Best Films Featuring Nazis

[Qrazy]

There are a hell of a lot of them, what's your top 10?

[Irish]

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]

Last Crusade... done.

Edit: oh and Dead Snow.

[baby doll]

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.

[Raiders]

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]

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]

4. Notorious (1946)
10. Army of Shadows (1969)

Good call. Some how I overlooked those two.

[Irish]

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]

I would like to add:

Where Eagles Dare
Das Boot

[Spinal]

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]

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]

[baby doll]

3. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk, 1958)

Another one I'm kicking myself for forgetting.

[Fezzik]

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