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The Holocaust movies

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People who added this item 5898 Average listal rating (3735 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 9
"This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could have gotten one more person … and I didn't! And I … I didn't!"

Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.






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People who added this item 239 Average listal rating (81 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 8.7
Although loosely structured, the film is concerned mainly with four topics: Chełmno, where gas vans were first used to exterminate Jews; the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau; and the Warsaw Ghetto, with testimonies from survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators.
People who added this item 67 Average listal rating (37 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.9
Fateless (2005)
It is the story of a teenage boy (the Nobel Prize winner author Imre Kertész) who is sent to concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Zeitz.
People who added this item 34 Average listal rating (17 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 6.9
The majority of the film is set in the death camp at Auschwitz during the Holocaust and details how Nazi SS guards forced Jewish boxer Salamo Arouch to fight other internees to the death for their entertainment.
People who added this item 3258 Average listal rating (2111 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8.6
Guido Orefice who must employ his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.



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People who added this item 18 Average listal rating (10 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 7.3
Hana, a Jewish eye doctor who falls in love and marries a Gentile named Toník. Their simple love story becomes a nightmare when the government begins the systematized extermination of the Jews. Hana's family is transported to Theresienstadt, and the romance becomes a struggle for survival.
People who added this item 90 Average listal rating (44 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 7
The Grey Zone (2001)
The story of the Jewish Sonderkommando XII in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944. These prisoners were made to assist the camp's guards in shepherding their victims to the gas chambers and dispose of the bodies in ovens.
People who added this item 1864 Average listal rating (1107 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.8
Bruno, an eight-year-old German boy who leads a rather comfortable life in Berlin during the World War II. His father is a high ranking Nazi SS officer, but things change when the family has to move due to his father's new post. In his innocence, Bruno sees the nearby concentration camp as a "farm" and wonders why its inhabitants are always wearing striped pyjamas. Eventually Bruno becomes friends with a Jewish boy his own age who lives on the other side of the fence.



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People who added this item 519 Average listal rating (276 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 8
Louis Malle, who at age 11 was attending a Roman Catholic boarding school near Fontainebleau. One day, he witnessed a Gestapo raid in which three Jewish students and a Jewish teacher were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz. All four were gassed on arrival. The school's headmaster, Lucien Bunel - Père Jacques de Jesus, was arrested for harboring them and sent to the concentration camp at Mauthausen. He died shortly after the camp was liberated by the American Army, having refused to leave until the last French prisoner was repatriated. Forty years later, Yad Vashem granted the title Righteous Among the Nations to Pere Jacques.

People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 7.3
Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara, who is known as "The Japanese Schindler", issued over 2,000 transit visas to Polish and Lithuanian Jews from his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in August 1940, in defiance of his own government (Japan), thereby allowing an estimated 6,000 individuals to escape the impending Holocaust.
People who added this item 45 Average listal rating (16 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.9
Paragraph 175 (2000)
The film chronicles the lives of several men who were arrested by the Nazis for homosexuality under Paragraph 175, the sodomy provision of the German penal code, dating back to 1871.

Between 1933 and 1945, 100,000 men were arrested under Paragraph 175. Some were imprisoned, others were sent to concentration camps. Only about 4,000 survived
People who added this item 370 Average listal rating (232 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.5
It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England currency. The film centers on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the Nazi operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.



People who added this item 151 Average listal rating (77 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 7.2
Amen. (2002) (2002)
The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops, by using zyklon, served as a basis to kill people in gas chambers. Gerstein attempts to notify Pope Pius XII, but is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic hierarchy. The only person moved is Riccardo Fontana, a young Jesuit priest.
The film was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which features a circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi camp.
People who added this item 266 Average listal rating (142 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 6.6
The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in Poland, in the times of the Holocaust. The movie is based on the book by Jurek Becker about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.
People who added this item 17 Average listal rating (11 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 7.1
The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in Poland, in the times of the Holocaust. The movie is based on the book by Jurek Becker about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.
People who added this item 81 Average listal rating (43 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.7
Pasqualino and another soldier have deserted the Italian Army somewhere in Germany. They are captured and sent to a concentration camp where Pasqualino tries to seduce the large and unattractive female commandant in order to save his own life.
People who added this item 10 Average listal rating (5 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 6.3
Director Andrzej Wajda's World War II film alludes to the Old Testament story of Samson, who had supernatural physical strength. But unlike the Biblical character, Wajda's Samson has great emotional strength.
People who added this item 4092 Average listal rating (2473 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.5
The Pianist (2002)
Biography by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman.



