Holocaust in Film
by PDZombie | created - 29 Dec 2019 | updated - 14 Sep 2022 | PublicMost interesting representations of the Shoah on film and its legacy
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1. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,475
2. Kapo (1960)
116 min | Drama, War
A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego
Votes: 2,597
3. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
PG | 251 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave
Votes: 4,097
4. The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
90 min | Drama
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Peter Ahlm, Lars Amble, Harriet Andersson
5. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,559 | Gross: $0.02M
6. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 1,451,554 | Gross: $96.90M
Hollywood take on the Shoah, happy ending and all! A lesson on how not to make a movie about the Holocaust...
7. The Devil's Arithmetic (1999 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
A 16-year-old American girl with an apathetic view towards her Jewish family history finds herself pulled through time into 1941 to a small Polish village where the Nazis have just begun their genocidal propaganda.
Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman, Mimi Rogers
Votes: 4,487
8. The Truce (1997)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: John Turturro, Rade Serbedzija, Massimo Ghini, Stefano Dionisi
Votes: 1,829 | Gross: $0.07M
9. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Votes: 743,539 | Gross: $57.60M
10. Bent (1997)
NC-17 | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
Director: Sean Mathias | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Mick Jagger, Brian Webber
Votes: 8,822 | Gross: $0.37M
11. The Last Days (1998)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, War
In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary... See full summary »
Director: James Moll | Stars: Bill Basch, Martin Basch, Randolph Braham, Alice Lok Cahana
Votes: 5,765 | Gross: $0.42M
12. The Grey Zone (2001)
R | 108 min | Drama, History, War
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gray zone.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 11,428 | Gross: $0.52M
Best film dramatization about the Shoah in all its complexities and horror...
13. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Votes: 24,834
14. La question humaine (2007)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, Music
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
Director: Nicolas Klotz | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Edith Scob, Lou Castel
Votes: 1,238 | Gross: $0.01M
15. God on Trial (2008 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama, War
Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Joseph Muir, Josef Altin, Ashley Artus, Alexi Kaye Campbell
Votes: 3,913
16. The Last of the Unjust (2013)
PG-13 | 220 min | Documentary, History
A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Benjamin Murmelstein, Claude Lanzmann
Votes: 802 | Gross: $0.04M
17. 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
Most visceral and aesthetical complex film about the Shoah...
18. Denial (II) (2016)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama
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.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott
Votes: 23,534 | Gross: $4.07M
19. Destination Unknown (2017)
81 min | Documentary, History, War
Destination Unknown blends intimate testimony with immersive archive to bring the stories of twelve Holocaust survivors to the screen.
Director: Claire Ferguson | Stars: Frank Blaichman, Roman Ferber, Stanley Glogover, Marsha Kreuzman
Votes: 41
20. 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
21. Sobibor (2018)
TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Felice Jankell, Dainius Kazlauskas
Votes: 5,770
22. A Journey (2019)
75 min | Biography, Drama, History
A holocaust survivor's journey, combined with the younger generations' one. Two parallel stories with a common destination. Auschwitz.
Director: Giacomo Gabrielli | Stars: Aurora Volcan, Arek Hersh, Fabian Mosele, Serena Bevilacqua
Votes: 12
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