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- DirectorAlan ZweigStarsMarc MaronGilbert GottfriedRodney DangerfieldSurveys the history of Jewish comedy.
- DirectorAlon SchwarzStarsAvigdor FeldmanYoav GelberTeddy KatzIn the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.
- DirectorKamel El BashaConnie FieldStarsRamzi MaqdisiGeorgina AsfourMohammed Al-BashaAn African American gospel choir is the Greek chorus for a Palestinian play on Martin Luther King, Jr. which tours the West Bank, preaching nonviolence. The devoutly Christian choir grew up in churches strongly allied with Israel. On their first trip to the Holy Land they witness the harsh realities of life under occupation, a nonviolent movement for justice, and an assassination. Our story is a unique view of a crucial human rights conflict. Mixing the excitement of foot-stomping gospel music and creative theater it reveals the power of art to communicate, heal, and give voice to communities living in fear. It is a cultural exchange of immense depth and far-reaching implications, where, during the course of the journey, people's preconceptions are radically changed.
- DirectorDeborah KaufmanAlan SnitowStarsArthur HillerRobert MarxSalim MuwakkilThis documentary attempts to go beyond the sensationalized media coverage and the stereotypes to examine several key conflicts from the point of view of both Black and Jewish activists.
- DirectorRichard BrickStarsJean GenetAbbie HoffmanWilliam KunstlerThrough exorcism, Columbia University Jewish students seek to remove the evil spirit which possessed federal judge Julius Hoffman, trial judge of of the notorious "Chicago Eight" conspiracy case. The exorcism ceremony on the steps of the Federal Court at Foley Square in New York is intercut with excerpts of speeches of the Chicago Eight and their lawyers.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsPaul NewmanEva Marie SaintRalph RichardsonThe State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsSolomon PerelMarco HofschneiderRené HofschneiderA boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
- DirectorNeal SlavinStarsWilliam H. MacyLaura DernDavid PaymerIn the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
- DirectorDover KoshashviliStarsLior AshkenaziRonit ElkabetzMoni MoshonovZaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsAdrien BrodyBebe NeuwirthJoe MantegnaBaltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsJuliane KöhlerMerab NinidzeMatthias HabichDue to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsRalph FiennesRosemary HarrisRachel WeiszThe fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
- DirectorAri LibskerDocumentary film about pornographic Stalag fiction books popular in Israel until the time of the Adolf Eichmann trial.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.
- DirectorJohn ReinhardtStarsJohn IrelandJane RandolphSheldon LeonardNewlyweds come to visit groom's friend, only to discover him missing; and their investigation uncovers evidence of a ring of anti-semites terrorizing the neighborhood.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsFlorence LawrenceGeorge GebhardtGladys EganThis early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.
- DirectorSidney M. GoldinStarsLois WeberPhillips SmalleyRupert JulianAbraham Lieberman is a coal and ice dealer on the lower East Side, his little business being conducted in a miserable basement, his living rooms being adjacent thereto. But Abraham is happy withal, for his daughter, Rebecca, has come to him from Russia. A month later Rebecca is working in a sweat shop to help keep their little home. There she meets David Cohen, foreman of the place, who falls in love with her. But she tells him he has no chance to win her heart, as it is held in keeping across the seas. A month later her sweetheart arrives from Russia, and David leaves New York. Meanwhile, Jake has become Americanized and desires to take up the study of medicine, but has not sufficient means to enter college. Rebecca comes to his aid, and her little savings enable him to take up his course. In due time he graduates and he hangs up his "shingle," but his patients are poor and so his living is precarious. At this juncture, along comes a Schatchen, a Jewish matchmaker, and offers to get him a rich wife. The girl in question is very homely, but her rich surroundings dazzle Jake and he succumbs. Thus is Rebecca thrown over for Mammon. A few months later the "happy" bridal pair and their friends start for the synagogue. On the way their machine runs down a poor girl who has just come from a drug store with medicine for her sick father. The girl is Rebecca. She is taken to the hospital, where, in deep repentance, her recalcitrant lover begs her forgiveness. In the synagogue, meanwhile, the homely bride awaits the coming of Jake, but her father rushes in and tells of his base desertion. Back at the hospital, Rebecca, regaining consciousness, repudiates Jake and tells him to go to his waiting bride. Paying the penalty of his transgression, he dejectedly goes forth, but deeper humiliation is to follow. Arriving at the synagogue, he is met by an infuriated woman, who spurns him and casts him off, leaving him to the mercy of her friends, who beat and maltreat him, as he well deserves. Months later, David, the foreman, returns, and learning of Rebecca's dilemma, seeks her out and again pleads for her love. Rebecca accepts him and happiness at last comes to the Jewish girl.
- DirectorSidney M. GoldinStarsHarold VosburghIrene WallaceDavid BaratzWandering Jews from other lands, weary and sick from torture and oppression, land in Poland during the 14th Century. These unfortunate people appeal to King Casimir for help and sympathy. They plead for deliverance from their past continued inquisition. The count learns of the arrival of the Jews, and with his accomplices, they endeavor to persuade the king from allowing the Jews to remain in Poland, when the good priest Prandola intervenes, and manages to persuade King Casimir to allow the wanderers to remain and make their home in Poland. The Jews pray and thank the king for befriending them. The count is enraged to think that his persuasion was of no avail. He secretly plots to incite an uprising against the Jews. In the meantime the king meets a young Jewess, named Esther, the daughter of a rabbi. The king tells the count of his love, and when the villain spies Esther he himself falls in love with her. A few days later, the count steals the young Jewess from her home, and places her in the care of an old drunken hag. He then reports to the king that the young Jewess has been drowned by her infuriated father, to which he adds that for a just punishment the Jews deserve execution. King Casimir sends out an edict to kill all the Jews. The night before the terrible massacre, the count and his nobleman feast and get drunk. He orders the spies to bring Esther that evening to him and to tell her of his revenge against the foes. As the spies try to drag the poor girl out of the room, one of the men steal a bottle from the old hag. This causes a brawl, and in the fight that ensues, the old woman is struck on the head. The men carry the Jewess away. The old woman rises and confronts the priest. The old hag confesses to him the entire incident. He sees the king and reports to him the story, and tells him that the Jewess is in the power of the count. The king hurriedly rushes to the palace of the nobleman and in a disguise rescues the girl from the hands of the count. King Casimir orders the arrest of the count and immediately sends a courier to the scene of the execution, who arrives in time to save the Jews from the awful sacrifice. The king tenders a banquet in honor of his marriage to Esther, "Henceforth, there shall be peace between Poland and the Jews."
- DirectorGeorge CukorJoseph StrickStarsAnouk AiméeDirk BogardeRobert ForsterIn British Palestine of 1938, several men vie for the affections of a Coptic banker's wife who's involved with the anti-British underground movement.
- DirectorPaul WegenerCarl BoeseStarsPaul WegenerAlbert SteinrückErnst DeutschIn 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- DirectorDoron PazYoav PazStarsHani FurstenbergIshai GolanKirill CernyakovDuring an outbreak of a deadly plague in Lithuania, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from a gang of ruffians led by a local landowner, but the entity she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.
- DirectorJacob Ben-AmiEdgar G. UlmerStarsMichael GorrinHelen BeverleyIsidore CashierUlmer'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 the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.
- DirectorJán KadárStarsZero MostelHarry BelafonteIda KaminskaMorris Mishkin is an elderly Jewish tailor plagued by hard times who prays to God for help and receives it in the person of a most unusual angel named Levine, a young, black, Jewish hustler from somewhere between Harlem and Heaven.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsYehoram GaonGila AlmagorAssi DayanIn July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages. This movie is based on the true facts and follows the events since the flight's take-off and until the hostages' return to Israel.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsTopolNorma CraneLeonard FreyIn pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
- DirectorBarbra StreisandStarsBarbra StreisandAmy IrvingMandy PatinkinA Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsRobert De NiroJames WoodsElizabeth McGovernA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsWarren BeattyAnnette BeningHarvey KeitelThe story of how Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started Las Vegas.
