With UFA Fiction (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. The Physician (2013)
R | 155 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, Emma Catherine Rigby
Votes: 38,425
2. Charité (2017– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, History
The series describes the accomplishments of several famous German physicians and scientists at the prestigious Charité hospital in Berlin during its history.
Stars: Alicia von Rittberg, Mala Emde, Nina Gummich, Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider
Votes: 3,059
3. 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: 13,325
4. Rising High (2020)
TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
Director: Cüneyt Kaya | Stars: David Kross, Emily Goss, Frederick Lau, Sophia Thomalla
Votes: 4,651
5. Deutschland 89 (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Thriller
Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.
Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Sylvester Groth, Corinna Harfouch
Votes: 2,320
6. Deutschland 86 (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Abandoned by Moscow and desperate for cash, the East German leadership pushes their secret operatives to experiment with global capitalism and save their sinking socialist ship. Long ... See full summary »
Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Florence Kasumba, Sylvester Groth
Votes: 4,330
7. Unsere wunderbaren Jahre (2020)
270 min | Biography, Drama, History
The history of the Wolf family in post-war Germany in the 40s and 50s.
Stars: Elisa Schlott, Vanessa Loibl, Anna Maria Mühe, Katja Riemann
Votes: 429
8. Ku'damm 56 (2016)
100 min | Drama
Caterina Schöllack runs a dance school in Berlin in 1956. It is her goal to give her three daughters the best possible opportunity, meaning to ensure that they marry well, but until then ... See full summary »
Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle
Votes: 1,990
9. Leipzig Homicide (2001– )
45 min | Crime
The team of the Special Commission of the Leipzig police investigates mostly capital crimes like murder or manslaughter.
Stars: Melanie Marschke, Marco Girnth, Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Steffen Schroeder
Votes: 262
10. Catherine the Great (1995 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson, Brian Blessed
Votes: 1,245
11. Spy Cat (2018)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Marnie is a chubby cat, treated like a princess and getting everything she wants. When she is forced to make her own way in the world, she realizes who she really is - a lonely cat in need of friends.
Directors: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein | Stars: Alexandra Neldel, Axel Prahl, Sylvain Urban, Erik Borner
Votes: 1,052
12. Ku'damm 63 (2021)
Drama
Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle
Votes: 360
13. The Same Sky (2017)
120 min | Drama, Thriller
Lars is a "Romeo agent" from East Germany in the 1970s. His task is to go West, first to seduce and then to spy on Western women who worked in government or defense institutions.
Stars: Tom Schilling, Sofia Helin, Friederike Becht, Ben Becker
Votes: 2,308
14. God, You're Such a Prick (2020)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young girl in Germany graduates from high school, then gets a cancer diagnosis. She decides to enjoy the time she has left instead of spending her remaining time in the hospital, and goes... See full summary »
Director: André Erkau | Stars: Sinje Irslinger, Max Hubacher, Til Schweiger, Heike Makatsch
Votes: 294
15. Ku'damm 59 (2018)
Drama
This is a story about a woman and her three daughters in Germany in the 50's. One of her daughters wants more from life and becomes a part of the Rock and Roll subculture.
Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle
Votes: 1,009
16. Project: ALF (1996 TV Movie)
95 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Family
Captured by the Alien Task Force, ALF was rescued by two officers who found out that the project shall be canceled - and also ALF.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Miguel Ferrer, William O'Leary, Jensen Daggett, Scott Michael Campbell
Votes: 2,545
17. SOKO 5113 (1978–2020)
50 min | Crime, Drama
The cases of the Munich police's major-crimes unit.
Stars: Michel Guillaume, Wilfried Klaus, Hartmut Schreier, Florian Odendahl
Votes: 243
18. Ein starkes Team (1994– )
90 min | Crime
It's coming up to 20 years since our illustrious Trio set off to solve some of Berlin's more bizarre murder mysteries. The success of the shows longevity hinges around the humor of former ... See full summary »
Stars: Florian Martens, Jaecki Schwarz, Arnfried Lerche, Maja Maranow
Votes: 151
19. Hackerville (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Thriller
Following a cyber attack on a German bank, an investigator teams with local authorities and an elite hacker to track the suspects.
