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1. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Approved | 179 min | Drama, War
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich
Votes: 85,559
2. The Monuments Men (2014)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, War
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 141,225 | Gross: $78.03M
3. 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: 25,365 | Gross: $1.30M
4. One, Two, Three (1961)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy
In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis
Votes: 22,995
5. Great Freedom (2021)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.
Director: Sebastian Meise | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn
Votes: 7,355
6. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
R | 120 min | Drama
Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen
Votes: 14,926
7. Our wonderful years (2020–2023)
270 min | Biography, Drama, History
The history of the Wolf family in post-war Germany in the 1940s and 1950s.
Stars: Elisa Schlott, Vanessa Loibl, Anna Maria Mühe, Katja Riemann
Votes: 783
8. Night People (1954)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
During the Cold War, an American soldier is abducted in West Berlin, sparking a recovery effort led by Colonel Steve Van Dyke.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam
Votes: 1,512
9. 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
10. The Search (1948)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Wendell Corey
Votes: 4,840
11. Ku'damm 63 (2021)
90 min | Drama
Catharina rekindles her relationship with Fritz; Monika composes for the European Song Contest; Eva punishes Jürgen for his abuse; Helga is desperate because Wolfgang contacts his former lover who was imprisoned due to her denunciation.
Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle
Votes: 737
12. Veronika Voss (1982)
R | 104 min | Drama
Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer
Votes: 7,789
13. 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: 7,046 | Gross: $0.29M
14. 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: 6,120 | Gross: $0.28M
15. The Big Lift (1950)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, War
Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel
Votes: 1,734
16. Ku'damm 59 (2018)
278 min | Drama
This is a story about a woman and her three daughters in Germany in the 1950s. One of the daughters wants more from life and becomes a part of the rock'n'roll subculture.
Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle
Votes: 1,341
17. Berlin Express (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas
Votes: 3,596
18. Berlin 1945 (2020)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.
Stars: Simon Brauer, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Yvette Coetzee, Lucie David
Votes: 319
19. 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
20. Outside the Law (1956)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ex-con is given the chance to redeem himself, and revenge the murder of an old army buddy, by going undercover in Germany and helping the authorities break up a ring of international ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Ray Danton, Leigh Snowden, Grant Williams, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 206
21. The Devil Makes Three (1952)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
In 1947, an American pilot returns to Germany to find a family that saved his life during WW2 but he stumbles upon a secret Neo-Nazi group.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan
Votes: 532
22. 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
23. The Rats (1955)
91 min | Drama
In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 372
24. Black Gravel (1961)
113 min | Drama
The story takes place in postwar Germany, following Germany's loss in World War II. For years, people struggled with shortages of everything, housing, water, food, clothing.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy, Wolfgang Büttner
Votes: 267
25. 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
26. Die Unbeugsamen (2021)
99 min | Documentary
DIE UNBUGSAMEN tells the story of women in the Bonn republic who literally had to fight for their participation in the democratic decision-making processes against success-obsessed and ... See full summary »
Director: Torsten Körner | Stars: Carola von Braun-Stütze, Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Renate Faerber-Husemann, Elisabeth Haines
Votes: 207
27. Beate Uhse - Das Recht auf Liebe (2011 TV Movie)
110 min | Biography
Die deutsche Pilotin Beate Uhse kommt 1946 aus britischer Kriegsgefangenschaft.
Director: Hansjörg Thurn | Stars: Franka Potente, Ray Fearon, Hans Werner Meyer, Henry Hübchen
Votes: 253
28. No Way Back (1953)
87 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1945, Mischa, a Red Army officer, discovers a frightened German girl, Anna, huddled in a Berlin cellar. He gives her a safe escort home and wins her gratitude. Seven years later, Mischa ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Vicas | Stars: Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen, Karl John
Votes: 96
29. Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The story of a group of rebellious teens in East Berlin.
Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Ilse Pagé, Ekkehard Schall, Harry Engel, Ernst-Georg Schwill
Votes: 388
30. Wir Kellerkinder (1960)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A camera team is desperately searching for swastika graffiti. Finally they find a man willing to paint one -- on the window of his fathers nightclub. And he tells them also, how his father ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Bellenbaum | Stars: Wolfgang Neuss, Karin Baal, Ingrid van Bergen, Jo Herbst
Votes: 149
31. Verdammt zur Sünde (1964)
104 min | Drama
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Martin Held, Hildegard Knef, Heidelinde Weis, Tilla Durieux
Votes: 62
32. Kulenkampffs Schuhe (2018 TV Movie)
85 min | Documentary
The documentary, which consists entirely of archive material, shows post-war history in a surprising, unusual and touching way.
