German Movies 2013
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1. Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
R | 111 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston, Martina Gedeck
Votes: 20,710
2. The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich (2012)
110 min | Biography, Drama
At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of ... See full summary »
Director: Antonin Svoboda | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Julia Jentsch, Jeanette Hain, Jamie Sives
Votes: 225
3. Me and Kaminski (2015)
124 min | Comedy, Drama
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Jesper Christensen, Amira Casar, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 1,526
4. 300 Worte Deutsch (2013)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A German-Turkish woman (student and judoka) gets into a moral conflict when her father (the mosque's principal) wants her to help Turkish "imported brides' pass a 300-word German test in order to get a residency permit.
Directors: Züli Aladag, Inci Demirbas | Stars: Pegah Ferydoni, Christoph Maria Herbst, Vedat Erincin, Christoph Letkowski
Votes: 880
5. Wolfskinder (2013)
91 min | Drama, History
The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII end, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.
Director: Rick Ostermann | Stars: Levin Liam, Helena von Have, Vivien Ciskowski, Patrick Lorenczat
Votes: 452
6. Sources of Life (2013)
174 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This is a family story that covers 30 years in the life of the Freytag family, narrated by grandson Robert. When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "... See full summary »
Director: Oskar Roehler | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Meret Becker, Moritz Bleibtreu, Lavinia Wilson
Votes: 520
7. Windstorm (2013)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Mika is sent to spend the summer at her strict grandmother's horse farm. She is hesitant at first, but when she meets the wild stallion Ostwind, Mika discovers her amazing horse whispering powers.
Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Hanna Binke, Marvin Linke, Cornelia Froboess, Tilo Prückner
Votes: 2,150
8. Die schwarzen Brüder (2013)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Giorgio's poor parents sell their son to Milan to work as a chimney sweeper. There he joins the «Black Brothers».
Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Fynn Henkel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Waldemar Kobus, Richy Müller
Votes: 481
9. Adieu Paris (2013)
97 min | Drama
Investment bank manager FRANK BERNDSSEN (c. 40), based in Berlin, believes life to be just a matter of careful advance planning. Currently, he works for a Swiss investor group keen on ... See full summary »
Director: Franziska Buch | Stars: Jessica Schwarz, Hans Werner Meyer, Sandrine Bonnaire, Gérard Jugnot
Votes: 241
10. Vampire Sisters (2012)
97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A tale of two 12-year-old vampire sisters who have to adapt to the human world after their family decides to emigrate to Germany.
Director: Wolfgang Groos | Stars: Marta Martin, Laura Antonia Roge, Christiane Paul, Stipe Erceg
Votes: 886
11. Die Frau von früher (2013 TV Movie)
107 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Andreas Kleinert | Stars: Devid Striesow, Anna Loos, Ursina Lardi, Jonas Nay
Votes: 87
12. Sputnik (2013)
90 min | Adventure, Family
An adventurous story about the "real" happenings of November 9, 1989 in Germany, the day the wall came down! For ten-year-old Frederike (10) October 1989 gets off to a disastrous start: her... See full summary »
Director: Markus Dietrich | Stars: Flora Li Thiemann, Finn Fiebig, Luca Johannsen, Emil von Schönfels
Votes: 170
13. Gold (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In the summer of 1898, a small group of German compatriots head into the hostile northern interior of British Columbia in search for gold at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Director: Thomas Arslan | Stars: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Peter Kurth, Uwe Bohm
Votes: 1,341
14. Kunduz: The Incident at Hadji Ghafur (2012)
75 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A German-afghan photographer witnesses the air-strike on two petrol trucks near Kunduz in September 2009. Heavily wounded he boards a plane that shall bring him out of Afghanistan. As the ... See full summary »
Directors: Stefan Gieren, Simona Gieren | Stars: Jeff Caster, Julia Dietze, Proschat Madani, Arash Marandi
Votes: 15
15. Die Männer der Emden (2012)
180 min | Adventure, Drama, History
When their ship is sunk in the first world war, in the Indian ocean, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-live odyssey.
Director: Berengar Pfahl | Stars: Sibel Kekilli, Ken Duken, Felicitas Woll, Matthias Schloo
Votes: 351
16. Strings (II) (2012)
89 min | Drama
A German exchange student begins an impulsive and ultimately destructive relationship with a shy British boy in her final weeks before returning to Munich and her warring family.
Director: Rob Savage | Stars: Philine Lembeck, Oliver Malam, Hannah Wilder, Sid Akbar Ali
Votes: 91
17. Finsterworld (2013)
91 min | Drama
A number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.
