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1. Suspiria (I) (2018)
R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela
Votes: 92,237 | Gross: $2.47M
2. 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: 40,120 | Gross: $0.48M
3. The Third Generation (1979)
111 min | Crime, Drama
A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen
Votes: 2,807
4. Radio On (1979)
104 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
In 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death, and the purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, Andrew Byatt
Votes: 1,176
5. Marianne & Juliane (1981)
106 min | Drama
Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
Votes: 2,623
6. The Legend of Rita (2000)
103 min | Drama, History, Romance
The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bibiana Beglau, Richard Kropf, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl
Votes: 2,469 | Gross: $0.67M
7. The State I Am In (2000)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Bilge Bingül
Votes: 2,761
8. Germany in Autumn (1978)
123 min | Documentary, Drama
Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a ... See full summary »
Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel | Stars: Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bißmeier
Votes: 1,413
9. If Not Us, Who? (2011)
124 min | Biography, Drama
West Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they ... See full summary »
Director: Andres Veiel | Stars: August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling, Thomas Thieme
Votes: 1,306
10. Mogadischu (2008 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama
In 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Saïd Taghmaoui, Herbert Knaup
Votes: 1,309
11. Den fjärde mannen (2014–2015)
TV-14 | 174 min | Crime, Drama
The year is 1975, and the West German embassy in Stockholm is occupied by German terrorists. It's an attack not only on the embassy, but on Sweden's long-standing pride as a peaceful nation... See full summary »
Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Helena Af Sandeberg, Henrik Norlén, Shima Niavarani
Votes: 805
12. The Democratic Terrorist (1992)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Thriller
Swedish secret agent infiltrate a German terrorist group.
Director: Pelle Berglund | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Katja Flint, Burkhard Driest, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 1,241
13. One-way to Moscow (2020)
99 min | Comedy
Around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of people were spied on in Switzerland. Policeman Schuler goes undercover to reveal a possible political coup in the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
Director: Micha Lewinsky | Stars: Miriam Stein, Philippe Graber, Mike Müller, Michael Maertens
Votes: 258
14. Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986)
107 min | Crime, Drama
Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Hans Kremer, Therese Affolter, Ulrich Pleitgen
Votes: 497
15. Baader (2002)
115 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
Director: Christopher Roth | Stars: Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Vadim Glowna, Can Taylanlar
Votes: 792
16. Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen (1971)
69 min | Documentary
It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration ... See full summary »
Directors: Masao Adachi, Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Mustafa Abu Ali, Masao Adachi, George Habash, Susumu Iwabuchi
Votes: 166
17. The Worst Thing (2019)
84 min | Documentary
In 1985, Kathleen lost her brother Eddie, an American soldier, at the hands of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German leftist terrorist organization. Now, decades later, she decides to seek out the group responsible for his murder.
Director: Desireena Almoradie | Stars: Monika Berberich, Kathleen Pequeño, Lutz Taufer
Votes: 20
18. Kaltgestellt (1980)
88 min | Thriller
In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. A liberal teacher named Brasch "Helmut Griem" takes on V-man Körner "Martin Benrath" and loses his job.
Director: Bernhard Sinkel | Stars: Helmut Griem, Martin Benrath, Ángela Molina, Friedhelm Ptok
Votes: 38
19. Todesspiel (1997 TV Movie)
177 min | Documentary, Drama, Thriller
Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Hans Brenner, Robert Viktor Minich, Birol Ünel, Sebastian Koch
Votes: 560
20. Children of the Revolution (2010)
TV-14 | 92 min | Documentary
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?
Director: Shane O'Sullivan | Stars: Ulrike Meinhof, Fusako Shigenobu, Mei Shigenobu, Bettina Röhl
Votes: 73
21. Die RAF (2007)
170 min | Documentary
From the inner workings of the RAF. Former RAF-member Peter-Jürgen Boock reveal the many secrets and myths about the Baader-Meinhof gang a.k.a. RAF - Rote Armee Fraktion.
Directors: Stefan Aust, Helmar Büchel | Stars: Susanne Albrecht, Andreas Baader, Anneliese Baader, Bommi Baumann
Votes: 12
22. Baader-Meinhof (1986 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
One of the first major projects to trace the emergence of the RAF and in particular the developments surrounding the first generation of the RAF and their heads Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin
Director: Stefan Aust | Stars: Heinrich Albertz, Andreas Baader, Anneliese Baader, Bommi Baumann
Votes: 17
23. Monkey Warfare (2006)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
Two stoners find a new marijuana dealer when the law catches up to their supplier.
