Watchlist Deutscher Film
by christian-rhode | created - 27 Jul 2022 | updated - 03 Jan 2023 | Public- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. Kinder aus Stein (1987 TV Movie)
87 min | Crime, Drama
An attractive model, a petty criminal, an oddball and a photographer are heading for a fatal catastrophe in the neon jungle. Four young people who are unable to express true emotions.
Director: Volker Maria Arend | Stars: Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Natja Brunckhorst, Uwe Fellensiek, Gunter Berger
Votes: 18
2. Das Himmler Projekt (2000)
182 min | Documentary
The speech of Heinrich Himmler, held on Oct. 4th, 1943 in front of 92 SS generals at the castle Posen, read by Manfred Zapatka.
Director: Romuald Karmakar | Star: Manfred Zapatka
Votes: 134
3. Rote Erde (1983– )
History, War
Saga of a miner and his family in the Ruhr area of Western Germany in the time from the the late1800s until World War I.
Stars: Walter Renneisen, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Angelika Bartsch, Vera Lippisch
Votes: 65
4. Die Liebe frisst das Leben, Tobias Gruben, seine Lieder und die Erde (2019)
92 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
"Love eats up life" retraces the work by Tobias Gruben, which 20 years after his death continues to be a nearly completely undiscovered diamond in the rough of German pop culture. The ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver Schwabe | Stars: Imogen Gruben, Tobias Levin, Sebastian Gruben, Alfred Hilsberg
Votes: 13
5. Braunschlag (2012)
45 min | Drama
To save his town from bankruptcy, the mayor of Braunschlag decides to fake a Marian apparition. This black-humored farce revolves around greed, corruption, Christianity, and alcohol.
Stars: Robert Palfrader, Maria Hofstätter, Nicholas Ofczarek, Nina Proll
Votes: 1,575
6. Deutschland 83 (2015)
TV-MA | 42 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Martin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.
Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth
Votes: 15,018
7. Jedermann (2020 TV Movie)
106 min | Drama
Directors: Michael Sturminger, André Turnheim | Stars: Peter Lohmeyer, Tobias Moretti, Edith Clever, Gregor Bloéb
Votes: 8
8. Pogo 1104 (1984– )
180 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Three young men somehow get together and start a pirate broadcaster.
Stars: Richy Müller, Erich Bar, Ralf Richter, Anja Schüte
Votes: 53
9. Die Unbedingten (2009)
47 min | Drama
Director: Andreas Jaschke | Stars: Benjamin Kramme, Christian Näthe, Anne Kanis, Armin Dillenberger
Votes: 19
10. India (1993)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Harather | Stars: Josef Hader, Alfred Dorfer, Maria Hofstätter, Roger Murbach
Votes: 3,088
11. Bad Banks (2018–2020)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far she is prepared to go for her career.
Stars: Paula Beer, Barry Atsma, Désirée Nosbusch, Albrecht Schuch
Votes: 6,223
12. Das Schwein - Eine deutsche Karriere (1995– )
90 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Götz George, Daniel Weiss, Rosemarie Fendel, Andrea Sawatzki
Votes: 135
13. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,640 | Gross: $2.22M
14. Jadup und Boel (1988)
100 min | Drama
In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe),... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Simon | Stars: Kurt Böwe, Katrin Knappe, Gudrun Ritter, Timo Jakob
Votes: 78
15. Deutschland 89 (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Thriller
Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.
Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Sylvester Groth, Corinna Harfouch
Votes: 3,340
16. Spuren des Bösen (2010– )
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Criminal psychologist Richard Brock teaches at the University of Vienna.
Stars: Heino Ferch, Gerhard Liebmann, Gerda Drabek, Sabrina Reiter
Votes: 220
17. 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
18. Der Fall Ö. (1991)
95 min | Drama, War
Director: Rainer Simon | Stars: Matthias Habich, Sebastian Hartmann, Tatiana Lygari, Jan Josef Liefers
Votes: 41
19. Deutschland 86 (2018)
TV-MA | 472 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Abandoned by Moscow and desperate for cash, the East German leadership pushes their secret operatives to experiment with global capitalism and save their sinking socialist ship. Long ... See full summary »
Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Florence Kasumba, Sylvester Groth
Votes: 5,286
20. Die Polizistin (2000 TV Movie)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The trials and tribulations of Anne, a young Berliner whose aspirations to be a police officer land her in Rostock, a run-down city in the northeastern part of the country.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Axel Prahl, Paul Grubba, Yevgeni Sitokhin
Votes: 283
21. The Conference (2022 TV Movie)
108 min | Drama, History, War
On January 20, 1942, leading representatives of the German Nazi regime met in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee for a meeting that went down in history as the Wannsee Conference, at which the systematic murder of 11 million Jews was decided.
Director: Matti Geschonneck | Stars: Philipp Hochmair, Johannes Allmayer, Maximilian Brückner, Matthias Bundschuh
Votes: 4,044
22. Munich (2005)
R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History
After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 238,256 | Gross: $47.40M
23. Aus unserer Zeit (1970)
129 min | Drama, Romance, War
Directors: Joachim Kunert, Kurt Maetzig, Helmut Nitzschke, Rainer Simon | Stars: Felicitas Ritsch, Ekkehard Schall, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Helene Weigel
Votes: 14
24. Revanche (2008)
Not Rated | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
Director: Götz Spielmann | Stars: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss
Votes: 15,944
25. Little Sharks (1992)
87 min | Comedy, Romance
When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. ... See full summary »
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Kai Wiesinger, Gedeon Burkhard, Meret Becker
Votes: 1,468
26. Am Strand (2015)
20 min | Short, Drama
Laura and Clemens spend their holidays at the sea in Northern Germany. Laura is bored and invents a game: She pretends to be blind. Over the course of a few days the couple gets entangled ... See full summary »
Director: Nele Mueller-Stöfen | Stars: Fabian Busch, Maren Eggert, Peter Jordan, Laura Tonke
Votes: 6
27. Das Boot (2018– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, War
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in this WWII drama.
Stars: Franz Dinda, Tom Wlaschiha, Rick Okon, Rainer Bock
Votes: 9,903
28. Down the River (2018)
98 min | Adventure, Drama
An estranged father and son takes a wild trip. The journey turns into an adventure during which they both have to deal with their and each other's past and present.
Director: Rick Ostermann | Stars: Louis Hofmann, Oliver Masucci
Votes: 57
29. Never Look Away (2018)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl
Votes: 25,342 | Gross: $1.30M
30. Who Am I (2014)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Antoine Monot Jr.
Votes: 62,505
31. Frantz (2016)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber
Votes: 17,444 | Gross: $0.88M
32. Nachtschicht (2003– )
89 min | Crime, Thriller
Night shift thriller story.
Stars: Armin Rohde, Minh-Khai Phan-Thi, Barbara Auer, Özgür Karadeniz
Votes: 277
33. Flammenmädchen (2021 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime
First several barns burn down, then an old house goes up in flames: For months, one arson attack follows the next. When a body charred beyond recognition is found in the rubble of the burned down house, the state police gets involved.
Director: Catalina Molina | Stars: Stefanie Reinsperger, Manuel Rubey, Simon Schwarz, Annika Wonner
Votes: 157
34. Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Unrated | 176 min | Drama, Romance
1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Tom Schilling, Albrecht Schuch, Saskia Rosendahl, Michael Wittenborn
Votes: 2,282
35. Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016)
Crime, Drama
After German reunification, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground begins a killing spree while cops fight an uphill battle to catch them.
Stars: ShockingRotom, Anna Maria Mühe, Ben Münchow, Albrecht Schuch
Votes: 1,036
36. Toni Erdmann (2016)
R | 162 min | Comedy, Drama
A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
Director: Maren Ade | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl
Votes: 52,030 | Gross: $1.48M
37. Große Fische, kleine Fische (2015 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank | Stars: Uwe Ochsenknecht, Dietmar Bär, Axel Stein, Cornelia Gröschel
Votes: 41
38. Sanctuary (2015)
104 min | Drama
Summer 1968. 14 year old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Director: Marc Brummund | Stars: Louis Hofmann, Alexander Held, Stephan Grossmann, Max Riemelt
Votes: 1,894
39. Barbara (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke
Votes: 15,962
40. Emmas Glück (2006)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Max is very ill. He decides to steal in his own company. But when he tries to run away with the money, he has a car accident that takes him to Emma's pigs farm.
Director: Sven Taddicken | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Jürgen Vogel, Maik Solbach, Martin Feifel
Votes: 2,090
41. Life is All You Get (1997)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Christiane Paul, Ricky Tomlinson, Hristina Papamihou
Votes: 1,969
42. Child's Play (1992)
111 min | Drama
Micha, a young boy being beaten by his abusive father, joins other bullies at school to terrorize people for amusement, including his own brother.
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Jonas Kipp, Angelika Bartsch, Burghart Klaußner, Matthias Friedrich
Votes: 202
43. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
Directors: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 4,884
44. Auf Achse (1980–1996)
48 min | Adventure, Crime
The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Stars: Manfred Krug, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Nele Mueller-Stöfen, Markus Knüfken
Votes: 346
45. Decoder (1984)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A noise enthusiast discovers that by changing the background music from pleasantly calming to industrial "noise" music, he can incite riots and a revolution against the looming power of the government.
Director: Muscha | Stars: FM Einheit, William Rice, Christiane Felscherinow, Britzhold Baron De Belle
Votes: 1,046
46. Abwärts (1984)
PG | 90 min | Thriller
Two former lovers, an embezzler, and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Götz George, Wolfgang Kieling, Renée Soutendijk, Hannes Jaenicke
Votes: 1,488
47. Die Katze (1988)
118 min | Crime, Thriller
Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Joachim Kemmer, Heinz Hoenig
Votes: 972
48. Superstau (1991)
80 min | Comedy
Every year a lot of German people prepare to spent their holidays in the sunny south. And all of them have to use the same motor ways. And every year all comes to an end in a big jam.
Director: Manfred Stelzer | Stars: Ottfried Fischer, Ralf Richter, Monika Baumgartner, Hildegard Lena Kuhlenberg
Votes: 1,013 | Gross: $0.26M
49. The Ascent of Chimborazo (1989)
110 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1802, Alexandre De Humbolt and Aimé Bonpland stayed in Ecuador to study the topography of the country. Their goal is to climb the Chimborazo volcano, reaching 6,267 meters and considered at the time as the highest peak in the world.
Director: Rainer Simon | Stars: Jan Josef Liefers, Monika Lennartz, Götz Schubert, Katrin Martin
Votes: 41
50. Boomerang Boomerang (1989)
102 min | Crime, Drama
A group of young people become involved with the kidnap of a local politician with the aim of halting construction work on a nearby nuclear power plant.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Katja Studt, Jürgen Vogel, Jan Plewka, Lambert Hamel
Votes: 35
51. 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
52. Karniggels (1991)
94 min | Comedy
Young policeman Koeppe just left the academy and is transferred to a small police station in the countryside. He's a merry guy and dreams of a career, but he's not very bright. A brutal cow... See full summary »
Directors: Detlev Buck, Hans-Erich Viet | Stars: Bernd Michael Lade, Ingo Naujoks, Julia Jäger, Inga Busch
Votes: 533
53. Jailbirds (1996)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ein weiteres Highlight am deutschen Kinohimmel. Ein Förderprogramm bringt die beiden Knackis Gerd und Steinbock in die Obhut von Frauen. Dort sollen sie beweisen, dass sie in der Lage sind ... See full summary »
Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Til Schweiger, Detlev Buck, Leander Haußmann, Marie Bäumer
Votes: 1,687
54. Sexy Sadie (1996)
92 min | Crime
Edgar, a convicted serial killer, is told by the female prison doctor that he will die of a brain tumor within days. Holding her hostage he manages to escape intending to quietly enjoy his ... See full summary »
Director: Matthias Glasner | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, Jürgen Vogel, Thomas Heinze, Richy Müller
Votes: 137
55. Transit (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 11,852 | Gross: $0.82M
Tell Your Friends