Here we've displayed a list of the best Judaism films : Fiddler on the Roof(1971), The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg(1999), Religulous(2008), Jacob the Liar(1974), Footnote(2011), A Serious Man(2009), Hester Street(1975), Enemies, a Love Story(1989), The Holy Land(2001), Disobedience(2017), Green Fields(1937), Tomorrow the World(1945) ... ...
8.0/10
Musical
USA
1971
181 Minutes
Topol Norma Crane Leonard Frey Molly Picon Paul Mann Rosalind Harris Michele Marsh Neva Small Paul Michael Glaser Ray Lovelock Elaine Edwards
father butcher daughter mother lighthearted emotional heartwarming village household farm russia marriage deception poverty romance faith judaism forbidden love discovery transformation
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
7.6/10
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.
7.6/10
Documentary
USA
2008
101 Minutes
comedian senator preacher brash engaging hilarious jerusalem vatican salt lake city london theme park religion christianity islam judaism mormonism scientology quest 2000s
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
7.2/10
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 »
7.1/10
Comedy, Drama
Israel
2011
106 Minutes
Shlomo Bar-Aba Lior Ashkenazi Aliza Rosen Alma Zack Daniel Markovich Micah Lewesohn Yuval Scharf Nevo Kimchi
professor son wife scholar amusing profound passionate jerusalem hebrew university family home father/son relationship academia judaism misunderstanding ambition rivalry transformation 2010s
Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.
7.0/10
Drama, Comedy
UK|France|USA
2009
105 Minutes
Michael Stuhlbarg Ethan Coen Richard Kind Fred Melamed Sari Lennick Aaron Wolff Jessica McManus Amy Landecker Peter Breitmayer Brent Braunschweig David Kang
professor wife brother rabbi student co-worker disheartening somber amusing minnesota household school temple suburbia judaism infidelity divorce religion paranoia love triangle
Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1975
90 Minutes
Steven Keats Carol Kane Mel Howard Dorrie Kavanaugh Doris Roberts Stephen Strimpell Lauren Frost Paul Freedman Zvee Scooler Eda Reiss Merin
immigrant wife son boss landlady emotional gritty new york city ellis island lower east side assimilation immigration judaism culture clash marriage discovery pursuit sacrifice 1900s
It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1989
119 Minutes
Ron Silver Anjelica Huston Lena Olin Margaret Sophie Stein Alan King Judith Malina Rita Karin Phil Leeds Elya Baskin Paul Mazursky Marie-Adele Lemieux
survivor servant wife husband sad bleak melodramatic new york city apartment synagogue holocaust marriage immigration adultery judaism deception forbidden love sacrifice escape 1940s
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
6.6/10
Drama
Israel
2001
92 Minutes
Oren Rehany Tchelet Semel Saul Stein Albert Iluz
rabbi student prostitute arab bar owner customer lighthearted hedonistic cheery tender israel brothel bar strip club judaism sexual awakening cross-cultural relations self-discovery friendship temptation
Mendy is a young man struggling to keep his mind focused on rabbinical school. His teacher tells him to rid himself of desires by visiting a prostitute in Tel Aviv. Mendy falls head over heels in love with a Russian harlot named Sasha.
