Top 50 German Movies
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1. The Lives of Others(2006)Original Title: Das Leben der Anderen |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Thriller | Release Date:15 Mar 2006 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:R |
Description:A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the system.
Director:
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Stars:
Martina Gedeck
, Ulrich Mühe
, Sebastian Koch
, Ulrich Tukur
Tags:
Political Thriller Friendship Politics Innocence
2. Downfall(2004)Original Title: Der Untergang |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War|Biography|History | Release Date:08 Sep 2004 |
| Countries: Germany| Austria| Italy | Languages:German | Russian | Hungarian | Rating:R |
Description:Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director:
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Stars:
Bruno Ganz
, Alexandra Maria Lara
, Corinna Harfouch
, Ulrich Matthes
Tags:
Based On Book War Crime Survival Violence World War Two Based On True Story Court Martial Racism Holocaust Trapped Betrayal Insanity Friendship Politics
3. Das Boot(1981) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Adventure|Action|War|Thriller|History | Release Date:16 Sep 1981 |
| Country: West Germany | Languages:German | English | French | Rating:R |
Description:A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War. Soon it becomes hunted itself. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits...
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen
Stars:
Jürgen Prochnow
, Herbert Grönemeyer
, Klaus Wennemann
, Hubertus Bengsch
Tags:
World War Two Cult Film Based On True Story Based On Novel Submarine Friendship Blockbuster
4. Run Lola Run(1998)Original Title: Lola rennt |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Drama|Thriller|Crime | Release Date:20 Aug 1998 |
| Country: Germany | Languages:German | English | Japanese | Rating:R |
Description:After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.
Director:
Tom Tykwer
Stars:
Franka Potente
, Moritz Bleibtreu
, Herbert Knaup
, Nina Petri
Tags:
Black Comedy Survival Violence Female Protagonist Organized Crime Multiple Perspectives F Rated
5. Metropolis(1927) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Sci-Fi | Release Date:10 Jan 1927 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:NR |
Description:In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director:
Fritz Lang
Stars:
Alfred Abel
, Gustav Fröhlich
, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
, Fritz Rasp
Tags:
Dystopia Social Injustice Good Versus Evil
6. Good Bye Lenin!(2003)Original Title: Good bye, Lenin! |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance|Comedy | Release Date:09 Feb 2003 |
| Country: Germany | Languages:German | English | Russian | Rating:R |
Description:In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Director:
Wolfgang Becker
Stars:
Daniel Brühl
, Katrin Saß
, Chulpan Khamatova
, Maria Simon
Tags:
Coming Of Age Violence Satire Politics Voice Over Narration Childhood
8. The Wave(2008)Original Title: Die Welle |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Thriller | Release Date:11 Mar 2008 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:NA |
Description:A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
Director:
Dennis Gansel
Stars:
Jürgen Vogel
, Frederick Lau
, Max Riemelt
, Jennifer Ulrich
Tags:
Violence Based On True Story Based On Novel Dystopia High School Social Injustice Betrayal Neo Nazi Friendship Politics Bullying
9. The Experiment(2001)Original Title: Das Experiment |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Thriller | Release Date:07 Mar 2001 |
| Country: Germany | Languages:German | English | Rating:R |
Description:Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted prematurely when the experimenters lost control.
Director:
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Stars:
Moritz Bleibtreu
, Christian Berkel
, Oliver Stokowski
, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Tags:
Violence Based On True Story Nonlinear Timeline Based On Novel
10. Nosferatu(1922)Original Title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens |
| Runtime: | Genres:Fantasy|Horror | Release Date:06 Mar 1922 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:UR |
Description:Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula."
