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concentration camp prisoner

based on novel or book

Zbynek Brynych Director

Jirí Vrstála as Komisar

Jirí Adamíra as majitel domu JUDr. Karel Veselý l

Mirko Musil as Policista v civilu

Olga Scheinpflugová as Ucitelka hudby

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself and everyone living in his building complex in danger.

Fanny's Journey

2016

French

7.0

♡ 1

97%

Lola Doillon Director

Victor Meutelet as Elie

Stéphane De Groodt as Jean, le fermier

Cécile De France as Madame Forman

Lohen Van Houtte as Yves

Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.

The Port of Last Resort

1998

German

7.4

♡ 4

Joan Grossman Director

Barbara Sukowa as Annie Witting

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer as Voice over

Erika Deutinger as Voice over

Brigitta Furgler as Voice over

Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

Colette

2013

Czech

6.2

♡ 4

50%

based on novel or book

Milan Cieslar Director

Miroslav Táborský as

Jared Doreck as Jim

Jirí Mádl as Vili Feld

Eric Bouwer as Weissacker

As World War II rages on, Villi and Colette are captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Imprisoned within separate compounds, the lovers must risk their lives to be together again.

The Invisibles

2017

German

7.2

♡ 7

71%

Claus Räfle Director

Andreas Schmidt as Hans Winkler

Lucas Reiber as Jochen Arndt

Ruby O. Fee as Ruth Arndt

Florian Lukas as Werner Scharff

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."

Voyage of the Damned

1976

6.4

♡ 11

82%

Stuart Rosenberg Director

Carl Duering as German Ambassador

Jonathan Pryce as Joseph Manasse

Lee Grant as Lili Rosen

Philip Stone as Secretary

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

Love Gets a Room

holocaust (shoah) survivor

6.8

♡ 10

100%

Rodrigo Cortés Director

Anastasia Hille as Irena

Freya Parks as Niusia

Magnus Krepper as Sergeant Szkop

Henry Goodman as Zylberman

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.

Le Chemin Des Juifs

world war ii

Daniel Bhattacharya Director

David Shentow as David Shentow

The indelible testimonial of David Shentow, Canadian WWII immigrant and Holocaust survivor lies at the heart of a remarkable journey that begins in 1942 on Le Chemin des Juifs, a forgotten road in Northern France. David's eloquence and vivid recounting of events will indelibly mark the heart and conscience of every viewer.

The Replacement

husband wife relationship

Spanish

6.4

♡ 1

Óscar Aibar Director

Antonio Resines as Emilio

Quim Gutiérrez as Fins

Nuria Herrero as Lola

Óscar Jaenada as Ramos

Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.

Charlotte

French

6.3

♡ 6

71%

93%

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

Animation

Éric Warin Director

Sam Claflin as Alexander Nagler

Keira Knightley as Charlotte Salomon

Marion Cotillard as French Charlotte

Tony Nappo as Mr. Brahvi / Vatican Guard

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

Genocide

1982

7.4

♡ 4

73%

Arnold Schwartzman Director

Elizabeth Taylor as Narrator

Adolf Hitler as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

Paul von Hindenburg as Self

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.

Train of Life

1998

French

7.6

♡ 7

64%

Radu Mihaileanu Director

Constantin Draganescu as Le Paysan Comptoir

Gad Elmaleh as Manzatou

Florin Kevorkian as Miron

Luminita Gheorghiu as Rivka

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

7.3

♡ 1

Bianca Stigter Director

Mary Rosen as Self

Evelyn Chandler Rosen as Self

Andrzej Lubieniecki as Self

Helena Bonham Carter as Self - Narrator

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk (Poland) before the beginning of the Shoah.

The Last Stage

1948

Polish

7.2

♡ 14

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

based on true story

concentration camp prisoner

Wanda Jakubowska Director

Edward Dziewonski as Auschwitz Medical Officer

Barbara Rachwalska as Elza

Mariya Vinogradova as Nadya, a nursing aide

Jadwiga Chojnacka as Prisoner #2

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.

Conspiracy

2001

7.6

♡ 19

100%

Frank Pierson Director

Colin Firth as Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart

Rod Culbertson as Narrator

Tom Hiddleston as Phone Operator

Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

Labyrinth of Lies

2014

German

7.3

♡ 10

83%

Giulio Ricciarelli Director

Alexander Fehling as Johann Radmann

Friederike Becht as Marlene Wondrak

Timo Dierkes as Peter Mertens

Johann von Bülow as Staatsanwalt Otto Haller

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

Austerlitz

2016

6.5

♡ 2

91%