WWII - The German experience
by sixtygallons | created - 15 Jan 2020 | updated - 25 Apr 2021 | PublicMostly German produced WWII movies including "Rubble cinema" post war German films usually only reflecting on the war but filmed in the ruins of Berlin. Also included US/UK productions depicting the German viewpoint, the best of which in my opinion is probably "The one that got away" not least because of Kruger and the fact he actually spent a short time as a POW, Robert Altman's "Ten seconds to hell" is worth a look for the ruined Berlin locations and "A time to love and a time to die" visually stunning, sympathetic and some beautiful cinematography. Not included are the numerous movies which depict both sides ie "The longest day" "Battle of the bulge" etc. and some which didn't quite make the grade in my opinion such as a couple of "macaroni combat" movies and "The eagle has landed"
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1. Stukas (1941)
101 min | Drama, War
This German propaganda film details the exploits of a group of Luftwaffe pilots flying Junkers Ju 87 "Stukas"--dive bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Albert Hehn
Votes: 188
2. 49th Parallel (1941)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George, Eric Portman
Votes: 7,672
3. U-Boote westwärts! (1941)
100 min | Drama, War
This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.
Director: Günther Rittau | Stars: Herbert Wilk, Heinz Engelmann, Joachim Brennecke, Wilhelm Borchert
Votes: 82
4. Kampfgeschwader Lützow (1941)
97 min | War
German propaganda film, telling a story of a bomber crew, taking part in invasion on Poland and attacks on the British shipping.
Director: Hans Bertram | Stars: Christian Kayßler, Hermann Braun, Heinz Welzel, Hannes Keppler
Votes: 39
5. Heimkehr (1941)
94 min | Drama
This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were discriminated against and ... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Paula Wessely, Peter Petersen, Attila Hörbiger, Ruth Hellberg
Votes: 118
6. Über alles in der Welt (1941)
85 min | Drama
It was made as a propaganda film designed to promote Nazi Germany's war aims in the Second World War. Following the outbreak of war, Germans abroad face persecution from the British and French authorities.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer, Fritz Kampers, Carl Raddatz
Votes: 42
7. Die große Liebe (1942)
102 min | Drama, Romance, War
During a leave in Berlin, Lieutenant Paul Wendlandt, a young Luftwaffe pilot, falls for Anna Holberg, a famous singer, who returns his love. But in time of war it is hard to live on love ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf Hansen | Stars: Zarah Leander, Grethe Weiser, Viktor Staal, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 227
8. Zwei in einer großen Stadt (1942)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Volker von Collande | Stars: Claude Farell, Karl John, Marianne Simson, Hansi Wendler
Votes: 51
9. Die goldene Spinne (1943)
88 min | Drama, War
Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank.
Director: Erich Engels | Stars: Franz Arzdorf, Wilhelm Bendow, Traute Bengen, Hermann Brix
Votes: 29
10. Besatzung Dora (1943)
91 min | Drama, History, War
Luftwaffe pilots Joachim and Franz both love Marianne - their jealousy threatens to compromise the vital teamwork aboard their recon plane. Sergeant Otto, a farm boy, loses his love Mathilde when she discovers she hates agricultural work.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Hubert Kiurina, Josef Dahmen, Georg Thomalla
Votes: 61
11. Die Degenhardts (1944)
93 min | Drama
A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism... See full summary »
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Heinrich George, Walter Bechmann, Robert Forsch, Herwart Grosse
Votes: 29
12. Life Goes On (1945)
Drama, War
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Gustav Knuth, Hilde Krahl, Lina Lossen, Marianne Hoppe
Votes: 31
13. Hotel Berlin (1945)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, War
In 1945, a strange mix of Germans, military personnel and civilians, pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi, celebrities and escaped prisoners, converges at a lavish hotel in heavily-bombed Berlin.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey, Andrea King
Votes: 883
14. Murderers Among Us (1946)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi
Votes: 2,547
15. Irgendwo in Berlin (1946)
77 min | Drama
After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs ... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Charles Brauer, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 163
16. Under the Bridges (1946)
99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz, Gustav Knuth, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 866
17. Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
105 min | Drama
In Nazi Germany actor Hans refuses to divorce his Jewish wife Elisabeth. He is threatened to be drafted and sent to the front while she will be deported to a concentration camp. Desperate, Hans decides that suicide is their only way out.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat, Alfred Balthoff, Claus Holm
Votes: 197
18. Seven Journeys (1947)
111 min | Drama, War
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Gert Schäfer, Erich Schellow, Winnie Markus, Werner Hinz
Votes: 355
19. Zwischen gestern und morgen (1947)
107 min | Drama, Romance, War
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Winnie Markus, Sybille Schmitz, Willy Birgel
Votes: 200
20. Street Acquaintances (1948)
104 min | Drama
Erika is 20 lives with her strict parents in a post-war apartment, works as a tiller in a laundry and is always hungry. In her friend Else, she sees how she should do it: Else has caught an older man who provides her with new stockings
Director: Peter Pewas | Stars: Gisela Trowe, Alice Treff, Ursula Voß, Siegmar Schneider
Votes: 38
21. Germany Year Zero (1948)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Votes: 13,719
22. Die Brücke (1949)
85 min | Drama
After the end of WWII, a group resettlers reaches a small village in central Germany, which has been spared from destruction. The new arrivals, who live in a resettlement camp separated by ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Pohl | Stars: Karl Hellmer, Fritz Wagner, Arno Paulsen, Steffie Spira
Votes: 142
23. Duell mit dem Tod (1949)
114 min | Drama
A contrived case of mistaken allegiances.
