With Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. The Munsters (1964–1966)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.
Stars: Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, Yvonne De Carlo, Butch Patrick
Votes: 10,630
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Votes: 46,664
3. Bagdad Cafe (1987)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann
Votes: 11,289 | Gross: $3.59M
4. In the Aisles (2018)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Christian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts.
Director: Thomas Stuber | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Franz Rogowski, Peter Kurth, Henning Peker
Votes: 2,622
5. Alice (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Votes: 10,306
6. A Coffee in Berlin (2012)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
An aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.
Director: Jan Ole Gerster | Stars: Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi, Andreas Schröders
Votes: 13,722 | Gross: $0.15M
7. Storm of Love (2005– )
50 min | Romance
The elegant hotel Fürstenhof in the little village Bichlheim becomes a place for two young people to find the love of her/his life. But things get complicated.
Stars: Dirk Galuba, Sepp Schauer, Antje Hagen, Joachim Lätsch
Votes: 476
8. A Regular Woman (2019)
90 min | Crime, Drama
The film A regular woman portrays the fate of Hatun Ayhrun Sürücü, a German woman of Turkish descent, and her struggle for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's ... See full summary »
Director: Sherry Hormann | Stars: Almila Bagriacik, Merve Aksoy, Aram Arami, Mehmet Atesci
Votes: 93
9. Ghost Chase (1987)
PG-13 | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film, the spirit inhabits the body of an ... See full summary »
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Jason Lively, Tim McDaniel, Jill Whitlow, Leonard Lansink
Votes: 654
10. Pippi Longstocking (1969)
27 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The adventures of Pippi Longstocking, an eccentric, super-strong, redheaded moppet and her best friends Tommy and Annika.
Stars: Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Hans Clarin
Votes: 3,089
11. Mephisto (1981)
Unrated | 144 min | Drama
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Rolf Hoppe
Votes: 8,576
12. Jonathan (2016)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
A young man learns that his dying father was once deeply in love with a man.
Director: Piotr J. Lewandowski | Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, André Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher
Votes: 720
13. 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 Phil, Vivien Ciskowski, Patrick Lorenczat
Votes: 365
14. The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Rüdiger Klink, Burghart Klaußner, Andrej Kaminsky, Jörg Schüttauf
Votes: 3,545 | Gross: $0.28M
15. Lauf Junge lauf (2013)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Srulik, an eight-year-old boy, flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. He attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then as a Christian orphan named Jurek on a Polish farm. ... See full summary »
Director: Pepe Danquart | Stars: Andrzej Tkacz, Kamil Tkacz, Elisabeth Duda, Itay Tiran
Votes: 1,624
16. Mountain Miracle (2017)
97 min | Adventure, Drama
A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she'll meet a new... See full summary »
Director: Tobias Wiemann | Stars: Susanne Bormann, Denis Moschitto, Jasmin Tabatabai, David Bredin
Votes: 211
17. Circle of Deceit (1981)
R | 108 min | Drama, War
Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he... See full summary »
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet, Jerzy Skolimowski
Votes: 678
18. Castle Einstein (1998– )
25 min | Family
A show about students at a boarding school in Erfurt.
Stars: Gert Schaefer, Wilfried Loll, Ludwig Hollburg, Robert Schupp
Votes: 239
19. The State I Am In (2000)
106 min | Drama
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security when... See full summary »
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Bilge Bingul
Votes: 1,846
20. The Bloom of Yesterday (2016)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A very romantic comedy on the edge of the abyss: in the middle of the deepest life crisis, the Holocaust researcher Toto is assigned an assistant for the congress preparation - Zazie, of ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Adèle Haenel, Jan Josef Liefers, Hannah Herzsprung
Votes: 546
21. The Marquise of O (1976)
PG | 102 min | Drama, History
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr
Votes: 2,008 | Gross: $0.00M
22. Größer als im Fernsehen (2019 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy
Director: Christoph Schnee | Stars: Dennis Schigiol, Janina Fautz, Marie-Anne Fliegel, Gustav-Peter Wöhler
Votes: 23
23. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
94 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini, Ernst Castelli
Votes: 1,153 | Gross: $0.02M
24. The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
The film follows the trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Director: John Erman | Stars: Tony Curtis, Bill Macy, Harold Gould, Sharon Gless
Votes: 336
25. The White Rose (1982)
108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Lena Stolze, Wulf Kessler, Oliver Siebert, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 820
26. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1980–1981)
24 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
This is an animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.
Stars: Helga Anders, Erich Ludwig, Alexandra Mink, Eberhard Mondry
Votes: 1,938
27. A Heavy Heart (2015)
109 min | Drama
A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Director: Thomas Stuber | Stars: Peter Kurth, Udo Kroschwald, Edin Hasanovic, Atef Vogel
Votes: 464
28. A Gathering of Old Men (1987 TV Movie)
PG | 91 min | Drama
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en ... See full summary »
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Joe Seneca
Votes: 609
29. Heimat 2: Chronicle of a Generation (1992)
1,416 min | Drama, History
The fortunes of the village Schabbach reflect those of Germany from 1960 to 1970.
