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What is a Jewish Film? And what makes a film Jewish?

It is not a question of Jewish actors, producers, or directors, otherwise most Hollywood films would be Jewish, but it is about the film’s storyline or whether the film has recognizably Jewish characters.

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  2. 2.
    Abraham (The Bible Collection)
    by Joseph Sargent
  3. 3.
    A la Mode
    by Rémy Duchemin
  4. 4.
    The Ambassador
    by Crispin Reece
  5. 5.
    Amen
    by Costa-Gavras
  7. 7.
    American History X
    by Tony Kaye
  8. 8.
    American Matchmaker
    by Edgar G Ulmer
  9. 9.
    American Pop
    by Ralph Bakshi
  10. 10.
    An American Tail
    by Don Bluth
  11. 11.
    Angel of Death
    by Pepe Danquart
  12. 12.
    Angels in America
    by Mike Nichols
  13. 13.
    Angry Harvest
    by Agnieszka Holland
  14. 14.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen
  15. 15.
    The Ape
    by James Franco
  16. 16.
    Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

  17. 17.
    Apt Pupil
    by Bryan Singer
  18. 18.
    The Architecture of Doom
    by Peter Cohen
  19. 19.
    The Assignment

  20. 20.
    ?
    The Assisi Underground
    by Alexander Ramati
  22. 22.
    Austeria

  23. 23.
    Avalon

  24. 24.
    Barton Fink
    by Ethan Coen
  25. 25.
    Beaches (Special Edition)
    by Garry Marshall
  26. 26.
    Bee Season

  27. 27.
    The Believer

  28. 28.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler
  29. 29.
    The Benny Goodman Story

  31. 31.
    The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Ethan Coen
  32. 32.
    Biloxi Blues
    by Mike Nichols
  33. 33.
    The Birdcage

  34. 34.
    Black Book (Zwartboek)
    by Paul Verhoeven
  35. 35.
    Black Sunday
    by John Frankenheimer
  36. 36.
    Blazing Saddles

  37. 37.
    Blind Man's Bluff
    by Santos Alcocer
  38. 38.
    The Boat Is Full

  40. 40.
    Border Street
    by Aleksander Ford
  41. 41.
    ?
    Born in Berlin (Shalosh Nashim)
    by Naomi Ben-Natan, Leora Kamenetzky
  42. 42.
    ?
    The Boxer and Death (Boxer a smrt)
    by Peter Solan
  43. 43.
    ?
    Boy Takes Girl (Ben Loke'ah Bat)
    by Michal Bat-Adam
  44. 44.
    The Boys From Brazil

  45. 45.
    Brighton Beach Memoirs

  46. 46.
    ?
    Broadway Bound (TV)
    by Paul Bogart
  47. 47.
    ?
    Broken Glass (TV)
    by David Thacker
  48. 48.
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

  49. 49.
    A Bronx Tale

  50. 50.
    Cabaret
    by Bob Fosse
  51. 51.
    Cadillac Records
    by Darnell Martin
  52. 52.
    Cafe au Lait
    by Mathieu Kassovitz
  53. 53.
    ?
    A Call to Remember (TV)
    by Jack Bender
  54. 54.
    Capturing the Friedmans
    by Andrew Jarecki
  55. 55.
    The Cassandra Crossing
    by George P. Cosmatos
  56. 56.
    Cast a Giant Shadow

  57. 57.
    The Cemetery Club
    by Bill Duke
  58. 58.
    The Chamber
    by James Foley
  59. 59.
    Chaplin

  60. 60.
    Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Hugh Hudson
  61. 61.
    ?
    Charlie Grant's War (TV)
    by Martin Lavut
  62. 62.
    Charlie Wilson's War
    by Mike Nichols
  63. 63.
    The Chosen
    by Jeremy Kagan
  64. 64.
    Citizen Cohn

  65. 65.
    Click (Special Edition)
    by Frank Coraci
  66. 66.
    Coco
    by Gad Elmaleh
  67. 67.
    ?
    Cold Days (Hideg napok)
    by András Kovács
  68. 68.
    The Commissar
    by Aleksandr Askol'dov
  69. 69.
    Compulsion
    by Richard Fleischer
  71. 71.
    ?
    Conspiracy of Hearts
    by Ralph Thomas
  72. 72.
    The Counterfeiters
    by Stefan Ruzowitzky
  73. 73.
    Crimes and Misdemeanors

  74. 74.
    Crossfire
    by Edward Dmytryk
  75. 75.
    ?
    Crossing Delancey
    by Joan Micklin Silver
  76. 76.
    Cup Final

