Labor camp movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant labor camp movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, independent film and suspense films and TV shows about / with labor camp, world war two, life is a bitch, prison, escape, death, friendship, male nudity, blood and society plots mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres shot in USA, Germany, Soviet Union and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as labor camp: The Chronicles of Melanie (2016), Two Hearts as One (2014), Persian Lessons (2020), Freeze Die Come to Life (1990), In the Crosswind (2014), Lost in Siberia (1991), A Love to Hide (2005), The Emperor of Taste (2008), The Punishment (2008), Papillon (1973).

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The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia, Czech Republic, Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get ...
Style: rough, suspense, disturbing, bleak, black and white
Plot: deportation, world war two, gulag, survival, labor camp, grief, cruelty, politics, political prisoner, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, post soviet ...
Time: 1940s, year 1957, 1950s, year 1941
Place: latvia, soviet union, russia, siberia
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Two Hearts as One (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, touching, stylized ...
Plot: husband wife reunion, labor camp, life is a bitch, wartime life, love affair, love, caucasian, marriage, couples, flashback, world war two, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1941
Place: europe, bosnia, turkey, kazakhstan
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Persian Lessons (2020)
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, suspense, independent film
Plot: concentration camp, world war two, german soldier, military, lie, pretending to be someone else, labor camp, wartime life, holocaust, german officer, soldier, con trick ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany
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Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and ...
Style: black and white, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: gulag, coming of age, children, boy, train crash, post war, child as adult, female nudity, poverty, social injustice, traumatic childhood, totalitarian regime ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1990
Place: soviet union, russia, siberia, ussr
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In the Crosswind (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: stalinism, deportation, world war two, hunger, ethnic cleansing, wartime life, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, separation from family, family relations, danger ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
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Lost in Siberia (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, bleak, serious, realistic
Plot: gulag, prison, survival, false accusation, kgb, cold war, prisoner, violence, arrest, attempted rape, british, communist ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: iran, ussr, soviet union, siberia, russia ...
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A Love to Hide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, sad, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, holocaust, gay relationship, gay couple, gay love, world war two, nazi, lgbtqi, betrayal, lgbt, lgbtq, traitor ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story: The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, survival, gulag, human spirit, pow, confined, getting home, captivity, wehrmacht, danger, jail, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, year 1939, year 1952, year 1947 ...
Place: ussr, germany, soviet union, siberia, baltics ...
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The Emperor of Taste (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: Belgium
Duration: 490 min.
TV show
Story: When her 80-year-old husband George dies, Helena asks her granddaughter to delve into the mystery surrounding George's friend Alfred's early demise. Alfred died in a WWII prison camp where both friends were imprisoned. The search for the ...
Style: suspense, sincere, sentimental, touching, costume drama ...
Plot: friendship, pow, interracial relations, world war two, german soldier, post war, grandmother granddaughter relationship, labor camp, tree, unwanted pregnancy, love letter, death of husband ...
Time: 1940s
Place: belgium
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When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested ...
Style: independent film, grindhouse, erotic, manga, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, anti communist, family relations, children, young love, traumatic childhood, youth, communism, politics, boy, chess, radical ...
Time: 1950s, year 1985, 20th century, 50s
Place: bosnia, eastern europe, serbia, europe, former yugoslavia
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 5.4
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The Punishment (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, psychological
Plot: child labor, re-education, child abuse, life is a bitch, teenage life, exploitation, slave labor, problem child, forced labor, juvenile delinquency, juvenile delinquent, labor camp ...
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 8.0
 138K
Papillon (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Style: inspirational, psychological, grim, realistic, depressing ...
Plot: prison escape, prison, escape, life philosophy, runaway, human spirit, prisoner, escape attempt, brutality, prison break, prison life, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1973, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: persia, latin america, atlantic ocean
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 6.8
 3K
Borstal Boy (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, touching, political ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, gay teenager, prison, boarding school life, lgbt, homosexuality, friendship, teenage love, gay slur, youth, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, england
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Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During the American Civil War, a Confederate prisoner, Clyde McKay, attempts to steal a box of gold from a Union prison camp. He is aided by a group of prisoners and a prison guard but he is double-crossed along the way.
