Movies about Jews

Movies about Jews
List of the best movies about Jews selected by visitors to our site: The Windermere Children, Sunshine, Jojo Rabbit, Persian Lessons, The Zookeeper's Wife, Inglourious Basterds, The Jews, Black Book, Fill the Void, The Round Up.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany

The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryGermany, Austria, Canada, Hungary, France, United Kingdom, USA

The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama, military, history
CountryNew Zealand, Czech Republic, USA

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, military
CountryRussia, Germany, Belarus

1942, occupied Europe. Gilles Cremieux, a Belgian of Jewish origin, once in a concentration camp, pretends to be a Persian - for him this is the only opportunity to stay alive. This lie, indeed, saves him from being shot, but Gilles does not yet know what price he will have to pay for this salvation. German soldiers bring Gilles to Klaus Koch, a cook in a concentration camp who wants to leave for Iran and open a restaurant there as soon as the war ends. Koch is looking for a real Persian who will teach him how to speak Farsi. Thus begins the story of Gilles Cremier and Klaus Koch - a Jew and a German, a prisoner and a jailer, student and teacher.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Duration02:23

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genreaction, comedy, drama, military
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:33

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance, Belgium

Four separate episodes deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryNetherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium
Duration02:25

    In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryIsrael
    Duration01:30

    Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late husband-to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it's too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls' mother finds out that Yochay may marry the widow and move to Belgium with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart's wish and her family duty. She will find out that the void which she must choose exists only within her heart.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryFrance, Germany, Hungary
    Duration01:55

    Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of life in an occupied Paris, on the Butte Montmartre, where they've taken shelter. At least that's what they think, until that morning on July 16th 1942, when their fragile happiness is toppled over.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryGermany

    Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:30

    As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:11

    While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:36

    Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, USA
    Duration01:40

    A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

      Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA, Canada

      College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, musical, cartoon, music, history
      CountryUSA

      The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, military, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history, sport
      CountryMacedonia, Czech Republic, USA
      Duration01:53

      Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a secular father, raised to question everything around him, including his religion. A moving coming of age story.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller
      CountryUSA

      In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration01:37

      A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, drama, sport
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:32

      Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
      Duration01:39

        Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genredrama, crime, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
        Duration02:30

        A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

        Major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:38

        A look at the life of an aging insult comic.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:03

        In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:15

        Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy. Inspired by real events.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:09

        A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the middle ages.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:16

        The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:00

        Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:34

          When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genredrama, military, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA

          The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrefantasy, drama, military
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Hannah Stern, an American-born Jewish adolescent, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives; however, Hannah begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There, she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA, Canada, Colombia
          Duration02:00

          Fred Flarsky is a gifted and free-spirited journalist who has a knack for getting into trouble. Charlotte Field is one of the most influential women in the world -- a smart, sophisticated and accomplished politician. When Fred unexpectedly runs into Charlotte, he soon realizes that she was his former baby sitter and childhood crush. When Charlotte decides to make a run for the presidency, she impulsively hires Fred as her speechwriter -- much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.




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