With Südwestfunk (SWF) (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Tatort (1970– )
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This anthology series follows the work of police officers in Germany.
Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 3,322
2. The Adolescent (1979)
PG | 90 min | Drama
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place, ... See full summary »
Director: Jeanne Moreau | Stars: Simone Signoret, Francis Huster, Laetitia Chauveau, Edith Clever
Votes: 240
3. The Masters of Time (1982)
78 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.
Director: René Laloux | Stars: Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros, Yves-Marie Maurin
Votes: 5,553
4. Laurin (1989)
84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances in a 19th century German village. A young girl soon becomes haunted by disturbing visions of the missing kids.
Director: Robert Sigl | Stars: Dóra Szinetár, Brigitte Karner, Károly Eperjes, Hédi Temessy
Votes: 842
5. Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966)
60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Commander McLane and the crew of the fast space cruiser Orion patrol Earth's outposts and colonies in space and defend humanity from the alien 'Frogs'.
Stars: Dietmar Schönherr, Eva Pflug, Wolfgang Völz, Claus Holm
Votes: 956
6. Ödipussi (1988)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the... See full summary »
Director: Vicco von Bülow | Stars: Vicco von Bülow, Katharina Brauren, Evelyn Hamann, Edda Seippel
Votes: 3,938
7. The Deathmaker (1995)
110 min | Crime, Drama
Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this ... See full summary »
Director: Romuald Karmakar | Stars: Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch, Pierre Franckh, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Votes: 2,179
8. Heimat 2: Chronicle of a Generation (1992)
1,416 min | Drama, History
Hermann Simon, an aspiring composer, comes of age in Munich during the troubled 1960s.
Stars: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Frank Röth, Armin Fuchs
Votes: 288
9. Emma's Bliss (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: 1,991
10. Salto mortale (1969–1971)
60 min | Drama, Family, Thriller
Tells the story of a Swiss artist family, the 'Flying Dorias'. The stories mostly play in the circus Krone, which is planning a major European tour.
Stars: Gustav Knuth, Gitty Djamal, Horst Janson, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Votes: 88
11. Blood and Honor: Youth Under Hitler (1982– )
300 min | Drama
Follows a German boys involvement in the Hitler Youth during the pre WWII years.
Stars: Marlies Engel, Rolf Becker, Leslie Malton, Gila von Weitershausen
Votes: 122
12. The Burning Snail (1996 TV Movie)
82 min | Drama
The film's action centres on the 14-year-old Peter who lives alone with his mother. Peter, who is currently in the difficult phase of self-discovery, has focused all his longings on his ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Stiller | Stars: Barbara Auer, Sebastian Koch, Maximilian Haas, Tobias Nath
Votes: 65
13. Klassezämekunft (1988)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Senta von Meissen invites the fellow students of her graduation class from 1938 - 50 years ago - for a class reunion into her castle. They expect to happily party through the weekend - but ... See full summary »
Directors: Walter Deuber, Peter Stierlin | Stars: Anne-Marie Blanc, Paul Hubschmid, Stephanie Glaser, Lukas Ammann
Votes: 91
14. 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: 1,368
15. Parole Chicago (1979– )
25 min | Comedy, Crime
Harry and Ede always have brilliant plans to raise money. They want to steal gold from a dental practice, sell pedigree dogs for expensive money, or sell earrings as rare collectibles. Their brilliant plans fail every time.
Stars: Christoph Waltz, Gottfried Vollmer, Susanne Herlet, Monika John
Votes: 65
16. Nach Fünf im Urwald (1995)
99 min | Comedy, Romance
Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big chaos and, even worse, destroy the ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Franka Potente, Axel Milberg, Dagmar Manzel, Farina Brock
Votes: 1,535
17. Die Sendung mit der Maus (1971– )
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A weekly show aimed at the education of children. Short movies explain different things of everyday life, (e.g. how cars work, how movies are made etc.), they are followed by a short sequence of animated clips.
Stars: Günter Dybus, Armin Maiwald, Peter Lustig, Atze
Votes: 860
18. Der Sonne entgegen (1984–1985)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Erwin Steinhauer, Heinz Petters, Lidija Jenko, Harald Gauster
Votes: 46
19. Tagesschau (1952– )
15 min | Documentary, News, Sport
A German news show on the public broadcaster ARD.
Stars: Wilhelm Wieben, Jan Hofer, Angela Merkel, Yanis Varoufakis
Votes: 220
20. Golden Night (1977)
78 min | Crime, Drama
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns to vex them. He presents each one with a voodoo doll, warning of their fate.
Director: Serge Moati | Stars: Bernard Blier, Klaus Kinski, Marie Dubois, Jean-Luc Bideau
Votes: 137
21. Die rote Zora und ihre Bande (1979– )
30 min | Adventure
Stars: Lidija Kovacevic, Nedeljko Vukasovic, Andjelko Kos, Esad Krcic
Votes: 136
22. Bezness (1992)
100 min | Drama
Roufa, a young prostitute (Bezness) befriends a French photographer sent to do an expose.
Director: Nouri Bouzid | Stars: Abdellatif Kechiche, Jacques Penot, Ghalya Lacroix, Manfred Andrae
Votes: 131
23. Lucy the Menace of Street (1980)
30 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Lucie, the horror of the street is a six-part Czech-German television children's series.
