Jewish Family Movies

Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her...

After Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in a series of violent attacks she realizes she needs to unravel her father’s past in...

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family...

Alice and Horst paints a moving portrait of two siblings from Saarbrücken whose lives were shaped by their family’s antifascist...

A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood....

Eli, an outcast teen, connects with his isolated grandfather Samuel for the first time, and uncovers his surprising past, when he makes his grandpa...

Where do I come from? For some, the question has a simple answer -- for others, the truth can be much more complicated. With the rise in popularity...

Martin is rejected by his mother with callousness and beaten by his father: a childhood without love. The story sounds like a case study from the...

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent...

Following 'Leedvermaak' (Schadenfreude) from 1989 and 'Qui vive' from 2001, the trilogy is now complete with 'Happy end'. Frans Weisz directed,...

A thief in Lvov, Poland, during the German occupation who uses his knowledge of the sewer system to help a Jewish family escape.

In this absorbing and intimate debut documentary, New York journalist Marisa Fox delves into her mother’s secret past, discovering revelations...

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

Guests step out in smart hats and sumptuous furs for a Jewish wedding at London’s Central Synagogue.

Follow the happy couple from the family shop on Brick Lane to a garden party serenaded by the San Diego Dance Band.