The Pianist(2002)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.



Schindler's List(1993)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.



Defiance(2008)

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Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2008)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.



La vita è bella(1997)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.



Denial(2016)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.



In Darkness(2011)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.



Operation Finale(2018)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A team of secret agents set out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.



The Big Red One(1980)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.



Sophie's Choice(1982)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 57

After spending time with his new neighbors, an aspiring writer realizes they are harboring deep secrets that will forever change him.



Remember(2015)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 61

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.



The Grey Zone(2001)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.



Amen.(2002)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 54

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.



Saul fia(2015)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 45

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.



Jakob the Liar(1999)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 51

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German ...



Phoenix(2014)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.



Un secret(2007)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.



Fugitive Pieces(2007)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.



Sorstalanság(2005)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 44

14-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary as he is sent to a concentration camp where he is forced to become a man, and learns to find happiness in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.



Adam Resurrected(2008)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 51

In the aftermath of WWII, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.




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