German History in the Movies
by Burgwaechterchen | created - 23 Mar 2017 | updated - 23 Sep 2018 | PublicNo Ranking
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101. The Odessa File (1974)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm
Votes: 12,079 | Gross: $1.11M
102. Störtebeker (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Adventure
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Alexandre | Stars: Ken Duken, Claire Keim, Gottfried John, Miguel Herz-Kestranek
Votes: 328
103. The Reader (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 259,991 | Gross: $34.19M
104. Mord in Eberswalde (2013 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Stephan Wagner | Stars: Ronald Zehrfeld, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Florian Panzner, Godehard Giese
Votes: 204
105. 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
106. 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
107. Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (2011 Video)
R | 91 min | Horror
In the tradition of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, found footage documents the real life exorcisms of Anneliese Michel, history's most notorious victim of demonic possession.
Director: Jude Gerard Prest | Stars: Yaz Canli, Kai Cofer, Christopher Karl Johnson, Nikki Muller
Votes: 923
108. 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: 15,030
109. The Weissensee Saga (2010–2018)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama
The lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end.
Stars: Florian Lukas, Uwe Kockisch, Jörg Hartmann, Ruth Reinecke
Votes: 2,338
110. Shores of Hope (2012)
116 min | Drama
The dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.
Director: Toke Constantin Hebbeln | Stars: Alexander Fehling, August Diehl, Ronald Zehrfeld, Thao Vu
Votes: 563
111. 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
112. Margarete Steiff (2005 TV Movie)
95 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the first and most successful creators of toy stuffed animals.
Director: Xaver Schwarzenberger | Stars: Heike Makatsch, Felix Eitner, Hary Prinz, Donald Arthur
Votes: 443
113. Der blinde Fleck (2013)
99 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The true story of a journalist who investigates the backgrounds of the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980.
Director: Daniel Harrich | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Nicolette Krebitz, Heiner Lauterbach, Jörg Hartmann
Votes: 456
114. The Red Baron (2008)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
German biopic loosely based on the World War I fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron by friend and foe alike.
Director: Nikolai Müllerschön | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Lena Headey, Til Schweiger, Joseph Fiennes
Votes: 13,161 | Gross: $0.04M
115. Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave
Votes: 1,384 | Gross: $0.17M
116. The Blue Max (1966)
Approved | 156 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp
Votes: 7,628
117. Swing Kids (1993)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Music
A group of teens adores forbidden music in Nazi Germany just before the outbreak of World War II.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 17,356 | Gross: $5.63M
118. Die Heimkehr (2012 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History
August Staudenmeyer returns to his hometown Gerbersau as a wealthy man after 30 years of absence. At first, the successful businessman is welcomed with open arms. When he takes sides with the local widow Katharina things change.
Director: Jo Baier | Stars: August Zirner, Heike Makatsch, Herbert Knaup, Margarita Broich
Votes: 121
119.
Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016)
Episode:
Die Täter - Heute ist nicht alle Tage
(2016)
95 min | Crime, Drama
1990 Jena, Germany. DDR is history. Now we all belong to western capitalism and prosperity. Unemployment, exclusion and xenophobia rules. The youth feel disoriented, unloved, displaced and offended.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Anna Maria Mühe, Albrecht Schuch, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Nina Gummich
Votes: 339
120.
Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016)
Episode:
Die Opfer - Vergesst mich nicht
(2016)
95 min | Crime, Drama
September 2000. 14-year old Semiyas father is murdered. The police assumes that it is Turkish mafia related crime. Nine more killings will follow.
Director: Züli Aladag | Stars: Almila Bagriacik, Uygar Tamer, Orhan Kilic, Tom Schilling
Votes: 241
121.
Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016)
Episode:
Die Ermittler - Nur für den Dienstgebrauch
(2016)
91 min | Crime, Drama
November 4, 2011: After their latest bank robbery, Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos set their camper on fire and allegedly shoot themselves. Inside the camper, the police find their bodies and... See full summary »
Director: Florian Cossen | Stars: Florian Lukas, Sylvester Groth, Liv Lisa Fries, Florian Stetter
Votes: 205
122. 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
123. Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (2009 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves the German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport... See full summary »
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Katharina Schüttler, Maja Maranow, Joachim Król
Votes: 391
124. 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
125. 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: 259,338 | Gross: $83.08M
126. 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: 2,487
127. Les Alsaciens: ou les deux Mathilde (1996)
90 min | Drama, History
The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their ... See full summary »
Stars: Caroline Tresca, Catherine Aymerie, Hélène Schwaller, Aurore Clément
Votes: 84
128. The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
M | 84 min | Horror, Mystery
A Count executed for murdering twelve virgins in a bid for immortality returns to life, seeking revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Christopher Lee, Carl Lange
Votes: 2,607
129. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed
Votes: 56,888 | Gross: $8.08M
130. Baron on the Cannonball (2012 TV Movie)
180 min | Adventure, Comedy
In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories.
