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Films with theme "Films about Jews and Judaism", sorted by revenue
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Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
, 1h34Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman, Jessica Walter, Sorrell Booke, Godfrey Cambridge
When idealistic minor author Leslie Braverman dies suddenly from a heart attack at the age of 41, his four best friends decide to attend his funeral. The quartet of Jewish intellectuals drawn from the four corners of Manhattan consists of public relations writer Morroe Rieff from the Upper East Side, poet Barnet Weinstein from the Lower East Side, book reviewer Holly Levine from the Lower West Side, and Yiddish writer (and chronic complainer) Felix Ottensteen from the Upper West Side.
Sunstroke (1984)
, 1h30Directed by Yaky Yosha
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Anat Atzmon, Rivka Michaeli
Summertime Blues is the last summer before the army, an early 1980s Tel-Aviv summer, during the War of Attrition with Egypt.
The Wannsee Conference (1987)
, 1h25Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Dietrich Mattausch, Robert Atzorn, Jochen Busse
Le téléfilm décrit en temps réel (sur 90 minutes), la réunion à Wannsee, des cadres et responsables du régime nazi, chargés de planifier sous la direction de Reinhard Heydrich la solution finale qui doit aboutir à l'extermination des Juifs d'Europe. Les dialogues et le déroulement des débats s'appuient sur les comptes rendus détaillés de la conférence, retranscrits par Adolf Eichmann et sur son témoignage lors de son procès en Israël.
Forbidden (1985)
, 1h54Directed by Anthony Page
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Peter Vaughan
German countess Nina von Hadler (Bisset) is a student in veterinary medicine in Berlin, Germany on the eve of World War II. Ostracized by her family due to her liberal views and opposition to the Nazi government, she lives alone, independent and strong-willed. The film opens with Nina studying at the library the day Germany invades Poland. She is angered and tells a classmate she knows the reasons Hitler gave for the invasion (to allegedly rescue ethnic Germans) are a pack of lies.
Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
, 1h41Directed by Ernest Lehman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Jill Clayburgh, Lee Grant, Jeannie Berlin, Kevin Conway
The film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Alexander Portnoy, a Jewish man employed as the assistant commissioner of human opportunity for New York City. During a session with his psychoanalyst, he explores his childhood, his relationship with his overbearing mother, his sexual fantasies and desires, his problems with women, and his obsession with his own religion. Via flashbacks, we learn about his affairs with Bubbles Girardi, the daughter of a local hoodlum; Israeli Naomi; and gentile Mary Jane Reid, whose nickname "Monkey" reflects her remarkable agility at achieving a variety of sexual positions. Mary Jane seemingly is the girl of Portnoy's dreams, but as their relationship deepens and she begins to pressure him into giving her a ring, he shrinks from making a permanent commitment to her.
, 1h50Directed by Moshé Mizrahi
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Gila Almagor, Michal Bat-Adam, Yosef Shiloach, Shaike Ophir
The film tells the story of a Sephardi family of Egyptian Jewish immigrants from Alexandria that settle in 1947 Tel Aviv. The family consists of a 33-year-old widowed wife, Clara, (played by Gila Almagor, one of the most prominent actresses in Israel for the last three decades) and her four children. They live in a working-class neighborhood surrounded by their extended family, including Clara's mother Mazal, Clara's uncle Rafael, and Sultana, his wife. The plot centers on the firstborn, Sami, his transition from a shy 15-year-old to a working man and an activist in the "Irgun" (a resistance movement that acted mainly against the military forces of the British), and the romantic attachment he develops with a 25-year-old Russian immigrant librarian (Michal Bat Adam, now a director). In addition to this, Clara struggles between social pressure to take a husband and her own complex feelings surrounding this, complicated by another Sephardi Egyptian, played by Yosef Shiloach, who has strong feelings for her.
The Courage to Care (1985)
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Films about religion, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Documentary films about World War II
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
, 3h20Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley, Melanie Mayron, Stuart Wilson, Bibi Andersson
Raoul Wallenberg est un fonctionnaire suédois qui s'illustre pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale. Alors que les déportations de juifs sévissent dans toute l'Europe, Wallenberg se sert de sa position diplomatique pour délivrer de faux passeports à des dizaines de milliers de juifs leur évitant ainsi la Shoah.
Alex Is Lovesick (1986)
, 1h28Directed by Boaz Davidson
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Uri Kabiri, Avi Kushnir, Yosef Shiloach
The film is a romantic comedy that takes place in Israel during the austerity period of the 1950s. The main character is Alex, a 12-year-old boy who is about to turn 13 and attend his bar mitzvah.
, 58minutesOrigin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Judd Hirsch
, 2hDirected by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Tom Conti, Geraldine Page, Catherine Allégret, Féodor Atkine, Philippe Laudenbach
The film tells the true story on the life of Beate Klarsfeld, a German who documented the actions that took place during the Holocaust. The film was praised for its scripts, directing, and particularly the strong performance by Fawcett, who was in the middle of transforming herself into being a serious actress. For her performance, Fawcett was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Paradise Camp (1986)
, 56minutesGenres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Films about religion, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Documentary films about World War II
The Smile of the Lamb (1986)
, 1h35Directed by Shimon Dotan
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Makram J. Khoury, Tuncel Kurtiz
Stalin's Disciples (1986)
, 1h35Directed by Nadav Levitan
Origin Israel
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
The death of Joseph Stalin in the 1950s leads to an ideological crisis on a kibbutz that identifies with communist principles. The blind faith of three elderly shoemakers, who previously abused a young boy daring to criticize Stalin, begins to disintegrate when they learn of the Soviet leader's crimes and the manifest antisemitism on display at the Prague Trials.