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51. Burning at Both Ends (2021)
110 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Caught behind enemy lines, a small group of dissident survivors struggle to remain hidden from the Germans as they use a radio to broadcast a message of hope.
Directors: Matthew Hill, Landon Johnson | Stars: Cary Elwes, Jason Patric, Judd Hirsch, Sebastian Roché
Votes: 646
52. Menashe (2017)
PG | 82 min | Drama
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.
Director: Joshua Z Weinstein | Stars: Menashe Lustig, Anna Gansburg Nahmani, Ariel Vaysman, Sophie Vaysman
Votes: 2,553 | Gross: $1.70M
53. Septembers of Shiraz (2015)
PG-13 | 110 min | Thriller
Prior to the Iranian revolution it was a place where people of all religions were allowed to flourish. This is the story of a prosperous Jewish family who abandon everything before they are consumed by the passions of revolutionaries.
Director: Wayne Blair | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody, Alon Aboutboul
Votes: 5,808
54. The Gymnast (2006)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Jane left gymnastics when an injury killed Olympics hope. Now 43, she gets a chance to perform a demanding "dance" in the air with Serena. The intimate act makes her forget her dead marriage.
Director: Ned Farr | Stars: Dreya Weber, Addie Yungmee, David De Simone, Allison Mackie
Votes: 2,272
55. Family of Cops (1995 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police detective's oversexed daughter is charged with murder when someone kills the wealthy married man she slept with.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Sebastian Spence, Kate Trotter
Votes: 1,126
56. Made for Each Other (2023 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Follows a sculptor who uses magic to create her ideal man and bring him into reality, but she then starts to fall for her real-life friend and learns to appreciate the flaws that make love perfectly imperfect.
Director: Jeff Beesley | Stars: Alexandra Turshen, Matt Cohen, Aaron O'Connell, Illeana Douglas
Votes: 714
57. The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Young Jewish man bucks orthodox traditions (and mother's meddling) by shaving, shopping outside the faithful, and considering a shiksa for a wife.
Director: Michael Steiner | Stars: Joel Basman, Noémie Schmidt, Udo Samel, Sunnyi Melles
Votes: 4,992
58. Brooklyn Bridge (1991–1993)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In 1956, 14-year-old Alan Silver's life revolves around family, the synagogue and the Dodgers. Grandparents Jules and Sophie live in the same brownstone as Alan, his brother Nate, and their parents Phyllis and George.
Stars: Marion Ross, Danny Gerard, Louis Zorich, Amy Aquino
Votes: 507
59. It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Edward Chapman
Votes: 2,399 | Gross: $0.01M
60. Hidden in Silence (1996 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Poland June 1941, as German troops take over the Eastern side of the city of Przemysl from the Russians. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to... See full summary »
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Kellie Martin, Tom Radcliffe, Marc Warren, Gemma Coughlan
Votes: 550
61. Sister of the Groom (2020)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
On Audrey's 40th birthday, her brother is marrying a girl he met in France. Secrets are revealed prior to the wedding. Audrey and the young, French fiancee do NOT get along.
Director: Amy Miller Gross | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Mathilde Ollivier, Jake Hoffman, Tom Everett Scott
Votes: 854
62. A Secret (2007)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, War
A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu
Votes: 3,321 | Gross: $0.62M
63. My Unorthodox Life (2021– )
TV-MA | Reality-TV
The personal and professional life of fashion mogul Julia Haart - former member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community turned CEO of Elite World Group.
Stars: Julia Haart, Batsheva Haart, Miriam Haart, Shlomo Hendler
Votes: 1,654
64. Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!! (2009)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
Every Friday night Shirley invites another "perfect" woman for Shabbat dinner in hopes that her son, Nelson, will marry a nice Jewish girl. Nelson, however, has something to tell them...he's gay.
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky | Stars: Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek, Vincent Pastore, John Lloyd Young
Votes: 988 | Gross: $0.09M
65. Family Practice (2018)
89 min | Drama
Simon has a turbulent bond with his father. During his parents' vacation, Simon starts a risky flirtation with his dad's lover, becoming entrapped in the complicated family web.
Director: Jeshua Dreyfus | Stars: Dimitri Stapfer, Katja Kolm, Dani Levy, Sibylle Canonica
Votes: 237
66. Dear Prudence (2010)
R | 80 min | Drama
Two teenage girls bond over drugs, partying, and music after being arrested, trying to find themselves in a difficult world.
