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1. Babylon Berlin (2017–2025)
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: 30,095
2. Beck (1997– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Commissioner Martin Beck and his eccentric partner Gunvald Larsson investigate murders in Stockholm, Sweden.
Stars: Peter Haber, Ingvar Hirdwall, Rebecka Hemse, Måns Nathanaelson
Votes: 6,390
3. Munich (2005)
R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History
After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 238,671 | Gross: $47.40M
4. Ripley's Game (2002)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Ray Winstone
Votes: 19,543
5. Tatort (1970– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 3,077
6. The Cement Garden (1993)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
Director: Andrew Birkin | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin
Votes: 5,347 | Gross: $0.32M
7. Derrick (1974–1998)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant, Inspector Harry Klein, solve murder cases in Munich and surrounding areas.
Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Holger Petzold
Votes: 1,850
8. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
R | 124 min | Drama
A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger
Votes: 31,266 | Gross: $1.81M
9. Police Call 110 (1971– )
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Alexander Bukow is a cop who doesn't mind working at the edge of the law to get results. His straight-laced partner Katrin Koenig is a control freak whose life is the job. Together, they're... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Borgelt, Jürgen Frohriep, Wolfgang Winkler, Jaecki Schwarz
Votes: 574
10. Taking Sides (2001)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War
After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr
Votes: 3,872 | Gross: $0.19M
11. Black Island (2021 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The dark secrets of a seemingly peaceful island threaten to swallow up an orphaned student when he grows close to a mysterious new teacher.
Director: Miguel Alexandre | Stars: Philip Froissant, Alice Dwyer, Hanns Zischler, Mercedes Müller
Votes: 3,389
12. Sunshine (1999)
R | 181 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 15,817 | Gross: $5.10M
13. Europa Europa (1990)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms
Votes: 17,517 | Gross: $5.58M
14. The Old Fox (1977– )
60 min | Crime, Drama
A police department led by an older, experienced detective solves crimes together.
Stars: Michael Ande, Markus Böttcher, Ulf Söhmisch, Rolf Schimpf
Votes: 776
15. Flame & Citron (2008)
Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Drama, History
A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.
Director: Ole Christian Madsen | Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind
Votes: 19,978 | Gross: $0.15M
16. Faraway, So Close! (1993)
PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Horst Buchholz
Votes: 9,146 | Gross: $0.81M
17. 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: 732
18. The French Revolution (1989)
335 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.
Directors: Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 1,859
19. Kings of the Road (1976)
Not Rated | 175 min | Drama
A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler
Votes: 6,473
20. 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: 14,993 | Gross: $0.27M
21. Donna Leon (2000– )
90 min | Crime, Drama
Police detective Commissario Guido Brunetti solves murder cases in Venice.
Stars: Karl Fischer, Annett Renneberg, Patrick Diemling, Laura Syniawa
Votes: 346
22. Desire (1992)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man.
Director: Andrew Birkin | Stars: Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio, Anaïs Jeanneret, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 1,231
23. The Meetings of Anna (1978)
128 min | Drama
Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to ... See full summary »
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 2,114
24. 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: 2,500
25. The Edukators (2004)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Director: Hans Weingartner | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner
Votes: 32,397 | Gross: $0.18M
26. Black Box (2023)
120 min | Drama
Due to an ambiguous event outside, the exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of the building, insecurities start to pump fear.
Director: Asli Özge | Stars: Luise Heyer, Felix Kramer, Christian Berkel, Timur Magomedgadzhiev
Votes: 201
27. 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: 7,298
28. A Case for Two (1981–2023)
60 min | Crime, Thriller
German crime series centering around a succession of lawyers and a private investigator and former police officer, who typically team up to clear a client of the lawyer, who is usually an innocent suspect in a murder case.
Stars: Claus Theo Gärtner, Renate Kohn, Paul Frielinghaus, Rainer Hunold
Votes: 816
29. Walk on Water (2004)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer
Votes: 7,054 | Gross: $2.71M
30. A Woman in Flames (1983)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratingly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out ... See full summary »
Director: Robert van Ackeren | Stars: Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, Hanns Zischler, Gabriele Lafari
Votes: 640
31. Letzte Spur Berlin (2012– )
Crime, Drama
People who disappear without a trace challenge the team of the Berlin Missing-Person Office of the LKA, headed by chief mediator Radek.
Stars: Hans Werner Meyer, Jasmin Tabatabai, Josephin Busch, Aleksandar Radenkovic
Votes: 195
32. 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: 6,127 | Gross: $0.28M
33. Post Impact (2004)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After a meteor strike starts a new ice age, a group of survivors tries to find a device that could give mankind new hope
Director: Christoph Schrewe | Stars: Dean Cain, Bettina Zimmermann, Joanna Taylor, Nigel Bennett
Votes: 2,462
34. Adieu, mon ami (1996 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama
WWII: A German orphan girl befriends a 17-year old French forced laborer in rural Bavaria.
Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Stars: Constanze Engelbrecht, Julie Engelbrecht, Hans Kremer, Jens Harzer
Votes: 42
35. Bauhaus - A New Era (2019)
45 min | Drama, History, Romance
The year is 1919, the Great War is over, and Dörte Helm becomes part of a group of young artists and revolutionaries who evolve from the Lost to the Golden Generation. The series introduces... See full summary »
Stars: August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe, Trine Dyrholm, Valerie Pachner
Votes: 575
36. The Ring Finger (2005)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Iris finds a new job working in a preservation lab where she gradually enters into a troubled relationship with her boss.
Director: Diane Bertrand | Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Marc Barbé, Stipe Erceg, Edith Scob
Votes: 1,269
37. Francesco (1989)
PG-13 | 119 min | Biography, Drama, History
Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, Andréa Ferréol, Nikolaus Dutsch
Votes: 1,699
38. Die Chefin (2012– )
60 min | Crime
Kriminalkommissarin Vera Lanz leitet eine Abteilung bei der Münchener Mordkommission. Ihre beiden Mitarbeiter leitet sie mit einer Mischung aus Autorität und mütterlicher Nachsicht.
Stars: Katharina Böhm, Jürgen Tonkel, Christian Hockenbrink, Tatja Seibt
Votes: 159
39. Coast Guard (1997–2016)
45 min | Crime, Drama
The cases of the crew of the Albatros, a patrol boat of the German Coast Guard operating in the Baltic Sea area.
Stars: Michael Kind, Rüdiger Joswig, Elmar Gehlen, Andreas Arnstedt
Votes: 210
40. The Venus Trap (1988)
107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
30-year-old Max works as an emergency doctor in a Berlin hospital. He has been in love with the attractive Coco for a long time, with whom he shares a well-kept apartment. Coco jealously ... See full summary »
Director: Robert van Ackeren | Stars: Myriem Roussel, Horst Günter Marx, Sonja Kirchberger, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 486
41. Axolotl Overkill (2017)
94 min | Drama
Mifti is 16, looks 12, acts like she's in her mid-30s and has been living in a shared flat since her mother died. Her father is more interested in art than people.
Director: Helene Hegemann | Stars: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, Mavie Hörbiger, Laura Tonke
Votes: 888
42. 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: 800
43. Stations of the Cross (2014)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama
Fourteen-year-old Maria is a fundamentalist Catholic, living her life in a modern fashion, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to be a saint and go to heaven. No one, not even a nice boy she meets, can stop her in this goal.
Director: Dietrich Brüggemann | Stars: Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter, Lucie Aron
Votes: 4,637
44. Dr. M (1990)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Investigating a series of suicides, police detective reveals a sinister plot.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 528
45. Whispers Behind the Wall (2013 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Shy law student Martin falls for his mysterious landlady, who lives next door behind a thin wall. While trying to find out if she's responsible for the disappearance of the previous tenant, Martin experiences the horror of his first love.
Director: Grzegorz Muskala | Stars: Vincent Redetzki, Leszek Stalewski, Niels Bormann, Ronald Nitschke
Votes: 469
46. DAS! (1991– )
45 min | Talk-Show
DAS is a talk show of the station NDR.
Stars: Hinnerk Baumgarten, Inka Schneider, Bettina Tietjen, Sandra Maahn
Votes: 75
47. Der letzte Zeuge (1998–2006)
45 min | Crime
"The Last Witness" is a crime series that was aired by the ZDF. This crime drama is about medical examiner Dr. Robert Kolmaar (Ulrich Mühe), who is helping the Berlin PD with his extensive medical knowledge to solve murder cases.
Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Gesine Cukrowski, Jörg Gudzuhn, Renate Schroeter
Votes: 250
48. Malevil (1981)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A group of ordinary French survived a nuclear war and found themselves in the face of what was left of civilization.
Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret, Robert Dhéry
Votes: 968
49. Katie Fforde (2010–2021)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The films of the Katie Forde series - these are melodramas and love stories set in Boston and its picturesque coastal surroundings. At the center are modern women with courage and heart.
Stars: Dave Dyshuk, Frank L. Goodyear, Rolf Becker, René Ifrah
Votes: 41
50. Allmen (2016– )
TV-PG | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dandified Allmen needs money and sells some valuable Gallé glass pieces to a dealer. After the dealer gets killed and someone also wants to kill him, Allmen and his butler try to find out what is going on.
Stars: Heino Ferch, Samuel Finzi, Andrea Osvárt, Isabella Parkinson
Votes: 227