Director: Regina Schilling | Stars: Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Hans Rosenthal, Peter Alexander, Horst Tappert
Votes: 171
33. The Phony American (1961)
72 min | Comedy, Drama
Helmut, a war orphan, is charged with theft at the time of the Berlin Airlift and faces a jail sentence of up to six years behind bars. The unfairness raises the anger of numerous people who decide to fight it.
Director: Ákos Ráthonyi | Stars: Christine Kaufmann, Michael Hinz, William Bendix, Ron Randell
Votes: 29
34. Die junge Sünderin (1960)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Karin Baal, Vera Tschechowa, Rudolf Prack, Grethe Weiser
Votes: 47
35. Das Wunder von Bern: Deutschland und die Fußball-WM 1954 (1994 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Sport
Director: Ulrich Lenze | Stars: Hans Bauer, Wolf Biermann, Ulrich Biesinger, Norbert Blüm
Votes: 13
36. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick
Votes: 24
37. Du bist nicht allein (1949)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Munich in the late 1940s. Marianne desperately waits every evening at the train station for her friend, who has been missing on the Eastern Front since 1944. She accidentally falls into the arms of a stranger and falls in love with him.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carola Höhn, Peter Pasetti, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Danegger
Votes: 17
38. Der Uranberg (2010 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, History
Kurt Meinel returns from his Soviet POW camp to his native mining village, hating Hitler enough for wrecking Europe to support the Russian regional occupation commander Bursky, in charge of... See full summary »
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Vinzenz Kiefer, Nadja Bobyleva, Henry Hübchen, Christian Redl
Votes: 62
39. Das Treibhaus (1987)
99 min | Drama, History
Director: Peter Goedel | Stars: Christian Doermer, Laila Florentine Freer, Jörg Hube, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 22
40. Das Wunder von Bern - Die wahre Geschichte (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Sport
Directors: Sebastian Dehnhardt, Manfred Oldenburg | Stars: Hans Bauer, Ulrich Biesinger, József Bozsik, Jenö Buzánszky
Votes: 75
41. Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten (1952)
80 min | Documentary
Director: Andrew Thorndike
42. Kolp (1985)
105 min
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Frank Röth, Ottfried Fischer, Katja Flint, Barbara Weinzierl
Votes: 15
43. 15 Jahre Bundestag mit Konrad Adenauer (1963 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Edgar von Heeringen | Stars: Konrad Adenauer, Eugen Gerstenmaier, Heinrich Lübke
44. Broiler oder Burger - Deutscher Alltag vor der Wende (2014)
Documentary
Directors: Claudia Riemer, Lars Ziegenhain | Stars: Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Lothar de Maizière, Peter-Michael Diestel, Chris Doerk
45. Regina Amstetten (1954)
98 min | Drama
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Luise Ullrich, Carl Raddatz, Carl Esmond, Paul Hartmann
47. Deutsch ist die Saar - Was nun? (1959 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, History
Directors: Günther Meyer, Sven Schürenberg | Stars: Sven Schürenberg, Konrad Adenauer, Kurt Conrad, François Seydoux de Clausonne
48. Draußen vor der Tür (1957 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
Based on a one act play in five scenes by Wolfgang Borchert, "Draussen vor der Tuer," depicts the return of a former German soldier from the Eastern Front, to post-WWII Germany and the sobering realities of de-nazification and "peacetime."
Director: Rudolf Noelte | Stars: Paul Edwin Roth, Lili Schoenborn-Anspach, Eva Kotthaus, Malte Jaeger
Votes: 9
49. Berlinskaya konferentsiya (1945)
21 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Sergey Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Aleksei Antonov, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin
Votes: 12
50. Die Wunderrepublik - Die Helden von Bern und die 50er Jahre (2004 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary, Sport
Directors: Markus Brauckmann, Waldemar Hartmann | Stars: Hans Bauer, Franz Beckenbauer, Ulrich Biesinger, Norbert Blüm