Idealistic pharmacist Alice (Alice Taglioni) is totally obsessed with the movies of Woody Allen. She continually quotes lines from his films, engages in imaginary conversations, and even prescribes her customers his classic works to help alleviate their ailments; it's a little wonder she's still ...

An old Jewish couple is planning a summer vacation. She wants to go to Israel, and definitely not to Switzerland, a country that once refused her as a refugee. But for him Israel is too hot, and anyway full of Arabs. So off to Switzerland they go, where he suffers from a heart attack. The nurse w...

At the end of the 1950s, Rachel (Virginie Efira, "Other People's Children", "Benedetta"), a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe (Niels Schneider), a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Ov...

YELLOW STARS OF TOLERANCE documents a project to preserve yellow stars that were painted during the Holocaust in World War II on a synagogue exterior wall in Normandy, France to terrorize the local Jewish community. The intent of the recent preservation project is to serve as a testament to that ...

Autumn 1947: Elisha, a young Jew, learns that he has been chosen to kill the hostage John Dawson (Jason Isaacs, "Harry Potter"), a captain in the British Army occupying Palestine. Will Elisha, himself a survivor of the holocaust, be able to commit this irrevocable act?

Based on the Novel by Elie...

Ansis earns his living as a sign painter, a seemingly innocent occupation. His craft is needed in every regime – the authoritarian Thirties, the following Communism, as well as Nazism. Ansis is compelled to cooperate. He paints the signs of the city green, later replaced by red and finally brown....

Léon Blum, the Jewish French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister, stands at the heart of a new film. Jeanne Reichenbach (Elsa Zylberstein) fell in love with Blum (Hippolyte Girardot) when she was only sixteen. Years later, when they could finally be together, the Nazis arrived in F...

Helene (Julie Depardieu), Lili (Johanna ter Steege) and Rose (Suzanne Clément) met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. Determined to find her old compani...

'Klezmer Musicians Travel Home to Krakow' intersperses traditional and nouveau-Klezmer music with introspective thoughts and feelings of some of today' s greatest Klezmer-style musicians, examining why they return annually to the Krakow Jewish Cultural Festival. This documentary, narrated by Theo...

Judith Golden owned and ran a small hotel, and her husband Leo Fleischmann had a successful textile business in Memel, Lithuania. Being Jewish was not a liability in this port city on the Baltic Sea, yet Adolf Hitler had ambitions beyond what anyone could know when he ascended to power in 1933. "...

This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen Belsen, the last of 11 concentration camps where he was held by the Nazis. He and 30 other former Jewish inmates travel through the new Germany. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The...

Amsterdam, summer 1942. Walter Suskind can count himself lucky that he's found a job with the Jewish Council, which offers him and his family protection from deportation to Germany. It is Süskind's task to arrange for the detainees to be sent to "work" in Germany. But when he discovers what is re...

In this short film set in 1933 England, runaway siblings Kitty (Bella Ramsey, "Game of Thrones") and David's game of soldiers takes a surprising turn when they find their clifftop hideout occupied by Jewish refugee Albert Einstein.

Directed by Luke Rodgers
United Kingdom, 2018
Shorts, Drama, His...

Yiddish live theater, a formerly lively theatrical form, is barely sustained by a few aging aficionados and its loyal but aged audience. Laura Adler is a big star of one of these troupes. She is attractive, middle-aged and quite content to spend her days performing obscure theater in her backwate...

Two generations after the Holocaust, its aftermath has faded, but the small, seemingly banal moments of everyday life are still present. Through interviews with strangers and intimates, as well as views of contemporary Berlin, filmmaker Alexa Karolinski investigates how history reverberates throu...

In this beguiling short film by German director Milan Carl Bath, a woman prepares to leave her flat. She seems to be following a strict plan as she, step by step, readies herself and her home for departure. THE DEPARTURE reflects on the correlation of technocratic rationality and the Holocaust.
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After his father dies in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. Based on the childhood memories of the filmmaker, NOT ALL WERE MURDERERS deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany...

The 1972 Olympics in West Germany should have been a global sporting highlight. But the unthinkable happened early in the morning of September 5th, when Palestinian terrorists stormed the Olympic village and invaded the residential quarters of the Israeli delegation. This gripping feature-length ...

Haunted from the beginning to the very end, Still Alive (Noch Am Leben) is the story of a woman’s recollection of her mad Holocaust survivor great aunt. Through the ghetto to cradling her dying sister, Eva Nagler left her mind on the beaches of the Baltic Sea during one of the largest death march...

In 1938, Austria had been annexed by Nazi Germany and Switzerland closed its borders for Jewish refugees, essentially forming as a death sentence for thousands. However, not all Swiss officials subscribed to this inhuman order. 'One Step to Freedom' centres on the story of Paul Grüninger, the St....

Discover the extraordinary life story of Carl Laemmle, the German-Jewish immigrant who founded Universal Pictures, and saved over 300 Jewish families from Nazi Germany.

"A riveting, fast-paced film that pays a long-overdue tribute to one of the cinema's more courageous risk-takers, a man who was...

As Seen on 60 Minutes! | The Ritchie Boys is the riveting, untold story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned as soldiers in U.S. uniforms. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anyone. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence ...