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Ben-Hur(1959)

3h 42min | Action, Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 1,144 votes)

In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners. Three years later and freed by a grateful Roman galley commander whom he has rescued from drowning, he becomes an expert charioteer for Rome, all the while plotting to return to Judea, find and rescue his family, and avenge himself on his former friend. All the while, the form and work of Jesus move in the background of his life...

Directed by William Wyler - With Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, ...
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Inglourious Basterds(2009)

R
| 2h 33min | Drama, Thriller, War
4.1/5 (with 9,987 votes)

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino - With Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, ...
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Life Is Beautiful(1997)

PG-13
| 1h 56min | Comedy, Drama
4.2/5 (with 5,868 votes)

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Directed by Roberto Benigni - With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Horst Buchholz, Amerigo Fontani, ...
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The Pianist(2002)

R
| 2h 30min | Drama, War
4.2/5 (with 4,313 votes)

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox, Udo Kroschwald, Maureen Lipman, ...
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Jojo Rabbit(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Comedy, War, Drama
4.0/5 (with 4,116 votes)

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

Directed by Taika Waititi - With Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Rebel Wilson, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell, Alfie Allen, ...
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The Last Metro(1980)

PG
| 2h 11min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.6/5 (with 203 votes)

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Directed by François Truffaut - With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Heinz Bennent, ...
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Au Revoir les Enfants(1987)

PG
| 1h 45min | Drama, War
3.8/5 (with 271 votes)

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejtö, François Berléand, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Francine Racette, Arnaud Henriet, ...

Where Hands Touch(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 2min | War, Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 236 votes)

Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.

Directed by Amma Asante - With Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston
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Conspiracy(2001)

1h 36min | History, Drama, War, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 166 votes)

The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking German officials came to the historic and far reaching decision that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated in what would come to be known as the Holocaust.

Directed by Frank Pierson - With Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, Ian McNeice, Kevin McNally, David Threlfall, ...
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The Pawnbroker(1965)

NR
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 58 votes)

A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Linda Geiser, Raymond St. Jacques, Jaime Sánchez, ...
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The Tobacconist(2018)

1h 49min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

Directed by Nikolaus Leytner - With Simon Morzé, Bruno Ganz, Emma Drogunova, Johannes Krisch, Karoline Eichhorn, Regina Fritsch, ...

Soldier of Orange(1977)

R
| 2h 28min | Drama, Thriller, War
3.5/5 (with 63 votes)

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven - With Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Derek de Lint, Edward Fox, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Rijk de Gooyer, ...
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Farewell Mister Haffmann(2022)

1h 55min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 80 votes)

Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other choice but to conclude an agreement whose consequences, over the months, will upset the fate of our three characters.

Directed by Fred Cavayé - With Daniel Auteuil, Sara Giraudeau, Gilles Lellouche, Mathilde Bisson, Anne Coesens, Frans Boyer, ...

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(1970)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 106 votes)

In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Alessandro D'Alatri, ...

Gloomy Sunday(1999)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 26 votes)

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.

Directed by Rolf Schübel - With Erika Marozsán, Joachim Król, Rolf Becker, Stefano Dionisi, Ben Becker, András Bálint, ...

Voyage of the Damned(1976)

2h 35min | Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg - With Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, ...
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Betrayed(2020)

2h 6min | Drama, History, War
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war escalates in Europe, the situation changes drastically. Suddenly, their radios are taken away; their passports are stamped with a big J and one day, all the men men over the age of 15 are arrested and taken to prisons camps. Many of the women left behind are too frightened to escape and are desperately waiting for their husbands and sons to come back home. On November 26, 1942, hundreds of Jews are picked up by the police in the middle of the night and are transported to the dock in Oslo. Unknowing and frightened men, women, children, sick and old are forced on board the awaiting German cargo ship "SS DONAU". The ship leaves with 532 Norwegian Jews onboard; 302 men, 188 women and 42 children. The end station is Auschwitz.

Directed by Eirik Svensson - With Nicolai Cleve Broch, Jakob Oftebro, Anders Danielsen Lie, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Carl Martin Eggesbø

The Birdcatcher(2019)

1h 37min | Drama, Thriller, War
2.8/5 (with 27 votes)

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.

Directed by Ross Clarke - With Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, August Diehl, Jakob Cedergren, Laura Birn, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, ...

Monsieur Batignole(2002)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 97 votes)

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

Directed by Gérard Jugnot - With Alexia Portal, Arthur Jugnot, Damien Jouillerot, Daphné Baiwir, Élisabeth Commelin, Éric Civanyan, ...

Mr. Klein(1976)

PG
| 2h 3min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
3.7/5 (with 82 votes)

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.

Directed by Joseph Losey - With Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Juliet Berto, Michael Lonsdale, Francine Bergé, Jean Bouise, ...

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians(2018)

2h 20min | History, Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

Directed by Radu Jude - With Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Șerban Pavlu, Gabriel Spahiu, Dana Bunescu, Mihai Niculescu, ...

Triumph of the Spirit(1989)

R
| 2h | Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.

Directed by Robert Milton Young - With Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia
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Surviving with Wolves(2007)

1h 58min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 34 votes)

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents...

Directed by Véra Belmont - With Anne-Marie Philipe, Benno Fürmann, Bert Tischendorf, Franck de Lapersonne, Georges Siatidis, Guy Bedos, ...

The Crossing(2020)

1h 36min | Kids & Family, War, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents.

Directed by Johanne Helgeland - With Anna Sofie Skarholt, Bo Lindquist-Ellingsen, Samson Steine, Bianca Ghilardi-Hellsten, Henrik Siger Woldene, Luke Niete, ...

Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals(2019)

52min | Documentary, Animation, History
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers, terrorizing the local population? Did everyone turn into something worse than wild animals? The true story of the first World War II offensive that marks in the history of infamy the beginning of a carnage and a historical tragedy.

Goering's Catalogue(2021)

1h 30min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of thousands of works of art that were meticulously catalogued. Why did he steal entire collections, mainly those belonging to Jewish families, ultimately victims of the Shoah? Was it to satisfy his aesthetic ambitions and his insatiable personal greed or was he acting in the common interest of the Nazi rulers?

The 25th Hour(1967)

2h 1min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 16 votes)

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.

Directed by Henri Verneuil - With Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Michael Redgrave, Marcel Dalio, Alexander Knox, Serge Reggiani, ...
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Love Gets a Room(2021)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

January 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Thousands of Jews have been confined to the Warsaw ghetto for more than a year. Outside, life goes on; inside, they struggle to survive another day. Still, on a cold winter night, a group of Jewish actors manage to stage a lively musical comedy.

Directed by Rodrigo Cortés - With Clara Rugaard, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Magnus Krepper, Jack Roth, Henry Goodman, Anastasia Hille, ...

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him(2005)

1h 25min | Documentary, Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

Directed by Malte Ludin - With Hanns Ludin
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The Fixer(1968)

2h 12min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.

Directed by John Frankenheimer - With Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Holm, David Warner, ...
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