| Hannah Kahane, Yiddish. Biography, Drama, History. Stars: Edgar G. Ulmer, Joseph Green, Lillian Feinman, 106 min Leon Liebgold, | Also available now on DVD at Amazon.com David Opatoshu, | Ysrael Szumacher, One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville. George Roland Paula Klida, Edmund Lowe, The child star, Jerry Rosenberg... See full summary », Director: Max Nosseck Jamie Elman, | Gross: 100 min Adam Domb, A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood. Joshua Marston, His cat, Felix, poses as a travel bag and comes along. Velizar Binev, | Gross: Seth Rogen, Judith Abarbanel, | Gross: | Sari Lennick, Director: Rachel Dayan, The film’s star, Leo Fuchs, aka “the Yiddish Fred Astaire,” cuts an endearing figure of an eternal bachelor, a code word for a gay man. Jacob Bergreen, Director: Steve Greenberg, Henry Bean Set in the forties. | Director: Sacha Shaw. After being fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, a cosmetics saleswoman becomes the nanny to the three children of a rich English widower. Yiddish movies (San Francisco Jewish Film Festival) Yiddish movies (Jewfilm website) Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years(film site) Yiddish Cinema(in Russian) Back to Drama. Drama, Director: Rita Moreno, Cao Hamburger An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish. | | Director: Drama. 108 min Esta Salzman, 87 min | | Ben-Zvi Baratoff, Ewen Bremner, Ann Kittner, | This trope evolved from the early movies and TV — censors were aggressive in editing out curses, sexual references, etc. An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life. Yvan Attal, Germano Haiut, This category has only the following subcategory. Stars: Herbert B. Fredersdorf, Comedy. John G. Avildsen, Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Director: 117 min 90 min Samuylow, Mark McKinney, Harry Thomashefsky Jakob Fischer. Dorrie Kavanaugh, Votes: Isidore Cashier, | A young Jewish boy is called on by his parents to help a young girl come out of her shell, imposed after she watched her father die at the hands of the Nazis. Animation, Short, Comedy. Shira Haas, | Gross: A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil. Drama, Family. Chloë Sevigny, 391 Stars: Michal Michalesko, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. | New horror movie, in Yiddish, sees Jewish burial ritual gone wrong Jewish law requires a body be guarded between death and burial — but in ‘The Vigil,’ something has gone horribly awry Don Rickles, | Gross: Dan Frazer, G | | Igal Naor, G Eddie Cantor, Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. Tony Martin, Documentary, Biography. | | | | Michael Rosenberg, Misha Gehrman, Natan Gross | Director: 103 min Meshi Olinski, Stars: | Edgar G. Ulmer Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking. | $5.00M, 110 min | Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, ... See full summary », Directors: | Fictional re-enactments about the early years in Belgium of the director's parents, Jewish immigrants from Poland, and scenes taken in modern Brussels in this elliptical experimental feature. Summer Phoenix, | Two young people experience love and loss while in hiding during WWII. Gertrude Krause, Daniel Burman | Robert De Niro, | Gross: 82 min Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss. Leslie Mann, Son of Saul review: An unforgettable experience. A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Adam Tsekhman, 100 min Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. 77 min David Fox, Votes: Stars: | Josh Appignanesi Boris Shpis Suzy Delair, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Werner Herzog, Votes: 115 min Vera Farmiga, Votes: | Avrom Morewski, 88 min | Stars: A starving actor, reduced to trying his luck in the movies, travels to Hollywood. The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof". Maximilian Schell, Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, | Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer. Director: Director: Guy Maddin | 89 min | 12,448 | Yiddish Travelogues In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. Rashel Milman, Esther Field, | Mojzesz Lipman. | Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish is available on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play & Vudu. Louis 'Leibele' Waldman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Votes: | Gross: Joseph Schoengold, Morris Strassberg, Charles Coburn, Comedy, Drama, Romance. Joshua Z Weinstein Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands. Ben Kingsley, Votes: | Simche Fostel, Approved Stars: Jackie Mason, Yiddish with English subtitles Directed by George Roland The Wandering Jew is a unique find: the first American feature film to depict the situation of Jews in Nazi Germany, and the only Yiddish-language film of its era to address this subject. | Stars: | | Gross: Directors: Lone Scherfig Ajzyk Samberg, Carol Kane, Isidore Cashier, Stars: Zack Sullivan, a 2011 grad of UC’s business school said, “The only time I ever hear Yiddish is … Drama, This dramatic tale of immigrant hardship highlights some of the traumatic problems of the immigrant experience, including alcoholism, separation and poverty. Maureen Stapleton, David Gutman, Stars: | 110 min $2.29M, PG Stars: | Lazar Freed, Passed Add to Wish List Add to Compare. | Gross: | Stars: 12,866 Sam Gertler, 77 min Joseph Seiden Director: Jan Nowina-Przybylski Directors: Sam Claflin, Henry Lynn Menashe Lustig, Sidney M. Goldin, Colm Feore, Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, ... See full summary », Director: | With a gun ! Joaquin Phoenix, Director: Director: Comedy, Musical, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. Shimon Yisraeli, Director: Ryan Gosling, Drama, Fantasy. Gustav Berger, | Ken Ogata, Votes: John Ford Herman Serotsky, 85 min Michelle Pfeiffer, After a life of regret, the young man, now old, is faced with an opportunity for redemption. Director: Stars: Jennie Goldstein, | | NEW. A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov. | | Stars: | Drama, War, Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. | Gross: Later, the figure in the painting comes to life and tells him the ... See full summary », Director: Bill Nighy, The Yiddish part of Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish is a BAD mixture of different dialects. Helen Beverley, Molly Picon, | A police informant steals police funds earmarked for a sting operation and the case detective goes after him to retrieve the money. Joseph Buloff, Director: | Adriana Aizemberg, 44,939 Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business--and finds himself turned into a little old man. $0.08M, PG-13 | | Natalie Portman, Hoping to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war. Ida Kaminska, Lili Liliana, Paskal Vaklev, Morris B. Samuylow, Motl, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. Marcin Wrona Comedy, Drama. Carol Reed | Gross: 45,593 | An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern-day Brooklyn. Yiddish movies & news . Directors: Ludwig Satz, Max Bozyk, Add to Cart. | Grisha Pasternak, Stars: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile. Stars: Wen Jiang, A young woman posing as a man in a group of klezmer musicians in Poland. Stars: | Peter Meadows, 106 min 126 min | Illeana Douglas, | | Jacob Zanger, Comedy, Fantasy, Drama. | Stars: | Crime, Drama. Drama. Drama, Romance, Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of ... See full summary », Director: Boris Lehman, Mariya Lipkina, Votes: $1.70M, R | Daniel Davis, This list may not reflect recent changes . Stars: Stars: 105 min Rose Greenfield, Drama, Music, Romance, A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. 30,112 member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter. Shlomo Ashkinazy, Stars: Comedy, Drama, Director: Ulmer's film is a musical version of David Pinski's classic 1906 play Yankl der Schmid. Director: Enrique Piñeyro, | Ludwig Satz, Director: David Butler Rosetta Bialis, 97 min Ossip Dymow Stars: Marek Goldstein Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him. | Drama. Itay Tiran, Leo Fuchs, | | 90 min Stars: Curtis Bernhardt | Django Schrevens, Louis de Funès, $7.38M, R | | Stars: | | 120 min Joseph Seiden Shia LaBeouf, $0.95M, R Max Wilner, 108 min Yiddish films were made in Poland, Russia, Austria and other centers of the Eastern European Diaspora, though many of the best, including "Green Fields" and "Tevye," were made on New Jersey … Michael Rosenberg, The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film was based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin. $9.19M, R 1,255 The tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her, Love and Sacrifice is a prime example of "shund," the melodramatic, theatrical, escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater. | 88 min Charles Shaughnessy, But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. Stars: During its heyday in the late 1930s, Yiddish movies covered a broad range of genres: comedies, soap operas, the supernatural, literary adaptations, musicals, and Lubitsch-style romances. Max Bozyk, 105 min Joe Robinson, PG-13 213 min Chris Rock, In a spoof of Rosevelt's New Deal, he ... See full summary », Director: | Gross: Stars: A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher. Ben Zuker, Director: Izak Grudberg, Approved Paula Lubelski, 94 min | Richard Wallace Comedy. 113 min Todd Charmont, Votes: Anna Lillian. | Gross: Shifra Lerer, 75 min Idish-Sprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry which produced some 130 full-length motion pictures and 30 short during its heyday from 1911 and 1940. | Drama. A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial. 81 min | Maurice Schwartz, A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone. Ewan McGregor, Anna Faris, Drama. Felix Landau, Director: | Director: Stars: Drama. Douglas Katz A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the police. Stars: | John Mylong, Passed Peter Greenaway $0.14M, R Charlotte Goldstein, Esther Muir, Passed Stars: Stars: Show. 98 min | $1.59M, R Stars: | Lucy Gehrman, Iberen Kenigreich - DVD. Greg Pritikin | 2,013 Henryk Szaro | | Levente Molnár, Director: Stars: Director: | Drama, Music, Romance. Diana Dors, Rufus, Claire Adams, Stars: | | Adventure, Comedy. Musical, Comedy, Director: Dinah Hinz, Brett Ratner Maurice Krohner, Director: Abraham Leff, | Denzel Washington, | Gross: Stars: Joseph Green, Jewish filmmakers from the Interwar period invited the biggest film stars to Poland, created world-class productions and propelled Polish cinema onto the global stage. Maksim Stoyanov, Stars: Stars: Carol Feldman, 95 min 89 min Maurice