Movies like The Counterfeiters
If The Counterfeiters's mix of nazi, concentration camp and holocaust (shoah) stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Counterfeiters's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Downfall
2004 · Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel · 155 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, 1940s · Also a German drama · From the same decade (2000s)
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west.
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Persian Lessons
2020 · Directed by Vadim Perelman · 127 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, concentration camp, world war ii · Also a German war film
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 swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian.
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Labyrinth of Lies
2014 · Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli · 122 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, holocaust (shoah), world war ii · Also a German drama
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
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The Tin Drum
1979 · Directed by Volker Schlöndorff · 162 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, 1940s · Also a German drama
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, concentration camp, holocaust (shoah) · Also drama and war
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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The Pianist
2002 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 150 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, holocaust (shoah), world war ii · Also drama and war · From the same decade (2000s)
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his…
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Conspiracy
2001 · Directed by Frank Pierson · 96 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, holocaust (shoah), world war ii · Also drama and war · From the same decade (2000s)
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
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Lee
2024 · Directed by Ellen Kuras · 117 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: concentration camp, holocaust (shoah), world war ii · Also drama and war
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
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Europa Europa
1990 · Directed by Agnieszka Holland · 112 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii · Also a German drama
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
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The Captain
2018 · Directed by Robert Schwentke · 118 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also a German war film
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich.
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Fury
2014 · Directed by David Ayer · 135 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
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Life Is Beautiful
1997 · Directed by Roberto Benigni · 116 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: nazi, concentration camp, holocaust (shoah)
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 abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp…