Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "passover"

1. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

R | 229 min | Crime, Drama

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams

Votes: 378,991 | Gross: $5.32M

2. The Passion of the Christ (2004)

R | 127 min | Drama

Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.

Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, Christo Jivkov

Votes: 251,798 | Gross: $370.78M

3. Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver

Votes: 179,591 | Gross: $65.01M

4. The Ten Commandments (1956)

G | 220 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson

Votes: 78,123 | Gross: $93.74M

5. The Prince of Egypt (1998)

PG | 99 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

Egyptian Prince Moses learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.

Directors: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells | Stars: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock

Votes: 146,915 | Gross: $101.22M

6. The Silver Chalice (1954)

Approved | 142 min | Drama, Romance

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver, and sculpt around its rim, the faces of the disciples and Jesus. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Paul Newman

Votes: 1,816

7. Risen (2016)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, History

In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead.

Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 30,950 | Gross: $36.87M

8. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

G | 260 min | Biography, Drama, History

An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

Directors: George Stevens, Jean Negulesco | Stars: Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston, Michael Anderson Jr.

Votes: 11,983 | Gross: $15.47M

9. The Devil's Arithmetic (1999 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, War

A 16-year-old American girl with an apathetic view towards her Jewish family history finds herself pulled through time into 1941 to a small Polish village where the Nazis have just begun their genocidal propaganda.

Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman, Mimi Rogers

Votes: 4,510

10. Europa Europa (1990)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, War

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms

Votes: 17,522 | Gross: $5.58M

11. The King of Kings (1927)

Not Rated | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Family

Jesus Christ faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut

Votes: 2,426 | Gross: $1.77M

12. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

R | 94 min | Drama, History, War

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi

Votes: 7,706 | Gross: $0.60M

13. It Runs in the Family (2003)

PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Rory Culkin

Votes: 5,247 | Gross: $7.38M

14. Stories We Tell (2012)

PG-13 | 108 min | Documentary

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley

Votes: 14,140 | Gross: $1.60M

15. The Nativity Story (2006)

PG | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass

Votes: 12,373 | Gross: $37.63M

16. Lemon (2017)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama

A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his girlfriend of 10 years.

Director: Janicza Bravo | Stars: Inger Tudor, Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera

Votes: 2,747 | Gross: $0.03M

17. Moses (1995–1996)

180 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime

Pharaoh Ramses II decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket on the Nile by his mother, is picked up by a princess and raised as the brother of the heir to the throne of Egypt.

Stars: Ben Kingsley, Frank Langella, David Suchet, Christopher Lee

Votes: 2,328

18. The Fixer (1968)

M | 132 min | Drama

In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith

Votes: 1,471

19. The Miracle Maker (1999)

G | 90 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

The story of Jesus Christ.

Directors: Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Michael Bryant, Julie Christie, Rebecca Callard

Votes: 1,792

20. When Do We Eat? (2005)

R | 86 min | Comedy

A family's Passover gets screwy after the patriarch unknowingly ingests a hit of Ecstasy.

Director: Salvador Litvak | Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Lerner, Shiri Appleby, Jack Klugman

Votes: 1,549 | Gross: $0.43M

21. 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: 575

22. My Sister (2014)

Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Family

After Susan is tragically widowed, she can no longer care for Niki, her delinquent daughter. Niki is sent to live with her brother Billy, and the two begin forging a healthy bond until her mental troubles persist.

Director: David Lascher | Stars: Reid Scott, Serinda Swan, Grace Kaufman, Illeana Douglas

Votes: 359

23. The Exorcism of Anna Ecklund (2016)

Not Rated | 79 min | Horror

A Priest and a Vatican investigator take a possessed housewife to a convent to perform an Exorcism.

Director: Andrew Jones | Stars: Lee Bane, Tiffany Ceri, Jeff Raggett, Judith Haley

Votes: 1,206

24. Steel Toes (2006)

R | 87 min | Crime, Drama

A Jewish humanist and lawyer (Academy-Award® nominated David Strathairn) is court-appointed to represent a Neo-Nazi Skinhead on trial for the racially-motivated murder of an East Indian immigrant.

Directors: Mark Adam, David Gow | Stars: David Strathairn, Andrew W. Walker, Marina Orsini, Ivana Shein

Votes: 1,257

25. Antisocial Distance (2021– )

Comedy, Romance

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Stars: Avital Ash, Christina Kartchner, Ellington Wells, Steven Weber

Votes: 31

26. Patterns of Evidence: Exodus (2014)

Unrated | 115 min | Documentary, History

An investigation into the validity of the Exodus.

Director: Timothy P. Mahoney | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Rohl, Shimon Peres

Votes: 1,203

27. The Jazz Singer (1952)

Approved | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Jerry dreams of becoming a famous jazz singer, but to accomplish that, he must defy his father, a Jewish Cantor who opposes such a dream as a future for a son of his.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Eduard Franz, Mildred Dunnock

Votes: 414

28. The Passover Plot (1976)

PG | 108 min | Drama

Dramatization of the controversial best-seller that posits an alternate version of the birth of Christianity. In this version, Jesus planned for His crucifixion by taking a drug that would ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Campus | Stars: Harry Andrews, Hugh Griffith, Zalman King, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 159

29. City of Joel (2018)

90 min | Documentary

"City of Joel" is a documentary - with unprecedented access - to a 1.1 square mile shtetl in the suburbs that is home to 22,000 members of one of the most insular and orthodox Hasidic sects... See full summary »

Director: Jesse Sweet

Votes: 107

30. The Ritchie Boys (2004)

90 min | Documentary, History, War

Holocaust survivors share their story of fleeing to the United States, joining the US Army, training in Military Intelligence, and returning to Europe to end Nazism by using their linguistic abilities.

Director: Christian Bauer | Stars: Michael Hanrahan, Werner Angress, Victor Brombert, Marlene Dietrich

Votes: 265

31. God Is Great and I'm Not (2001)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boyfriend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and Jewish. Michèle decides to convert to Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.

Director: Pascale Bailly | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu, Catherine Jacob

Votes: 2,513 | Gross: $0.07M

32. Color of the Cross (2006)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama

A retelling of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, based on the idea that he was a black man whose death was a racially motivated hate crime.

Director: Jean-Claude La Marre | Stars: Jean-Claude La Marre, Johann John Jean, Adam Green, Jesse Holland

Votes: 377 | Gross: $0.08M

33. 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: 131

34. Let My People Go! (2011)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

At Passover, Reuben, a French-Jewish man living in Finland with his Nordic boyfriend, finds himself back in Paris with his zany family after a lovers' quarrel.

Director: Mikael Buch | Stars: Nicolas Maury, Carmen Maura, Jean-François Stévenin, Amira Casar

Votes: 709 | Gross: $0.02M

35. Leaves From Satan's Book (1920)

TV-14 | 167 min | Drama

In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Helge Nissen, Halvard Hoff, Jacob Texiere, Hallander Helleman

Votes: 1,358

36. Lamb Chop's Chanukah and Passover Surprise (1996 TV Movie)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Trouble brews as Charlie Horse's campaign for class president leads him to invite the whole class to Shari's for Passover... a fact he conveniently forgets to pass on to Shari until the ... See full summary »

Directors: Bill Sivad, Michael Watt | Stars: Shari Lewis, Dom DeLuise, Robert Guillaume, Alan Thicke

Votes: 35

37. Die Gezeichneten (1922)

105 min | Drama

Based on the 1918 novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja, Sylvia Torf

Votes: 556

38. Various Positions (2002)

81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Josh is on track for law school and a place at his father's firm. As his Orthodox Jewish family prepares for their traditional Passover celebrations, Josh hits a brick wall in the form of the alluring Cheryth.

Director: Ori Kowarsky | Stars: Tygh Runyan, Carly Pope, L. Harvey Gold, Marie Stillin

Votes: 87

39. Muralim (2011)

43 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

Danny is left alone in an army base that is full of elite zombie soldiers on Passover night.

