Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-josef-mengele"

1. Hellraiser (1987)

R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller

A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their underworld.

Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman

Votes: 140,602 | Gross: $14.56M

2. Operation Finale (2018)

PG-13 | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History

A team of secret agents sets out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.

Director: Chris Weitz | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent, Lior Raz

Votes: 48,943 | Gross: $17.61M

3. Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family

Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents as well as stop a shady strip mining company from closing the camp.

Director: John R. Cherry III | Stars: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody

Votes: 12,464 | Gross: $23.51M

4. Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

R | 124 min | Drama, History

A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.

Director: Giulio Ricciarelli | Stars: André Szymanski, Alexander Fehling, Friederike Becht, Johannes Krisch

Votes: 14,006 | Gross: $0.79M

5. The German Doctor (2013)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.

Director: Lucía Puenzo | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Guillermo Pfening, Alan Daicz

Votes: 7,784 | Gross: $0.41M

6. An Acceptable Loss (2018)

R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller

Libby teaches at a university but 4 years ago she was top aide to VP Rachel and was part of a total victory action. Rachel is now US president and worried about Libby keeping quiet. Libby also has a student spying on her.

Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Tavassoli, Deanna Dunagan

Votes: 1,605 | Gross: $0.03M

7. God on Trial (2008 TV Movie)

86 min | Drama, War

Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.

Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Joseph Muir, Josef Altin, Ashley Artus, Alexi Kaye Campbell

Votes: 3,913

8. Angel of Death (1985)

R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical ... See full summary »

Directors: Andrea Bianchi, Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Mitchum, Suzanne Andrews, Fernando Rey, Howard Vernon

Votes: 346

9. Paper Clips (2004)

G | 82 min | Documentary, War

As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, and grows to include millions of others killed.

Directors: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab | Stars: Sandra Roberts, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, Tom Bosley, Casey Condra

Votes: 1,786 | Gross: $1.10M

10. Werewolves of the Third Reich (2017)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

In Germany at the height of World War II, a ragtag group of American soldiers discover Doctor Mengele's diabolical plan to create an unstoppable army of Nazi werewolves.

Director: Andrew Jones | Stars: Lee Bane, Derek Nelson, Darren Swain, Kwame Augustine

Votes: 886

11. Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

PG | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, War

Tells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.

Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Isa Baschwitz, Mary Bos

Votes: 1,350 | Gross: $1.31M

12. Josef Mengele: Hunting a Nazi Criminal (2017 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary, Biography

Even today, his name inspires horror and hatred. Josef Mengele, the twisted doctor infamous for torturing the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp with his deadly human experiments.

Director: Emmanuel Amara | Stars: Fraser McNaught, Gerald Posner, Vera Alexander, Ferdinando Belletate

Votes: 62

13. The Last Days of the Big Lie (2009 Video)

125 min | Documentary, History

A controversial documentary that debunks many of the facts presented in the Oscar winning Holocaust themed documentary The Last Days, produced by Steven Spielberg. Throughout the film, its ... See full summary »

Director: Eric Hunt | Stars: Nayirah al-Sabah, Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, Leon Bass, Michael Berenbaum

Votes: 99

14. Revelations of a Mother Goddess (1999 Video)

176 min | Documentary, Biography

After an introduction about the history behind some of London's monuments and buildings, between the City of London and the City of Westminster, the Presenter conducts a biographical ... See full summary »

Director: Clint Jefferson | Stars: David Icke, Jennifer Ann Nagel

Votes: 12

15. In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine (1997)

Not Rated | 66 min | Documentary, History

In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine examines the step-by-step process that led the German medical profession down an unethical road to genocide.

Director: John Michalczyk | Stars: Donald Winning, Arthur Caplan, Donald Dietrich, Michael Grodin

Votes: 141

16. Eva, Ruda, Léo et moi (2015)

53 min | Documentary, History

Eva and Ruda tells the story of two singular characters, born in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century who realize, in spite of themselves, that they are Jews. What was previously a ... See full summary »

Directors: Jo Légaré, Jean-Nicolas Orhon | Stars: Eva Roden, Rudolph Roden, Jo Légaré, Leni Parker

17. Liebe Perla (1998)

53 min | Documentary, Biography, War

Researcher Hannelore Witkovsky searches for the notorious Nazi war criminal Dr. Joseph Mengele's lost film about his experiments on a family of little people in Auschwitz including Holocaust survivor Perla Ubitsch, whom she befriends.

