20 movies like The Shop on Main Street, ordered by similarity : #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), The Invisibles(2017), A Bag of Marbles(2017), The Revolt of Job(1983), Resistance(2020), The Captain(2017), Waiting for Anya(2020), Mr. Emmanuel(1945), Jacob the Liar(1974), Conspiracy of Hearts(1960), The Monuments Men(2014), Army in the Shadows(1969) ...
Drama
Czechoslovakia
1965
128 Minutes
Elmar Klos Jozef Kroner Ida Kaminska Hana Slivkova Frantisek Zvarik Helena Zvaríková Martin Hollý Martin Gregor Adam Matejka Mikulás Ladizinský Eugen Senaj
nazi storekeeper jew deaf person bleak somber intense czechoslovakia small town nazism anti-semitism holocaust collaboration corruption sacrifice rescue temptation 1940s
A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
anne frank jew nazi nazi collaborator holocaust survivor bleak chilling dark disheartening disturbing emotional engaging gripping incredible melancholy moving amsterdam concentration camp hideout holocaust
It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Drama, History
Germany
2017
110 Minutes
Aaron Altaras Max Mauff Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee Victoria Schulz Florian Lukas Andreas Schmidt Sergej Moya Lucas Reiber
jewish man jewish woman nazi german soldier tense suspenseful striking powerful moving engaging berlin nazi germany germany jewish people jewish identity nazis nazi occupation secret life world war ii escape
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Drama
France|Canada|Czech Republic
2017
110 Minutes
Dorian Le Clech Batyste Fleurial Patrick Bruel Elsa Zylberstein Bernard Campan Kev Adams Christian Clavier César Domboy Ilian Bergala Emile Berling Jocelyne Desverchere
young boy jewish child brother nazi moving emotional bleak gutsy inspiring intense concentration camp nazi germany france escape nazi occupation nazis concentration camp survival brother relationship sacrifice
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish 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.
Drama
Hungary
1983
98 Minutes
Barna Kabay Hedi Temessy Ferenc Zenthe Gabor Feher Henry Gregor Léticia Cano Péter Rudolf
young boy jewish man mother neighbor nazi father bleak emotional touching hungary town yard house occupation family parenthood jewish culture nazis world war ii growing up
An elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|France|Germany|USA
2020
120 Minutes
Jesse Eisenberg Ed Harris Edgar Ramírez Clémence Poésy Matthias Schweighöfer Félix Moati Géza Röhrig Karl Markovics Bella Ramsey Alicia von Rittberg
resistance fighter resistance leader child jewish child jewish man nazi bleak brooding engaging gutsy heartwarming intense moving quirky sad suspenseful tense thrilling touching france
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
War, Drama, History
USA
2017
118 Minutes
Max Hubacher Milan Peschel Frederick Lau Waldemar Kobus Alexander Fehling Samuel Finzi Wolfram Koch Britta Hammelstein Bernd Hölscher Sascha Alexander Gersak Blerim Destani
soldier nazi nazi commandant prison guard prisoner deserter uneasy intense tense unrestrained brutal bleak concentration camp truck woods base camp office fraud nazi collaboration power
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience ... See full summary »
Drama, History
UK|Belgium
2020
109 Minutes
Noah Schnapp Thomas Kretschmann Frederick Schmidt Tómas Lemarquis Elsa Zylberstein Gilles Marini Jean Reno Anjelica Huston
widow shepherd young boy jew nazi child bleak emotional engaging inspiring powerful suspenseful small town france spain border border town nazism smuggling persecution
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Drama
UK
1945
97 Minutes
jew old man refugee mother police officer nazi bleak disturbing somber melodramatic england germany city nazism separation anti-semitism torture journey reunion rescue
An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.
Comedy, Drama
East Germany|Czechoslovakia
1974
100 Minutes
Vlastimil Brodský Erwin Geschonneck Manuela Simon Henry Hübchen Blanche Kommerell Deszo Garas Zsuzsa Gordon Friedrich Richter Margit Bara Reimar-Johannes Baur
jew military officer nazi friend bleak witty poland ghetto holocaust hope judaism nazism deception survival discovery underdog 1940s
A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1960
111 Minutes
nun nazi priest jew child mother superior inspiring emotional somber suspenseful convent italy concentration camp world war ii holocaust resistance religion helping others faith rescue
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
History, War, Drama
USA|Germany
2014
118 Minutes
George Clooney Matt Damon Bill Murray John Goodman Jean Dujardin Bob Balaban Hugh Bonneville Dimitri Leonidas Cate Blanchett Justus von Dohnányi Holger Handtke
art expert historian expert nazi adolf hitler soldier bleak brooding chilling amusing powerful nazi germany art gallery museum apartment school old city art theft preservation nazis
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.
