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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel ...
Style:
heartbreaking, emotional, historical drama, touching, period piece ...
Plot:
anti semitism, coming of age, world war two, family drama, persecution, sacrifice, family love, loss, uncle nephew relationship, social commentary, grownups, class differences ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany
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Story:
Charly and Benny are great friends. Hamid, who came from Syria as a refugee child, is also one of them. But the carefree days of childhood end when Benny's grandfather dies and his grandson inherits a necklace with a Star of David. For Benny ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
bullying, racism, friendship, youth, coming of age, anti semitism, teenage life, racial discrimination, racial prejudice, social problems, racial slur, teenage protagonist ...
Time:
2020s
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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: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Det. Tony Rossini investigates, along with Larry "Cash" Carter, a theatre director ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, grim, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder mystery, anti semitism, investigation, whodunit, suspicion, justice, resistance, political intrigue, conspiracy, cover up, ethical dilemma, urban ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
central europe, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. ...
Style:
historical drama, art house, period piece, tense, melancholic
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, loss of innocence, persecution, propaganda, foreshadowing, urban, identity crisis, escape, betrayal, forbidden love, nazism ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
vienna, israel, austria
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century Mexico (known as New Spain at the time). Many Spanish Catholics of Moorish or Jewish origin found it expedient to flee to the New World to ...
Style:
period piece, religious drama, historical drama, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
judaism, religious persecution, inquisition, torture, anti semitism, catholic church, oppression, family tragedy, heresy, betrayal, superstition, religious hypocrisy ...
Time:
16th century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, romantic drama, historical romance, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, tragedy, forbidden love, nazi occupation, survival, violence, cultural conflict, young lovers, identity crisis, betrayal, small town ...
Time:
year 1939
Place:
poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, holocaust, survival, holocaust survivor, world war two, fear, hiding, persecution, anti semitism, problem, nazism, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazism, ss officer, jew persecution, nazi officer, genocide, anti semitism, war crime, nazi germany, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Amidst rising anti-Semitism in Billings, Montana, Rae, a 22 year-old descendant of Holocaust survivors uncovers the truth about a childhood accident.
Style:
realistic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
anti semitism, coming of age, problem, holocaust, neo nazi, nazism, nationalism, life is a bitch, female protagonist, nazi, racial discrimination, tragic past ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds himself assisting a man victim of a hit and run accident. But when ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, tension, intense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, guilty conscience, remorse, anti semitism, hit and run, guilt, accident, hate, traumatic past, psychological trauma, fascist, neo nazism ...
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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: Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Slovak musicologist Agata Schindlerová, now settled in Dresden, has spent years mapping out the forgotten destinies of Jewish musicians whose lives were irrevocably marked by the advance of nazism. Scenes from the lives of several of them are ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, atmospheric, tragic, period drama
Plot:
musician, pianist, composer, train conductor, memories, oppression, holocaust, nazism, memory, persecution, anti semitism, biopic ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, François Touraine, a young piano prodigy, has no choice but to go and play in Germany to save the woman he loves. Because Rachel is Jewish in an age that no longer allows it... A great story of love, music and ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, poignant, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
oppression, love story, nazi occupation, moral dilemma, piano, anti semitism, world war two, sacrifice, forbidden love, classical music, courage, prodigy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, paris france
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Genre: Biography
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and ...
Style:
suspenseful, touching, sincere, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, coming of age, false identity, lie, deportation, boy, persecution, nazi germany, holocaust, anti semitism, oppression ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Austria, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, bleak, period piece, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, persecution, collaboration, moral dilemma, secret police, resistance, danger, courage, gestapo, risk, survival ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
finland
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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: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, accusation, jewish family, auschwitz, holocaust, anti semitism, deportation, tragedy, female protagonist, betrayal, loss, prejudice ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
TV show
Story:
In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, nazi occupation, world war two, nazi, anti semitism, persecution, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, community, nazism, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam, netherlands
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
Style:
heartbreaking, bleak, reflective, historical drama, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, children in wartime, tragedy, persecution, holocaust, fear, loss, anti semitism, isolation, teenage protagonist, peril ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam
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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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159
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Israel, Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting Witnesses.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, bleak, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, concentration camp, anti war, witness, war crime, genocide, atrocity, memory, anti semitism, auschwitz ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, nazi, auschwitz, nazi officer, nazism, nazi germany, genocide, war crime, anti semitism, wartime ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany
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159
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, tense, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
catholic church, torture, religious persecution, martyrdom, anti semitism, political repression, biopic, heresy, power struggle, royal court, class conflict, palace intrigue ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, brazil, israel
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the end of World War II Lena Kuchler arrives at a refuge camp in search of her disappeared family members. But at this place she can get no information in her case but only encounters hungry children.
Style:
heartbreaking, historical drama, emotional, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
post war, holocaust, survivor, orphan, refugee camp, jewish history, anti semitism, survival, community, resilience, solidarity, violence ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named ...
Style:
religious drama, thought provoking, serious, art house, tense ...
Plot:
anti semitism, character study, identity crisis, prejudice, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, obsession, millennial, polish, catholic, religion, cultural difference ...
Place:
san francisco
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440
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on a provocative autobiography, this story — set in a largely Muslim neighborhood in Berlin — follows a teenage gang member who is caught between hiding his Jewish identity and saving his life.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, multicultural, tension ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, religion, teenager, gang, coming of age, youth, identity, social problems, gang member, arab culture, relationship problems, drug dealer ...
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Ukraine
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The ...
Style:
family saga, poignant, historical drama, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, children, wartime, christmas, christmas carol, nazi occupation, life is a bitch, music, tragedy, persecution, sacrifice, survival ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1943, year 1978, year 1941 ...
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, poland, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
self discovery, immigrant, immigration, family relations, culture clash, society, single parent, neo nazism, holocaust survivor, identity, family drama, anti semitism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, poland, australia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
This drama centers on a love story between an Iranian-Palestinian Muslim man and a French Jewish woman. Based upon a true story of Abdol Hussein Sardari, who worked at the Iranian embassy in Paris and apparently saved the lives of thousands of ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, period piece, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
world war two, iranian, interfaith relationship, biopic, survival, bravery, anti semitism, forbidden love, cultural conflict, ethical dilemma, european, nazism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
middle east, persia, iran
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