Nazis are right up their with space aliens and zombies as a reliable potential foe. Nazis are the worst. We fought a world war because they were so bad, and they will always be bad. No one making Raiders of the Lost Ark had to worry about, “Huh, I wonder if Nazis will still be a reliable villain in thirty years.” Sadly, current events have made some Nazis and their fellow white-supremacists feel a bit bolder, but we’ll always be ready to smack them back down. And if you need a little cinematic inspiration, here are ten of the best movies where Nazis get their asses kicked.  If there's any we missed, sound off in the comments section!

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Indy may have met a bunch of no-good Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but a new crop rears their ugly heads in the third film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. This time around, the Nazis aren’t after the Ark of the Covenant, but rather the omega to its alpha, the Holy Grail. And they’re not above kidnapping or killing Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery) to get it.

But in addition to the very obvious Nazis, the ones draped in swastikas and familiar regalia, there’s also the duplicitous Walter Donovan (Julian Glover), an American who sides with the Nazis to satisfy his greed; and Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody), an Austrian archaeologist who—surprise!—is in league with Nazis, as well. The seductress tricks Donovan into drinking from the wrong grail, causing him to crumble to dust, but her own greed sends her to a bottomless chasm; fitting ends for Nazi sympathizers. Jones manages to take out the rest of the Nazis throughout the film's action sequences, but he misses his lone opportunity to take out the big guy: Adolf Hitler himself, who “cameos” in this epic action-adventure. Luckily, history took care of that one for us. – Dave Trumbore

Green Room

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Nazi punks, fuck off! That pretty much sums it up. Green Room is a brutal, beautiful thriller from writer-director Jeremy Saulnier that follows a young punk band into the thick of red-laced Neo-Nazi territory and details their bloody fight for survival after they play at the wrong club and stumble into a murder. Green Room builds tension and terror out of the diabolical villains, playing up the militaristic hierarchy of ranks and zealous true believers to create a terrifyingly familiar image of a modern day, street-level regime. Which makes it all the more satisfying to watch when their captive punk rockers give as good as they get on their life or death battle to escape. -- Haleigh Foutch

Inglourious Basterds

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Perhaps the most gleefully violent example of a film in which Nazis get pummeled is, of course, Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. Indeed, one of the main plots of the film involves a band of mostly Jewish American soldiers whose unit serves one purpose and one purpose only: killin’ Nazis. Led by Brad Pitt’s swagger-heavy Aldo Raine, the Basterds not only hunt and brutally murder Nazis, they also scalp them and always leave behind one survivor to tell the tale—albeit with his own kind of marking. Tarantino knew with Nazis as your villain you can get away with all sorts of violent doings, because Nazis are the worst. But audiences were not prepared for Tarantino to go all alt-history with Inglorious Basterds, in which the Basterds and cinephile/survivor Shosanna (Melanie Laurent) actually succeed in killing Hitler and many of his top men. Tarantino milks this sequence for all its worth, from Hitler’s face getting pummeled by bullets to the face of a Jewish girl laughing her head off serving as the last thing these Nazi jerks ever see. Bless you Quentin Tarantino. – Adam Chitwood

Hellboy

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The Nazis aren’t the main villain of Hellboy, but they enable the villainous trio of Grigori Rasputin (Karl Roden), Ilsa Haupstein (Bridget Hodson), and Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Ladislav Beran). In the final days of World War II, Hitler and his obsession with the occult have tasked a small force of soldiers to help Rasputin open a doorway to hell. The Nazis, being terrible at everything, blow it, Rasputin gets sucked into the hell dimension, and we get Hellboy. While the Nazis don’t figure into the rest of the plot (which takes place in the present day), they manage to be too useless to stick around and help Rasputin, but just terrible enough to help him out in the first place. - Matt Goldberg

The Rocketeer

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Joe Johnston hates Nazis more than your average movie director. His 1991 movie The Rocketeer was just his first comic book adaptation to focus on a Nazi-punching superhero. The comic, from writer/artist Dave Stevens, first appeared in 1982 and centered on stunt pilot Cliff Secord who discovers a prototype jetpack in 1938. What first appears like a Golden Era story of a technology-powered flying man versus no-good gangsters is soon revealed to be something much more nefarious.

