Reach for Glory (1962)

1936年のドイツ、ベルリン。パスポートや紙幣など、あらゆる偽造を行うプロの贋作師サリー。犯罪捜査局の捜査官ヘルツォークに捕らえられた彼は、マウトハウゼン強制収容所に送られる。そこは犯罪者の送られる刑務所ではなくユダヤ人を対象にした収容所だった。

1945年4月、第二次世界大戦下。ナチス占領下のドイツに侵攻を進める連合軍の中にウォーダディーと呼ばれる米兵がいた。長年の戦場での経験を持ち、戦車部隊のリーダー格存在である彼は、自身が“フューリー”と名付けたシャーマンM4中戦車に3人の兵士と共に乗っていた。ある日、ウォーダディーの部隊に新兵のノーマンが副操縦手として配属される。だが彼はこれまで戦場を経験したことがなく、銃を撃つこともできない兵士であった。

1939年、ポーランド南部の都市クラクフにドイツ軍が侵攻した。ドイツ人実業家のオスカー・シンドラーは、一旗揚げようとこの街にやって来た。彼は金にものを言わせて巧みに軍の幹部たちに取り入り、ユダヤ人の所有していた工場を払い下げてもらう。ユダヤ人会計士のイツァーク・シュテルンをパートナーに選んだシンドラーは、軍用ホーロー容器の事業を始める。41年3月、ユダヤ人たちは壁に囲まれたゲットー（居住区）に住むことを義務づけられる。シュテルンの活躍で、ゲットーのユダヤ人たちが無償の労働力として、シンドラーの工場に続々と集められ事業はたちまち軌道に乗る。

ホロコーストを題材に、ナチスの強制収容所から生き延びたヒロインをメリル・ストリープが圧倒的な存在感で演じた感動作。ストリープは本作でアカデミー賞主演女優賞を受賞した。

１９４３年、ヒトラーはドイツ軍スタイナー大佐に、イギリスのチャーチル首相誘拐計画“イーグル作戦”の命令を下す。それはチャーチルがイギリスの保養地スタドリーで静養するタイミングを見計らって実行せよ、というものだった。作戦にはＩＲＡのデヴリンも加わり、ポーランド軍に扮したスタイナーら１６名の精鋭が現地に降り立つ。だが、アクシデントで正体がばれ、米兵との交戦の末になんとかスタイナーは窮地を逃れる。

第二次世界大戦下、8歳の少年ブルーノは、ナチス将校の父の栄転でベルリン郊外に引っ越すことになる。裏庭の森の奥、鉄条網で覆われた場所を訪れたブルーノが出会ったのは、縞模様のパジャマを着た少年シュムエルだった。二人は友情を育むが、ある日ブルーノはシュムエルを裏切ってしまい……。＜ナチス将校を父親に持つドイツ人少年と強制収容所内のユダヤ人少年との友情と哀しい運命を描いた心揺さぶる人間ドラマ。ジョン・ボイン原作の世界的ベストセラーを映画化。主人公となる二人の少年をオーディションで選ばれたエイサ・バターフィールドとジャック・スキャンロンが演じる。人種など問わない純粋な友情と、戦争がもたらす子どもたちの宿命に胸が痛む。＞

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

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.

第2次世界大戦下の1939年イギリス、若き天才数学者アラン・チューリングはドイツ軍の暗号エニグマを解読するチームの一員となる。高慢で不器用な彼は暗号解読をゲーム感覚で捉え、仲間から孤立して作業に没頭していたが、やがて理解者が現れその目的は人命を救うことに変化していく。いつしか一丸となったチームは、思わぬきっかけでエニグマを解き明かす。

「フォレスト・ガンプ　一期一会」「バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー」の名匠ロバート・ゼメキス監督のもと、ブラッド・ピットとマリオン・コティヤールが豪華共演を果たし、過酷な時代に翻弄されながら究極の愛を試される男女の運命を描いたラブストーリー。 1942年、カサブランカ。秘密諜報員のマックスとフランス軍レジスタンスのマリアンヌは、ある重大なミッションを通して運命の出会いを果たす。それは、夫婦を装って敵の裏をかき、ドイツ大使を狙うというものだった。その後、ロンドンで再会した2人は恋に落ちるが、マリアンヌは誰にも言えない秘密を抱えていた。 「イースタン・プロミス」「オン・ザ・ハイウェイ　その夜、86分」のスティーブン・ナイトが脚本を手がけた。

ナチスのワルシャワ侵攻を目の当たりにし、死の収容所送りを奇跡的に逃れたシュピルマンは、ゲットーの廃墟に身を隠すことで第二次世界大戦を生き延びる。

1941年、ナチス占領下のフランスの田舎町で、家族を虐殺されたユダヤ人のショシャナはランダ大佐の追跡を逃れる。一方、“イングロリアス・バスターズ”と呼ばれるレイン中尉率いる連合軍の極秘部隊は、次々とナチス兵を血祭りにあげていた。やがて彼らはパリでの作戦を実行に移す。