6.6/10
Drama, Gay & Lesbian, Romance
Ireland|UK|USA
2017
114 Minutes
Rachel Weisz Rachel McAdams Alessandro Nivola Anton Lesser Bernice Stegers Allan Corduner Nicholas Woodeson Liza Sadovy Clara Francis Mark Stobbart Caroline Gruber
photographer estranged father girlfriend emotional passionate rousing sultry new york city london jewish neighborhood grief judaism lesbianism reunion love sex discovery forbidden love transformation love
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1937
95 Minutes
Michael Gorrin Helen Beverley Isidore Cashier Anna Appel Lea Noemi Dena Drute Max Vodnoy Saul Levine Herschel Bernardi
student farmer farm girl mother daughter neighbor amusing positive tender russia countryside farm synagogue city judaism country life jealousy travel neighbors love triangle
Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for... See full summary »
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1945
86 Minutes
Fredric March Betty Field Skip Homeier Agnes Moorehead Joan Carroll Edit Angold
nephew uncle professor fiancée emotional gripping germany united states household family world war ii nazism judaism propaganda discovery growing up transformation 1940s
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
6.5/10
Drama
UK|USA
1998
117 Minutes
Renée Zellweger Christopher Eccleston Glenn Fitzgerald Allen Payne Julianna Margulies Kathleen Chalfant Edie Falco John Randolph Kim Hunter Jackie Ryan Shelton Dane
jewelry dealer jewelry designer husband latino scholar wife emotional passionate brooklyn, n.y. household forbidden love adultery business feminism judaism cross-cultural romance temptation transformation sacrifice discovery
This movie is about a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of her wanting something more out of her life.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
82 Minutes
Menashe Lustig Ruben Niborski Yoel Weisshaus Meyer Schwartz Yoel Falkowitz Mirka Hermoza Laznik Abraham Bresky Jorge Cea
hasidic jew grocer father son widower emotional moving spirited tender new york city grocery store house park cemetery temple judaism single parents single life parent/child relationship love
Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
6.5/10
6.0/10
Action, Drama, Adventure, History
UK|Spain|USA
2014
150 Minutes
Christian Bale Joel Edgerton John Turturro Aaron Paul Ben Kingsley Sigourney Weaver Golshifteh Farahani María Valverde Ben Mendelsohn Dar Salim Indira Varma
moses ramses xiii pharaoh god slave orphan emotional inspiring somber spectacular dark ancient egypt desert sinai desert mountain pyramid royal palace the bible escape plagues
The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
5.6/10
Comedy
Canada|USA|South Africa
2008
100 Minutes
William H. Macy Meg Ryan LL Cool J Kate Blumberg Jeremy Crutchley Jose Domingos Adrian Galley Fiona Glascott Elliott Gould Brett Granstaff Jason Ritter
filmmaker producer nephew actor abductee suicidal person amusing madcap hysterical hollywood, calif. south africa movie studio movie set filmmaking financial troubles kidnapping schemes judaism discovery rescue
A Hollywood producer starts with his nephew's script on Disraeli, Jewish PM in 1800s UK, and ends filming in Cape Town with a black action star. Will a movie be made? Will he score Deidre/Meg Ryan?
5.6/10
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Israel
2018
95 Minutes
Hani Furstenberg Yoav Paz Ishai Golan Brynie Furstenberg Adi Kvetner Lenny Ravich Alex Tritenko
young woman invader sick person creature jewish woman jewish man bleak brooding uneasy tense dark village farm woods house mysticism judaism protection village life illness
During an outbreak of a deadly plague, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from foreign invaders, but the entity she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.
5.5/10
Drama
USA|Germany
2005
105 Minutes
Richard Gere David Siegel Juliette Binoche Flora Cross Max Minghella Kate Bosworth Joan Mankin Piers Mackenzie Lorri Holt
daughter professor scientist brother judge pronouncer emotional moving california household school warehouse spelling bee coming of age family secret marriage judaism quest growing up
A wife and mother begins a downward emotional spiral, as her husband avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in his 11 year-old daughter's quest to become a spelling bee champion.
5.5/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1958
91 Minutes
John Barrymore Jr. Lita Milan Robert Bray Steve McQueen Salem Ludwig R. G. Armstrong Douglas Rodgers Felice Orlandi Augusta Merighi Abe Simon Dolores Vitina
orphan friend maid love interest gangster gang members district attorney brooding dark gripping gutsy intricate melodramatic suspenseful city united states identity organized crime judaism love
Following the life of an orphan and the events that change his life and lead him into a life of crime.
