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12 films tagged the holocaust
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A 94-year-old moves to New York after her closest friend dies, wanders into a support group for Holocaust survivors, and starts telling her friend's story as her own. A young student takes an interest.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
In 1943, a customs officer in a village on the Spanish-French border goes against his superiors to help Jews escape Vichy France. A neighbour and a French smuggler take the risk with him.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
In 1942 a mid-level official in Sweden's foreign ministry starts using visas, paperwork and legal loopholes to pull Jewish refugees out of Nazi-occupied Europe. A true story told in offices and quiet arguments.
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2009 · War
In occupied France a squad of American soldiers hunts Nazis behind the lines while a young cinema owner in Paris makes plans of her own. It is built out of long talking scenes that keep tightening.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Comedy
A ten-year-old in the Hitler Youth, whose imaginary friend is a clownish Adolf Hitler, finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Broad silly jokes sitting right next to the worst thing in the room.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · Drama
A Hungarian architect who survived the war arrives in Pennsylvania with nothing, and a rich man hires him to build something enormous on a hill. Three and a half hours, with an interval in the middle.
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2023 · Drama
A German officer and his wife bring up their children in a house with a nice garden, on the other side of a wall from the camp he runs. Almost nothing happens on screen; you hear what is happening next door.
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1997 · Drama
An Italian Jewish bookseller charms his way into a marriage, and years later persuades his small son that the camp they are sent to is an elaborate game. Two halves, and the first is a comedy.
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1993 · Drama
A German businessman staffs his factory with Jewish workers from the Krakow ghetto, first to save money and then for another reason. Black and white, and over three hours.
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Little-known
2015 · Drama
A prisoner forced to work in the crematoria at Auschwitz decides to find a rabbi and bury one boy properly. The camera stays on his face and blurs everything behind him.
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2024 · Comedy
Two cousins who have drifted apart take a group tour of Poland to see the town their grandmother left. It is mostly the two of them talking, funny and awkward by turns.
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2002 · Drama
A Polish radio pianist survives the Warsaw ghetto and then hides alone in the ruins of the city. The second half is almost entirely one man and silence.
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