The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies

The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies: A Critic's Ranking of the Very Best was a 1998 book published by Kathryn Bernheimer. Bernheimer ranked the "top 50" films dealing with Jewish topics.

List

Rank	Title	Year	Rating	Director
1	The Chosen	1981	PG	Jeremy Kagan
2	Fiddler on the Roof	1971	G	Norman Jewison
3	Schindler's List	1993	R	Steven Spielberg
4	Shoah	1985	NR	Claude Lanzmann
5	The Jazz Singer	1927	NR	Alan Crosland
6	Annie Hall	1977	PG	Woody Allen
7	Funny Girl	1968	G	William Wyler
8	Gentleman's Agreement	1947	NR	Elia Kazan
9	Exodus	1960	NR	Otto Preminger
10	Ben-Hur	1959	NR	William Wyler
10	The Ten Commandments	1956	G	Cecil B. DeMille
11	Crossing Delancey	1988	PG	Joan Micklin Silver
12	The Golem	1920	NR	Paul Wegener and Carl Boese
13	Au revoir, les enfants	1987	PG	Louis Malle
14	Almonds and Raisins	1988	NR	Russ Karel
15	Enemies, a Love Story	1989	R	Paul Mazursky
16	The Great Dictator	1940	NR	Charlie Chaplin
17	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	1974	PG	Ted Kotcheff
18	Blazing Saddles	1974	R	Mel Brooks
19	Chariots of Fire	1981	R	Hugh Hudson
20	Body and Soul	1947	NR	Robert Rossen
21	The Pawnbroker	1965	NR	Sidney Lumet
22	Goodbye, Columbus	1969	PG	Larry Peerce
23	Bugsy	1991	R	Barry Levinson
24	Cabaret	1972	PG	Bob Fosse
25	Crimes and Misdemeanors	1989	PG-13	Woody Allen
26	The Last Angry Man	1959	NR	Daniel Mann
27	The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick	1988	G	Allan Goldstein
28	Job's Revolt	1983	NR	Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay
29	Homicide	1991	R	David Mamet
30	Madame Rosa	1977	PG	Moshé Mizrahi
31	Driving Miss Daisy	1989	PG	Bruce Beresford
32	Reversal of Fortune	1990	R	Barbet Schroeder
33	Europa Europa	1991	R	Agnieszka Holland
34	The Big Fix	1978	PG	Jeremy Kagan
35	Broadway Danny Rose	1984	PG	Woody Allen
36	Julia	1977	PG	Fred Zinnemann
37	Marathon Man	1976	R	John Schlesinger
38	A Majority of One	1962	NR	Mervyn LeRoy
39	Oliver!	1968	G	Carol Reed
40	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	1986	R	Paul Mazursky
41	Holocaust	1978	NR	Marvin Chomsky
42	Dirty Dancing	1987	PG-13	Emile Ardolino
43	The Front	1976	PG	Martin Ritt
44	Biloxi Blues	1988	PG-13	Mike Nichols
45	The Diary of Anne Frank	1959	NR	George Stevens
46	Shine	1996	PG-13	Scott Hicks
47	Daniel	1983	R	Sidney Lumet
48	Yentl	1983	PG	Barbra Streisand
49	The Young Lions	1958	NR	Edward Dmytryk
50	Marjorie Morningstar	1958	NR	Irving Rapper

References

• Bernheimer, Kathryn. The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies: A Critic's Ranking of the Very Best. Secaucus, NJ: Carol, 1998.
• Reproduction of the list