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List of concentration camp movies
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
fascism, concentration camp, italian history, princess, world war two, nazism, courage, imprisonment, oppression, persecution, biopic, injustice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
'The Midwife' (fin.'Kätilö') is a romance-drama set during WWII in Finland’s Lapland province, a major European battle ground of the war. Based on Katja Kettu’s bestselling novel, 'The Midwife' turns on the love ...
Style:
romantic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching
Plot:
world war two, sex scene, ss officer, violence, fall in love, genocide, war crime, german soldier, concentration camp, midwife, drug, nurse ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
finland
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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, friends, friendship, military, life is a bitch, soldier, wartime life, moral dilemma, holocaust, against humanity, concentration camp, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The human tragedy and the suffering of the Crimean Turks who were taken hostage as prisoners of war in German prison camps during World War II.
Style:
captivating, sincere, suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
turk, world war two, concentration camp, military dictatorship, military camp, prisoners of war, prisoner of war camp, wartime, pow, life is a bitch, war, german soldier ...
Place:
crimea
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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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16K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style:
costume drama, erotic, saga, family saga, sad ...
Plot:
holocaust, sex scene, politics, love affair, political unrest, world war two, illicit affair, fascism, nazi, family life, siblings relations, jewish culture ...
Time:
19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
eastern europe, hungary, israel, sarajevo, serbia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi solider, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
interracial romance, racism, nazi germany, hitler youth, world war two, concentration camp, interracial couple, nazi concentration camp, overcoming, brutality, biracial, interracial love ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times
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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
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, uncover truth, self discovery, haunted by the past, identity, hidden truth, escapades, elderly, family relations, obsessive quest, lifesaver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia, belgrade, europe
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16K
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, 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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2K
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, adult animation ...
Plot:
concentration camp, biopic, friendship between men, repression, male protagonist, prisoner of war camp, artist, refugee, drawing, radical, grandfather, art gallery ...
Time:
year 1939
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, emotional, rough ...
Plot:
holocaust, vengeance, concentration camp, sexual assault, husband wife relationship, war crime, gypsy, kidnapping, captive, rape, revenge, sexualized violence ...
Time:
2020s, post world war two, year 1959, year 1946
Place:
romania, okinawa japan, bucharest, colorado, virginia ...
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273K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, touching, sexual, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, coming of age, holocaust, nazi, first love, trial, world war two, older woman younger man sex, sex, unlikely couple ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1966, year 1958, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, dysfunctional family, concentration camp, nazi, memory, cruelty, doctor, parents and children, haunted by the past, holocaust, experiment, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1940s
Place:
new york, germany, europe, usa
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1.0M
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The beginning of 1945, Poland. In a newly liberated country, the Communist Security Service is annihilating its enemies under the guise of punishing "national traitors." They organize a labor camp for Germans, Silesians and Poles, on the ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, forbidden love, concentration camp, romantic triangle, tragic love, relationship problems, love triangle, love interest, prisoner of war camp, relationships, war ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City discover that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters set out on a bloody quest to bring ...
Style:
funny, inspirational, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
nazi hunter, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, male protagonist, fake identity, war criminal, nazi, alternate history, holocaust survivor, forensic, law ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, post world war two
Place:
new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
concentration camp, boxer, boxing champion, military camp, world war two, prizefighter, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, camp, prisoner of war camp, professional sports, life is a bitch ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazism, nazi, gestapo, nazi germany, anti semitism, danger, life is a bitch, pow, war, confined, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, israel, europe
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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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4K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments ...
Style:
extreme horror, controversial, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, gory, torture, japanese history, dehumanization, extreme, violence, violent, experiment, hardcore, chinese history, sino japanese war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
china, asia, japan, korea, russia ...
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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, contemplative, uplifting ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, concentration camp, hopes, clergy, gestapo, catholic, nazi occupation, soldier, heroes, introspection ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2004, post world war two
Place:
germany, belgium, switzerland, france, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a ...
Style:
non-linear, political drama
Plot:
concentration camp, neo nazi, biopic, political activist, auschwitz, holocaust survivor, legacy, humanism, european union, political intrigue, french politics, shoah ...
Time:
1940s, year 1968, year 1994, 1950s, year 1975 ...
Place:
france, algeria, paris france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau ...
Style:
fairy tale, crying
Plot:
mime, world war two, french resistance, gestapo, children, orchestra, concentration camp, red cross, girl, singer, magician, swastika ...
Time:
1940s, year 1991
Place:
czechoslovakia, europe, berlin germany, paris france
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25K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Style:
costume drama, factual, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
holocaust, courtroom, holocaust survivor, historian, courtroom drama, shoah, anti semitism, lawyer, auschwitz, court, justice, professor ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2016, year 1994, year 1998, year 1996 ...
Place:
london, germany, atlanta georgia, australia, england ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style:
political, insightful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, forbidden love, captivity, female nudity, nazi, older man younger woman relationship, desire, ghetto, holocaust survivor, nude girl, israeli ...
Time:
1940s, year 1985
Place:
eastern europe, israel, europe, poland, holland ...
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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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