  77. 77.
    The Damned

  78. 78.
    ?
    Dark Lullabies
    by Irene Lilienheim Angelico, Abby Jack Neidik
  79. 79.
    Dangerous Moves

  80. 80.
    ?
    David
    by Peter Lilienthal
  81. 81.
    David and Bathsheba
    by Henry King
  82. 82.
    A Day in October

  83. 83.
    ?
    Day of Atonement

  84. 84.
    Day of Wrath
    by Adrian Rudomin
  85. 85.
    ?
    Dead End Street (Kvish L'Lo Motzah)
    by Yaky Yosha
  86. 86.
    ?
    Deadly Currents
    by Simcha Jacobovici
  87. 87.
    Descending Angel

  88. 88.
    Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci)
    by Jan Nemec
  89. 89.
    ?
    Diamonds
    by Menahem Golan
  90. 90.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by George Stevens
  91. 91.
    ?
    Displaced: Miracle at St. Ottilien (documentary)
    by John J. Michalczyk
  92. 92.
    Dirty Dancing (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Emile Ardolino
  93. 93.
    ?
    Dita Saxová
    by Antonín Moskalyk
  94. 94.
    Dogma (Special Edition)

  95. 95.
    Doomsday Gun

  96. 96.
    ?
    Double Edge (Lahav Hatzui)
    by Amos Kollek
  97. 97.
    Downfall

  98. 98.
    Down in the Valley

  100. 100.
    ?
    The Dunera Boys (TV)
    by Ben Lewin
  101. 101.
    The Dybbuk
    by Michal Waszynski
  102. 102.
    ?
    Eagles Attack at Dawn (Ha-Pritza Hagdola)
    by Menahem Golan
  103. 103.
    ?
    East and West (Ost und West)
    by Ivan Abramson, Sidney M. Goldin
  104. 104.
    ?
    Echoes of Conflict (3 shorts)
    by Amit Goren, Gur Heller, Johanan Weller
  105. 105.
    The Eddie Cantor Story
    by Alfred E. Green
  106. 106.
    ?
    The Eighty-First Blow (Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad)
    by David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich, Haim Gouri
  107. 107.
    ?
    Eli Eli
    by Joseph Seiden
  108. 108.
    ?
    Emotional Arithmetic

  109. 109.
    Nightwish: End of Innocence
    by Timo Halo
  110. 110.
    Enemies, A Love Story
    by Paul Mazursky
  111. 111.
  112. 112.
    Escape from Sobibor

  113. 113.
    ?
    Escape to the Sun
    by Menahem Golan
  114. 114.
    Esther and the King
    by Mario Bava
  115. 115.
    Europa Europa

  116. 116.
    Every Time We Say Goodbye
    by Moshe Mizrahi
  117. 117.
    Everything Is Illuminated
    by Liev Schreiber
  118. 118.
    Eyewitness

  119. 119.
    ?
    The Execution (TV)
    by Paul Wendkos
  120. 120.
    Exodus

  121. 121.
    Facing Windows

  122. 122.
    ?
    Falling Over Backwards
    by Mort Ransen
  123. 123.
    Fame

  124. 124.
    Family of Cops
    by Ted Kotcheff
  125. 125.
    A Family Of Cops II
    by David Greene
  126. 126.
    Family of Cops 3

  127. 127.
    ?
    Family Prayers
    by Scott M. Rosenfelt
  129. 129.
    Fate

  130. 130.
    Fateless

  131. 131.
    ?
    Father

  132. 132.
    ?
    Fictitious Marriage
    by Haim Bouzaglo
  133. 133.
    Fiddler on the Roof (Special Edition)
    by Norman Jewison
  134. 134.
    The Fixer

  135. 135.
    ?
    Flames in the Ashes (Pnei Hamered)
    by Jacques Ehrlich, Haim Gouri
  136. 136.
    ?
    Flames of Revolt

  137. 137.
    Forbidden
    by Robert Kubilos
  138. 138.
    Free Zone
    by Amos Gitai
  139. 139.
    ?
    Forced March

  140. 140.
    ?
    Freud's Leaving Home
    by Susanne Bier
  141. 141.
    Frida

  142. 142.
    ?
    Friendship in Vienna

  143. 143.
    The Frisco Kid

  144. 144.
    The Front

  145. 145.
    Funny Girl
    by William Wyler
  146. 146.
    Funny Lady
    by Herbert Ross
  147. 147.
    ?
    Gaby: A True Story

  148. 148.
    The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
    by Vittorio De Sica
  149. 149.
    Garden State

  150. 150.
    A Generation - Criterion Collection
    by Andrzej Wajda
  151. 151.
    ?
    Genghis Cohn