- DirectorMichal KwiecinskiStarsEryk KulmVictor MeuteletCaroline HartigIn 1943, a Polish Jew, who managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto, is waiting restaurant tables in Frankfurt while pretending to be French and taking revenge on the Nazis in his own unique way.
- DirectorHenry BeanStarsRyan GoslingSummer PhoenixPeter MeadowsA young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
- DirectorYoav ShamirMilitary service in Israel is compulsory for all able-bodied Jewish men and women. Once their years of service is up they are granted a bonus which many use to travel to India to wind down and recover from their experiences. About 90 per cent of them will use drugs during their travels and every year about two thousand of them will require professional help to recover from this drug use. The extreme psychotic break these people experience is commonly referred to as "flipping out".
- StarsJoseph BottomsTovah FeldshuhRosemary HarrisThe saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsSummer PhoenixIan HolmFabrice DesplechinA Jewish girl in nineteenth century London, dreams of becoming a stage actress.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsAlan ArkinJoanna PaculaRutger HauerGerman death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.
- DirectorAri FolmanStarsAri FolmanRon Ben-YishaiRonny DayagAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
- DirectorJan KomasaStarsJózef PawlowskiZofia WichlaczAnna PróchniakA story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
- StarsBen KingsleyHannah Taylor GordonBrenda BlethynThe life of Anne Frank and her family from 1939 to 1945: pre-war fears, invasion of Netherlands by German troops, hiding in Amsterdam, deportation to the camps, return of Anne's father.
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYftach KatzurAnat AtzmonJonathan SagallThree friends live their lives in 1950s Israel, each looking for someone to love.
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsLeelee SobieskiHank AzariaDavid SchwimmerJews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
- DirectorRobert YoungStarsAvner W. LessThomas KretschmannTroy GarityBased upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli police officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the Final Solution. Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina, 15 years after World War II, Eichmann (Kretschmann), the world's most wanted man, must be broken down and the truth unveiled. As the world waits, two men must confront each other in a battle of wills - the result of which will change a nation forever.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsGuy MadisonFelicia FarrAgnes MooreheadA young doctor, who loses his wife during their attempt to flee Europe, arrives at a JDC Refugee Camp where he meets a Jewish couple from Egypt. They try to persuade him to join them on their journey to start a new life in Israel.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDirk BogardeCharlotte RamplingPhilippe LeroyA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
- DirectorJeroen KrabbéStarsLaura FraserAdam MontyIsabella RosselliniAgainst a background of holocaust memories, a liberal Jewish girl becomes a nanny to a young Jewish boy with a disability and grows fond of him.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsNorma ShearerRobert TaylorConrad VeidtIn 1936, a young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his missing German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.
- DirectorAlex GoldblumThe Thin Green Line is a documentary about life and politics in Israel and Palestine.
- DirectorMaggie PerenStarsLouis HofmannJonathan BerlinLuna WedlerCioma Schönhaus, a 21-year-old Jewish man, escapes the Gestapo and saves lives thanks to his ability to forge passports. His other talent is forging his own identity.
- DirectorDennis DuganStarsAdam SandlerJohn TurturroEmmanuelle ChriquiAn Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsPeter FinchCharles BronsonYaphet KottoTrue story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking.
- DirectorMohammad BakriDocumentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
- DirectorHanna EliasStarsRaida AdonMohammad BakriSamiah KazmouzUpon his release from an Israeli prison, Mazen (Saade) begins to fall in love with Raeda (Adun), his friend since childhood who is already engaged to Taher (Najeeb), Mazen's younger brother.