Director: Frauke Finsterwalder | Stars: Gisela Aderhold, Christoph Bach, Margit Carstensen, Jakub Gierszal
Votes: 2,025
18. Houston (2013)
107 min | Drama
A German corporate headhunter travels to Houston, Texas, in pursuit of a renowned oil company CEO, only to have his life fall apart.
Director: Bastian Günther | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Garret Dillahunt, Jenny Schily, Wolfram Koch
Votes: 312
19. Exit Marrakech (2013)
123 min | Adventure, Drama
Troubled teenager Ben (16) unintentionally confronts his father Heinrich (Tukur), a successful German theatre director staging a play in Marrakesh, with his past and his neglected ... See full summary »
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Samuel Schneider, Hafsia Herzi, Marie-Lou Sellem
Votes: 866
20. Abseitsfalle (2012)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
ABSEITSFALLE is the story of Karin and Mike. They work at Perla, a washing machine manufacturer. She is a career woman, he is on the assembly line and plays for the factory soccer team. The... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Hering | Stars: Bernadette Heerwagen, Sebastian Ströbel, Christoph Bach, Anja Antonowicz
Votes: 39
21. West (2013)
R | 102 min | Drama
She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Jacky Ido, Anja Antonowicz
Votes: 1,034
22. Meine Schwestern (2013)
90 min | Drama
Linda has been suffering from a congenital heart defect ever since her birth. She managed to reach 30 contrary to medical predictions. But, with another operation looming, she feels a need ... See full summary »
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Nina Kunzendorf, Lisa Hagmeister, Béatrice Dalle
Votes: 166
23. Ruby Red (2013)
122 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.
Director: Felix Fuchssteiner | Stars: Josefine Preuß, Florian Bartholomäi, Uwe Kockisch, Johannes Silberschneider
Votes: 8,230
24. Paradise: Hope (2013)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama
The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('... See full summary »
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas
Votes: 4,971 | Gross: $0.01M
25. The Taste of Apple Seeds (2013)
120 min | Drama
After the death of their grandmother, a family in Northern Germany meets again at the inherited real estate. The family saga sheds light on their past; beautiful and harsh memories. Adaptation of the 2008 book of the same name.
Director: Vivian Naefe | Stars: Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Marie Bäumer, Meret Becker
Votes: 353
26. 00 Schneider - Im Wendekreis der Eidechse (2013)
94 min | Comedy
Commissioner Schneider is back. Nineteen years after "00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter" aging policeman now has to face villain Jean-Claude Pillemann.
Directors: Helge Schneider, Andrea Schumacher | Stars: Helge Schneider, Zorro, Peter Thoms, Tyree Glenn
Votes: 1,304
27. Gaming Instinct (2013)
102 min | Drama
A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.
Director: Gregor Schnitzler | Stars: Michelle Barthel, Jannik Schümann, Maximilian Brückner, Ulrike Folkerts
Votes: 422
28. Nordstrand (2013)
89 min | Drama
NORDSTRAND tells the story of two brothers, Marten and Volker, who meet in their parents' now empty house on the coast. Older brother Marten would like to pick up together their mother from... See full summary »
Director: Florian Eichinger | Stars: Lennart Bartels, Luise Berndt, William Boer, Martina Krauel
Votes: 175
29. Hannah Arendt (2012)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama
A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch
Votes: 11,999 | Gross: $0.71M
30. Systemfehler - Wenn Inge tanzt (2013)
98 min | Comedy, Music
Max and his band, "Systemfehler", are preparing for an important concert when their guitarist injures his hand. Know-it-all eco-activist Inge, who Max has made fun of, seems to be the only available stand-in.
Director: Wolfgang Groos | Stars: Tim Oliver Schultz, Paula Kalenberg, Constantin von Jascheroff, Tino Mewes
Votes: 1,459
31. Die Genialität des Augenblicks - Der Fotograf Günter Rössler (2012)
93 min | Documentary
Director: Fred R. Willitzkat | Stars: Volker Rodekamp, Günther Rössler, Kirsten Schlegel, Renate Stephan
Votes: 12
32. Paradise: Love (2012)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama
Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz
Votes: 9,993 | Gross: $0.02M
33. Paradise: Faith (2012)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama
A single woman in her 50s devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, René Rupnik, Natalija Baranova
Votes: 5,133 | Gross: $0.01M
34. Lost Place (2013)
101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest (Pfaelzerwald), four teenagers come across an abandoned US military radio tower station that once was part of a secret military program with horrible side effects.
Director: Thor Klein | Stars: François Goeske, Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen, Pit Bukowski, Josefine Preuß
Votes: 619
35. Westerland (2012)
85 min | Drama, Romance
Two distinctly different men meet on the island of Sylt and decide to start a relationship, when their previously uneventful lives start to spin out of control.
