What are the best movies with Jewish themes and characters?!
Question: Can anyone name some good Jewish movies? I don't mean documentaries, but actual movies, like comedies or dramas with Jewish characters in them or overall Jewish themes.
Answers: Can anyone name some good Jewish movies? I don't mean documentaries, but actual movies, like comedies or dramas with Jewish characters in them or overall Jewish themes.
Exodus~This remains an awe-inspiring film about the establishment of a homeland for the Jews following World War II. It likely remains controversial.
A Gentlemen's Agreement~Gregory Peck portrays a reporter who goes undercover as a Jew to investigate anti-semitism. It shows the effects on his family, co-workers and the woman he is in love with.
The Frisco Kid~It's very sweet and funny. Gene Wilder is wonderful as the little rabbi trying to travel to his assigned place with the help of a scruffy gunslinger (Harrison Ford).
Other excellent films are:
Yentl
Crossfire
Annie Hall
Swing Kids
The Pianist
The Chosen
School Ties
Mother Night
Hester Street
Harry & Tonto
Schindler's List
Chariots of Fire
Europa Europa
Liberty Heights
Sophie's Choice
Sunshine (1999)
The Hiding Place
Skokie (TV movie)
Driving Miss Daisy
Fiddler on the Roof
The Believer (2001)
QB VII (TV miniseries)
A Price Above Rubies
The Young Lions (1958)
Secret Passage (2004)
So Many Miracles (1987)
I Love Her, I Love Her Not
Keeping Up With the Steins
Playing for Time (TV movie)
The Diary of Anne Frank~various versions
The Merchant of Venice (2004)~This is an amazing production, with a remarkable performance by Al Pacino as Shylock. It's a look at not only anti-Semitism but also of hatred and its results.
I love Yentl and Fiddler on the Roof!
Schindlers List
meet the fockers, keeping up with the steins
10 things ihait about commandments
its halarious
Schindler's List
The Pianist
Jacob the Liar
Life Is Beautiful (such an amazing film!)
Some of my fav's
The Hebrew Hammer.
"A Price Above Rubies" with Renee Zellwegger is a great movie about a Jewish woman that starts to question her faith. "Keeping The Faith" was kind of cute, it stars Ben Stiller as a rabbi and Edward Norton as a Catholic priest.
School Ties starring brendan fraser and lots of now major stars too..like matt damon, chris o donnel and randall bantinkoff..
Crossing Delancey, The Diary of Anne Frank, Exodus, A Stranger Among Us, Fiddler on the Roof, Gentleman's Agreement, Europa, Europa, Schindler's List, The Chosen, Judgement at Nuremberg, Funny Girl, Yentl, The Search.
Goodfellas, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Europa Europa, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Pianist and BenHur
The Believer
Pi
Everything Is Illuminated
The Shop on Main Street
Closely Watched Trains
All My Loved Ones
The Pawnbroker
Angry Harvest
Exodus
The Man in the Glass Booth
Aviya's Summer
The Diary of Anne Frank
Ushpizin
The Chosen
The Last Metro
Sophie's Choice
Divided We Fall
Escape from Sobibor
Life Is Beautiful
Father: Diary of One Week
Hanna's War
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Fateless
The Pianist
Fiddler on the Roof
God Is Great and I Am Not
The Great Dictator
Invincible
Schindler's List
Voyage of the Damned
Holocaust (mini-series w/ Meryl Streep)
The Frisco Kid
Schindler's List
Fiddler On The Roof
"Annie Hall"!
It's a really funny film, I couldn't stop laughing when I was watching it! The lead character is Jewish and has a Jewish family.