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3.8

♡ 19

50%

Terry Lee Coker Director

Stephen Boxer as Franz

Lewis Kirk as Hans

Steven Bush as Karl

Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, Hans, facing the harsh reality, begins to realize the magnitude of the atrocious acts of which he is being accomplice.

The Grey Zone

2001

7.0

♡ 9

70%

74%

Tim Blake Nelson Director

Steve Buscemi as Abramowics

Michael Stuhlbarg as Cohen

Harvey Keitel as Muhsfeldt

Natasha Lyonne as Rosa

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.

Charlotte

2021

French

6.3

♡ 6

71%

93%

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.

The Last Stage

1948

Polish

7.2

♡ 14

concentration camp prisoner

based on true story

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.

The Champion

2020

Polish

6.8

♡ 7

83%

Maciej Barczewski Director

Marcin Czarnik as Bruno

Marian Dziedziel as Captain

Anna Krotoska as Maria

Piotr Witkowski as Walter

It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable.

Triumph of the Spirit

1989

6.8

♡ 7

63%

53%

Robert M. Young Director

Costas Mandylor as Avram

Kelly Wolf as Elena

Hartmut Becker as Major Rauscher

Willem Dafoe as Salamo

During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.

Simone: Woman of the Century

2022

French

6.8

♡ 2

concentration camp prisoner

biography

Biography

concentration camp

Olivier Dahan Director

Camille Rutherford as La jeune héroïnomane

Gaël Raës as Pierre-François Veil

Rebecca Marder as Simone Jacob

Genevieve O'Neal as Visiteuse Assemblée Nationale

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.

God on Trial

2008

7.6

♡ 4

84%

Andy De Emmony Director

Stellan Skarsgård as Baumgarten

Eddie Marsan as Lieble

Dominic Cooper as Moche

Matthew Goode as Self - Host

In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.

Night and Fog

1956

French

8.6

♡ 13

destruction of a civilization

Alain Resnais Director

Michel Bouquet as Narrator

Adolf Hitler as Self

Heinrich Himmler as Self

Julius Streicher as Self

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Phoenix

2014

German

♡ 30

98%

78%

based on novel or book

Christian Petzold Director

Max Hopp as Der Mann

Ronald Zehrfeld as Johnny Lenz

Nina Hoss as Nelly Lenz

Trystan Pütter as Soldat an der Brücke

German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelganger.

Anne Frank Remembered

1995

8.1

♡ 7

97%

84%

Jon Blair Director

Glenn Close as Diary Readings

Joely Richardson as Diary Readings

Kenneth Branagh as Narration

Nelson Mandela as Self

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.

Death Is My Trade

1977

German

7.1

♡ 4

based on novel or book

Theodor Kotulla Director

Götz George as Franz Lang

Kai Taschner as Franz Lang als Junge

Elisabeth Stepanek as Junge Krankenschwester

Klaus Münster as Landarbeiter

A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.

Son of Saul

2015

Hungarian

7.4

♡ 34

96%

79%