In Darkness (2011)

During World War II, a Catholic sewer worker and thief, despite his best misgivings, hid a group of Jewish people in the sewers of Lwów, Poland. Adapted from one of two books about the incident, the film suffers from coming after many better films on the Holocaust. The majority of the film is set in the sewer, which means much of the film is very dark and there are umpteen closeups of rats scurrying about. The runtime is already fairly long, but there isn’t a lot of time spent building the characters of the Jewish group before they go into hiding, which makes each person hard to discern in the dark. For better or worse, the film doesn’t shy from portraying the characters humanly. There is quite a bit of sex for a film about genocide and many scenes involve various characters yelling at each other.  

Oscar Nomination: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year