5.4/10
Comedy, Romance, Drama
France
1969
87 Minutes
Claude Berri Elisabeth Wiener Régine Louisa Colpeyne Gregoire Aslan Prudence Harrington Betsy Blair Gabriel Jabbour Estera Galion
salesman girlfriend wealthy man wealthy woman bride groom amusing lighthearted playful france paris wedding wedding family judaism infidelity marriage love forbidden love discovery
Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. But while he has dreams of settling down with a family, she just wants to have fun. When Isabelle becomes pregnant, ... See full summary »
5.3/10
Comedy
USA
2006
90 Minutes
Jeremy Piven Jami Gertz Garry Marshall Daryl Sabara Doris Roberts Daryl Hannah Cheryl Hines Richard Benjamin Larry Miller Carter Jenkins Miranda Cosgrove
son father mother grandfather rival amusing heartwarming los angeles household cruise ship backyard family party bar mitzvah reconciliation judaism wretched excess rivalry growing up 2000s
A 13-year-old boy uses his upcoming bar mitzvah to reconcile the strained relationship between his father and grandfather.
Comedy, Drama
2008
92 Minutes
Fernando Ciangherotti Silvia Mariscal Enrique Arreola Ari Brickman Juan Carlos Colombo Marina de Tavira Juan Pablo Medina Max Kerlow Verónica Langer Angelina Peláez Martin LaSalle
widower ex-wife rabbi old man doctor son dark amusing offbeat mexico city family home apartment kitchen suicide funeral judaism will and testament family love fall
A woman's suicide just before Passover creates many complications for her ex-husband (Fernando Luján) and their family.
Drama
2009
91 Minutes
Zohar Strauss Ran Danker Tinkerbell Tzahi Grad Isaac Sharry Avi Grainik
orthodox jew butcher student rabbi brother assistant calm moving engaging jerusalem butcher shop bathhouse relationships crisis of faith religious beliefs homosexuality love judaism forbidden love discovery
An Orthodox Jew (Zohar Strauss) risks the wrath of his community when he falls in love with another man (Ran Danker).
Documentary
2006
82 Minutes
Cheri Pugh
sister concentration camp survivor twin jew emotional profound spirited sad indiana germany auschwitz concentration camp josef mengele healing holocaust judaism world war ii eva mozes kor quest mystery
Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor makes a controversial decision to heal her wounded soul by forgiving those who tortured her and her twin sister at Auschwitz.
Comedy, Drama
1993
127 Minutes
Romane Bohringer Elsa Zylberstein Florence Thomassin Nils Tavernier Stéphane Slima Jean-Philippe Écoffey Eric Defosse Harry Cleven Hugues Quester
young woman friend jew artist journalist misfit emotional tense paris hospital school household friendship judaism odd couple outsider class distinctions struggle growing up transformation
The pursuits of men, success and happiness make up lifelong friendship for two Jewish women (Romane Bohringer, Elsa Zylberstein) in Paris.
Drama
1999
95 Minutes
Kirsten Dunst Brittany Murphy Paul Freeman Mimi Rogers Louise Fletcher Lilo Baur Nitzan Sharron Shelly Skandrani Daniel Brocklebank Kirsty McFarland Rachel Roddy
teen girl mother prisoner nazi jew rabbi moving concentration camp family home poland united states judaism holocaust tradition world war ii supernatural time travel transformation growing up discovery
A spoiled teen (Kirsten Dunst) is taught an unforgettable lesson about valuing family and religious heritage.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
2001
102 Minutes
Lior Ashkenazi Ronit Elkabetz Moni Moshonov Sapir Kugman Aya Steinovitz Rozina Cambos Simon Chen Dina Doron Leonid Kanevski Libia Hakmon-Ayali Eli Turi
divorcée bachelor relative mother father older woman tense fascinating passionate israel wedding apartment family judaism tradition marriage may-december romance parental pressure sacrifice temptation
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).
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