Stars: Anna Schumacher, Andi Vasluianu, Voicu Dumitras, Florin Galan
Votes: 1,530
20. Faking Hitler (2021– )
Drama
Stars: Lars Eidinger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Daniel Donskoy, Sinje Irslinger
Votes: 41
21. Naked Among Wolves (2015 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, War
As WWII comes to an end, a group of Buchenwald's emaciated prisoners risk their lives for the safety of the camp's youngest inmate: a four-year-old Auschwitz-born Jewish prisoner. Is there a future for the Buchenwald boy?
Director: Philipp Kadelbach | Stars: Florian Stetter, Peter Schneider, Sylvester Groth, Sabin Tambrea
Votes: 3,917
22. Sankt Maik (2018– )
Comedy
Con artist Maik Schäfer switches his fake conductor's suit for a real soutane while trying to escape custody and ends up in the catholic parish of Läuterberg. Standing in for Vicar Sanman, ... See full summary »
Stars: Daniel Donskoy, Vincent Krüger, Bettina Burchard, Susi Banzhaf
Votes: 225
23. We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014)
123 min | Crime, Drama, History
On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building ... See full summary »
Director: Burhan Qurbani | Stars: Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Devid Striesow, Joel Basman
Votes: 2,173
24. All About Me (2018)
100 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Jan Lindner, Luise Heyer, Hape Kerkeling, Julius Weckauf
Votes: 4,239
25. Bauhaus (2019 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, History
The story of a young female student at the famous Bauhaus Design Academy in the early 1920's, inspired by the real life of designer Alma Siedhoff-Buscher.
Director: Gregor Schnitzler | Stars: Alicia von Rittberg, Noah Saavedra, Jörg Hartmann, Nina Gummich
Votes: 416
26. I've Never Been to New York (2019)
128 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Maria, the mother of television presenter Lisa Wartberg, has an accident with memory loss. All she can remember is that she has never been to New York. Without further ado, the elderly woman smuggles herself aboard a cruise ship.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Heike Makatsch, Moritz Bleibtreu, Katharina Thalbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht
Votes: 367
27. Shed My Skin (2015 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.
Director: Stefan Schaller | Stars: Merlin Rose, Claudia Michelsen, Johann von Bülow, Leonard Proxauf
Votes: 721
28. Der Beobachter (2015 TV Movie)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The morbid longing for a family life drives the lonely Samson Segal to observe and document his neighbor around the clock with the camera. Therefore, he knows that the supposedly ideal ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Herzog | Stars: Christiane Paul, Cia Allan, Karoline Eichhorn, Mark Frost
Votes: 46
29. Die unheimliche Leichtigkeit der Revolution (2021 TV Movie)
89 min | Biography, Drama, History
19-year-old Franka Blankenstein grew up as a child of systematic parents in Leipzig. By chance she met the geriatric nurse Stefan Clausnitz and thus found her way into an environmental ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Fetscher | Stars: Timur Bartels, Fred Costea, Janina Fautz, Inka Friedrich
Votes: 108
30. All You Need (2021– )
Drama
All You Need is a Dramady series produced by ARD, about four gay men in Berlin, searching for love and security in the age of Grindr. The show is created and directed by Benjamin Gutsche.
Stars: Mads Hjulmand, Arash Marandi, Benito Bause, Frédéric Brossier
Votes: 226
31. Die Eifelpraxis (2016– )
90 min | Drama
Stars: Simon Schwarz, Janek Rieke, Tom Keune, Rebecca Immanuel
Votes: 22
32. Stations of the Cross (2014)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama
Fourteen-year-old Maria is a fundamentalist Catholic, living her life in a modern fashion, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to be a saint and go to heaven. No one, not even a nice boy she meets, can stop her in this goal.
Director: Dietrich Brüggemann | Stars: Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter, Lucie Aron
Votes: 4,337
33. Allmen (2016– )
TV-PG | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dandified Allmen needs money and sells some valuable Gallé glass pieces to a dealer. After the dealer gets killed and someone also wants to kill him, Allmen and his butler try to find out what is going on.