Director:
F.W. Murnau
Stars:
Max Schreck
, Gustav von Wangenheim
, Greta Schröder
, Georg H. Schnell
Tags:
Monster Good Versus Evil
11. The White Ribbon(2009)Original Title: Das weisse Band |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Mystery|Crime | Release Date:21 May 2009 |
| Countries: Germany| Austria| France| Italy | Languages:German | Italian | Polish | Rating:R |
Description:Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Director:
Michael Haneke
Stars:
Christian Friedel
, Ernst Jacobi
, Leonie Benesch
, Ulrich Tukur
Tags:
Violence World War One Investigation Christmas Revenge Voice Over Narration Belief In God Innocence
12. Wings of Desire(1987)Original Title: Der Himmel über Berlin |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Fantasy|Romance | Release Date:01 Jan 1987 |
| Countries: West Germany| France | Languages:German | English | French | Turkish | Hebrew | Spanish | Japanese | Rating:PG-13 |
Description:An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
Director:
Wim Wenders
Stars:
Bruno Ganz
, Solveig Dommartin
, Otto Sander
, Curt Bois
Tags:
World War Two Cult Film Black And White Black And White Film Friendship Voice Over Narration
14. Head-On(2004)Original Title: Gegen die Wand |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance | Release Date:11 Mar 2004 |
| Countries: Germany| Turkey | Languages:German | English | Turkish | Rating:R |
Description:Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Director:
Fatih Akin
Stars:
Birol Ünel
, Güven Kiraç
, Zarah Jane McKenzie
, Stefan Gebelhoff
Tags:
Violence Cult Film High School Family Relationships Friendship
16. Victoria(2015) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Thriller|Crime | Release Date:07 Feb 2015 |
| Country: Germany | Languages:German | English | Spanish | Rating:NA |
Description:A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Director:
Sebastian Schipper
Stars:
Laia Costa
, Frederick Lau
, Franz Rogowski
, Burak Yigit
Tags:
Heist Gangster Falling In Love Friendship F Rated
17. The Counterfeiters(2007)Original Title: Die Fälscher |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War|Crime | Release Date:09 Feb 2007 |
| Countries: Austria| Germany | Languages:German | Russian | English | Hebrew | Rating:R |
Description:The film centers on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the Nazi operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The film won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.
Director:
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Stars:
Karl Markovics
, August Diehl
, Devid Striesow
, Martin Brambach
Tags:
Concentration Camp War Crime Survival Violence World War Two Based On True Story Nonlinear Timeline Family Relationships Holocaust Betrayal Politics
21. Fitzcarraldo(1982) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Drama|Adventure|Biography | Release Date:04 Mar 1982 |
| Countries: West Germany| Peru | Languages:German | Spanish | Italian | Rating:PG |
Description:The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Director:
Werner Herzog
Stars:
Klaus Kinski
, Claudia Cardinale
, José Lewgoy
, Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Tags:
Cult Film Based On True Story
22. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days(2005)Original Title: Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Crime|Biography|History | Release Date:13 Feb 2005 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:NA |
Description:A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Director:
Marc Rothemund
Stars:
Julia Jentsch
, Alexander Held
, Fabian Hinrichs
, Johanna Gastdorf
Tags:
Courtroom Female Protagonist World War Two Investigation Based On True Story Psychopath Family Relationships Betrayal Friendship
23. Knockin' on Heaven's Door(1997) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Comedy|Crime | Release Date:20 Feb 1997 |
| Country: Germany | Languages:German | English | Rating:NR |
Description:Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in Tequila and decide to take one last trip to ...
Director:
Thomas Jahn
Stars:
Til Schweiger
, Jan Josef Liefers
, Thierry van Werveke
, Moritz Bleibtreu
Tags:
Gangster Friendship
24. The Tin Drum(1979)Original Title: Die Blechtrommel |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War|History | Release Date:02 May 1979 |
| Countries: West Germany| France| Poland| Yugoslavia | Languages:German | Italian | Hebrew | Polish | Russian | Latin | Rating:R |
Description:Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up ...
Director:
Volker Schlöndorff
Stars:
Mario Adorf
, Angela Winkler
, David Bennent
, Katharina Thalbach
Tags:
Violence World War Two World War One Based On Novel Prisoner Of War Friendship Politics Childhood
26. Christiane F.(1981)Original Title: Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography | Release Date:01 Apr 1981 |
| Country: West Germany | Language:German | Rating:R |
Description:This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story...
