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by Inna | created - 17 Nov 2011 | updated - 06 Sep 2013 | PublicJewish (and Israeli) setting or GLBT characters.
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1. Milk (I) (2008)
R | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna
Votes: 179,770 | Gross: $31.84M
2. Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
Director: Haim Tabakman | Stars: Zohar Strauss, Ran Khalil Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad
Votes: 6,569 | Gross: $0.02M
3. Yossi & Jagger (2002)
R | 65 min | Drama, History, Romance
Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Steinovitz
Votes: 7,609
4. Man Is a Woman (1998)
100 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Klezmer musician Simon Eskanazy wrestles with his gay nature. His conservative, orthodox family, Parisian bankers, expects him to carry on the family name by marriage. However he's ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann | Stars: Antoine de Caunes, Elsa Zylberstein, Gad Elmaleh, Michel Aumont
Votes: 755
5. The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
110 min | Drama
A Jewish family and a homosexual doctor suffer persecution in Fascist Italy. Based on a novel by Giorgio Bassani.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett, Valeria Golino, Stefania Sandrelli
Votes: 671
6. Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Not Rated | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.
Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch
Votes: 6,988 | Gross: $0.93M
7. Facing Windows (2003)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her ...
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro
Votes: 11,665 | Gross: $0.54M
8. Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 7,812 | Gross: $4.87M
9. Round Trip (2003)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A divorced Israeli woman hires a single African woman as a nanny, and soon the two women form a passionate friendship that leads to a romantic relationship.
Director: Shahar Rozen | Stars: Anat Waxman, Eyal Rozales, Nthati Moshesh, Natan Zahavi
Votes: 224
10. The Bubble (2006)
Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
"The Bubble" is the story of a group of young people who live in Tel Aviv, Israel. The movie follows the group's difficulties of living in Israel's reality. Their routine breaks when a young Palestinian man enters their lives.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Ohad Knoller, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Daniella Wircer, Alon Friedman
Votes: 5,671 | Gross: $0.16M
11. The Boys in the Band (1970)
R | 118 min | Drama
Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey, Frederick Combs
Votes: 5,883 | Gross: $7.63M
12. The Lost Language of Cranes (1991)
87 min | Drama, Romance
A young gay man comes out to his middle-class parents, which has repercussions for his father who has long since been trying to repress his own sexuality.
Director: Nigel Finch | Stars: Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins, Angus Macfadyen, Corey Parker
Votes: 614
13. Ernesto (1979)
R | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Triestw in the year 1911. Ernesto is the privileged, seventeen year old son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, who has deserted his family. He is raised by his uncle Giovanni and ... See full summary »
Director: Salvatore Samperi | Stars: Martin Halm, Michele Placido, Virna Lisi, Turi Ferro
Votes: 572
14. Entre Nous (1983)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Votes: 2,257
15. Close to Home (2005)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Rebellious and outgoing Smadar can't stand types like Mirit. Mirit, introverted and frightened, keeps away from the likes of Smadar. But the two are thrown together as they are assigned to ... See full summary »
Directors: Vardit Bilu, Dalia Hager | Stars: Smadar Sayar, Naama Schendar, Danny Geva, Katia Zinbris
Votes: 949 | Gross: $0.02M
16. Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!! (2009)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
Every Friday night Shirley invites another "perfect" woman for Shabbat dinner in hopes that her son, Nelson, will marry a nice Jewish girl. Nelson, however, has something to tell them...he's gay.
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky | Stars: Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek, Vincent Pastore, John Lloyd Young
Votes: 987 | Gross: $0.09M
17. Wittgenstein (1993)
Not Rated | 72 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter, Gina Marsh
Votes: 2,925
18. Good Boys (2005)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two rent boys, hired by a trick to perform together, develop a relationship.
Director: Yair Hochner | Stars: Daniel Efrat, Dana Balalti, Michael Hamel, Yuval Raz
Votes: 401
19. Antarctica (2008)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
In two days, Omer will hit a milestone; his 30th birthday. Like many his age, he hasn't found himself. But then Omer is hardly looking. Instead he chooses to loose himself among the stacks ... See full summary »
Director: Yair Hochner | Stars: Ofer Regirer, Guy Zoaretz, Yuval Raz, Yiftach Mizrahi
Votes: 848 | Gross: $0.02M
20. Walk on Water (2004)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer
Votes: 7,045 | Gross: $2.71M
21. Trembling Before G-d (2001)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
A cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.
Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski | Stars: Shlomo Ashkinazy, Steve Greenberg, Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Naomi Mark
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.62M
22. The Secrets (2007)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance
Two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out.
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Ania Bukstein, Michal Shtamler, Adir Miller
Votes: 2,248 | Gross: $0.12M
23. Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School (2005)
60 min | Documentary
Hineini (Hebrew for 'Here I am') chronicles the story of one student's courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area and the ... See full summary »
Director: Irena Fayngold
Votes: 29
24. Garden (2003)
90 min | Documentary
A look into the lives of teenage male prostitutes working the area known as the "Electricity Garden" in Tel Aviv.
Directors: Adi Barash, Ruthie Shatz | Stars: Dudu, Nino
Votes: 329
25.
Short Stories About Love (1997– )
Episode:
Ba'al Ba'al Lev
(1997)
35 min | Drama
Young love blossoms amid the inhabitants of a small town in Israel in this gay fantasy. Guri want to relocate to Tel Aviv before he's "outed". Nohav want to win a local song contest and who can tell what stud Merito wants?
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Tzak Berkman, Uri Omanuti, Sami Huri, Gisele Silver
Votes: 117
26. Tied Hands (2006)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
The film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. Like in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Gila Almagor, Ido Tadmor, Nelly Tagar, Sharon Stark
Votes: 49
27. Gay Days (2009)
72 min | Documentary, Romance
In 1985, there were three gays who were out of the closet in Israel. By 1998, there were 3,000. In this short, intensive and dramatic period, Israel came out of the closet in one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Yair Qedar | Stars: Michal Eden, ellyott, Uzi Even, Yossi Even-Kama
Votes: 28
28. The Twilight of the Golds (1996)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance
When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She ... See full summary »
Director: Ross Kagan Marks | Stars: Garry Marshall, Faye Dunaway, Jill Bernstein, Mark Shunkey
Votes: 1,188
29. Un amour à taire (2005 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Jewish girl looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain while attempting to make their way to England is sheltered by an old... See full summary »
Director: Christian Faure | Stars: Jérémie Renier, Louise Monot, Bruno Todeschini, Nicolas Gob
Votes: 3,205
30. Friends and Family (2001)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
A gay couple are hit men for the mafia.
Director: Kristen Coury | Stars: Greg Lauren, Chris Gartin, Rebecca Creskoff, Edward Hibbert
Votes: 1,513
31. Fucking Different Tel Aviv (2009)
94 min | Drama, Romance
14 gay and lesbian filmmakers from Tel Aviv present short films about their sexuality.
Directors: Stephanie Abramovich, Avital Barak, Hila Ben Baruch, Yossi Brauman, Eyal Bromberg, Sie Gal, Yair Hochner, Eran Koblik Kedar, Sivan Levy, Yasmin Max, Nir Ne'eman, Ricardo Rojstaczer, Anat Salomon, November Wanderin, Elad Zakai | Stars: Yossi Almong, Roii Amoya, Uri Avrahami, Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Votes: 56
32. Next Year in Jerusalem (1997)
Unrated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Manny, devout to his upbringing, is set to marry Rivka, the Rabbi's daughter. But Manny has a secret only Charlie, an openly gay man in an Orthodox Jewish family can understand.
Director: David Nahmod | Stars: Peter J. Byrnes, LinDel Sandlin, Colleen O'Neil, Daniel Nardicio
Votes: 132
33. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
R | 110 min | Drama
The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft
Votes: 7,059 | Gross: $0.54M
34. Angels in America (2003)
TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Several disparate but connected individuals go through the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s.
Stars: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 29,755
35. Sinner (I) (2009)
28 min | Short, Drama
Yotam, a thirteen year-old boy studying at an ultra-orthodox Jewish boarding school tries to battle the awakening of his sexual desires. Confused and guilt-ridden, he consults with his ... See full summary »
Director: Meni Philip | Stars: Lior Shabtai, Yuval Berger, Omri Aisha, Ami Weinberg
Votes: 89
36. Free Men (2011)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance
In Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal
Votes: 1,462 | Gross: $0.05M
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