Director: Reg Harkema | Stars: Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Nadia Litz, Marya Delver
Votes: 560
24. A German Youth (2015)
93 min | Documentary, History
Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.
Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot | Stars: Horst Mahler, Philip Werner Sauber, Holger Meins, Helke Sander
Votes: 548
25. Der Fall Susanne Albrecht (2017 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
"The case Susanne Albrecht" - the many lives of a RAF-terrorist.
Director: Franziska Von Tiesenhausen | Stars: Susanne Albrecht, Kurt Breucker, Barbara Dörr, Gisela Friedrichsen
26. Do It (2000)
97 min | Documentary, History
Odyssey of the fortune-teller Daniele von Arb who, aged sixteen, joined the revolutionary underground and made the headlines as a top Swiss terrorist.
Directors: Sabine Gisiger, Marcel Zwingli | Stars: Daniele von Arb, Regina von Arb-Dal Bosco, Giorgio von Arb, Raymond Birgin
Votes: 41
27. Black Box BRD (2001)
102 min | Documentary
Wolfgang Grams, RAF terrorist, killed in a police shoot out in 1993 was thought to be part of the 1989 murder of high placed banker Alfred Herrhausen. This documentary interviews people ... See full summary »
Director: Andres Veiel | Stars: Pater Augustinus, Roswitha Bleith-Bendieck, Paul Brand, Rolf E. Breuer
Votes: 518
28. Baader-Meinhof: In Love with Terror (2002 TV Movie)
69 min | Documentary
Explores the Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla movement (aka the Red Army Faction) in 1970s West Germany.
Director: Ben Lewis | Stars: Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Bodo Kindermann, Dieter Kunzelmann
Votes: 73
29. Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)
90 min | Documentary
"Starbuck", the name of the navigator from the book Moby Dick, was also the undercover alias of Holger Meins (1941-1974), the navigator of the Baader-Meinhof group. A documentary about a ... See full summary »
Director: Gerd Conradt | Stars: Michael Ballhaus, Suzanne Beyeler, Manfred Blessmann, George Clooney
Votes: 155
30. Der Mordanschlag (2018– )
180 min | Drama, Thriller
Stars: Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Jenny Schily, Ulrich Tukur, Maximilian Brückner
Votes: 111
31. Rotwang muß weg! (1994)
82 min | Comedy
Mr. Rotwang, an industrialist who also worked for the government, is murdered. Who is behind the murder? Different groups seem to have a motive: the RAF, the Stasi and his wife.
Director: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Stars: Udo Kier, Sybill Norvak, Heikko Deutschmann, Beate Finckh
Votes: 64
32. Joschka und Herr Fischer (2011)
138 min | Documentary, Biography, History
He was a student activist, an urban guerrilla, a taxi driver; Joseph "Joschka" Fischer emerged from the Extra-parliamentary Opposition (APO) to become Hessen's trainer-clad environment ... See full summary »
Director: Pepe Danquart | Stars: Joschka Fischer, Hans Koschnick, Katharina Thalbach, Peter Grohmann
Votes: 200
33. Sympathisanten: Unser Deutscher Herbst (2018)
101 min | Documentary
West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The parents of the director, too: Margarethe von... See full summary »
Director: Felix Moeller | Stars: Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schneider, Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Votes: 45
34. Long Shadows (2008)
92 min | Drama
After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost... See full summary »
Director: Connie Walter | Stars: Christoph Bach, Gottfried Breitfuss, Uwe Kockisch, Udo Lange
Votes: 129
35. Schleyer - Eine deutsche Geschichte (2003 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
In the autumn of 1977, RAF terrorists stopped the vehicle of the employer's president, Hanns Martin Schleyer, killed his three bodyguards, the driver and abducted the man, who was as an ... See full summary »
Director: Lutz Hachmeister | Stars: Kurt Biedenkopf, Heinz Dürr, Kai Hermann, Hans Wolfgang Hirschbrunn
Votes: 30
36. Tussilago (2010)
15 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A woman's story of how she became involved in terrorist activities in the 1970s.
Director: Jonas Odell | Stars: Malin Buska, Camaron Silverek, Niklas Adolfsson, Sofie Adolfsson
Votes: 160
37. Im Fadenkreuz: Deutschland und die RAF (1997)
Documentary
Stars: Helmut Schmidt, Hans-Christian Ströbele, Wolfgang Steinke, Horst Bubeck
38. Andreas Baader - Der Staatsfeind (2002 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
How could the son of a graduate historian and a secretary, who liked to adorn himself with fast cars, fake eyelashes and expensive clothes, who wanted to become an artist, journalist or film director, become the "public enemy No. 1"?
Director: Klaus Stern | Stars: Andreas Baader, Günther Scheicher, Karl-Heinz Köpcke, Holm von Czettritz
Votes: 33
39. Zugriff im Tunnel - Das tödliche Drama von Bad Kleinen, (2013)
Documentary
On June 27, 1993, there was a momentous police operation at the train station in Bad Kleinen (MVP). When GSG9 officers tried to arrest RAF members Birgit Hogefeld and Wolfgang Grams, shots ... See full summary »
Director: Egmont R. Koch
40. Red Cell (2020)
19 min | Short, Action, Thriller
A man is taken hostage and kidnapped after a bank robbery. When he finds out that the robbers are former members of the Red Army Faction, a fight for survival begins .
Director: Myriam Arleth | Stars: Martin Bretschneider, Kevin Büter, Kevin Büter, Uwe Keller
41. Stammheim - Die RAF vor Gericht (2017)
44 min | Documentary, Short
In 1974, terrorism in the Federal Republic seemed almost defeated: the hard core of the Red Army faction was arrested and student protests subsided. But then the years 1974 to 77 became the... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas Schuhbauer, Sonja von Behrens | Stars: Mark Bremer, Kurt Breucker, Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann, Kurt Groenewold
42. Wer gab Euch das Recht zu morden? - Die Geschichte der RAF-Opfer (2007 TV Movie)
123 min | Documentary
"Who gave you the right to kill?" - adopts a victim perspective on the subject of RAF/Baader Meinhof gang. Only members of RAF victims and survivors of the RAF terrorism have their say.
Directors: Henning Rütten, Anne Siemens | Stars: Peter Bieringer, Michael Buback, Annemarie Eckhardt, Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer
43. Folter in Stammheim? - Die Propaganda der RAF (2005)
45 min | Documentary
"Torture in Stammheim prison." When a law enforcement officer unravels the cells on the seventh floor of the prison tower, he makes a discovery that will affect politics and the judiciary, the press and the public for decades.
Directors: Annette Baumeister, Florian Hartung | Stars: Kurt Breucker, Michael Buback, Horst Bubeck, Karl-Heinz Dellwo
44. Zugvögel (2007)
10 min | Short, Drama
RAF terrorists just a few hours before the attack on the German embassy in Stockholm in 1975.
Director: Katharina Bühler | Stars: Anne Düe, Florian Stiehler, Thorsten Wenning
45.
A Perfect Crime (2020)
Episode:
Capitalist
(2020)
Documentary, Crime
In a letter left at the scene of the crime the RAF claims responsibility for the assassination of Rohwedder; however, a lack of evidence and motivation shadow this in doubt.
Directors: Jan Peter, Georg Tschurtschenthaler | Stars: Willi Fundermann, Adolf Hitler, Rainer Hofmeyer, Christian Klar
Votes: 99
46.
A Perfect Crime (2020)
Episode:
Occupier
(2020)
Documentary, Crime
Questions arise about the motivation behind the assassination of Rohwedder and whether or not it was the RAF or former Stasi officers.
Directors: Jan Peter, Georg Tschurtschenthaler | Stars: Peter Bachsleitner, Sam Booth, Eberhard Böttcher, Günther Classen
Votes: 96
47.
Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode:
Shooting and F**king Are the Same Thing
(2021)
Documentary, History
The story of what tore the revolutions in the 1960s apart. Jiang Qing in China, Michael X in London, Afeni Shakur in New York believed that millions of people's minds were haunted by the ... See full summary »
Stars: H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Curtis, Michael de Freitas
Votes: 121
48.
Mark Felton Productions (2017– )
Episode:
Vladimir Putin - KGB Agent
(2022)
8 min | Documentary, History
The current (2022) leader of Russia, Vladamir Putin, joined the Soviet Communist Party and KGB right out of college. He spent his entire career in the KGB, serving much of it in Germany in ... See full summary »
Star: Mark Felton
49.
World in Action (1963–1998)
Episode:
Prisoner of Terrorism
(1978)
Documentary
A look at the activities and history of the notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, including an interview with one of the gang's kingpins, Horst Mahler.
Stars: Simon Albury, Hans-Jürgen Bäcker, Horst Mahler
50.
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996– )
Episode:
Die verlorenen Kinder
(2017)
44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Nico Zavelberg | Stars: Erdogan Atalay, Daniel Roesner, Katja Woywood, Katrin Heß
Votes: 24