Die besten deutschsprachigen Filme
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1. Mädchen in Uniform (1958)
91 min | Drama
In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Romy Schneider, Therese Giehse, Blandine Ebinger
Votes: 1,760
2. The Bridge (1959)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History, War
In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Volker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht
Votes: 8,650
3. Winnetou (1963)
91 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
When violent conflict breaks out between greedy railroaders and a tribe of Mescalero Apaches, only two men, destined to be blood brothers, can prevent all-out war: chief's son Winnetou and German engineer Old Shatterhand.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marie Versini, Mario Adorf
Votes: 4,606
4. It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz, Michel Simon
Votes: 5,583
5. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf
Votes: 28,663 | Gross: $0.68M
6. The Punch Bowl (1944)
97 min | Comedy, Family
A successful writer, home-schooled in his youth, masquerades as a student at a secondary school to experience all the fun and pranks he missed out on.
Director: Helmut Weiss | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak, Erich Ponto
Votes: 6,613
7. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 156,923 | Gross: $20.16M
8. The Name of the Rose (1986)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin
Votes: 117,238 | Gross: $7.15M
9. The Experiment (2001)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Votes: 96,094 | Gross: $0.14M
10. Therapie (2016)
117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A young female felon has to do manditory therapy following her jailtime - but the therapy grows into a stalking, because the therapist is out for revenge.
Director: Felix Charin | Stars: Taneshia Abt, Dominic Raacke, Isabel Thierauch, Kazim Akboga
Votes: 65
11. A Bitter Mix (2015 TV Movie)
87 min | Comedy, Romance
Benny, an Israeli living in Berlin is called back home following his grandfather death. He arrives to Israel with his girlfriend Sara and his family can't wait to meet her.
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Peri Baumeister, Trystan Pütter, Doval'e Glickman, Sandra Sade
Votes: 108
12. About a Girl (2014)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
Charleen, 15, quick-witted and sassy, is Kurt Cobain's biggest fan and wonders why 'growing up' has to be so complicated. One day, feeling especially melodramatic and rebellious, she ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Monheim | Stars: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Heike Makatsch, Aurel Manthei, Simon Schwarz
Votes: 902
13. 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: 4,628
14. Frau Müller muss weg! (2015)
83 min | Comedy
Because of their children's bad grades, some parents want the teacher, Mrs. Müller, gone, so they meet with her and try to convince her to leave the class.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Justus von Dohnányi, Anke Engelke, Ken Duken
Votes: 1,954
15. Im weißen Rössl - Wehe Du singst! (2013)
93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director: Christian Theede | Stars: Diana Amft, Tobias Licht, Fritz Karl, Edita Malovcic
Votes: 261
16. Eine ganz heiße Nummer (2011)
95 min | Comedy
When their little supermarket is threatened by bankruptcy, three shop assistants in rural Bavaria start their own phone sex line.
Director: Markus Goller | Stars: Gisela Schneeberger, Bettina Mittendorfer, Rosalie Thomass, Monika Gruber
Votes: 874
17. Lessons of a Dream (2011)
113 min | Drama, Sport
An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.
Director: Sebastian Grobler | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Burghart Klaußner, Thomas Thieme, Justus von Dohnányi
Votes: 2,593
18. Vincent Wants to Sea (2010)
Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man suffering from Tourette's syndrome absconds from an institution with two other inhabitants to travel to Italy to fulfill his mother's last wish.
Director: Ralf Huettner | Stars: Florian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Heino Ferch, Katharina Müller-Elmau
Votes: 6,000
19. Beste Gegend (2008)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Two best friends want to finally leave their home town for a trip around the world after having finished school.
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller | Stars: Anna Maria Sturm, Rosalie Thomass, Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow, Florian Brückner
Votes: 287
20. The Wave (2008)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich
Votes: 115,097
21. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,117 | Gross: $0.48M
22. The Lives of Others (2006)
R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 410,435 | Gross: $11.29M
23. Antibodies (2005)
Not Rated | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Wanted for a long time, serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police raid. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him and finds out more than he is looking for.
Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Norman Reedus, Christian von Aster, André Hennicke, Waltraud Witte
Votes: 9,039
24. Luther (2003)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Molina
Votes: 16,002 | Gross: $5.79M
25. Attention, Papa Arrives! (1991)
89 min | Comedy, Family
After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire. The former manager has plenty of time now to spend with his wife and their 16... See full summary »
Directors: Vicco von Bülow, Renate Westphal-Lorenz | Stars: Evelyn Hamann, Vicco von Bülow, Irm Hermann, Hans-Peter Korff
Votes: 5,942
26. Otto - Der Außerfriesische (1989)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Otto is the only one who is able to save his Frisian homeland, but he needs the help of his brother, who is abroad. But when his brother does not want to fulfill what he has sworn to do, Otto tries to convince him.
Directors: Marijan David Vajda, Otto Waalkes | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Barbara May, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Volkmar Kleinert
Votes: 2,749
27. The Miracle of Bern (2003)
118 min | Drama, Sport
A young boy from a working class family in post-war Germany struggles with his estranged father returning from war captivity, while a friend of his plays for the German National Soccer Team at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Louis Klamroth, Peter Lohmeyer, Johanna Gastdorf, Lucas Gregorowicz
Votes: 7,477
28. Bandits (1997)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
The convicts Emma, Luna, Angel and Marie form a rock band in prison together. A concert for a police ball gives them an opportunity to escape. On the run, they become famous and popular outlaw musicians.
Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Nicolette Krebitz, Jutta Hoffmann
Votes: 3,232 | Gross: $0.02M
29. In July (2000)
99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A young, insecure teacher embarks on a journey through Europe to Turkey, where he wants to see a woman again whom he believes to be his fate.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus, Idil Üner
Votes: 22,838
30. Gigantic (1999)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr., Julia Hummer
Votes: 4,892
31. Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999)
110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.
Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Oliver Korittke, Markus Knüfken, Ralf Richter, Diether Krebs
Votes: 10,829
32. Nowhere in Africa (2001)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo
Votes: 13,962 | Gross: $6.17M
33. Love Scenes from Planet Earth (1998)
89 min | Comedy, Romance
Follows a divorced couple and their separate, cyclonic sexual escapades, and all of the spin offs.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Christoph Waltz, Heio von Stetten, Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Oliver Korittke
Votes: 937
34. The Perfect Secret (2019)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Seven friends--three women and four men--meet for dinner. Everyone must put their cell phones on the table. No matter what message comes in, anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.
Director: Bora Dagtekin | Stars: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Jessica Schwarz, Elyas M'Barek, Karoline Herfurth
Votes: 7,249
35. Naomis Reise (2017)
93 min | Drama
Director: Frieder Schlaich | Stars: Scarlett Jaimes, Liliana Trujillo, Romanus Fuhrmann, David Garzón Bardua
Votes: 46
36. System Crasher (2019)
125 min | Drama
9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.
Director: Nora Fingscheidt | Stars: Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Lisa Hagmeister
Votes: 14,773
37. How About Adolf? (2018)
91 min | Comedy
Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst) and his wife Elisabeth (Caroline Peters) organize a dinner in their house in Bonn. Invited are family friend René (Justus von Dohnányi), Thomas (Florian ... See full summary »
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Christoph Maria Herbst, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters, Justus von Dohnányi
Votes: 7,639
38. Shillings from Heaven (2018)
89 min | Drama
A village mayor enacts a bold and futuristic monetary scheme to save his alpine community from global financial crisis and fascism's simple fix. The strength of a woman's love as much as ... See full summary »
Director: Urs Egger | Stars: Karl Markovics, Verena Altenberger, Aaron Friesz, Gerhard Liebmann
Votes: 171
39. Help, I Shrunk My Parents (2018)
TV-PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When the wicked headmistress Stingbeard hunts the school, Felix, Ella and their gang set their plan in motion to save the school and bring Felix's parents back to their original size.
Director: Tim Trageser | Stars: Oskar Keymer, Lina Hüesker, Anja Kling, Axel Stein
Votes: 419
40. Winnetou: The Red Gentleman (1964)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel, Karin Dor
Votes: 3,555
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