  152. 152.
    Gentleman's Agreement
    by Elia Kazan
  153. 153.
    Getting Away With Murder

  154. 154.
    The Glory Boys
    by Michael Ferguson
  155. 155.
    ?
    God, Man and Devil

  156. 156.
    God on Trial
    by Andy DeEmmony
  157. 157.
    The Golem
    by Paul Wegener
  158. 158.
    Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

  159. 159.
    The Good German
    by Steven Soderbergh
  160. 160.
    Goodbye, Columbus

  161. 161.
    ?
    Goodbye, New York

  162. 162.
    The Governess
    by Sandra Goldbacher
  163. 163.
    ?
    Goya's Ghosts
    by Miloš Forman
  164. 164.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  165. 165.
    The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin
  166. 166.
    Green Fields
    by Edgar G Ulmer
  167. 167.
    ?
    Greta

  168. 168.
    The Grey Zone

  169. 169.
    Hannah and Her Sisters

  170. 170.
    ?
    Hanna's War

  171. 171.
  172. 172.
    La Haine [Region 2]
    by Mathieu Kassovitz
  173. 173.
    The Heartbreak Kid
    by Elaine May
  174. 174.
    Heavy Metal (Collector's Edition)
    by Gerald Potterton
  175. 175.
    Heights (Merchant Ivory Productions)
    by Chris Terrio
  176. 176.
    ?
    The Heritage

  177. 177.
    Hester Street
    by Joan Micklin Silver
  178. 178.
  179. 179.
    Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
    by Thorold Dickinson
  180. 180.
    ?
    His People

  181. 181.
    ?
    His Wife's Lover

  182. 182.
    Mel Brooks' History of the World -- Part I
    by Mel Brooks
  183. 183.
    ?
    Hit the Dutchman

  184. 184.
    Holocaust

  185. 185.
    ?
    Homicide

  186. 186.
    Hôtel Terminus
    by Marcel Ophüls
  187. 187.
    ?
    Hot Desert Wind

  188. 188.
    ?
    The House on Chelouche Street

  189. 189.
    ?
    The House on Garibaldi Street

  190. 190.
    ?
    Hungry Hearts

  191. 191.
    ?
    Hunted

  192. 192.
    ?
    I am not Rappaport

  193. 193.
    I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore

  194. 194.
    I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
    by Hy Averback
  195. 195.
    I Love You Don't Touch Me

  196. 196.
    I Love You, I Love You Not

  197. 197.
    ?
    The Illegals

  198. 198.
    The Imported Bridegroom
    by Pamela Berger
  199. 199.
    The Impossible Spy

  200. 200.
    In The Presence of Mine Enemies
    by Joan Micklin Silver
  201. 201.
  202. 202.
    The Infiltrator

  203. 203.
    Infinity
    by Matthew Broderick
  204. 204.
    Inglorious Basterds [UMD for PSP]
    by Quentin Tarantino
  205. 205.
    The Inheritors

  206. 206.
    ?
    Inside the Third Reich

  207. 207.
    Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
    by Mark Jonathan Harris
  208. 208.
    Intolerance
    by D.W. Griffith
  209. 209.
    Iron Eagle

  210. 210.
    Iron Eagle II
    by Sidney J. Furie
  211. 211.
    Israel: A Nation Is Born
    by *
  212. 212.
    ?
    Ivan & Abraham

  213. 213.
    Ivanhoe
    by Joseph Barbera
  214. 214.
    Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe

  215. 215.
    Jacob (The Bible Collection)
    by Peter Hall
  216. 216.
    Jacob the Liar
    by Frank Beyer
  217. 217.
    Jakob the Liar
    by Peter Kassovitz
  218. 218.
    The Jazz Singer
    by Alan Crosland
  219. 219.
    The Jazz Singer - 25th Anniversary Edition
    by Richard Fleischer
  220. 220.
    The Jazz Singer (1952)
    by Michael Curtiz
  221. 221.
    ?
    The Jew

  222. 222.
    ?
    Jewish Luck

  223. 223.
    Joe And Max
    by Steve James
  224. 224.
    ?
    The Jolly Paupers

  225. 225.
    Jolson Sings Again
    by Henry Levin
  226. 226.
    The Jolson Story
    by Alfred E. Green
  227. 227.
    ?
    Jonah Who Lived in the Whale

  228. 228.
    Joseph (The Bible Collection)
    by Roger Young
  229. 229.
    Joseph - King of Dreams
    by Rob LaDuca
  230. 230.
    Joshua (2007)
    by George Ratliff
  231. 231.
    ?
    Joshua Then and Now

