Top Anti-nazi Resistance Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Ariella Glaser

Orlando Schwerdt

Bryce Gheisar

Gillian Anderson

White Bird (2023)

7.8 241 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.

Plot: nazi, holocaust (shoah), private school, bullying, hitler youth, coming of age, german occupation of france, kindness, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: france

Cast

Asa Butterfield

Vera Farmiga

David Thewlis

Jack Scanlon

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

7.8 7.7K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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 the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

Plot: based on novel or book, nazi, nationalism, concentration camp, gas chamber, concentration camp prisoner, children in wartime

Time: world war ii

Cast

Julie Andrews

Christopher Plummer

Eleanor Parker

Charmian Carr

The Sound of Music (1965)

7.7 3.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Family, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 174 min.

Audience: G

Story: In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

Plot: resistance, musical, based on true story, music competition, based on play or musical, alps mountains, governess, convent (nunnery), ...

Time: world war ii, 1930s

Place: austria

Cast

Cary Grant

Ingrid Bergman

Claude Rains

Louis Calhern

Notorious (1946)

7.7 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: U

Story: In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Plot: daughter, marriage proposal, nazi, undercover, espionage, atomic bomb, love at first sight, poison, ...

Place: rio de janeiro

The Blues Brothers (1980)

7.7 4.6K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

Plot: prison, chicago, illinois, dancing, concert, country music, nazi, jazz, ...

Cast

Michel Simon

Alain Cohen

Charles Denner

Luce Fabiole

The Two of Us (1967)

7.6 96 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: France

Duration: 90 min.

Story: A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.

Plot: nazi, liberation

Cast

Brad Pitt

Shia LaBeouf

Logan Lerman

Michael Peu00f1a

Fury (2014)

7.5 13.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

Plot: hero, nazi, ambush, bravery, heroism, tank, europe, execution, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Jean Reno

Mu00e9lanie Laurent

Gad Elmaleh

Raphau00eblle Agoguu00e9

The Round Up (2010)

7.5 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: 12

Story: A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Plot: paris, france, war crimes, based on true story, woman director, nazi occupation, jewish family, occupied france (1940-44), ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Michael Nyqvist

Noomi Rapace

Lena Endre

Sven-Bertil Taube

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

7.5 3.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Denmark, Germany

Duration: 152 min.

Audience: R

Story: Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

Plot: journalist, island, bondage, rape, strong woman, hacker, based on novel or book, nazi, ...

Cast

Alexa Davalos

Rufus Sewell

Joel de la Fuente

Jason O'Mara

The Man in the High Castle (2015) TV Show

7.5 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

Plot: based on novel or book, resistance, nazi, dystopia, alternate history, post world war ii, alternative reality, antagonistic

Cast

Nahuel Pu00e9rez Biscayart

Lars Eidinger

Jonas Nay

Leonie Benesch

Persian Lessons (2020)

7.5 483 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Russia, Germany

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: 15

Story: 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. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

Plot: nazi, concentration camp, concentration camp prisoner, german officer, based on short story, exhaustion, fictional language, jewish

Time: world war ii

Cast

Richard Burton

Clint Eastwood

Mary Ure

Patrick Wymark

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

7.5 997 votes

Genre: Adventure, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: PG

Story: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

Plot: undercover agent, nazi, liberation of prisoners, secret mission, spy, bavaria, germany, mountain, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: germany

The Book Thief (2013)

7.5 4.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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.

Plot: based on novel or book, nazi, children in wartime, based on young adult novel

Time: world war ii

Kung Fury (2015)

7.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: Sweden, United States of America

Duration: 32 min.

Audience: NR

Story: During an unfortunate series of events, a friend of Kung Fury is assassinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time, Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time to Nazi Germany in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all.

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, laser gun, hacker, nazi, video game, nerd, time travel, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Lauren Bacall

Walter Brennan

Dolores Moran

To Have and Have Not (1945)

7.5 578 votes

Genre: Adventure, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

Plot: island, based on novel or book, nazi, fishing, singer, film noir, french resistance, alcoholic, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Carice van Houten

Sebastian Koch

Thom Hoffman

Halina Reijn

Black Book (2006)

7.5 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Country: Belgium, Germany

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: R

Story: Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence.

Plot: in love with enemy, prosecution, singer, nazi occupation, the hague, dutch resistance

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: netherlands

Cast

Alec Baldwin

Jill Hennessy

Brian Cox

Christopher Plummer

Nuremberg (2000) TV Show

7.4 134 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 2

Audience: TV-14

Story: Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.

Plot: based on novel or book, war crimes, nazi, miniseries, execution, docudrama, judicial system, war, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Liza Minnelli

Michael York

Helmut Griem

Joel Grey

Cabaret (1972)

7.4 984 votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

Plot: berlin, germany, nazi, entertainer, cabaret, bisexuality, musical, based on play or musical, ...

Time: 1930s

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

Cast

Lily James

Jessica Brown Findlay

Matthew Goode

Michiel Huisman

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

7.4 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

Plot: london, england, based on novel or book, channel islands, book club, german occupation, historical fiction, period drama, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Daniel Craig

Rooney Mara

Christopher Plummer

Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

7.4 7.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Sweden, United States of America

Duration: 158 min.

Audience: R

Story: Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

Plot: journalist, island, rape, hacker, based on novel or book, nazi, journalism, investigation, ...

Place: sweden, scandinavia

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