The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)

When Warsaw Zoo is attacked by the Nazis at the start of World War II, zookeeper Jan Zabinski (Johan Heldenbergh) and his wife Antonina (Jessica Chastain) are unable to save the animals, but manage to rescue and protect hundreds of Polish Jews from the Germans. 

It’s a powerful and moving story – especially given that it’s based on real events. Chastain is superb, as is Daniel Brühl as Lutz Heck, Hitler's chief zoologist, who develops an uneasy connection with Antonina. 

It’s unbearably tense in places and harrowing in others.