Jew persecution movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant jew persecution movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, suspense, historical drama, disturbing and emotional films and TV shows about / with jew persecution, world war two, holocaust, nazi, life is a bitch, nazi occupation, wartime, war, survival and wartime life plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jew persecution: Plan A (2021), Redemption Road (2017), The Crossing (2020), The Hiding Place (1975), The Righteous (2010), We Were the Lucky Ones (2024), Marie's Children (2002), Irena's Vow (2023), The Angel of Auschwitz (2019), Passport to Freedom (2021).
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List of jew persecution movies
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families were killed by the Nazis. They ...
Style:
suspenseful, historical drama, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, saboteur, jew persecution, revenge, secret mission, world war two, jewish life, diversion, holocaust survivor, jewish history, loss of family, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Cuba
Duration: 203 min.
Story:
In the fall of 1938, two Jewish children from Berlin are sent to England by their parents to escape Nazi persecution.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
world war two, nazi, judge, jew persecution, jewish family, life is a bitch, jewish life, problem, family problems, orthodox jew, smoking, female nudity ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
world war two, child, wartime life, jew persecution, jewish girl, children, life is a bitch, wartime, child in peril, scolding, father son relationship, father figure ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
Style:
bleak, spiritual, independent film, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazi concentration camp, world war two, jew persecution, christian, faith, christianity, shoah, christian faith, religion, political intrigue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, year 1940
Place:
holland, europe, netherlands
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
TV show
Story:
Basia and Stefan are a young married couple during World War II who risk their lives to bring aid to Jews. He is an architect, she a nurse--a member of "Zegota" (the Polish underground organization to aid Jews in occupied Poland which ...
Style:
historical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, married couple, nazi, underground movement, problem, wartime, jew persecution, military, social problems, war, life is a bitch ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.
Style:
historical drama, emotional, psychological, captivating, family saga ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, jewish family, jew persecution, family reunited, holocaust survivor, survival, world war, nazi occupation, jewish life, orthodox jew, jewish woman ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, hiding, life is a bitch, child custody, nazi occupied france, occupied france, rescue, anti semitism, german occupation, persecution, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, period drama
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, nazism, female protagonist, holocaust, jewish history, wartime, problem, nazi germany, wartime life, jewish life, social problems ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.
Style:
bleak, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, midwife, auschwitz, war criminal, atrocity, holocaust, life is a bitch, abortionist, jew persecution, wartime, female protagonist ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Aracy de Carvalho is a young clerk at the Brazilian Consulate. For two years, she has been secretly issuing passports to Jews without the dreaded "J" stamp, which not only won't allow them to travel, but will doom them to the horrors ...
Style:
suspense, sincere, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
jew persecution, brazilian history, diplomat, life risking, co worker co worker relationship, couple relations, relationship vs career, male female relationship, saving a life, immigration, workplace, female protagonist ...
Place:
brazil, hamburg germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot:
wolf, world war two, survival, orphan, feral child, human animal relationship, little girl, forest, young heroes, danger, obsessive quest, wilderness ...
Place:
belgium, germany, europe, ukraine, brussels
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, gender disguise, woman dressed as man, holocaust, holocaust survivor, jew persecution, impersonating, pretending to be someone else, false identity, war violence, fascism, cross dressing ...
Time:
year 1942, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, theatre group, jew persecution, jewish culture, nazi occupied poland, confined, survival, tragedy, persecution, social problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
poland, iberian peninsula
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war ...
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
world war two, refugee, police, boxer, jewish family, nazi collaborator, female nudity, german occupation, jew persecution, resistance fighter, bare chested male, bureaucrat ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1939, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
oslo norway
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the face of insurmountable odds, one man will risk everything to take back his country. Czechoslovakia, 1943, and the world is enveloped by the dark clouds of war. Showing unimaginable bravery, a Jewish teenager manages to escape the clutches of ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, student film
Plot:
football, nazi occupation, brother brother relationship, football player, christian, monastery, world war, dictatorship, dictator, soccer, partisan, boy ...
Place:
slovakia, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, social
Plot:
nazi, concentration camp, nazi occupation, escape, world war two, wartime life, wartime, jew persecution, war violence, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
central europe, germany
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, sincere
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, nazi occupation, children in wartime, deportation, occupation, wartime, social problems, military, jew persecution, german occupation, nazi ...
Time:
2020s, year 1942
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, historical drama, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, anti semitism, persecution, occupied france, french resistance, nazi occupation, life is a bitch, jewish life, friendship, children, jewish family ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, border crossing, refugee, holocaust, immigration, moral dilemma, ethics, conscience, jewish history, nazi germany, border patrol ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
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Story:
Based on the eponymously titled novel, this is the powerful real-life story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War Two.
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspenseful, period drama
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, cruelty, tattoo artist, nazi concentration camp, nazism, prisoner, old man, prisoner of war camp, tattoo, nazi, nazi occupation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding ...
Style:
poignant, bleak, emotional, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, jewish history, world war, jewish girl, courage, hiding, holocaust, anti semitism, diary, tragedy, memories, biopic ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, Poland, Latvia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, ghetto, social worker, rescue, wartime life, nazi, historical figure, world war, against humanity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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 top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style:
sad, heartbreaking, art house, depressing, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
nazi, friendship, world war two, nazism, childhood, french resistance, coming of age, holocaust, gestapo, lgbt teen, nazi occupation, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, israel, europe, jerusalem ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, jew persecution, body swapping, family relations, marital rape, painting, nazi occupied france, husband wife relationship, impersonation, police arrest, butcher ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s
Place:
germany, paris france
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, captivating, atmospheric
Plot:
political repression, naked woman, world war two, male nudity, friendship, historical figure, friends, danger, rivalry, society, wartime life, gestapo ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, 20th century
Place:
germany, vienna, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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 collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazism, child, wartime life, anti semitism, soldier, life is a bitch, against humanity, confined, society, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, year 2002, year 1942
Place:
france, paris france, switzerland, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, History, War
Country: Japan, Poland, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to and after his decision to issue over 2,000 visas to Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania resulting in saving the lives of over 6,000 people. This is ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, diplomat, social problems, politics, wartime, life is a bitch, historical character, jew persecution, political unrest, political intrigue, japanese military, japanese soldier ...
Place:
lithuania, japan
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he's drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a young physics students and resistance journalist - Hans Poley - they embark on a hunt through ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
jewish ghetto, world war, christian, saving a life, jew persecution, resistance fighter, wartime life, nazi soldier, nazi occupation, war, life is a bitch, nazism ...
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