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Qrazy
06-13-2013, 05:07 AM
There are a hell of a lot of them, what's your top 10?

Irish
06-13-2013, 05:31 AM
Not sure if I can go ten. Going to loosely interpret "Nazi" in some instances.

1. Europa Europa
2. Life is Beautiful
3. Cross of Iron
4. A Midnight Clear
5. Good Evening, Mr Wallenberg
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. American History X

Hon. Mention: The Blues Brothers ("I hate those guys...")

Dukefrukem
06-13-2013, 12:57 PM
Last Crusade... done.

Edit: oh and Dead Snow.

baby doll
06-13-2013, 01:36 PM
Not sure if I can go ten. Going to loosely interpret "Nazi" in some instances.

7. American History XAnd I'm going to be pedantic history nerd and say Neo-Nazis aren't Nazis.

My picks:

The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940)
Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang, 1943)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
Germany, Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
A Generation (Andrzej Wajda, 1955)
Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Not Reconciled or: Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules (Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 1965)
Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974)
Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)

I didn't include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp because I don't recall the characters ever actually meeting any Nazis. Then again, the villains in Hawks' film are Vichy French collaborations and not technically Nazis (though I didn't include Vincere as it's about Italian fascism), and it would be more accurate to say that the brother and the pederast teacher in Rossellini's film are former Nazis, since the movie takes place after the German surrender.

Raiders
06-13-2013, 02:07 PM
The best is Andre de Toth's None Shall Escape. More people need to see this film, dammit. Also love these not-yet-mentioned:

This Land is Mine (1943)
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Mysterious Dude
06-13-2013, 02:19 PM
1. The Four Days of Naples (1962)
2. Come and See (1985)
3. Schindler's List (1993)
4. Notorious (1946)
5. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
6. Rome, Open City (1945)
7. The Great Escape (1963)
8. The Cremator (1969)
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
10. Army of Shadows (1969)

baby doll
06-13-2013, 02:34 PM
4. Notorious (1946)
10. Army of Shadows (1969)Good call. Some how I overlooked those two.

Grouchy
06-13-2013, 02:45 PM
1. Casablanca
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. The Great Dictator
4. The Pianist
5. The Great Escape
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. Downfall
8. Notorious
9. Rome Open City
10.Stalag 17

Yxklyx
06-13-2013, 03:50 PM
The Train
49th Parallel (not sure about this one - I think they're just portrayed as Germans)

Gizmo
06-13-2013, 04:29 PM
Casablanca
Life is Beautiful
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Schindler's List
Inglourious Basterds
Cabaret
Saving Private Ryan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Au Revoir les Enfantes
Downfall

Irish
06-13-2013, 04:48 PM
And I'm going to be pedantic history nerd and say Neo-Nazis aren't Nazis.

Eh, I figure if you get a tattoo on your chest of a giant swastika then you've earned the appellation.

To out-pedant your pedantry: Half the movies in this thread don't qualify because being in the Wehrmacht (ie, the German Army during WWII) didn't automatically make someone a Nazi party member.

bac0n
06-13-2013, 09:45 PM
I would like to add:

Where Eagles Dare
Das Boot

Spinal
06-14-2013, 02:13 AM
Damn, you guys are thorough.

I'll just mention my favorite:
Hangmen Also Die!

And two others I have not seen listed yet:
Sophie's Choice
Top Secret!

Russ
06-14-2013, 02:15 AM
1. Stars (Konrad Wolf, 1959)
2. Rotation (Wolfgang Staudte, 1949)
3. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk, 1958)
4. In a Glass Cage (AgustÃ* Villaronga, 1987)
5. The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)
6. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
7. Nine Lives (Arne Skouen, 1957)
8. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944)
9. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
10. Der Verlorene (Peter Lorre, 1951)

amberlita
06-14-2013, 02:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo

baby doll
06-14-2013, 04:17 PM
3. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk, 1958)Another one I'm kicking myself for forgetting.

Fezzik
06-14-2013, 05:41 PM
Casablanca
The Great Dictator
Schindler's List
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Inglourious Basterds
Notorious
The Producers (I admit, this is a stretch)
Saving Private Ryan
Apt Pupil
The Sound of Music

MadMan
06-15-2013, 07:32 AM
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Eagle Has Landed. I never saw that movie, but it looked pretty awesome to me.

ledfloyd
06-15-2013, 01:45 PM
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Eagle Has Landed. I never saw that movie, but it looked pretty awesome to me.
Classic MadMan.

Winston*
06-16-2013, 04:58 AM
Fateless is an excellent recent one that doesn't seem to be talked about much. The Last Stop, Kapo, L'Enclos, The Night Porter, and Bent are some other well worthwhile Holocaust dramas. Train of Life is a much better Holocaust comedy than Life is Beautiful from around the same time. I think the TV movie Conspiracy with Stanley Tucci and Kenneth Branagh about the Wannsee Conference is great.

Li Lili
06-16-2013, 04:12 PM
I would like to mention The Damned by L. Visconti, Moloch by A. Sokurov, and also Le Vieux Fusil (Vengeance one by one) by Robert Enrico.

And well in a much lighter tone, there are some 50s and 60s French comedies, such as La Traversée de Paris (with Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès and Bourvil) and La Grande Vadrouille also with Louis de Funès and Bourvil, both very famous and popular (seen them several times since a kid).

Kurious Jorge v3.1
06-16-2013, 05:06 PM
The Passenger
Kapo
Lacombe, Lucien
The Cremator
Army of Shadows
The Boxer and Death
The Shop on Main Street

MadMan
06-17-2013, 06:23 AM
Classic MadMan.I'm the opposite of fine wine, I suppose.

Yum-Yum
06-20-2013, 10:17 AM
1. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
2. Salon Kitty
3. Gestapo's Last Orgy
4. Private House of the SS
5. SS Experiment Love Camp

Grouchy
06-20-2013, 07:03 PM
Oh man, Salon Kitty is awesome.

Grouchy
06-21-2013, 05:33 AM
I just saw on TV one that hasn't been mentioned:

http://deploreibol.files.wordpress.co m/2012/05/illinois-nazis.jpg

Irish
06-21-2013, 06:03 AM
I just saw on TV one that hasn't been mentioned

Check the first post in the thread. :P