Films dealing with Nazism and sexuality

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Films dealing with Nazism and sexuality are films that explore or exploit connections between Nazism, fascism, sexuality, domination, repression, sadism, gender, fetishism, eroticized authority, sexual violence, trauma, and the cultural afterlife of National Socialist ideology. Scholars of film and cultural history have discussed the recurring association of Nazi and fascist imagery with sexuality, sadism, bodily discipline, eroticized power, and exploitation cinema.[1][2][3][4]

The subject overlaps with Nazi exploitation, a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film involving Nazi settings, concentration camps, sexual violence, sadism, institutional power, and fascist iconography.[3][5]

The following list includes art films, historical dramas, horror films, political melodramas, exploitation films, and films dealing with the cultural, sexual, or psychological aftermath of Nazism and fascism.

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Film Year Director Country Notes
The Night Porter 1974 Liliana Cavani Italy Postwar sadomasochistic relationship between a former SS officer and a concentration camp survivor.[6]
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy Fascism, sexual domination, sadism, and political power allegorized through ritualized abuse.
The Damned 1969 Luchino Visconti Italy / West Germany Familial decadence, sexuality, power, and the rise of Nazism.
The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci Italy / France / West Germany Fascist conformity, repression, masculinity, and sexual anxiety.
Salon Kitty 1976 Tinto Brass Italy / France / West Germany Nazi surveillance, brothel politics, and eroticized state control.[3]
Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller Italy Survival, sexuality, humiliation, and concentration-camp power relations.
Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse United States Sexual performance culture and the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany.
The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia Sexual grotesquerie, childhood, bodily refusal, and fascist normalization.
Lacombe, Lucien 1974 Louis Malle France / Italy / West Germany Collaboration, adolescent power fantasies, and erotic attraction under occupation.
Europa 1991 Lars von Trier Denmark Postwar German guilt, erotic entanglement, and fascist residue.
The Serpent's Egg 1977 Ingmar Bergman United States / West Germany Weimar decay, medicalized authoritarianism, sexuality, and proto-fascist paranoia.
Hitler: A Film from Germany 1977 Hans-Jürgen Syberberg West Germany / France / United Kingdom Mythic, theatrical, and psychological investigation of Hitler and German fascist fantasy.
The Ogre 1996 Volker Schlöndorff France / Germany / United Kingdom Childhood, predation, myth, and Nazi indoctrination.
Bent 1997 Sean Mathias United Kingdom / Japan Homosexual persecution under Nazism and erotic resistance in the camp system.
Aimée & Jaguar 1999 Max Färberböck Germany Lesbian love, secrecy, danger, and persecution in Nazi Berlin.
The Reader 2008 Stephen Daldry United States / Germany Erotic memory, guilt, shame, and postwar confrontation with Nazi crimes.
Black Book 2006 Paul Verhoeven Netherlands / Germany / United Kingdom / Belgium Espionage, sexual survival, betrayal, and occupation power.
In a Glass Cage 1986 Agustí Villaronga Spain Nazi atrocity, sexual sadism, trauma, and repetition.[3]
Good 2008 Vicente Amorim [de] United Kingdom / Germany Moral corruption, domestic desire, and accommodation to Nazism.
Mephisto 1981 István Szabó Hungary / West Germany / Austria Ambition, performance, seduction, and compromise under Nazism.
Moloch 1999 Alexander Sokurov Russia / Germany / Japan / Italy / France Hitler and Eva Braun depicted through bodily banality, intimacy, and power.
Max 2002 Menno Meyjes United Kingdom / Hungary / Canada Artistic frustration, masculinity, resentment, and the early formation of Hitler.
Hanussen 1988 István Szabó Hungary / West Germany / Austria Charisma, spectacle, hypnosis, and fascist mass psychology.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 Vittorio De Sica Italy / West Germany Desire, class, Jewish life, and fascist encroachment.
The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany Postwar sexuality, opportunism, trauma, and German reconstruction.
Lili Marleen 1981 Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany Stardom, romance, propaganda, and eroticized wartime spectacle.
Despair 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany / France Identity crisis, sexual alienation, doubling, and the approach of Nazism.
Germany, Pale Mother 1980 Helma Sanders-Brahms West Germany Marriage, pregnancy, motherhood, and bodily trauma during and after Nazism.
The Mortal Storm 1940 Frank Borzage United States Romantic melodrama and the sexual-social pressures of Nazi conformity.
The Seventh Cross 1944 Fred Zinnemann United States Fear, loyalty, intimacy, and resistance under Nazi terror.
The Pawnbroker 1964 Sidney Lumet United States Holocaust trauma, sexual memory, numbness, and postwar survival.
The Boys from Brazil 1978 Franklin J. Schaffner United Kingdom / United States Nazi eugenics, cloning, patriarchy, and fantasies of biological reproduction.
Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger United States Nazi survival, bodily violation, fear, and postwar paranoia.
The Night of the Generals 1967 Anatole Litvak United Kingdom / France Nazism, murder, sexual violence, and military hierarchy.
The Counterfeit Traitor 1962 George Seaton United States Espionage, intimacy, danger, and divided loyalties in Nazi Europe.
Music Box 1989 Costa-Gavras United States Family intimacy, denial, memory, and hidden participation in fascist violence.
Amen. 2002 Costa-Gavras France / Germany / Romania Institutional complicity, conscience, and moral repression during the Holocaust.
The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke Germany / Austria / France / Italy Repression, punishment, sexuality, violence, and proto-fascist social formation.
Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov Soviet Union Nazi violence, terror, bodily breakdown, and the destruction of childhood.
Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel Germany / Austria / Italy Bunker intimacy, collapse, loyalty, and the grotesque end of Nazi power.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days 2005 Marc Rothemund Germany Moral resistance, youth, gender, interrogation, and authoritarian discipline.
The Zone of Interest 2023 Jonathan Glazer United Kingdom / Poland / United States Domesticity, denial, family life, and the proximity of extermination.
Solvent 2024 Johannes Grenzfurthner Austria Nazi afterlife, obsession, psychosexual body horror, genital mutilation, black-fluid phallic imagery, contaminated domestic space, and historical repression.[7][8][9]
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS 1975 Don Edmonds Canada Nazi exploitation film centered on sadism, sexual violence, and camp power.[3]
Love Camp 7 1969 Lee Frost United States Women-in-prison Nazi exploitation film involving sexual coercion and camp infiltration.[5]
SS Experiment Camp 1976 Sergio Garrone Italy Nazi exploitation film involving sexual experimentation and concentration-camp sadism.[5]
SS Girls 1977 Bruno Mattei Italy Nazi exploitation film involving eroticized espionage, training, and state control.[5]
Nazi Love Camp 27 1977 Mario Caiano Italy Nazi exploitation film also known as The Swastika on the Belly.[5]
Deported Women of the SS Special Section 1976 Rino Di Silvestro Italy Italian erotic drama and Nazi exploitation film set in an SS camp.[5]
Gestapo's Last Orgy 1977 Cesare Canevari Italy Italian Nazi exploitation film about camp sadism, sexual violence, and revenge.[5]
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