.German-Language Movies
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1. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,656 | Gross: $2.22M
2. Der freie Wille (2006)
Unrated | 163 min | Crime, Drama
A man is released from a mental institution after serving 9 years for multiple rape.
Director: Matthias Glasner | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, André Hennicke, Manfred Zapatka
Votes: 3,303
3. Import Export (2007)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in Central Europe, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Ekateryna Rak, Lidiya Oleksandrivna Savka, Oksana Ivanivna Sklyarenko, Dmytro Andriyovich Gachkov
Votes: 6,307
4. Hotel (2004)
76 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Irene gets a job as a hotel maid she soon finds out that the previous girl disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, Marlene Streeruwitz, Peter Strauß
Votes: 1,789
5. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann
Votes: 23,852
6. Funny Games (1997)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering
Votes: 84,099
7. Heavy Girls (2012)
77 min | Comedy, Drama
Sven lives with his mother Edeltraut, she suffers from dementia. They share their lives, their flat and even the bed. During the day Sven works at a bank and Daniel looks after his mother. ... See full summary »
Director: Axel Ranisch | Stars: Ruth Bickelhaupt, Heiko Pinkowski, Peter Trabner, Paul Pinkowski
Votes: 247
8. The State I Am In (2000)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Bilge Bingül
Votes: 2,761
9. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
45 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Walter Steiner, Werner Herzog
Votes: 2,881
10. Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
Director: Michael Schorr | Stars: Horst Krause, Harald Warmbrunn, Karl-Fred Müller, Ursula Schucht
Votes: 3,768 | Gross: $0.59M
11. Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois
Votes: 77,027 | Gross: $3.33M
12. Victoria (II) (2015)
Not Rated | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit
Votes: 63,144
13. Vaterlandsverräter (2011)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Once with the Stasi, always with the Stasi? Once you were in the agent controller's grasp you could never escape - that's what they say, anyway. Writer Paul Gratzik was an unofficial ... See full summary »
Director: Annekatrin Hendel | Stars: Paul Gratzik, Sascha Anderson, Renate Biskup, Gabriele Dietze
Votes: 68
14. The Seventh Continent (1989)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
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.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel
Votes: 17,002
15. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Amadeus Fengler, Lilo Pempeit
Votes: 2,924
16. The Castle (1997 TV Movie)
123 min | Drama, Mystery
When a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse to allow him to advance to the nearby castle. Increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles arise.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus Paryla, André Eisermann
Votes: 3,568
17. Michael (II) (2011)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Five months in the life of a pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.
Director: Markus Schleinzer | Stars: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Christine Kain, Ursula Strauss
Votes: 5,117 | Gross: $0.02M
18. Berlin Babylon (2001)
88 min | Documentary
Berlin after the Wall came down. Observations on radical reconstruction of a city core. Images of the conflict between the thirst for demolition and the hunger for completion.
Director: Hubertus Siegert | Stars: Günter Behnisch, Werner Durth, Helmut Jahn, Josef Paul Kleihues
Votes: 252
19. Achterbahn (2009)
89 min | Documentary
A portrait of an unusual man, a highly emotional family drama and a fascinating crime story all at once.
Director: Peter Dörfler | Stars: Marcel Witte, Norbert Witte, Pia Witte, Sabrina Witte
Votes: 188
20. Christiane F. (1981)
R | 138 min | Biography, Drama
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.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck, Lothar Chamski
Votes: 29,411
21. The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. ... See full summary »
Director: Heiner Carow | Stars: Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder, Heidemarie Wenzel, Fred Delmare
Votes: 1,224
22. David Wants to Fly (2010)
96 min | Documentary
David Sieveking walks on David Lynchs path into the world of transcendental meditation (TM). He comes across the founder of this worldwide movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to whom the Beatles already pilgrimed.
Director: David Sieveking | Stars: Judith Bourque, Donovan, Raja Emanuel, Raja Felix
Votes: 695
23. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
71 min | Drama
During Great Depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called Kuhle Wampe.
