Films like Avalon
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Film · 1945 · also dramaIn Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little t...
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Gentleman's Agreement
Film · 1947 · also dramaA magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
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One Life
Film · 2023 · also dramaBritish stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an...
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Blue Moon
Film · 2025 · also dramaOn the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celeb...
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The Dead
Film · 1987 · also dramaAfter a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
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What Maisie Knew
Film · 2013 · also dramaIn New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
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The Devil's Arithmetic
Film · 1999 · also dramaAn American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when s...
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Doubt
Film · 2008 · also dramaIn 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
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In America
Film · 2003 · also dramaA family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
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Jimmy's Hall
Film · 2014 · also dramaIn Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and...
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