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1. Quiero ser (I want to be...) (2000)
35 min | Short, Drama
The paths of two orphan brothers drastically change over the years, beginning when they were just boys living on the streets of Mexico City.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Emilio Perez, Luis Fernando Peña, Chaco, Mario Zaragoza
Votes: 365
2. Elementarteilchen (2006)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Two half brothers in Berlin, 30+, one an introverted scientist, the other a sexually frustrated teacher, have no love life. That's about to change.
Director: Oskar Roehler | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Ulmen, Franka Potente, Martina Gedeck
Votes: 8,308
3. Anatomy (2000)
R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller
A cute med student starts a summer course at Heidelberg University. David's on her dissection table. She met him the day before on the train. Something's wrong.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg
Votes: 14,040 | Gross: $0.01M
4. Manitou's Shoe (2001)
87 min | Comedy, Western
The hilarious adventures of two best friends, Apache chief Abahachi and cowboy Ranger, in the Wild West.
Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Michael Herbig, Christian Tramitz, Marie Bäumer, Sky du Mont
Votes: 20,286
5. The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
R | 135 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two enamoured strangers look for a warm place in a cold world.
Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Joachim Król, Lars Rudolph
Votes: 14,948 | Gross: $0.87M
6. Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
G | 105 min | Documentary, Music
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Octavio Calderon
Votes: 20,552 | Gross: $7.00M
7. 23 (1998)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp
Votes: 7,290
8. Brother of Sleep (1995)
R | 127 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Jochen Nickel
Votes: 1,678
9. Attention, Papa Arrives! (1991)
89 min | Comedy, Family
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... See full summary »
Directors: Vicco von Bülow, Renate Westphal-Lorenz | Stars: Evelyn Hamann, Vicco von Bülow, Irm Hermann, Hans-Peter Korff
Votes: 5,947
10. The Experiment (2001)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Votes: 96,125 | Gross: $0.14M
11. Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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, Florian Lukas
Votes: 152,767 | Gross: $4.06M
12. Soul Kitchen (2009)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan, Anna Bederke
Votes: 40,457 | Gross: $0.27M
13. The Wave (2008)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich
Votes: 115,177
14. Gnade (2012)
132 min | Drama
A struggling German couple starts finding each other again after keeping as a secret about being responsible for a horrific accident.
Director: Matthias Glasner | Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Jürgen Vogel, Henry Stange, Ane Dahl Torp
Votes: 1,008
15. Hotel Lux (2011)
102 min | Comedy
In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds ... See full summary »
Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Michael Herbig, Jürgen Vogel, Thekla Reuten, Valeriy Grishko
Votes: 1,238
16. Manolo (2010)
19 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
On a sunny afternoon at the pool, 12 year-old Manolo has to face his fears: Will he stand up to his big cousin Mike, the notorious splashdive-hotshot?
Director: Robert Bohrer | Stars: Branco Saciri, Odine Johne, Eric Klotzsch, Maikel Radu
Votes: 23
17. Brüderchen und Schwesterchen (2008 TV Movie)
58 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
After Brüderchen and Schwesterchen's (German for young/dear brother/sister) mother's death, their dad finds a new wife and mother for them. But she's a witch who poisons him and reduces the... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Eissler | Stars: Odine Johne, Hans-Laurin Beyerling, Andrea Sawatzki, Christoph M. Ohrt
Votes: 188
18. Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)
119 min | Comedy
A comedy that follows an ex-convict who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
Director: Bora Dagtekin | Stars: Elyas M'Barek, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Jana Pallaske
Votes: 31,717
19. Duell in der Nacht (2007 TV Movie)
89 min | Thriller
Police Officer Birke has to make a suspect confess a murder, but begins to think, that he may be innocent.
Director: Matti Geschonneck | Stars: Iris Berben, Jürgen Vogel, Ina Weisse, Uwe Kockisch
Votes: 224
20. A Friend of Mine (2006)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.
Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, Peter Kurth
Votes: 4,423
21. Paulas Geheimnis (2006)
100 min | Family
Summer vacation at last - and then this: her diary is stolen from Paula's backpack.
Director: Gernot Krää | Stars: Thelma Heintzelmann, Paul Vincent de Wall, Constanze Spranger, Albert Berisa
Votes: 98
22. Emmas Glück (2006)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Max is very ill. He decides to steal in his own company. But when he tries to run away with the money, he has a car accident that takes him to Emma's pigs farm.
Director: Sven Taddicken | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Jürgen Vogel, Maik Solbach, Martin Feifel
Votes: 2,091
23. Barefoot (2005)
118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hedonistic bachelor Nick falls for an escaped mental patient.