  232. 232.
    ?
    Jud Suess

  233. 233.
    Judgment at Nuremberg
    by Stanley Kramer
  234. 234.
    ?
    Judith

  235. 235.
    Julia
    by Fred Zinnemann
  236. 236.
    ?
  237. 237.
    Juno (Single-Disc Edition)
    by Jason Reitman
  238. 238.
    Justine

  239. 239.
    ?
    Kapo

  240. 240.
    ?
    Kazablan

  241. 241.
    Keeping the Faith
    by Edward Norton
  242. 242.
    King David
    by Bruce Beresford
  243. 243.
    ?
    King for a Day

  244. 244.
    The King of Comedy

  245. 245.
    Kissing Jessica Stein

  246. 246.
    ?
    Korczak

  247. 247.
    ?
    Kuni Lemel in Cairo

  248. 248.
    ?
    Kuni Lemel in Tel Aviv

  250. 250.
    Lansky
    by John McNaughton
  251. 251.
    The Last Angry Man (1959)
    by Daniel Mann
  252. 252.
    The Last Butterfly
    by Karel Kachyna
  253. 253.
    ?
    The Last Klezmer

  256. 256.
    ?
    The Last Train

  257. 257.
    ?
    Late Summer Blues
    by Renen Schorr
  261. 261.
    ?
    The Last Winter
    by Riki Shelach
  262. 262.
    ?
    Laura Adler's Last Love Affair
    by Avram Heffner
  263. 263.
    ?
    Le Golem: The Legend of Prague
    by Julien Duvivier
  264. 264.
    Left Behind - The Movie
    by Victor Sarin
  265. 265.
    Left Luggage
    by Jeroen Krabbé
  266. 266.
    Lemon Tree
    by Eran Riklis
  267. 267.
    Léon Morin, Prêtre
    by Jean-Pierre Melville
  268. 268.
    ?
    Leon the Pig Farmer
    by Gary Sinyor
  269. 269.
    ?
    Lepke
    by Menahem Golan
  270. 270.
    Les Misérables

  271. 271.
    ?
    Les Patriotes
    by Eric Rochant
  272. 272.
    ?
    Les Violons du Bal
    by Michael Drach
  273. 273.
    ?
    A Letter to Mother

  274. 274.
    Liam

  275. 275.
    Lies My Father Told Me
    by Jan Kadar
  276. 276.
    Life Is Beautiful
    by Roberto Benigni
  277. 277.
    ?
    The Light Ahead
    by Edgar G. Ulmer
  278. 278.
    ?
    The Little Drummer Girl

  279. 279.
    ?
    Little Odesa

  280. 280.
    ?
    The Living Orphan

  281. 281.
    ?
    Loan Me Your Wife

  282. 282.
    ?
    Long Days of Summer

  283. 283.
    ?
    Long is the Road

  284. 284.
    ?
    The Long Way Home

  285. 285.
    ?
    The Longest Hatred

  286. 286.
    Lost in Yonkers
    by Martha Coolidge
  287. 287.
    ?
    The Lover

  288. 288.
    ?
    Luna Park

  289. 289.
    ?
    Lupo

  290. 290.
    Lord of War [Blu-ray]

  291. 291.
    The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
    by Gérard Oury
  292. 292.
    Madame Rosa
    by Moshé Mizrahi
  293. 293.
    ?
    Madman

  294. 294.
    ?
    The Magician of Lublin
    by Menahem Golan
  295. 295.
    A Majority of One
    by Mervyn Le Roy
  296. 296.
    ?
    Mamele

  297. 297.
    ?
    The Man Who Captured Eichmann
    by William A. Graham
  298. 298.
    The Man Who Cried

  299. 299.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen
  300. 300.
    Marathon Man
    by Allan Garden
  301. 301.
    Marjorie Morningstar

  302. 302.
    ?
    Marry Me, Marry Me
    by Claude Berri
  303. 303.
    ?
    Mary

  304. 304.
    Mary and Max
    by Adam Elliot
  305. 305.
    ?
    Max
    by Menno Meyjes
  306. 306.
    ?
    Max and Helen
    by Philip Saville
  307. 307.
  308. 308.
    Mendel [VHS]

  310. 310.
    A Mighty Heart
    by Michael Winterbottom
  311. 311.
    A Mighty Wind
    by Christopher Guest
  312. 312.
    ?
    Mina Tenanbaum
    by Martine Dugowson
  313. 313.
    ?
    Mindbender
    by Ken Russell
  314. 314.
    Miracle at Midnight
    by Ken Cameron
  315. 315.
    Miracle at Moreaux
    by Paul Shapiro
  316. 316.
    ?
    Mirele Efros
    by Josef Berne
  317. 317.
    Miss Rose White (Hallmark Hall of Fame) [VHS]
    by Joseph Sargent
  318. 318.
    Monsieur Ibrahim

