Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "german-jew"

1. Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

PG | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.

Director: Rich Moore | Stars: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman

Votes: 458,521 | Gross: $189.42M

2. Generation War (2013)

TV-MA | 270 min | Action, Drama, History

Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.

Stars: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein

Votes: 32,592 | Gross: $0.09M

3. Good (2008)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War

John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.

Director: Vicente Amorim | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh

Votes: 7,838 | Gross: $0.02M

4. Voyage of the Damned (1976)

PG | 155 min | Drama, War

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 3,406

5. The Good German (2006)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation that involves his former mistress and his driver.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges

Votes: 26,077 | Gross: $1.31M

6. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

Approved | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War

On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore

Votes: 3,715

7. The Invisibles (2017)

110 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.

Director: Claus Räfle | Stars: Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Aaron Altaras

Votes: 1,726 | Gross: $0.41M

8. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Approved | 103 min | Biography, Drama

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp

Votes: 1,826

9. The Defector (1966)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.

Director: Raoul Lévy | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Macha Méril, David Opatoshu

Votes: 813

10. Hotel Europa (2021–2022)

90 min | Drama, History, War

This is the untold story of a generation; chronicling a hotel frequented by Charlie Chaplin, Konrad Adenauer, and Adolf Hitler.

Stars: Jonathan Berlin, Benjamin Sadler, Katharina Schüttler, Pauline Rénevier

Votes: 392

11. The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.

Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Jörg Schüttauf

Votes: 6,119 | Gross: $0.28M

12. Ku'damm 59 (2018)

278 min | Drama

This is a story about a woman and her three daughters in Germany in the 1950s. One of the daughters wants more from life and becomes a part of the rock'n'roll subculture.

Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle

Votes: 1,341

13. Der ewige Jude (1940)

62 min | Documentary, History

Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race", designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of western civilisation fall off.

Director: Fritz Hippler | Stars: Curt Bois, Charles Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 3,930

14. Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

PG | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, War

Tells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.

Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Isa Baschwitz, Mary Bos

Votes: 1,349 | Gross: $1.31M

15. Max Schmeling (2010)

Not Rated | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Max Schmeling's fights against Joe Louis are listed in the best ten boxing matches of all time.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Henry Maske, Heino Ferch, Susanne Wuest, Vladimir Weigl

Votes: 1,221

16. Bye Bye Germany (2017)

102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.

Director: Sam Garbarski | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Tim Seyfi, Mark Ivanir

Votes: 1,765 | Gross: $0.07M

17. The Flat (2011)

Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary

As a documentarian cleans out the flat that belonged to his grandparents--both immigrants from Nazi Germany--he uncovers clues pointing to a complicated, shocking story.

Director: Arnon Goldfinger | Stars: Michael Adler, Yaron Amit, Avrham Barkai, Meital Beili

Votes: 1,509 | Gross: $0.47M

18. The Seventh Room (1995)

108 min | Biography, Drama, War

This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. ... See full summary »

Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Elide Melli, Jan Nowicki, Anna Polony

Votes: 235

19. 15 Amore (1998)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War

Peace within war. An adult voice narrates a story of childhood during World War II.

Director: Maurice Murphy | Stars: Lisa Hensley, Steve Bastoni, Domenic Galati, Tara Jakszewicz

Votes: 231

20. Berlin 1933 - Tagebuch einer Großstadt (2023)

Documentary, History

Using extracts from individuals' diaries and some film records, this documentary series tells the story of the changes that occurred in Berlin (and Germany) during the pivotal year of 1933.

Stars: Tobias Büchner, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Sophie Diernberger, August Diernberger

Votes: 72

21. Winter Journey (2019)

87 min | Biography, Drama, History

Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Over a weekend, he confronts his father and we are brought back to the complex and confusing 1930s when the parents were young musicians.

