Internment camp movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant internment camp movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, period piece, touching and captivating films and TV shows about / with concentration camp, world war two, survival, military, war, betrayal, soldier, society, violence and father son relationship plots mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as internment camp: Empire of the Sun (1987), Red Dawn (1984), Nowhere in Africa (2001), District 9 (2009), Farewell to Manzanar (1976), Near Enemies (2020), A World Beyond (2011), Before It Ends (2023), Virgin Margarida (2012), The Darkest Minds (2018).
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style:
epic, sad, period piece, crying, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, child protagonist, childhood, survival, pow, boy, japanese army, prisoner, young heroes, captivity, starvation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1987
Place:
china, hong kong, japan, asia, indochina ...
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68K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
Style:
intense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
survival, propaganda, cold war, dystopia, politics, anti communist, invasion, betrayal, high school, small town, fictional war, winter ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, future, near future
Place:
colorado, soviet union, ussr, china, new mexico ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Plot:
world war two, friendship, farm, childhood, holocaust, anti semitism, culture clash, immigrant, wartime life, hopes, food shortage, hockey ...
Time:
1930s, year 2002, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
kenya, africa, germany, south africa, east africa ...
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748K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style:
serious, biting, suspense, tense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, distopia, space and aliens, alien encounter, metamorphosis, mutation, ufo, alien invasion, first contact, social commentary, transformation ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, emotional, educational, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, american history, detention, identity, civil liberties, racism, trauma, evacuation, community, prejudice, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A squad of American soldiers hunt down a suspected spy that escaped an internment camp during WWII.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, betrayal, espionage, world war, mistrust, wartime, concentration camp, paranoia, war, wartime life, military ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the Second World war comes untied. In this paradise Hans finds an employment as municipal police, but his wife, always unsatisfied, turns into one addicted to ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, romantic drama, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, colonialism, occupation, anti semitism, japanese occupation, betrayal, concentration camp, forbidden love, power struggle, family conflict, survival, love triangle ...
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
liberation, refugee camp, resistance, refugee, moral dilemma, occupation, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner of war camp, wartime life, war ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mozambique, France, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1975, Mozambique’s rebirth as an independent nation. The young revolution sweeps the streets of Maputo clean of prostitutes and bad habits. The prostitutes are sent to re-education camps deep in the countryside, where they will become “new ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, realistic, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
revolution, state affairs, life is a bitch, power relations, prostitute, youth, camp, society, strong female presence, patriarchy, oppression, gender roles ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
africa, portugal
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.
Style:
romantic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, saga ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
telekinesis, post apocalypse, teenager, good versus evil, runaway teen, mind control, superhuman powers, danger, soldier, friendship, love and romance, escape ...
Time:
near future
Place:
virginia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he ...
Style:
period piece
Plot:
world war two, prisoner, refugee, evacuation, soccer fan, train station, female reporter, architect, bureaucracy, army, prisoner of war camp, escape plan ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Director Joseph Mankiewicz's first work for television, the 90-minute ABC drama was publicized as having an all-star cast (which meant that names of some supporting cast members were not officially released). In Rod Serling's update of ...
Style:
christmas horror, christmas classics, black and white, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas carol, charles dickens, ruins, loss of son, redemption, world war one, christmas eve, xmas, scrooge, industrialist, afterlife ...
Time:
year 1918, year 1945, 1940s, 1910s
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A ...
Style:
uplifting, captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
basic training, military, military training, mistaken identity, marine, discipline, military school, world war two, battles, disorder, dull life, social relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1976, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, witty, surreal, visually appealing ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
hotel, art theft, mentor, mentor protege relationship, prison escape, murder, escapades, twists and turns, gunfight, painting, fictional country, lawyer ...
Time:
1930s, year 2014, 20th century, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
eastern europe, alps, europe, persia, america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make ...
Style:
pre war
Plot:
world war two, fascism, border crossing, refugee, suicide, accusation, concentration camp, hitler youth, rabbi, torah, jewish life, national socialism ...
Time:
year 1982, 1940s, 1930s, year 1938, year 1940
Place:
vienna, paris france, prague, marseille
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldiers get more than they bargained for when Wright’s years of martial arts training in Hong Kong ...
Style:
period piece, tense, historical drama, dark, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bare chested male, world war two, martial arts, hand to hand combat, survival, captivity, pow, violence, brutality, military, resilience, extreme violence ...
Time:
1940s, year 1950, year 1942
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany
Duration: 341 min.
TV show
Story:
Soviet spy film , based on a novel by Vadim Kozhevnikov, who was Secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union.
Plot:
soviet spy, world war two, spy, nazism, secret agent, liberation, spy hero, intelligence, infiltration, nazi, third reich, concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, east germany, russia, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.
Style:
anthology, twist ending, spooky, psychological horror, costume drama ...
Plot:
arctic, violence, cannibalism, starvation, expedition, corpse, insanity, delusion, mysticism, desperation, north pole, british navy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 2010s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious
Plot:
unfaithful husband, immigrant, world war two, unfaithfulness, family conflict, prejudice, adultery, husband wife conflict, humanism, human rights, love, father son relationship ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1962, 1940s, 60s, 1950s
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style:
noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
french resistance, world war two, terrorist, espionage, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, nazism, world war, betrayal, resistance movement ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, lyon, marseille, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Style:
controversial, emotional, tragic ending, grim, disturbing ...
Plot:
clown, holocaust, nazi, auschwitz, concentration camp, oppression, innocence lost, accomplice, haunting, tragedy, guilt, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this futuristic thriller based around resistance against a tyrant government that's propagating religious, political, and racial polarization and xenophobia, a Muslim immigrant flees The West in hopes of leaving his secretive past behind to ...
Style:
rough, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, new world order, resistance, islamophobia, democracy, religion, radical, world war three, government, discrimination, freedom, anti semitism ...
Time:
future
Place:
turkey, pakistan, russia, china, mexico ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Style:
bleak, tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, repression, communist, french resistance, execution, suppression, nazi officer, concentration camp, hostage, assassination, wehrmacht ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, light, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, women, stepmother stepson relationship, fascism, nazi, lesbian, friendship, coming of age, world war, abbey, youth, art ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1935
Place:
italy, florence, germany, switzerland, zurich switzerland ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Style:
sentimental, meditative, breathtaking, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, murder mystery, forbidden love, murder, racism, culture clash, betrayal, prejudice, justice, fisherman, jury, lawyer ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
washington state, japan, asia, seattle, fictional island ...
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23K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, factual, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, military, sea battle, naval battle, pacific war, u.s. navy, navy, war, aviation, world war, fighter plane, white man asian woman relationship ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1976, 20th century, 1940s, 70s
Place:
america, pacific ocean, japan, hawaii, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four young boys find a shipwrecked Japanese sailor during World War II and struggle with the decision to save him.
Style:
realistic, serious, melancholic, exciting, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
japanese soldier, world war two, wartime life, coming of age, friendship between boys, boy, soldier, military, racism, friends, world war, youth ...
Place:
usa, california, hawaii
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, interracial romance, hospital, death, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, seattle ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style:
atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, apocalyptic, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, chaos, redemption, end of the world, dystopian future, heroic mission, pandemic, fertility, post apocalyptic, dying ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A pair of Japanese siblings get stranded in small-town California and become friends with other twentysomethings they meet, despite the complete lack of a common verbal language.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, mumblecore ...
Plot:
easy woman, white trash, sluttiness, slutty attitude, harlot, black bra, promiscuous woman, small town, family relations, social relations, fish out of water, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
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