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1. The Fabelmans (2022)
PG-13 | 151 min | Drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch
Votes: 117,083
2. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
G | 181 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon
Votes: 47,905 | Gross: $80.50M
3. Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Russian saxophonist visiting New York City with a USSR circus troupe suddenly decides to defect in Bloomingdale's.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Robin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey
Votes: 13,134 | Gross: $25.10M
4. Triple 9 (2016)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul
Votes: 77,131 | Gross: $12.63M
5. A Dangerous Method (2011)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 108,397 | Gross: $5.70M
6. Two Lovers (2008)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce
Votes: 43,559 | Gross: $3.15M
7. Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 49,298 | Gross: $2.44M
8. Taking Woodstock (2009)
R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton
Votes: 30,018 | Gross: $7.44M
9. The Soul Keeper (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Craig Ferguson, Caroline Ducey
Votes: 1,812
10. Natasha (I) (2015)
TV-MA | 93 min | Drama
A forbidden romance between a 16-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant kid in Toronto and his cousin by marriage, a 14-year-old girl from Moscow with a scandalous past.
Director: David Bezmozgis | Stars: Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Sasha K. Gordon, Genadijs Dolganovs, Deanna Dezmari
Votes: 476
11. The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda
Votes: 1,652
12. The Fixer (1968)
M | 132 min | Drama
In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 1,469
13. The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 4,523
14. Operation Odessa (2018)
TV-MA | 92 min | Documentary, Crime
In the early 1990s, three friends set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel and the DEA for the score of a lifetime.
Director: Tiller Russell | Stars: Ludwig Fainberg, Juan Almeida, Nelson Yester, Kristy Galeota
Votes: 6,924
15. Trotsky (2017)
50 min | Biography, Drama, History
A flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940
Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Maksim Matveev, Evgeniy Stychkin
Votes: 2,202
16. Hanna K. (1983)
R | 111 min | Drama
An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne, Mohammad Bakri
Votes: 951 | Gross: $0.11M
17. Give Me Liberty (2019)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
In this freewheeling comedy, medical transport driver Vic risks his job to shuttle a group of rowdy seniors and a Russian boxer to a funeral, dragging clients like Tracy, a young woman with ALS, along for the ride.
Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky | Stars: Chris Galust, Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, Maksim Stoyanov, Steve Wolski
Votes: 2,211 | Gross: $0.14M
18. Kedma (2002)
100 min | Drama, History, War
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Andrei Kashker, Helena Yaralova, Moni Moshonov, Juliano Mer-Khamis
Votes: 789 | Gross: $0.01M
19. The Log (1999)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas,... See full summary »
Director: Danièle Thompson | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claude Rich
Votes: 1,874 | Gross: $0.15M
20. Ganavim Ba Hok (2010)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary film from 2010 tries to give a picture of Russian organized crime not only by describing this system, but also by interviewing some of involved persons, a number of which are currently wanted by Interpol.
Director: Alexander Gentelev | Stars: Leonid Bilunov, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, Vitaly Demochka, Vladimir Ovshinsky
Votes: 424
21. ...and the Pursuit of Happiness (1986 TV Movie)
80 min | Documentary
After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980's. In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Franklin Chang-Diaz, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Lenwood Johnson, Boris Lyoskin
Votes: 523
22. Operation Wedding (2016)
63 min | Documentary, History
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plots to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the ... See full summary »
Director: Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov | Stars: Anatoly Altman, Ruth Bar-On, Philipp Bobkov, Oleg Kalugin
Votes: 21
23. Daddy (I) (2004)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
This film derives from A. Galych's play, "Matrosskaya Tishina," "Papa" tells a story of a Jewish father who dreams of seeing his son perform on stage in front of huge audiences, dreams of ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Mashkov | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Egor Beroev, Andrei Rozendent, Olga Krasko
Votes: 916
24. The Jewish Gauchos (1975)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Musical, Drama
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia established the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
Director: Juan José Jusid | Stars: Pepe Soriano, Dora Baret, Víctor Laplace, Jorge Barreiro
Votes: 84
25. The War of Raya Sinitsina (2020)
88 min | Documentary, Biography
A young filmmaker meets and follows Raya, a 94-year-old Soviet war heroine who fought in the Siege of Leningrad. As Head of the World War II Disabled Veterans Club in her city, she ... See full summary »
Director: Efim Graboy | Star: Raya Sinitsina
Votes: 22
26. Russian Jews: Film 1918-1948 (2017)
120 min | Documentary, History
The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture.
Director: Sergey Nurmamed | Star: Leonid Parfyonov
Votes: 191
27. And the Wind Returneth (1992)
133 min | Biography, Drama
The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before leaving for Israel in 1971. The film intertwines chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of films by Mikhail Kalik.
Director: Mikhail Kalik | Stars: Alla Balter, Borislav Brondukov, Vladimir Valov, Emmanuil Vitorgan
Votes: 46
28. Russkie evrei. Film tretiy. Posle 1948 goda (2017)
126 min | Documentary, History
With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and the Jews.