Stars: Zaneta Fuchsová, Michal Hofbauer, Daniela Kolárová, Jaromír Hanzlík
Votes: 331
24. The Quality of Mercy (1994)
105 min | Drama, War
It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Gruber | Stars: Elfriede Irrall, Rainer Egger, Oliver Broumis, Merab Ninidze
Votes: 306
25. Das erste Mal (1996 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director: Connie Walter | Stars: Lavinia Wilson, Benno Fürmann, Hannes Jaenicke, Eva Haßmann
Votes: 74
26. After Liverpool (1974 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama
An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Hildegard Schmahl, Dieter Kirchlechner
Votes: 33
27. Das Treibhaus (1987)
99 min | Drama, History
Director: Peter Goedel | Stars: Christian Doermer, Laila Florentine Freer, Jörg Hube, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 19
28. Albert Schweitzer (1987– )
Biography
Stars: Wolfgang Preiss, Edda Pastor, Margot Leonard, Marion Martienzen
29. Feuerreiter (1998)
130 min | Drama
Film about the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), concentrating on his ardent affair with Susette Gondard.
Director: Nina Grosse | Stars: Martin Feifel, Marianne Denicourt, Ulrich Mühe, Matthias Faber
Votes: 81
30. Moselbrück (1987–1993)
50 min
Stars: Liane Hielscher, Jocelyne Boisseau, Margot Leonard, Bernd Seebacher
Votes: 12
31. Runaway Island (1984)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Australia 1830. Jemma and Jamie McCloud are left behind on their father's farm with their aunt Agatha. Lachlan McCloud sails to England to ask attention from the government to do something ... See full summary »
Stars: Miles Buchanan, Simone Buchanan, Rodney Bell, Julian Gillespie
Votes: 31
32. Menschen im Espresso (1958)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Herbert Vesely | Stars: Enno Patalas, Herbert Vesely
Votes: 19
33. The Unicorn (1978)
111 min | Drama
An advertising expert and writer is pushed by his publisher to deliver a script for a new book. This one is supposed to be on the topic sexuality.
Director: Peter Patzak | Stars: Peter Vogel, Gila von Weitershausen, Christiane Rücker, Isolde Barth
Votes: 41
34. Flickan vid stenbänken (1989)
29 min | Drama
Berta and her two siblings live in a fairly protected world at home in the large upper class house with mother and father in the 1910s Sweden. But then a winter evening, Carolin comes into ... See full summary »
Stars: Anna Björk, Anna Edlund, Gerhard Hoberstorfer, Gaëlle Legrand
Votes: 47
35. Unter dem Eis (2005)
92 min | Drama
Aelrun Goette's critically acclaimed drama deals with a fatal mother-son relationship and the fear of a bitter truth. Jenny's life with her husband and their seven-year old son Tim seems to... See full summary »
Director: Aelrun Goette | Stars: Bibiana Beglau, Adrian Wahlen, Dirk Borchardt, Sandra Borgmann
Votes: 160
36. Janosch (1986–1990)
30 min | Animation, Family
Stars: Günter Dybus, Joachim Kerzel, Hansjoachim Krietsch, Christian Korp
Votes: 140
38. Les Alsaciens: ou les deux Mathilde (1996– )
90 min | Drama, History
The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their ... See full summary »
Stars: Cécile Bois, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Sebastian Koch
Votes: 58
39. Transatlantis (1995)
116 min | Drama
The myth of the sunken city of Atlantis is the focus of an imaginary journey through the mind of the renowned professor Neuffer. He finds himself rapt in a vision which occurs as the autumn... See full summary »
Director: Christian Wagner | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Birgit Aurell, Jörg Hube, Malgorzata Gebel
Votes: 41
40. Once Upon a Time... the Americas (1991– )
30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
"Once Upon a Time - The Americas," part of the popular French cartoon franchise "Il était une fois..." , follows the both epic and tragic history of the American continent.
Stars: Roger Carel, Sady Rebbot, Patrick Préjean, Jacques Brunet
Votes: 873
41. Die Fallers - Eine Schwarzwaldfamilie (1994– )
30 min | Drama, Family
The family saga set in Germany's Black Forest region, centers around the life of Hermann and Johanna Faller and their three adult children, Karl, Bernhard, and Kati.
Stars: Ursula Cantieni, Wolfgang Hepp, Peter Schell, Christiane Brammer
Votes: 38
42. Der Forellenhof (1965–1966)
60 min | Family
The trout farm.
Stars: Hans Söhnker, Jane Tilden, Gerhart Lippert, Helga Anders
Votes: 61
43. Thrash, Altenessen - Ein Film aus dem Ruhrgebiet (1989 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Thomas Schadt | Stars: Christian Brückner, Rob Fioretti, Mille Petrozza, Ventor Reil
Votes: 37
44. Bambule (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
The film criticizes the authoritarian methods of home education in a girls' home. In the course of the action, there is a revolt against the oppressive structures.
Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz | Stars: Petra Redinger, Christine Diersch, Dagmar Biener, Helge Hennig
Votes: 106
46. Terre indigo (1996– )
96 min | Adventure, Drama
Stars: Francis Huster, Cristiana Réali, Mireille Darc, Marie-José Nat
Votes: 60
47. Stilles Land (1992)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Thorsten Merten, Jeannette Arndt, Kurt Böwe, Petra Kelling
Votes: 119
48. Heiteres Bezirksgericht (1987– )
45 min | Comedy
Stars: Heinz Petters, Rudi Schippel, Peter Weck, Michael Janisch
Votes: 9
49. Otto Dix: The Painter Is the Eyes of the World (1989)
59 min | Documentary, Biography
The first comprehensive study of German artist Otto Dix looks at the life and work of the maligned German artist, blacklisted by the Nazis for his depictions of the horrors of war.
Director: Reiner Moritz | Stars: Otto Dix, Roland Ehrhardt, Garard Green, James Greene
50. Three Paths to the Lake (1976 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama
Elisabeth, a forty years old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Ursula Schult, Guido Wieland, Walter Schmidinger, Bernhard Wicki
Votes: 115