List of Holocaust films
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The is an index of all the films that deal with the Holocaust period in Europe approximately 1938-1945.
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| Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Lang ist der Weg | Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein | Yiddish title: Lang iz der Veg; Engish title: Long Is the Road; First known Holocaust drama |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Daleká cesta | Alfred Radok | Engish title: Distant Journey | |
| 1953 | The Juggler | Edward Dmytryk | Starring Kirk Douglas | |
| 1956 | Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | Musical about Holocaust survivor with amnesia | |
| 1959 | Sterne | Konrad Wolf | Engish title: Stars | |
| 1959 | The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | ||
| 1959 | Kapò | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Romeo, Julia a tma | Jirí Weiss | English title:Romeo, Juliet and Darkness ; Concerns Operation Anthropoid | |
| 1960 | Exodus | Otto Preminger | Based on the novel by Leon Uris; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo | |
| 1960 | Deveti krug | France Stiglic | English title:The Ninth Circle | |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | ||
| 1964 | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | The life of a Holocaust survivor in a contemporary New York ghetto | |
| 1965 | Chronik eines Mordes | Joachim Hasler | English title:Chronicle of a Murder; Holocaust survivor assasinates her former torturer who is now a West German politician | |
| 1967 | The Diary of Anne Frank (TV) | Alex Segal |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini | Vittorio De Sica | English title:The Garden of the Finzi-Continis; Based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani; Oscar for Best Foreign Film | |
| 1970 | Hranjenik | Vatroslav Mimica | English title:The Fed Ones | |
| 1970 | The Only Way | Bent Christensen | Danish title:Oktober-Dage | |
| 1972 | The Day the Clown Cried | Jerry Lewis | Never been shown to the general public; in the plot Lewis played a Nazi clown that would lead children into gas chambers | |
| 1974 | QB VII (TV minseries) | Tom Gries | Fictionalized version of the case of Dr. Wladislaw Dehring, who sued Leon Uris for defamation for a line in Exodus; based on Leon Uris novel of same name | |
| 1974 | The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | based on Frederick Forsyth novel of same name | |
| 1975 | Crvena zemlja | Branimir Tori Jankovic | Concerns the massecre of Serbs at Kraljevo | |
| 1975 | The Hiding Place | James F. Collier | Based on the autobiogray of Corrie ten Boom | |
| 1975 | The Man in the Glass Booth | Arthur Hiller | Israeli agents capture and try an industrialist for war crimes | |
| 1976 | SS Experiment Camp | Sergio Garrone | Exploitation film set in a concentration camp. | |
| 1977 | Aus einem deutschen Leben | Theodor Kotulla | English title:From a German Life; the life of Rudolf Hoess; based on the book by Robert Merle | |
| 1977 | L'Ultima orgia del III Reich | Cesare Canevari | Exploitation film about the sexual exploitation of concentration camp inmates by SS soldiers. | |
| 1977 | Reinhard Heydrich - Manager des Terrors | Heinz Schirk | the life of Reinhard Heydrich | |
| 1978 | Holocaust (TV miniseries) | Marvin J. Chomsky | ||
| 1978 | Okupacija u 26 slika | Lordan Zafranovic | ||
| 1979 | Baranski | Werner Masten |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | The Diary of Anne Frank (TV) | Boris Sagal | ||
| 1980 | Playing for Time | Daniel Mann | Based on the autobiography of Fania Fénelon; adaptation by Arthur Miller | |
| 1981 | Das Letzte Loch | Herbert Achternbusch | English title:The Last Hole | |
| 1982 | Ein Stück Himmel(TV min-series) | Franz Peter Wirth | Based on the autobiography of Janina David | |
| 1982 | Remembrance of Love(TV) | Jack Smight | Stars Kirk Douglas | |
| 1982 | Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | Based on the novel by William Styron | |
| 1982 | The Wall | Robert Markowitz | Based on the novel by John Hersey; concerns Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | |
| 1983 | Au nom de tous les miens | Robert Enrico | Based on the book by Max Gallo | |
| 1984 | Banjica(TV min-series) | Sava Mrmak | ||
| 1984 | Charlie Grant's War(TV) | Martin Lavut | ||
| 1984 | Forbidden | Anthony Page | ||
| 1984 | Wannseekonferenz(TV) | Heinz Schirk | Precise 85 minute re-enactment of the actual conference | |
| 1985 | The Execution(TV) | Paul Wendkos | Based on the novel by Oliver Crawford | |
| 1985 | Novembermond | Alexandra von Grote | Drama about two lesbians in occupied France | |
| 1985 | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story | Lamont Johnson | Concerns Raoul Wallenberg | |
| 1987 | Escape from Sobibor | Jack Gold | From the manusript by Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt | |
| 1988 | The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank(TV) | John Erman | ||
| 1988 | I skrzypce przestaly grac | Alexander Ramati | And the Violins Stopped Playing; based on directors novel | |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance(TV miniseries) | Dan Curtis | ||
| 1989 | Enemies, a Love Story | Paul Mazursky | Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| 1989 | Kornblumenblau | Leszek Wosiewicz | based on the book by Kazimierz Tyminski; a KZ-Kamp inmate survivies soley because he can play thre title melody | |
| 1989 | Music Box | Costa-Gavras | ||
| 1989 | Otche nash | Boris Yermolayev | English title: Our Father | |
| 1989 | Triumph of the Spirit | Robert M. Young |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Abrahams Gold | Jörg Graser | ||
| 1990 | God afton, Herr Wallenberg - En Passionshistoria från verkligheten | Kjell Grede | English title:Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | |
| 1990 | Max and Helen (TV) | Philip Saville | Based on the book by Simon Wiesenthal | |
| 1991 | Jeszcze tylko ten las | Jan Lomnicki | English title: Just Beyond That Forest | |
| 1991 | Never Forget (TV) | Joseph Sargent | ||
| 1991 | Nifradnu Kach | Jorge Gurvich | ||
| 1991 | Poslední motýl | Karel Kachyna | English title: The Last Butterfly | |
| 1991 | The Quarrel | Eli Cohen | Based on the story My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade and the play by Joseph Telushkin | |
| 1992 | Prague | Ian Sellar | ||
| 1992 | The Witness (TV) | Chris Gerolmo | ||
| 1993 | Jona che visse nella balena | Roberto Faenza | English title:Jonah Who Lived in the Whale | |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | Won 7 Oscars, inc. Best Picture | |
| 1994 | Mishpat Kastner (TV mini) | Uri Barbash | English titles:Kastner Family or The Kastner Trial | |
| 1994 | Leni (TV) | Leo Hiemer | ||
| 1995 | And Many Happy Returns | Owen Shapiro | ||
| 1995 | Anne no nikki | Akinori Nagaoka | Anime adaptation of the Diary of Anne Frank | |
| 1995 | Mutters Courage | Michael Verhoeven | ||
| 1995 | Wielki tydzien | Andrzej Wajda | ||
| 1996 | Broken Glass (TV) | David Thacker | Based on the play by Arthur Miller | |
| 1996 | The Empty Mirror | Barry J. Hershey | ||
| 1996 | From Hell to Hell | Dmitri Astrakhan | ||
| 1996 | The Man Who Captured Eichmann | William A. Graham | Based on the book Eichmann in My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin | |
| 1996 | The Ring (TV) | Armand Mastroianni | Based on the novel by Danielle Steel | |
| 1996 | The Substance of Fire | Daniel J. Sullivan | Based on the play by Jon Robin Baitz | |
| 1996 | Warsaw Story | Amir Mann | ||
| 1997 | Bent | Sean Mathias | Based on the play by Martin Sherman | |
| 1997 | A Call to Remember (TV) | Jack Bender | ||
| 1997 | Punch Me in the Stomach | Francine Zuckerman | ||
| 1997 | Shanim Trufot | Ilana Tsur | ||
| 1997 | La Tregua | Francesco Rosi | Based on the autobiography by Primo Levi | |
| 1997 | Visas and Virtue | Chris Tashima | Based on the play by Tim Toyama | |
| 1997 | La Vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | English title:Life is Beautiful | |
| 1998 | Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer | Based on the novela by Stephen King | |
| 1998 | Left Luggage | Jeroen Krabbé | Based on the novel by Carl Friedman | |
| 1998 | Miracle at Midnight (TV) | Ken Cameron | ||
| 1998 | Pola's March | Jonathan Gruber | ||
| 1998 | Train de vie | Radu Mihaileanu | ||
| 1999 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Donna Deitch | Based on the novel by Jane Yolen | |
| 1999 | Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod | Rolf Schübel | English title: Glommy Sunday - A Song of Love and Death; based on the novel by Nick Barkow | |
| 1999 | Jakob the Liar | Peter Kassovitz | Based on the novel by Jurek Becker | |
| 1999 | The March | Abraham Ravett | ||
| 1999 | Sunshine | István Szabó |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | David Proshker | Larry Eisenberg | |||
| 2000 | Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hrebejk | English title:Divided We Fall | ||
| 2000 | Nuremberg (TV) | Yves Simoneau | Based on the book by Joseph E. Persico | ||
| 2000 | Pramen zivota | Milan Cieslar | English title:The Spring Of Life; based on the book by Vladimír Körner | ||
| 2000 | Shadows (short) | Mitchell S. Levine | |||
| 2001 | Anne Frank: The Whole Story (TV) | Robert Dornhelm | Based on the book by Melissa Müller | ||
| 2001 | Conspiracy (TV) | Frank Pierson | A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference | ||
| 2001 | The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | Based on the book by Miklos Nyiszli | ||
| 2001 | Haven (TV) | John Gray | Based on the book by Ruth Gruber | ||
| 2001 | Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | English title: Nowhere in Africa; based on the book by Stefan Zweig | ||
| 2001 | Uprising (TV) | Jon Avnet | |||
| 2002 | Amen. | Costa-Gavras | |||
| 2002 | The Pianist | Roman Polanski | based on the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman | ||
| 2003 | Annas Heimkehr(TV) | Xaver Schwarzenberger | |||
| 2003 | A Rózsa énekei | Andor Szilágyi | |||
| 2003 | La Finestra di Fronte | Ferzan Özpetek | English title: Facing Windows | ||
| 2003 | The Singing Forest | Jorge Ameer | |||
| 2005 | Ninas resa | Lena Einhorn | |||
| 2005 | Everything is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 2005 | Sorstalanság | Lajos Koltai | based on the book by Imre Kertész |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Death Mills | Billy Wilder | English Version of Die Todesmühlen | |
| 1945 | Majdanek - cmentarzysko Europy | Aleksander Ford | ||
| 1945 | Nazi Concentration Camps | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at Nuremburg | |
| 1945 | The Nazi Plan | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at Nuremburg | |
| 1945 | Jasenovac | Gustav Gavrin&Kosta Hlavaty | ||
| circa 1946 | Memory of the Camps | Alfred Hitchcock | Unfinished; later reconstructed by American PBS | |
| 1946 | Seeds of Destiny | Gene Fowler Jr. | Shows devastation and solicits relief funds | |
| 1947 | The Nuremberg Trials | C Svilov | Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Nuit et brouillard | Alain Resnais | English title: Night and Fog |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Der Vorletzte Akt | Walter Krüttner | English title:Last Act But One: Brundibar | |
| 1965 | Memorandum | Donald Brittain and John Spotton | French title:Pour mémoire | |
| 1967 | Mordere iblandt os (TV) | Henning Knudsen | English title:Murderers Among Us | |
| 1968 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Jack Kaufman | Documentary of William L. Shirer book |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Ha- Makah Hashmonim V'Echad | David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich and Haim Gouri | English title:The 81st Blow |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Der Gelbe Stern | Dieter Hildebrandt | English title:The Yellow Star | |
| 1981 | The Hunter and the Hunted | John Oakley | ||
| 1982 | Genocide | Arnold Schwartzman | ||
| 1982 | The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz | Peter Cohen and Bo Kuritzen | ||
| 1982 | Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? | Laurence Jarvik | ||
| 1983 | Camps of Death | Laurence Jarvik | ||
| 1983 | To Bear Witness | Gavin P. Boyle | ||
| 1983 | Schindler: The Documentary(TV) | Jon Blair | ||
| 1983 | The Work | Bernard Offen | ||
| 1984 | A Generation Apart | Jack Fisher | ||
| 1984 | Kaddish | Steve Brand | Based on book by Dr. Randolph Braham | |
| 1985 | Babiy Yar: Lessons of History | |||
| 1985 | Die Befreiung von Auschwitz | Irmgard von zur Mühlen | English title:Liberation of Auschwitz 1945 | |
| 1985 | Goethe in D. | Manfred Vosz | ||
| 1985 | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | 9 1/2 hours long | |
| 1985 | The Ties That Bind The Ties That Bind | Su Friedrich | ||
| 1986 | Partisans of Vilna | Joshua Waletzky | ||
| 1988 | B'Glal Hamilhamah Hahi | Orna Ben-Dor Niv | English title:Because of That War | |
| 1988 | Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps | Marcel Ophüls | English title:Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | |
| 1988 | Mit 22 Jahren wollte man noch nicht sterben | Rainer Ritzel | ||
| 1988 | Témoins | Marcel Lozinski | Polish title:Swiadkowie; English title:Witnesses: Anti-Semitism in Poland, 1946 | |
| 1988 | Voices from the Attic | Debbie Goodstein | ||
| 1989 | Hugo | Yair Lev | ||
| 1989 | Lodz Ghetto | Alan Adelson&Kate Taverna | ||
| 1989 | Undergångens arkitektur | Peter Cohen | English title:The Architecture of Doom |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | C.A.N.D.L.E.S.: The Story of the Mengele Twins(TV) | Gordon J. Murray | |||
| 1991 | Premier convoi(TV) | Jacky Assoun and Suzette Bloch | |||
| 1991 | Chasing Shadows | Naomi Gryn | |||
| 1991 | A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell | Jack Kuper | Based on the diaries of Warsaw ghetto inmates | ||
| 1991 | They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust | Gay Block | |||
| 1992 | Sequel to Lódz Ghetto | Alan Adelson | |||
| 1992 | The Visas That Saved Lives | Alan Adelson | |||
| 1992 | Återkomster | Joanna Helander and Bo Persson | |||
| 1993 | Children of the Shadows | Marc Cukier | |||
| 1994 | Balagan | Andres Veiel | Based on the play Arbeit macht frei by Smadar Jaaron&David Maayan | ||
| 1994 | Choosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/Birkenau | Ted Kay and Allen Secher | |||
| 1994 | The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions (TV) | Brian Blake | Hosted by Walter Cronkite | ||
| 1994 | Die Kunst des Erinnerns - Simon Wiesenthal | Johanna Heer and Werner Schmiedel | English title:The Art of Remembrance - Simon Wiesenthal | ||
| 1994 | La Memoria del agua | Héctor Fáver | English title:Memory of Water | ||
| 1994 | Unknown | The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews | Alexandra Isles | ||
| 1994 | Tzedek | Marek Halter | |||
| 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered (TV) | Jon Blair | |||
| 1995 | Bottles in the Cellar | Shmuel Imberman | |||
| 1995 | Children Remember the Holocaust(TV) | Mark Gordon | |||
| 1995 | One Survivor Remembers(TV) | Kary Antholis | |||
| 1995 | Reshimot Vanda(TV) | Vered Berman | |||
| 1995 | Rhodes nostalgie(TV) | Diane Perelsztejn | |||
| 1996 | Please Kill Me, I'm a Faggot Nigger Jew | Rachel L. Schreiber | |||
| 1996 | My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports | Melissa Hacker | |||
| 1996 | Nuremberg | Stephen Trombley | |||
| 1996 | Survivors of the Holocaust | Allan Holzman | |||
| 1996 | The Nazis: A Warning from History | Laurence Rees and Tilman Remme | |||
| 1997 | Blood Money: Switzerland's Nazi Gold | Stephen Crisman | |||
| 1997 | Grüningers Fall | Richard Dindo | Based on the book by Stefan Keller | ||
| 1997 | My Hometown Concentration Camp | Bernard Offen | |||
| 1997 | In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine | John Michalczyk | Based on the book by Stefan Keller | ||
| 1997 | Journal de Rivesaltes 1941-1942 | Jacqueline Veuve | |||
| 1997 | The Long Way Home | Mark Jonathan Harris | Narrated by Morgan Freeman | ||
| 1997 | The Lost Children of Berlin | Elizabeth McIntyre | Narrated by Anthony Hopkins | ||
| 1997 | Out Loud! | Miriam Bjeirre | |||
| 1997 | Das Prinzip Dora | Claudette Coulanges and Rolf Coulanges | |||
| 1997 | Raising the Ashes | Michael O'Keefe | |||
| 1997 | Shahor Lavan Zeh Tzivoni | Tamir Paul | |||
| 1997 | The Trial of Adolf Eichmann | ||||
