The Zone of Interest (
2023) | IMDb:
8
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Starring:
Christian Friedel
,
Sandra Hüller
,
Medusa Knopf
,
Daniel Holzberg
,
Ralph Herforth
,
Maximilian Beck
All Quiet on the Western Front (
2022) | IMDb:
7.8
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Starring:
Felix Kammerer
,
Albrecht Schuch
,
Aaron Hilmer
,
Moritz Klaus
,
Adrian Grünewald
,
Edin Hasanović
Directed by:
Edward Berger
TÁR (
2022) | IMDb:
7.4
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
Charlie's Angels (
2019) | IMDb:
5
Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It will be ready as soon as she works out the last issue, if not it could be turned into a dangerous weapon. But when the cutting edge technology is pushed to an investor before she can do that, Elena turns to the Townsend Agency for help. Now, it's up to the Angels -- Jane, Sabina, and the newly recruited Elena -- to retrieve Calisto before it can be transformed into a weapon of mass destruction.
Starring:
Kristen Stewart
,
Naomi Scott
,
Ella Balinska
,
Elizabeth Banks
,
Patrick Stewart
,
Djimon Hounsou
Land of Mine (
2015) | IMDb:
7.8
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.
Starring:
Roland Møller
,
Louis Hofmann
,
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
,
Joel Basman
,
Laura Bro
,
Oskar Bökelmann
Woman in Gold (
2015) | IMDb:
7.3
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
A Most Wanted Man (
2014) | IMDb:
6.7
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
Starring:
Philip Seymour Hoffman
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Robin Wright
,
Rachel McAdams
,
Grigoriy Dobrygin
,
Homayoun Ershadi
The Grand Budapest Hotel (
2014) | IMDb:
8.1
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Tony Revolori
,
Mathieu Amalric
,
Adrien Brody
,
Willem Dafoe
The Monuments Men (
2014) | IMDb:
6.1
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
Starring:
George Clooney
,
Matt Damon
,
Bill Murray
,
John Goodman
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Hugh Bonneville
Directed by:
George Clooney
The Book Thief (
2013) | IMDb:
7.5
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Starring:
Geoffrey Rush
,
Sophie Nélisse
,
Emily Watson
,
Nico Liersch
,
Ben Schnetzer
,
Heike Makatsch
War Horse (
2011) | IMDb:
7.2
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Starring:
Jeremy Irvine
,
Peter Mullan
,
Emily Watson
,
Niels Arestrup
,
David Thewlis
,
Tom Hiddleston
The White Ribbon (
2009) | IMDb:
7.8
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Starring:
Christian Friedel
,
Ernst Jacobi
,
Burghart Klaußner
,
Steffi Kühnert
,
Maria Dragus
,
Susanne Lothar
Directed by:
Michael Haneke
Inglourious Basterds (
2009) | IMDb:
8.4
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Starring:
Brad Pitt
,
Mélanie Laurent
,
Christoph Waltz
,
Eli Roth
,
Michael Fassbender
,
Diane Kruger
The Reader (
2008) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Yella (
2007) | IMDb:
6.7
A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her.
Starring:
Nina Hoss
,
Devid Striesow
,
Hinnerk Schönemann
,
Burghart Klaußner
,
Barbara Auer
,
Christian Redl