Best Holocaust movies of 1980s

Actors : Carlos De Mateis, Oscar Ferrigno Jr., Paula Canals, Karel Chromík,
Directors : Beda Docampo Feijóo,

September, 1942. Rural Polish Jews go into hiding. Nachman, Liba, their four sons, and two teen neighbors go underground, digging a pit bunker where they hide during the day. One girl can't...

Actors : Trudy Labij, Manouk van der Meulen, Tom Hulce, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Piotr Andrejew,

The story of a war refugee who's hiding in Amsterdam.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Josef Sommer, John Seitz, Renée Soutendijk,
Directors : Rick King,

Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the ...

Actors : Malgorzata Pritulak, Agnieszka Konopczynska, Tomasz Jarosinski, Jacek Bryniarski,
Directors : Stanislaw Jedryka,

Set in 1939 tells a story of friendship among three 10-year olds, living in town of Sosnowiec: a Polish and Jewish boys and a German girl. The Jewish boy's parents are killed and he is ...

Actors : Günther Maria Halmer, Daniela Schötz, Robert Dietl, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Jörg Graser,

A chest full of gold teeth extracted from Holocaust victims reveals terrible secrets. This revelation forever changes the lives of Abraham, his family members and other inhabitants of a ...

Actors : Anna Dymna, Mathieu Carrière, Sharon Brauner, Günter Lamprecht,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to ...

Actors : Wladyslaw Kowalski, Rafal Wieczynski, Halina Mikolajska, Maja Komorowska,
Directors : Waldemar Dziki,

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced ...

Actors : Sebastian Keneas, David Spielberg, Cheryl Gianini, Kyra Sedgwick,
Directors : Moshé Mizrahi,

Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) ...

Actors : Ewa Szykulska, Ewa Salacka, Alicja Jachiewicz, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz,
Directors : Vladislav Ikonomov,

The action in the film takes place in 1941. Five polish women of different age and an adopted Jewish girl have been exiled to a small Bulgarian town on the Black Sea coast. They do believe ...

Actors : Kai Fischer, Tina Aumont, William Berger, Elisabeth Tulin,
Directors : Angelo Pannacciò,

A secret group of Jewish activists locates and murders the Nazi doctors and soldiers who tortured and murdered their relatives in a notorious extermination camp.

Actors : Magdalena Curyk, Simona Duleba, Monika Bolly, Stanislaw Brudny,
Directors : Radoslaw Piwowarski,

Young people living in Poland in the late 1960s had to face difficult times and make tough choices. Some of them were forced to leave their country for having Jewish origin. And for political reasons.

Actors : Tibor Szilágyi, Ferenc Bács, Zoltán Nagy, Klaus Abramowsky,
Directors : Erika Szántó,

Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, she was looking kinda dumb with her finger in her thumb and the shape of an L on her forehead