Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-auschwitz"

1. The Boys from Brazil (1978)

R | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer

Votes: 30,556 | Gross: $19.00M

2. The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

R | 94 min | Biography, Drama, War

Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.

Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: Paul Rudd, Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Wilkinson, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 11,850 | Gross: $0.71M

3. The Goldman Case (2023)

115 min | Crime, Drama, History

Chronicles the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.

Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié, Nicolas Briançon

Votes: 1,591

4. The Life Ahead (2020)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

Director: Edoardo Ponti | Stars: Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye, Renato Carpentieri, Iosif Diego Pirvu

Votes: 15,545

5. 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: 13,990 | Gross: $0.79M

6. Flash of Genius (2008)

PG-13 | 119 min | Biography, Drama

Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.

Director: Marc Abraham | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Alan Alda, Tim Eddis

Votes: 17,817 | Gross: $4.23M

7. A Married Woman (1964)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance

A superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Bernard Noël, Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy, Christophe Bourseiller

Votes: 4,340

8. Charlotte (III) (2021)

Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon's life in the south of France between 1941 and 1943, before she was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. Inspired by her memoir "Life? or Theatre?".

Directors: Tahir Rana, Éric Warin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Marion Cotillard, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 475

9. Sandra (1965)

105 min | Drama, Mystery

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig, Renzo Ricci

Votes: 2,243

10. The Huntress of Auschwitz (2022)

83 min | Horror, Thriller, War

A young American girl travels to Europe to track down the Nazi guard responsible for the murder of her great-grandparents.

Director: Richard John Taylor | Stars: Rula Lenska, Charlie Bond, Lowri Watts-Joyce, Steve Wraith

Votes: 1,490

11. Hitler: A Career (1977)

Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary, History

This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.

Directors: Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | Stars: Gert Westphal, Stephen Murray, Artur Axmann, General Bergeret

Votes: 3,032

12. The House on Carroll Street (1988)

PG | 101 min | Thriller

In 1950s America, an FBI agent and a blacklist victim uncover a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the country.

Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Jessica Tandy

Votes: 2,801 | Gross: $0.46M

13. The Anne Frank Gift Shop (2023)

15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A dark comedy about anti-Semitism that packs a vital and timely message. When a high-end design firm presents its plans to reimagine the gift shop at The Anne Frank House, the company's ... See full summary »

Director: Mickey Rapkin | Stars: Ari Graynor, Chris Perfetti, Kate Burton, Jason Butler Harner

Votes: 328

14. The Glass Wall (1953)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Peter is a refugee who wants to make a better life for himself in America, but he doesn't have the proper papers. Desperate for entry, he jumps ship and flees to New York to search for a World War II veteran whom he helped during the war.

Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer

Votes: 1,337

15. The Savage Peace (2015 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.

Director: Peter Molloy | Stars: Christa Ronke, Marianne Becker, Meda Mládek, Stanislava Zverinova

Votes: 310

16. Free Zone (2005)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

Two women embark on a road trip after they are brought together by circumstance. Rebecca (Portman) flees her hotel after a fight with her mother-in-law (Maura) and hails a taxi driven by Hanna (Lazlo).

Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Natalie Portman, Hana Laslo, Hiam Abbass, Carmen Maura

Votes: 3,006 | Gross: $0.03M

17. Un sac de billes (1975)

105 min | Biography, Drama

Two young French Jewish boys and their family struggle to survive in WWII during the invasion of Germans.

Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Richard Constantini, Paul-Eric Shulmann, Joseph Goldenberg, Reine Bartève

Votes: 360

18. A Visitor from the Living (1999)

Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary

An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.

Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Maurice Rossel, Claude Lanzmann

Votes: 275

19. Mr. Kaplan (2014)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

HD. A grumpy old man sees opportunity when he learns of a mysterious German man he suspects is a Nazi in hiding.

Director: Álvaro Brechner | Stars: Héctor Noguera, Néstor Guzzini, Rolf Becker, Nidia Telles

Votes: 974

20. Speak Up! It's So Dark... (1993)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama

This provocative, penetrating drama revolves around Jacob, a Jewish pyschiatrist, and Soren, a Nazi skinhead, who meet accidently. Soren has just been beaten up while taking part in a neo-Nazi demonstration.

Director: Suzanne Osten | Stars: Etienne Glaser, Simon Norrthon, Anna-Yrsa Falenius, Anders Garpe

Votes: 225

21. Battle for Warsaw (1978)

Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

Using rare newly found footage and eye-witness accounts from survivors, 'Battle for Warsaw' tells the tragic story of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in which nearly a quarter of a million Poles lost their lives.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski

Votes: 16

22. De sang et d'encre (2008 TV Movie)

88 min | Crime, Thriller

A man who was walking with his dog on the banks of the Seine River has been attacked by somebody who broke his neck and stabbed him ; when the police arrive the corpse had the number 5 ... See full summary »

Director: Charlotte Brändström | Stars: Florence Pernel, Stéphane Freiss, Pascal Rénéric, Nicolas Briançon

Votes: 40

23. Life? or Theatre? (2012)

86 min | Documentary, Biography, History

'Life? or Theatre? That is the name Charlotte Salomon (Berlin 1917 - Auschwitz 1943) gave to her autobiography, which comprised more than 700 paintings. Just before she was deported she ... See full summary »

Director: Frans Weisz | Star: Birgit Doll

Votes: 19

24. Réception de Simone Veil à l'Académie Française (2010 TV Special)

148 min | Documentary

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Director: Yves Barbara | Stars: Simone Veil, Jean-Denis Bredin, Jacques Chirac, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

25. Abelard Giza: Proteus Vulgaris (2017 TV Special)

46 min | Comedy

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Stars: Abelard Giza, Wiolka Walaszczyk

26. Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994)
Episode: The Nursing Home Murder (1993)

TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A member of Parliament who has taken controversial stands on Palestine and A-bomb development is murdered during a routine appendectomy.

Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: David Sibley, John Bennett, Ian Abeysekera, Peter Florence

Votes: 142

27. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Pirates of the Third Reich (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A half-naked woman is found half buried in the desert with a branding on her arm. She has no hair and is missing her right hand. The woman turns out to be Lady Heather's estranged daughter.... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 907

28. Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode: Ancient History (1997)

TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A new law suspending the statute of limitations on war atrocities has Kavanagh prosecuting a Polish doctor who stands accused of war crimes.

Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: John Thaw, Jonathan Adams, Robin Bailey, Gillian Bevan

Votes: 96

29. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Survivor (1996)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While investigating the murder of a coin collector, detectives discover the existence of extremely rare coins that belonged to a Holocaust survivor.

Director: Vincent Misiano | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 339

30. Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode: Roosters (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

As the schism between the two Millennium Group factions deepens, Frank, with the help of Lara Means and the hermit, discovers the existence of a secret third player in this power struggle, who targets them.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen J. Lang

Votes: 313

31. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Wren Boys: Part 2 (2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Boyd determines that Esther is the cause of the murder, but who killed her: McDonagh father or son or Killigan father or son?

Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 136

32. Leipzig Homicide (2001– )
Episode: Im Schatten des Adlers (2007)

42 min | Crime

The Czech police is looking for the collaboration of the SOKO Team. On a farm track near the Czech town of Bodenbach the corpse of a German lawyer, Jürgen Lippold, has been found. It seems that the lawyer has been hit by an unknown driver.

Director: Oren Schmuckler | Stars: Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Marco Girnth, Melanie Marschke, Tyron Ricketts

Votes: 10

33. Deutschland 89 (2020)
Episode: Magic (2020)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Thriller

When the terrorists put Martin to a radical test, he has to face his past.

Directors: Randa Chahoud, Soleen Yusef | Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Sylvester Groth, Corinna Harfouch

Votes: 197

34. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Genocide: 1941-1945 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The history of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, showing events leading to the "Final Solution". Footage and Interviews with SS officers and Jewish survivors from various countries describe... See full summary »

Director: Michael Darlow | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Karl Wolff, Wilhelm Hoettl, Avraham Kochavi

Votes: 449

35. Lights Out with David Spade (2019–2020)
Episode: Episode #1.60 (2019)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show

The panel features a reunion of three former Saturday Night Live (1975) Weekend Update anchors: Dennis Miller (1985-1991), Kevin Nealon (1991-1994) and Norm MacDonald (1994-1997) with a prerecorded cameo by Colin Quinn (1998-2000).

