German Period Drama
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1. Effi Briest (2009)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Ambitious German imperial hussars veteran baron Geert von Instetten takes office as coastal district administrator, hoping to e promoted to the colonies. His childhood love, Luise, married ... See full summary »
Director: Hermine Huntgeburth | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Heike Warmuth, Mirko Lang, Ludwig Blochberger
Votes: 887
2. Effi Briest (1974)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, History
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town.... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm
Votes: 2,695
3. The Magic Mountain (1982)
153 min | Drama
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering ... See full summary »
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Werner Eichhorn, Rod Steiger, Marie-France Pisier, Flavio Bucci
Votes: 498
4. 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: 77,619 | Gross: $2.22M
5. Die Kirschenkönigin (2004)
269 min | Drama, Family, War
The Berlin banker's daughter Ruth marries an impoverished baron in 1913 and turns his dilapidated estate into a flourishing cherry farm.
Stars: Richy Müller, Merab Ninidze, Marc Hosemann, Johanna Wokalek
Votes: 93
6. Waves (2005 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Vivian Naefe | Stars: Marie Bäumer, Matthias Habich, Florian Stetter, Katharina Eyssen
Votes: 54
7. Hanussen (1988)
R | 140 min | Drama, History
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger
Votes: 1,889 | Gross: $0.08M
8. Mephisto (1981)
Unrated | 146 min | Drama
In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda, Rolf Hoppe
Votes: 11,590
9. Krupp: A Family Between War and Peace (2009– )
270 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Alfried Krupp and his family and of the Krupp company, which has been preeminent in German industry. The family company was a key supplier of weapons and material to the Nazi regime during WWII.
Stars: Iris Berben, Benjamin Sadler, Valerie Koch, Barbara Auer
Votes: 212
10. Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (2013)
TV-MA | 270 min | Drama, History
The mini-series follows the construction and history of the famous Adlon hotel in Berlin, as seen through the eyes of Sonja Schadt, the youngest member of the wealthy fictional Schadt family who are friends with the Adlons.
Stars: Josefine Preuß, Heino Ferch, Marie Bäumer, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Votes: 1,009
11. Ku'damm 56 (2016)
100 min | Drama
Generations clash when the feisty daughter of a dance studio owner defies her mother's wishes and embraces the fight for gender equality in 1950s Berlin.
Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle
Votes: 2,423
12. Leo und Claire (2001)
103 min | Drama, Romance
In 1933 Nuremberg, Leo Katzenberger is a successful Jewish businessman and a devoted family man. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood and everything changes.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Michael Degen, Franziska Petri, Suzanne von Borsody, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 150
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: 7,043 | Gross: $0.29M
14. Sass (2001)
112 min | Crime, Drama
Two working-class German brothers (Ben Becker, Jürgen Vogel) rise to fame as Berlin's most infamous burglars.
Director: Carlo Rola | Stars: Ben Becker, Jürgen Vogel, Henry Hübchen, Frank Sieckel
Votes: 581
15. Hilde (2009)
137 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Director: Kai Wessel | Stars: Heike Makatsch, Dan Stevens, Monica Bleibtreu, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 798
16. Romy (2009 TV Movie)
106 min | Biography, Drama
A biography of Austrian actress Romy Schneider.
Director: Torsten C. Fischer | Stars: Jessica Schwarz, Thomas Kretschmann, Guillaume Delorme, Maresa Hörbiger
Votes: 485
17. The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982)
60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Confessions of impostor Felix Krull.
Stars: John Moulder-Brown, Mareike Carrière, Daphne Wagner, Nikolaus Paryla
Votes: 135
18. 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: 59,370 | Gross: $42.77M
19. Der Mädchenkrieg (1977)
143 min | Drama
The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move in 1936 with their father to Prague, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different ... See full summary »
Directors: Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel | Stars: Adelheid Arndt, Kaki Hunter, Antonia Reininghaus, Matthias Habich
Votes: 29
20. Tod oder Freiheit (1977)
94 min | Adventure
An equally despotic, ostentatious, and lavishly-living sovereign indiscriminately drives innocent peasant sons directly from the fields where they are working to sell them for a mercenary bounty to America.
Director: Wolf Gremm | Stars: Peter Sattmann, Erika Pluhar, Malte Thorsten, Harald Leipnitz
Votes: 35
21. Der Strick um den Hals (1975– )
282 min | History
Stars: Erika Pluhar, Dieter Borsche, Ralf Schermuly, Antje Weisgerber
Votes: 14
22. 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: 25,747
23. Krabat (2008)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: David Kross, Christian Redl, Daniel Brühl, Robert Stadlober
Votes: 6,850
24. The Marquise of O (1976)
PG | 102 min | Drama, History
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr
Votes: 3,039 | Gross: $0.00M
25. Die Marquise von O... (1989 TV Movie)
225 min | Drama
Edith Clever recites the complete text of The Marquise of O. by Heinrich von Kleist.
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Star: Edith Clever
Votes: 6
26. Mademoiselle Fifi ou Histoire de rire (1990 TV Movie)
Director: Claude Santelli | Stars: Hans Christian Blech, Yves Lambrecht, Nathalie Cerda, Yves Pignot
Votes: 7
27. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
Unrated | 122 min | Drama, History
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.