| 1997 | Un vivant qui passe | Claude Lanzmann | |||
| 1997 | Unterwegs als sicherer Ort | Dietrich Schubert | English title On the Move Is a Safe Place | ||
| 1998 | Diese Tage in Terezin | Sibylle Schönemann | English title Those Days in Terezin | ||
| 1998 | Fotoamator | Dariusz Jablonski | English title Photographer; French title Chronique couleur du ghetto de Lodz; German title Der Fotograf | ||
| 1998 | The Last Days | James Moll | Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature | ||
| 1998 | A Letter Without Words | Lisa Lewenz | |||
| 1998 | Nachrichten aus dem Untergrund | Andreas Hoessli | English title Underground Messengers | ||
| 1998 | Never Forget | Sherrie Drummond | |||
| 1998 | A Sculpture of Love and Anguish: The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial | David Braman | |||
| 1999 | Burning Questions | Michael Porembski | |||
| 1999 | Children of the Night | Jolanta Dylewska | |||
| 1999 | Flucht in den Dschungel | Michael Juncker | |||
| 1999 | Hidden Heroes | Karen Pascal | |||
| 1999 | Martin | Ra'anan Alexandrowicz | |||
| 1999 | Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | Errol Morris | |||
| 1999 | Process B-7815 | Bernard Offen | |||
| 1999 | Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit | Laura Bialis&Broderick Fox&Sarah Levy | |||
| 1999 | Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne | Eyal Sivan | |||
| 1999 | Witness: Voices from the Holocaust | Joshua Greene |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Auschwitz: The Final Witnesses | Sheldon Lazarus | ||
| 2000 | Cerca del Danubio | Felipe Vega | ||
| 2000 | Fighter | Amir Bar-Lev | ||
| 2000 | Hazehut Ha'Avuda Shel Hanita | Vered Berman | ||
| 2000 | The Holocaust on Trial | Leslie Woodhead | ||
| 2000 | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris | ||
| 2000 | Reshimat Ahava | David Fisher | ||
| 2001 | Exodus to Berlin | Jeff Kamen and Peter Laufer | ||
| 2001 | Holocaust: New York Tolerance Center | Scott Goldstein | ||
| 2001 | Eine Liebe in Auschwitz | Thilo Thielke | ||
| 2001 | Smierc Zygielbojma | Dzamila Ankiewicz | ||
| 2001 | Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures | Claude Lanzmann | English title: Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | |
| 2001 | Struma | Radu Gabrea | ||
| 2001 | Sviedok | Dusan Hudec | ||
| 2002 | Illusion | Concerns Kurt Gerron | ||
| 2002 | Last Dance | Mirra Bank | ||
| 2002 | Pamietam | Marcel Lozinski | English title:I Remember | |
| 2002 | Prisoner of Paradise | Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender | ||
| 2002 | Sudbina mi nije dala da odem | Dominik Sedlar and Jakov Sedlar | English title:Fate Did Not Let Me Go | |
| 2002 | Undying Love | Helene Klodawsky | ||
| 2003 | Berga: Soldiers of Another War | Charles Guggenheim | ||
| 2003 | Den Danske løsning | Karen Cantor and Camilla Kjærulff | English title:The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark | |
| 2003 | Long Shadows: Stories from a Jewish Home | Kate Hampel | ||
| 2004 | A Is for Auschwitz: A Weekend with My Grandparents | |||
| 2004 | Against the Odds | Jedrzej Jonasz | ||
| 2004 | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Daniel Anker | ||
| 2004 | Paper Clips | Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab | ||
| 2004 | Wege der Tübinger Juden. Eine Spurensuche | Ulrike Baumgärtner | ||
| 2005 | 2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß | Malte Ludin | English title: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him — Ludin's family's reaction to their father's role in sending Jews to Auschwitz | |
| 2005 | Process (TV) | Péter Muszatics | ||
| 2005 | A Treasure in Auschwitz (TV) | Yahaly Gat | ||
| 2005 | Wenn lang die Bilder schon verblassen... KZ Theresienstadt - Propagandafilm und Wirklichkeit | Thilo Pohle | ||
| 2006 | Amants des hommes | Isabelle Darmengeat | ||
| 2006 | Borrowing Time | Robert Allan Black | ||
| 2006 | Journey to Justice | Steve Palackdharry | ||
| 2006 | Knocking | Joel Engardio and Tom Shepard | ||
| 2006 | La Strada di Levi | Davide Ferrario | ||
| 2007 | Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead | Stuart Urban |