With Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. The Princess (II) (2022)
109 min | Documentary, Biography
Princess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. It also illuminates how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is.
Director: Ed Perkins | Stars: Princess Diana, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Martin Bashir
Votes: 69
2. 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
3. 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: 1,342
4. Bright Night (2014)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama, Mystery
Two couples visit a home from their past, and sexual tension brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface.
Director: Florian Gottschick | Stars: Anna Grisebach, Vladimir Burlakov, Benno Fürmann, Kai Ivo Baulitz
Votes: 1,254
5. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)
150 min | Drama
A chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?
Director: Aleksandre Koberidze | Stars: Ani Karseladze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Oliko Barbakadze, Giorgi Ambroladze
Votes: 1,383
6. Je Suis Karl (2021)
TV-MA | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Maxi, the survivor of a terrorist attack, joins the beguiling student Karl and becomes part of a European youth movement; one that aims for nothing less than seizing power.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Luna Wedler, Jannis Niewöhner, Milan Peschel, Edin Hasanovic
Votes: 1,141
7. The Banishment (2007)
150 min | Drama, Romance
A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Konstantin Lavronenko, Maria Bonnevie, Aleksandr Baluev, Dmitriy Ulyanov
Votes: 8,276
8. Police Call 110 (1971– )
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Alexander Bukow is a cop who doesn't mind working at the edge of the law to get results. His straight-laced partner Katrin Koenig is a control freak whose life is the job. Together, they're... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Borgelt, Jürgen Frohriep, Wolfgang Winkler, Jaecki Schwarz
Votes: 504
9. Goodbye Berlin (2016)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip that will probably change their lives.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Tristan Göbel, Aniya Wendel, Justina Humpf, Paul Busche
Votes: 9,748
10. 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
11. The Invisibles (2017)
110 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Director: Claus Räfle | Stars: Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Aaron Altaras
Votes: 1,562 | Gross: $0.41M
12. Violently Happy (2016)
90 min | Documentary
A sensual and intimate experience about a group of postmodern Berliners, looking for new ways of living, loving and experimenting with sexual fantasies.
Director: Paola Calvo
Votes: 119
13. I Am Greta (2020)
TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography
The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.
Director: Nathan Grossman | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen, António Guterres
Votes: 7,908
14. Nö (2021)
119 min | Comedy
Dina, an actress, and Michael, a doctor, struggle to balance their relationship with their responsibilities as parents and fears of unemployment.
Director: Dietrich Brüggemann | Stars: Anna Brüggemann, Alexander Khuon, Isolde Barth, Sarah Bauerett
Votes: 94
15. Cloud 9 (2008)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama about an old woman in her mid-60s who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Ursula Werner, Horst Rehberg, Horst Westphal, Steffi Kühnert
Votes: 1,520 | Gross: $0.09M
16. 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: 2,457
17. Lara (2019)
98 min | Drama, Music
It's Lara's 60th birthday, and this very evening, her son will be giving his debut piano concert. Lara mapped out his musical career. But Lara is not welcome at his debut performance. Even if Lara engages, everything gets out of control.
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, Johann von Bülow, Alexander Khuon, André Jung
Votes: 2,192
18. We Might As Well Be Dead (2022)
93 min | Drama
A tower block on the edge of a forest, people hoping to join the building's community as it is one of the last bastions of civilization in a world that has fallen apart.
Director: Natalia Sinelnikova | Stars: Ioana Iacob, Pola Geiger, Jörg Schüttauf, Siir Eloglu
Votes: 49
19. Tough Love (2015)
89 min | Biography, Drama
A karate expert recounts his early life, his turbulent childhood, rife with sexual abuse and a career as a pimp. Andreas "Karate Andy" Marquardt's subsequent rehabilitation treatment, ... See full summary »
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Andreas Marquardt, Marion Erdmann, Hanno Koffler, Luise Heyer
Votes: 284
20. 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
21. Tiger Girl (2017)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
TIGER gets what she wants. VANILLA does not know what she wants. Apart from one important thing: a uniform. TIGER teach her to bite, and VANILLA tastes blood. So TIGER needs to learn a new rule: They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
Director: Jakob Lass | Stars: Ella Rumpf, Maria Dragus, Enno Trebs, Orce Feldschau
Votes: 911
22. Everything Will Change (2021)
93 min | Drama
In a dystopian 2054, three friends go on a road trip into the past. On their journey, they rediscover lost biodiversity. How could it all disappear? When the friends find the key to a decisive moment in time everything will change.
Director: Marten Persiel | Stars: Jessamine-Bliss Bell, Jacqueline Chan, Vibeke Hastrup, Gert Jan Louwe
Votes: 66
23. Sealed Lips (2018)
108 min | Drama
After her return from a Russian Gulag, Antonia is forced to keep her horrible experiences secret in favor of the new socialistic GDR. When she can't conceal the past despite much effort, her newly regained freedom is taken away once again.
