Concentration camp survivor movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant concentration camp survivor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, suspense and sincere films and TV shows about / with concentration camp survivor, world war two, nazi, concentration camp, holocaust, holocaust survivor, world war, murder, resistance and prisoner plots mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as concentration camp survivor: The Windermere Children (2020), Forest of the Gods (2005), The Night Porter (1974), The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018), Schindler's List (1993), Phoenix (2014), Ashes in the Sky (2023), What War May Bring (2010), Lore (2012), Memoir of War (2017).
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List of concentration camp survivor movies
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
Style:
costume drama, rough, contemplative, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, concentration camp survivor, world war two, kindness, compassion, children in wartime, holocaust survivor, friendship, country house, refugee, fear, recovery ...
Time:
post world war two
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Lithuania, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story about one man - an artist and an intellectual - who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a man who lives by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments. After miraculously ...
Style:
compassionate, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
nazi, memories, world war two, life is a bitch, scientist, artist, performer's life, communism, historical figure, government agency, professor, life turned upside down ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, sexual, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sex, nazi, hotel, eroticism, sexual perversion, guilt, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexuality, public nudity, holocaust ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, post world war two, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, vienna, germany, frankfurt germany, italy ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, costume drama, period piece, rough ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, nazism, concentration camp, world war two, nazi occupation, nazi concentration camp, shoah, nazi war criminal, slave labor, spanish civil war, concentration camp survivor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944, year 1945
Place:
spain, germany, central europe
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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, History, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, noir, neo noir, social ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, world war two, nazi, hospital, brutality, holocaust, haunted by the past, genocide, surgery, survivor, violence against women, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1938, year 1944 ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, west germany, switzerland, tel aviv israel ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Neus Català returns to France, where she recalls her life under the Nazi yoke.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, captivating, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, female protagonist, concentration camp, concentration camp survivor, forced labor, war trauma, life is a bitch, survival horror, struggle for survival, life, woman ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
Style:
captivating, serious, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, strong female presence, haunted by the past, saving a life, concentration camp, accused of murder, saved from execution, autobiography, american soldier, nazi, love ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, sincere, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, hitler, children, coming of age, youth, war, concentration camp survivor, children in wartime, child as adult ...
Time:
year 2012, post world war two, 90s, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, russia, hamburg germany, berlin germany, poland ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
June 1944, France is still under the German Occupation. The writer Robert Antelme, major figure of the Resistance, is arrested and deported. His young wife, Marguerite, writer and resistant, was torn by the anguish of not having her news and her ...
Style:
factual, heartbreaking, compassionate, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, gestapo, nazism, concentration camp, beach, wartime life, nazi occupied france, nazi, nazi occupation, police officer, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1944
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Naked Among Wolves (German: Nackt unter Wölfen) is a German drama film directed by Philipp Kadelbach in 2015. It is based on the novel of the same name by Bruno Apitz, which was published in 1958 by the East German Publishing house. It was created ...
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, world war two, nazi concentration camp, liberation, world war, shoah, little boy, resistance, death, child in peril ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
germany, switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, boy, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, german history, aftermath, nordic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Germany, Belarus
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles ...
Style:
captivating, independent film, suspense, period drama
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, labor camp, nazi officer, military, lie, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, sex, soldier ...
Time:
year 1942, 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, period drama
Plot:
boxer, boxing, world war two, concentration camp survivor, concentration camp, life is a bitch, relationships, guilty conscience, martial arts, male female relationship, love affair, love interest ...
Time:
post world war two, 60s, year 1949, year 1963
Place:
germany, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In EVOLUTION, acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber (PIECES OF A WOMAN) return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their ...
Plot:
bare chested male, concentration camp survivor, water, baby, fire, old woman, past, hair, bus, bare breasts, flood, hamster ...
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Documentary, Short, History
Country: USA
Duration: 38 min.
Story:
From PBS - The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th of October 1943, the inmates fought back, in the biggest and most successful prison outbreak of the Second World War. Told ...
Style:
grim, educational, bleak
Plot:
genocide, world war two, holocaust, nazi germany, war crime, prison break, shoah, memories, jewish history, death, survival, escape ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
Style:
gloomy, sincere, emotional, touching, uplifting ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, world war, nazi, writers, poet, anti semitism, teenage life, family in danger, attic, wartime life, family life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam, holland, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is ...
Style:
sad, independent film, tense, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, mossad, holocaust survivor, courtroom, world war two, anti semitism, courtroom drama, racism, lawyer, judaism, law ...
Time:
year 1975
Place:
israel, manhattan new york city, new york, middle east, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style:
sad, cult classic, emotional, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, shoah, nazi, gestapo, world war, radio, judaism, hopes, lie, death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1942, year 1939 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, russia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by having nude women rub their bodies all over the ...
Style:
grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, frightening, brutal ...
Plot:
swastika, women in prison, nazi, female prisoner, rape, sex horror, human experiment, lesbianism, sexual cruelty, prison, world war two, erotica ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of the Holocaust, seen as Jonah, a young jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of WW II, who with his family is taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp. (Based on the book 'Childhood' by Jona Oberski.)
Style:
silent
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, youth, traumatic childhood, concentration camp, reformatory, family relations, memories, hopes, retiring, madness, nazi occupied poland ...
Place:
amsterdam, europe, poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as ...
Style:
silent, surprise ending
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape, retiring, hopes, memories, family relations, reformatory, exile, manhood, trial, tolerance, forced labor ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, wartime life, world war two, auschwitz, anti semitism, genocide, human spirit, life is a bitch, starting over, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa, poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a film based on the life of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi occupied Holland. When war breaks out Anne & her family, Otto her father, Edith her mother & Margot her sister move from Germany ...
Style:
uplifting, sincere, emotional, bleak, sad ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, against humanity, world war two, starvation, ss, hopes, concentration camp, survival, oppression, childhood, typhus ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
amsterdam, europe, holland, netherlands, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sincere, crying ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, holocaust, storytelling, school, love, young lovers, forbidden love, identity, friendship, camp, world war two, angel of death ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, poland, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style:
sincere, political, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, politics, pope, christian, ss, conscience, nazi, nazism, priest ...
Time:
1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
germany, poland, rome italy, italy, austria ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 216 min.
Story:
Fleeing from post-war Europe in 1947, a visionary architect and his wife settle in Pennsylvania where a wealthy and mysterious client changes their lives forever.
Style:
epic, bleak, saga, crying, serious ...
Plot:
architect, architecture, immigrant, holocaust survivor, library, sex scene, strong sexual content, male rape, oral sex, husband wife relationship, female nudity, hand job ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1953 ...
Place:
philadelphia, venice, pennsylvania, italy, israel ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them ...
Style:
suspense, action packed, retro, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot:
wrestling, wax museum, mad scientist, masked hero, kidnapping, macabre, crime investigation, exploitation, vigilante, monster, struggle, masked superhero ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
'The King's Mountain Path' is a long line for wandering, with unmanned sleeping accommodation cabins at appropriate distances. It is not without dangers, in particular when narrow and shallow but speedily running creeks must be ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, suspense, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
death, nature, paranoia, wilderness, loss, mountain, grief, hiking, isolation, fate, solitude, loneliness ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
Style:
retro, bleak, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, spy, war, espionage, world war, nazi, hospital, military, mind game, brainwashing, amnesia, pretense ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
europe, germany, portugal, london, lisbon portugal ...
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