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    Best Films Featuring Nazis

    There are a hell of a lot of them, what's your top 10?
    The Princess and the Pilot - B-
    Playtime (rewatch) - A
    The Hobbit - C-
    The Comedy - D+
    Kings of the Road - C+
    The Odd Couple - B
    Red Rock West - C-
    The Hunger Games - D-
    Prometheus - C
    Tangled - C+

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    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...")

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    Last Crusade... done.

    Edit: oh and Dead Snow.
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    Not sure if I can go ten. Going to loosely interpret "Nazi" in some instances.

    7. American History X
    And 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.
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    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

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    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)
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    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)

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    4. Notorious (1946)
    10. Army of Shadows (1969)
    Good call. Some how I overlooked those two.
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    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

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    The Train
    49th Parallel (not sure about this one - I think they're just portrayed as Germans)

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    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
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    Quote Quoting baby doll (view post)
    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.

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    I would like to add:

    Where Eagles Dare
    Das Boot
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    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!
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    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)
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    3. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk, 1958)
    Another one I'm kicking myself for forgetting.
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    1. Casablanca
    2. The Great Dictator
    3. Schindler's List
    4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
    5. Inglourious Basterds
    6. Notorious
    7. The Producers (I admit, this is a stretch)
    8. Saving Private Ryan
    9. Apt Pupil
    10. The Sound of Music

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    I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Eagle Has Landed. I never saw that movie, but it looked pretty awesome to me.
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    Quote Quoting MadMan (view post)
    I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Eagle Has Landed. I never saw that movie, but it looked pretty awesome to me.
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    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.

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    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).

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