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1. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Votes: 317,538 | Gross: $18.10M
2. The Nanny (1993–1999)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
After being fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, a cosmetics saleswoman becomes the nanny to the three children of a rich English widower. As time passes, the two fall for each other.
Stars: Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane
Votes: 49,461
3. Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
R | 101 min | Comedy
The movie chronicles a young man's (Richard Benjamin) love and passion in his own kinky way.
Director: Ernest Lehman | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack
Votes: 615 | Gross: $0.61M
4. Café Society (2016)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the 1930s, a Bronx native moves to Hollywood and falls in love with a young woman who is seeing a married man.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively
Votes: 81,391 | Gross: $11.10M
5. 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: 43,599 | Gross: $3.15M
6. An Awkward Sexual Adventure (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
To win back his ex-girlfriend, a conservative accountant enlists the help of an exotic dancer to guide him on a quest for sexual experience, leading him into a world of strip clubs, sensual massage parlors, cross-dressing and S & M.
Director: Sean Garrity | Stars: Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Sarah Manninen, Vik Sahay
Votes: 10,313
7. Summer '03 (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.
Director: Becca Gleason | Stars: Joey King, Paul Scheer, Andrea Savage, Jack Kilmer
Votes: 3,901 | Gross: $17.52M
8. New York Stories (1989)
PG | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12-year-old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales.
Directors: Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese | Stars: Woody Allen, Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Marvin Chatinover
Votes: 19,765 | Gross: $10.76M
9. Heavy Traffic (1973)
R | 77 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
An underground cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his art.
Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova, Terri Haven
Votes: 3,723 | Gross: $1.34M
10. 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: 30,028 | Gross: $7.44M
11. Girl Play (2004)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Two real-life lesbian actresses meet by chance when they are cast as lovers in a local stage play, and end up actually falling in love.
Director: Lee Friedlander | Stars: Robin Greenspan, Lacie Harmon, Mink Stole, Dom DeLuise
Votes: 871
12. Please Don't Eat My Mother! (1973)
98 min | Comedy, Horror
A middle-aged man buys a plant with a sexy voice that develops a craving for insects, frogs, dogs, and humans.
Director: Carl Monson | Stars: Buck Kartalian, Lynn Lundgren, Art Hedberg, Alice Friedland
Votes: 578
13. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1961, BJ Blazkowicz and his ragtag team of allies arrive in Nazi-controlled America on a mission to recruit the boldest resistance leaders left and restart the American Revolution.
Directors: Fredrik Ljungdahl, Jens Matthies, Tom Keegan | Stars: Brian Bloom, Alicja Bachleda, Gideon Emery, A.J. Trauth
Votes: 5,395
14. American Pop (1981)
R | 96 min | Animation, Drama, History
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.
Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Mews Small, Ron Thompson, Jerry Holland, Lisa Jane Persky
Votes: 5,514 | Gross: $6.00M
15. Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 7,826 | Gross: $4.87M
16. Little Odessa (1994)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama
A cold-blooded hitman visits his estranged Russian immigrant family in Brooklyn.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 9,162 | Gross: $1.10M
17. No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 2,572
18. The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Omar wants to write an authorized biography on a dead writer and travels to a farm in Uruguay to meet the trustees - the writer's brother, widow and cute mistress/mother of his daughter.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nicholas Blandullo
Votes: 3,244
19. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
Not Rated | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Director: Joann Sfar | Stars: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones
Votes: 10,317 | Gross: $0.23M
20. A Fine Madness (1966)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Samson Shillitoe, mad genius of a poet irresistible to women, but plagued by writer's block, agrees to see a psychiatrist, and his beautiful wife.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal
Votes: 1,526
21. XXL (1997)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
Alain Berrebi directs with his sister Lorène, a company of ready-to-wear in the Path. Their business is booming to the point to consider acquiring a nearby shop. Fortunately, it belongs to David Stern, the father of his fiancée Arlette.
Director: Ariel Zeitoun | Stars: Michel Boujenah, Gérard Depardieu, Elsa Zylberstein, Catherine Jacob
Votes: 368
22. Citizen Cohn (1992 TV Movie)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Joseph Bologna, Ed Flanders
Votes: 1,521
23. Harvie Krumpet (2003)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck.
Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kamahl, John Flaus, Julie Forsyth
Votes: 9,038
24. Memoir of War (2017)
127 min | Biography, Drama, War
Marguerite must navigate through the hardships of the Liberation after losing her husband and starting a relationship with the enemy during the War.
Director: Emmanuel Finkiel | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Votes: 1,386 | Gross: $0.10M
25. Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
As loyal as a dove, a family man is about to tell his first lie to his wife when he falls for an enchanting woman in a billowy red dress. With a bit of help, he just might get what he wishes for; however, is love always a bed of roses?
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux
Votes: 2,357
26. Le dernier des Juifs (2024)
89 min | Comedy
Follow Bellisha, a Jewish man who lives with his mother, Giselle. The suburb where they live has seen the synagogue shut down, and now the last remaining Kosher grocery story is closing. They are officially the last Jews living there.
Director: Noé Debré | Stars: Michael Zindel, Agnès Jaoui, Solal Bouloudnine, Eva Huault
Votes: 104
27. Defamation (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary
Intent on shaking up the ultimate 'sacred cow' for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative - and at times irreverent - quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?"
Director: Yoav Shamir | Stars: Yoav Shamir, Abraham Foxman, Bob Wolfson, Notav
Votes: 1,868 | Gross: $0.01M
28. Suzie Gold (2004)
G | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
As Suzie Gold's sister prepares to get married, it seems only natural that Suzie's thoughts should turn to the state of her own love-life. While her doting but dysfunctional family ... See full summary »
Director: Ric Cantor | Stars: Ariana Fraval, Daniel Mendoza, Summer Phoenix, Stanley Townsend
Votes: 658
29. When Jews Were Funny (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
Surveys the history of Jewish comedy.
Director: Alan Zweig | Stars: Marc Maron, Gilbert Gottfried, Rodney Dangerfield, Bob Einstein
Votes: 533
30. Esperando al mesías (2000)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Burman | Stars: Daniel Hendler, Héctor Alterio, Enrique Piñeyro, Melina Petriella
Votes: 711
31. Hey Good Looking! (2006)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
Love stories, a beauty parlor,a Moroccan nanny, children to educate and family feasts are what Isa,Alice,Léa and Nina share together because they are united by their Sephardi families and their friendship.
Director: Lisa Azuelos | Stars: Michèle Laroque, Aure Atika, Valérie Benguigui, Géraldine Nakache
Votes: 848
32. Porte de Vincennes (2022)
80 min | Drama
After the attacks in Paris in 2015, Raphael Mehlman is really aware of his Jewishness. His brother, the writer Joël Mehlman, develops a novel then gets lost between his characters and reality, mixing his fiction and his own life.
Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Arthur Molinier, Pablo Alarson, Laura Ketels, Franck Zerbib
Votes: 10
33. Lost Embrace (2004)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy
In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Burman | Stars: Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg, Jorge D'Elía, Sergio Boris
Votes: 3,068 | Gross: $0.19M
34. Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
PG | 110 min | Comedy
Sequel to Pardon Mon Affaire. Four men continue to explore the fallout from their personal lives. This time they buy a house in the country, but struggle to escape their troubles.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux
Votes: 1,294
35. Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (2016)
84 min | Documentary
At 21, Saar was expelled from his religious kibbutz and fled to the UK. There he created a new family with the London Gay Men's Chorus and now, after 19 years, Saar reaches out to his old family in the hope of a reconciliation.
Directors: Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann, Alexander Bodin Saphir | Stars: Saar Maoz, Alon, London Gay Men's Chorus Band, Elimelekh
Votes: 334
36. Die Gezeichneten (1922)
105 min | Drama
Based on the 1918 novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja, Sylvia Torf
Votes: 554
37. Le coup de sirocco (1979)
102 min | Drama
Paul Narboni remembers his happy childhood in Algeria before leaving the country in 1954. With his family, he then arrives in Marseille before reaching Paris. His father Albert, a grocer, will have to adapt to this new country.
Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Roger Hanin, Marthe Villalonga, Michel Auclair, Jacques Duby
Votes: 297
38. Le monde doit m'arriver? (2012)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Between fear of success and a tricky break-up, Ludovic is beyond all hope as he is getting close to the 30's stage. His unexpected meeting with a sick child, Raphael, shakes up his daily life and his future approach. Together, they go after their dreams...
Director: Jonathan Taieb | Stars: Alex Skarbek, Jeremy Taieb, Sabrina Nouchi, Georges Martin-Censier
Votes: 53
39. The 3 Little Wolfs (2001)
81 min | Comedy
Why is this night different from all other nights? It's Passover at the Wolf house... and it may be their last! Join the three Wolf brothers as they navigate a breezy spring New York City ... See full summary »
Director: Joey Craine | Stars: Tovah Feldshuh, Steve Jasgur, Rusty Thrasher, Jason Butler Harner
Votes: 24
40. Entrepreneur (2015– )
Comedy
A Working Girl for the post-recession generation, Entrepreneur is a fast-talking comedy about an ambitious yet jobless millennial, determined to wrangle herself a spot in the workforce by... See full summary »
Stars: Tajamul Islam, Blair Ross, Stephanie Venditto, Maureen Keiller
42. Taliya.Date.Com (2010)
54 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
The story of Taliya's quest for finding love in the estranged world of Internet dating, based on a mouse, a keyboard and Photoshop tricks. In this comic-tragic voyage with the guidance of ... See full summary »
Director: Taliya Finkel | Stars: Gilad Adler, Elad Aviran, Daniel Broide, Mickey Edlis
Votes: 28
43.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
(1994)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets is put in focus in this film
Director: Jerry Aronson | Stars: Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 286 | Gross: $0.00M
44.
Fat Friends (2000–2005)
Episode:
Fat Free
(2000)
49 min | Drama
Actress Lauren Harris has won herself a part in a soap opera, and is convinced that losing five pounds would make her a better actress. She is also having issues with her mother, who is ... See full summary »
Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Gaynor Faye, Debbie Howard, Will Mellor, Eleanor Bron
Votes: 18
45.
Soap (1977–1981)
Episode:
Episode #2.17
(1979)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Corinne gives birth to a gorgeous baby boy; at Jodie's apartment, Alice shows herself to be a Jewish mother; Burt vows to prove his innocence to the disbelieving Mary; Chester finally ... See full summary »
Director: Jay Sandrich | Stars: Jimmy Baio, John Byner, Billy Crystal, Cathryn Damon
Votes: 92
46.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977)
Episode:
Support Your Local Mother
(1970)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Mary puts Rhoda's visiting mother up in her apartment when Rhoda refuses to see her.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Valerie Harper, Gavin MacLeod
Votes: 284
47.
Porno Valley (2004– )
Episode:
Peace and Love
(2004)
TV-MA | Documentary
Stars: Savanna Samson, Briana Banks, Mercedez, Jenna Jameson
Votes: 9
48.
Kenny vs. Spenny (2002–2010)
Episode:
Who Can Win a Ten Mile Race?
(2006)
TV-MA | Comedy, Game-Show, Reality-TV
Kenny and Spenny plan a ten mile race but things go horribly wrong when Spenny hears that Kenny's mother had died.
Directors: Kenny Hotz, Spencer Rice | Stars: Kenny Hotz, Spencer Rice, Miriam Hotz, Ronnie Hotz
Votes: 74
49.
Who Do You Think You Are? (2008– )
Episode:
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
(2019)
Documentary, Biography, History
Aussie icon, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, whose parents came from Europe to Australia just after WWII to create new life for themselves, is about to discover the tragic reasons why they never wanted to talk to him about their past or relatives.
Stars: Karl Kruszelnicki, Richard Mellick, Michael Schudrich
Votes: 5
50.
2 Broke Girls (2011–2017)
Episode:
And the Kosher Cupcakes
(2012)
Not Rated | 22 min | Comedy
Max tries to pass off her cupcakes as kosher when she and Caroline serve them at a boy's Bar Mitzvah.
Director: Scott Ellis | Stars: Kat Dennings, Beth Behrs, Garrett Morris, Jonathan Kite
Votes: 1,005