Here we've displayed a list of the best Holocaust films : Shoah(1985), Life Is Beautiful(1997), The Pianist(2002), Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII(2002), The Shop on Main Street(1965), The Children of Chabannes(1999), Au Revoir, les enfants(1987), Anne Frank Remembered(1995), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas(2008), The Pawnbroker(1964), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport(2000), Against the Tide(2009) ... ...
Documentary, War, Drama, History
France|UK
1985
561 Minutes
Simon Srebnik Michael Podchlebnik Richard Glazar Rudolf Vrba Inge Deutschkron Filip Müller
victim survivor nazi bystander guard brooding shocking disturbing auschwitz germany ghetto poland holocaust nazism horrors of war concentration camp fall discovery 1980s
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
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.
War, Drama, History
UK|France|Poland|Germany|USA
2002
148 Minutes
Adrien Brody Thomas Kretschmann Frank Finlay Maureen Lipman Emilia Fox Ed Stoppard Julia Rayner Jessica Kate Meyer Ruth Platt
musician pianist military officer jew bleak powerful disturbing warsaw radio station attic holocaust music world war ii adaptation escape pursuit 1940s
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Documentary
USA
2002
72 Minutes
child parent activist soldier survivor sad inspiring germany eastern europe foster home holocaust nazism protection surrogacy family world war ii wretched excess growing up escape 2000s
Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has continued to affect the survivors.
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
USA
1999
92 Minutes
Norbert Bikales Wolfie Blumenreich Rene Castille Collette Dony-Pascal Jerry Gerard Peter Gossels Lydia Jablonski Ruth Keller Serge Klarsfeld Yvonne Labrousse
father daughter jew foreigner teacher child moving inspiring france countryside school village holocaust courage deception french resistance château de chabannes rescue sacrifice 1990s
In the spirit of Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les Enfants" and Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," the Emmy® Award-winning film "The Children of Chabannes" (93 minutes), has been praised as ... See full summary »
Drama
France|West Germany|Italy
1987
104 Minutes
Gaspard Manesse Raphael Fejto Francine Racette Stanislas Carré de Malberg Philippe Morier-Genoud François Berléand Irène Jacob François Négret
student priest nazi headmaster dark emotional profound france boarding school world war ii holocaust friendship secret nazism trauma discovery growing up 1940s
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Documentary
UK|USA|Netherlands
1995
115 Minutes
Glenn Close Anne Frank Edith Frank Margot Frank
father mother sister friend refugee jew emotional touching moving netherlands amsterdam hideout anne frank anti-semitism nazism survival family holocaust growing up discovery
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 ... See full summary »
Drama
UK|USA
2008
94 Minutes
David Thewlis Vera Farmiga Rupert Friend Asa Butterfield Jack Scanlon Amber Beattie Cara Horgan Richard Johnson Sheila Hancock David Hayman Jim Norton
commander son jew mother sister bleak engaging touching germany concentration camp awakening holocaust compassion religious persecution friendship discovery transformation growing up 1940s
Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Drama
USA
1964
116 Minutes
Rod Steiger Geraldine Fitzgerald Brock Peters Jaime Sanchez Thelma Oliver Marketa Kimbrell Baruch Lumet Juano Hernandez John McCurry Eusebia Cosme Warren Finnerty
survivor employee boss neighbor criminal bleak emotional brooding new york city germany pawn shop holocaust grief guilt anti-semitism world war ii survival fall discovery sacrifice
A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Documentary
UK|USA
2000
122 Minutes
Alexander Gordon
jew child german czech foster child british man bleak chilling england foster home germany czechoslovakia austria world war ii refugees adoption nazis kindertransport holocaust escape
The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.
Documentary
USA
2009
102 Minutes
american jew jewish immigrant holocaust survivor historian expert documentarian activist interviewee fascinating gripping moving emotional inspiring united states holocaust world war ii jewish culture jewish identity survival
'Against The Tide' examines the conflict that erupted in the American Jewish community over the best means to rescue the European Jews trying to escape the Holocaust. It tells the little ... See full summary »
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
UK|USA
1982
150 Minutes
Meryl Streep Kevin Kline Peter MacNicol Rita Karin Stephen D. Newman Greta Turken Josh Mostel Marcell Rosenblatt Moishe Rosenfeld Robin Bartlett Eugene Lipinski
writer immigrant crazy person nazi child sad shocking dark brooklyn, n.y. germany auschwitz world war ii behavioral disorder dark secrets holocaust love triangle loss discovery growing up sacrifice
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
Drama
France|Italy
1961
130 Minutes
Jean-Paul Belmondo Emmanuelle Riva Irene Tunc Nicole Mirel Marco Behar Patricia Gozzi Gisele Grimm Monique Bertho Marc Heyraud Nina Gregoire Monique Hennessy
communist widow mother priest daughter tense uneasy provincial town france church rectory religion world war ii unlikely friendship spirituality holocaust temptation forbidden love 1940s
Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
Biography
Poland|Germany|UK
1990
115 Minutes
Wojciech Pszoniak Ewa Da?kowska Piotr Kozlowski Marzena Trybala Wojciech Klata Adam Siemion Karolina Czernicka Agnieszka Kruk Aleksander Bardini Robert Atzorn
pediatrician nazi orphan child friend jew bleak disheartening warsaw ghetto poland orphanage street orphans nazi occupation world war ii self-sacrifice holocaust janusz korczak rescue sacrifice
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1997
110 Minutes
holocaust survivor narrator jew refugee bleak intense uplifting germany israel holocaust rescue daunting task homelessness world war ii escape quest 1940s
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Drama, History
USA
1959
156 Minutes
Millie Perkins Joseph Schildkraut Shelley Winters Richard Beymer Gusti Huber Lou Jacobi Diane Baker Douglas Spencer Dody Heath Ed Wynn Charles Wagenheim
anne frank father dentist sister boyfriend mother powerful endearing sad inspiring amsterdam attic holocaust captivity religious persecution historical events escape love growing up 1940s
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Drama, History
Poland|Germany|Canada
2011
145 Minutes
Robert Wieckiewicz Benno Fürmann Agnieszka Grochowska Maria Schrader Herbert Knaup Kinga Preis Krzysztof Skonieczny Marcin Bosak Julia Kijowska Jerzy Walczak Oliwier Stanczak
sanitation worker jew nazi gripping suspenseful moving lvov, poland sewer world war ii occupation leopold kozlowski unlikely hero holocaust sacrifice transformation 1940s
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
Documentary
Canada
2018
78 Minutes
Oskar Gröning Alan Dershowitz Lawrence Douglas Benjamin Ferencz Ursula Haverbeck Eva Mozes Kor
ss officer holocaust survivor witness gripping intricate courtroom documentaries nazis trial holocaust justice revenge 2010s
Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK|Japan
1997
117 Minutes
Clive Owen Lothaire Bluteau Brian Webber Ian McKellen Mick Jagger Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Jude Law Paul Bettany
gay man boyfriend prisoner uncle transvestite nazi emotional powerful berlin nightclub forest dachau concentration camp train germany holocaust homosexuality violence suicide forced labor survival
In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
Drama, History
France|Germany|Romania
2002
132 Minutes
Ulrich Tukur Mathieu Kassovitz Ulrich Mühe Michel Duchaussoy Ion Caramitru Marcel Iures Friedrich von Thun Antje Schmidt Hanns Zischler
chemist pope pius xii priest nazi diplomat son incredible disheartening somber moving germany vatican concentration camp poland italy holocaust kurt gerstein guilt religion politics
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
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 »
Crime, Drama, Documentary
USA|UK
2008
100 Minutes
Andrew Braunsberg Samantha Geimer Mia Farrow Gene Gutowski Hawk Koch Hanna Landy
director judge actress victim lawyer fascinating gutsy disturbing los angeles france court murder sexual abuse holocaust movies mystery fall rise 2000s
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
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
Poland|France|Belgium
1999
105 Minutes
Shulamit Adar Liliane Rovère Esther Gorintin Nathan Cogan Mosko Alkalai Maurice Chevit
old woman father husband cousin widow holocaust survivor somber profound emotional touching poland paris lithuania moscow israel bus holocaust memory family history culture clash
During a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.
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.
Drama, History
USA
2001
108 Minutes
David Arquette Daniel Benzali Steve Buscemi David Chandler Allan Corduner Harvey Keitel Natasha Lyonne Mira Sorvino Brian F. O'Byrne Henry Stram Lee Wilkof
doctor prisoner jew nazi dark emotional concentration camp auschwitz prison camp holocaust death extermination morality explosion murder transformation sacrifice 1940s
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.
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.
Comedy, Drama
France
2002
101 Minutes
Jules Sitruk Gérard Jugnot Michèle Garcia Jean-Paul Rouve Alexia Portal Götz Burger Sam Karmann Ticky Holgado Violette Blanckaert Daphne Baiwir Élisabeth Commelin
grocer fiancé collaborator jewish child cousin daughter emotional touching dark amusing paris cellar apartment building grocery store occupied france german occupation holocaust secrets nazis hiding
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and ... See full summary »