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer
Votes: 820
24. Stroszek (1977)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
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
Votes: 15,324
25. Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (1999 TV Movie)
65 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Juliane Koepcke, Juan Zaplana Ramirez
Votes: 1,496
26. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
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.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,359 | Gross: $11.49M
27. Abbuzze! Der Badesalz Film (1996)
95 min | Comedy
On a Friday evening two men played by the comical duo 'Badesalz' get stuck in an elevator of a skyscraper. As there is no hope of being rescued during the weekend they try to divert ... See full summary »
Director: Roland Willaert | Stars: Gerd Knebel, Henni Nachtsheim, Martin Armknecht, Birgit Böttcher
Votes: 933
28. Behinderte Zukunft (1971 TV Movie)
42 min | Documentary
Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60's / early 70's.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Rolf Illig, Werner Herzog, Adolf Ratzka
Votes: 497
29. Oliver Kahn und die Dinge des Lebens (2006 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Marin Martschewski | Star: Oliver Kahn
Votes: 63
30. Trainer! (2013 TV Movie)
138 min | Documentary, Sport
Sports documentary that shows the life of three young German soccer managers during a professional season.
Director: Aljoscha Pause | Stars: Rachid Azzouzi, Fabian Boll, Michael Born, Marius Ebbers
Votes: 506
31. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
45 min | Documentary, Adventure
Film-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Reinhold Messner, Hans Kammerlander, Werner Herzog
Votes: 1,063
32. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance
At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
Directors: Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla
Votes: 3,738
33. Battle of Berlin (1973)
90 min | Documentary
Depicts the air raid on Berlin, Dec 31, 1944. Adolf Hitler claimed over the radio that the National Socialist state would rebuild the city in a few years. Followed by pictures of the destroyed almost deleted Berlin.
Directors: Franz Baake, Jost von Morr
Votes: 29
34. Babylon Berlin (2017– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Lars Eidinger, Fritzi Haberlandt
Votes: 29,967
35. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind... See full summary »
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Fini Straubinger, M. Baaske, Elsa Fehrer, Heinrich Fleischmann
Votes: 3,200
36. Being Mario Götze (2018)
136 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Director: Aljoscha Pause | Stars: Tom Bartels, Oliver Bierhoff, Fabian Götze, Felix Götze
Votes: 92
37. 4 Blocks (2017–2019)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Based in Neukölln, Berlin, Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arab gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, it's never that simple.
Stars: Kida Khodr Ramadan, Veysel Gelin, Sami Nasser, Wasiem Taha
Votes: 9,510
38. Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.
Director: Maren Ade | Stars: Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann, Ilona Schulz
Votes: 1,896 | Gross: $0.00M
39. Berlin zur Kaiserzeit - Glanz und Schatten einer Epoche (1986)
70 min | Documentary
Director: Irmgard von zur Mühlen | Stars: Martin Held, Charlotte Joeres, Carl Raddatz, Eva Katharina Schultz
40. Western (2017)
Unrated | 121 min | Drama
German construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.
Director: Valeska Grisebach | Stars: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Fragnova
Votes: 4,301 | Gross: $0.04M
41. Safari (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary
A thought-provoking look on how white hunting tourists go to Afrika in search of excitement in killing wild animals, their backward views on humanity and the monetary reality behind this industry
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Inge Ellinger, Marita Neemann, Markolf Schmidt, Tina Hofmann
Votes: 1,258
42. In the Basement (2014)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Fritz Lang, Alfreda Klebinger, Manfred Ellinger, Inge Ellinger
Votes: 3,102 | Gross: $0.00M
43. I Am My Own Woman (1992)
91 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berflede. Miss Charlotte survived the Nazi reign and the repression of the Communists as a transvestite and helped start the German ... See full summary »
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Jens Taschner, Ichgola Androgyn, Robert Dietl
Votes: 200
44. Axiom (2022)
112 min | Drama
Julius, an eloquent young museum attendant loved by the people around him, invites his colleagues on a sailing trip on his aristocratic family's boat, but something goes wrong. Julius is not who he seems to be.
Director: Jöns Jönsson | Stars: Moritz von Treuenfels, Ricarda Seifried, Thomas Schubert, Petra Welteroth
Votes: 183
45. Born for this - Mehr als Fußball (2022– )
60 min | Documentary, Sport
Stars: Alexandra Popp, Jule Brand, Sara Doorsoun, Giulia Gwinn
Votes: 30
46. Capital B - Wem gehört Berlin? (2023)
Documentary
A five-part documentary that portrays the eventful history of Berlin after 1989, with a special focus on the various groups that have claimed the city for themselves - and in some cases still do.
Star: Mohamed Chahrour
Votes: 52
47. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 82,629
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