In Johnston’s adaptation, Billy Campbell’s Cliff does indeed discover the stolen jetpack. But he also finds out that famous movie star Neville Sinclair is actually a Nazi secret agent working to secure Howard Hughes’ flying prototype for the Reich. Sinclair’s the first Nazi to get knocked out, but it’s Jennifer Connelly’s aspiring actress Jenny Blake who actually does the punching. Things get really nuts from here since even the thugs of Eddie Valentine’s gang turn on Sinclair and his hulking henchman Lothar once they learn of their Nazi connection. Then, the mobsters and the FBI, who have been waiting in the wings, team up to battle a squadron of Nazi paramilitary commandos. It’s crazy good fun with an explosive ending that’s not to be missed.  – Dave Trumbore

The Sound of Music

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Nazis get owned in a movie where the lead character sings about “raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.” While one could argue that the Nazis “win” because the Von Trapp family has to flee into the mountains at the end, we all know that the Nazis are the ones who come along and ruin everything because that’s what they do. It was a perfectly nice story about a nun helping a family, and then stupid Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte) has to come in with his “Heil Hitler” bullshit. While the Von Trapps will be out there climbing every mountain, Rolfe and his Nazi buddies will be out there dying in every trench. - Matt Goldberg

Dead Snow

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Ah Nazi zombies, a recent pop culture favorite, and for good reason. How do you make the undead more evil? Slap a swastika on them. And how do you completely strip zombies of their humanity? Make 'em into literal monsters, which makes it even more fun to watch the Nazi army get mowed down and director Tommy Wirkola takes every opportunity to lean into a gore gag and follow through on that promise. Forget about punching Nazis, Dead Snow decapitates, disembowels and generally slices them to bits. Somewhere between a horror comedy, classic zombie film, and historical revenge fantasy in the vein of Inglourious Basterds, Dead Snow goes all in on kicking zombie ass. -- Haleigh Foutch

The Great Dictator

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One of the best anti-Nazi movies in history was actually released at the beginning of World War II, as the Nazis were enacting their greatest atrocities. Writer, director, and star Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator is a biting piece of satire about a ruthless dictator named Adenoid Hynkel, who bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler. Chaplin plays dual roles in the film as Hynkel as well as a persecuted Jewish barber, and the two characters end up switching places at a point in the film, where the dictator gets a taste of his own medicine. The Great Dictator was a pretty brave piece of cinema at the time, as the United States was still, publicly at least, at peace with Nazi Germany. Hitler was so incensed by Chaplin’s film that he’s said to have ordered Chaplin executed. Obviously that never came to pass, but the boldness and sharp-wit of The Great Dictator still stands today as a powerful—and funny!—piece of satire. – Adam Chitwood

X-Men: First Class

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Magneto, Nazi hunter. Hell yes. Erik Lehnsherr is one of the most rich and compelling characters to come out of comic books – a holocaust survivor who in turn believes himself to be a leader of a new master race. There's a lot to mine from that and while Ian McKellen was iconic and inexhaustibly charming as the older Magneto, he didn't get to dig quite as deep and dark as Michael Fassbender does in the First Class generation of films. Fassbender also gets to hunt Nazis, an incredibly cathartic moment of cinema, whether he's having a standoff with the man who killed his mother or just dispatching of the big bad's retired Nazi goons. It's just a shame there's not more of it. In fact, now that Fox is in the business of hard-R superhero movies, here's a free idea, make that the next spinoff. -- Haleigh Foutch

Captain America: The First Avenger

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Remember when I said that Joe Johnston hated Nazis more than most movie directors? Well, he’s back for a second dose with this early MCU entry, one that is a bit more on the nose … as in, Captain America punched Hitler in the nose that one time. Granted, Chris Evans doesn’t get to do that in this movie (I’m sure he’d love to have been able to), but he and Johnston get just about everything else right.

More than setting up the eventual Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger returns to the roots of American toughness, optimism, and the tenacious effort to stand up for what’s right. Captain America is the ideal, a nearly bulletproof super-soldier who can wade into enemy lines of Nazi Hydra agents and lay waste to their ideologies and their faces in equal measure. But it’s Steve Rogers, the scrawny, undersized, and routinely discounted hero with heart who’s really at the center of this story. Few if any of us possess the pecs of Captain America, but many of us are fighting the good fight for equality. Oddly, in our real, contemporary world, we have another thing in common with this fictional hero: the chance to punch Nazis. Don't waste it. – Dave Trumbore