Style: spaghetti western, brutal, euro western, perverse
Plot: civil war, cowboy, native american, man on a mission, american civil war, shooting, heist, gold, fistfight, bar fight, soldier, commando mission ...
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 6.2
 3K
Lapsis (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep ...
Style: suspense, serious, enigmatic, futuristic, surreal ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, worker, economics, job, undercover, parallel world, technology, labor camp, forest, extreme, contractor, hiking ...
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 6.9
 2K
At War (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, political
Plot: strike, labor union, working class, capitalism, business manager, class struggle, hard labor, mayor, factory, worker, anger, struggle ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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Eternal Winter (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp.
Style: beautiful
Plot: world war two, stalinism, world war, landscape, gulag, coal mine, christmas, train, romantic relationship, wolf attack, communism, survival ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: soviet union
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Style: psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, bleak ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, drug abuse, trippy, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, addiction, dystopia, dystopian future, society, fighting crime, consciousness, drug ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, 21st century
Place: california, texas, usa, san diego california
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 7.6
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Canary Season (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 128 min.
Story: It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the ...
Plot: totalitarianism, communist, canary, communism, army, love, torture, brutality, socialism, cruelty, mother son reunion, detention ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 60s
Place: bulgaria
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The Brutalization Of Franz Baum (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic ...
Style: crying
Plot: prison, swamp, prison warden, handicapped, social problems, car wash, suicidal tendency, convict, gay, suicidal, rainstorm, excavation ...
Place: central europe
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Escape of the Birdmen (1971)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to ...
Plot: world war two, escape, world war, prison escape, military prison, historical event, caper, prisoner, castle, broken leg, chess, prisoner of war camp ...
Time: year 1943
Place: germany
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Untitled Lal Jose Movie (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Against his wishes, 'Cuba' Mukundan (Sreenivasan) goes to Dubai to make good his father's alleged misappropriation of funds from the local cooperative bank. It is there that he learns the true meaning of the term 'working ...
Style: political
Plot: communist, politician, fraud, labor camp, arab, minister, lottery, nurse, politics, bank, election, malayalam
Time: year 2007
Place: dubai, cuba
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 7.5
 5K
Sounder (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, gothic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, dog, racism, poverty, civil rights, black, african american, youth, family relations, bittersweet, farm, prison ...
Time: 1930s, year 1972, 1900s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, america, usa
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The Great Water (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot: youth, orphan, friendship, prison, betrayal, coming of age, haunted by the past, idealism, soldier, homecoming, racism, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, post world war two
Place: former yugoslavia, macedonia, europe, soviet union, serbia ...
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The Shadow Riders (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on ...
Style: retro, tense, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot: civil war, brothers, military, kidnapping, civil war veteran, family relations, rivalry, vigilantism, rescue, escapades, good versus evil, chases and races ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: texas, mexico
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The Final Solution: The Wannsee Conference (1984)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the ...
Style: contemplative, bleak, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, world war, nazi germany, war, anti semitism, genocide, racism, international relations, nazi concentration camp, politics ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, palestine, warsaw poland
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 6.1
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Red Monarch (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: paranoid, based on real people, tyrant, mistrust, satire, tyranny, serial rapist, rape, sexual predator, sexism, paranoia, josef stalin ...
Time: 1950s, post world war two
Place: ussr, russia, soviet union
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The Ninth Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, traitor, concentration camp, clergy, heroes, soldier, nazi occupation, human spirit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2004
Place: germany, france, berlin germany, switzerland, belgium ...
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 6.8
 579
Space Firebird (1980)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Phoenix 2772 starts with twelve minutes without dialogue, much like a silent film, recalling the birth and education of Godo. In this brave new world, children are born in test tubes and are raised by computers and robots. Godo learns the skills ...
Style: anime, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: giant bird, fall in love, escapades, space and aliens, danger, imaginary, heroes, androids and robots, save the world, dystopian future, blood, self sacrifice ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
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His Nickname Is Beast (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Saveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.
Style: suspense, disturbing, rough, tense, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, escape, ex soldier, young man, bodyguard, crime boss, fight, frame up, prison, secret love, perestroika, russian mafia ...
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