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Slumdog Millionaire! - a.k.a.Q & A by Vikas Swarup. In case you missed this terrific film and winner of the 2009 Best Picture of the Year Academy Award, check out the book on which the movie was based. Or, if you did see the film, read the novel to see how truthful the movie was to the plot of the book.
Another great suggestion is The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. Kate Winslet won the Best Actress Oscar for portraying a Nazi prison guard (sorry, but I will always remember her as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility).