Auschwitz movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant auschwitz movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out disturbing, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with auschwitz, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, nazi, jewish, anti semitism, genocide, death and wartime plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
auschwitz
TOP 10 movies tagged as auschwitz: Prisoners of Auschwitz (2013), Out of the Ashes (2003), Remember (2015), Schindler's List (1993), To Life (2014), Amen. (2002), Playing for Time (1980), Passenger (1963), Anita B. (2014), The Grey Zone (2001).
Best films
List of auschwitz movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most renowned literary authors of our times. Lustig's novel 'A girl from Antwerp' upon which our film Colette is based, draws on the author's personal Nazi Concentration Camp experience ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, touching
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, prisoner, doctor, execution, sex scene, love and romance, couples, auschwitz, society, girl ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
prague, canada, central 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, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, survival, wartime life, holocaust survivor, world war two, human spirit, auschwitz, life is a bitch, starting over, anti semitism, war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, europe, usa
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26K
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:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
nazi, auschwitz, ss, holocaust, nazi war criminal, nazi officer, revenge, suspense, old man, genocide, world war two, jewish ...
Place:
canada, germany, cleveland ohio
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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, thought provoking, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish, genocide, nazi, war, concentration camp, anti semitism, brutality, against humanity, wartime, racism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 90s
Place:
poland, germany, vatican, europe, israel ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, hopes, human spirit, reunited friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, girlfriend, lifestyle, post war, women ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
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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:
political, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, priest, politics, christian, conscience, ss, nazi, war, concentration camp, pope ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
vatican, germany, rome italy, poland, czechoslovakia ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
When Jewish songstress Fania Fénelon is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task – using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas ...
Style:
dark, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, auschwitz, prison, jewish, nazi, war, nazism, wartime life, judaism, women ...
Place:
germany, paris france
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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:
world war two, auschwitz, female nudity, concentration camp, holocaust, prison, women, wartime life, feminist, brutality, jealousy, train ...
Place:
eastern europe, poland
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353
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
love affair, starting over, haunted by the past, auschwitz, small town, family relations, adoption, hopes, youth, self discovery, post war, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
czech republic
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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, disturbing, bleak, factual, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, concentration camp, war, redemption, anti semitism, jewish, nazi germany, rebellion, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
germany, poland, europe, israel, budapest
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22K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
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:
factual, intellectual, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
holocaust, courtroom, historian, holocaust survivor, lawyer, jewish, courtroom drama, anti semitism, new yorker, justice, court, idealism ...
Time:
year 2000, year 1994, year 1998, year 1996, year 1999 ...
Place:
london, england, australia, israel, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
world war two, jewish, war criminal, concentration camp, abortionist, life is a bitch, female protagonist, suspense, jew persecution, wartime, midwife, experiment ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Its 1959. German Public Prosecutor Bauer is convinced he has found the long sought Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. This tense drama shows his struggle to have him brought to justice against the power jielded by old Nazi functionaries in ...
Plot:
mossad, auschwitz, world war two, german history, post war, shoah, nazi, holocaust, post war germany, male nudity, nazi germany
Time:
50s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.
Style:
intellectual
Plot:
world war two, catholic, woman, wartime life, christian, saint, nun, professor, jewish, mother daughter relationship, university, running ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
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:
compassionate, melancholic, disturbing, cerebral, sad ...
Plot:
holocaust, jewish, world war two, tragedy, nazi, prison, anti semitism, courage, concentration camp, genocide, brutality, life & death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
eastern europe, germany, poland, california
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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:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, nazi officer, nazism, ss officer, wartime life, wartime, military officer, soldier, military, nazi ...
Place:
germany
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347
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, adult animation, 2d animation
Plot:
world war two, female artist, artist, painter, female protagonist, historical figure, painting, artists' life, social problems, life is a bitch, life, art ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
south of france, berlin germany, cote d'azur
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
holocaust, lawyer, investigation, nazi, prosecutor, world war two, fighting the system, idealism, nazi war criminal, ex nazi, genocide, uncover truth ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, year 1958, year 1963, 50s
Place:
germany, frankfurt germany, berlin germany, west germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a film based on the life of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi occupied Holland. When war breaks out Anne & her family, Otto her father, Edith her mother & Margot her sister move from Germany ...
Style:
uplifting, sincere, emotional, bleak, sad ...
Plot:
genocide, holocaust, against humanity, world war two, war, starvation, concentration camp, survival, childhood, hopes, anti semitism, ss ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
amsterdam, holland, europe, netherlands
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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:
disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot:
concentration camp, boxing champion, boxer, military camp, athlete's life, world war two, prizefighter, athlete and trainer, suspense, historical character, prisoner of war camp, camp ...
Place:
poland
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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, bleak, thought provoking, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
nazi, holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, anti semitism, mass murder, against humanity, strong violent content, life is a bitch, postmodernism, society, genocide ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
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, emotional, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, court, first love, nazi, holocaust, older woman younger man sex, secret, world war two, sex ...
Time:
year 1958, year 1988, year 1966, post world war two, year 1980 ...
Place:
germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the ...
Style:
disturbing, tense
Plot:
concentration camp, nazi, nazi occupation, world war two, male nudity, wartime life, suspense, nazism, wartime, jewish, war violence, prisoner of war camp ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: East Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
complex
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, military, wartime life, nazism, prisoner, war criminal, gas chamber, baby, nazi occupied poland, destiny ...
Place:
germany, poland, east germany, frankfurt germany, spain ...
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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, weird
Plot:
holocaust, gestapo, gas chamber, circus, concentration camp, political prisoner, auschwitz, clown, nazi, commander, world war two, death of child ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK, Austria, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, wartime life, rape, hopes, deportation, concentration camp, moral dilemma, war, confined, society, military ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
budapest, hungary, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Irène, a strong french believer of communist utopia, is the happiest one when the Red Army Chorus announce they are coming to the Parisian stage.
Style:
realistic, serious, humorous, sexual, sexy ...
Plot:
holocaust, politics, utopia, store, fall in love, state affairs, society, soldier, idealism, love and romance, music band, auschwitz ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1958
Place:
paris france, russia, france
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443
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Style:
tense, uplifting, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
holocaust survivor, chaos, against the odds, holocaust, woman in danger, concentration camp, rescue, starting over, idealism, on the run, survival, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946
Place:
palestine, holland, israel, london, amsterdam ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, bleak, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, boxing, prison, prison escape, fight, sport, war, intrigue, jail, jewish, boxer ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
poland, europe, greece
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows-Primo Levi. The Oscar®-winning Helen Mirren will introduce audiences to Anne Frank's story through the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
holocaust, holocaust survivor, concentration camp, world war two, life is a bitch, wartime, prisoners of war, violence spree, wartime life, female protagonist, survival, teenage girl ...
Place:
poland
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