Director: Sergey Nurmamed | Star: Leonid Parfyonov
Votes: 171
30. A Fool's Dream (2007)
60 min | Documentary
Lev Syrkin was a successful artist in Moscow who dreamed of pursuing artistic and personal freedom in Israel. He abandoned his reputable status in Russia and moved to Israel with his entire... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Syrkin
31. Siberia (2016)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The mayor of a small orthodox town in Israel, decides to build a new mikvah in "Siberia" the Russian immigrant neighborhood. This leads to much misunderstanding.
Director: Naftali Alter | Stars: Vladimir Friedman, Albert Iluz, Shira Kedem-Katzenelenbogen, Eli Menashe
32. Hebrew Kisses (2017)
45 min | Documentary
Manya, 28, immigrated to Israel and met Erez. In order to be together, Manya needs to undergo a conversion which redefines her life.
Director: Manya Lozovskaya
33. Understanding Our World: An Interview with Ayn Rand (1961 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
Stars: James V. McConnell, Ayn Rand
Votes: 20
34. The Unknown Soldier (2017)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
An intimate investigation of World War II soviet veteran, 92-year-old Newsak Weis or as he prefers, just Uncle Nusya. The mission is to discover a real person under the armor of medals and the role model of a hero.
Director: Efim Graboy | Star: Stefano Douaihy
Votes: 14
35. Veterans (Full Medal Jacket) (2013)
78 min | Documentary, History
'Veterans', focuses on WW2 veterans, once fighters in the Red Army and now uprooted immigrants, fighting for their place in society. These people, who experienced the twentieth century's ... See full summary »
Director: Tanya Aizikovich
36. Just Like Home (2009)
58 min | Documentary, Drama
For the Past ten Years a loving couple have managed Moscow's Jewish Orphanage-home for children who were abused, neglected and abandoned by the people closest to them. It takes a lot of ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Gentelev | Star: Sean Hines
37. Naturalized (2006)
8 min | Short, Comedy
An Americanized Russian immigrant battles his overbearing family for the right to perform the ultimate rite.
Director: Julia Kots | Stars: Anna Farber, Gregory Korostishevsky, Kenneth Maharaj, Albert Makhtsier
Votes: 18
38. God Bless America (2005)
25 min | Short, Comedy
The story of a small group of people trying to make it in this big country, each trying to make America their own, and each living their own personal American dream. In order for Alex ... See full summary »
Director: Marat Shpolyansky | Stars: Linda Borini, Sergey Brusilovsky, Tammy Caplan, Abram Lewis-Rosenblum
39. First Violin (2012)
26 min | Short, Drama
Shortly after his orchestra is closed Michael wanders how he should tell his son, Igor about it. Things are getting more complicated when Igor tells him he wants to start learning horse riding.
Director: Arkady Ostrovsky | Stars: Michail Galitsky, Shawn Kamenko, Kye Korabelnikov, Dima Ross
40.
The Mike Wallace Interview (1957–1960)
Episode:
Ayn Rand
(1959)
Talk-Show
Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand on her self-made philosophy, which Wallace calls Randism, but which Rand herself prefers to call Objectivism.
Director: Max Miller | Stars: Mike Wallace, Ayn Rand
Votes: 19
41.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
Barbarossa
(2022)
Documentary, History
At the peak of his power, Hitler now faces fellow ruthless dictator Stalin. He tries to deceive Stalin with a plan to invade Britain, all while preparing an attack on the Soviet Union.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Garry Kasparov, John Scarlett, Alexandra Richie
Votes: 63
42.
Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode:
A Superhuman Act of Inhumanity
(2020)
Documentary, History, War
Betrayed, Stalin fights the German army in the Soviet states. The German occupation policies lead to the first extermination policies "undesirables".
Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: David Stahel, Alexander Vershinin, Vitaly Makarevich, Vasil Pavlov
43.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)
(2022)
TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History
As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes
Votes: 157
44.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-)
(2022)
TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History
A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer
Votes: 146
45.
Prophets of Science Fiction (2011–2012)
Episode:
Isaac Asimov
(2012)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Isaac Asimov dreamed of a better future where robots can do mankind's dirty work. His I, Robot stories led to the creation of real-life industrial robots--and inspired generations to ... See full summary »
Director: Declan Whitebloom | Stars: Jonathan Adams, Colin Angle, Isaac Asimov, Chad Bennett
Votes: 90
46.
Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode:
Le Possédé
(2015)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
Episode covers Joseph Stalin's early life and his early political activities which resulted in his rose to power with the help of Lenin. October Revolution and Lenin's construction of new ... See full summary »
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Inessa Armand
Votes: 92
47.
Une terre deux fois promise: Israël-Palestine (2018– )
Episode:
1897-1948
(2018)
54 min | Documentary, History, War
This first episode reviews the three decisive years that carved the Jewish state out of Palestine.
Directors: Blanche Finger, William Karel | Stars: Dina Porat, Shlomo Sand, Elie Barnavi, Anita Shapira
Votes: 18