Most Popular Yiddish-Language Feature Films
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Cars
(2006) A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family. Dir: John Lasseter, Joe Ranft With: Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sport 117 mins. |
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Blazing Saddles
(1974) To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. Dir: Mel Brooks With: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens Comedy | Western 93 mins. |
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Mary and Max
(2009) A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. Dir: Adam Elliot With: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana Animation | Comedy | Drama 92 mins. |
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A Serious Man
(2009) A black comedy drama centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking for meaning and answers he seems to stay stalled. Dir: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen With: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick Comedy | Drama 106 mins. |
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New York, I Love You
(2009) Several love stories set in one of the most loved cities of the world, New York. Dir: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal With: Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper Comedy | Drama | Romance 103 mins. |
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Miller's Crossing
(1990) Tom Regan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties. Dir: Joel Coen With: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro Crime | Drama | Thriller 115 mins. |
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Marathon Man
(1976) A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent. Dir: John Schlesinger With: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider Thriller 125 mins. |
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In Darkness
(2011) A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. Dir: Agnieszka Holland With: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska Drama | War 145 mins. |
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Top Secret!
(1984) Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany. Dir: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker With: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing Comedy 90 mins. |
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Sarah's Key
(2010) In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942. Dir: Gilles Paquet-Brenner With: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup Drama | War 111 mins. |










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