Judaica Movies on Netflix
Last updated April 28, 2024
Orchestra of Exiles
2012 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThis inspiring documentary focuses on Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, who rescued hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust and founded the globally renowned orchestra that would eventually become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Gentleman's Agreement
1947 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEnterprising reporter Phil Green (Gregory Peck), eager to blow the lid off anti-Semitism, accepts an assignment to pen a series of frank exposés for a progressive magazine. Looking for a new angle, Green poses as a Jew and soon endures the full spectrum of bigotry -- from being denied a job and use of public facilities to his son suffering a beating. Little by little, the journalist comes to understand the cruel effects of prejudice.
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The Harmonists
1997 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSet against the backdrop of 1930s Nazi Germany, this biographical drama is less about the encroaching world war than it is about the music that defined the individuals of the close-harmony vocal ensemble known as the Comedian Harmonists. Adored across Deutschland, the Harmonists begin to feel the weight of politics and prejudice when their Jewish members are forbidden from performing in public.
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Steal a Pencil for Me
2007 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsDirector Michèle Ohayon's moving documentary chronicles the unshakeable romance between Jack Polak and Ina Soep of Amsterdam, who met and fell in love despite their deportation to Nazi concentration camps during the war. As they corresponded with love letters composed on any scrap of paper they could find, the couple's blossoming relationship coincided with the horrors of the Holocaust and their internment in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen.
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Praying with Lior
2007 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsRaising tough questions about notions of faith and disability, Ilana Trachtman's coming-of-age documentary follows Lior Liebling, a Jewish boy with Down syndrome who spends his days praying endlessly to God as he approaches his bar mitzvah.
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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDiscover the man behind the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" in this biography of Sholem Aleichem. Vintage photographs, film clips and interviews with historians reveal Aleichem's world and how he parlayed turmoil into a new Jewish cultural identity.
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My Father My Lord
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen a young boy questions his family's ultra-Orthodox faith, his rabbi father falls back on the dogma he teaches, but his answers fail to satisfy his inquisitive son. Will the rabbi's strict adherence to doctrine bring harm to his family?
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The Matchmaker
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn an Israel still recovering from World War II yet also grappling with the tumultuous "Swinging Sixties," teenager Arik (Tuval Shafir) works for matchmaker Yankele Bride (Adir Miller) as a "spy-guy" who investigates potential clients, and gets a master class in the art of love. Yankele, who operates in an unsavory area of Haifa, is in love with fellow Holocaust survivor Clara (Maya Dagan), while Arik finds romance with a wild American (Neta Porat).
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