War, Drama, History
France|Italy
1969
140 Minutes
Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Jean-Pierre Cassel Paul Crauchet Claude Mann Christian Barbier Simone Signoret Serge Reggiani Alain Libolt
engineer rebel traitor nazi intense gritty passionate paris marseilles, france london france submarine prison french resistance world war ii prisoners of war nazism underdog sacrifice 1940s
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
War, Drama, History
Germany|France|Poland
1990
115 Minutes
Marco Hofschneider Julie Delpy André Wilms Ashley Wanninger Hanns Zischler Klaus Kowatsch Halina Labonarska Delphine Forest René Hofschneider Jorg Schnass Nathalie Schmidt
teenager nazi girlfriend father bleak emotional suspenseful germany poland russia orphanage nazism holocaust world war ii survival deception growing up forbidden love 1940s
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Drama, War
Australia|Germany|UK
2012
109 Minutes
Mika Nilson Seidel Ursina Lardi Hans-Jochen Wagner Sven Pippig Philip Wiegratz Katrin Pollitt Hendrik Arnst Claudia Geisler Saskia Rosendahl Nele Trebs André Frid
nazi father mother daughter sibling grandmother emotional melodramatic brooding intense profound disturbing germany concentration camp river bridge train world war ii nazi collaboration siblings
As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
War, Action, Drama, History
Yugoslavia|USA|Liechtenstein
1974
90 Minutes
Rod Taylor Adam West Brioni Farrell Peter Carsten Olivera Katarina Velimir `Bata' Zivojinovic Branko Plesa
partisan german officer captain colonel general nazi powerful engaging tense intense dark gutsy yugoslavia world war ii nazism former yugoslavia war heroes battle life during wartime pursuit
Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1997
122 Minutes
Roberto Benigni Nicoletta Braschi Giorgio Cantarini Giustino Durano Sergio Bustric Marisa Paredes Amerigo Fontani Horst Buchholz Lidia Alfonsi Giuliana Lojodice Pietro De Silva
father mother son waiter schoolteacher nazi moving playful emotional sad bleak frightening italy concentration camp hotel household bookstore big city holocaust concentration camp
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Drama, War
Germany|Luxembourg|Czech Republic
2003
97 Minutes
Ulrich Matthes August Diehl Germain Wagner Bibiana Beglau Jean-Paul Raths Ivan Jirik Karel Hromadka Adolf Filip Vladimir Fiser Peter Varga Petr Janis
catholic priest inmate dissident ss officer bishop brother somber disturbing gripping powerful dachau concentration camp luxembourg difficult decision nazis world war ii moral dilemma holocaust repression temptation sacrifice
A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Drama, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Lithuania|Poland
2018
120 Minutes
Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Felice Jankell Dainius Kazlauskas Sergey Godin Roman Ageev
prisoner of war soviet soldier concentration camp survivor lieutenant nazi sergeant dark chilling intense disturbing frightening raw poland concentration camp survival nazis prisoners of war world war ii concentration camp uprising
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
Drama
USA
1943
103 Minutes
Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara George Sanders Walter Slezak Kent Smith Una O'Connor Philip Merivale Thurston Hall George Coulouris Nancy Gates Ivan F. Simpson
schoolmaster mother beautiful woman resistance fighter nazi inspiring touching solemn prison europe school nazi occupation collaboration courage false accusations transformation temptation sacrifice 1940s
A mild-mannered school-teacher in a Nazi-occupied town during W.W.II finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.
Drama
USA
1944
80 Minutes
Paul Lukas K.T. Stevens Carl Esmond Mady Christians Morris Carnovsky Peter Van Eyck
art dealer partner daughter actress nazi son emotional tense germany san francisco art gallery betrayal nazism anti-semitism ambition family fall revenge transformation 1930s
US art dealer returns to his native Germany for a visit and is attracted by Nazi propaganda.