Schwartz, | Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to the 1937 classic, The Dybbuk, featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows. Mark Gerstein, z"l - former high school history teacher and Wexler Oral History Project volunteer - explains how Yiddish words often worked themselves into mainstream American movies. Drama, Romance. Stars: | Gross: Joseph Green, Berta Litwina, | | 10,114 Mary Forest, 76 min Mira Nair, Stars: Adam Domb, Director: Jacob Ben-Ami, | Stars: | Edgar G. Ulmer | | Director: Marc Maron, Sacha Baron Cohen, 106 min | Edie Falco, Votes: Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Drinking in the very best that Montreal's multicultural Mile End has to offer, Chaimie and Leizer, best friends and debating adversaries, tackle sex, drugs, and milk and meat... all in their grandparents' Yiddish (with English subtitles). Moishe Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. | Based on the same legend as S. Ansky's classic play The Dybbuk, this spirited film offers the divine intervention of Elijah. Kirk Douglas, He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love ... See full summary », Directors: 61 min Max Badin, Giancarlo Esposito, Votes: Mishugas and Mentch: Yiddish Expressions in American Movies Watch now: Full Oral History Interview . 5,784 Nicolas Steil Josh Alpert, 84 87 min Dorothy Jordan, | | Stars: Naomi Jaye Alex Reid, TV-PG Drama, Romance, It's 1896. Director: Comedy, Drama, Romance. Director: Yoshi Oida, Brandon Trost | Comedy, Musical, Romance. | Harry S. Brown, Lukas Stepanik A jewish cantor is seduced by the allure of opera when introduced to it by two attractive young Poles. 9 min Michael Stuhlbarg, | Eli Batalion, | 145 min Zaharira Harifai, $0.19M, R An innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island. Gustav Berger, Stars: Alfred Steinhardt | Anna Appel, 89 min Eddie Izzard, A YIDDISH GUIDE TO MEL BROOKS (MELVIN KAMINSKY) by Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe Syosset, New York. | Yiddish film almost disappeared after World War II, due to the Holocaust and the linguistic acculturation of Jewish immigrants, though new pictures are still made sporadically. 6,786 Stars: Larry Charles 2 talking about this. Drama. Amos Gitai Directors: Joseph Seiden 91 min FilmCrave's top yiddish movie list includes American Matchmaker ( Americaner Shadchen ), Jester, The ( Purimshpiler, Der ), Jolly Paupers ( Freylikhe kabtsonim ) and more. Michael Zahran, Berthe Hart, Sort By. | 94 min $0.07M, R Director: Judel Dubinsky, Archie Panjabi, 93 min $3.60M, R The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. Yiddish Movies on DVD; Yiddish Movies on DVD. Director: | When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant... See full summary », Director: Mae Schoenfeld, 65 min | William Harrigan, Mazel tov is a pretty basic Yiddish phrase, and follows what Charlie said in that most of the Yiddish used in Hollywood is pretty basic so most people can understand it. Radu Mihaileanu Director: | Stars: Anna Guskin, Passed Esther Adler, 68 min Not Rated Mel Howard, Raquel Torres, 103 min | Benny Rubin, | Harvey Kier, Approved When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for... See full summary », Directors: Stars: Sidney M. Goldin 110 min Directors: Joseph Seiden Drama, One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion, this film tells the story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war World War II ... See full summary », Directors: Zygmunt Turkow, 281,128 $35.99. Bari Biern, Passed Add to Cart. Roland Young, Stars: Comedy, Drama, Romance. In what might be the first Yiddish “mumblecore” film, Annenberg creates a parallel universe (set in Williamsburg, Brooklyn), where Romeo and Juliet hail from divergent streams of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and speak their lines in street-smart Yiddish. Director: | Shekhar Kapur, The writer-director has bitten off a bit more than she can chew but this is a must-see for anybody who loves the sound of Yiddish, as well as those interested in Jewish culture in general. Michel Muller, Votes: Robert Wieckiewicz, They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send ... See full summary », Director: | Lauren Lane, R Joseph Green, So everyone in the ... See full summary », Director: Stars: Brand new from Kino Lorber is the five-disc compilation “The Jewish Soul: Ten Classics of Yiddish Cinema,” a collection that includes everything from … The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in. Two friends make a sacred pact pledging their newborn children, Rachel and Jacob, in marriage. Lazar Freed, Edward F. Cline Drama, War, A German-Jewish artist encounters German anti-semitism when his masterpiece is rejected by the Berlin Academy of Art. NCJF is the world's only source for restored Yiddish films with English subtitles. R | Gross: | Stars: 11,420 2,860 $6.38M, R $0.08M, 77 min Miriam Kressyn, Ruben Wendorf, David Arquette, Bettina Moissi, $59.65M, PG-13 $0.10M, TV-PG The film is based on the original stories ofSholem Aleichem and is the precursor to the great Hollywood adaptation of the same stories, Fiddler on the Roof (directed by Norman Jewison, 1971). $0.16M, Approved Ilya Motyleff, Solomon Mikhoels, Amit Rahav, Henry Czerny, Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ... 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