Director: Andreas Linke | Stars: Jan Josef Liefers, Jessica Schwarz, Katja Riemann, Helen Ottmann
Votes: 157
131. The Midwife (2014 TV Movie)
115 min | Drama
About how women and their babies used to die in times when there was a lack of advanced medical facilities.
Director: Hannu Salonen | Stars: Josefine Preuß, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Andreas Pietschmann, Alicia von Rittberg
Votes: 250
132. The Midwife 2 (2016 TV Movie)
115 min | Drama
Romance and murder are intertwined in this 19th-century tale. At the turn of the century, fearless midwife Gesa finds her investigation into mysterious murders leading her deeper into ... See full summary »
Director: Hannu Salonen | Stars: Josefine Preuß, Adrian Topol, Genija Rykova, Alicia von Rittberg
Votes: 131
133. Delivering Hope (2010 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Dagmar Hirtz | Stars: Brigitte Hobmeier, Misel Maticevic, August Zirner, Pippa Galli
Votes: 118
134. Gottes mächtige Dienerin (2011 TV Movie)
180 min | Biography, History
Story of the nun who stood out for her strong personality as a trusted servant of Pope Pius XII.
Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller | Stars: Christine Neubauer, Remo Girone, Emily Behr, Georg Blumreiter
Votes: 86
135. The Whore (2010 TV Movie)
121 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Hansjörg Thurn | Stars: Alexandra Neldel, Bert Tischendorf, Julian Weigend, Nadja Becker
Votes: 851
136. Die Rache der Wanderhure (2012 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Marie and her husband Michel Adler have a happy life until Michel has to go to war against the Hussites for König Sigismund but does not come back. She not believe on his dead and starts her journey to find out what really happened to him.
Director: Hansjörg Thurn | Stars: Alexandra Neldel, Bert Tischendorf, Julian Weigend, Johannes Krisch
Votes: 421
137. Das Vermächtnis der Wanderhure (2012 TV Movie)
121 min | Drama
In 1427, Lady Maria Van Arnstein is informed that her beloved husband Michel Van Arnstein was murdered in a battle against the Hussitas. However he was actually betrayed by his ambitious ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Nennstiel | Stars: Alexandra Neldel, Bert Tischendorf, Julie Engelbrecht, Michael Steinocher
Votes: 290
138. Duell der Brüder - Die Geschichte von Adidas und Puma (2016 TV Movie)
115 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the 1920s the two brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler start manufacturing sport shoes. Adolf is a talented craftsman and his dream is that one day all the best sportsmen in the world will ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver Dommenget | Stars: Ken Duken, Torben Liebrecht, Jesse Albert, Florian Bartholomäi
Votes: 2,934
139. Colonia (2015)
R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey
Votes: 57,195
140. Der Untergang der Pamir (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Action, Drama
The Story of the German Sail-School Ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Milanovic Miki, Jan Josef Liefers, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 188
141. The Tower (2012 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama
A look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Jan Josef Liefers, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Claudia Michelsen, Götz Schubert
Votes: 609
142. Nacht über Berlin (2013 TV Movie)
108 min | Drama, History
Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social ... See full summary »
Director: Friedemann Fromm | Stars: Anna Loos, Jan Josef Liefers, Sven Lehmann, Claudia Eisinger
Votes: 275
143. Der Totmacher (1995)
110 min | Crime, Drama
Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this ... See full summary »
Director: Romuald Karmakar | Stars: Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch, Pierre Franckh, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Votes: 2,349
144. Love in Thoughts (2004)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
Director: Achim von Borries | Stars: Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe, Jana Pallaske
Votes: 4,286
145. Bent (1997)
NC-17 | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
Director: Sean Mathias | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Mick Jagger, Brian Webber
Votes: 8,822 | Gross: $0.37M
146. 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: 246,619 | Gross: $9.03M
147. Babij Jar (2003)
112 min | Drama
Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Michael Degen, Barbara De Rossi, Katrin Sass, Axel Milberg
Votes: 187
148. Holocaust (1978)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth
Votes: 5,505
149. Immenhof (1994– )
45 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The Gestüt Immenhof belongs to Friederike Countess Bantz. The heart of the Countess beats for the horses, but especially for their own Trakehner breed.
Stars: Anneliese Uhlig, Claudia Rieschel, Erich Hallhuber, Heinz Weiss
Votes: 21
150. Hochzeit auf Immenhof (1956)
94 min | Comedy, Family
The story is set around 1956, two years after the first film. What was menacing then has become bitter truth: The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, ... See full summary »
Director: Volker von Collande | Stars: Angelika Meissner, Heidi Brühl, Paul Klinger, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 274
151. Die Mädels vom Immenhof (1955)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In 1954, after their flight from East Prussia following WWII, orphaned sister Angela, Barbara (Dick), and Brigitte (Dalli) have settled with their Oma (Grandmother) Jantzen near Eutin in ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Angelika Meissner, Heidi Brühl, Christiane König, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 391
152. Ferien auf Immenhof (1957)
94 min | Drama, Family
The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on ... See full summary »
Director: Hermann Leitner | Stars: Angelika Meissner, Heidi Brühl, Paul Klinger, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 289
153. Frühling auf Immenhof (1974)
93 min | Adventure, Family
The Immenhof is in an economically precarious situation. While Dalli wants to borrow money from a friend, Alexander wants to open a riding hotel. Since they cannot agree, Alexander terminates his lease.
Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Heidi Brühl, Horst Janson, Birgit Westhausen, Bettina Westhausen
Votes: 154
154. Twins from Immen Farm (1973)
94 min | Drama, Family
Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Heidi Brühl, Horst Janson, Birgit Westhausen, Bettina Westhausen
Votes: 178
155. Immenhof - Das Abenteuer eines Sommers (2019)
105 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After the death of their father three sisters, sixteen year old Lou, Charly who is in her early twenties and Emmie who is a mere child, have to try and run the family's horse farm between ... See full summary »
Director: Sharon von Wietersheim | Stars: Leia Holtwick, Moritz Bäckerling, Heiner Lauterbach, Valerie Huber
Votes: 258
156. We Are the Night (2010)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In Berlin, a cop closes in on an all-female vampire trio who just took in a new member, Lena.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer
Votes: 8,846
157. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Not Rated | 931 min | Crime, Drama
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser
Votes: 4,903
158. Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
183 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
Director: Burhan Qurbani | Stars: Welket Bungué, Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Annabelle Mandeng
Votes: 3,889
159. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,534 | Gross: $0.03M
160. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Votes: 70,081
161. Ein Mann will nach oben (1978– )
60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
After the death of his father, young Karl Siebrecht goes to Berlin to make a fortune.
Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Ursela Monn, Karl Michael Vogler, Walter Buschhoff
Votes: 115
162. Destiny (1921)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Hans Sternberg
Votes: 6,694 | Gross: $0.01M
163. Nosferatu (1922)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Votes: 105,487
164. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Horror
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Votes: 40,556
165. The Haunted Castle (1921)
Not Rated | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first ... See full summary »
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Arnold Korff, Lulu Kyser-Korff, Lothar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann
Votes: 2,064
166. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,604 | Gross: $1.24M
167. Alles Lüge (1992)
86 min | Comedy
Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann both are highly decorated east German comedians. When the Berlin wall falls they are suddenly and like so many others without employment. Erich tries his ... See full summary »
Director: Heiko Schier | Stars: Dieter Hallervorden, Petra Hinze, Angelika Unterlauf, Erik Veldre
Votes: 77
168. The Roaring Fifties (1983)
126 min | Comedy
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur.
Director: Peter Zadek | Stars: Juraj Kukura, Boy Gobert, Peter Kern, Nora Barner
Votes: 90
169. The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny, Paul Askonas
Votes: 3,385
170. Ein Stück Himmel (1982– )
465 min | Biography, Drama
Marek and Celia Dawidowicz are Jewish Poles, who live with their son, Kuba, and nine-year-old daughter, Janian, in Kalisch. As war approaches, the family moves to Warsaw, and Marek and Kuba... See full synopsis »
Stars: Dana Vávrová, Kristin Fiedler, Peter Bongartz, Aviva Joel
Votes: 52
171. The Serpent's Egg (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent
Votes: 6,358
172. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,421 | Gross: $42.77M
173. 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: 17,138 | Gross: $0.14M
174. Der Strick um den Hals (1975– )
282 min | History
Stars: Erika Pluhar, Dieter Borsche, Ralf Schermuly, Antje Weisgerber
Votes: 14
175. Das Zeugenhaus (2014 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, History
Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess assigned to take care of them. What was her secret?
Director: Matti Geschonneck | Stars: Iris Berben, Matthias Brandt, Jeff Burrell, Samuel Finzi
Votes: 303
176. Mein Kampf (2009)
110 min | Biography, Comedy
The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He befriends the Jew Schlomo Herzl working on a novel with the title "Mein Kampf". Hitler is rejected by... See full summary »
Director: Urs Odermatt | Stars: Götz George, Tom Schilling, Anna Unterberger, Bernd Birkhahn
Votes: 807
177. Katharina Luther (2017 TV Movie)
105 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of Katharina von Bora, a nun in the 16th century. When reading Martin Luther's writings about the freedom of the individual, she decides to leave the convent - and gains the trust and love of the great reformer.
Director: Julia von Heinz | Stars: Karoline Schuch, Devid Striesow, Ludwig Trepte, Martin Ontrop
Votes: 176
178. 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
179. 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
180. The Counterfeiters (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach
Votes: 47,184 | Gross: $5.48M
181. The Poll Diaries (2010)
129 min | Drama
In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Paula Beer, Edgar Selge, Tambet Tuisk, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 1,064
182. A Royal Affair (2012)
R | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm
Votes: 50,905 | Gross: $1.55M
183. 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: 8,659
184. The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
R | 115 min | Action, Drama, War
As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 10,552
185. Die Brücke (2008 TV Movie)
R | 103 min | Drama, History, War
In this TV remake of the classic German war film, 16-year-old Walter and his friends are recruited to help defend a bridge near their town. What begins as a minor op becomes a life or death... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Panzer | Stars: François Goeske, Franka Potente, Lars Steinhöfel, Robert Höller
Votes: 1,040
186. Rosemary (1958)
105 min | Drama
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Peter van Eyck, Carl Raddatz, Gert Fröbe
Votes: 511
187. The Girl Rosemarie (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 127 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A historical drama set in the 1950s, based on real-life events. Rosemarie Nitribitt comes out of a remand center, runs away from her foster parents, and ends up working as a barmaid in a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernd Eichinger | Stars: Nina Hoss, Heiner Lauterbach, Mathieu Carrière, Hannelore Elsner
Votes: 597 | Gross: $0.00M
188. Neue Vahr Süd (2010 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
In 1980 West Germany, Frank Lehmann is drafted into the Bundeswehr. Frank moves in with hippie squatters in his natal Bremen. Just as in the army, his big mouth and naive honesty keep causing trouble.
Director: Hermine Huntgeburth | Stars: Frederick Lau, Eike Weinreich, Miriam Stein, Hinnerk Schönemann
Votes: 1,756
189. The Airlift (2005 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two-part historic drama about a difficult love affair between a German woman and an American soldier during the Berlin Airlift. After her husband Axel is declared dead, Luise Kielberg must ... See full summary »
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Heino Ferch, Bettina Zimmermann, Ulrich Tukur, Ulrich Noethen
Votes: 479
190. 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: 7,480
191. Radio Heimat (2016)
85 min | Comedy
The 80s: Four friends in western Germany try to impress girls with bad singing and worse dancing. They find out that to find your significant other it isn't enough to be just a pretty girl, neither it helps to be a showoff.
Director: Matthias Kutschmann | Stars: David Hugo Schmitz, Maximilian Mundt, Jan Bülow, Hauke Petersen
Votes: 363
192. Heartbreakers (1984)
R | 98 min | Drama
Blue, a struggling painter, and Eli, the son of a businessman, are childhood friends who have complicated romantic relationships, which slowly expose the state of their own friendship.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure, Max Gail
Votes: 640 | Gross: $0.15M
193. Treffer (1984 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Albi, Franz and Tayfun want little more in life than to ride their bikes, but things toughen up when they get unemployed.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Maximilian Wigger, Dietmar Bär, Tayfun Bademsoy, Barbara Rudnik
Votes: 155
194. Die Piefke-Saga (1990– )
384 min | Drama
A Berlin entrepreneur and his family regularly come to Tyrol for holidays. Although the locals dislike the haughty attitude of the Germans, they persuade him that building a snow-cannon ... See full summary »
Stars: Dietrich Mattausch, Brigitte Grothum, Ferdinand Dux, Sabine Cruso
Votes: 397
195. The Flying Classroom (1973)
92 min | Comedy
A group of boys from a boarding school in Bamberg face a multitude of challenges - fights against local school boys, conflicts with their prefect and overcoming their own fears.
Director: Werner Jacobs | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Reincke, Diana Körner, Bernd Herzsprung
Votes: 785
196. Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (2003)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students that lives outside of the school premises.
Director: Tomy Wigand | Stars: Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch, Piet Klocke, Hauke Diekamp
Votes: 1,390
197. Flying Classroom (1954)
92 min | Drama, Comedy, Family
All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other. The continuous feud between the pupils is ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Paul Dahlke, Heliane Bei, Paul Klinger, Erich Ponto
Votes: 617
198. Emil und die Detektive (2001)
111 min | Family, Adventure, Comedy
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Director: Franziska Buch | Stars: Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla, Jürgen Vogel, Maria Schrader
Votes: 1,248
199. Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Not Rated | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.
Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch
Votes: 6,998 | Gross: $0.93M
200. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Votes: 24,834
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