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Anaïs Demoustier, Agathe Schlenker, Johan Libéreau
Votes: 1,094
67. Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
Director: Haim Tabakman | Stars: Zohar Strauss, Ran Khalil Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad
Votes: 6,580 | Gross: $0.02M
68. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)
R | 77 min | Documentary, Biography
A light-hearted look at the life and career of porn star Ron Jeremy, from his devoted fanbase to his unlikely status as a sex symbol and his goal to achieve mainstream success.
Director: Scott J. Gill | Stars: Ron Jeremy, William Margold, Al Goldstein, Al Lewis
Votes: 2,699 | Gross: $0.41M
69. Eight Gifts of Hanukkah (2021 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance
An anonymous suitor sends optometrist Sarah a gift for each night of Hanukkah. As she tries to find her secret admirer, she learns that her one true love might be someone she never expected.
Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Inbar Lavi, Jake Epstein, Sheila Tyson, Barry W. Levy
Votes: 1,162
70. Sioux City (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller. Because of his upbringing, Jesse ... See full summary »
Director: Lou Diamond Phillips | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter
Votes: 522
71. Zebrahead (1992)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A white, hip-hop loving teen falls in love with a black girl.
Director: Anthony Drazan | Stars: Michael Rapaport, DeShonn Castle, Kevin Corrigan, Lois Bendler
Votes: 1,471 | Gross: $1.47M
72. Dorfman in Love (2011)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs a change. When she volunteers to cat-sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A. loft, her dull old world changes forever.
Director: Brad Leong | Stars: Sara Rue, Elliott Gould, Keri Lynn Pratt, Kelen Coleman
Votes: 1,649 | Gross: $0.01M
73. Colonel Redl (1985)
R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe
Votes: 3,354 | Gross: $0.00M
74. Keep the Change (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.
Director: Rachel Israel | Stars: Jessica Walter, Christina Brucato, Tibor Feldman, Sondra James
Votes: 950 | Gross: $0.20M
75. Hitched for the Holidays (2012 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Drama, Romance
An attractive pair agrees to be each other's supposed significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families at bay.
Director: Michael M. Scott | Stars: Joey Lawrence, Emily Hampshire, Linda Darlow, Marilu Henner
Votes: 2,320
76. Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In this sequel to "A Family of Cops", the family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Barbara Williams, Sebastian Spence
Votes: 808
77. Simon och ekarna (2011)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
Two boys come of age in Sweden during World War II.
Director: Lisa Ohlin | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Helen Sjöholm, Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Gödicke
Votes: 3,067 | Gross: $0.15M
78. Tango Shalom (2021)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Family, Music
A Tango dancer and a rabbi develop a plan to enter a dance competition without sacrificing his orthodox beliefs. Family, tolerance, and community are tested one dazzling dance step at a time.
Director: Gabriel Bologna | Stars: Lainie Kazan, Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez
Votes: 454
79. Brush with Fate (2003 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama
The story of a painting as it moves from owner to owner through the centuries.
Director: Brent Shields | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Thomas Gibson, Phyllida Law
Votes: 491
80. Little White Lie (2014)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
A film about denial, race, family secrets and a search for identity.
Directors: Lacey Schwartz Delgado, James Adolphus | Stars: Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Sarah Brokaw, Bruce Corwin, Joshua Corwin
Votes: 947
81. It Happened in Saint-Tropez (2013)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
The brothers Zef and Roni are very different. In Paris, Zef's wife is buried about the same time as Roni's daughter is getting married. Zef's daughter unknowingly falls in love with Roni's daughter's fiance. Problems arise.
Director: Danièle Thompson | Stars: Eric Elmosnino, Lou de Laâge, Kad Merad, Clara Ponsot
Votes: 1,143
82. Queer Duck: The Movie (2006 Video)
PG-13 | 72 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
Adam Seymour "Queer Duck" Duckstein (Jim J. Bullock) leaves his lover, Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator (Kevin Michael Richardson), when he becomes enamored of and marries the Nora-Desmondesque Lola Buzzard (Jackie Hoffman).
