Here we've displayed a list of the best Jewish Identity films : Against the Tide(2009), Counsellor-at-Law(1933), The Invisibles(2017), Solomon and Gaenor(1999), Joshua Then and Now(1985), White Palace(1990), The Governess(1998), Over the Brooklyn Bridge(1984), Run Boy Run(2014) ... ...
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 »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
78 Minutes
John Barrymore Bebe Daniels Doris Kenyon Isabel Jewell Melvyn Douglas Onslow Stevens Thelma Todd Clara Langsner
attorney rival wife lover secretary emotional dark family home new york city law office social standing infidelity scandal dark secrets class distinctions jewish identity fall transformation discovery 1930s
Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.
Drama, History
Germany
2017
110 Minutes
Aaron Altaras Max Mauff Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee Victoria Schulz Florian Lukas Andreas Schmidt Sergej Moya Lucas Reiber
jewish man jewish woman nazi german soldier tense suspenseful striking powerful moving engaging berlin nazi germany germany jewish people jewish identity nazis nazi occupation secret life world war ii escape
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Drama
UK
1999
102 Minutes
Ioan Gruffudd Nia Roberts Sue Jones-Davies William Thomas Mark Lewis Jones Maureen Lipman David Horovitch
jewish man young woman father brother salesman religious person disheartening intricate melodramatic wales small town church house england pregnancy jewish identity doomed romance small-town life secret identity religious differences
A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish
Comedy, Drama
Canada
1985
119 Minutes
James Woods Alan Arkin Gabrielle Lazure Michael Sarrazin Linda Sorenson Alan Scarfe Alexander Knox Robert Joy
jew writer father mother stripper wife madcap witty engaging emotional montreal ghetto canada england london city social climbing marriage jewish identity scandal
The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Romance
USA
1990
103 Minutes
Susan Sarandon James Spader Jason Alexander Kathy Bates Eileen Brennan Steven Hill Rachel Levin Corey Parker Renee Taylor Jonathan Penner Barbara Howard
ad executive waitress widower friend love interest associate amusing sultry tender st. louis diner dinner party new york city bar class distinctions secret tragic death may-december romance jewish identity sex
Lust turns to love for a 40-ish working-class woman and a 20-ish yuppie adman with little in common.
Drama
UK
1998
114 Minutes
Minnie Driver Tom Wilkinson Florence Hoath Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Harriet Walter Arlene Cockburn Emma Bird Adam Levy Bruce Myers Diana Brooks Raymond Brody
governess scientist son daughter mother patriarch solemn passionate london scottish hebrides island house church jewish identity english society obsession childcare photography isolation forbidden love
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1984
106 Minutes
Elliott Gould Margaux Hemingway Sid Caesar Burt Young Shelley Winters Carol Kane Robert Gossett Karen Shallo
roman catholic jew uncle restaurant owner girlfriend cousin amusing quirky witty tender brooklyn, n.y. family home manhattan, n.y. delicatessen apartment restaurant business jewish identity ambition matchmaking financial troubles
A Jewish man who owns a Brooklyn deli asks his domineering uncle for a loan so he can buy his dream restaurant in Manhattan, but the uncle demands that he give up his Gentile girlfriend ... See full summary »
Drama
2014
112 Minutes
Jeanette Hain Sebastian Hülk Itay Tiran Zbigniew Zamachowski Grazyna Szapolowska Grazyna Blecka-Kolska Olgierd Lukaszewicz Miros?aw Baka Katarzyna Bargielowska Izabela Kuna Kamil Tkacz
boy christian orphan engaging warsaw ghetto forest escape survival jewish identity escape 19th century
Srulik, an 8-year-old boy, flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and tries to survive in the forest. He poses as a Christian orphan, but his Jewish identity is endangered.