Shoah movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant shoah movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, disturbing and dramatic films and TV shows about / with holocaust, shoah, world war two, nazi, world war, genocide, nazi uniform, anti semitism, war and holocaust survivor plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as shoah: The Song of Names (2019), Sarah's Key (2010), Auschwitz (2011), Escape from Sobibor (1987), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Woman in Gold (2015), Amen. (2002), Defiance (2008), Life Is Beautiful (1997), In Darkness (2011).
Best films
New films
| Alone in Berlin (2016) | 6.5 | |
| Jojo Rabbit (2019) | 7.9 | |
| Riphagen (2016) | 7.1 | |
| Plan A (2021) | 6.0 | |
| The Zookeeper's Wife (2017) | 7.0 |
List of shoah movies
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, Hungary, Germany, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, touching, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violinist, mysterious disappearance, shoah, polish, family relations, investigation, wartime life, private investigation, wartime, war, musician's life, tragedy ...
Time:
year 1943, year 1953, 20th century, 1950s, 80s ...
Place:
london, new york, england, israel, poland ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother ...
Style:
emotional, sexy, disturbing, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, jewish family, nazism, shoah, separation from family, occupation, death, guilt, suicide of mother, investigation, journalism, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 1942, 20th century, 2000s, year 2010, 1940s ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, paris france, france, new york, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, controversial, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, nazi, holocaust, world war two, shoah, mass murder, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had ...
Style:
tense, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, world war two, pow, holocaust, escape, shoah, against humanity, genocide, military, captivity, nazi, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, cute, dramatic ...
Plot:
holocaust, art, lawyer, nazi, courtroom drama, justice, art theft, painting, injustice, legal, legal action, stolen painting ...
Time:
year 2015, 1930s, 1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
austria, vienna, los angeles, pasadena california, california ...
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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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161K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
Style:
sincere, period piece, epic, historical drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war, nazi, genocide, partisan, shoah, judaism, world war, red army, hopes, rebellion ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, germany, indiana, europe, russia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, poignant ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, concentration camp, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, self sacrifice, nazism, life lesson, destiny, ss ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 1930s ...
Place:
italy, poland, europe, tuscany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style:
harsh, sincere, uplifting, social, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, shoah, survival, genocide, outside help, hitler youth, judaism, world war, sewer ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1945 ...
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, europe, israel
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style:
factual, costume drama, rough, sad, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, marriage, hiding place, shoah, nazi occupied poland, women, zookeeper, world war, biopic ...
Time:
1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Netherlands, Romania, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Style:
humorous, sad, surprise ending, feel good, road movie ...
Plot:
holocaust, train, nazi, world war two, shoah, judaism, deportation, great ending, railway, wartime life, bittersweet, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1998, year 1941
Place:
eastern europe, germany, palestine, europe, central europe ...
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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: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking ...
Style:
factual, political, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, nazi, politics, world war two, conspiracy, third reich, ss officer, shoah, war crime, brutality, racism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, childhood, nazi, adoption, nazi germany, war, human spirit, against humanity, death, youth, nazism ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, ancient times, year 1941, 2010s ...
Place:
germany, europe
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in ...
Style:
experimental, odd
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, auschwitz, renaissance, female nudity, concentration camp, nazi, shoah, women, prison, wartime life, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
year 1963
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: East Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, uplifting, gloomy ...
Plot:
holocaust, judaism, world war two, shoah, nazi, death, friendship, gestapo, hopes, genocide, holocaust survivor, military ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 70s
Place:
east germany, israel, poland, germany, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, ...
Style:
historical drama, anthology, depressing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, shoah, nazi, world war two, ss officer, world war, holocaust survivor, nazi germany, civil engineer, zionism, nazi occupied poland ...
Time:
year 1935, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
germany, poland, berlin germany, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
nazi, war criminal, mossad, shoah, holocaust, courtroom, nazi hunter, nazi war criminal, world war two, attorney, gay affair, death threat ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
germany, west germany, buenos aires argentina, jerusalem, israel ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style:
depressing, bleak, disturbing, factual, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, redemption, nazi germany, auschwitz, ss, shoah, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
poland, germany, europe, middle east, budapest ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style:
captivating, rough, serious, political, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, heroism, resistance, jewish ghetto, nazi, survival, politics, rebellion, shoah, wartime life, against humanity ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, warsaw poland, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, estrangement, orthodox jew, youth, confined, shoah, survival, world war, self discovery ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, post world war two
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a national history competition. This will change them.
Style:
realistic, sincere, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
high school, dedicated educator, teenage life, teachers and students, contests and competitions, youth, shoah, school, contest, humanity, teenager, science project ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brussels, brussels belgium
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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, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, holocaust survivor, german occupation, world war two, nazi, genocide, nazi concentration camp, shoah, world war, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
paris france, vichy, france, middle east, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The true story about the biggest warcriminal from Holland during world war II, Andries "Al Capone" Riphagen.
Style:
period piece, realistic, emotional, serious
Plot:
nazi, nazi war criminal, holocaust, biopic, genocide, kickass, military, shoah, nazi officer, betrayal, violence, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
holland, amsterdam
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9K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form ...
Style:
sexy, homoerotic, disturbing, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, holocaust, lgbtq, gay interest, sex scene, gay love, nazi, making love, glbt, homosexuality, lgbt, gay slur ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, poland, germany, london
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