- DirectorRani MassalhaStarsSaleh BakriLaure de Clermont-TonnerreAhmad BayatraA male giraffe dies after a nocturnal air raid in a Palestinian zoo. The female giraffe stops eating. A boy and his father, the veterinarian of the zoo, look for a solution.
- DirectorRashid MasharawiStarsMohammad BakriAhmad Abu Sal'oumHiam AbbassHaifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. He is closely related to the family of Abu Said, a former policeman who gains new hopes from the political developments. Oum Said, his wife, hangs her hope on the imminent release of their eldest son, Said, from jail. She tries to find him a bride to secure things for the future. Their youngest son, Siad, is cynical and rebellious. He refuses to believe things. Sabah, the 12 year old daughter is romancing the future and wants to find out what's in it for her. The different stories are interwoven into a very timely insight into the current Palestinian mind.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsKirk DouglasMilly VitalePaul StewartIn 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he can't adjust to peacetime life.
- DirectorEyal EithcowichA group of Jewish-Israeli activists break one of the country's most sacred taboos: they cross into the occupied territories to join the non-violent Palestinian resistance to the occupation. They are the most radical leftist group in Israel. "Enraged" follows four activists as they bring food into Palestinian villages under curfew, tear down parts of the separation barrier, and serve as human shields trying to protect Palestinian demonstrators from Israeli soldiers. The heroes of "Enraged" pay a heavy price for their actions. At home in Israel they are ostracized by their own society; in Palestine, they endure a similar fate to that of the Palestinians-they are beaten, sprayed with tear-gas, and shot at with rubber-coated bullets. One such bullet hits one of the film's main characters in the head, permanently impairing his eyesight. "Enraged" exposes a face of the Israeli left that is rarely seen or talked about.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsLionel AbelanskiRufusClément HarariIn 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsGeorge SegalJack WardenJoseph WisemanFour Jewish intellectuals carpool to the funeral of their old friend Leslie Braverman, who died suddenly at age 41.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsChristian FriedelSandra HüllerJohann KarthausAuschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
- DirectorHesham IssawiStarsSayed BadreyaErick AvariAnthony AziziA family man (Badreya) opens an authentic Middle Eastern restaurant with his best friend, who's Jewish.
- DirectorDavid NahmodStarsPeter J. ByrnesLinDel SandlinColleen O'NeilManny, devout to his upbringing, is set to marry Rivka, the Rabbi's daughter. But Manny has a secret only Charlie, an openly gay man in an Orthodox Jewish family can understand.
- DirectorHiam AbbassStarsHafsia HerziHiam AbbassYussuf Abu-WardaAs a new conflict opposes Israel and Lebanon, Hajar, a young Palestinian student, returns to her native village in Galilee on the occasion of a wedding in the family. Just before the ceremony, she goes to see her father, patriarch Abu Majd, who has always encouraged her to learn and to discover the world. It is with confidence that she tells him about the man she loves, Matthew, an English art teacher at the university of Haifa. His negative reaction upsets her...
- DirectorAntoine DelesvauxJoann SfarStarsFrançois MorelHafsia HerziMaurice BénichouSet in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
- CreatorErica LipezStarsJoey KingLogan LermanHadas YaronA Jewish family is determined to survive and reunite after being separated in World War II.
- DirectorMelville ShavelsonStarsKirk DouglasJohn WayneFrank SinatraIn 1947, following the U.N. decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, a former U.S. Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsGene WilderHarrison FordRamon BieriA Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way, he is nearly burned at the stake by Native Americans and almost killed by outlaws.
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsRichard GereEdward WoodwardAlice KrigeThe Biblical story of Israel's greatest King.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsSophie MarceauRichard BerryFabien OrcierIsrael, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. They are visited by Simon, Michel and Paul, three friends from Paris who have come to celebrate Laura's twentieth birthday. Simon is obsessed by the death of the girl he loved and during the birthday evening, attempts to find someone to blame amongst his friends. Laura alone knows that the young girl died of a broken heart. She also loved Sacha. War is declared in Israel.