Jewish Comedy and the Nazis
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1. The Jews (2016)
111 min | Comedy
A French-Jewish actor seeks counseling and discusses a number of stereotypes concerning Jewish people. Told in the form of short stories that accompany each stereotype.
Director: Yvan Attal | Stars: Yvan Attal, François Bureloup, Tobie Nathan, Benoît Poelvoorde
Votes: 1,742
2. The Great Dictator (1940)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 237,437 | Gross: $0.29M
3. The Producers (1967)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Music
A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars
Votes: 59,858 | Gross: $0.11M
4. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance, War
During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart
Votes: 43,051
5. The Hebrew Hammer (2003)
R | 85 min | Comedy
An orthodox Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus' evil son.
Director: Jonathan Kesselman | Stars: Adam Goldberg, Andy Dick, Judy Greer, Mario Van Peebles
Votes: 5,087 | Gross: $0.02M
6. Me and the Colonel (1958)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, War
Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye), a Jewish refugee, flees from the Germans with Colonel Prokoszny (Curt Jurgens), an aristocratic, anti-Semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 733
7. The Producers (2005)
PG-13 | 134 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Director: Susan Stroman | Stars: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell
Votes: 44,783 | Gross: $19.38M
8. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Votes: 743,539 | Gross: $57.60M
9. Train of Life (1998)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clément Harari, Michel Muller
Votes: 9,591 | Gross: $0.15M
10. The Last Laugh (I) (2016)
88 min | Documentary, Comedy
World-famous comedians including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, and Gilbert Gottfried pitch in with their own views on the boundaries of comedy.
Director: Ferne Pearlstein | Stars: Renee Firestone, Klara Firestone, Gilbert Gottfried, Rob Reiner
Votes: 897
11. Mr. Kaplan (2014)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
HD. A grumpy old man sees opportunity when he learns of a mysterious German man he suspects is a Nazi in hiding.
Director: Álvaro Brechner | Stars: Héctor Noguera, Néstor Guzzini, Rolf Becker, Nidia Telles
Votes: 977
12. Made in Israel (2001)
113 min | Drama
Two pairs of assassins are sent by a Holocaust survivor's son to bring the last Nazi for a show trial in Israel.
Director: Ari Folman | Stars: Menashe Noy, Evgenia Dodina, Jürgen Holtz, Sasson Gabay
Votes: 197
13. Genghis Cohn (1993)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
A former SS officer is haunted by the ghost of a man he murdered during WWII.
Director: Elijah Moshinsky | Stars: Antony Sher, Robert Lindsay, Matthew Marsh, Diana Rigg
Votes: 198
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