Director: Didi Lubetzky | Stars: David Shaul, Orna Shifris, Artur Perry, Rudi Saada

Votes: 60

40. Make a Wish, Molly (1995)

Short

Molly, a young Russian-Jewish immigrant, who is constantly being teased for her ethnic mannerisms. Molly's troubles increase when her first Passover in her new country conflicts with a friend's birthday party.

Director: Bruce Schwartz | Stars: Natalya Abramovich, Tessa Bartholomew, Erika Cohen, Meagan Good

Votes: 42

41. Shiur Moledet: Avdei Hashem (2003)

50 min | Drama

In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure,... See full summary »

Director: Hadar Friedlich | Stars: Maya Eshet, Razia Israeli, Itay Barnea, Irit Sheleg

Votes: 14

42. The Messiah: Prophecy Fulfilled (2004 Video)

50 min | Drama

Nick Mancuso plays Rabbi Yehudah an excellent teacher who knows the Holy scriptures... After following and studying Yeshua (Jesus) the Rabbi knows with out a doubt Yeshua, is the Son of the... See full summary »

Director: Giacomo Moncada | Stars: Paul Bettis, Will Corno, Domenico Fiore, Daniela Lama

Votes: 54

43. Jesus: The Desire of Ages (2014)

Not Rated | 62 min | Drama, Family

This powerful drama puts a fresh spin on the story of Christ, telling Jesus' story through the eyes of those who knew and loved the Son of Man.

Directors: Nancy Hamilton, Desiree Orozco | Stars: Paul Spadaro, Desiree Orozco, Sandra Dee Richardson, Stephanie Gerard

Votes: 21

44. Leylasede (1995)

100 min | Drama

On the evening of Passover dinner holiday ,a family gathering reveals the delicate relationships between parents, brothers,sisters, husbands and wives. Secrets and lies force them to understand how fragile everything is.

Director: Shemi Zarhin | Stars: Gila Almagor, Yosef Shiloach, Alon Aboutboul, Anat Waxman

Votes: 147

45. Passed Over (2009)

13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

On a night that's 'different than all other nights,' two families join together on the brink of becoming one. Dave, a wealthy Jewish father who has absolutely no control over his teenage ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Burunova | Stars: Ricky Faust, Rod Maxwell, Sam Melnikov, Emily Merryn

46. Children of the Ghetto (1915)

50 min | Drama

Old Reb Shemuel, clinging in the midst of modern conditions to the God of His Fathers, bears blow after blow with unflinching resignation. His son is killed in a cabaret brawl; his daughter... See full summary »

Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Wilton Lackaye, Ruby Hoffman, Ethel Kauffman, Frank Andrews

47. The 3 Little Wolfs (2001)

81 min | Comedy

Why is this night different from all other nights? It's Passover at the Wolf house... and it may be their last! Join the three Wolf brothers as they navigate a breezy spring New York City ... See full summary »

Director: Joey Craine | Stars: Tovah Feldshuh, Steve Jasgur, Rusty Thrasher, Jason Butler Harner

Votes: 24

48. Jericho: The Promise Fulfilled (2009)

28 min | Animation, Short, Action

Two spies are sent into an impenetrable fortress and are rescued by the hands of a beautiful women who alone realizes the city's pending destruction.

Directors: Anthony Rondina, Jessica Rondina | Stars: Seth Brake, Anthony Rondina, Mark Rondina, Jessica Rondina

Votes: 28

49. Red (IX) (2019)

13 min | Short, Drama

During Passover dinner, Leon, a 14-year-old girl, deals with the pain and shock of getting her period for the first time. She takes a stand, challenging her Israeli-Moroccan family to confront the patriarchal traditions within their home.

Director: Amit Shamir | Stars: Reymonde Amsellem, Shahar David, Arik Mishali, Hilla Sarjon

50. Barabbas (I) (2014)

Drama, History

Follows alongside the Bible's story of the Crucifixion and Ascension. Waiting to die in prison, Barabbas gets an undeserved second chance at freedom, and watches the incredible aftermath.

Directors: Dalton Stout, A.J. Rose | Stars: Timothy Gilbert, Nathan Farnor, David Cooper, Christopher Flaxman

Votes: 18