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- DirectorLászló NemesStarsGéza RöhrigLevente MolnárUrs RechnA Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
- DirectorCédric JimenezStarsJason ClarkeRosamund PikeJack O'ConnellAs 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".
- DirectorHarald ZwartStarsThomas GullestadJonathan Rhys MeyersMarie BlokhusThey were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.
- DirectorChristian DuguayStarsDorian Le ClechBatyste FleurialPatrick BruelIn 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.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsJakob DiehlPeter KurthYuliya KhlyninaFollows 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.
- DirectorEric BarbierStarsPierre NineyCharlotte GainsbourgDidier BourdonA 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.
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsKaspar VelbergKristjan ÜkskülaMaiken PiusIn 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsBurghart KlaußnerRonald ZehrfeldLilith StangenbergThe story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
- DirectorGiulio RicciarelliStarsAndré SzymanskiAlexander FehlingFriederike BechtA story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.
- DirectorDennis BotsStarsMaas BronkhuyzenJoes BrauersMichael NierseDuring WWII, the friendship of two boys is at risk when a girl tells a very personal secret to only one of them.
- DirectorLola DoillonStarsLéonie SouchaudFantine HarduinJuliane LepoureauFanny and her sisters attempt to escape Nazi occupied France but many dangers are ahead of them.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsDavid BowieTom ContiRyuichi SakamotoDuring WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
- DirectorThor KleinStarsPhilippe TlokinskiEsther GarrelSam KeeleyThe 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.
- DirectorVadim PerelmanStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartLars EidingerJonas NayA 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.
- DirectorAmichai GreenbergStarsOri PfefferRivka GurHagit DasbergYoel, 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.
- DirectorWladyslaw PasikowskiStarsPhilippe TlokinskiJulie EngelbrechtBradley JamesFilm about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsRoland MøllerLouis HofmannJoel BasmanIn 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.
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsFrançois LeterrierCharles Le ClaincheMaurice BeerblockA captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
- DirectorChristian FroschStarsKarl FischerAlexander E. FennonMelita JurisicThe 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. Survivors of the mass murder arrive to testify and obtain justice: to no avail.
- DirectorRobert EnricoStarsPhilippe NoiretRomy SchneiderJean BouiseDuring 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.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsJean GabinBourvilLouis de FunèsTwo 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.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsIvan TrojanJosef TrojanJuraj LojThe 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.
- DirectorAdrian PanekStarsKamil PolnisiakNicolas PrzygodaSonia MietielicaChildren liberated from a Nazi concentration camp have to overcome hunger, thirst and vicious dogs in an abandoned mansion surrounded by the forest.
- DirectorAndrey BogatyrevStarsAleksey ShevchenkovVladimir GostyukhinYura BorisovA detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
- DirectorMaksim BriusLeonid PlyaskinStarsAnastasia MishinaAnna UkolovaWolfgang CernyAutumn 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 Germans, while trying to set fire to the barn. Interrogations and torture have led nowhere. She did not say anything that could disrupt the assignment of other groups. The Nazis could not even achieve her real name - Her sacrifice was not in vain. Her feat inflamed millions of hearts, helping our soldiers to reach Berlin.
- DirectorAttila SzászStarsMarina GeraSándor CsányiLaura DöbrösiThe true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp.
- DirectorDejan BabosekStarsDomen ValicJernej GasperinAna SpikYoung 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.
- DirectorMichael PolishStarsMeadow WilliamsAl PacinoCarsten NorgaardAmerican Traitor follows the life of American woman Mildred Gillars and her lawyer who struggles to redeem her reputation.
- DirectorPeter BebjakStarsNoel CzuczorPeter OndrejickaFlorian PanznerA 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.
- DirectorGabriel Le BominStarsLambert WilsonIsabelle CarréOlivier GourmetParis, 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.
- DirectorRoman ShumunovStarsLeonid BerenshteinYaroslav KucherenkoAnton KarlinskyThe 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.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsDougray ScottKate WinsletSaffron BurrowsA young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
- DirectorVicente FerrazStarsDaniel de OliveiraFrancisco GasparJúlio AndradeThe unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsGaspard ManesseRaphael FejtöFrancine RacetteA 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.
- DirectorClaudio PoliStarsToni ServilloTimothy Garton AshJean-Marc DreyfusAn extraordinary report on how Hitler looted 'the great beauty' of Europe: the art that was the expression of its culture.
- DirectorPeter WebberStarsMatthew FoxColin MoyTommy Lee JonesAs 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.
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsIwan RheonMilo GibsonStefanie MartiniThe 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.
- DirectorVadim ShmelyovStarsArtyom GubinLubov KonstantinovaIgor YudinA 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.
- DirectorDoron PazYoav PazStarsAugust DiehlSylvia HoeksMichael AloniIn 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.
- DirectorRose BoschStarsJean RenoMélanie LaurentGad ElmalehA faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
- DirectorChristopher MenaulStarsBrenock O'ConnorAmanda AbbingtonJohn HannahLou 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.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsColin FirthMatthew MacfadyenKelly MacdonaldDuring WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.
- DirectorRenat DavletyarovStarsPyotr FyodorovAnna PeskovaValeriy GrishkoDuring 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.
- DirectorEd EhrenbergStarsLars DopplerSimon HangartnerClarissa MolocherA group of German soldiers become stranded in a German-Russian village of women and children during WWII.
- DirectorAri TaubStarsFrank LicariJohnny SoloCarmine RaspaoloRear Defense action film from the point of view of German and Italian soldiers.
- DirectorDominik SedlarJakov SedlarStarsFranco NeroCaspar PhillipsonArmand AssanteInspired 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
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsMarta KozlovaLyubov VorozhtsovaVladimir SapinDuring 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.
- DirectorLászló IllésStarsMiklós Székely B.Ákos HorváthTamás JordánHungary, 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.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovSergey TrofimovStarsPavel PriluchnyyPavel ChinaryovEvgeniy SerzinA captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers from communist crimes.
- DirectorArthur HarariStarsYûya EndôKanji TsudaYûya MatsuuraWhen Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days.
- DirectorNicholas DimitropoulosStarsMax von SydowAlice KrigeTomas AranaA fictional drama inspired by true events, the Massacre of Kalavryta, committed by invading German troops in Kalavryta, Greece, in December 1943.
- DirectorMaciej BarczewskiStarsPiotr GlowackiJan SzydlowskiGrzegorz MaleckiThe story of the pre-war boxing champion Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created Auschwitz concentration camp.
- DirectorMichel MitraniStarsChristian RistChristine PascalJudith MagreParis, July 1942. Paul, an idealist student, is warned of a vast roundup of Jews (the one that will remain under the name of "Vel d'Hiv"). In the hope of saving a few people, he wanders all day among the police, buses and families in tears, in the Saint-Paul district, to prevent and offer his help. Not being Jewish, he will not be worried by the police and the person - woman or child - who accompanies him will thus pass through the cracks. Unfortunately, his initiatives, sometimes clumsy, come up against incomprehension or disbelief. "French Jew, I'm not afraid," says a young woman arrested shortly thereafter. Discouraged, Paul accidentally avoids a girl from falling into the raid and, for several hours, tries to convince her to flee with him. It resists, at the same time for lack of confidence, fatalism and attachment to its traditionalist Jewish family. Often helped by the compassion of Parisians, young people escape the dangers and in the afternoon, discover, esteem, dream of a future, perhaps love. But, having arrived at the windows of the Louvre, left bank, salvation, Jeanne prefers to return to her family and this fidelity may lead to death.
- DirectorWojciech SmarzowskiStarsMichalina LabaczArkadiusz JakubikWasyl WasylikDespite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
- DirectorBernard CohnStarsPierre ArditiPhilippine Leroy-BeaulieuGérard BlainWW2: in an occupied France ,a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
- DirectorDavid AboucayaStarsLaurent GuiotPascal PutetFranck RasamisonDuring the Second World War, following an ambush carried out in a fort by German troops, Eugène, a French soldier, finds himself trapped underground. Now fighting for his survival, his destiny will play out alongside that of another survivor and both must find the energy to extricate themselves from a certain death, unaware of the terrible battle that awaits them on the outside.
- DirectorMartha CoolidgeStarsAdelaide ClemensLeo SuterStephen DorffA Catholic opera singer and Jewish violin virtuoso dream of performing together at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York City, but the German invasion of Poland tears them apart.
- DirectorJacek BlawutStarsTomasz ZietekMateusz KosciukiewiczAntoni PawlickiYear 1940. The crew of the Polish submarine struggles in the underwater darkness against all odds: attacks of the invisible enemy, claustrophobia, own fatigue, mistakes and failures.
- DirectorSteven OrittStarsZuzanna SurowyKonrad CichonPawel KrólikowskiSara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
- DirectorRyan LittleStarsCorbin AllredAlexander PolinskyKirby HeyborneFour American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
- DirectorBekbolat ShekerovStarsAleksandr BrukhatskiyValentina GartsuevaMakpal KasenovaDuring the Second World War, Lieutenant Adi Sharipov's platoon is lured into a swamp by the enemy. Discouragement takes hold of everyone, but they soon realize that inactivity will destroy them faster than enemy bullets.
- DirectorMax FärberböckStarsNina HossEvgeniy SidikhinIrm HermannA woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
- DirectorGabriela ZerhauStarsFritz KarlBrigitte HobmeierHarald WindischIn the last days of World War II, Gauleiter Eigruber ordered the blasting of the salt mine. Stolen art treasures are stored there. The villagers oppose it.
- DirectorSaskia DiesingStarsHanna van VlietEugénie AnselinAnna BachmannIn the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie and Jewish-Dutch woman Simone.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsMax RiemeltTom SchillingDevid StriesowFriedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
- DirectorAdrian GoigingerStarsSimon MorzéKarl MarkovicsAdriane GradzielAt the dawn of WW2, a young soldier encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The story of an unlikely friendship.