1. Shop on Main Street, The ( Obchod na korze )
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Actors: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Króner, Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý, Adám Matejka, Frantisek Zvarík
Plot: During WWII an elderly, Jewish woman in Czechoslovakia loses her button shop, and must then rely on the man who takes it over to protect her from further persecution.
2. Menashe
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joshua Z Weinstein
Actors: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz
Plot: Inside an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, Menashe is widower and, based on that community, his son is given to his brother-in-law to be raised until he re-marries. But Menashe was unhappy with his first marriage, and doesn't find a connection with any of the women around him. While his brother-in-law berates him, and he struggles with a job he hates, he will not give up on his son.
3. Dybbuk, The ( Dibuk, Der )
Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michal Waszynski
Actors: Abraham Morewski, Ajzyk Samberg, Mojzesz Lipman, Lili Liliana, Dina Halpern, Samuel Bronecki
4. The Singing Blacksmith
Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer, Ben-Zvi Baratoff
Actors: Moyshe Oysher, Miriam Riselle, Florence Weiss, Anna Appel, Ben-Zvi Baratoff, Michael Goldstein
5. Green Fields
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacob Ben-Ami, Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Michael Goldstein, Helen Beverly, Isidore Cashier, Anna Appel, Max Vodnoy, Lea Noemi
6. The Yiddish King Lear
Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Harry Thomashefsky
Actors: Esther Adler, Jacob Bergreen, Miriam Grossman, Maurice Kroner, Fannie Levenstein, Eddie Pascal
7. Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Eve Annenberg
Actors: Lazer Weiss, Melissa Weisz, Mendy Zafir, Bubbles Yoeli Weiss, Josef Yossi Friedman, Eve Annenberg
8. Tevye ( Tevya )
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Maurice Schwartz
Actors: Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski, Leon Liebgold, Vicki Marcus
Plot: Based on the same source material as "Fiddler on the Roof" Tevye takes a non-musical approach to a Jewish man living in czarist Russia who must balance tradition, faith and his own heart.
9. The Light Ahead
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Felt, Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: David Opatoshu, Helen Beverly, Isidore Cashier, Rosetta Bialis, Anna Guskin, Wolf Mercur
10. Uncle Moses
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney M. Goldin, Aubrey Scotto
Actors: Maurice Schwartz, Judith Abarbanel, Mark Schweid, Sam Gertler, Zvee Scooler, Rubin Goldberg
