Bau: Artist at War

2024

English

♡ 4

93%

Based on the true story of Joseph and Rebecca Bau whose wedding took place in the Plaszow concentration camp during WW2. Using his artistic skills in the camps, Joseph stays alive and helps hundreds to escape. Miraculously, he finds love in the midst of despair. Years later, when called to be a key witness in the trial of the brutal Nazi officer who tortured him and killed his father, Joseph is thrust back into vivid memories of the Holocaust. Now, he calls upon this love and resilience of spirit to face the ultimate demon of his past.

The Captain

2017

German

7.3

♡ 61

83%

Robert Schwentke Director

Annika Meier as Anny

Milan Peschel as Freytag

Waldemar Kobus as Hansen

Linda Schönherr as Lucy

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

The Guard of Auschwitz

2018

English

3.8

♡ 19

50%

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

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 Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951

English

6.9

♡ 23

Henry Hathaway Director

Patrick Whyte as British Agent

Carleton Young as German Staff Officer

Sean McClory as Jock

John Roy as Soldier

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Uprising

2001

English

7.2

♡ 17

100%

Jon Avnet Director

Andreas Patton as Border Guide

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer as Colonel Von Sammern

Jon Voight as Major-General Jurgen Stroop

Radha Mitchell as Mira Fruchner

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

The Good Nazi

2018

English

7.1

♡ 2

Ric Esther Bienstock Director

Neil Bennett as Major Karl Plagge

By tracking scientists and Holocaust survivors in Lithuania, The Good Nazi tells the story of a Schindler-type Nazi officer who turned his back on his dark ideology and risked his life to save hundreds of Jews.

Army of Crime

2009

French

6.7

♡ 6

ss (nazi schutzstaffel)

War

world war ii

Robert Guédiguian Director

Pierre Niney as Henri Keltekian

Virginie Ledoyen as Mélinée Manouchian

Simon Abkarian as Missak Manouchian

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Thomas Elek

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.

Betrayal

2023

Dutch

5.3

♡ 3

Dennis Bots Director

Nico van Gijn as Dutch Resistance

Laurent Cecillon as French SAS commando

Bert Olsder as Levi van Praag

Diana Olsder-Koers as Zarah van Praag

During the final months of World War II, a Nazi officer assigned to protect the war-torn frontline in the Netherlands decides to risk his life to protect a Jewish family in hiding.

The Midwife

2015

Finnish

6.0

♡ 5

based on novel or book

Antti Jokinen Director

Krista Kosonen as Helena Alatalo

Elina Knihtilä as Heta

Lauri Tilkanen as Johannes Angelhurst

Arturas Kuzmenka as Soldier

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.

A Bag of Marbles

2017

French

7.3

♡ 9

83%

brother brother relationship

occupied france (1940-44)

War

Christian Duguay Director

Elsa Zylberstein as Anna Joffo

Christian Clavier as Docteur Rosen

Martin Hub as Gunther

Marek Vasut as Patron de l'Hôtel du commerce

At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

Death Is My Trade

1977

German

7.1

♡ 4

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

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.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses

2022

English

6.5

♡ 11

ss (nazi schutzstaffel)

Ashley Eakin Director

Justin Mader as

Hanneke Talbot as

Knox Gibson as

Noah Lamanna as Young Woman

Targeted by Nazis as they hunt down and murder people with disabilities, a boy with a limb difference makes a daring decision while running for his life.

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Bau: Artist at War

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Army of Crime

Betrayal

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A Bag of Marbles

Death Is My Trade

Forgive Us Our Trespasses