Tag Archives: jewish

Meet the Fockers

IMDB Rating: 6.40
32714 votes

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Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gaylord M. Focker?
Actors
Jack ByrnesRobert De Niro
Greg FockerBen Stiller
Bernie FockerDustin Hoffman
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (3)

The Pianist

IMDB Rating: 8.50
39269 votes

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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
Actors
Wladyslaw SzpilmanAdrien Brody
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
FatherFrank Finlay
Also posted in 2002, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music, War | Comments (0)

Meet the Parents

IMDB Rating: 7.00
47700 votes

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A Jewish male nurse (Ben Stiller) plans to ask his live-in girl friend (Teri Polo) to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father (Robert DeNiro) expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. Thus begins the visit from Hell as the two travel to meet Mom (Blythe Danner) and Dad, who turns out to be former CIA with a lie detector in the basement. Coincidentally, a sister (Nicole DeHuff) also has announced her wedding to a young doctor (Thomas McCarthy). Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie.
Actors
Jack ByrnesRobert De Niro
Gaylord 'Greg' FockerBen Stiller
Pam ByrnesTeri Polo
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (30)

Analyze This

IMDB Rating: 6.50
34370 votes

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Ben Sobol, Psychiatrist, has a few problems: His son spies on his patients when they open up their heart, his parents don't want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients' problems don't challenge him at all. Paul Vitti, Godfather, has a few problems as well: Sudden anxiety attacks in public, a certain disability to kill people and his best part ceasing service when needed. One day, Ben unfortunately crashes into one of Vitti's cars. The exchange of Ben's business card is followed by a business visit of Don Paul Vitti himself, who wants to be free of inner conflict within two weeks, before all the Mafia Dons meet. Now, Ben Sobol feels somewhat challenged, as his wedding is soon, his only patient keeps him busy by regarding Ben's duty as a 24 hour standby and the feds keep forcing him to spy on Paul Vitti. And how do you treat a patient who usually solves problems with a gun?
Actors
Paul VittiRobert De Niro
Dr. Ben SobelBilly Crystal
Laura MacNamara SobelLisa Kudrow
Also posted in 1999, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Goodfellas

IMDB Rating: 8.60
81023 votes

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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960's and 70's New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.
Actors
Jimmy ConwayRobert De Niro
Henry HillRay Liotta
Tommy DeVitoJoe Pesci
Also posted in 1990, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Driving Miss Daisy

IMDB Rating: 7.40
9930 votes

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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
Actors
Hoke ColburnMorgan Freeman
Daisy WerthanJessica Tandy
Boolie WerthanDan Aykroyd
Also posted in 1989, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Once Upon a Time in America

IMDB Rating: 8.20
23571 votes

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Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
Actors
David 'Noodles' AaronsonRobert De Niro
Maximilian 'Max' BercoviczJames Woods
Deborah GellyElizabeth McGovern
Also posted in 1984, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)