Top 20 movies like Gold for Fools
Top 20 Movies like Gold for Fools
- 1. 40 Nickels
- 2. The Great Yiddish Love
- 3. An American Pickle
- 4. The Man Without a World
- 5. Motel the Operator
- 6. A Yiddish World Remembered
- 7. A bissele Glik
- 8. The Paper Brigade
- 9. A Little Family Conversation
- 10. Guerra de sexos
- 11. Stadtlandliebe
- 12. Amor en las nubes
- 13. The Chronicle of One Day
- 14. Cambiando el destino
- 15. ¡Engañame! ...si quieres
- 16. El potro salvaje
- 17. L'événement JMP Volume 1 2008-2010
- 18. How Men Talk About Women
- 19. Until the Sun Sets
- 20. Ruddigore
1. 40 Nickels
Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?
2. The Great Yiddish Love
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.
3. An American Pickle
An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.
It has an average vote of 5.674 on TMDB.
4. The Man Without a World
The Man Without a World is credited to the legendary 1920s Soviet director, Yevgeny Antinov. But the film is anything but old. In fact, Antinov himself is the creation of contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin. Her film is a moving, comic melodrama set in a typical shtetl in Poland. The Jews’ struggle against poverty and racial hatred is complicated by their own division into hostile political factions of the religious orthodoxy, assimilationists, socialists, Zionists, anarchists and survivors. While the Jews of the shtetl pursue their loves, politics, religion, business and dreams for the future, the Angel of Death is ever near...
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
5. Motel the Operator (Motl der Operator)
Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.
6. A Yiddish World Remembered
Elliott Gould narrates this affectionate look at life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. "It's unreal that all this could have just disappeared," says Polish native Mariem Adler Stok, one of the seniors whose memories of this "Yiddish world" give this documentary its life. The hour traces Jewish history in Europe and explores Jews' focus on education, their religious customs, clothing, food, music and theater.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
7. A bissele Glik (A bissele Glik)
(A bissele Glik)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
8. The Paper Brigade (La Brigade des papiers)
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. A Little Family Conversation (Petite conversation familiale)
The questioning of Jewish heritage and identity via the portrait of a diversed family, across Belgium and the United States.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
10. Guerra de sexos (Guerra de sexos)
A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife.
It has an average vote of 4.4 on TMDB.
11. Stadtlandliebe (Stadtlandliebe)
Sam and Anna are part of the hip, vegan, green, eco-friendly, upper-class subculture of Berlin. Anna is a successful doctor, and Nick works in advertising. However, life in Germany's capital is fast-paced and stressful, so the two of them decide to take the next step towards the ideal "eco lifestyle" and move out to the country. As they arrive, they find that life in the country is much less relaxing than they expected, as the rather eccentric locals keep them on their toes.
It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.
12. Amor en las nubes (Amor en las nubes)
Guatemalan-Mexican film about air hostesses.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
13. The Chronicle of One Day (Vienos dienos kronika)
An academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. Cambiando el destino (Cambiando el destino)
A musical band of teens travel by plane to a scheduled event where they will perform in scenario have an accident and get lost in the middle of the desert.
It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.
15. ¡Engañame! ...si quieres (¡Engañame! ...si quieres)
(¡Engañame! ...si quieres)
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
16. El potro salvaje (El potro salvaje)
(El potro salvaje)
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
17. L'événement JMP Volume 1 2008-2010 (L'événement JMP Volume 1 2008-2010)
(L'événement JMP Volume 1 2008-2010)
18. How Men Talk About Women (Wie Männer über Frauen reden)
Tine wants to find her dream boyfriend, but can't find him that easily. Her male best friend enjoys his single life, until they feel attracted to each other.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
19. Until the Sun Sets
In ancient Hawaiian times, two lovers must defend their village on the last day of the season of war.
20. Ruddigore
For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has run away to live as innocent peasant Robin Oakapple in the Cornish village of Rederring, sticking his brother Despard with the curse. But on the very day that "Robin" is to marry sweet, beautiful Rose Maybud, it all falls apart. Can Sir Ruthven outwit a picture gallery full of his ancestors' ghosts to save the day?