Stars: Heino Ferch, Samuel Finzi, Andrea Osvárt, Isabella Parkinson
Votes: 171
34. Mein Kampf (2009)
110 min | Biography, Comedy
The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He befriends the Jew Schlomo Herzl working on a novel with the title "Mein Kampf". Hitler is rejected by... See full summary »
Director: Urs Odermatt | Stars: Götz George, Tom Schilling, Anna Unterberger, Bernd Birkhahn
Votes: 754
35. Jungle Child (2011)
131 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Stella Kunkat, Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Sina Tkotsch
Votes: 1,129
36. Charlotte Link: Die Suche (2021 TV Movie)
178 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Part 1: A rainy autumn evening in Scarborough: 14-year-old Hannah Caswell waits in vain for her father Ryan at the deserted train station. A little later the student is as if swallowed by ... See full summary »
Director: Till Franzen | Stars: Ben Braun, Alison Burrows, Eni Cani, Richard Crehan
Votes: 42
37. Bornholmer Straße (2014 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Charly Hübner, Milan Peschel, Ulrich Matthes, Rainer Bock
Votes: 771
38. Beck Is Back! (2018– )
Comedy, Drama
When his wife abruptly cheats on him, Hannes Beck moves out and takes the kids with him, and for the first time in his life he has to go to work properly and inevitably takes a job as a public defense lawyer.
Stars: Bert Tischendorf, Jolina Uhrig, Andreja Schneider, Louis Christiansen
Votes: 47
39. Coconut Hero (2015)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
In the middle of Nowheresville lives 16-year-old Mike who wants out of his crappy life - permanently! Spending his time devising ways to do himself in, he considers the fatal brain tumor in... See full summary »
Director: Florian Cossen | Stars: Alex Ozerov, Bea Santos, Krista Bridges, Sebastian Schipper
Votes: 937
40. Eat That Question (2016)
R | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
An in-depth look at the life and work of avant-garde musician, Frank Zappa.
Director: Thorsten Schütte | Stars: Frank Zappa, Steve Allen, Angel, Chuck Ash
Votes: 1,262 | Gross: $0.35M
41. Reformation (2017)
180 min | Drama, History
Two-part drama about how, 500 years ago, a revolutionary priest named Martin Luther changed the face of Christendom and the path of European civilization forever.
Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Jan Krauter, Johannes Klaußner, Joachim Król
Votes: 147
42. Legal Affairs (2021– )
Drama | Completed
Stars: Lavinia Wilson, Maryam Zaree, Aaron Altaras, Michaela Caspar
43. Neu in unserer Familie (2016 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy
Jonas and Marit lead an unconventional relationship. The two agree to allow each other freedoms while - even in front of their own children - have no secrets. They moved from Cologne to ... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Krohmer | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Maja Schöne, Maria Matschke, Max Boekhoff
Votes: 52
44. Kelvin's Book
Drama | Announced
A group of young people living in a dystopian future are forced to confront their past in the aftermath of an emergency plane landing.
45. Die Ungewollten - Die Irrfahrt der St. Louis (2019 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The movie is based on the real story of 937 German Jewish refugees leaving from Hamburg in 1939, far from Nazism to Cuba. Their journey for freedom became an Odyssey on the Atlantic ocean.
Director: Ben von Grafenstein | Stars: Ulrich Noethen, Britta Hammelstein, Johannes Kienast, Florian Panzner
Votes: 105
46. Pigeons on the Roof (2011)
96 min | Comedy
A screwball comedy about four couples living in a big city.
Director: Otto Alexander Jahrreiss | Stars: Katja Riemann, Leonard Carow, Olli Dittrich, Sara Fazilat
Votes: 292
47. Die Diplomatin (2016– )
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The diplomat Karla Lorenz is working on behalf of the Foreign Office around the world to help German citizens in crisis situations.
Stars: Natalia Wörner, Jannik Schümann, Michael Ihnow, Thomas Sarbacher
Votes: 74
48. The Fourth State (2012)
115 min | Thriller
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Kasia Smutniak, Max Riemelt, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 2,331
49. I'm Off Then (2015)
92 min | Comedy
Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there.
Director: Julia von Heinz | Stars: Devid Striesow, Martina Gedeck, Karoline Schuch, Annette Frier
Votes: 2,179
50. Die Gustloff (2008 TV Movie)
188 min | Drama, History, War
German film loosely based on the sinking, by a Soviet submarine, of a Nazi troop-transport ship in the Baltic Sea on January 30th 1945.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Kai Wiesinger, Valerie Niehaus, Heiner Lauterbach, Dana Vávrová
Votes: 512