Good Nazi Punching films

[misanthrope]

Watching "Casablanca" with the wife and taking joy in seeing Nazis thwarted. Thinking about how much I enjoyed "Valkyrie" the other night and wondered what kind of list of anti-Nazi films DU could list.

We've already got those two. I would add the initial trilogy of Indiana Jones films and "Inglorious Basterds"

Add your own.

[Ponietz]

1. Inglorious Bastards (of course)

[Bluethroughu]

2. It's my favorite. There were real Inglorious Basterds.

And their life was better than the movie!

[Initech]

25. You know how you get to Carnegie Hall, right? Practice!

[lame54]

3. Top Secret

[SocialDemocrat61]

4. If you are open to musicals

The Producers
The Sound of Music
Cabaret
Bedknobs and Broomsticks

[hatrack]

5. "Downfall"

It's the Russians doing the Nazi-punching, but if you'd like to see just how bad it can get (by which I mean the brainwashing), it's fantastic, particularly Bruno Ganz's performance.

[dgauss]

6. The Great Dictator from Charlie Chaplin

Silly and very dated, it's still a reminder that there have always been, and will continue to be, people in films pushing back.

[Ponietz]

7. Also, Raiders of the Lost Ark

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. "Harrison Ford Says Punch Nazis, Just Like Indy Would."

https://gizmodo.com/indiana-jones-punching-nazis-harrison-ford-dial-destiny-1850536326

Would Indiana Jones be okay with people punching Nazis? “He’d push ‘em out of the way to get in the first punch. As well he should,” Ford said.

[kimbutgar]

8. I just watched one recommended by a woman who lost family members inthe holocaust

It was Underground from 1941 that you can find on Tubi for free

[Celerity]

9. Antifash/AntiNazi: The Conformist (1970), Come and See (1985), Army of Shadows (1969), Salo, 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

The Zone of Interest (2023)

1900 (Novecento) (1976)

[JanMichael]

10. Remember remember the 5th of November.

[JoseBalow]

11. Closely Watched Trains

One of my favorite films, from Czech New Wave director Jiri Menzel

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Closely Watched Trains (Czech: Ostře Sledované Vlaky) is a 1966 Czechoslovakian New Wave coming-of-age comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel and is one of the best-known films of the Czechoslovak New Wave. It was released in the United Kingdom as Closely Observed Trains. It is a story about a young man working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The film is based on a 1965 novel by Bohumil Hrabal. It was produced by Barrandov Studios and filmed on location in Central Bohemia. Released outside Czechoslovakia during 1967, it received widespread acclaim and won the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 40th Academy Awards in 1968. Nowadays the movie is assessed as one of the finest works of the Czech New Cinema.

Plot
The young Miloš Hrma, who speaks with misplaced pride of his family of misfits and malingerers, is engaged as a newly-trained train dispatcher at a small railway station near the end of the Second World War and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He admires himself in his new uniform and looks forward, like his prematurely retired train driver father, to avoiding real work. The sometimes pompous stationmaster is an enthusiastic pigeon-breeder who has a kind wife, but is envious of train dispatcher Hubička's success with women. The idyll of the railway station is periodically disturbed by the arrival of Councillor Zedníček, a Nazi collaborator who spouts propaganda at the staff, though he does not influence anyone with it.

-snip-

The Germans and their collaborators are on edge, since their trains and railroad tracks are being attacked by partisans. A glamorous resistance agent, code-named Viktoria Freie, delivers a time bomb to Hubička for use in blowing up a large ammunition train. At Hubička's request, the "experienced" Viktoria also helps Miloš to resolve his sexual problem.

The next day, at the crucial moment when the ammunition train is approaching the station, Hubička is caught up in a farcical disciplinary hearing, overseen by Zedníček, over his rubber-stamping of Zdenička's backside. In Hubička's place, Miloš, liberated from his former passivity by his experience with Viktoria, takes the time bomb and drops it onto the train from a semaphore gantry, which extends transversely above the tracks. A German soldier shoots at him from one of the train cars; Miloš, wounded, falls onto one of the railcars.

