Best movies about the Holocaust

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Best movies about the Holocaust

Discover the best movies about the Holocaust, ranked from best to worst.

Based on 0 votes, the movie Ida, starring Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza, came in first as the best movie about the Holocaust of all time, followed by Life Is Beautiful and One Life from 2023. Scroll down for the top 10 movies about the Holocaust, recommended by movie fans in 2026.

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Ida
2013 - Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid OgrodnikDrama
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In 1960s Poland, Anna, a young woman raised in a convent, learns just before taking her vows as a nun that she is Jewish, and sets off with her aunt to find out what happened to their •••
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Life Is Beautiful
1997 - Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio CantariniComedy, Drama
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Guido, a cheerful Jewish bookseller in Italy, is deported with his wife and son to a concentration camp, where he convinces the boy that it is all just a game with prizes. Roberto Benigni •••
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One Life
2023 - Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena OlinHistory, Drama
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In the 1930s, British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia and makes plans to rescue Jewish children before World War II, in an operation that became known as the •••
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Son of Saul
2015 - Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs RechnWar, Drama, Thriller
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Auschwitz, 1944: Saul, a Jewish prisoner forced to work at the crematoria, recognises his son in the body of a boy and tries to bury him according to Jewish tradition. Géza Röhrig, Levente •••
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 5
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 - Asa Butterfield, Vera Farmiga, David ThewlisDrama, War, History
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Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, moves with his family from Berlin to a house in Poland and befriends Shmuel, a Jewish boy living on the other side of a concentration camp fence. Asa •••
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The Counterfeiters
2007 - Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid StriesowDrama, War
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Salomon Sorowitsch, a Jewish forger held in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, is forced by the Nazis to run a secret workshop printing counterfeit money. Karl Markovics, August Diehl •••
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 7
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970 - Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio TestiDrama, History
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In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family welcomes friends for tennis and parties in the garden of their villa, while the Fascist laws against Jews close in on them. Lino Capolicchio •••
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The Round Up 8
The Round Up
2010 - Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad ElmalehDrama, History, War
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In July 1942, thousands of Jewish families in Paris are arrested by the French police and held at the Vel' d'Hiv stadium. The film follows some of these families and the people who try to •••
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The Shop on Main Street 9
The Shop on Main Street
1965 - Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner, František ZvaríkDrama, War
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In a small Slovak town during World War II, the carpenter Tono is put in charge of a button shop owned by an elderly Jewish widow, Rozalie, and the two become friends just as the •••
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The Zookeeper's Wife
2017 - Jessica Chastain, Daniel Brühl, Johan HeldenberghDrama, History, War
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During the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, Jan and Antonina Żabiński, the keepers of the city zoo, save hundreds of people and animals. Jessica Chastain plays Antonina, alongside Johan •••
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This list includes, for example, One Life, Ida, Son of Saul.

What are the most recent movies in this list?

Among the titles with a known release year, the most recent are: One Life (2023), The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Son of Saul (2015).

Which movies from 2010–2019 are included?

Titles released in this period include The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Son of Saul (2015), Ida (2013).

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