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1. Son of Saul (2015)
R | 107 min | Drama, War
A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
Director: László Nemes | Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont
Votes: 51,971 | Gross: $1.78M
2. The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
R | 120 min | Action, Biography, Thriller
As Germany expands its borders, scorching Europe from end to end, two brave Czechs of the Resistance prepare to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the mastermind behind the hideous "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question".
Director: Cédric Jimenez | Stars: Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell, Jack Reynor
Votes: 18,400
3. The 12th Man (2017)
Unrated | 135 min | Drama, History, Thriller
They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.
Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen
Votes: 29,227
4. A Bag of Marbles (2017)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel, Elsa Zylberstein
Votes: 6,396 | Gross: $0.41M
5. Paradise (2016)
130 min | Drama, War
Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Peter Kurth, Jakob Diehl, Yuliya Khlynina, Yuliya Vysotskaya
Votes: 2,031 | Gross: $0.01M
6. Promise at Dawn (2017)
131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A man recounts his life, from his childhood through his experiences in World War II, and the story of his self-sacrificing mother, who raised him alone.
Director: Eric Barbier | Stars: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Votes: 3,852
7. 1944 (2015)
100 min | Drama, History, War
In 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.
Director: Elmo Nüganen | Stars: Kaspar Velberg, Kristjan Üksküla, Maiken Pius, Gert Raudsep
Votes: 6,320
8. The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Jörg Schüttauf
Votes: 6,120 | Gross: $0.28M
9. Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
R | 124 min | Drama, History
A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.
Director: Giulio Ricciarelli | Stars: André Szymanski, Alexander Fehling, Friederike Becht, Johannes Krisch
Votes: 14,007 | Gross: $0.79M
10. Secrets of War (2014)
95 min | Drama, Family, History
During WWII, the friendship of two boys is at risk when a girl tells a very personal secret to only one of them.
Director: Dennis Bots | Stars: Maas Bronkhuyzen, Joes Brauers, Michael Nierse, Tonko Bossen
Votes: 2,090
11. Fanny's Journey (2016)
94 min | Drama, War
Fanny and her sisters attempt to escape Nazi occupied France but many dangers are ahead of them.
Director: Lola Doillon | Stars: Léonie Souchaud, Fantine Harduin, Juliane Lepoureau, Ryan Brodie
Votes: 1,622
12. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,029 | Gross: $2.31M
13. Adventures of a Mathematician (2020)
102 min | Biography, Drama
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
Director: Thor Klein | Stars: Philippe Tlokinski, Esther Garrel, Sam Keeley, Joel Basman
Votes: 1,444
14. Persian Lessons (2020)
127 min | Drama, War
A young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language.
Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, David Schütter
Votes: 12,182
15. The Testament (2017)
88 min | Drama
Yoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.
Director: Amichai Greenberg | Stars: Ori Pfeffer, Rivka Gur, Hagit Dasberg, Orna Rotenberg
Votes: 517
16. The Resistance Fighter (2019)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Drama, History
Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Philippe Tlokinski, Julie Engelbrecht, Bradley James, Martin Butzke
Votes: 1,731
17. Ashes in the Snow (2018)
98 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
Director: Marius A. Markevicius | Stars: Bel Powley, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Martin Wallström, Jonah Hauer-King
Votes: 6,896
18. Land of Mine (2015)
R | 100 min | Drama, History, War
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
Director: Martin Zandvliet | Stars: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Votes: 45,794 | Gross: $0.44M
19. A Man Escaped (1956)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Votes: 25,016
20. Murer: Anatomy of a Trial (2018)
110 min | Drama, History
The prestigious politician and large-scale farmer Franz Murer, responsible for the Ghetto of Vilnius as SS leader and NSDAP functionary from 1941-1943, stands trial in Graz, Austria. ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Frosch | Stars: Karl Fischer, Alexander E. Fennon, Melita Jurisic, Ursula Ofner
Votes: 718
21. The Old Gun (1975)
R | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During World War II, a peaceful French surgeon decides to ruthlessly exterminate an SS squad because of the atrocities they'd just committed in his countryside home and childhood village.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen
Votes: 4,855
22. The Crossing of Paris (1956)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Two men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures - until they are arrested by the police.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Jeannette Batti
Votes: 4,319 | Gross: $0.02M
23. Charlatan (2020)
Unrated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of successful Czech healer Jan Mikolasek, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and strong familiarity with plants, set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Juraj Loj, Jaroslava Pokorná
Votes: 3,216
24. Werewolf (2018)
88 min | Drama, Horror, War
Children liberated from a Nazi concentration camp have to overcome hunger, thirst and vicious dogs in an abandoned mansion surrounded by the forest.
Director: Adrian Panek | Stars: Kamil Polnisiak, Nicolas Przygoda, Sonia Mietielica, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 1,625
25. The Red Ghost (2020)
99 min | Action, History, Horror
A detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
Director: Andrey Bogatyrev | Stars: Aleksey Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yura Borisov, Polina Chernyshova
Votes: 2,149
26. Zoya (II) (2020)
105 min | Drama, War
Autumn 1941. Yesterday's schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya volunteered for a sabotage school. The partisan detachment, in which Zoya was located, is ambushed, and Zoya is captured by the ... See full summary »
Directors: Maksim Brius, Leonid Plyaskin | Stars: Anastasia Mishina, Anna Ukolova, Wolfgang Cerny, Olga Lapshina
Votes: 1,073
27. Eternal Winter (2018)
110 min | Drama, History, Romance
The true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp.
Director: Attila Szász | Stars: Marina Gera, Sándor Csányi, Laura Döbrösi, Diána Magdolna Kiss
Votes: 1,991
28. Breakthrough (2019)
90 min | Drama, War
Young partisan resistance fighter commander Franc Sever Franta faces an impossible task when he has to rescue 500 freedom fighters surrounded and outnumbered by a Nazi German division high in the mountains in harsh winter condition.
Director: Dejan Babosek | Stars: Domen Valic, Jernej Gasperin, Ana Spik, Denys Bilash
Votes: 265
29. American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021)
R | 109 min | Drama, History, War
American Traitor follows the life of American woman Mildred Gillars and her lawyer who struggles to redeem her reputation.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Meadow Williams, Al Pacino, Carsten Norgaard, Marcus Rafinski
Votes: 3,271
30. The Auschwitz Report (2021)
94 min | Drama, History, War
A fictionalized tale of the escape by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, based on the novel by Wetzler called 'What Dante did not See.' They hide for 3 days and escape once the search for them is over. They report their experiences.
Director: Peter Bebjak | Stars: Noel Czuczor, Peter Ondrejicka, Florian Panzner, Jan Nedbal
Votes: 2,874
31. De Gaulle (2020)
108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Director: Gabriel Le Bomin | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet
Votes: 2,002
32. Berenshtein (2021)
105 min | Biography, History, War
The last of the great partisans, who located Hitler's "wonder weapon", returns to the war that took away his feelings and identity, but failed to rob him of his values as a human being.
Director: Roman Shumunov | Stars: Leonid Berenshtein, Yaroslav Kucherenko, Anton Karlinsky, Lilya Ostapovich
Votes: 440
33. Enigma (2001)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam
Votes: 21,920 | Gross: $4.30M
34. A Estrada 47 (2013)
107 min | Drama, History, War
The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II.
Director: Vicente Ferraz | Stars: Daniel de Oliveira, Francisco Gaspar, Júlio Andrade, Thogun Teixeira
Votes: 925
35. Goodbye, Children (1987)
PG | 104 min | Drama, War
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Votes: 36,129 | Gross: $4.54M
36. Discover Arts: Hitler vs Picasso (2018)
G | 94 min | Documentary, History
An extraordinary report on how Hitler looted 'the great beauty' of Europe: the art that was the expression of its culture.
Director: Claudio Poli | Stars: Toni Servillo, Timothy Garton Ash, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Edgar Feuchtwanger
Votes: 269
37. Emperor (2012)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Matthew Fox, Colin Moy, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune
Votes: 14,854 | Gross: $3.35M
38. Mission of Honor (II) (2018)
Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Drama, War
The exploits of 303 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain. The squadron consisted of Polish pilots, many of whom were veterans of the air battles involved in Germany's invasion of Poland.
Director: David Blair | Stars: Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson, Stefanie Martini, Krystof Hádek
Votes: 5,516
39. The Last Frontier (2020)
136 min | Action, Drama, War
A film about the feat of the Podolsk cadets in October 1941 near Moscow. The cadets of the Podolsk artillery-infantry schools are ordered to take up defenses on the Ilyinsky line.
Director: Vadim Shmelyov | Stars: Artyom Gubin, Lubov Konstantinova, Igor Yudin, Aleksey Bardukov
Votes: 1,877
40. Plan A (2021)
109 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1945, a group of Jewish holocaust survivors planned to poison the water system in Germany. The film tells the dangerous and bold secret-operation which was called - Plan A.
Directors: Doron Paz, Yoav Paz | Stars: August Diehl, Sylvia Hoeks, Michael Aloni, Nikolai Kinski
Votes: 1,711
41. The Round Up (2010)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, History, War
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Director: Rose Bosch | Stars: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué
Votes: 9,374
42. Another Mother's Son (2017)
103 min | Biography, Drama, War
Lou lives on the Nazi-occupied Island of Jersey during World War 2. She accepts to hide a young Russian POW at her house at the risk of being imprisoned herself and takes care of him as if he was her own son.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Brenock O'Connor, Amanda Abbington, John Hannah, Sophie Skelton
Votes: 1,645
43. Operation Mincemeat (2021)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, War
During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Rufus Wright
Votes: 35,227
44. The Pilot: A Battle for Survival (2021)
105 min | Biography, Drama, History
During a mission in WWII, the plane of Nikolai Komlev is shot down. He manages to bring his plane down in a remote forest clearing, but far from friendly territory, he faces a relentless test of physical and mental endurance.
Director: Renat Davletyarov | Stars: Pyotr Fyodorov, Anna Peskova, Valeriy Grishko, Roman Knizka
Votes: 1,646
45. Hear the Silence (2016)
94 min | Action, Drama, War
A group of German soldiers become stranded in a German-Russian village of women and children during WWII.
Director: Ed Ehrenberg | Stars: Lars Doppler, Simon Hangartner, Clarissa Molocher, Antonia Langenohl
Votes: 242
46. The Final Sacrifice (2016)
Drama, History, War
Rear Defense action film from the point of view of German and Italian soldiers.
Director: Ari Taub | Stars: Frank Licari, Johnny Solo, Davide Borella, Christopher R Swanson
Votes: 52
47. The Match (2020)
119 min | Drama, History, Sport
Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a soccer match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens
Directors: Dominik Sedlar, Jakov Sedlar | Stars: Franco Nero, Caspar Phillipson, Armand Assante, Markus Gertken
Votes: 830
48. Anna's War (2018)
74 min | Drama, War
During World War II, a little girl is left without parents and is forced to hide from the Nazis, taking care of herself on her own. Day after day.
Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko | Stars: Marta Kozlova, Lyubov Vorozhtsova, Vladimir Sapin, Aleksandr Vakhov
Votes: 621
49. The Shepherd (2019)
91 min | Drama
Hungary, 1944 - The main character is an old shepherd, who lives alone on a ranch. After his daughter got killed by Nazis, he decided in his grief to save as many Jewish lives as possible.
Director: László Illés | Stars: Miklós Székely B., Ákos Horváth, Tamás Jordán, Ági Jókai
Votes: 263
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