Movies: Jewish life

  • 1982
    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (1982)

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

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    After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their...

    God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
  • 2010
    Porcelain Unicorn

    Porcelain Unicorn (2010)

    Porcelain Unicorn

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    In 1940s Germany, a young boy stumbles upon a Jewish girl in hiding....

    Porcelain Unicorn
  • 1913
    Sorrows of Sarah

    Sorrows of Sarah (1913)

    Sorrows of Sarah

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    This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both in love with Sarra, but Sarra chooses Isaac and they got married. However, Sarra could not conceive f...

    Sorrows of Sarah
  • 2017
    Falsettos

    Falsettos (2017)

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    The 2016 Broadway revival of William Finn's Tony-winning musical tells the story of Marvin, a Jewish family man who leaves his wife and son for a male lover during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City....

    Falsettos
  • 1969
    Motion

    Motion (1969)

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    On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated with Citizen Film’s team of documentary professionals to create a multimedia exhibit that offers a set o...

    Motion
  • 2020
    The Israeli Boys

    The Israeli Boys (2020)

    The Israeli Boys

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    Secrets, lies, surprises and more are explored in this rich selection of gay short films from Israel. The 6 short films are: Three (2018); A Trip to the Desert (2016); Rubber Dolphin (2018); Stav (2018); After His Death (2017); Leave of Absence (201...

    The Israeli Boys
  • 2022
    The Chosen One

    The Chosen One (2022)

    The Chosen One

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    After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Eli Eisenstein will come to realize that it’s muc...

    The Chosen One
  • 1988
    The Actress

    The Actress (1988)

    The Actress

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    The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist Nuremberg Laws, their relationship is severely endangered. Defiant Maria decides to stay together with Mark and en...

    The Actress
  • 2013
    50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus

    50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus (2013)

    50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus

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    In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States....

    50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus
  • 1986
    Welcome in Vienna

    Welcome in Vienna (1986)

    Welcome in Vienna

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    Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler ...

    Welcome in Vienna
  • 2019
    Divorce Denied

    Divorce Denied (2019)

    Divorce Denied

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    No Jewish divorce is complete without the man literally giving the woman her freedom back. With Israel having neither civil marriage nor divorce, women can get trapped. The film follows several such "chained" women together with Batya, a religious la...

    Divorce Denied
  • 2014
    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen

    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen (2014)

    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen

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    Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the club to its first German championship, was persecuted and forced out of office by the Nazis, and rebuilt the club after the war....

    Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen
  • 1969
    Gambling Mensch

    Gambling Mensch (1969)

    Gambling Mensch

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    On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated with Citizen Film’s team of documentary professionals to create a multimedia exhibit that offers a set o...

    Gambling Mensch
  • 1969
    Kochschule Schwarz

    Kochschule Schwarz (1969)

    Kochschule Schwarz

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    Munich, 1938: After his traditional Jewish restaurant was destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnacht, restaurateur Richard Schwarz and charismatic jack-of-all-trades Edgar Enders hatch a daring plan. They open a sophisticated Jewish cooking school....

    Kochschule Schwarz
  • 2019
    Riding with the Rabbi

    Riding with the Rabbi (2019)

    Riding with the Rabbi

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    The story of two most uncommon people, Sam a good old southern Jewish “boy” and Rabbi Stan, a misplaced mohel. Brought together by a chance encounter at a bus stop, the two develop an incongruous friendship....

    Riding with the Rabbi
  • 1978
    The Making of a President

    The Making of a President (1978)

    The Making of a President

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    In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town’s upcoming ecumenical war bonds rally. However, the president has just quit and nobody wants the thankless job. A funny and endearing drama f...

    The Making of a President
  • 2007
    Goyta

    Goyta (2007)

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    The lives of a Hassidic young man (Yoyli) and a Polish young woman (Mariola) intersect when they find themselves secluded in a car after he offers her a ride home. This, after Yoyli and his mother picked her up from a street corner in Williamsburg, ...

    Goyta
  • 2019
    Outremont et les Hassidim

    Outremont et les Hassidim (2019)

    Outremont et les Hassidim

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    OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent Montréal borough of Outremont.​Some 7,000 Hasidim live in or near this choice neighbourhood of Québec’s Francophone elite. Afte...

    Outremont et les Hassidim
  • 2015
    Bacon & God's Wrath

    Bacon & God's Wrath (2015)

    Bacon & God's Wrath

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    A 90-year-old Jewish woman reflects on her life experiences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time....

    Bacon & God's Wrath
  • 2020
    Oy to the World

    Oy to the World (2020)

    Oy to the World

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    The story of Sally, a ten year old girl whose one wish is to celebrate a memorable Hanukkah despite her Grandmother Jessica’s desire to help her fit in. Or is it Sally who helps Jessica come to terms with growing up Jewish in the Bible Belt?...

    Oy to the World