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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Cranky, crafty and always immaculately dressed, aged master tailor Abraham Bursztein finds himself facing his winter years in a retirement home after discovering his children have sold his home out from under him. Not one to go quietly, Abraham ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, road movie ...
Plot:
promise, elderly man, friendship, holocaust survivor, aging, tailor, journey, memory, friends, elderly, old man, bittersweet ...
Time:
future
Place:
poland, argentina, buenos aires argentina, israel
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily ...
Style:
philosophical, political, disturbing, suspense, educational ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
fascism, nazism, suicide, dictator, experiment, bullying, teacher, teachers and students, high school, fanaticism, dictatorship, against humanity ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 2011
Place:
germany, middle east, israel, europe, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the face of insurmountable odds, one man will risk everything to take back his country. Czechoslovakia, 1943, and the world is enveloped by the dark clouds of war. Showing unimaginable bravery, a Jewish teenager manages to escape the clutches of ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, student film
Plot:
football, nazi occupation, brother brother relationship, football player, christian, monastery, world war, dictatorship, dictator, soccer, partisan, boy ...
Place:
slovakia, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their ...
Style:
social, suspenseful, exciting, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
abbess, syphilis, world war two, nun, violence against women, russian soldier, religion, pregnant from rape, snow, motherhood, red cross, soviet soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, year 1940, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
france, poland, berlin germany
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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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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, suspense, entertaining
Plot:
holocaust, jewish girl, world war two, stolen identity, jewish family, teenage girl, small village, child protagonist, life is a bitch, jewess, wartime, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1942, 1940s
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Style:
cerebral, compassionate, melancholic, disturbing, philosophical ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi concentration camp, tragedy, nazi, death, prison, shoah, courage, concentration camp, life & death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 90s, year 2015
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of the Holocaust, seen as Jonah, a young jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of WW II, who with his family is taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp. (Based on the book 'Childhood' by Jona Oberski.)
Style:
silent
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, youth, traumatic childhood, concentration camp, reformatory, family relations, memories, hopes, retiring, madness, nazi occupied poland ...
Place:
amsterdam, europe, poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as ...
Style:
silent, surprise ending
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape, retiring, hopes, memories, family relations, reformatory, exile, manhood, trial, tolerance, forced labor ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, holocaust survivor, wartime life, world war two, auschwitz, anti semitism, genocide, human spirit, life is a bitch, starting over, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sincere, crying ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, holocaust, storytelling, school, love, young lovers, forbidden love, identity, friendship, camp, world war two, angel of death ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, poland, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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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, Music
Country: France
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and ...
Style:
period piece, non-linear, realistic, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, concert, dancer, holocaust survivor, family relations, ballet, anti semitism, gay subtext, friends, friendship, music ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 1950s, 60s ...
Place:
france, europe, russia, new york, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he's wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno is called back to the front and dies. Helga has a daughter, Dorli, as a result of the affair and they ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, bleak, dramatic, period piece ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, tragedy, survival, loss, secret police, post war, political persecution, war trauma, torture, humiliation, exile, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
czechoslovakia, africa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is ...
Style:
sad, independent film, tense, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, mossad, holocaust survivor, courtroom, world war two, anti semitism, courtroom drama, racism, lawyer, judaism, law ...
Time:
year 1975
Place:
israel, manhattan new york city, new york, middle east, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, sweet, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
politics, public nudity, sex, bare breasts, cheating girlfriend, love story, nudity, promiscuous woman, coitus, family history, activism, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, algeria, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style:
political, disturbing, compassionate, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot:
fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, italian fascism, nazi germany, anti semitism, brother sister relationship, assassination, tennis, family relations, family life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970 ...
Place:
italy, europe, africa, germany, israel ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
judaism, love affair, fall in love, youth, love and romance, society, culture clash, looking for love, couples, spirituality, religion, jewess ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
israel, france
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Genre: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
nazism, workplace situations, psychoanalysis, workplace, workplace intrigue, haunted by the past, murder, corporation, trauma, memory, holocaust, gambling ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
france, paris france, europe, maine
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Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi officer, world war two, holocaust survivor, refugee, courage, resistance, hiding, nazi, feminist, military, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Mexico, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
Style:
unusual plot structure, twist ending, suspense, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nazi, revenge, ss, auschwitz, holocaust, nazi war criminal, nazi officer, old man, swastika, disappearance, genocide, world war two ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
germany, cleveland ohio, canada, reno nevada
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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: 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, History, War
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
drunken man, suicide, little girl, wartime, corpse, ss, swastika, nazi occupation, murder, police officer, accidental death, aunt nephew relationship ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
antwerp
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven ...
Style:
black comedy, humorous, disturbing, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
world war two, prison, dark humor, concentration camp, nazi, survival, mental disorder, pow, prisoners of war, prostitution, male nudity, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 1930s
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, southern italy, russia ...
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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: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, holocaust survivor, against humanity, youth, danger, woods, hiding, coming of age, violinist, rainstorm ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
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