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: 14,801
2. Kojak (1973–1978)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city.
Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas
Votes: 7,812
3. 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: 3,321
4. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
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: 56,983
5. Maria Wern (2008– )
45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Swedish policewoman is confronted with crime on Gotland Island.
Stars: Eva Röse, Allan Svensson, Peter Perski, Oscar Pettersson
Votes: 1,341
6. 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: 13,953 | Gross: $3.59M
7. 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: 12,857
8. Mephisto (1981)
Unrated | 144 min | Drama
In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor finds himself before a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda, Rolf Hoppe
Votes: 10,599
9. 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: 4,018
10. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Lee Grant
Votes: 1,028
11. 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: 16,485 | Gross: $0.15M
12. In the Aisles (2018)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
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: Andreas Leupold, Franz Rogowski, Peter Kurth, Steffen Scheumann
Votes: 4,854 | Gross: $0.03M
13. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Not Rated | 155 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher
Votes: 6,219 | Gross: $4.36M
14. 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: 2,777 | Gross: $0.00M
16. Jonathan (2016)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
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: 1,056
17. Shaft (1973–1974)
73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Based on the movies of the same name, John Shaft is a two-fisted black private eye along the lines of Mike Hammer and Phillip Marlowe. Each week presents a different case and a different ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Roundtree, Eddie Barth, Judie Stein, Robert Culp
Votes: 384
18. 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 a ... See full summary »
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Jason Lively, Tim McDaniel, Jill Whitlow, Leonard Lansink
Votes: 852
19. 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, Martin Benrath, Wulf Kessler, Oliver Siebert
Votes: 989
20. Escape from Warsaw (2013)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama
8-year-old Srulik flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then on a farm as a Christian orphan named Jurek. Throughout his ordeal, he... See full summary »
Director: Pepe Danquart | Stars: Andrzej Tkacz, Kamil Tkacz, Elisabeth Duda, Itay Tiran
Votes: 2,456
21. Watzmann ermittelt (2019– )
Crime
Commissioners Benedikt Beissl and Jerry Paulsen investigate murder cases in Berchtesgaden.
Stars: Andreas Giebel, Peter M. Marton, Ines Lutz, Kathrin von Steinburg
Votes: 60
22. A Regular Woman (2019)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Aynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Turkish descent, struggles for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers insult and threaten her until she finally reports her oldest brother to the police.
Director: Sherry Hormann | Stars: Almila Bagriacik, Rauand Taleb, Merve Aksoy, Aram Arami
Votes: 1,843
23. 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, Irina Wanka, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Bruno W. Pantel
Votes: 2,858
24. 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: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Jörg Schüttauf
Votes: 5,748 | Gross: $0.28M
25. Rex Gildo: The Last Dance (2022)
89 min | Biography
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Kilian Berger, Ben Becker, Kai Schumann, Florian Korty
26. 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: 124
27. 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, Holocaust researcher Toto is assigned an assistant for the Congress preparation: Zazie, of Jewish ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Adèle Haenel, Jan Josef Liefers, Hannah Herzsprung
Votes: 963
28. 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 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: 2,614
29. Mountain Miracle (2017)
97 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
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 meets a new ... See full summary »
Director: Tobias Wiemann | Stars: Mia Kasalo, Samuel Girardi, Susanne Bormann, Denis Moschitto
Votes: 399
30. Caged Birds (2020)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Barbara Hug is a young lawyer fighting Switzerland's antiquated prison system in the 1980s. Walter Stürm is in and often escaping out of jail., becoming known as the Jailbreak King. When the two meet, an unlikely alliance is formed.
Director: Oliver Rihs | Stars: Joel Basman, Jella Haase, Anatole Taubman, Marie Leuenberger
Votes: 160
31. 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 families of the women he seduces.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Sylvia Kristel, Ornella Muti
Votes: 331
32. Money. Murder. Zurich. (2016– )
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Zurich thriller.
Stars: Christian Kohlund, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Ina Paule Klink, Yves Wüthrich
Votes: 91
33. Split Homicide (2016– )
89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Criminalistic series centered in Split, Croatia.
Stars: Lenn Kudrjawizki, Kasem Hoxha, Max Herbrechter, Sarah Bauerett
Votes: 121
34. 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: 716
35. 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, Julia Stoepel, Maximiliane Häcke
Votes: 57
36. Circle of Deceit (1981)
R | 108 min | Drama, War
A German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can't handle the truth.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet, Jerzy Skolimowski
Votes: 900
37. So Long Daddy, See You in Hell (2022)
105 min
Jeanne grows up in a large commune in Austria where the offspring of the Nazi generation tries to create a new utopia only to reinvent totalitarian structures. Jeanne is a "soldier" of the ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Roth | Stars: Clemens Schick, Hanns Zischler, Jana McKinnon, Ina Paule Klink
38. 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: 439
39. Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (1998)
TV-Y | 30 min | Adventure
In this contemporary adaptation, Mowgli is joined on his adventures by a young American girl named Nahbiri, who has accompanied her widowed doctor father to Jabalpur.
Stars: Sean Price McConnell, Lindsey Peter, Bart Braverman, Richard Assad
Votes: 79
40. The Girl with the Golden Hands (2021)
107 min | Drama
Director: Katharina M. Schubert | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, Birte Schnöink, Peter-René Lüdicke, Jörg Schüttauf
Votes: 25
41. Leo Da Vinci (2019– )
13 min | Animation, Adventure
The series revolves around the exciting adventures of 15-year-old Leonardo da Vinci, during the thrilling phase he spent in Florence under the rule of the Medici family. It's a time where ... See full summary »
Stars: Connie Fernandez, Daniel Llaca, Donald Guzzi, Paul Louis
Votes: 8
42. 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 train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Gianni Buscarino, Vittorio Vigneri, Angela Nugara, Carmelo Maddio
Votes: 1,139
43. 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
44. Cloudy Clouds (2021)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
17-year-old Paul likes strange things: stealth trails and abandoned buildings, whispered conversations and left-behind bags. Besides that, he seems to be a young man without qualities. His ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Schäfer | Stars: Jonas Holdenrieder, Devid Striesow, Valerie Stoll, Peter Jordan
Votes: 46
45. 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: 688
46. Lady Cop (1994–2006)
48 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Commissioner Lea Sommer is investigating.
Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Karlheinz Lemken, Thomas Scharff, Til Schweiger
Votes: 124
47. 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-Meyer, Bea Santos, Krista Bridges, Sebastian Schipper
Votes: 963
48. 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: 46
49. Dead Man Working (2016 TV Movie)
88 min | Thriller
Much to everyone's surprise, a powerful financier at the peak of his career jumps off the bank's rooftop. As the markets react violently, it's up to his protégé to shed light on this obscure case. Was it a suicide or a premeditated murder?
Director: Marc Bauder | Stars: Benjamin Lillie, Wolfram Koch, Jördis Triebel, Manfred Zapatka
Votes: 182
50. 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: 300