Zedníček winds up the disciplinary hearing by dismissing the Czech people as "nothing but laughing hyenas" (a phrase actually employed by the senior Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich). The stationmaster is despondent because the scandal with Hubička and Zdenička seems to have frustrated his ambition of being promoted to inspector. Then a huge series of explosions happens just around a bend in the track as the train is destroyed by the bomb. Hubička, unaware of what has happened to Miloš, laughs to express his joy at this blow to the Nazi occupiers. Máša, who has been waiting to speak with Miloš, picks up his uniform cap, which has wound up at her feet, blown by the huge winds from the blast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closely_Watched_Trains


The full subtitled film is available for free via The Criterion Collection at the Internet Archive, here:
https://archive.org/details/closely-watched-trains

[Ponietz]

17. Thanks for the rec and link

[JoseBalow]

22. You're welcome!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do

[VGNonly]

12. Stalag 17

"Just because the krauts are dumb doesn't mean they're stupid"

[misanthrope]

13. Another addition, The Rocketeer

As a double bonus, it also has a young Jennifer Connelly.

[orangecrush]

14. "Fury", Brad Pitt

A must see

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[BannonsLiver]

27. Yep. They smoke a whole bunch of Nazis in that one.

[LudwigPastorius]

15. A short documentary:

[JoseBalow]

16. That's a good one

I look forward to the sequels

[WarGamer]

18. I love Valkyrie... but it's sad.

Not a joyful ass kicker of a movie.

7,000 Germans were either executed or sent to concentration camps in reprisal.

Extended families of the plotters... children...

[misanthrope]

19. All true, but it shows the mettle needed to overcome evil

It can also spark curiosity in those who see it so that they do a little bit of searching and discover how many plots there were against Hitler. We need that kind of emboldening.

[WarGamer]

20. I don't like the "evil" angle...

I tend to think that evil is a given in humans...

von Stauffenberg and others plotted to kill Hitler because he was destroying Germany.

They were nationalists more than do-gooders.

[misanthrope]

21. My understanding of Stauffenberg

Is that he was uncomfortable with Hitler's racial fixations and cruelty.

[WarGamer]

23. There's a debate about THAT...

A great deal of mythology about von Stauffenberg was written after WW2.

This author researched ONLY pre-1945 sources and wrote the bio of CVS.

https://www.german-times.com/the-great-historical-gray-area/#:~:text=Stauffenberg%20was%20not%20the%20idealist,establishment%20of%20a%20police%20state.

Stauffenberg was not the idealist hero his proponents to make him out to be today. His aristocratic upbringing did not imbue him with immunity against the Nazi mob. He did not try to kill Hitler because of Auschwitz, or all the other camps, or the rampant corruption, or the establishment of a police state. He did it because Hitler was losing the war.

[Blue Owl]

26. The only acceptable ending for a Nazi

[BannonsLiver]

28. The Man With the Iron Heart came out recently,

It’s about Rheinhard Heydrich’s assassination in Prague in 1942. Pretty good. Anthropoid is on the same subject and also pretty good.

[Tarzanrock]

29. Here are few:

John Frankenheimer's The Train (1964);
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy includes Rome, Open City (1945), Paisà (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948).
Is Paris Burning? (1966);
Hangmen Also Die! Fritz Lang;
Sahara Bogart;
Watch on the Rhine Bette Davis;
A Walk in the Sun Lewis Milestone
Battle of the Rails Rene Clement

[no_hypocrisy]

30. Does "Hogan's Heroes" count?

[Captain Zero]

31. Search google, wikipedia, and IMDB for:

Dutch Resistance films

Norwegian ". ".

Danish. ". ".

You are going to have a lot to watch.
There's a really good Dutch one where the young Dutch girl makes German officers think they can hanky panky with her, then she goes into the woods with them and kills them.

[90-percent]

32. Jo Jo Rabbit

Loved Sam Rockwells performance as a drained disillusioned German that knew the war was lost. Lots of evil nazis hunting news and Jo Jo's anti nazi mother was hung on a light post..

=90 % jimmy