Director: Paul May | Stars: Rolf von Nauckhoff, Annelies Reinhold, Fritz Hinz-Fabricius, Hans Dreßler
24. Liebe '47 (1949)
118 min | Drama, Romance
A young man and a woman about to commit suicide by jumping into a river, recount to each other their experiences of the Second World War and the struggles of the immediate post-war situation.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Dieter Horn, Hilde Krahl, Sylvia Schwarz, Karl John
Votes: 107
25. Rotation (1949)
80 min | Drama, History
The life of the worker Hans Behnke and his family from 1925 to 1945 in Berlin. Hans ultimately does join the Nazi party, but still shows signs of disagreement with their ideology.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Paul Esser, Irene Korb, Karl Heinz Deickert, Reinhold Bernt
Votes: 385
26. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, War
The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler
Votes: 6,713
27. Ubåt 39 (1952)
85 min | Drama
Gunnar, son of naval officer Herman Friberg, has been assigned to the same submarine as his father. Herman has had an affair with shipmate John's wife. Disaster strikes, forcing them to put their differences aside in order to survive.
Director: Hampe Faustman | Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Gunnel Broström, Erik Strandmark
Votes: 24
28. 08/15 (1954)
95 min | Drama, War
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein belong to the same unit but could not be more contrary.
Director: Paul May | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Helen Vita, Paul Bösiger, Emmerich Schrenk
Votes: 444
29. The Last Bridge (1954)
102 min | Drama, War
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting, Carl Möhner
Votes: 452
30. It Happened on July 20th (1955)
75 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Bernhard Wicki, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Carl Wery, Erik Frey
Votes: 334
31. The Devil's General (1955)
117 min | Drama, War
During WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Viktor de Kowa, Karl John, Marianne Koch
Votes: 1,329
32. Sons, Mothers and a General (1955)
110 min | Drama, War
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the ... See full summary »
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Therese Giehse, Ursula Herking, Alice Treff
Votes: 188
33. The Last Ten Days (1955)
113 min | Drama, History, War
The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich during World War 2.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Albin Skoda, Oskar Werner, Lotte Tobisch, Willy Krause
Votes: 381
34. The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955)
97 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Director: Falk Harnack | Stars: Wolfgang Preiss, Annemarie Düringer, Robert Freitag, Fritz Tillmann
Votes: 190
35. Der Stern von Afrika (1957)
88 min | Drama, War
Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Joachim Hansen, Marianne Koch, Hansjörg Felmy, Horst Frank
Votes: 349
36. Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag (1957)
74 min | Crime, Drama, War
In 1941, on the Lithuania-East Prussia frontier, 3 German troops try to conceal that they have killed the daughter of their captain.The officer wants to shoot some Lithuanian women to avenge the murder.
Director: Kurt Jung-Alsen | Stars: Rudolf Ulrich, Wolfgang Kieling, Hans-Joachim Martens, Walther Süssenguth
Votes: 33
37. The One That Got Away (1957)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander
Votes: 2,485
38. Haie und kleine Fische (1957)
120 min | War, Drama
Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Hansjörg Felmy, Sabine Bethmann, Mady Rahl, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 201
39. Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1958)
110 min | Drama, Romance, War
After the battle of Stalingrad, battalions of German prisoners were taken to concentration camps. To the 5110/47 comes the military medical Fritz Böhler. He tries to improve the prisoners' conditions, sometimes risking his life.
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok, Hannes Messemer, Mario Adorf
Votes: 161
40. Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino (1958)
94 min | Drama, War
In 1944, German paratroopers must defend the Monte Cassino area of Italy from Allied attacks while artifacts from the nearby historical abbey are evacuated to the Vatican by army trucks.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Elma Karlowa, Antje Geerk, Ewald Balser
Votes: 132
41. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Approved | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore
Votes: 3,719
42. U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien (1958)
91 min | Drama, War
In 1939 German U-boat captain Günther Prien receives orders to infiltrate the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sink British warships.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Dieter Eppler, Sabine Sesselmann, Joachim Fuchsberger, Harald Juhnke
Votes: 211
43. Rommel ruft Kairo (1959)
105 min | Thriller, War
In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.
Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Adrian Hoven, Elisabeth Müller, Peter van Eyck, Paul Klinger
Votes: 102
44. 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: 8,661
45. Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Drama, Romance
After 1945, six German ex-soldiers are hired to defuse unexploded Allied bombs in the ruins of Berlin.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 1,190
46. Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)
93 min | Drama, War
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss, Carl Lange
Votes: 843
47. Stars (1959)
91 min | War, Drama
The tragic love of a Jewish girl and a Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice.
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Sasha Krusharska, Jürgen Frohriep, Erik S. Klein, Stefan Pejchev
Votes: 466
48. Kirmes (1960)
102 min | Drama
At the end of WWII a German soldier who had often been ordered to execute women and children deserts and tries to find a hiding place in his native village. Almost immediately the entire ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Juliette Mayniel, Götz George, Hans Mahnke, Wolfgang Reichmann
Votes: 170
49. Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen (1960)
99 min | Drama, War
In 1945 with the advance of the red army millions of refugees fled from the east of Germany. The "Wilhelm Gustloff" loaded with 10,000 civilians and wounded soldiers was sank by a Soviet submarine in less than 55 minutes.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Sonja Ziemann, Gunnar Möller, Erik Schumann, Brigitte Horney
Votes: 207
50. Strafbataillon 999 (1960)
109 min | Drama, War
On the Eastern Front in World War II, a German battalion fights Russian and Partisan soldiers.
Director: Harald Philipp | Stars: Werner Peters, Kurd Pieritz, Heinz Weiss, Klaus Kindler
Votes: 101
51. Destination Death (1961)
92 min | Drama, War
Germany, March 1945. A military prison warden is tasked to transport a group of prisoners to a penal unit at the western front. A rail ride through the country on the brink of collapse ensues.
Directors: Jürgen Roland, Herbert Viktor | Stars: Hannes Messemer, Armin Dahlen, Peter Herzog, Inge Langen
Votes: 80
52. The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
70 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.
Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Hannjo Hasse, Christoph Beyertt, Wolfgang Kalweit, Georg Leopold
Votes: 337
53. Royal Children (1962)
89 min | Drama, War
Set in the historical context of anti-Nazi resistance, this love story explores the moral issues of the period. Beyer's second antifascist film, it stands out stylistically due to the clear references to the work of Tarkovsky.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Annekathrin Bürger, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thein, Marga Legal
Votes: 77
54. Hitler (1962)
Approved | 107 min | Biography, Drama, War
Biopic of Adolf Hitler focusing on his relationships with various women from 1923 to 1945.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Richard Basehart, Maria Emo, Cordula Trantow, Martin Kosleck
Votes: 366
55. Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
In the last weeks of World War II, inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp hide a Polish child from the SS guards, hoping that the advance of the American forces will set them free.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Krystyn Wójcik, Fred Delmare
Votes: 837
56. Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (1965)
164 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier, but at the front Werner begins to understand the ... See full summary »
Director: Joachim Kunert | Stars: Klaus-Peter Thiele, Manfred Karge, Arno Wyzniewski, Günter Junghans
Votes: 373
57. The Night of the Generals (1967)
Not Rated | 148 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 8,791
58. I Was Nineteen (1968)
115 min | Biography, Drama, War
Gregor Hecker, who fled Germany with his parents, returns to Germany as a lieutenant in the Red Army.
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Jaecki Schwarz, Vasiliy Livanov, Aleksey Eybozhenko, Dieter Mann
Votes: 1,037
59. The Ravine (1969)
97 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1943 Yugoslavia, a German sniper captures a famed partisan markswoman, but when they are abandoned by their allies, they are forced to shelter from the harsh winter together.
Director: Paolo Cavara | Stars: David McCallum, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Lars Bloch, Giorgio Dolfin
Votes: 107
60. Meine Stunde Null (1970)
92 min | War, Comedy
Captured by the Red Army, a German soldier is recruited to aid in the kidnapping of a high-ranking Wehrmacht officer.
Director: Joachim Hasler | Stars: Manfred Krug, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Lev Prygunov, Kurt Jung-Alsen
Votes: 74
61. Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
PG | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization based on eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.
Director: Ennio De Concini | Stars: Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento
Votes: 1,854 | Gross: $1.11M
62. Fighter Pilots (1975)
PG | 77 min | Drama, War
North Africa during World War II. The German fighter pilot ace Werner von Steinhaus dominates the sky.
