Best Holocaust movies of 1980s

Actors : Ewa Szykulska, Ewa Salacka, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Alicja Jachiewicz,
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 : 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 : 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 : Aleksandr Timoshkin, Leonid Markov, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Igor Gorbachyov,
Directors : Sergey Kolosov,

Mother Maria Skobtsova, a Russian nun, helps Jews and other people hated by the Gestapo during World War II. Eventually, the Gestapo finds out and takes her away to the Ravensbruk Concentration Camp.

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 : 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 : Gosia Dobrowolska, Ivar Kants, Steve Bisley, Anna Maria Monticelli,
Directors : Sophia Turkiewicz,

After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Marcin Tronski, Krzysztof Kolberger, Piotr Skiba, Adam Kamien,
Directors : Leszek Wosiewicz,

A young musician uses his talents to fight for dignity and survival at Auschwitz Concentration Camp.