Alemanias 1945-1990
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1. 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: 6,119 | Gross: $0.28M
2. Vente a Alemania, Pepe (1971)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Peralejos de Arriba, a quiet Spanish village, is a place where nothing ever happens. One day an emigrant called Angelino returns to the village to spend the holidays, driving a magnificent ... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Lazaga | Stars: Alfredo Landa, Tina Sáinz, José Sacristán, Antonio Ferrandis
Votes: 351
3. 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: 40,124 | Gross: $0.48M
4. Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois
Votes: 77,034 | Gross: $3.33M
5. Europa (1991)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Votes: 23,200 | Gross: $1.01M
6. 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: 13,714
7. 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: 12,078 | Gross: $1.11M
8. The Lives of Others (2006)
R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 410,516 | Gross: $11.29M
9. Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas
Votes: 152,654 | Gross: $4.06M
10. 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: 22,984
11. Ein Hauch von Amerika (2021)
Drama, History
Set in the 1950s in a small town in Germany with a large-scale US military presence, this historical drama is a powerful story of friendship between two young women during a time of upheaval.
Stars: Elisa Schlott, Reomy D Mpeho, Franziska Brandmeier, Anna Schudt
Votes: 214
12. 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: 13,714
13. Atomic Blonde (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Thriller
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Director: David Leitch | Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 206,527 | Gross: $51.69M
14. The Same Sky (2017)
120 min | Drama, Thriller
Lars is a "Romeo agent" from East Germany in the 1970s. His task is to go West, first to seduce and then to spy on Western women who worked in government or defense institutions.
Stars: Tom Schilling, Sofia Helin, Friederike Becht, Ben Becker
Votes: 2,539
15. Balloon (2018)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, History, Thriller
East Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.
Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Alicia von Rittberg
Votes: 13,326 | Gross: $0.01M
16. 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: 15,020
17. 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: 3,342
18. Torn Curtain (1966)
PG | 128 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy
Votes: 29,251
19. 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: 15,971
20. Carlos (2010)
Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Fadi Abi Samra, Karam Ghossein
Votes: 14,405 | Gross: $0.15M
21. 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: 5,287
22. Willy Brandt - Eine Jahrhundertgestalt (2003 TV Movie)
93 min | Documentary
Directors: Jürgen Brühns, Peter Merseburger | Stars: Willy Brandt, Egon Bahr, Günter Grass, Henry Kissinger
Votes: 9
23. 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
24. Boy posle pobedy (1972)
Not Rated | 166 min | Thriller, War
After the capitulation of Germany, the Soviet intelligence officer Krylov infiltrates Gehlen's spy organization. Showing extraordinary courage, he tries to thwart the plans of the organizers of new sabotage.
Director: Villen Azarov | Stars: Mikhail Volkov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Evgeniy Kuznetsov, Aleksey Eybozhenko
Votes: 63
25. Bye Bye Germany (2017)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.
Director: Sam Garbarski | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Tim Seyfi, Mark Ivanir
Votes: 1,764 | Gross: $0.07M
26. De Gaulle und Adenauer - Eine deutsch-französische Freundschaft (2013 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Werner Biermann, Kristian Kähler | Stars: Michel Winogradoff, Anton Wenisch, Konrad Adenauer, Konrad Adenauer
27. Konrad Adenauer - Stunden der Entscheidung (2012 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography
Director: Stefan Schneider | Stars: Johannes Zirner, Joachim Bißmeier, Ian T. Dickinson, Georg B. Lenzen
Votes: 47
28. Konrad Adenauer und seine Zeit (1966– )
30 min | Documentary
Stars: Peter von Zahn, Konrad Adenauer
29. Konrad Adenauer - Gedanken und Erinnerungen (1969– )
131 min | Documentary
Stars: Konrad Adenauer, Peter von Zahn
30. Helmut Schmidt außer Dienst (2007 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Stars: Helmut Schmidt, Loki Schmidt, Sandra Maischberger, Johannes Rau
Votes: 38
31. Helmut Schmidt - Lebensfragen (2013 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama, History
Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who led his nation through the turbulent 1970s and early '80s. He devoted his life to politics, but don't hold that against him. As politicians go, he's pretty dang impressive.
Director: Ben von Grafenstein | Stars: Ludwig Blochberger, Britta Hammelstein, Bernhard Schütz, Bibiana Beglau
Votes: 120
32. 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
33. 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
34.
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
35.
History (2000–2023)
Episode:
Die RAF - Tödliche Illusion
(2007)
Documentary, Drama, History
Reconstruction of the violent "Germany's Autumn."
Stars: Peter-Jürgen Boock, Horst Mahler
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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
41. 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
42. Gudrun Ensslin - the early years (1968 TV Short)
10 min | Short, Biography
How the graduate student Gudrun Ensslin became a radical and violent woman. After the department store fire in Frankfurt, November 1968, in which Ensslin and Andreas Baader were involved, ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Merseburger | Stars: Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Helmut Ensslin
43. 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
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. 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
51. 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
52. 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: 2,808
53. 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
54. 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
55. Bornholmer Straße (2014 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Charly Hübner, Milan Peschel, Ulrich Matthes, Rainer Bock
Votes: 870
56. 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
57. West (2013)
R | 102 min | Drama
She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Jacky Ido, Anja Antonowicz
Votes: 1,035
58. 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
59. 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: 7,347
60. Fritz Bauer - Tod auf Raten (2010)
110 min | Documentary
Documentary on Fritz Bauer humanist lawyer, in Germany during the sixties, whose main objective in the few trials achieved against Nazi criminals was whether they were capable of repentance... See full summary »
Director: Ilona Ziok | Stars: Fritz Bauer, Manfred Amend, Horst Bingel, Carl-Friedrich Bringer
Votes: 44
61. Stasi East Germany's Secret Police (2007 Video)
59 min | Documentary
Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Gierke | Stars: Christian Schult, Jeff Matzka, James Spencer, Uwe Hillmer
Votes: 65
62. Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2021 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, History
In the summer of 1945, the American authorities instructed two young soldiers, Budd and Stuart Schulberg, to gather visual evidence attesting to Nazi crimes, with a view to the trial ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Christophe Klotz | Stars: Victor Barbat, Yves Beigbeder, Axel Fischer, Niklas Frank
Votes: 134
63. The Nuremberg Trials (1958)
78 min | Documentary
Documentary with recordings from the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Director: Félix Podmaniczky | Stars: Karl Hermann Frank, Joe J. Heydecker, Johannes Leeb, Jochen Wilke
Votes: 15
64. El tren de la memoria (2005)
85 min | Documentary
Josefina's personal journey back to Nuremberg, Germany, where she arrived as an immigrant from Spain being only 18, along with other 2 million Spaniards who left to Europe in order to find a future.
Directors: Marta Arribas, Ana Pérez | Stars: Josefina Cembrero, Leonor Mediavilla, Victoria Toro, Josefina Pérez
Votes: 52
65. 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
66. In Times of Fading Light (2017)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A family of German Communists caught on the wrong side of history.
Director: Matti Geschonneck | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling, Sylvester Groth, Evgenia Dodina
Votes: 542
67. 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
68. The Break (1989)
111 min | Comedy, Crime
Massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Götz George, Rolf Hoppe, Otto Sander, Ulrike Krumbiegel
Votes: 104
69. Abgehauen (1998 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
The movie tells a true story in the life of well-known German actor Manfred Krug. Living in the German Democratic Republic he is forced to leave the country after protesting against the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Peter Lohmeyer, Karoline Eichhorn, Peter Donath, Ann-Kathrin Kramer
Votes: 47
70. Nikolaikirche (1995 TV Movie)
138 min | Drama
A prehistory of the former GDR. Towards the end, the Monday demonstrations of 1989 develop.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Barbara Auer, Ulrich Matthes, Daniel Minetti, Annemone Haase
Votes: 113
71. Helden wie wir (1999)
93 min | Comedy
Heroes Like Us presents as heroes ordinary teenagers and young East German adults, who in Thomas Brussig's (the novel and screenplay author) story, caused the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Our ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastian Peterson | Stars: Daniel Borgwardt, Xenia Snagowski, Adrian Heidenreich, Luca Lenz
Votes: 361
72. The Billion Dollar Code (2021)
TV-MA | 267 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1990s Berlin, an artist and a hacker invented a new way to see the world. Years later, they reunite to sue Google for patent infringement on it.
Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Marius Ahrendt, Mark Waschke, Misel Maticevic
Votes: 11,288
73. Der Rat der Götter (1950)
105 min | History
Based on the 1947 book "I.G. Farben", by American author Richard Sasuly, and records from the Nuremberg Trial of the chemical giant I.G. Farben, Council of the Gods is a story about the ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Paul Bildt, Fritz Tillmann, Willy A. Kleinau, Hans-Georg Rudolph
Votes: 149
74. The Defeated (2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war.
Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Michael C. Hall, Logan Marshall-Green, Nina Hoss
Votes: 8,096
75. The Communist (2018)
72 min | Documentary
The "Film about the Father" is a difficult genre. Andreas Goldstein, son of the GDR cultural functionary Klaus Gysi (1912-1999) has tackled this task with a complete lack of vanity, but ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Goldstein
Votes: 9
76. Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
R | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Simon Armstrong
Votes: 5,691 | Gross: $0.02M
77. The Divided Heaven (1964)
116 min | Drama, Romance
In 1961, Rita returns to her childhood village after a breakdown. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for chemist Manfred, 10 years her senior; his enthusiasm about ... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Renate Blume, Eberhard Esche, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Hilmar Thate
Votes: 393
78. Honecker und der Pastor (2022 TV Movie)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A pastor in Lobetal (a town formed to take care of the homeless and disabled) takes in the rejected, former head of East Germany and his wife after the wall falls. Opposed by most, even his church. He nevertheless forgives his enemy.
Director: Jan Josef Liefers | Stars: Edgar Selge, Barbara Schnitzler, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Steffi Kühnert
Votes: 176
79. From Us to Me (2016)
83 min | Documentary
For 45 years East Germany was ruled by a strict and secretive communist government, on the geographical edge but political heart of the Soviet bloc. In 1987, a British film crew gained ... See full summary »
Director: Ellin Hare | Stars: Karl-Heinz Ruschau, Erna Ruschau, Britta Kitzerow-Klakow, Anna Kitzerow-Klakow
Votes: 19
80. The Condemned of Altona (1962)
114 min | Drama, History
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner
Votes: 654 | Gross: $2.40M
81. Kleo (2022– )
TV-MA | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former spy killer is set free and embarks on a revenge spree against the people who conspired to betray her.
Stars: Jella Haase, Dimitrij Schaad, Vincent Redetzki, Vladimir Burlakov
Votes: 13,272
82. Der Kandidat (1980)
129 min | Documentary
In 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Directors: Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander von Eschwege | Stars: Wolf Biermann, Karl Carstens, Edmund Stoiber, Franz Josef Strauß
Votes: 130
83. Annas Mutter (1984)
93 min | Drama
Based on the real case of Marianna Bachmeier from 1981, the film tells the story of a mother calmly and resolutely firing seven shots at the killer of her little daughter Anna in the courtroom.
Director: Burkhard Driest | Stars: Gudrun Landgrebe, Rolf Zacher, Verena Corinna, Isolde Barth
Votes: 43
Caso real de Marianne Bachmeier.
84. The Natural History of Destruction (2022)
112 min | Documentary
Based on the book by German writer W.G. Sebald, examines the perception and processing of the phenomenon of mass destruction of the German civilian population in European post-war literature.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 188
85. Young Light (2016)
122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left... See full summary »
Director: Adolf Winkelmann | Stars: Charly Hübner, Oscar Brose, Lina Beckmann, Magdalena Matz
Votes: 294
86. Before It Ends (2023)
100 min | Drama, War
Inspired by true events, depicts a dark chapter in the history of Denmark and the unimaginable dilemmas that people must face in the wake of a war.
Director: Anders Walter | Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Lasse Peter Larsen, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Morten Hee Andersen
Votes: 655
87. Préstame quince días (1971)
92 min | Comedy
When an emigrant comes back to Spain he hires a prostitute to play the role of his wife because he fears to dissapoint the people of his town that think he married a beautiful woman.
Director: Fernando Merino | Stars: Concha Velasco, Alfredo Landa, José Luis López Vázquez, Gracita Morales
Votes: 58
88. Merkel (2022)
95 min | Documentary, Biography
Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became the ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Weber | Stars: Angela Merkel, Robin Alexander, Joe Biden, Tony Blair
Votes: 652
89. Requiem (2006)
93 min | Drama, Horror
An epileptic girl suffers a breakdown during her first year at university, then decides to seek help from a priest in battling the troubles associated with her strict upbringing.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner, Imogen Kogge, Anna Blomeier
Votes: 6,350 | Gross: $0.01M
90. Reeperbahn Spezialeinheit FD65 (2022)
44 min | Documentary, Crime
Cash, narcotics and prostitution gathers the criminals of Hamburg, Germany in St. Pauli, where Special Force 65 tries to solve the crime wave.
Votes: 29
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