Directors: Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Martin Goldsmith, Harvey Friedman, Leonard Scheicher

Votes: 140

22. Die Akte Joel (2001 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

Beate Thalberg's critically acclaimed documentary tells the story of two German families, whose ways first cross in the 1930s. Karl Amson Joel owned the fourth largest mail order company in... See full summary »

Director: Beate Thalberg | Stars: Ben Becker, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Alexander Joel

Votes: 24

23. Menschliches Versagen (2008)

Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary

The so-called "Aryanization" in fascist Germany is without a doubt the biggest raids of the 20th century. Nonetheless, the issue is consistently hushed up. Because it was not the Gestapo, ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Götz Aly, Senta Berger, August Zirner

Votes: 44

24. Malou (1981)

R | 95 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Malou feels that the difficulties she is experiencing in her relationships lie in her past and so she searches out information about her mother. Her mother, a nightclub singer who lived in ... See full summary »

Director: Jeanine Meerapfel | Stars: Ingrid Caven, Grischa Huber, Helmut Griem, Ivan Desny

Votes: 52

25. Carl Laemmle (2019)

91 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Carl Laemmle is a feature documentary about the extraordinary life story of Carl Laemmle, the German-Jewish immigrant who founded Universal Pictures, and saved over 300 Jewish families from Nazi Germany.

Director: James L. Freedman | Stars: Antonia Carlotta, Ahilan Arulanantham, Bob Balaban, Peter Bogdanovich

Votes: 233

26. The Essential Link: The Story of Wilfrid Israel (2016)

82 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Not a great deal of archival material about Wilfrid Israel has survived but, with the aid of photographs, a few documents, eyewitness interviews, and archival material relating to the rise ... See full summary »

Director: Yonatan Nir

Votes: 11

27. What Hitler Has Done to Tel Aviv (2011)

30 min | Documentary, Short

A documentary inspired by an article in the Palestine Post from 1933.

Director: Yael Katzir | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Yael Katzir, Nurith Knaan Kedar

28. Schocken, on the Verge of Consensus (2020)

75 min | Documentary

Salman Schocken was the King of department stores in Germany. Before WWII, he owned 22 department stores with 6,000 employees. He possessed a unique collection of 60,000 rare books in ... See full summary »

Director: Noemi Schory

Votes: 9

29. A Life for Football (2014 TV Movie)

Biography, Drama, History

Jewish Kurt Landauer considers leaving Germany on the eve of WW II, but when he sees his big love, the football club Bayern Munich, lying in ruins, he decides to take the risc, stay and rebuild the club.

Director: Hans Steinbichler | Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Jeanette Hain, Herbert Knaup, Andreas Lust

Votes: 229

30. Operation Sunflower (2014)

105 min | Drama, History

Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.

Director: Avraham Kushnir | Stars: Yehoram Gaon, Baruch Brener, Daniella Kertesz, Tzufit Grant

Votes: 53

31. Call Her Lotte (2014)

17 min | Short, Drama, War

The deep friendship between young theater actresses Maria and her Jewish friend Lea gradually starts to break as Marias husband Hans goes from being a young adventurer to a high ranking SS ... See full summary »

Director: Annekathrin Wetzel | Stars: Lola Dockhorn, Maria Ehrich, Kai-Peter Malina, Peter Kollmann

Votes: 25

32. Die Ungewollten - Die Irrfahrt der St. Louis (2019 TV Movie)

88 min | Documentary, Drama, History

The movie is based on the real story of 937 German Jewish refugees leaving from Hamburg in 1939, far from Nazism to Cuba. Their journey for freedom became an Odyssey on the Atlantic ocean.

Director: Ben von Grafenstein | Stars: Ulrich Noethen, Britta Hammelstein, Johannes Kienast, Florian Panzner

Votes: 138

33. I Shot My Love (2009)

56 min | Documentary

Seventy years after his grandfather escapes from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Israeli documentary director Tomer Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film "Paper ... See full summary »

Director: Tomer Heymann | Stars: Tomer Heymann, Zvi Heymann, Andreas Merk, Wieland Speck

Votes: 112

34. Hate: A Journey to the Dark Heart of Racism (2014 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

Nadav Eyal in a fascinating journey to meet the new anti-semitics in Europe. Rare interviews with Neo-Nazis, extreme writers and victims of antisemitism.

Director: Nadav Eyal | Stars: Nadav Eyal, Adonis Georgiades, Dieter Hanitzsch, Fiyaz Mughal

35. Die fünf Frankfurter (1922)

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Director: Erich Schönfelder | Stars: Karl Beckersachs, Ernst Behmer, Arthur Bergen, Rita Burg

36. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: The Posthumous Collection (2004)

TV-14 | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A controversial photographer is murdered, and his last shoot holds the vital clue.

Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 301

37. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode: Orders & Initiatives (2005)

TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History, War

Hoss deals with complications arising from the makeshift gas chamber and increasing demand as the Nazis begin to scour all of Europe for more people to bring to Auschwitz and kill.

Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Kazimierz Smolen

Votes: 188

38. Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode: The First Six Months in Power (2019)

Documentary, History

At the start of 1933, Hitler is the chancellor of Germany but he does not have absolute power. He sets his sights on dismantling the German state.

Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Richard Overy, Ash Sarkar, Heike B. Görtemaker

Votes: 123

39. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: A New Germany: 1933-1939 (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The rebirth of Germany and growth in power of the Nazi Party leading up to the outbreak of war.

Director: Hugh Raggett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Hans Kehrl, Georg Konrad Morgen, Heinz Reinheimer

Votes: 700

40. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Germany is jubilant after the surrender of France. Then the unsuccessful expansion of the war to include Russia and England gradually turns German morale from joy to fatalism. Even der ... See full summary »

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Marlene Tucking, Hans Kehrl, Christabel Bielenberg

Votes: 388

41. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Golden Door (Beginnings-1938) (2022)

TV-14 | 129 min | Documentary, History

A xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration. Hitler and the Nazis persecute German Jews, forcing many to seek refuge. FDR is concerned by the growing crisis but is unable to coordinate a response.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Peter Hayes, Daniel Mendelsohn, Rebecca Erbelding

Votes: 203

42. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022)

TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes

Votes: 157

43. Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)
Episode: La menace (2011)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

Hitler's charismatic speeches may have won the impoverished but would the National Socialist Party risen to power without the Great Depression?

Director: Isabelle Clarke | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Richard Lintern, Doug Rand, Hans Baur

Votes: 145

44. Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)
Episode: Le Führer (2011)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

Was the support of a politically polarized minority of the population all Hitler needed to maneuver the Nazi party from a position of moderate influence to control of the government or was there more?

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Richard Lintern, Doug Rand, Hans Baur

Votes: 138

45. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: The Romeo Project (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Gabrielle Kleim was one of many women working in West Germany targeted by "Romeo Spies." Duped into sharing intelligence for love at the behest of the "Man Without a Face", East German HVA Chief Marcus Wolf.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: James M. Olson, Paul Maddrell, H. Keith Melton, David Charney

46. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: The Executioner: Reinhard Heydrich (2022)

Documentary, History, War

More than any other Nazi leader, Heydrich was an orchestrator of mass murder, and was terrifyingly clinical in approach.

Director: Alexander Hugh | Stars: Anna Hajkova, Robert Gerwarth, Alexandra Richie, Richard John Evans

47. Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode: Albert Speer (2023)

Documentary, History, War

In his role as Adolf Hitler's favourite architect, Albert Speer was a central figure in the Fuhrer's inner circle and helped cement his position in power.

Director: Tom Williams | Stars: Karina Urbach, Magnus Brechtken, Paul B. Jaskot, Alexander Schmidt

48. Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode: Ferdinand Porsche (2024)

Documentary, History, War

The designer of one of the most popular car brands in history, Ferdinand Porsche would not have seen his success without the support of Adolf Hitler.

Director: James Wright | Stars: Shalina Patel, Nigel Jones, Karl Ludvigsen, Guy Walters

49. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: Unrepentant: The SS and its Myth After 1945 (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Drawing a line to the present, the atrocities of the SS are beyond all doubt, yet, there is a cult surrounding 'old comrades' today.

Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: James Milano, Peter Hammerschmidt, Benjamin Ferencz, Bastian Hein

50. Der Tel-Aviv-Krimi (2016–2017)
Episode: Tod in Berlin (2016)

88 min | Crime, Drama

Tamar, a well known disk jockey of Israeli origin, was murdered in Berlin. Sara Stein is the detective sent for the investigation.

Director: Matthias Tiefenbacher | Stars: Katharina Lorenz, Katharina Marie Schubert, Aljoscha Stadelmann, Itay Tiran

Votes: 36