concentration camp prisoner movies

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
7.843 / 10

Drama, War, History

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of...

Life Is Beautiful (1997)
8.451 / 10

Comedy, Drama

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an...

Bent (1997)
6.8 / 10

Drama, History, Romance

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a...

Persian Lessons (2020)
7.639 / 10

War, Drama

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by...

Men Behind the Sun (1988)
6.12 / 10

War, History, Horror

The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of...

Escape (1940)
7.393 / 10

Drama, Thriller

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess...

Night Train to Munich (1940)
7.3 / 10

Drama, Thriller, War

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

The Last Stage (1948)
7.1 / 10

Drama

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of...

The Invisibles (2017)
7 / 10

Drama, History

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."

Bardejov (2024)
1 / 10

History, War

The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was 9 years old when he and his family in Bardejov, Slovakia were sent to a concentration camp.

1945: The Savage Peace (2015)
7.4 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic...

And Along Come Tourists (2007)
6.6 / 10

Drama

Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85...

And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)
7.5 / 10

War, Drama

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a...

Kornblumenblau (1989)
6.8 / 10

Drama, History, Music

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.

Dawn of the Nazis (2017)
6 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just...

Germans (1997)
0 / 10

Drama

A story about a German family during World War II with every family member having a different approach to Jews, raging from hatred to compassion.

Men and Beasts (1962)
5.2 / 10

Drama

The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the...

Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape (2014)
6.5 / 10

Documentary, History

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and...

Five Minutes of Paradise (1959)
0 / 10

Drama

Two concentration camp prisoners are taken by Nazis to disable un exploded bombs in German towns. When they work on the ruins, with their guards...

Mengele mi říkal prosím (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary