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1. Persian Lessons (2020)
127 min | Drama, War
A young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language.
Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, David Schütter
Votes: 12,190
2. Look Who's Back (2015)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
Director: David Wnendt | Stars: Oliver Masucci, Thomas M. Köppl, Marc-Marvin Israel, David Gebigke
Votes: 49,668
3. I'm Your Man (2021)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
Director: Maria Schrader | Stars: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw
Votes: 12,651
4. 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: 7,361
5. Enfant Terrible (2020)
Unrated | 134 min | Biography, Drama
The life and the impact of iconic German New Wave director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Director: Oskar Roehler | Stars: Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, Felix Hellmann
Votes: 1,129
6. The Golden Glove (2019)
Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Vasiliki Georgina Pseimada, Christine Jensen, Greta Sophie Schmidt
Votes: 18,271
7. In the Fade (2017)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Numan Acar, Adam Bousdoukos, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto
Votes: 35,649 | Gross: $0.32M
8. Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Unrated | 176 min | Drama, Romance
1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Tom Schilling, Albrecht Schuch, Saskia Rosendahl, Michael Wittenborn
Votes: 2,288
9. 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: 3,890
10. Freies Land (2019)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two cops investigate the disappearance of two teen sisters in a remote town, where it seems like everyone has something to hide - including the bodies.
Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Trystan Pütter, Nurit Hirschfeld, Felix Kramer, Oleksandr Pecherytsia
Votes: 1,412
11. Contra (I) (2020)
108 min | Comedy
A university professor's ignorance is exposed when he must prepare a student for a debate.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Nilam Farooq, Christoph Maria Herbst, Hassan Akkouch, Ernst Stötzner
Votes: 2,777
12. Undine (2020)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz
Votes: 9,236
13. Chiko (2008)
92 min | Crime, Drama
Loyalty between two friends is stretched to its limit by one's deception.
Director: Özgür Yildirim | Stars: Denis Moschitto, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volkan Özcan, Reyhan Sahin
Votes: 3,822
14. Winter Sleepers (1997)
122 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Setin a small mountain town, a man, looking for revenge because of his daughter's accidental killing, mistakenly tracks out a young couple, troubling with their ordinary life problems.
Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch
Votes: 4,649 | Gross: $0.32M
15. A Thousand Lines (2022)
93 min | Drama
Follows the real-life 2018 fake news scandal involving disgraced Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius.
Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Donald Trump, Elyas M'Barek, Jonas Nay, Marie Burchard
Votes: 865
16. 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
17. 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: 152,758 | Gross: $4.06M
18. Agnes and His Brothers (2004)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
This drama focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful ... See full summary »
Director: Oskar Roehler | Stars: Martin Weiß, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann
Votes: 1,823 | Gross: $0.00M
19. Wellness für Paare (2016 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into: relationship therapy. It's truth... See full summary »
Director: Jan Georg Schütte | Stars: Bjarne Mädel, Michael Wittenborn, Anke Engelke, Anneke Kim Sarnau
Votes: 426
20. Dreileben (2011– )
88 min | Crime, Drama
This Trilogy saga or Mini-Series made for TV, tells three different points of view about a little neighborhood in which a prisoner who went to visit his dying mother at a hospital, escapes ... See full summary »
Stars: Stefan Kurt, Jacob Matschenz, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Eberhard Kirchberg
Votes: 584
21. Goldene Zeiten (2006)
134 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ingo organizes a charity event for the local golf club. Special guest will be the Hollywood star Douglas Burnett. But who remembers what the aging star looks like today?
Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Dirk Benedict, Wolf Roth, Gennadi Vengerov
Votes: 1,190
22. Family Affairs (2022)
87 min | Comedy
It should have been a harmonious reunion on Lanzarote, but no sooner do the couple Stephan and Elisabeth and the new parents Thomas and Anna arrive at the family home than new quarrels break out in the Böttcher family.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Iris Berben, Christoph Maria Herbst, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters
Votes: 1,446
23. Phoenix (II) (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Music
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter
Votes: 20,676
24. System Crasher (2019)
125 min | Drama
9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.
Director: Nora Fingscheidt | Stars: Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Lisa Hagmeister
Votes: 14,796
25. Chess Story (2021)
110 min | Drama, Thriller, War
To withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis finds refuge in the world of chess.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Oliver Masucci, Dieter Bernhardt, Elias Gabele, Birgit Minichmayr
Votes: 4,654
26. Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022)
119 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Meltem Kaptan, Alexander Scheer, Charly Hübner, Nazmi Kirik
Votes: 1,300
27. Arthur & Claire (2017)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Arthur travels to Amsterdam for the last journey in his life, but there he meets Claire and together, they start a trip through the night.
Director: Miguel Alexandre | Stars: Hannah Hoekstra, Florence Kasumba, Rainer Bock, Josef Hader
Votes: 688
28. Non-Stop Trouble with My Double (1984)
96 min | Comedy
A wealthy businessman and the owner of a rundown pub share one thing in common - they look like identical twins! When the businessman hears of a plot against him, he hires the pub owner as ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Stars: Dieter Hallervorden, Tilo Prückner, Hans-Joachim Grubel, Götz Kauffmann
Votes: 1,124
29. Stopped on Track (2011)
110 min | Drama
Frank is diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor and given only a few months to live. He and his wife don't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Steffi Kühnert, Milan Peschel, Talisa Lilly Lemke, Mika Seidel
Votes: 1,648
30. Ein halbes Leben (2009 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
After a young woman is found raped and slain, her father can't accept her death or that the murderer is still at large. He searches for him for half his life.
Director: Nikolaus Leytner | Stars: Matthias Habich, Josef Hader, Franziska Walser, Wolfgang Böck
Votes: 330
31. Jagdhunde (2007)
86 min | Drama, Romance
Despite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a "marriage barn," a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners.
Director: Ann-Kristin Reyels | Stars: Constantin von Jascheroff, Josef Hader, Luise Berndt, Sven Lehmann
Votes: 336
32. 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: 15,991
33. Sanctuary (2015)
104 min | Drama
Summer 1968. 14 year old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Director: Marc Brummund | Stars: Louis Hofmann, Alexander Held, Stephan Grossmann, Max Riemelt
Votes: 1,894
34. All My Loving (2019)
116 min | Drama
A film about three siblings. All have reached a point where they have to change something quickly before the second half of their lives begins. Between chaos, inadequacies and losses, they search for a path that might lead to happiness.
Director: Edward Berger | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Nele Mueller-Stöfen, Hans Löw, Christine Schorn
Votes: 390
35. Contact High (2009)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
An episodic comedy that follows the lives of four men living in Vienna.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Michael Ostrowski, Raimund Wallisch, Alexis Santiago Hernandez, Victor Varnado
Votes: 1,276
36. 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: 562
37. The Black Square (2021)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
Two art thieves have stolen the famous "Black Square" of Russian painter Kasimir Malevich. They plan to meet their clients on a cruise ship to hand over the looted art. However, things are not going quite as planned..
Director: Peter Meister | Stars: Bernhard Schütz, Jacob Matschenz, Sandra Hüller, Christopher Schärf
Votes: 422
38. 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: 1,361
39. Sachertorte (2022)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Karl puts his life in Berlin on hold, only to wait every day at 3pm for the love of his life at Café Sacher in Vienna. But sometimes love happens to you, while you’re busy waiting for it...
Director: Tine Rogoll | Stars: Max Hubacher, Maeve Metelka, Krista Stadler, Karl Fischer
Votes: 1,286
40. Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war (2023)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
Joachim Meyerhoff's autobiographical recollections include his childhood and teenager years living on the premises of a psychiatric clinic, his father being the director of the child and adolescent ward.
Director: Sonja Heiss | Stars: Arsseni Bultmann, Laura Tonke, Devid Striesow, Pola Geiger
Votes: 461
41. Die Katze (1988)
118 min | Crime, Thriller
Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Joachim Kemmer, Heinz Hoenig
Votes: 974
42. Cherry Blossoms (2008)
Unrated | 127 min | Drama, Romance
After Rudi's wife Trudi suddenly dies, he travels to Japan to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer.
Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Aya Irizuki, Maximilian Brückner
Votes: 6,119 | Gross: $0.10M
43. Club Las Piranjas (1995 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy
Karl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugstore branch manager, and Margot, a divorced man-hunter, have only one thing in common: they have ... See full summary »
Director: Ulli Baumann | Stars: Hape Kerkeling, Angelika Milster, Judy Winter, Michael Brandner
Votes: 695
44. Granny Nanny (2020)
104 min | Comedy
Three frustrated pensioners volunteer themselves as Grand-Godparents to three stressed children.
Director: Wolfgang Groos | Stars: Maren Kroymann, Günther Maria Halmer, Maxime Diemer, Barbara Sukowa
Votes: 928
45. Weekend Rebels (2023)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Mirco's family is advised to go to a special school for Jason, his autistic son. He makes a pact to make every effort to stay in school if Mirco helps him find a favorite football club.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Florian David Fitz, Cecilio Andresen, Aylin Tezel, Florina Siegel
Votes: 846
46. As Green As It Gets (2018)
116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, he grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Elmar Wepper, Emma Bading, Monika Baumgartner, Dagmar Manzel
Votes: 367
47. Gigantic (1999)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr., Julia Hummer
Votes: 4,895
48. 23 (1998)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp
Votes: 7,290
49. Skin Deep (2022)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
At first glance, Leyla and Tristan seem like a happy young couple. But when they travel to a mysterious, remote island, a game of identities begins, which changes everything.
Director: Alex Schaad | Stars: Mala Emde, Jonas Dassler, Dimitrij Schaad, Maryam Zaree
Votes: 256
50. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
101 min | Drama, Sport
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Libgart Schwarz
Votes: 2,260
51. 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
52. 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: 25,372 | Gross: $1.30M
53. Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ken Duken
Votes: 29,790
54. 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: 700
55. Blame Game (2019)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
Intelligence expert Martin Behrens supplies information leading to a U.S. drone strike on a wanted terrorist. Then his lover - a political journalist - is killed in a terrorist attack. Martin starts to investigate on his own.
Director: Philipp Leinemann | Stars: Ronald Zehrfeld, Claudia Michelsen, Alexander Fehling, Katharina Lorenz
Votes: 758
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