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The Angel of Budapest
The Angel of Budapest (2011)
, 2h
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Manuel de Blas, Iván Fenyő, Asier Etxeandia

The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II. Operating until early 1944 in Budapest, he helped to save the lives of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. He issued them protective papers and lodged them in Spanish safe houses, covered by the embassy's sovereignty. At that time, the Hungarian government was persecuting and deporting Jews to Nazi death camps.
Holocaust (TV miniseries)
Holocaust (TV miniseries) (1978)
, 7h55
Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Michael Moriarty, Sam Wanamaker, Meryl Streep, James Woods

A German Jewish family, the Weisses, consists of Dr. Josef Weiss (Fritz Weaver), the father; Berta Weiss (Rosemary Harris), the mother and talented pianist; Karl Weiss (James Woods), an artist who is married to a Christian woman named Inga Helms-Weiss (Meryl Streep); Rudi Weiss (Joseph Bottoms), an independent, rebellious soccer player; Anna Weiss (Blanche Baker), the young daughter; and Moses Weiss (Sam Wanamaker), Joseph's brother and a chemist from Warsaw. Throughout the series, each member of the Weiss family experiences hardships and are ultimately led to a terrible fate, with the exception of Rudi and Inga.
Metallic Blues
Metallic Blues (2004)

Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Moshe Ivgy, Ulrich Matschoss, Stephan Kampwirth, Avi Kushnir

The film (often categorized as a tragicomedy, but the comedic elements are limited) concerns two Israeli car salesmen who initially think the world is their oyster after a rare 1985 Lincoln Continental limousine – curiously with Quebec license plates (perhaps a nod to the largely Québécois production crew, although real plates in Quebec are actually only available in the rear of a car, not the front like in the film) – falls into their laps at their used-car dealership in Tel Aviv. After reviewing a publication by the corporate German dealership Auto Decker in Düsseldorf, they are led to believe that the car could net them as much as €50,000 and sail with the vehicle to Germany in order to sell it. While learning that the task may not be as easy as hoped, they are also confronted with a number of emotional episodes. Shmuel (portrayed by Avi Kushnir) is an Ashkenazi Jew, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, and is surprised to find how affected he is by the voyage. His companion Siso (played by Moshe Ivgy) is a Mizrahi Jew of modest means who, unlike his companion, has no working knowledge of English (spoken routinely by Shmuel to the various German characters they encounter), and is therefore often overwhelmed and confused during their experience. To Siso, Shmuel's history is largely unknown, and a tragic curiosity.
Loving Leah
Loving Leah (2009)
, 1h35
Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors Lauren Ambrose, Adam Kaufman, Natasha Lyonne, Susie Essman, Ricki Lake, Mercedes Ruehl

Jake Lever (Adam Kaufman) is a successful cardiologist living in Washington, D.C. While at the hospital, he dreams that his brother, Benjamin, tells him that they are okay. Jake is confused and is baffled after learning later that day that his brother has died suddenly. He feels guilty for not having kept in touch with his brother for several years. After Ben's funeral held in Brooklyn, Jake finds out that because his brother's wife Leah (Lauren Ambrose) has been left without children, they must perform a ceremony called halizah in order to nullify a levirate marriage.
Memories of Anne Frank
Memories of Anne Frank (2010)

Directed by Alberto Negrin
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Emilio Solfrizzi, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

The film is about diarist Anne Frank and her friendship with Hanneli Goslar. In 1935, Anne and Hanneli, both of whom were little children, meet at their first day of the school. From that moment, they become very good friends and their friendship continues until 1942, when Anne and her family go to hiding. A few months after Anne and her family go to hiding, the Goslars are arrested by the Nazis. Hanneli, after being deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, is reunited with Anne, who is a more unprivileged prisoner of the camp imprisoned in the other side of the camp, which is separated by an electric-wired fence from the side where Hanneli is imprisoned.
The Ten Commandments (TV series)
The Ten Commandments (TV series) (2006)
, 2h47
Directed by Robert Dornhelm
Origin USA
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Dougray Scott, Naveen Andrews, Claire Bloom, Omar Sharif, Silas Carson, Mía Maestro

Moses's mother, Jochebed, saves her baby from the edict of the Pharaoh that all newborn male Hebrew children must die by placing him in a basket on the Nile River. He is found by the Pharaoh's daughter Bithia and adopted into the royal house.
Portrecista
Portrecista (2005)
, 52minutes
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Films about religion, Documentary films about the visual arts, 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

Portrecista (The Portraitist) examines the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, who had been trained as a portrait photographer at his aunt's studio prior to World War II and passionately loved taking photographs. After his capture and imprisonment by the Nazis at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940, at the age of 23, he was forced to take "identity pictures" of between approximately 40,000 to 50,000 other inmates between 1940 and 1945. With "courage and skill", documenting "cruelty which goes beyond all words ... for future generations", after his liberation at the end of World War II, Brasse "could not continue with his profession" and would never take another photograph.
Naked Rose
Naked Rose (2013)
, 1h10
Directed by Giovanni Coda
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film

Il Rosa Nudo (Naked Rose) is a film inspired by the life of Pierre Seel. The film focuses on an episode which will mark forever the existence of Pierre Seel, who was imprisoned by the Nazis at the age of seventeen: deported to the Schirmeck concentration camp, he witnessed the atrocious death of his partner. After the war he didn't speak to anyone about the reason for his imprisonment, and eventually he married and had three children.
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997 TV movie)
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997 TV movie) (1997)

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Dance, Elina Löwensohn, Chad Lowe, Peter Friedman, Don McKellar

Ghetto de Varsovie, novembre 1942. Alors que la rebellion commence à gronder, un rabbin et sa fille tentent de survivre tout en gardant en tête leurs espoirs de paix. Celui-ci tente de contenir les excès de haine et de violence de son fils qui veut se venger de l'occupation nazie. Victime d'un viol, sa fille bénéficiera du soutien inespéré d'un jeune soldat allemand las des exactions commises par son armée…
The Singing Forest
The Singing Forest (2003)
, 1h12
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Aage Winther-Jørgensen, Dustin Lance Black

Christopher is a widower, his wife of 22 years having recently passed, and he begins drinking, he becomes obsessed with the theory of past lives. Before long, he is convinced he is actually the reincarnation of a German resistance fighter who was hanged by the Nazis for hiding Jews during The Holocaust. His situation becomes even more complex as his daughter, Destiny's, wedding approaches, and Christopher's sense of déjà vu around her fiancé, Ben, is enough to convince him that he and Ben were gay lovers during a past life. As Christopher becomes increasingly disturbed and goes about seducing his daughter's future husband, he begins to reveal the strange, violent path his life had taken well before his wife died.