In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Jargen Prochnow, Herbert Graanemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Plot
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
TV | Crime, Drama | Germany, USA | German, English
Writer
Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
Cast
Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari
Plot
A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.
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.
Movie | Drama, Fantasy | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger
Cast
Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
Plot
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Bernd Lichtenberg, Wolfgang Becker, Achim von Borries
Cast
Daniel Brahl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova
Plot
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.
Movie | Drama, Mystery | Germany, Austria | German, Italian
Director
Michael Haneke
Writer
Michael Haneke
Cast
Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch
Plot
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Plot
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Germany, Turkey | German, Turkish
Director
Fatih Akin
Writer
Fatih Akin
Cast
Birol aœnel, Sibel Kekilli, Gaven Kiraa§
Plot
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Movie | Drama, Horror | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog, Tom Shachtman, Martje Grohmann
Cast
Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz
Plot
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargaine...
Movie | Drama, History | Denmark, Germany | German, Danish
Director
Martin Zandvliet
Writer
Martin Zandvliet
Cast
Roland Ma¸ller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Plot
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
Pea Fraahlich, Peter Ma¤rthesheimer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Laawitsch, Ivan Desny
Plot
Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
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.
Movie | Drama, Thriller | Germany, France | German
Director
Dennis Gansel
Writer
Ron Jones, Johnny Dawkins, Ron Birnbach
Cast
Jargen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt
Plot
A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Movie | Drama, Thriller | Germany | German, English
Director
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer
Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnsta¤dt, Don Bohlinger
Cast
Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski
Plot
For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.
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.
A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Sebastian Schipper
Writer
Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike Frederik Schulz
Cast
Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski
Plot
A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
A European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
Eberhard Keindorff, Johanna Sibelius, Fritz Staudte
Cast
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
Plot
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
Movie | Drama | Hungary, Germany | German, Hungarian
Director
Istva¡n Szaba
Writer
Peter Dobai, Istva¡n Szaba, Klaus Mann
Cast
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildika Ba¡nsa¡gi, Krystyna Janda
Plot
In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
Movie | Comedy, Crime | Germany, USA | German, French
Director
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer
Bertolt Brecht, Leo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda
Cast
Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
Plot
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronat...
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel
Plot
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
Daniel F. Galouye (novel), Fritz Maller-Scherz (teleplay), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (teleplay)
Cast
Klaus Laawitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben
Plot
In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.
Movie | Action, Biography | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Uli Edel
Writer
Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel, Stefan Aust
Cast
Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Plot
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Switzerland, Germany | German, Italian
Director
Ladislao Vajda
Writer
Friedrich Darrenmatt, Hans Jacoby, Ladislao Vajda
Cast
Heinz Rahmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz
Plot
Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a ...
Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Plot
9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself t...
Movie | Biography, Drama | Germany, Italy | German, Russian
Director
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Writer
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cast
Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer
Plot
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Carl Esmond, Magda Schneider
Plot
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff howev...
Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations...
Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak
Plot
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Movie | Documentary, Biography | Germany, UK | German, English
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel toget...
Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Maahring
Plot
Benjamin, a computer genius, is invited to join FRI3NDS, a fame-seeking hacker group. However, when his associates are murdered by Russian gangsters, he is interrogated by Europol.
Movie | Documentary, War | Germany, France | German, Arabic
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog
Plot
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fraahlich, Peter Ma¤rthesheimer
Cast
Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess
Plot
Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports jo...
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Munchhausenaka The Adventures of Baron Munchausen(1943)
Movie | Comedy, Adventure | Germany | German
Director
Josef von Ba¡ky
Writer
Gottfried August Barger, Erich Ka¤stner, Rudolph Erich Raspe
Cast
Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen
Plot
This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Baahm
Plot
A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
Movie | Drama, History | Germany, Poland | German, English
Director
Christian Petzold
Writer
Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Plot
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
The famous safecracker Kwinto, after leaving prison, decided to quit. But the news of the death of a friend abruptly changes his plans. He decides to "take" Kramer's bank. And, of course, he takes. Elegant, fun and twisted.
