Yelena Shmulenson
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Mendy
2003-09-20
Mendy
Overview: Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's struggle to integrate his faith and traditions with the modern world are influenced by his growing friendship with Bianca, Yankel's free spirited Brazilian roommate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-20
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Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
2012-05-11
Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
Overview: The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now Eve Annenberg’s gritty, funny feature film sets William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City with Brooklyn-inflected English and Yiddish spoken by a talented cast.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-11
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Orchestra of Exiles
2012-10-26
Orchestra of Exiles
Overview: The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during World War II. In three years, he transformed from a world renowned violinist to a humanitarian racing against time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Challah on the Run
2023-09-12
Challah on the Run
Overview: During Shabbos dinner in a remote shtetl, a loaf of challah magically comes to life just as a family is about to eat him.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: yi
Release Date: 2023-09-12
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Chinese Puzzle
2013-12-04
Chinese Puzzle
Overview: Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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The Hyperglot
2013-04-05
The Hyperglot
Overview: Despite an unrivaled talent for communicating, Jake has trouble talking to women. When an impossible situation presents itself, Jake ignores the signs and goes on a wild goose-chase to pursue his quest for love. When his plan is foiled, a new best friend helps him finally express himself successfully to a woman – without uttering a single word.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-05
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Wig Shop
2017-11-12
Wig Shop
Overview: Chaya goes to Tippy's Wig Shop with the intentions of finding the woman who has been having an affair with her husband and meets Tippy, the owner of the shop, who tries to get Chaya to try a new wig, as well as others who roam in and out of the store.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-12
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The Good Shepherd
2006-12-11
The Good Shepherd
Overview: Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-11
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A Serious Man
2009-10-02
A Serious Man
Overview: It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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