Director: Franz Marx | Stars: Will Roberts, Johann van Heerden, Werner Doll, Ian Strauss
Votes: 40
63. Mama, ich lebe (1977)
103 min | Drama, Romance, War
Four young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians, and are ... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Peter Prager, Uwe Zerbe, Eberhard Kirchberg, Detlef Gieß
Votes: 118
64. Death Is My Trade (1977)
145 min | Biography, Drama
The disturbing biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
Director: Theodor Kotulla | Stars: Götz George, Elisabeth Schwarz, Kai Taschner, Hans Korte
Votes: 428
65. Cross of Iron (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, War
German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner
Votes: 29,196
66. The Tin Drum (1979)
R | 142 min | Drama, War
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 25,764
67. Germany Pale Mother (1980)
152 min | Drama, History, War
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas
Votes: 848
68. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,481 | Gross: $11.49M
69. Lili Marleen (1981)
R | 120 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel
Votes: 4,294
70. The Bunker (1981 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, History, War
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton
Votes: 2,543
71. 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: 1,112
72. 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: 129
73. Five Last Days (1982)
112 min | Drama, History
In Wittelbacherpalais, Munich's prison and Gestapo center, middle-aged Else Gebel awaits trial for carrying anti-Nazi material. She serves as a clerk in the Gestapo office. On Thursday, 18 ... See full summary »
Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Irm Hermann, Lena Stolze, Joachim Bernhard, Ossi Eckmüller
Votes: 136
74. Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland (1989)
97 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
Director: Klaus Maria Brandauer | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rebecca Miller, Brian Dennehy, Nigel Le Vaillant
Votes: 293
75. Europa Europa (1990)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms
Votes: 17,493 | Gross: $5.58M
76. The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, History, Thriller
German Army colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg plans to assassinate German leader Adolf Hitler on July 20th, 1944 with a briefcase bomb, while other high-ranking plotters in Berlin are preparing to take power in a coup.
Director: Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Brad Davis, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Ian Richardson, Kenneth Colley
Votes: 516
77. The Last U-Boat (1993 TV Movie)
99 min | Drama, War
In 1945 an advanced type of German U-boat loaded with atomic technology en route for Japan and escorted by Japanese naval officers receives news that Germany has capitulated.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Kaoru Kobayashi, Gorô Ôhashi
Votes: 309
78. Stalingrad (1993)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, War
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph
Votes: 37,749 | Gross: $0.08M
79. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 1,451,941 | Gross: $96.90M
80. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
TV-G | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.
Director: Hardy Martins | Stars: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Michael Mendl
Votes: 8,095
81. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,982 | Gross: $0.27M
82. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 375,443 | Gross: $5.51M
83. Before the Fall (2004)
110 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Devid Striesow, Jonas Jägermeyr
Votes: 17,139 | Gross: $0.14M
84. Stauffenberg (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 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: 2,684
85. The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, History, War
Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time, but working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss ... See full summary »
Director: Niko von Glasow | Stars: Ivan Stebunov, Bela B., Jochen Nickel, Anna Thalbach
Votes: 569
86. 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: 28,678 | Gross: $0.68M
87. Der letzte Zug (2006)
123 min | Drama, War
A group of Jewish people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945.
Directors: Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vávrová | Stars: Gedeon Burkhard, Lale Yavas, Lena Beyerling, Sibel Kekilli
Votes: 1,580
88. Die Flucht (2007 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia, like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, believed that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
Director: Kai Wessel | Stars: Maria Furtwängler, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Tonio Arango, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Votes: 616
89. Die Gustloff (2008 TV Movie)
188 min | Drama, History, War
German film loosely based on the sinking, by a Soviet submarine, of a Nazi troop-transport ship in the Baltic Sea on January 30th 1945.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Kai Wiesinger, Valerie Niehaus, Heiner Lauterbach, Dana Vávrová
Votes: 572
90. Valkyrie (2008)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh
Votes: 259,387 | Gross: $83.08M
91. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, War
Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Zac Mattoon O'Brien
Votes: 246,730 | Gross: $9.03M
92. A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, History
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler
Votes: 7,049 | Gross: $0.29M
93. Lore (2012)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance, War
As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
Director: Cate Shortland | Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi
Votes: 15,938 | Gross: $0.97M
94. Rommel (2012 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 120 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Director: Niki Stein | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Tim Bergmann, Johannes Silberschneider, Benjamin Sadler
Votes: 2,489
95. Generation War (2013)
TV-MA | 270 min | Action, Drama, History
Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein
Votes: 32,606 | Gross: $0.09M
96. 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 von Have, Vivien Ciskowski, Patrick Lorenczat
Votes: 453
97. The Captain (2017)
118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolph, Max Thommes
Votes: 21,612 | Gross: $0.11M
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