20 Best War Movies Released Since 2000

Set in the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, Son of Saul follows a day in the life of Jewish-Hungarian prisoner Saul (Geza Rohrig), who is forced to operate the camp's gas chambers. 

Capturing the day-to-day horror of the concentration camp with stunning immediacy and horrible sound design - the kind that rattles in your brain long after the film finally comes to an end - László Nemes' gripping debut is a work of ferocious humanity, lending great empathy to those innocents killed first hand by Nazi rule. 

With its murky cinematography and tortured performances, Son of Saul is transporting and eerie, littered with faces contorted in anguish, but it's also startlingly sensitive in its character study of a man forced to do the unthinkable and driven to fight back despite how little hope there seems to be. 

Many Holocaust dramas suffer because that's all there is to them - suffering - but Nemes' vision of hope in darkness is nothing short of a hopeful, a horror show that also shines with courage.