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1) Disobedience
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to the Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend Esti (Rachel McAdams). Once reunited, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Winner of Best Supporting Actor (Alessandro Nivola) and nominated for Best British Independent Film at the **British Independent Film Awards.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film...
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""The Assembled Parties is Greenberg's most richly emotional work in years, and the most beautifully detailed."--New York magazine"This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for witty and wounded grown-ups who toss off gorgeously written observations without knowing how little we know about what we think we know."--NewsdayMeet the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In an opulent apartment overlooking Central...
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Series
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A "novel in verse that inspired the ... West End and Off-Broadway play of the same name, [this book] follows the epic rise and fall of three generations of [the Lehman] family and through them tells the story of American ambition and hubris"--Publisher marketing.
"... Spanning three generations and 150 years, The Lehman Trilogy is a moving epic that dares to tell the story of modern capitalism through the saga of the Lehman brothers and their descendants....
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
This quirky and wry comedy follows three Jewish Israeli siblings, Dorona and her brothers Netanel and Shai, who, in the wake of their mother's death, learn the man who raised them is not their biological dad. The revelation sends them on a road trip from Israel across France to discover the truth about their birth father. It explores an unraveling family secret and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery that follows.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The Levins are a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey in an Alternate America during WWII, observing the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
6) Shiva baby
Publisher
Utopia Select, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Attending a family shiva with her parents, college student Danielle gets quizzed about her life and future plans by various relatives, encounters her ex-girlfriend Maya as well as her sugar daddy Max, his wife Kim and their baby.
7) Jewtopia
Publisher
Le Petit Canyon Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Christian O'Connell and Adam Lipschitz are two childhood friends who reunite as adults to help each other land the women of their dreams. Chris wants to marry Allison, a Jewish girl, so that he'll never have to make another decision. Adam is on the verge of getting married to Hannah, whom he is not content with. When Chris enlists Adam's help in pretending to be Jewish so that Allison will date him, cultures collide and chaos ensues!
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A Jewish family struggles to come to terms with the fact that their son is gay after he comes out of the closet at his cousin's wedding. Every attempt to understand their son's lifestyle and keep it a secret ends in failure when he and his partner try to adopt a child, blowing the lid off the closet door.
9) The chosen
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Two teenagers at the time of the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but they are divided by the same thing that unites them--their faith. Though both are devout Jews, there's a subtle difference. Danny is an Hasidic Jew, brought up to accept faith blindly by his father--an ultra-orthodox rabbi who rejects the 20th century for the special joys of centuries--old tradition. Reuven, on the other hand, has been brought up by his father who is a secular...
10) Daniel
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A fictionalized account of the son of a Jewish couple who are branded as spies and put to death by the U.S. government. Believing that his parents were wrongly convicted and executed, their son Daniel Isaacson, an anti-war activist, sets out to clear their name. The film flips back and forth from the story of Daniel and the story of his parents. Based on the real case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
11) LGBTQ+
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. Titles include: The Danish Girl ; Call Me by Your Name ; Moonlight; ; 3 Generations ; Disobedience ; Boy Erased.
The Danish girl (2015) (120 min.): This remarkable love story which is inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe an Gerda Wegener, follows the evolution of the couple's marriage and work as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender...
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