Fighter (2000), Divan (2003), Paragraph 175 (2000), Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2006), The Specialist (1999), Shoah (1985), Life Is Beautiful (1997) , The Pianist (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Holocaust movies.
Storyline: This documentary charts the artistic collaboration between the avant-garde dance troupe Pilobolus and author Maurice Sendak as they prepare the Holocaust-themed performance "A Selection." It's the first time the dance company has collaborated with someone outside the troupe, which leads to some tension. The occasionally stormy creative process is portrayed along with interviews, rehearsals and archival footage depicting the historical events from which the group takes its inspiration.
Plot Keywords: dancer, choreographer, author, illustrator, collaborator, creative, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bruno an eight-year-old boy from Berlin, Germany is moved with his mother, Elder sister, SS Commander father to a countryside in Europe where his father powers over a concentration camp for Jews. Bruno went "exploring" one day and befriended a child his age named Shmuel. Shmuel was a Jew. The boy became good friends until Bruno was scheduled to move to a new location.
Plot Keywords: commander, son, jew, mother, sister, bleak, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 'Against The Tide' examines the conflict that erupted in the American Jewish community over the best means to rescue the European Jews trying to escape the Holocaust. It tells the little known story of Peter Bergson, who tirelessly stood up against American Jewish leaders in the late 30's and early 40's in an effort to save the Jews of Europe.—Richard Trank
Plot Keywords: american, jew, holocaust survivor, historian, expert, documentarian, activist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For nine months prior to World War II, in an act of mercy unequalled anywhere else before the war, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission, opening its doors to over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children, or Kinder (sing. Kind), as they came to be known, were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. The majority of them never saw their families again.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: jew, child, german, czech, foster child, british man, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a poor neighborhood of New York, the bitter and lonely Jewish pawnbroker Sol Nazerman is a survivor from Auschwitz that has no emotions or feelings. Sol lost his dearest family and friends in the war and his faith in God and belief in mankind. Now he only cares for money and is haunted by daydreams, actually flashbacks from the period of the concentration camp. Sol's assistant is the ambitious Latino Jesus Ortiz, who wants to learn with Sol how to run a business of his own. When Sol realizes that the obscure laundry business he has with the powerful gangster Rodriguez comes also from brothels, Sol recalls the fate of his beloved wife in the concentration camp and has a nervous breakdown. His attitude leads Jesus Ortiz to tragedy and Sol finds a way to cry.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: survivor, employee, boss, neighbor, criminal, bleak, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Jewish boy, separated from his family in the early days of WWII, poses as a German orphan and is thereafter taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually made a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story.
Plot Keywords: teenager, nazi, girlfriend, father, bleak, emotional, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.
Plot Keywords: writer, immigrant, crazy person, nazi, child, sad, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary portrait chronicling the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist. As her 90th birthday approaches, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and her career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.—Production
Plot Keywords: holocaust survivor, doctor, striking, raw, powerful, nazi germany, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live in a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Léon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Léon lends books to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism and becomes closer to Léon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: communist, widow, mother, priest, daughter, tense, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After WWII, Jewish Holocaust survivors are moved into Displaced Persons' camps. After delays, more physical hardship, and years of uncertainty, they are permitted to begin new lives in Israel and the U.S.—Eileen Berdon <eberdon@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: holocaust survivor, narrator, jew, refugee, bleak, intense, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, known also as Janusz Korczak, is a man of high principles. He is unafraid of shouting at German officers and frequently has to be persuaded to save his own life. His orphanage, set up in a cramped school in the Warsaw ghetto, provides shelter to 200 homeless kids. Putting his experimental educational methods into practice, he installs a kind of children's self-government, whose justice is in a big contrast to what is happening in the outside world. Right in front of the school, dozens of kids are dying or being killed everyday and their naked bodies lie on the street unattended. Ghetto's mayor assures Korczak that the orphanages will be saved. Korczak raises food and money for the orphanage from the rich Jews. In the final roundup he refuses to accept a Swiss passport and boards the train to Treblinka with his orphans.—Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>
Plot Keywords: pediatrician, nazi, orphan, child, friend, jew, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Nazi-occupied Holland in World War II, shopkeeper Kraler hides two Jewish families in his attic. Young Anne Frank keeps a diary of everyday life for the Franks and the Van Daans, chronicling the Nazi threat as well as family dynamics. A romance with Peter Van Daan causes jealousy between Anne and her sister, Margot. Otto Frank returns to the attic many years after the eventual capture of both families and finds his late daughter's diary.
Plot Keywords: anne frank, father, dentist, sister, boyfriend, mother, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s, a widowed school teacher, Odile (Emmanuelle Béart), races to get out of Paris with her two children, Philippe (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Cathy (Clémence Meyer). Destruction and mayhem in the city streets force the family to flee into the forest, where they meet a 17-year-old boy, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), who leads them to a safe house. Once there, Odile and Yvan explore their sexual feelings for each other, even as the Nazis pursue them.
Plot Keywords: widow, schoolteacher, teen boy, nazi, son, daughter, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Socha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the German-occupied town of Lvov (former Poland).—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: sanitation worker, jew, nazi, gripping, suspenseful, moving, sewer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Oskar Gröning was one of the last surviving members of the SS to be implicated in Nazi crimes against humanity. Becoming known as the "Accountant of Auschwitz," he was charged with the murder of 300,000 Jews after coming to wider attention for his appearance on the BBC documentary series Auschwitz: The Nazis & the 'Final Solution' (2005). When he took the stand in 2015, at the age of 94, his trial made headlines worldwide. The debate around his prosecution is at the center of this historic yet contemporary look at justice. As survivors travel to Germany to testify, the heinous acts of the Holocaust remain vivid and traumatic. For some, there is no room for debate: Gröning was witness and therefore complicit, regardless of his duty to follow orders. Others look at a frail man in the last years of his life and see no reason to pursue charges. Bringing war criminals to justice, with no statute of limitations, asks fundamental moral questions with few simple answers. From Nuremberg to the new alt-right, The Accountant of Auschwitz constructs a stark reminder that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.—Alexander Rogalski
Plot Keywords: ss officer, holocaust survivor, witness, gripping, intricate, courtroom, documentaries ...
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