Heartbreaking, fable-like, controversial among historians.
: While more epic in scope, it shares The Reader’s focus on the individual within the Holocaust. It features Ralph Fiennes in a chillingly different role as Amon Göth, a man whose inhumanity serves as the ultimate contrast to the moral awakening seen in Oskar Schindler.
A forgotten gem starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda. De Niro plays an illiterate cook who falls in love with a widow (Fonda) who teaches him to read.
No list regarding emotionally shattering, secret-laden dramas is complete without Sophie’s Choice . Meryl Streep’s performance is the gold standard for playing a character with a devastating secret from the war era.