Director: Tim Staffel | Stars: Wolfram Schorlemmer, Burak Yigit, Tamer Arslan, Jule Böwe
Votes: 239
36. Banklady (2013)
118 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The sudden transformation of a lower middle class woman who falls in love with a bank robber and soon becomes one herself.
Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Heinz Hoenig, Ken Duken, Nadeshda Brennicke, Charly Hübner
Votes: 844
37. Staub auf unseren Herzen (2012)
91 min | Drama
Director: Hanna Doose | Stars: Susanne Lothar, Stephanie Stremler, Oskar Bökelmann, Michael Kind
Votes: 136
38. Shifting the Blame (2012)
93 min | Drama
In a project with the concept of open-prison, Benjamin is given the unique chance of a new beginning. As one of seven juvenile offenders he should adopt social skills and experience ... See full summary »
Director: Lars-Gunnar Lotz | Stars: Edin Hasanovic, Julia Brendler, Marc Ben Puch, Pit Bukowski
Votes: 426
39. False Freedom (2014)
90 min | Drama
A German doctor was a successful contributor to Hitler's Germany. After WWII, he seeks to escape accountability. He meets a Polish-German-Jewish beauty, who was brutalized during the War, ... See full summary »
Director: Bernd Fischerauer | Stars: Ken Duken, Julie Engelbrecht, Gwendolyn Göbel, Johannes Silberschneider
Votes: 88
40. The Little Ghost (2013)
PG | 92 min | Family, Fantasy
The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!
Director: Alain Gsponer | Stars: Jonas Holdenrieder, Emily Kusche, Nico Hartung, Herbert Knaup
Votes: 637
41. Besser als nix (2014)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Ute Wieland | Stars: François Goeske, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Anna Fischer, Hannelore Elsner
Votes: 211
42. Und Äktschn! (2014)
98 min | Comedy
Director: Frederick Baker | Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Robert Palfrader, Erni Mangold, Michael Ostrowski
Votes: 242
43. Ein schmaler Grat (2013)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Daniel Harrich | Stars: Felicitas Woll, Grit Boettcher, Hannah Goesch, Heiner Lauterbach
Votes: 31
44. Summer Outside (2012)
96 min | Drama
Teenager Wanda and her siblings experience the deterioration of the relationship between their parents, which adds to their own problems.
Director: Friederike Jehn | Stars: Maria Dragus, Nicolette Krebitz, Wolfram Koch, Audrey Käthe von Scheele
Votes: 118
45. God of Happiness (2015)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Giorgi, a Georgian unemployed actor and tragic looser is suddenly confronted with the arrival of his 15-year old daughter Tina whom he hasn't seen for 10 years. Together with his black ... See full summary »
Director: Dito Tsintsadze | Stars: Lasha Bakradze, Elie James Blezes, Nadeshda Brennicke, Tina Meliava
Votes: 42
46. Fallacy (2013)
101 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
Lured by quick money, David a loving family man and aspiring star lawyer lives a dangerous double life. While under the assumption the end would always justify the means he gets mixed-up in a political intrigue.
Director: Martin Jablonski | Stars: Torben Karstens, Gerhard Mohr, Katalyn Bohn, Jörg Germann
Votes: 73
47. Lose My Self (2014)
95 min | Drama
After university professor Lena Ferben gets meningitis, she gets a newfound sense of openness after loses her memory, personality and tastes.
Director: Jan Schomburg | Stars: Maria Schrader, Johannes Krisch, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sandra Hüller
Votes: 303
48. Free Fall (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A soon-to-be-father policeman falls for a gay fellow officer and his life starts falling apart.
Director: Stephan Lacant | Stars: Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt, Attila Borlan, Katharina Schüttler
Votes: 22,477
49. Lara (2012)
Drama
Director: Bernd Schadewald | Stars: Christiane Paul, Benno Fürmann, Stefan Weinert
50. Hanna's Journey (2013)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
A German girl travels to Israel to help people with disabilities, where she learns a lot about the role of her grandparents in WWII and meets a man who wants to move to Berlin.
Director: Julia von Heinz | Stars: Karoline Schuch, Doron Amit, Leah Koenig, Max Mauff
Votes: 439
51. Staudamm (2013)
89 min | Drama, Romance
The Dam tells the story of young man called Roman, who is working for an attorney. Roman has to travel to a small village in Bavaria, in order to get some files from a local police station.... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Sieben | Stars: Friedrich Mücke, Liv Lisa Fries, Arnd Schimkat, Dominic Raacke
Votes: 159
52. Transfer at Aachen
Action, Drama | Announced
A retired jewel thief is brought back into the game when his old crime partner persuades him to intercept a diamond transfer on the high-speed rail lines of Europe.
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