The Pianist (2002)

Yes. 94% of real audiences liked it based on 9,980 votes. Critics agree, scoring it 90%.

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city. Wikipedia ↗

The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama directed by Roman Polanski, based on the autobiography of Władysław Szpilman. Adrien Brody stars as Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist in Warsaw who witnesses the systematic destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. As his family is deported to the Treblinka extermination camp, Szpilman escapes and spends years hiding in the ruins of Warsaw, surviving through the help of sympathizers and his own desperate resourcefulness, moving between abandoned apartments and bombed-out buildings while the city is methodically destroyed around him.

Adrien Brody's performance required extreme physical and emotional commitment — he lost 30 pounds, sold his apartment, gave away his car, and disconnected his phones to achieve the isolation and deprivation his character experienced. His portrayal of Szpilman's gradual reduction from a cultured, vibrant artist to a skeletal, barely human survivor was one of the most devastating performances in war film history, earning him the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, the youngest winner in the category at that time. Roman Polanski, himself a Holocaust survivor who escaped the Kraków Ghetto as a child, brought a personal understanding of the material that gave the film an unflinching authenticity.

The Pianist won three Academy Awards including Best Director and earned $120 million worldwide.