『ライフ・イズ・ビューティフル』（原題：La vita è bella、英題：Life Is Beautiful）は、1997年のイタリア映画。ロベルト・ベニーニ監督・脚本・主演作品。第二次世界大戦下のユダヤ人迫害（ホロコースト）を、ユダヤ系イタリア人の親子の視点から描いた作品である。 カンヌ国際映画祭で審査員グランプリを受賞。第71回米国アカデミー賞で作品賞ほか7部門にノミネートされ、そのうち、主演男優賞、作曲賞、外国語映画賞を受賞した。また、トロント国際映画祭の観客賞やセザール賞の外国映画賞も受賞している。

第2次世界大戦中のドイツ。脱走不可能と謳われた捕虜収容所から、連合軍兵士250名が前代未聞の脱出計画を図る……。実際に集団脱走に加わっていたポール・ブリックヒルによる原作をもとにした、不朽の名作映画。

1942年、ミュンヘン出身の若い女性ユンゲはヒトラーの個人秘書の職を得る。それから月日は流れて1945年、第2次世界大戦は大詰めを迎え、ヒトラーはごく限られた身内や腹心の部下たちとベルリンのドイツ首相官邸の地下要塞に逃げ、そこで不自由な生活を送る。敗北の気配が濃くなる中、ヒトラーはまだ反撃のシナリオを熱っぽく語るが次第に部下たちは彼から離反していき、ユンゲは歴史の証人としてその光景を静かに見守る。

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

第二次世界大戦下、課されたのはドイツ軍が保有する電波塔の爆破。空中戦、地上戦と続く戦場サバイバル。決死の戦いの後に、たどり着いたのはナチスの極秘研究所。そこで迫りくるのは、不死身化した人間兵器との闘い。変化する敵と共に、観る者をゆっくりと異常極まる恐怖世界に誘引していくなか、ミッション遂行は成されるのか…。

A young Jewish boy travels europe in search of the grave of his Great Grandfather who was killed by the Nazis in the War.

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.

Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't quite resemble any of his peers. Here, he tells the tale of his youth, growing up on the south shore of Long Island, New York

The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting youth to audition for her film. Facing the camera, the hopefuls confess their struggles and dreams. These raw interviews unfold seamlessly into cinematic slivers of Georgian life.

Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.

“My best friend, Anna, asked me if I would mind taking her fifteen-year-old son Itvan to Berlin with me. I accepted immediately.” An elegant, refined man in his forties sets off with Itvan on a long, enjoyable journey, his Winter Journey. They cross snowbound Germany by car. As the man drives the boy through cities and countryside, Itvan discovers the past and the vast job of reunification now underway. Poetry and culture are also part of the journey, which is accompanied by classical German music. When their paths cross with the man's former lovers or the journey provides unexpected encounters, Itvan also gets to know more about the man's own life. When they finally arrive in Berlin, their ways must part. Itvan watches the man leave, taking the melancholy of his existence with him. However their journey together has created an unbreakable tie between the two men. Itvan will never be the same again.

The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the beginning of 1960s. Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what the real feeling is. His love for an adventuress who pretends to be a singer from capital becomes destructive.

Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.

A group of boys, roughly seven to eleven years of age, go skinny-dipping in a river near their small Mexican town one afternoon and there find themselves the butt of an old vagabond's practical joke, the man stealing all their clothes from them. Humiliated about having to walk home in the buff, the tykes decide to get even, declare war. Yet, as the generations battle it out, a mutual respect develops, the depth of which is evident once the man has a heart attack during one of his romps with the kids. Will the boys' older pal recuperate so that they can engage in one final battle.

If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape". The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return "to the curve where man got lost" in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable. A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.

In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.

A contemporary evocation of Judas Iscariot trying to escape from his own guilt after betraying his best friend. He wanders into a forest and lost in himself, meets a mysterious young man. The young companion will accompany him on this path of repentance and penance and help him deal with his feelings, understand his guilt and cope with he has done. This is the story of the last three days of a repentant.

Matthew is a boy who just left school. He is handsome and athletic and believes himself to be gay. He retains a friendship with only one school friend, Phil, who has stuck by Matthew despite hostile reactions from his peers. As their relationship grows more intense, Phil's girlfriend Sharon and his classmates become vindictive and aggressive. The two friends find themselves ostracized by both friends and family and decide to run away.

Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film, one is living, the other dead. The living Jay is producing a documentary of the dead Jay, a gay teacher who was brutally killed. As Jay recreates and examines the life of his subject, his own life is affected when he unravels his subject's hidden life and secret love.

In the Lesotho highlands, a 15-year-old boy tends his family's flock of sheep alone through the winter. His younger brother might have to quit the village school to help him. And two girls attempt to maintain their unique friendship when one of them goes off to attend a better school and the other stays in the village. Over the span of two years the film accompanies four teenagers in an isolated mountain village on their path to adulthood - a path between individuation and tradition.

A troubled young boy finds his rooftop escape jeopardised by the girl he pines for.

Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can metaphorically fly away from it all.

The story takes place in the summer of 1995 outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, during the rise of Neo-Nazi violence that was sweeping across the country. The film "John Hron" is the true story about a teenager, his friends and family. John is caught up in defense of a student being bullied in school. As the conflict with the bully escalates it soon causes strain between John and his friends.

15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and finds refuge in his dreams and playing the saxophone. Only when he joins a band and began performing there Moritz pulled out of the vicious circle, and finds love with new friends...

Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.