DEUTSCH KINO: Movies from the German-speaking Countries since 1970
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1. Angry Harvest (1985)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ... See full summary »
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus
Votes: 867
2. Sixty Minutes (2024)
TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Desperate not to lose custody, a mixed martial arts fighter makes dangerous enemies when he ditches a matchup to race to his daughter's birthday party.
Director: Oliver Kienle | Stars: Emilio Sakraya, Dennis Mojen, Marie Mouroum, Paul Wollin
Votes: 3,894
3. Zwei Teufelskerle auf dem Weg ins Kloster (1975)
84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Jim and Jeff are two guys who are always looking for great luck and success, going from one fool to the next. Now they believe they have opened a source of oil in Colombia.
Directors: Ernst Hofbauer, Fernando Orozco | Stars: Alberto Dell'Acqua, Wolf Goldan, Rinaldo Talamonti, Ferdinando Poggi
Votes: 38
4. Two Sane Nuts (1974)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Two rival friends guide a young man through the Colombian jungle, hunting for, and finding a tribe of (not so) wild Amazons and a cache of (not so) bright emeralds.
Directors: Ernst Hofbauer, Fernando Orozco | Stars: Alberto Dell'Acqua, Wolf Goldan, Rinaldo Talamonti, Raquel Ércole
Votes: 49
5. Never Look Away (2018)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl
Votes: 25,363 | Gross: $1.30M
6. Der Stein des Todes (1987)
93 min | Action
Kuma Cunningham and Jane Lindström are a couple in love. By chance they find a strange stone. Kuma asks Jane to throw away this stone, the stone would be bad luck.
Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb | Stars: Birte Berg, Serge Falck, Albert Fortell, Brad Harris
Votes: 74
7. Colonel Redl (1985)
R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe
Votes: 3,342 | Gross: $0.00M
8. Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein (1976)
92 min | Thriller
1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west with a special order. However as soon ... See full summary »
Director: Roland Klick | Stars: Heinz Domez, Catherine Allégret, Georg Marischka, Günter Pfitzmann
Votes: 102
9. Justiz (1993)
106 min | Drama
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and... See full summary »
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Thomas Heinze, Anna Thalbach, Mathias Gnädinger
Votes: 228
10. Offene Wunde deutscher Film (2017)
116 min | Documentary
"Open Wounds - A Journey Through German Film" About the extraordinary and unusual German film and TV productions, at films that have emerged apart from the auteur cinema of Fassbinder , ... See full summary »
Directors: Dominik Graf, Johannes Sievert | Stars: Mario Adorf, Akiz, Peter Berling, Artur Brauner
Votes: 53
11. Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film (2016)
92 min | Documentary
An alternative history of the not so well known 1960s and 1970s West German genre cinema.
Directors: Dominik Graf, Johannes Sievert | Stars: Mario Adorf, Peter Berling, Artur Brauner, Peter F. Bringmann
Votes: 76
12. 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
13. The Glass Cell (1978)
93 min | Crime, Drama
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Helmut Griem, Dieter Laser, Walter Kohut
Votes: 282
14. The Universal Theory (2023)
118 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year of 1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain. THE THEORY OF ... See full summary »
Director: Timm Kröger | Stars: Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss
Votes: 692
15. Mittagsstunde (2022)
93 min | Drama
The lecturer Ingwer Feddersen sets up a sabbatical to take care of his parents and moves back to his North Frisian home village of Brinkebüll for a year. There's nothing here anymore as it ... See full summary »
Director: Lars Jessen | Stars: Charly Hübner, Lennard Conrad, Peter Franke, Rainer Bock
Votes: 393
16. Late Show (1999)
111 min | Comedy
The program director of a German TV station desperately looks for a new talk master for the Late Show.
Director: Helmut Dietl | Stars: Thomas Gottschalk, Harald Schmidt, Veronica Ferres, Jasmin Tabatabai
Votes: 1,063
17. Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (2021)
114 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.
Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, Liv Lisa Fries, David Kross, Joachim Król
Votes: 789
18. Return to Montauk (2017)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance
The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bronagh Gallagher, Nina Hoss, Niels Arestrup
Votes: 1,355
19. Next Door (2021)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Explores the subjects of gentrification and social inequality in Berlin.
Director: Daniel Brühl | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Peter Kurth, Rike Eckermann, Aenne Schwarz
Votes: 3,922
20. The Ordinaries (2022)
124 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Have you ever felt like a Supporting Character in your own life? What if you really are one...?
Director: Sophie Linnenbaum | Stars: Fine Sendel, Jule Böwe, Henning Peker, Sira-Anna Faal
Votes: 634
21. Locked-in Society (2022)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Set in a German school, the film centers on a father who, one Friday afternoon, knocks on the door of the staff room in order to convince the six teachers still in the building to allow his son to take the Abitur exams.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Florian David Fitz, Anke Engelke, Justus von Dohnányi, Nilam Farooq
Votes: 1,358
22. Sonne (2022)
87 min | Drama
In a moment of ordinary madness, three girlfriends decide to shoot a burqa music video.
Director: Kurdwin Ayub | Stars: Melina Benli, Law Wallner, Maya Wopienka, Kerim Dogan
Votes: 388
23. Measures of Men (2023)
116 min | Drama, History, War
End of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony "German Southwest Africa" to gather art and skulls for the Berlin Ethnological Museum and slowly begins to lose his moral compass.
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Girley Jazama, Peter Simonischek, Sven Schelker
Votes: 416
24. What You Can See from here (2022)
103 min | Drama
Luise grew up with her grandmother Selma in a remote village in the Westerwald. Selma has a special gift, because she can foresee death. Whenever an okapi appears to her in a dream, someone in the village dies the next day.
Director: Aron Lehmann | Stars: Johannes Allmayer, Jasin Challah, Heidi Ecks, Golo Euler
Votes: 561
25. Hinterland (2021)
98 min | Crime, Drama, History
When an ex-prisoner of the Great War returns home and finds his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial-killer to justice.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Murathan Muslu, Liv Lisa Fries, Max von der Groeben, Marc Limpach
Votes: 1,585
26. Im Schatten (2010)
86 min | Crime, Drama
Released from prison, a Trojan (Misel Maticevic) begins to plan an armored car robbery with an old friend and a crooked cop.
Director: Thomas Arslan | Stars: Misel Maticevic, Karoline Eichhorn, Uwe Bohm, Rainer Bock
Votes: 683
27. Olaf Jagger (2022)
95 min | Comedy, Music
In the mockumentary Olaf Schubert goes in search of the truth about who his father is. Olaf Schuberts mother had an affair with the world-famous musician Mick Jagger and now he wonders whether this could be his real father.
Director: Heike Fink | Stars: Olaf Schubert, Franz-Jürgen Zigelski, Ursula-Rosamaria Gottert, Alexander Schubert
Votes: 84
28. Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (2023)
129 min | Drama, History, Romance
Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age.
Director: Emily Atef | Stars: Marlene Burow, Felix Kramer, Cedric Eich, Silke Bodenbender
Votes: 480
29. Cicero: Two Lives, One Stage (2022)
112 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
CICERO pays tribute to the brilliant musicians Roger and Eugen Cicero, who died tragically unexpected and far too early. 'Mr. Golden Hands' Eugen in Zurich, 1997, and his son, singer Roger ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Kai Wessel, Tina Freitag | Stars: Christian von Richthofen, Till Brönner, Johannes Oerding, Ack Van Rooyan
Votes: 47
30. The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Director: Ilker Çatak | Stars: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak, Michael Klammer
Votes: 15,918
31. Vor mir der Süden (2020)
115 min | Documentary
The starting point for the film was a road trip that director and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini took in June 1959. Beginning in the seaside resort of Ventimiglia, he drove 3000 kilometers along the Italian coast up to Trieste.
Director: Pepe Danquart | Stars: Adriana Asti, Oliver Schlintl, Gianluca Franza, Dino Scarpa
Votes: 52
32. Der Pfau (2023)
106 min | Comedy
When investment banker Linda Bachmann and her team arrive at Lord and Lady Macintosh's country estate, the signs are not good for a relaxing weekend in Scotland.
Director: Lutz Heineking | Stars: Philip Jackson, Victoria Carling, Peter Trabner, Linda Reitinger
Votes: 285
33. Monobloc (2021)
90 min | Documentary
The monobloc is the best-selling piece of furniture of all time. Estimates claim there are a billion of these cheap, often white plastic chairs in use - all over the world, in every country and every corner. How could it have come to this?
Director: Hauke Wendler
Votes: 85
34. Filip (2022)
125 min | Drama, History, War
In 1943, a Polish Jew, who managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto, is waiting restaurant tables in Frankfurt while pretending to be French and taking revenge on the Nazis in his own unique way.
Director: Michal Kwiecinski | Stars: Eryk Kulm, Victor Meutelet, Caroline Hartig, Zoe Straub
Votes: 2,236
35. One of These Days (I) (2020)
119 min | Drama
In a small town in Texas, an annual endurance contest (Hands On) to win a pickup truck promises thrilling entertainment to spectators and the chance of a lifetime to participants, but ends in real tragedy.
Director: Bastian Günther | Stars: Douglas M. Griffin, David M. Welch, Joe Cole, Carrie Preston
Votes: 528
36. Komm mit mir in das Cinema - Die Gregors (2022)
155 min | Documentary
Documentary on 1937 poem by Else Lasker-Schüler, in which the poet writes that "what once was: love" can be found at the cinema.
Director: Alice Agneskirchner | Stars: Erika Gregor, Ulrich Gregor
Votes: 41
37. Pelican Blood (2019)
121 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman who trains police horses adopts her second child, a severely traumatised 5-year-old girl. When the girl shows violent and anti-social behaviour, her new mother becomes determined to help her.
Director: Katrin Gebbe | Stars: Nina Hoss, Katerina Lipovska, Adelia-Constance Ocleppo, Murathan Muslu
Votes: 1,137
38. Trunk: Locked In (2023)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
Malina wakes up disoriented in the trunk of a speeding car and discovers to her horror that she is missing more than her memory. With her mobile phone as the only link to the outside world, she wages a desperate battle for survival.
Director: Marc Schießer | Stars: Sina Martens, Luise Helm, Artjom Gilz, Charles Rettinghaus
Votes: 1,425
39. Rosemaries Tochter (1976)
92 min | Comedy
Annemarie's mother, the well-known noble prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt, was found murdered nearly twenty years ago.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Lillian Müller, Bela Ernyey, Werner Pochath, Hanne Wieder
Votes: 20
40. Zwei tolle Käfer räumen auf (1979)
92 min | Comedy
Pitscho assists El Guancho, who lives in Lanzarote, when he is dealing with the mafia.
Director: Rudolf Zehetgruber | Stars: Rudolf Zehetgruber, Kathrin Oginski, Sal Borgese, Fernando Sancho
Votes: 158
41. A Most Wanted Man (2014)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl, Robin Wright
Votes: 80,193 | Gross: $17.24M
42. Das Mädchen von Hongkong (1973)
94 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Frank Boyd comes to Hong Kong to visit a friend, but unfortunately he was murdered a few days ago. The father of his fiancee puts $ 10,000 reward for the capture of the murderer and Frank wants to earn this money.
Director: Jürgen Roland | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Li Paelz, Véronique Vendell, Eva Garden
Votes: 98
43. Spencer (2021)
R | 117 min | Biography, Drama
Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen
Votes: 76,617
44. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 83,683
45. Stalingrad (1993)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, War
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph
Votes: 37,733 | Gross: $0.08M
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