
Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
Biography, Documentary
USA
1999
89 Minutes
baseball fan baseball player jew friend rival inspiring emotional detroit michigan new york city baseball field baseball fame judaism anti-semitism family hank greenberg discovery rise rivalry
The life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first major Jewish baseball star in the Major Leagues.
Biography
Poland|Germany|UK
1990
115 Minutes
Wojciech Pszoniak Ewa Da?kowska Piotr Kozlowski Marzena Trybala Wojciech Klata Adam Siemion Karolina Czernicka Agnieszka Kruk Aleksander Bardini Robert Atzorn
pediatrician nazi orphan child friend jew bleak disheartening warsaw ghetto poland orphanage street orphans nazi occupation world war ii self-sacrifice holocaust janusz korczak rescue sacrifice
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1994
130 Minutes
John Turturro Rob Morrow Ralph Fiennes Paul Scofield David Paymer Hank Azaria Christopher McDonald Johann Carlo Elizabeth Wilson Allan Rich Mira Sorvino
jew aristocrat host investigator amusing gripping striking new york city columbia university television studio family home game show investigation cheating historical events fame fall temptation 1950s
A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.
Documentary
USA
1997
110 Minutes
holocaust survivor narrator jew refugee bleak intense uplifting germany israel holocaust rescue daunting task homelessness world war ii escape quest 1940s
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Documentary
France|Germany|Israel|Canada
2016
110 Minutes
elderly man israeli elderly woman settler jew brooding engaging intense unrestrained israel west bank settling down racism generational divide destiny jewish homeland dreams discovery escape pursuit
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Documentary
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Jowita Budnik Piotr Glowacki Piotr Jankowski Wojciech Zielinski Karolina Gruszka
nazi jew journalist scholar historian brooding brutal gripping emotional fascinating warsaw ghetto journalism historical events nazi occupation nazis propaganda quest adventure discovery rivalry
Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Israel
2006
118 Minutes
Ohad Knoller Alon Friedman Daniela Virtzer Yousef Sweid Miki Kam Shredi Jabarin Zohar Liba Oded Leopold
soldier palestinian woman gay/lesbian jew friend amusing intricate offbeat tel aviv, israel religion values friendship coming out discovery growing up love 2000s
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the ... See full summary »
Drama
France
2003
94 Minutes
Omar Sharif Pierre Boulanger Gilbert Melki Lola Naymark Anne Suarez Isabelle Adjani Isabelle Renauld Mata Gabin Céline Samie Guillaume Gallienne Guillaume Rannou
young boy muslim jew prostitute movie star shop owner tender moving playful paris istanbul grocery store neighborhood coming of age cultural differences unlikely friendship generation gap childhood relationships growing up
In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.
Drama, History
Poland|Germany|Canada
2011
145 Minutes
Robert Wieckiewicz Benno Fürmann Agnieszka Grochowska Maria Schrader Herbert Knaup Kinga Preis Krzysztof Skonieczny Marcin Bosak Julia Kijowska Jerzy Walczak Oliwier Stanczak
sanitation worker jew nazi gripping suspenseful moving lvov, poland sewer world war ii occupation leopold kozlowski unlikely hero holocaust sacrifice transformation 1940s
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
Comedy, Drama
East Germany|Czechoslovakia
1974
100 Minutes
Vlastimil Brodský Erwin Geschonneck Manuela Simon Henry Hübchen Blanche Kommerell Deszo Garas Zsuzsa Gordon Friedrich Richter Margit Bara Reimar-Johannes Baur
jew military officer nazi friend bleak witty poland ghetto holocaust hope judaism nazism deception survival discovery underdog 1940s
A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ... See full summary »
Drama
Argentina
1986
118 Minutes
jew nazi socialist father dark shocking emotional gripping buenos aires, argentina father/daughter relationship anti-semitism world war ii witch hunt political unrest grief discovery transformation 1940s
In May of 1945, the news of the fall of Berlin spread to Buenos Aires. Clara is the daughter of a socialist leader named Boris who has died unexpectedly. As Clara learns more about a father... See full summary »
Drama
Germany|Austria
1998
115 Minutes
Ben Becker Heino Ferch Ulrich Noethen Heinrich Schafmeister Max Tidof Kai Wiesinger Meret Becker Katja Riemann Dana Vavrova Noemi Fischer Otto Sander
jew singer beautiful girl love interest nazi store clerk emotional touching dark united states germany new york city stage munich nightclub love triangle third reich anti-semitism the comedian harmonists political repression
The film chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany.
War, Drama, History
USA
1992
107 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Peter Berg Kevin Dillon Arye Gross Gary Sinise Frank Whaley John C. McGinley Larry Joshua David Jensen Curt Lowens Rachel Griffin
sergeant jew german soldier old man interpreter prostitute powerful shocking france forest cabin world war ii insanity peace massacre christmas fall transformation 1940s
This WW2 psychological drama plays out at Christmas. US GIs hold an isolated cabin in the Ardennes against a handful of Germans cut off from their main force. Combat-weary and short of rations, both sides are determined to survive.
Drama
UK
1960
111 Minutes
nun nazi priest jew child mother superior inspiring emotional somber suspenseful convent italy concentration camp world war ii holocaust resistance religion helping others faith rescue
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
Drama, History
USA
2001
108 Minutes
David Arquette Daniel Benzali Steve Buscemi David Chandler Allan Corduner Harvey Keitel Natasha Lyonne Mira Sorvino Brian F. O'Byrne Henry Stram Lee Wilkof
doctor prisoner jew nazi dark emotional concentration camp auschwitz prison camp holocaust death extermination morality explosion murder transformation sacrifice 1940s
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Drama, War
Poland
1970
109 Minutes
Daniel Olbrychski Stanislawa Celinska Tadeusz Janczar Mieczyslaw Stoor Zygmunt Malanowicz Leszek Drogosz
poet young woman survivor soldier angry young man jew emotional somber concentration camp refugee camp warsaw, poland holocaust freedom trauma war aftermath theft difficult decision escape love transformation
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are... See full summary »
Drama, History
Hungary|Germany|UK|Israel|France|USA
2005
136 Minutes
Marcell Nagy Áron Dimény András M. Kecskés József Gyabronka Endre Harkányi Daniel Craig Béla Dóra Bálint Péntek Zsolt Dér János Bán Judit Schell
teen boy father jew prisoner soldier young girl somber powerful budapest, hungary auschwitz bus train holocaust family survival friendship deception transformation growing up 1940s
14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
Comedy, Drama
Canada
1974
121 Minutes
Richard Dreyfuss Micheline Lanctôt Jack Warden Randy Quaid Joseph Wiseman Denholm Elliott Henry Ramer Joe Silver Zvee Scooler Robert Goodier Allan Rosenthal
jew father uncle girlfriend grandfather gangster cheeky confident witty rousing montreal quebec resort laurentian mountains anti-semitism ambition poverty family dysfunction love honor
In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
Drama
Germany
2011
100 Minutes
Gedeon Burkhard Natalia Avelon Rolf Kanies Gudrun Landgrebe Michael Mendl Catherine H. Flemming Kai Wiesinger Ingo Naujoks Michael Brandner
violinist pianist joseph stalin jew touching spirited emotional ukraine russia concert hall classical music friendship dreams war third reich pursuit rivalry 1940s
Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.
Drama, History
France
2007
105 Minutes
Cécile de France Patrick Bruel Ludivine Sagnier Julie Depardieu Mathieu Amalric Nathalie Boutefeu
teen boy mother father aunt neighbor jew powerful emotional melodramatic family home paris church countryside world war ii religion identity self-discovery survival holocaust discovery
A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.