People who added this item 211 Average listal rating (97 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.6
Solomon Perel, a Jew who escaped persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as an Aryan.
Set in Prague during the Nazi occupation, the film follows Dr. Braun, a Jewish doctor forbidden to practice medicine who instead works for Nazi officials cataloging confiscated Jewish property. All Braun wants to do is survive, but his pragmatic mentality is challenged when an injured resistance fighter stumbles into his apartment building. A quest for morphine leads Dr. Braun through his tortured city, where fear eats away at the social structure.
People who added this item 179 Average listal rating (77 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.2
Czechoslovak film about the Aryanization programme during World War II in the Slovak State.
People who added this item 168 Average listal rating (73 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.2
The film explores the lives of Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish woman who assumed a false name and who belongs to an underground organization, and Lilly Wust, a married mother of four children, unsatisfied with her husband (a German soldier). Felice takes the initiative in the love affair. Lilly, fascinated with the strength of Felice and her friends, falls deeply in love because she realizes that she can give love with a cosmopolitan woman rather than merely receive love from a man.
People who added this item 62 Average listal rating (34 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.8
A Jewish boy who is hidden from the occupying Germans by posing as the Catholic nephew of a local farmer, with the aid of a local priest.
People who added this item 143 Average listal rating (100 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.7
Train of Life (1998)
It tells the story of an eastern European Jewish village's plan to escape the Holocaust.
People who added this item 734 Average listal rating (478 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.2
Defiance (2009)
Four Jewish brothers from Belarus who escaped the Nazi persecution and fought back to rescue fellow Jews.



The story was inspired by true events concerning the fate of the MS St. Louis ocean liner carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939.
People who added this item 37 Average listal rating (16 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 7.1
The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, who is orphaned in Poland during World War II and is saved by a Greek archeologist.
People who added this item 2114 Average listal rating (1225 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.6
The Reader (2008)
Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a teenager in the late 1950s had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp in the later years of World War II. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past - a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the tria
About a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
People who added this item 473 Average listal rating (304 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.7
Apt Pupil (1998)
In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden discovers fugitive Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander living in his neighborhood under the pseudonym Arthur Denker. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and acts of the Holocaust, persuades Dussander to share his stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them.
People who added this item 75 Average listal rating (37 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 6.3
The story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient of a psychiatric asylum for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961.
People who added this item 273 Average listal rating (138 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.6
Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer, and Lucia Atherton, a concentration camp survivor who had an ambiguous relationship with Aldorfer. Flashbacks show Max tormenting Lucia, but also acting as her protector. In an iconic scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song to the concentration camp guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and Max rewards her with the head of a male inmate who had been bullying the other inmates. (A reference to Salome.)

Thirteen years after World War II, Lucia meets Aldorfer again; he is now the night porter at a Vienna hotel. There, they fall back into their sadomasochistic relationship.
People who added this item 588 Average listal rating (297 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.6
Film that tells the story of a Polish immigrant, Sophie, and her tempestuous lover who share a boarding house with a young writer in Brooklyn.
People who added this item 147 Average listal rating (68 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.7
With the rise of Hitler, Sol Nazerman, a German-Jewish university professor, is dragged to a concentration camp along with his family. He sees his two children die and his wife raped by Nazi officers. Now he operates a pawnshop in East Harlem. Numbed by his experiences, he has worked hard not to experience emotions. Nazerman is bitter and alienated, viewing the people around him as "rejects, scum."
Arthur Goldman is Jewish and a Nazi death camp survivor. Now a rich industrialist, he lives in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. One day, Israeli secret agents kidnap Goldman and take him to Israel for trial on charges of being a Nazi war criminal. Goldman's trial forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt, but their own as well.
People who added this item 138 Average listal rating (60 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.5
Sunshine (1999)
It follows three generations of a Jewish family during the changes in Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the period after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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