  319. 319.
    Monty Python's Life of Brian (The Criterion Collection)
    by Terry Jones
  320. 320.
    Moses (The Bible Collection)
    by Roger Young
  321. 321.
    Moses
    by Gianfranco De Bosio
  322. 322.
    ?
    Motel the Operator

  323. 323.
    Mother Night

  324. 324.
    ?
    Mothers of Today
    by Henry Lynn
  325. 325.
    ?
    Mr. Emmanuel

  326. 326.
    ?
    Mr. Halpern & Mr. Johnson
    by Alvin Rakoff
  327. 327.
    Mr. Klein
    by Joseph Losey
  328. 328.
    Mr. Saturday Night

  329. 329.
    Mrs. Henderson Presents (Full Screen Edition)
    by Stephen Frears
  330. 330.
    Munich
    by Steven Spielberg
  331. 331.
    The Nazis: A Warning From History
    by Laurence Rees
  332. 332.
    Night and Fog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais
  334. 334.
    The Odessa File

  335. 335.
    Only Human
    by Dominic Harari
  336. 336.
    Paper Clips
    by Elliot Berlin
  337. 337.
    The Passion of Joshua the Jew
    by Pasquale Scimeca
  338. 338.
    Paradise Now
    by Hany Abu-Assad
  339. 339.
    ?
    Permanent Midnight

  340. 340.
    People I Know

  341. 341.
    The Pianist (Full Screen Edition)
    by Roman Polanski
  342. 342.
    Porcile
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  343. 343.
    Prime (Widescreen Edition)
    by Ben Younger
  344. 344.
    The Prince of Egypt
    by Brenda Chapman
  345. 345.
    The Producers (Special Edition)
    by Mel Brooks
  346. 346.
    Prozac Nation
    by Erik Skjoldbjærg
  347. 347.
    Raid on Entebbe
    by Irvin Kershner
  348. 348.
    The Reader
    by Stephen Daldry
  349. 349.
    Religulous
    by Larry Charles
  350. 350.
    Schindler's List
    by Steven Spielberg
  351. 351.
    ?
    Shnei Kuni Lemel

  352. 352.
  353. 353.
    Simon
    by Eddy Terstall
  354. 354.
    The Social Network (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher
  355. 355.
    Snatch (Widescreen Edition)
    by Guy Ritchie
  356. 356.
    Something New (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sanaa Hamri
  357. 357.
    Sophie's Choice

  358. 358.
    The Statement
    by Norman Jewison
  359. 359.
    A Stranger Among Us
    by Sidney Lumet
  360. 360.
    Sunshine
    by István Szabó
  361. 361.
    Swimming with Sharks
    by George Huang
  362. 362.
    Taking Sides
    by Istvan Szabo
  363. 363.
    The Tin Drum
    by Volker Schlöndorff
  365. 365.
    Train of Life
    by Radu Mihaileanu
  366. 366.
    Transamerica
    by Duncan Tucker
  367. 367.
    The Twelve Chairs

  368. 368.
    Under The Bombs
    by Philippe Aractingi
  369. 369.
    Uprising

  370. 370.
    Vas, Vis et Deviens
    by Radu Mihaileanu
  371. 371.
    Volunteers

  372. 372.
    Voyage of the Damned

  373. 373.
    Yentl [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]
    by Barbra Streisand
  374. 374.
    You Don't Mess With The Zohan
    by Dennis Dugan
  375. 375.
    Waltz With Bashir
    by Ari Folman
  376. 376.
    What Just Happened?

  377. 377.
    Where the Truth Lies (Unrated Theatrical Edition)
    by Atom Egoyan
  378. 378.
    WHISKY (2004)(Sub)

  379. 379.
    Wedding Daze

  380. 380.
    ?
    The Wonderfull, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
    by Ray Muller
  381. 381.
    Murder Of Mary Phagan (Edited Version)
    by William Hale
  383. 383.
    Music Box

  384. 384.
    My Favorite Year
    by Richard Benjamin
  385. 385.
    My Knees Were Jumping - Remembering the Kindertransport
    by Melissa Hacker
  386. 386.
    ?
    My Michael

  387. 387.
    ?
    My Mother's Courage

  388. 388.
    ?
    Nadia

  389. 389.
    The Nasty Girl [1991] [DVD]
    by Michael Verhoeven
  390. 390.
    ?
    Neighbors

  391. 391.
    Never Forget [VHS]
    by Joseph Sargent
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