Directors: Liz Plonka, Jon Mackey | Stars: David Spade, Norm MacDonald, Kevin Nealon, Dennis Miller

Votes: 23

36. Lundi en histoires (2014– )
Episode: Elles étaient en guerre: 1939-1945 (2015)

91 min | Documentary, History

Mothers, nurses, soldiers and deportees - these women fought against persecution for freedom and survival amid the turbulence of World war II.

Directors: Fabien Beziat, Hugues Nancy | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Berthe Wild, Henri Frenay, Lucie Aubrac

Votes: 80

37. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: The Drowned and the Saved (2009)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A murder investigation uncovers connections to the governor's wife, and perhaps a scandal involving the governor and an appointment for an open US Senate seat. But can Jack McCoy ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Berner | Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Anthony Anderson, S. Epatha Merkerson, Linus Roache

Votes: 286

38. Ku'damm 63 (2021)
Episode: Teil 1 (2021)

90 min | Drama

Caterina is hit by a dramatic accident.

Director: Sabine Bernardi | Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle

Votes: 63

39. À la vitrine du libraire (1963–1968)
Episode: Pierre Nora et la collection "Archives" (1964)

9 min | Talk-Show

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Stars: Pierre Nora, Georges Bortoli

40. Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Episode: La Lutte décisive (2021)

Documentary, History, War

October 1941: as Hitler believes his triumph imminent, his men and tanks are freezing where they stand. Meanwhile, the Red Army consolidates his positions.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Lavrenti Beria

Votes: 33

41. Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode: The Home Front (2022)

Documentary, History

Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats. Deep rifts emerge, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and an enemy within plots to kill Hitler.

Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Pablo de Orellana, Afua Hirsch, Christian Goeschel

Votes: 64

42. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: A Superhuman Act of Inhumanity (2020)

Documentary, History, War

Betrayed, Stalin fights the German army in the Soviet states. The German occupation policies lead to the first extermination policies "undesirables".

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: David Stahel, Alexander Vershinin, Vitaly Makarevich, Vasil Pavlov

43. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Moscow Is Behind Us (2020)

Documentary, History, War

As Hitler's troops advance, occupants in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland take the brunt of the occupying forces cruelty; and the first concentration camps are created.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Vasil Pavlov, Vitaly Makarevich, Sergei Kudryashov, Liudmila Rybchenko

44. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Scorched Earth (2020)

Documentary, History, War

In Kursk, a battlefield the size of Wales, the tide turns and the Soviets push back, but as Germany retreats, they destroy all evidence of their genocidal activities.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Sergei Kudryashov, Alexander Vershinin, Ivan Patrylyak, Ihar Melnikau

45. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: This Has Happened (2020)

Documentary, History, War

Hitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border - with a death toll of over 40 million, a new scarred, Europe will emerge.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Aliaksandr Kakhanouski, David Stahel, Sergei Kudryashov, Dzmitry Kryvashei

46. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History

A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer

Votes: 146

47. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: The Cage (2013)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Foyle's investigation into the death of a nameless Russian leads to a mysterious military facility and the discovery that the victim was a spy with dangerous connections to British intelligence.

Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Laura Way, Simon Coury, Norma Sheahan, Radoslaw Kaim

Votes: 508

48. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: Heinrich Himmler (2022)

Documentary, History, War

An agriculturalist by trade, he went on to lead the SS and tried to escape responsibility at the end of the war. Who was Heinrich Himmler?

Director: Gabriele Rose | Stars: Christopher Browning, Alexandra Richie, Traudl Junge, Frank Bajohr

49. Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode: Hans Kammler (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Hans Kammler's fingerprints can be found all over the Third Reich's most prestigious and deadly engineering projects, including rockets and concentration camps.

Director: Matt Bone | Stars: Paul B. Jaskot, Michael Allen, Nigel Jones, Karina Urbach

50. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: The SS Death Head's Unit (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Tasked with guarding concentration camps, this unit's actions knew no bounds, and, despite their heinous acts, still attended social gatherings.

Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: Hans Münch, Richard John Evans, Christopher Browning, Harry Seidel