Best Holocaust movies of 1980s

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

After spending time with his new neighbors, an aspiring writer realizes they are harboring deep secrets that will forever change him.

Actors : Bobby Di Cicco, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.

Actors : Raphael Fejtö, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Francine Racette, Gaspard Manesse,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.

Actors : Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Ron Silver, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Actors : Eve Gordon, Leo Fuchs, Elizabeth Perkins, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Robert Loggia, Edward James Olmos, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to ...

Actors : Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Wojciech Pszoniak, Marzena Trybala,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

Actors : Ewa Domanska, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Franciszek Pieczka,
Directors : Jerzy Kawalerowicz,

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.

Actors : Jean Yanne, Jill Clayburgh, Gabriel Byrne, Mohammad Bakri,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Penot, Michael York, Helen Hughes,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

The true story of Martin Gray, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust, from how he survived the German invasion, how got captured, and how he fought back with the rebels, to his life in the ...

Actors : Peter Fonda, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann, Jan Niklas,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

Actors : Piotr Polk, Horst Buchholz, Maya Ramati, Didi Ramati,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

Actors : Eli Cohen, Gila Almagor, Kaipu Cohen, Marina Rossetti,
Directors : Eli Cohen,

A ten year old girl spends her summer with her overly protective mother, a mentally scarred holocaust survivor, while hopefully trying to find her real father in the newly established state of Israel.

Actors : Beatrice Ring, Teagan Clive, John Armstead, Bruce Abbott,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

Humans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world.

Actors : Malgorzata Pritulak, Agnieszka Konopczynska, Tomasz Jarosinski, Jacek Bryniarski,
Directors : Stanislaw Jedryka,

Set in 1939 tells a story of friendship among three 10-year olds, living in town of Sosnowiec: a Polish and Jewish boys and a German girl. The Jewish boy's parents are killed and he is ...

Actors : Aleksandr Timoshkin, Leonid Markov, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Igor Gorbachyov,
Directors : Sergey Kolosov,

Mother Maria Skobtsova, a Russian nun, helps Jews and other people hated by the Gestapo during World War II. Eventually, the Gestapo finds out and takes her away to the Ravensbruk Concentration Camp.

Actors : Trudy Labij, Manouk van der Meulen, Tom Hulce, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Piotr Andrejew,

The story of a war refugee who's hiding in Amsterdam.