Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "cantor"

1. The Patient (2022)

TV-MA | 30 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer who demands he help him curb his homicidal urges.

Stars: Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Niemi, Andrew Leeds

Votes: 30,789

2. Goya's Ghosts (2006)

R | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History

Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid

Votes: 31,945 | Gross: $1.00M

3. Between the Temples (2024)

111 min | Comedy

A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

Director: Nathan Silver | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon, Caroline Aaron

Votes: 145

4. The Jazz Singer (1927)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 11,068 | Gross: $7.63M

5. The Hiding Place (1975)

PG | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History

During WWII, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.

Director: James F. Collier | Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Rietty

Votes: 2,394

6. As It Is in Heaven (2004)

Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A famous international conductor returns to his small childhood town in Sweden for early retirement. He's asked to help with the church choir. He affects the lives of all in the choir.

Director: Kay Pollak | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Frida Hallgren, Helen Sjöholm, Lennart Jähkel

Votes: 18,270 | Gross: $0.01M

7. Those People (2015)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Romance

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous socialite best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign concert pianist.

Director: Joey Kuhn | Stars: Jonathan Gordon, Jason Ralph, Haaz Sleiman, Britt Lower

Votes: 6,631

8. The Governess (1998)

R | 115 min | Drama, Romance

In this sensuous romance, Minnie Driver stars as a governess who is hired into a remote Scottish household and strongly affects all those she comes into contact with.

Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Votes: 3,154 | Gross: $3.90M

9. Twist of Faith (2013 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 85 min | Drama, Romance

Grieving over the untimely loss of his family and in a dissociative state, an aimlessly-wandering Jewish man is rescued by another family who help him find his way back to happiness again.

Director: Paul A. Kaufman | Stars: Toni Braxton, David Julian Hirsh, Nathaniel J. Potvin, Paula Shaw

Votes: 809

10. To Dust (2018)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay.

Director: Shawn Snyder | Stars: Géza Röhrig, Matthew Broderick, Sammy Voit, Sarah Jes Austell

Votes: 1,165 | Gross: $0.18M

11. The Jazz Singer (1952)

Approved | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Jerry dreams of becoming a famous jazz singer, but to accomplish that, he must defy his father, a Jewish Cantor who opposes such a dream as a future for a son of his.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Eduard Franz, Mildred Dunnock

Votes: 412

12. Jolson Sings Again (1949)

96 min | Biography, Music

In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath

Votes: 724

13. Austeria (1982)

109 min | Drama, War

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Ewa Domanska

Votes: 660

14. Big City (1948)

103 min | Drama

Margaret O'Brien sings, dances and keeps the faith in this heartwarming musical drama co-starring Robert Preston, Danny Thomas and George Murphy.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Robert Preston, Danny Thomas, George Murphy

Votes: 307

15. Absolution (2015)

92 min | Drama, Thriller

A couple are rushing to hospital for a premature birth when they commit a hit-and-run. When the new mother befriends a woman whose comatose husband was hit by a car, a nightmarish spiral of guilt and revenge unfolds.

Director: Petri Kotwica | Stars: Laura Birn, Eero Aho, Mari Rantasila, Teijo Eloranta

Votes: 444

16. Turumba (1981)

95 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.

Director: Kidlat Tahimik | Stars: Homer Abiad, Iñigo Vito, Maria Pehipol, Patricio Abari

Votes: 107

17. Campfire (2004)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama

The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.

Director: Joseph Cedar | Stars: Michaela Eshet, Hani Furstenberg, Moshe Ivgy, Maya Maron

Votes: 686

18. Family Prayers (1993)

PG | 108 min | Drama

Coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old Jewish boy in the 1960s whose parents decide to break up.

Director: Scott M. Rosenfelt | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Tzvi Ratner-Stauber, Julianne Michelle

Votes: 188

19. Sons of Liberty (1939)

Approved | 20 min | Short, Biography, Drama

Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Claude Rains, Gale Sondergaard, Donald Crisp, Montagu Love

Votes: 410

20. Élve vagy halva (1980)

80 min | Drama, History, Western

The ex-revolutionary Gáspár Noszlopy escapes from prison in 1852. His plan to capture the emperor Franz Joseph and force him to sign the Declaration of Hungarian Independence. He is only able to find four fanatic men.

Director: Tamás Rényi | Stars: Lajos Balázsovits, György Cserhalmi, Dezsö Garas, Djoko Rosic

Votes: 193

21. Singing in the Dark (1956)

84 min | Drama, Crime, Music

Leo is a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia; he comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian, who owns a bar in the hotel, gives him a drink,... See full summary »

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Moyshe Oysher, Phyllis Hill, Joey Adams, Henry Sharp

Votes: 16

22. Glitch in the Grid (2011)

Not Rated | 82 min | Animation, Drama

Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.

Director: Eric Leiser | Stars: Jay Masonek, Jeffrey Leiser, Eric Leiser, Travis Bellman

Votes: 78

23. The Cantor of St Thomas's (1984 TV Movie)

Biography, Music

The life of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

Director: Colin Nears | Stars: Brian Cox, Polly Hemingway, Michael Gough, Timothy Bateson

Votes: 9

24. Overture to Glory (1940)

77 min | Drama

A jewish cantor is seduced by the allure of opera when introduced to it by two attractive young Poles.

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Moyshe Oysher, Florence Weiss, Maurice Krohner, John Mylong

Votes: 44

25. A Cantor's Tale (2005)

95 min | Documentary

Chazz'n, A Cantor's Story is a documentary film about chazzanut past, present and future through the prism of Chazzan Jack Mendelson's career. In addition to stellar singing, the film ... See full summary »

Director: Erik Greenberg Anjou | Stars: Alan Dershowitz, Jackie Mason

Votes: 27

26. A Brivele der mamen (1938)

106 min | Drama

One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion, this film tells the story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war World War II ... See full summary »

Directors: Joseph Green, Leon Trystan | Stars: Lucy Gehrman, Misha Gehrman, Max Bozyk, Gertrude Bulman

Votes: 62

27. The Cantor's Son (1937)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Musical

This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish ... See full summary »

Directors: Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin | Stars: Moyshe Oysher, Florence Weiss, Judith Abarbanel, Michael Rosenberg

Votes: 37

28. The Shivah (2006 Video Game)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open.

Director: Dave Gilbert | Stars: Kim Lee, Abe Goldfarb, Joe Rodriguez, John Swist

Votes: 112

29. The High Holy Days Video Project (2010 Video)

Documentary

This two-DVD set contains a condensed version of the Jewish High Holy Day services. Included are Rosh Hashanah evening and morning services, a Kol Nidre service, and Yom Kippur day services.

Director: Ross Spears | Stars: Laura T. Croen, Mindy A. Portnoy

30. Isäntä soittaa hanuria (1949)

71 min | Comedy, Music

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Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Kalle Viherpuu, Eila Peitsalo, Rolf Labbart, Siiri Angerkoski

Votes: 67

31. Arena (1975– )
Episode: The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow - Part 1 (1998)

140 min | Documentary

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Director: Anthony Wall | Stars: Bryan Barrett, Lionel Bart, Peter Brown, Brian Epstein

Votes: 58

32. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy (1966)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Buddy's nervous behavior, testiness and evasive lying lead Rob and Sal to think he's seeing a psychiatrist - or worse, cheating on Pickles.

Director: Richard Erdman | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Votes: 254

33. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Great Balls Afire (1992)

TV-PG | 47 min | Drama

Rollins is representing a doctor who is doing research on treatments to treat people with cardiac problems, who is being sued by her Jewish benefactor over her using data from Nazi ... See full summary »

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins

Votes: 33

34. Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969–1976)
Episode: Unto the Next Generation (1972)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama

After their infant son dies of Tay Sachs disease a young couple are in conflict over having another child.

Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: Robert Young, James Brolin, Elena Verdugo, Jess Walton

Votes: 17

35. The West Wing (1999–2006)
Episode: Take This Sabbath Day (2000)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama

A drug dealer's appeal of the federal death penalty is rejected by the Supreme Court, which upholds the death sentence with execution scheduled for the following Monday. One of the defense ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Rob Lowe, Moira Kelly, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney

Votes: 1,438

36. Being Erica (2009–2011)
Episode: This Be the Verse (2009)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

It's Yom Kippur, and there is much pressure within the Strange family for everyone to reconcile, especially Erica and Sam, but also Gary and Barb, the latter who has has always resented her... See full summary »

Director: David Wharnsby | Stars: Erin Karpluk, Tyron Leitso, Vinessa Antoine, Reagan Pasternak

Votes: 111

37. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Let Us Ask the Maiden (2009)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a young Jewish man dies suddenly during prayers, Dr. Ogden suspects arsenic poisoning and concludes that others may be falling victim to a poisoner.

Director: Harvey Crossland | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 321

38. The Patient (2022)
Episode: Issues (2022)

TV-MA | 24 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Sam's desire to find a therapeutic solution grows as his inner struggle intensifies. Dr. Strauss brings a new variable into their sessions.

Director: Kevin Bray | Stars: Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, Linda Emond, Andrew Leeds

Votes: 917