Director:
Uli Edel
Stars:
Eberhard Auriga
, Natja Brunckhorst
, Peggy Bussieck
, Lothar Chamski
Tags:
Based On Book Drug Addiction Teen Movie Tragedy Friendship Voice Over Narration
27. Europa(1991) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Thriller | Release Date:11 May 1991 |
| Countries: Spain| Denmark| Sweden| France| Germany| Switzerland | Languages:English | German | Rating:R |
Description:Just after W.W.II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
Director:
Lars von Trier
Stars:
Jean-Marc Barr
, Barbara Sukowa
, Udo Kier
, Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Tags:
World War Two Christmas
28. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul(1974)Original Title: Angst essen Seele auf |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance | Release Date:05 Mar 1974 |
| Country: West Germany | Languages:German | Arabic | Rating:NR |
Description:A simple, delicate, melodramatic German film about a loneliness. With a double moral story about the tainted love between an old woman and a younger Moroccan immigrant worker.
Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars:
Brigitte Mira
, El Hedi ben Salem
, Irm Hermann
, Elma Karlowa
Tags:
Female Protagonist Family Relationships Racism Friendship F Rated
29. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser(1974)Original Title: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography|History | Release Date:01 Nov 1974 |
| Country: West Germany | Language:German | Rating:NR |
Description:The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Director:
Werner Herzog
Stars:
Bruno S.
, Walter Ladengast
, Brigitte Mira
, Willy Semmelrogge
30. The Princess and the Warrior(2000)Original Title: Der Krieger und die Kaiserin |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance|Mystery | Release Date:12 Oct 2000 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:R |
Description:Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life, seemingly entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes...
Director:
Tom Tykwer
Stars:
Franka Potente
, Benno Fürmann
, Joachim Król
, Lars Rudolph
Tags:
Investigation Nonlinear Timeline Martial Arts Insanity F Rated
32. Europa Europa(1990) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War|History | Release Date:01 Jan 1990 |
| Countries: Germany| France| Poland | Languages:German | Russian | Polish | Hebrew | Rating:R |
Description:A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story.
Director:
Agnieszka Holland
Stars:
Solomon Perel
, Marco Hofschneider
, René Hofschneider
, Piotr Kozlowski
Tags:
Concentration Camp Based On Book Survival World War Two Based On True Story Prisoner Of War Family Relationships Racism Holocaust Friendship F Rated
34. The Blue Angel(1930)Original Title: Der blaue Engel |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Music | Release Date:31 Mar 1930 |
| Country: Germany | Languages:German | English | French | Rating:NR |
Description:An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
Director:
Josef von Sternberg
Stars:
Emil Jannings
, Marlene Dietrich
, Kurt Gerron
, Rosa Valetti
Tags:
Cult Film Based On Novel Reference To William Shakespeare
35. Nowhere in Africa(2001)Original Title: Nirgendwo in Afrika |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography | Release Date:11 Dec 2001 |
| Country: Germany | Languages:English | German | Swahili | Rating:R |
Description:A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya.
Director:
Caroline Link
Stars:
Juliane Köhler
, Merab Ninidze
, Sidede Onyulo
, Matthias Habich
Tags:
Coming Of Age World War Two Based On True Story Based On Novel Holocaust Friendship F Rated Voice Over Narration Childhood
36. Stroszek(1977) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Comedy | Release Date:12 Jan 1977 |
| Country: West Germany | Languages:German | English | Turkish | Rating:NR |
Description:In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
Director:
Werner Herzog
Stars:
Bruno S.
, Eva Mattes
, Clemens Scheitz
, Wilhelm von Homburg
Tags:
Cult Film Road Movie
37. The Marriage of Maria Braun(1979)Original Title: Die Ehe der Maria Braun |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:20 Feb 1979 |
| Country: West Germany | Languages:German | English | Rating:R |
Description:The Marriage of Maria Braun is a collage of the times in Germany after the war, economic miracles, and a portrait of a woman who in her circumstances wants to emancipate and have a successful and happy career.
Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars:
Hanna Schygulla
, Klaus Löwitsch
, Ivan Desny
, Gisela Uhlen
38. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse(1933)Original Title: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Horror|Thriller|Crime | Release Date:11 May 1933 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:NR |
Description:Fritz Lang directed this sequel to his nearly four-hour Dr. Mabuse silent of 1922. The film opens with Detective Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) spying on the activities of a criminal syndicate. Not realizing he has been seen, Hofmeister is attacked by the thugs and later turns up out of his mind.
Director:
Fritz Lang
Stars:
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
, Gustav Diessl
, Rudolf Schündler
, Oskar Höcker
Tags:
Criminal Mastermind Based On Novel Black And White Black And White Film Trapped Insanity Good Versus Evil
39. Pandora's Box(1929)Original Title: Die Büchse der Pandora |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance|Thriller|Crime | Release Date:30 Jan 1929 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:NR |
Description:The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Director:
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Stars:
Louise Brooks
, Fritz Kortner
, Francis Lederer
, Carl Goetz
Tags:
Plot Twist Violence Female Protagonist Cult Film Based On Play
41. Mephisto(1981) |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:29 Apr 1981 |
| Countries: West Germany| Hungary| Austria | Languages:German | English | Hungarian | Rating:UR |
Description:A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...
Director:
István Szabó
Stars:
Klaus Maria Brandauer
, Krystyna Janda
, Ildikó Bánsági
, Rolf Hoppe
Tags:
Based On True Story Based On Novel Breaking The Fourth Wall
43. Three Wishes for Cinderella(1973)Original Title: T?i o?íšky pro Popelku |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Fantasy|Romance|Adventure|Family | Release Date:01 Nov 1973 |
| Countries: Czechoslovakia| East Germany | Languages:German | Czech | Rating:NA |
Description:Life changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the house driver gives her three magical hazel nuts.
Director:
Václav Vorlícek
Stars:
Libuse Safránková
, Pavel Trávnícek
, Carola Braunbock
, Rolf Hoppe
Tags:
Female Protagonist Based On Fairy Tale Cult Film Female Lead Human Animal Relationship Romantic Rivalry Medieval Times F Rated Bullying
44. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant(1972)Original Title: Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:25 Jun 1972 |
| Country: West Germany | Language:German | Rating:NR |
Description:Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars:
Margit Carstensen
, Hanna Schygulla
, Katrin Schaake
, Eva Mattes
45. Gloomy Sunday(1999)Original Title: Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod – Gloomy Sunday |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance | Release Date:21 Oct 1999 |
| Countries: Germany| Hungary | Languages:German | English | Hungarian | Rating:NA |
Description:Follows three men who are in love with a most beautiful waitress: An intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and an erratic businessman; taking place during the WWII.
Director:
Rolf Schübel
Stars:
Erika Marozsán
, Joachim Król
, Ben Becker
, Stefano Dionisi
46. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler(1922)Original Title: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Mystery|Thriller|Crime | Release Date:27 Apr 1922 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:NR |
Description:Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Director:
Fritz Lang
Stars:
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
, Aud Egede-Nissen
, Gertrude Welcker
, Alfred Abel
Tags:
Criminal Mastermind Black And White Black And White Film Organized Crime
47. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried(1924) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Fantasy|Adventure | Release Date:13 Feb 1924 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:UR |
Description:Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to...
Director:
Fritz Lang
Stars:
Gertrud Arnold
, Margarete Schön
, Hanna Ralph
, Paul Richter
48. Pappa ante Portas(1991) |
| Runtime: | Genre:Comedy | Release Date:21 Feb 1991 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:NA |
Description:After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire. The former manager has plenty of time now to spend with his wife and their 16...
Directors:
Vicco von Bülow
, Renate Westphal-Lorenz
Stars:
Evelyn Hamann
, Vicco von Bülow
, Irm Hermann
, Hans-Peter Korff
49. Diary of a Lost Girl(1929)Original Title: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:27 Sep 1929 |
| Country: Germany | Language:German | Rating:NR |
Description:Thymiane Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Director:
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Stars:
Louise Brooks
, André Roanne
, Josef Rovenský
, Fritz Rasp
Tags:
Based On Novel Tragedy Betrayal Compassion Innocence