Director: Bernd Böhlich | Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Robert Stadlober, Stefan Kurt, Barbara Schnitzler
Votes: 405
24. Die Kanzlei (2015– )
Crime, Drama
Two solicitors open shop--literally!--in a low-income quarter of Hamburg. Assisted by a secretary with migration background and a cleaning-woman-turned-private-investigator, they take care ... See full summary »
Stars: Sabine Postel, Sophie Dal, Katrin Pollitt, Herbert Knaup
Votes: 31
25. Operation Valkyrie (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 131 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1944, in fear of a complete German defeat in the World War II, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (... See full summary »
Director: Jo Baier | Stars: Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Hardy Krüger Jr., Christopher Buchholz
Votes: 2,515
26. 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: 1,844
27. West (2013)
R | 102 min | Drama
She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Jacky Ido, Anja Antonowicz
Votes: 995
28. Nord bei Nordwest (2014– )
88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Former Hamburg cop Hauke Jacobs helps Schwanitz police officer Lona Vogt with their cases while he works as the new veterinarian in town with their assistant's support Jule Christiansen.
Stars: Hinnerk Schönemann, Marleen Lohse, Cem-Ali Gültekin, Stephan Tölle
Votes: 211
29. Money. Murder. Zurich. (2016– )
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Zurich thriller.
Stars: Christian Kohlund, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Ina Paule Klink, Yves Wüthrich
Votes: 91
30. Who Owns My Village? (2021)
96 min | Documentary
In a Baltic Sea village the residents wake up from their political lethargy in the struggle for the fate of the popular tourist location. A film about the essence of democracy between white resort architecture and the sound of the sea.
Director: Christoph Eder
Votes: 36
31. Rapunzel (2009 TV Movie)
59 min | Family, Fantasy
A beautiful girl with very long hair, living in a house with a witch, falls in love with a prince.
Director: Bodo Fürneisen | Stars: Suzanne von Borsody, Luisa Wietzorek, Jaime Ferkic, Boris Aljinovic
Votes: 360
32. Berlin, Berlin (2020)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lolle's love life in Berlin is as complicated as ever. After the story with Sven, her second cousin, was over, she got together with her best friend Hart and the two are about to get married. That is, if Sven doesn't ruin things.
Director: Franziska Meyer Price | Stars: Felicitas Woll, Janina Uhse, Jan Sosniok, Matthias Klimsa
Votes: 544
33. 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
34. The Verdict (2016 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
Can it be justified to shoot down a civilian plane, converted by terrorists into a deadly suicide missile? Can "human arithmetic" be a legal calculus?
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Martina Gedeck, Florian David Fitz, Lars Eidinger
Votes: 1,207
35. Heil (2015)
102 min | Comedy
An African-German author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.
Director: Dietrich Brüggemann | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Jerry Hoffmann, Liv Lisa Fries, Jacob Matschenz
Votes: 807
36. The Strong Sex (2021)
103 min | Documentary
Director: Jonas Rothlaender | Stars: Hans Boes, Frederik Busch, Erkan Cakir, Oliver Grice
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: 795
38. The Cleaners (2018)
88 min | Documentary
A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed.
Directors: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck | Stars: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Nicole Wong, Sarah T. Roberts
Votes: 1,714
39. Rex Gildo: The Last Dance (2022)
89 min | Biography
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Kilian Berger, Ben Becker, Kai Schumann, Florian Korty
40. Gundermann (2018)
128 min | Biography, Drama, History
The movie deals with the real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Alexander Scheer, Anna Unterberger, Axel Prahl, Thorsten Merten
Votes: 1,957
41. When We Leave (2010)
Unrated | 119 min | Drama
Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against her family's resistance. Her struggle initiates a dynamic that results in a life-threatening situation.
Director: Feo Aladag | Stars: Sibel Kekilli, Nizam Schiller, Derya Alabora, Settar Tanriögen
Votes: 5,405 | Gross: $0.02M
42. Unser Sandmännchen (1959– )
10 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
Stars: Sergey Obraztsov, Paul Robeson, Josef Skupa, German Titov
Votes: 149
43. Darkroom (2019)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves with his lover Roland to Berlin. They renovate an apartment with the intention of finally living together. Their happiness seems almost complete. ... See full summary »
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Bozidar Kocevski, Heiner Bomhard, Katy Karrenbauer, Christiane Ziehl
Votes: 192
44. Isy Way Out (2018 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A group of teenagers is involved in a rape. As offenders, accomplices and victims. The crime seems to have no consequences, but it quickly becomes clear that not everyone feels guilt and ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Monheim | Stars: Claudia Michelsen, Claudia Mehnert, Hans Löw, Milena Tscharntke
Votes: 315
45. The Natural History of Destruction (2022)
112 min | Documentary
Based on the book by German writer W.G. Sebald, examines the perception and processing of the phenomenon of mass destruction of the German civilian population in European post-war literature.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 17
46. Als wir träumten (2015)
117 min | Drama
In 1990s east Germany, three boys are in love with techno music and start their own club.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Joel Basman, Marcel Heuperman
Votes: 1,250
47. The Tower (2012 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama
A look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Hans-Uwe Bauer, Klaus Bieligk, Martin Bruchmann, David C. Bunners
Votes: 580
48. Die Helene Fischer Show (2011– )
Music
Stars: Helene Fischer, Charles Fournier, Höhner, Peter Maffay
Votes: 26
49. Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
165 min | Documentary
Six directors tackle the question "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" by capturing iconic buildings with narration from the perspective of the buildings.
Directors: Karim Aïnouz, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Margreth Olin, Robert Redford, Wim Wenders | Stars: Meret Becker, Gennadi Vengerov, Benedicte C. Westin, Jonas Salk
Votes: 263
50. The Poll Diaries (2010)
129 min | Drama
In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Paula Beer, Edgar Selge, Tambet Tuisk, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 1,036