Yiddish Language Movies
- 2020
An American Pickle
An American Pickle5.72020HD
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 rela...
- 1940
Motel the Operator
Motel the Operator01940HD
Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by stri...
- 2018
The Paper Brigade
The Paper Brigade62018HD
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classifie...
- 2004
A Yiddish World Remembered
A Yiddish World Remembered102004HD
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 thi...
- 2009
A bissele Glik
A bissele Glik92009HD
- 2021
40 Nickels
40 Nickels02021HD
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 th...
- 2002
The Great Yiddish Love
The Great Yiddish Love02002HD
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 L...
- 1991
The Man Without a World
The Man Without a World21991HD
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 fact...
- 2024
Gold for Fools
Gold for Fools02024HD
Raised in rural isolation by an extremist Hasidic sect, Chaim is torn between his devotion to his grandmother, an aging Holocaust survivor, and his at...
- 2000
A Little Family Conversation
A Little Family Conversation52000HD
The questioning of Jewish heritage and identity via the portrait of a diversed family, across Belgium and the United States.
- 2024
Welcome to Yiddishland
Welcome to Yiddishland02024HD
An upbeat, witty, and timely exploration of a global community of artists creating innovative work in their quest to rediscover and revitalise the end...