🏷 Discover The Best Religious Persecution Movies & TV Shows Right Now

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Uncovering the Truth: The Best Movies and TV Shows on Religious Persecution

Delve into the world of faith, courage, and resilience with our curated selection of films and series that explore the complexities of religious persecution. From historical dramas to thought-provoking documentaries, discover the stories that will leave you moved, inspired, and informed.

Cast

Roberto Benigni

Nicoletta Braschi

Giorgio Cantarini

Giustino Durano

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

8.4 14.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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 during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Style: dark

Plot: dying and death, bookshop, love of one's life, nazi, self sacrifice, loss of loved one, riddle, mass murder, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: italy

Cast

Adrien Brody

Thomas Kretschmann

Frank Finlay

Maureen Lipman

The Pianist (2002)

8.4 10.2K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 150 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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 family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Plot: concert, nazi, resistance, warsaw ghetto, polish resistance, homeland, holocaust (shoah), hunger, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: poland

Cast

Brad Pitt

Mu00e9lanie Laurent

Christoph Waltz

Eli Roth

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

8.2 24.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 153 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Plot: guerrilla warfare, self sacrifice, jew persecution, german occupation of france, resistance fighter, nazism, anti-fascism, enthusiastic, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: paris, france

Cast

Volker Bruch

Tom Schilling

Katharina Schu00fcttler

Ludwig Trepte

Generation War (2013) TV Show

8.1 471 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Germany

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-14

Story: Career-soldier Wilhelm, his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm, and their friends Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to meet again after the war.

Plot: berlin, germany, nurse, soviet union, jew persecution, nazi, friends, aspiring singer, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Roman Griffin Davis

Thomasin McKenzie

Scarlett Johansson

Taika Waititi

Jojo Rabbit (2019)

8.0 10.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War

Country: New Zealand, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.

Style: satirical, irreverent

Plot: based on novel or book, jew persecution, satire, imaginary friend, hitler youth, single mother, questioning, nazism, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Amandla Stenberg

George MacKay

Abbie Cornish

Christopher Eccleston

Where Hands Touch (2018)

7.9 539 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.

Plot: nazi, jew persecution, hitler youth, coming of age, interracial romance, racism

Time: 1940s

Cast

Charlton Heston

Stephen Boyd

Hugh Griffith

Jack Hawkins

Ben-Hur (1959)

7.9 3.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 212 min.

Audience: G

Story: In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.

Plot: governor, based on novel or book, roman empire, politics, christianity, jew persecution, jewish life, roman, ...

Time: 1st century, antiquity

Place: middle east, jerusalem

Cast

Gaspard Manesse

Raphael Fejtu00f6

Francine Racette

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Stanislas Carru00e9 de Malberg

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

7.5 734 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Plot: parent child relationship, resistance, vichy regime, holocaust (shoah), deportation, jew persecution, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, national socialism, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: france

We Were the Lucky Ones (2024) TV Show

7.5 86 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.

Plot: based on novel or book, holocaust (shoah), jew persecution, based on true story, holocaust (shoah) survivor, miniseries, family

Time: world war ii

Cast

Tom Payne

Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd

Olivier Martinez

Emma Rigby

The Physician (2013)

7.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: Germany

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: R

Story: England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

Plot: based on novel or book, persia, jew persecution, historical figure, religious fundamentalism, teacher student relationship, middle ages (476-1453), black death, ...

Time: medieval, 11th century

Cast

Andrew Garfield

Adam Driver

Liam Neeson

Tadanobu Asano

Silence (2016)

7.1 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Mexico, Taiwan

Duration: 161 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Plot: based on novel or book, christianity, missionary, remake, betrayal, torture, martyrdom, crisis of faith, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: japan

Cast

Bae Yong-jun

Lee Mi-sook

Jeon Do-yeon

Jo Hyun-jae

Untold Scandal (2003)

6.4 62 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: South Korea

Duration: 124 min.

Story: In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

Plot: based on novel or book, blackmail, eroticism, seduction, sexual promiscuity, period drama, historical, tragic event, ...

Time: 18th century