yiddish language movies

An American Pickle (2020)
5.671 / 10

Comedy, Drama

An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving...

40 Nickels (2021)
0 / 10

Drama, History

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope...

The Paper Brigade (2018)
6 / 10

Documentary, History

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be...

A bissele Glik (2009)
9 / 10

Documentary, Music

A Yiddish World Remembered (2004)
10 / 10

Documentary

Elliott Gould narrates this affectionate look at life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. "It's unreal that all...

The Great Yiddish Love (2002)
0 / 10

Drama, Documentary

Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah...

Gold for Fools (1969)
0 / 10

Comedy, Drama

Raised in rural isolation by an extremist Hasidic sect, Chaim is torn between his devotion to his grandmother, an aging Holocaust survivor, and his...

A Little Family Conversation (2000)
5 / 10

Documentary

The questioning of Jewish heritage and identity via the portrait of a diversed family, across Belgium and the United States.

The Man Without a World (1991)
2 / 10

Drama

The Man Without a World is credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director, Yevgeny Antinov. But the film is anything but old. In...

Motel the Operator (1940)
0 / 10

Drama

Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by...