Director: Xeth Feinberg | Stars: Jim J. Bullock, Jackie Hoffman, Kevin Michael Richardson, Billy West
Votes: 1,084
83. Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
PG | 102 min | Drama
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Director: Ján Kadár | Stars: Yossi Yadin, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Jeff Lynas
Votes: 587
84. Suzie Gold (2004)
G | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
As Suzie Gold's sister prepares to get married, it seems only natural that Suzie's thoughts should turn to the state of her own love-life. While her doting but dysfunctional family ... See full summary »
Director: Ric Cantor | Stars: Ariana Fraval, Daniel Mendoza, Summer Phoenix, Stanley Townsend
Votes: 659
85. Terra Speranza (2002–2003)
60 min | Drama, Romance
The story of two young Italian lovers of different, rival families who are separated after he moves to Brazil and falls for another woman, while she is forced to marry a fascist.
Stars: Reynaldo Gianecchini, Ana Paula Arósio, Raul Cortez, Antônio Fagundes
Votes: 334
86. A Fortunate Man (2018–2019)
Drama, Romance
The story of Per Sidenius, a farmer's son seeking to transform the Danish countryside despite his strict upbringing. He courts the daughter of a wealthy Copenhagen family but struggles to gain elite support.
Stars: Esben Smed, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Benjamin Kitter, Tommy Kenter
Votes: 716
87. Leona (2018)
94 min | Drama
A young Jewish woman (Naian González Norvind) from Mexico City finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love with a non-Jewish man (Christian Vasquez).
Director: Isaac Cherem | Stars: Naian González Norvind, Christian Vazquez, Carolina Politi, Daniel Adissi
Votes: 440
88. Symphony of Six Million (1932)
Approved | 94 min | Drama
Boy grows up to become a successful doctor at the expense of family relationships.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Irene Dunne, Anna Appel, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 453
89. A Friendship in Vienna (1988 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, History
In 1930s Vienna, two best friends, a Jewish girl and a fascist's daughter, both witness the unification of Germany and Austria, and question the impact it has on their lives.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Edward Asner, Stephen Macht, Jenny Lewis, Kamie Harper
Votes: 165
90. Century (1993)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. He feels he has a chance to be part of a movement of unending progress in science and civilization. ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Robert Stephens
Votes: 416
91. Miss Rose White (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama
Sister given up by Italian family only to be reunited 22 years later.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Kyra Sedgwick, Maureen Stapleton, Bari Biern
Votes: 276
92. 24 Days (2014)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because he's Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Zabou Breitman, Pascal Elbé, Jacques Gamblin, Sylvie Testud
Votes: 738
93. In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, War
A Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland in 1942 fights to maintain his stance of peace and acceptance of his fellow man despite the growing turmoil and atrocities created by the Germans. ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Dance, Elina Löwensohn, Chad Lowe
Votes: 363
94. Un sac de billes (1975)
105 min | Biography, Drama
Two young French Jewish boys and their family struggle to survive in WWII during the invasion of Germans.
Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Richard Constantini, Paul-Eric Shulmann, Joseph Goldenberg, Reine Bartève
Votes: 365
95. Blood Will Tell (2019)
TV-MA | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A thriller by film director-writer Miguel Cohan. A deadly duel within a family where there can be no winners.
Director: Miguel Cohan | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dolores Fonzi, Diego Velázquez, Paulina García
Votes: 918
96. The Brothers Warner (2007 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience.
Director: Cass Warner | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Cass Warner, Bette-Ann Warner, Harry M. Warner
Votes: 676
97. Rose (I) (2021)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Rose, 78, has just lost her most beloved husband. When her grief gives way to a powerful impulse of life that makes her realize that she can still redefine herself as a woman, the whole balance of the family is upset.
Director: Aurélie Saada | Stars: Françoise Fabian, Aure Atika, Grégory Montel, Damien Chapelle
Votes: 172
98. h3h3Productions (2013– )
TV-14 | 15 min | Comedy
Jewish husband-and-wife family react to YouTube videos and comment with absurd sketches.
Stars: Ethan Klein, Hila Klein, Sean Balogh, George Miller
Votes: 1,505
99. Shiva (2008)
103 min | Drama, Romance
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large ... See full summary »
Directors: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Moshe Ivgy, Yaël Abecassis, Albert Iluz
Votes: 580
100. Will You Merry Me? (2008 TV Movie)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Rebecca and Hank are ready to marry, and must now meet each others families who couldn't be more different. Set during two important religious holidays, the couple must go through the anxiety-filled process of meeting the in-laws.
Director: Nisha Ganatra | Stars: Wendie Malick, Cynthia Stevenson, Vikki Krinsky, Tommy Lioutas
Votes: 821