Stars: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Frank Röth, Noemi Steuer
Votes: 136
30. Casanova (1987 TV Movie)
Unrated | 123 min | Comedy, Romance
A very long, beginning-to-end life story of an eighteenth century womanizer that is arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he is viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Sylvia Kristel, Ornella Muti
Votes: 273
31. Baal (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Günther Neutze
Votes: 421
32. Class Relations (1984)
126 min | Drama
After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi, Mario Adorf, Laura Betti
Votes: 453
33. 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: 860
34. Meine Tochter Anne Frank (2015 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
Feature scenes and interviews with Anne Frank's contemporaries to tell the story of the short life.
Director: Raymond Ley | Stars: Mala Emde, Götz Schubert, Lion Wasczyk, Rosalie Ernst
Votes: 179
35. Sicily! (1999)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow ... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Gianni Buscarino, Vittorio Vigneri, Angela Nugara, Carmelo Maddio
Votes: 580
36. Moses and Aaron (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Music, Drama
In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God's true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers - in extravagantly choreographed song and dance - towards chaos and sin.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Günter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo, Roger Lucas
Votes: 260
37. The Ranch (2012– )
25 min | Animation, Family
The Ranch depicts the adventures of four teenagers, two girls and two boys, who share a passion for horse-riding. When one of them, Lena, encounters a wild stallion who has been injured, ... See full summary »
Stars: Bettina Kenney, Wanja Gerick, Maximiliane Häcke, Hannes Maurer
Votes: 26
38. 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: 271
39. Die Buddenbrooks (1979– )
614 min | Drama
Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
Stars: Ursula Dirichs, Reinhild Solf, Volkert Kraeft, Gerd Böckmann
Votes: 97
40. Master of the Universe (2013)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
A former banker in Germany, who entered the business with the advent of modern computer systems reminisces of his working years in some of the world-leading banking corporations.
Director: Marc Bauder | Stars: Rainer Voss, Angela Merkel
Votes: 1,013
41. Coup de Grâce (1976)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War
A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Matthias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Marc Eyraud
Votes: 1,034
42. König Drosselbart (2008 TV Movie)
59 min | Family, Fantasy, Romance
Arrogant spoiled princess Isabella of Gerania haughtily rejects all suitors, even prince Richard of Begonia, whom she liked in a previous anonymous meeting. Finally her exasperated royal ... See full summary »
Director: Sibylle Tafel | Stars: Jasmin Schwiers, Ken Duken, Felicitas Woll, Hubert Mulzer
Votes: 204
43. 4 Days in May (2011)
97 min | Drama, War
A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children's home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a ... See full summary »
Director: Achim von Borries | Stars: Pavel Wenzel, Aleksey Guskov, Ivan Shvedoff, Andrey Merzlikin
Votes: 663
44. Taxandria (1994)
82 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Befriended by the keeper, he learns of a secret world he can see... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Servais | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt, Richard Kattan
Votes: 373
45. 13 Semester (2009)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The friends Moritz and Dirk get accepted at the TU Darmstadt and leave their small home village in Brandenburg to set out for the big town to study business arithmetic (mathematical economics).
Director: Frieder Wittich | Stars: Max Riemelt, Dieter Mann, Robert Gwisdek, Amit Shah
Votes: 1,762
46. Stop Train 349 (1963)
95 min | Drama
At the height of the Cold War, an East German refugee slips aboard an American military duty train leaving West Berlin, deep inside East Germany. The Russian and East German authorities ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf Hädrich | Stars: José Ferrer, Sean Flynn, Nicole Courcel, Jess Hahn
Votes: 66
47. Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze (2011 TV Movie)
90 min | Thriller
Sensible German tax collector Erol Ozak has to apprentice haughty young Jana von Unruh. Her thoughtless zeal when confronted with a bag of presumably ill-gotten cash entices a gunfight, ... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Kornatz | Stars: Hilmi Sözer, Maren Eggert, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Alexander Held
Votes: 43
48. Lady Cop (1994–2006)
48 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Commissioner Lea Sommer is investigating.
Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Karlheinz Lemken, Thomas Scharff, Til Schweiger
Votes: 98
49. A Free Woman (1972)
100 min | Drama
A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Maria Brunner, Wolfgang Bächler, Ute Ellin, Wilhelm Grasshoff
Votes: 104
50. Nadzieja (2007)
101 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Young Franciszek witnesses a church painting theft and films it. He is not going to reveal the perpetrator to the police, however, but to blackmail him.
Director: Stanislaw Mucha | Stars: Rafal Fudalej, Kamilla Baar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Votes: 257