Director: Shahar Rozen | Stars: Perla Ubitsch, Hannelore Witkovsky

18. Eichmanns Ende (2010 TV Movie)

89 min | Documentary, Drama

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Director: Raymond Ley | Stars: Herbert Knaup, Ulrich Tukur, Axel Milberg, Michael Hanemann

Votes: 151

19. Die Ermittlung - Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (1966 TV Movie)

137 min | Drama

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Directors: Lothar Bellag, Ingrid Fausak | Stars: Alexander Abusch, Bruno Apitz, Helmut Baierl, Ernst Busch

20. Odd or Even (1996)

30 min | Documentary, Short

The story of a group of people, all Mengele twins, who journey back to Auschwitz-Birkenau, together with their children, exactly 50 years after the liberation of the camp. The journey is ... See full summary »

Director: Riki Yakobovits

21. Standing Tall at Auschwitz (2006 TV Movie)

46 min | Documentary, Biography

A&E special about the seven Ovitz siblings, a family of little people who worked as traveling entertainers in the 1930s until the Nazis sent them to Auschwitz, where Josef Mengele protected them to test his eugenics theories on them.

Stars: Meredith Eaton, Tarik Ellinger, Taylor Ellinger, Tiffany Ellinger

Votes: 18

22. 21 Jump Street (1987–1991)
Episode: Shirts and Skins (1990)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Penhall infiltrates a neo-Nazi group while Hoffs and Ioki investigate a group that opposes them.

Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Johnny Depp, Holly Robinson Peete, Peter DeLuise, Dustin Nguyen

Votes: 81

23. Brimstone (1998–1999)
Episode: Repentance (1998)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Preying upon the homeless, a Nazi escapee is stealing eyes but insists he is repenting, being an 'Angel of Mercy'.

Director: Terrence O'Hara | Stars: Peter Horton, John Glover, Albert Hall, Norbert Weisser

Votes: 46

24. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Pirates of the Third Reich (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A half-naked woman is found half buried in the desert with a branding on her arm. She has no hair and is missing her right hand. The woman turns out to be Lady Heather's estranged daughter.... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 908

25. The Collector (2004–2006)
Episode: The Historian (2005)

44 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Morgan Pym looks 30, but was born in 1322 AD, a monk who sold his soul to cure the woman he loved of Plague. But when his deal ended 10 years later (as all deals with the Devil do), his ... See full summary »

Director: J.B. Sugar | Stars: Chris Kramer, Sonya Salomaa, Christine Chatelain, Diana Pavlovská

Votes: 16

26. ER (1994–2009)
Episode: The Miracle Worker (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Romance

It's Christmas day in the ER. An 18-year-old boy arrives brain-dead, and Carter has to convince his parents to donate his organs, since a 16-year-old girl needs a liver. Benton risks his ... See full summary »

Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies

Votes: 395

27. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Pilot (2004)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after losing intelligible speech while teaching students.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 6,225

28. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Cruel and Unusual (1995)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Evidence indicates that the death, in police custody, of an autistic teenager was the result of longstanding abuse. Suspicion falls on the treatment center where he lived and on its therapist, Dr. Colter.

Director: Matthew Penn | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 293

29. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Design (2005)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A female con artist is found at the center of a colossal designer baby ring.

Director: David Platt | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 1,258

30. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Perfect (2003)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The investigation into a missing girl leads the detectives to a doctor of reproductive therapy, who runs shelters for troubled girls. When she is found at shelter, the doctor's sinister agenda is revealed.

Director: Rick Wallace | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Stephanie March

Votes: 994

31. Wiseguy (1987–1990)
Episode: Independent Operator (1988)

TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Vinnie's assignment to check out a contract killer leads him into a huge global contraband syndicate -- an operation that far exceeds the scope of the Steelgrave family -- overlorded by brother and sister Mel and Susan Profitt.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt | Stars: Ken Wahl, Jonathan Banks, Jim Byrnes, William Russ

Votes: 76

32. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Paper Clip (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Walter Gotell

Votes: 5,250

33. In Search of... (1977–1982)
Episode: The Angel of Death (1979)

Not Rated | Documentary

The hunt for the fugitive sadistic Nazi doctor and his most famous pursuer, Simon Wiesenthal.

Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Ella Lingens, Josef Mengele, Berndt von Staden

Votes: 25

34. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode: Corruption (2005)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

By 1943, corruption is running rampant at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp also gains another source of income - clothes and valuables taken from Jews arriving to be gassed.

Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Dario Gabbai

Votes: 174

35. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode: Factories of Death (2005)

TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History, War

The year 1942 is to be the most significant of 'the Final Solution' as the Nazis now begin to comb western Europe, even taking Jews from as far afield as the British Channel Islands.

Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Annette Muller

Votes: 182

36. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode: Liberation & Revenge (2005)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

In 1945, Red Army soldiers liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau. As other liberations occur in the following months, the world is appalled. Surviving Jews face horrors as they try to return to their lives, and few SS-men are found and put on trial.

Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Vasily Gromadsky

Votes: 168

37. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: The Holocaust Secret

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

An examination of one of the burning questions of WWII: How did the Nazi's hide their atrocities and what did the Allies know as the "final solution" was implemented across Europe? Secret ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, Terry Charman, Aaron Breitbart, Ela Weissberger

38. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Israeli Intelligence

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War

In a constant war of survival, the state of Israel commissioned super sleuths for military intelligence, kidnappings, assassinations and hostage rescues. From retributions against ex-Nazis ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, Thomas B. Allen, Gideon Shimron, Ze'ev Keren

39. The Saad Truth (2014– )
Cambridge University Revokes Fellowship to Jordan Peterson (2019 Podcast Episode)

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Star: Gad Saad

40. Doom Patrol (2019–2023)
Episode: Sex Patrol (2020)

TV-MA | 52 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Dannyzens hold a party at the manor to try and bring Danny back.

Director: Omar Madha | Stars: Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby, Joivan Wade, Matt Bomer

Votes: 1,631

41. Fringe (2008–2013)
Episode: The Bishop Revival (2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man uses a toxin to target specific groups of people. Walter finds out that the toxin was created by his father in Berlin, long before DNA was even discovered.

Director: Adam Davidson | Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown

Votes: 2,236

42. The Boarding School (2007–2010)
Episode: El protocolo (2010)

85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

With the virus loosed, soldiers cutting off the school, and a makeshift infirmary established to corral those infected, Evelyn decides to fake the illness to make Lucas jealous.

Directors: Alexandra Graf, Jesús Rodrigo | Stars: Natalia Millán, Marta Torné, Cristina Marcos, Martiño Rivas

Votes: 50

43. The Dating Guy (2009–2010)
Episode: AssPocalypse Now (2010)

TV-MA | Animation, Comedy

After leaving the country for plastic surgery on her rear, Sam, along with V.J., but on the plane home, they are kicked off the plane mid-flight. But thanks to the bouncing power of sam's ... See full summary »

Directors: Jamie Whitney, Joseph Sherman | Stars: Fab Filippo, Widemir Normil, Lauren Ash, Olivier Visentin

Votes: 7

44. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Moscow Is Behind Us (2020)

Documentary, History, War

As Hitler's troops advance, occupants in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland take the brunt of the occupying forces cruelty; and the first concentration camps are created.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Vasil Pavlov, Vitaly Makarevich, Sergei Kudryashov, Liudmila Rybchenko

45. The Dating Guy (2009–2010)
Episode: Bonnie & Mark (2009)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy

Mark hits it off with Bonnie just before she robs a bank, making him her accomplice. Sam meets the mysterious street illusionist Archangel who briefly impresses her with his mystical abilities.

Director: Joseph Sherman | Stars: Fab Filippo, Sean Francis, Lauren Ash, Anand Rajaram

Votes: 10

46. Community (2009–2015)
Episode: Basic Lupine Urology (2012)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

When the yam the study group was growing for biology class is killed, Troy and Abed are on the case.

Director: Rob Schrab | Stars: Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown

Votes: 6,486

47. Perspectives (2011– )
Episode: Warwick Davis: The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz (2013)

TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary

The actor, Warwick Davis, presents the story of the Owicz family and their ordeal during WWII. From a successful musical act to being tortuously experimented on by Dr. Josef Mengele in a ... See full summary »

Director: Ursula Macfarlane | Stars: Warwick Davis, Samantha Davis, Perla Ovitz, Johnny Popescu

Votes: 180

48. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: The SS Death Head's Unit (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Tasked with guarding concentration camps, this unit's actions knew no bounds, and, despite their heinous acts, still attended social gatherings.

Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: Hans Münch, Richard John Evans, Christopher Browning, Harry Seidel

49. Mark Felton Productions (2017– )
Episode: Secret Fourth Reich - The Naumann Circle Plot (2024)

25 min | Documentary, History

The story of Werner Naumann, the second highest raking Nazi left alive at the end for World War Two, as he escapes from Germany then returns in an attempt to reestablish a Nazi government.

Star: Mark Felton

50. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: The Longevity Initiative (No. 97) (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The task force tracks a scientist who abducts disabled patients to conduct experiments on immortality. Now back in Washington, DC, Tom scrambles to save himself from new enemies.

Director: Donald E. Thorin Jr. | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold

Votes: 1,870