Director: Arnaud des Pallières | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot, David Kross
Votes: 9,197
28. Young Goethe in Love (2010)
Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Romance
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch
Votes: 3,074 | Gross: $0.16M
29. The Brothers Grimm (2005)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci, Petr Ratimec
Votes: 126,238 | Gross: $37.92M
30. Das ewige Lied (1997 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, History
A divided village is what country priest Joseph Mohr finds when he arrives at his new parish: a village cut in half by a river that forms a political and more importantly, a social border. ... See full summary »
Director: Franz Xaver Bogner | Stars: Tobias Moretti, Heio von Stetten, Erwin Steinhauer, Michael Mendl
Votes: 195
31. Brother of Sleep (1995)
R | 127 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Jochen Nickel
Votes: 1,678
32. Kaspar Hauser (1993)
139 min | Drama, History, Mystery
Kaspar Hauser is the son of the duke of Baden. At the age of one he was swapped by another baby that has been killed right after the change. The real Kaspar Hauser grew up in prison without... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sehr | Stars: André Eisermann, Udo Samel, Jeremy Clyde, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 506
33. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Votes: 18,896
34. 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
35. Schwabenkinder (2003 TV Movie)
109 min | Drama, History
A man returning to his parents years after having been sent away as a child-laborer tells his lifetime story to his dying father.
Director: Jo Baier | Stars: Tobias Moretti, Thomas Unterkircher, Vadim Glowna, Hary Prinz
Votes: 270
36. Feuerreiter (1998)
130 min | Drama
Film about the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), concentrating on his ardent affair with Susette Gondard.
Director: Nina Grosse | Stars: Martin Feifel, Marianne Denicourt, Ulrich Mühe, Matthias Faber
Votes: 84
37. Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplicissimus (1975– )
384 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The idyllic life of the simple-minded Simplicius Simplizissimus is destroyed with the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, leading him on an adventurous journey.
Stars: Matthias Habich, Herbert Tiede, Christian Quadflieg, Herbert Stass
Votes: 95
38. Die Braut (1999)
112 min | Biography, Drama
The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for ... See full summary »
Director: Egon Günther | Stars: Veronica Ferres, Herbert Knaup, Sibylle Canonica, Franziska Herold
Votes: 170
39. Die Elixiere des Teufels (1973)
96 min | Drama, History
Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in ... See full summary »
Directors: Brigitte Kirsten, Ralf Kirsten | Stars: Benjamin Besson, Jaroslava Schallerová, Andrzej Kopiczynski, Milena Dvorská
Votes: 24
40. The Vow (2007 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
The poet and bon vivant Clemens Brentano no longer wants to be an artist. In hopes of becoming a better person, he turned to the Catholic religion.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Misel Maticevic, Tanja Schleiff, Arved Birnbaum, Anke Sevenich
Votes: 167
41. 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
42. 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
43. Coup de Grâce (1976)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War
A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 1,395
44. Buddenbrooks (2008)
151 min | Drama
In the 1840s, Lübeck is a dominating commercial town on the Baltic coast, and the Buddenbrooks are among the town's first families. Consul Jean Buddenbrook has two sons, Thomas and ... See full summary »
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Iris Berben, Jessica Schwarz, August Diehl
Votes: 1,568
45. Beloved Clara (2008)
107 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Pascal Greggory, Malik Zidi, Aline Annessy
Votes: 303
46. 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
47. The Murder Farm (2009)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
On a remote farm an entire family is murdered.
Director: Bettina Oberli | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch, Filip Peeters
Votes: 1,134
48. Hinter Kaifeck (2009)
86 min | Mystery, Thriller
This film was inspired by the horrifying and mysterious crimes committed against the Gruber family in 1922 Germany.
Director: Esther Gronenborn | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Henry Stange, Michael Gwisdek
Votes: 444
49. 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
50. Räuber Kneißl (2008)
114 min | Drama
1892. Dachau, Bavaria. A family of thieves end up in prison. One of the sons dream of emigrating to America.
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller | Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Brigitte Hobmeier, Thomas Schmauser, Maria Furtwängler
Votes: 245
51. Tauerngold (2003 TV Movie)
Drama
Jacob Hirzbacher is a widower who hopes to find work in the local mining industry. With the arrival of a stranger with a charming attitude the hierarchy in the nearest village changes forever.
Director: Rüdiger Nüchtern | Stars: Sebastian Koch, Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Fritz Karl, Sabrina White
Votes: 20
52. The Dark Valley (2014)
Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Drama, Western
Through a hidden path, a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alps. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti, Paula Beer, Thomas Schubert
Votes: 14,299
53. The Glassblower (2016 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, History
Marie violates all traditions after the death of her parents. To feed herself and her sisters, she becomes the first female glassblower in the small town of Lauscha in 1890, and her artful glassy Christmas balls find themselves in America.
Director: Christiane Balthasar | Stars: Luise Heyer, Maria Ehrich, Franz Dinda, Dirk Borchardt
Votes: 328
54. Die Elixiere des Teufels (1976)
113 min | Drama
Monk Medardus (Dieter Laser), administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul.
Director: Manfred Purzer | Stars: Dieter Laser, Sylvia Manas, Christine Buchegger, Peter Brogle
Votes: 38
55. Babylon Berlin (2017– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Lars Eidinger, Fritzi Haberlandt
Votes: 29,944
56. KaDeWe (2021– )
45 min | Drama
Series about the Kaufhaus des Westens department store and Eldorado nightclub in the 1920s in Berlin. In these places the lives of Hedi, Fritzi, Harry and Georg intersect. The takeover of ... See full summary »
Stars: Valerie Stoll, Lia von Blarer, Joel Basman, Damian Thüne
Votes: 463
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