Director: Til Schweiger | Stars: Til Schweiger, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Tiller, Michael Mendl
Votes: 11,212
24. Keine Lieder über Liebe (2005)
98 min | Drama, Music, Romance
As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decides to shoot a documentary about the ... See full summary »
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Florian Lukas, Jürgen Vogel, Heike Makatsch, Thees Uhlmann
Votes: 619
25. Die Kirschenkönigin (2004)
269 min | Drama, Family, War
The Berlin banker's daughter Ruth marries an impoverished baron in 1913 and turns his dilapidated estate into a flourishing cherry farm.
Stars: Richy Müller, Merab Ninidze, Marc Hosemann, Johanna Wokalek
Votes: 93
26. Der Aufstand (2003 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, History
Stalin's death marks the beginning of this documentary drama about the workers' uprising on June 17, 1953 in the GDR.
Director: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Stars: Kurt Bluhm, Uwe Bohm, Dirk Borchardt, Axel Buchholz
Votes: 28
27. Scherbentanz (2002)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Un hombre enfermo de leucemia busca desesperadamente un donador de médula.
Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Nadja Uhl, Margit Carstensen, Peter Davor
Votes: 198
28. Der Freund meiner Mutter (2002 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
Director: Dagmar Knöpfel | Stars: Anica Dobra, Jürgen Vogel, Nadja Bobyleva, Roland Koch
Votes: 25
29. Sass (2001)
112 min | Crime, Drama
Two working-class German brothers (Ben Becker, Jürgen Vogel) rise to fame as Berlin's most infamous burglars.
Director: Carlo Rola | Stars: Ben Becker, Jürgen Vogel, Henry Hübchen, Frank Sieckel
Votes: 581
30. Das Phantom (2000 TV Movie)
95 min | Thriller
After the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Nadeshda Brennicke, Mathias Herrmann, Hilmi Sözer
Votes: 321
31. Mordkommission (1998–2000)
60 min | Crime
Stars: Gunda Ebert, Jophi Ries, Diego Wallraff, Günter Lamprecht
Votes: 17
32. Der Pirat (1998 TV Movie)
106 min | Drama
The movie tells the story of Ivan Varvakis (Ioannis Varvakis) born 1745 on Psara as Ioannis Leontidis and died 1825 in Zakynthos. He was a Greek-born pirat and later Russian nobleman, ... See full summary »
Director: Bernd Schadewald | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Christiane Paul, Laura Tonke, Sebastian Rudolph
Votes: 113
33. Life is All You Get (1997)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Christiane Paul, Ricky Tomlinson, Hristina Papamihou
Votes: 1,970
34. Durst (1993)
90 min | Drama
Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society.
Director: Martin Weinhart | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Nicolette Krebitz, André Eisermann, Michael Greiling
Votes: 57
35. Schicksalsspiel (1993 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Bernd Schadewald | Stars: Marny Bergerhoff, Benno Fürmann, Ilja Jens Goldbach, Nicolette Krebitz
Votes: 94
36. Angst (1994 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Bernd Schadewald | Stars: Christian Redl, Renate Krößner, Antje Westermann, Jürgen Vogel
Votes: 66
37. Wachtmeister Zumbühl (1994)
105 min | Drama
Director: Urs Odermatt | Stars: Michael Gwisdek, Anica Dobra, Jürgen Vogel, Rolf Hoppe
Votes: 14
38. Ausgerechnet Zoé (1994 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama
Director: Markus Imboden | Stars: Nicolette Krebitz, Henry Arnold, Caroline Redl, André Jung
Votes: 113
39. Little Sharks (1992)
87 min | Comedy, Romance
When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. ... See full summary »
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Kai Wiesinger, Gedeon Burkhard, Meret Becker
Votes: 1,470
40. Child's Play (1992)
111 min | Drama
Micha, a young boy being beaten by his abusive father, joins other bullies at school to terrorize people for amusement, including his own brother.
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Jonas Kipp, Angelika Bartsch, Burghart Klaußner, Matthias Friedrich
Votes: 202
41. Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova (1992 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
Little Joe and his buddy Charly live in a small town in the Ruhr area. They belong to a clique and are just finishing their locksmith apprenticeship. They celebrate and enjoy their adult ... See full summary »
Director: Bernd Schadewald | Stars: Muriel Baumeister, Christian Standtke, Benno Fürmann, Jürgen Vogel
Votes: 35
42. Faraway, So Close! (1993)
PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Horst Buchholz
Votes: 9,125 | Gross: $0.81M
43. 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: 77,098 | Gross: $3.33M
44. The State of Things (1982)
121 min | Drama
The crew is running out of money to finish their film.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly
Votes: 3,613 | Gross: $6.00M
45. Kings of the Road (1976)
Not Rated | 175 min | Drama
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 together.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler
Votes: 6,445
46. Age of Cannibals (2014)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Öllers and Niederländer have everything under control. For the past six years, the two successful business consultants have been traveling through some of the seediest countries around the world in order to satisfy their clients' greed.
Director: Johannes Naber | Stars: Sebastian Blomberg, Devid Striesow, Katharina Schüttler, Romesh Ranganathan
Votes: 2,201
47. Gigantic (1999)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr., Julia Hummer
Votes: 4,895
48. Life Is Not for Cowards (2012)
98 min | Drama
A family struggles to come to terms with their mother's death and their grandmother's illness.
Director: André Erkau | Stars: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Helen Woigk, Christine Schorn, Frederick Lau
Votes: 777
49. The Punch Bowl (1944)
97 min | Comedy, Family
A successful writer, home-schooled in his youth, masquerades as a student at a secondary school to experience all the fun and pranks he missed out on.
Director: Helmut Weiss | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak, Erich Ponto
Votes: 6,616
50. The Tunnel (2001)
150 min | Drama, History, Thriller
During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 6,407 | Gross: $0.01M
51. Deutschland 83 (2015)
TV-MA | 42 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Martin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.
Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth
Votes: 15,035
52. The Good Neighbour (2011)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
An accidental hit and run jeopardizes the friendship between a journalist and his quirky neighbor.
Director: Stephan Rick | Stars: Maxim Mehmet, Charly Hübner, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Helmut Rühl
Votes: 1,654
53. Chiko (2008)
92 min | Crime, Drama
Loyalty between two friends is stretched to its limit by one's deception.
Director: Özgür Yildirim | Stars: Denis Moschitto, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volkan Özcan, Reyhan Sahin
Votes: 3,822
54. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Crime, Comedy
Two terminally ill patients escape from a hospital, steal a car and rush towards the sea.
Director: Thomas Jahn | Stars: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke, Moritz Bleibtreu
Votes: 33,712 | Gross: $0.00M
55. Richtung Leben (2005)
40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Harald (39) lives in a symbiotic relationship with his mother Inge. But secretly he is in love with Somjai, a girl from Thailand. As he finally invites her to Germany hell breaks loose in a once quiet and peaceful home.
Director: Stephan Rick | Stars: Andreas Windhuis, Sutharod Schlegel, Beate Abraham, Phumjai Lachnit
Votes: 22
56. Stereo (I) (2014)
98 min | Crime, Thriller
The appearance of a mysterious, hooded man evokes Erik's sinister past.
Director: Maximilian Erlenwein | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Georg Friedrich
Votes: 5,172
57. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
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, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 375,443 | Gross: $5.51M
58. Just an Ordinary Jew (2005)
89 min | Drama
Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Ben Becker, Siegfried Kernen, Samuel Finzi
Votes: 276
59. 13 Minutes (2015)
R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, War
In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow
Votes: 10,074 | Gross: $0.16M
60. Das Engelsgesicht
Drama | Announced
The true story of the German mafia hitman, Giorgio Basile, AKA "Angel Face", who was connected to the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate and became a state witness against the Italian mafia in 1998.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Star: Moritz Bleibtreu
61. Todfeinde - Die falsche Entscheidung (1998 TV Movie)
96 min | Thriller
Nico has just shot and killed a man by accident. The two friends cover it up but it soon turns out that the victim was a big fish in the drug world. And that he was on his way to hand over ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Heino Ferch, Tobias Moretti, Julia Jäger, Michael Mendl
Votes: 85
62. Das Urteil (1997 TV Movie)
90 min | Thriller
The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify in a murder case. An airport hostess talks him into giving up his seat to another passenger who seem to know too much.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Klaus Löwitsch, Matthias Habich, Anya Hoffmann, Rudolf Wessely
Votes: 202
63. Trickser (1997 TV Movie)
88 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
After a successful bank robbery, Erik and Bingo have to part again. While Erik is stuck in a demolition house with his booty and broken foot, Bingo believes Erik has settled with the money. The accomplices become bitter rivals.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Eva Haßmann, Jochen Nickel, Sandra Nedeleff
Votes: 41
64. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
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.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,141 | Gross: $0.48M
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