History, Drama
In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.
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5150 Elm's Way
Instrument of War
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The Right to Live
A Night at the Garden
Operation T4: A Doctor Among the Nazis
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Gaston's War
The Holcroft Covenant
Anzio
Labyrinth of Lies
Keeper of the Flame
Nazi Love Camp 27
Live Flesh
Casablanca
Rome, Open City
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5150 Elm's Way
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 2009
Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jacques Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.Instrument of War
IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 2017
When U.S. B-24 bomber pilot Clair Cline is shot down and captured in northern Germany, one war ends and another begins -- to keep hope alive. Now behind Nazi barbed wire and oppression, Cline and his fellow POW's must find a way to bond together to not just survive but transcend their captivity. Inspired by true events.Leni
IMDB 7 | Jan , 1994
A historical drama about a Jewish child who is adopted by a German couple and is eventually removed from the home.Private House of the SS
IMDB 5.4 | Jan , 1977
Top Nazi officials, intent on rooting out traitors and those in the military who may be plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler, recruit and train a group of beautiful prostitutes whose mission is to use any means necessary to uncover plots against the Fuhrer.The Protector
IMDB 5.6 | Sep , 2009
A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.The Right to Live
IMDB 5.1 | Jan , 1935
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.A Night at the Garden
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2017
Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War II.Operation T4: A Doctor Among the Nazis
IMDB 6 | Feb , 2016
A reckoning of Nazi Germany’s planned execution of its own citizens with physical and mental disabilities whom they deemed useless to their society.The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
IMDB 7.2 | Apr , 2009
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.Gaston's War
IMDB 3.5 | Oct , 1997
Gaston Vandermeerssche is a young, resourceful Flemish action hero of the Belgian resistance during World War II: he coaches surviving allied pilots trough occupied Belgium and France to Spain so they can regain England, each time a dangerous adventure as their poor mastery of local languages and customs add to the ever-present risks of trying to outsmart the Nazi troops and Gestapo agents. After a mess-up in the coordination from London he himself gets caught by the dreaded secret police for ruthless interrogation...The Holcroft Covenant
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 1985
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.Anzio
IMDB 5.6 | Jul , 1968
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.Labyrinth of Lies
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 2014
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.Keeper of the Flame
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 1943
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.Nazi Love Camp 27
IMDB 4.6 | Jan , 1977
When World War II breaks out, two German lovers are cruelly separated. While he is sent to fight at the front, she, a Jewish girl, is sent to a concentration camp where humiliation and death have been elevated to a sinister art.Live Flesh
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1997
When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!Casablanca
IMDB 8.2 | Jan , 1943
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IMDB 8 | Oct , 1945
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IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2005
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.Inside Man
IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 2006
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.