jewish ghetto movies

The Great Dictator (1940)
8.323 / 10

Comedy, War

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

The Merchant of Venice (2004)
6.769 / 10

Drama, Romance

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy...

The Jazz Singer (1927)
6.127 / 10

Drama, Music

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the...

The Painted Bird (2019)
7.1 / 10

War, Drama, Thriller

A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.

Uprising (2001)
6.6 / 10

Drama, History, War, TV Movie

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

Jakob the Liar (1999)
6.7 / 10

Comedy, Drama, History

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German...

To Be or Not to Be (1942)
7.847 / 10

Comedy, War

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

The Island on Bird Street (1997)
7.2 / 10

Drama, War

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp....

The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)
6.956 / 10

Fantasy, Horror

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect...

The Fixer (1968)
5.8 / 10

Drama

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a...

Distant Journey (1949)
6.7 / 10

Drama

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the...

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)
6.868 / 10

History, Drama, Comedy

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic...

Warsaw: A City Divided (2019)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, History

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division,...

Judith Trachtenberg (1920)
0 / 10

Drama, Romance

In the nineteenth century a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, meets an Austrian Count at a ball held by one of...

The Girl with the Instagram (2019)
7 / 10

Drama, History

Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her life...

The Plumber (2020)
0 / 10

Adventure, History

As curfew approaches, an everyday heroine risks it all in a smuggling operation from Nazi-occupied Poland.

Lodz Ghetto (1988)
0 / 10

Documentary

The Polish city of Lodz was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entire duration of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto,...

La terre promise (1925)
0 / 10

Drama, History

In a small east-european ghetto, the Jewish family is celebrating Easter. The fraternal dissonance between the Sigoulim brothers pretty accurately...

Shielding the Flame (2023)
0 / 10

Animation, History, War

House of Life: A Jewish Cemetary in Prague (2008)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

A deep dive documentary into the history of the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague.