Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Alexander Beyer

1. The Empress (2022– )

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, History, Romance

Two young people meet. A fateful encounter - the proverbial love at first sight. He is Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, she is Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Princess of Bavaria and the sister of the woman Franz is to marry.

Stars: Svenja Jung, Melika Foroutan, Philip Froissant, Devrim Lingnau

Votes: 14,858

2. 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: 238,708 | Gross: $47.40M

3. Operation Mincemeat (2021)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, War

During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Rufus Wright

Votes: 35,573

4. 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: 3,078

5. The Little Drummer Girl (2018)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, Thriller

As a Palestinian assassin is targeting prominent Israelis, a young English actress is recruited by Mossad to infiltrate the assassin's terrorist cell, requiring all of her acting talents but also putting her at considerable risk.

Stars: Simona Brown, Gennady Fleyscher, Clare Holman, Daniel Litman

Votes: 15,030

6. Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996– )

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two police inspectors and their team from a Bonn-Koeln precinct fight all sorts of criminals they encounter daily on major highways in Germany.

Stars: Erdogan Atalay, Gottfried Vollmer, Niels Kurvin, Dietmar Huhn

Votes: 5,852

7. Berlin Station (2016–2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Follows a CIA team in Berlin and their clandestine activities.

Stars: Leland Orser, Michelle Forbes, Mina Tander, Rhys Ifans

Votes: 10,508

8. 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: 152,985 | Gross: $4.06M

9. Der Bergdoktor (2008– )

45 min | Drama

A medic lives with his small, strange family in the mountains, and in every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.

Stars: Hans Sigl, Heiko Ruprecht, Monika Baumgartner, Ronja Forcher

Votes: 698

10. 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: 12,303

11. 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: 15,063

12. Daliland (2022)

97 min | Biography, Drama

In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.

Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Ezra Miller, Christopher Briney

Votes: 2,263

13. The Fifth Estate (2013)

R | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander

Votes: 42,762 | Gross: $3.25M

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. 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: 14,437 | Gross: $0.15M

16. 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: 3,370

17. The Fox (2022)

118 min | Drama, History, War

At the dawn of WW2, a young soldier encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The story of an unlikely friendship.

Director: Adrian Goiginger | Stars: Simon Morzé, Karl Markovics, Adriane Gradziel, Joseph Stoisits

Votes: 823

18. Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller

Votes: 19,217 | Gross: $7.92M

19. 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

20. Notruf Hafenkante (2007– )

45 min | Crime, Drama

The stories of police officers and doctors working near the Port of Hamburg.

Stars: Harald Maack, Gerit Kling, Sanna Englund, Fabian Harloff

Votes: 352

21. SOKO Stuttgart (2009– )

44 min | Crime

The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.

Stars: Benjamin Strecker, Peter Ketnath, Karl Kranzkowski, Astrid M. Fünderich

Votes: 207

22. 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: 5,311

23. 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

24. War and Peace (2007)

394 min | Drama, History, Romance

The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars of 1812

Stars: Clémence Poésy, Alessio Boni, Alexander Beyer, Malcolm McDowell

Votes: 2,103

25. Independent Lens (1999– )

TV-14 | Documentary

Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented ... See full summary »

Stars: America Ferrera, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Mary-Louise Parker

Votes: 635

26. Turncoat (2020– )

173 min | Drama, History, War

1944. Walter Proska is a young Wehrmacht soldier who begins to question the purpose of the war, who the real enemy is and whether his real duty should be to his fatherland or his own conscience.

Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, Malgorzata Mikolajczak, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Rainer Bock

Votes: 1,750

27. 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

28. Friesland (2014– )

90 min | Crime

The humorously created crime films play in Ostfriesland and surroundings.

Stars: Felix Vörtler, Sophie Dal, Theresa Underberg, Holger Stockhaus

Votes: 197

29. SOKO München (1978–2020)

50 min | Crime, Drama

The cases of the Munich police's major-crimes unit.

Stars: Michel Guillaume, Wilfried Klaus, Hartmut Schreier, Florian Odendahl

Votes: 269

30. Cologne P.D. (2003– )

45 min | Crime

SOKO Köln is a German crime series that is broadcast on ZDF.

Stars: Kerstin Landsmann, Thomas Clemens, Pierre Besson, Lukas Piloty

Votes: 207

31. Der Staatsanwalt (2005– )

Crime, Drama

Cases and complicated lives of a public prosecutor and a police unit, a member of whom is the prosecutor's son, who work in Wiesbaden.

Stars: Rainer Hunold, Fiona Coors, Astrid Posner, Simon Eckert

Votes: 188

32. Styx (I) (2018)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

"Styx" depicts the transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip.

Director: Wolfgang Fischer | Stars: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda, Inga Birkenfeld

Votes: 3,411 | Gross: $0.07M

33. Asbest (2023– )

39 min | Crime, Drama

Momo, a young soccer player who ends up innocently behind bars. In Berlin jail he now has to assert himself and is put under pressure by his uncle, the clan leader Amar.

Stars: Mortel, Justus Peter, Juliane Kindler, Koder Alian

Votes: 677

34. Shivam (III) (2015)

168 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

The story of a boy (Ram) who wants to make his love life and marriage a success.

Director: Sreenivasa Reddy | Stars: Ram Pothineni, Raashi Khanna, V.K. Naresh, Mano

Votes: 583

35. Sun Alley (1999)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A group of kids grows up on the east side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West Germany. The antics of the people on Sonnenallee all show the absurdity of their everyday life.

Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Robert Stadlober, Teresa Weißbach

Votes: 7,268

36. 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

37. Luna's Revenge (II) (2017)

92 min | Thriller

When Luna's family is killed in cold blood on a mountain vacation, she barely escapes, and has to discover she's been living a lie: Her dad was a Russian secret agent, and her family was ... See full summary »

Director: Khaled Kaissar | Stars: Lisa Vicari, Carlo Ljubek, Branko Tomovic, Benjamin Sadler

Votes: 990

38. A Film Unfinished (2010)

Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama, History

A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.

Director: Yael Hersonski | Stars: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser

Votes: 1,901 | Gross: $0.31M

39. Nord bei Nordwest (2014– )

88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Former Hamburg cop Hauke Jacobs helps Schwanitz police officer Lona Vogt with their cases while he works as the new veterinarian in town with their assistant's support Jule Christiansen.

Stars: Hinnerk Schönemann, Marleen Lohse, Cem-Ali Gültekin, Stephan Tölle

Votes: 295

40. Leningrad (2009)

R | 110 min | Drama, War

Winter, 1941. World War II rages on as Nazi troops invade the Soviet Union and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, Kate Davies is left behind.

Director: Aleksandr Buravskiy | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Olga Sutulova, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 4,801

41. Löwenzahn (1981– )

30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Peter Lustig lives in a imaginative converted Construction trailer. From there he goes on a journey of discovery, explaining to his young spectators the connections between nature, environment, and technology.

Stars: Guido Hammesfahr, Peter Lustig, Helmut Krauss, Sanam Afrashteh

Votes: 874

42. Heldt (2013–2021)

43 min | Comedy, Crime

Heldt is a German television series, which is broadcast since 2013 on German ZDF.

Stars: Kai Schumann, Janine Kunze, Timo Dierkes, Steffen Will

Votes: 133

43. Leipzig Homicide (2001– )

45 min | Crime

Leipzig police's Special Commission unit investigates capital crimes like murder and manslaughter

Stars: Melanie Marschke, Marco Girnth, Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Daniel Steiner

Votes: 346

44. Die Diplomatin (2016– )

90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The diplomat Karla Lorenz is working on behalf of the Foreign Office around the world to help German citizens in crisis situations.

Stars: Natalia Wörner, Jannik Schümann, Michael Ihnow, Alexander Beyer

Votes: 115

45. Barcelona Crime (2017– )

Crime, Drama, Thriller

With its specialized crime squad led by Xavi Bonet and his charming partner Fina Valent, Barcelona can be truly proud of its homicide team.

Stars: Clemens Schick, Anne Schäfer, Renato Schuch, Alexander Beyer

Votes: 122

46. Das Quartett (2019– )

Crime

"The quartet", as the homicide K14 is also called, consists of four very different police officers who form a congenial team within the Leipzig police.

Stars: Anja Kling, Shenja Lacher, Annika Blendl, Anton Spieker

Votes: 45

47. The Whore (2010 TV Movie)

121 min | Drama, Romance

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Director: Hansjörg Thurn | Stars: Alexandra Neldel, Bert Tischendorf, Julian Weigend, Nadja Becker

Votes: 853

48. Brick (2025)

Filming

A couple whose apartment building is suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall and who must work with their neighbors to find a way out.

Director: Philip Koch | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee, Frederick Lau, Sira-Anna Faal

49. Carl & Bertha (2011 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, History

The biopic film follows visionary Inventor Carl Benz, who invented the first car and was the founding father of Mercedes-Benz.

Director: Till Endemann | Stars: Felicitas Woll, Ken Duken, Hansjürgen Hürrig, Michou Friesz

Votes: 197

50. Doppelter Einsatz (1994–2007)

90 min | Crime, Drama

The cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police.

Stars: Despina Pajanou, Jürgen Janza, Gerhard Garbers, Jockel Tschiersch

Votes: 65