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1. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
PG | 175 min | Drama, History, War
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
Votes: 61,314 | Gross: $50.80M
2. The Longest Day (1962)
G | 178 min | Action, Drama, History
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Votes: 58,937 | Gross: $39.10M
3. Tatort (1970– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This anthology series follows the work of police officers in Germany.
Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 3,046
4. The Boys from Brazil (1978)
R | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 30,463 | Gross: $19.00M
5. Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Approved | 117 min | Action, Adventure, War
An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter
Votes: 15,096 | Gross: $17.11M
6. The Train (1964)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Directors: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Votes: 18,690 | Gross: $7.41M
7. The Rat Patrol (1966–1968)
30 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The World War II North African missions of an Allied commando patrol squad of the Long Range Desert Group.
Stars: Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Eric Braeden, Lawrence P. Casey
Votes: 1,989
8. The Winds of War (1983)
883 min | Drama, Romance, War
The trials of the Henry and Jastrow families in the early years of World War II.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman
Votes: 4,630
9. War and Remembrance (1988–1989)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, War
The trials of the Henry and the Jastrow families amidst the events after the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant
Votes: 3,116
10. Bloodline (1979)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori
Votes: 1,906
11. The Cardinal (1963)
Approved | 175 min | Drama, History, War
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley
Votes: 2,882
12. The Fifth Cord (1971)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A maverick, heavy-drinking journalist pursues a killer who is targeting acquaintances of his, prompting the police to brand him a suspect in their investigation.
Director: Luigi Bazzoni | Stars: Franco Nero, Silvia Monti, Wolfgang Preiss, Ira von Fürstenberg
Votes: 2,552
13. Anzio (1968)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, History, War
Anzio: one of WWII's bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead--four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome.
Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan, Earl Holliman
Votes: 3,749
14. Der Kommissar (1969–1976)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Helma Seitz
Votes: 297
15. Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Approved | 173 min | Drama, History, War
August 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 5,179
16. The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
Not Rated | 99 min | Mystery, Thriller
A popular television presenter is accused of killing a teenage girl in a park, who happens to be his daughter's best friend.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Helmut Berger, Giancarlo Sbragia, Ida Galli, Silvano Tranquilli
Votes: 2,055
17. 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: 809
18. The Formula (1980)
R | 117 min | Crime, Thriller
The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of World War II, is sought after by some who aim to sell it, and by others who wish to destroy it.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud
Votes: 2,843
19. Raid on Rommel (1971)
GP | 99 min | Drama, War
In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 2,425
20. Ike: The War Years (1979)
291 min | Biography, Drama, History
During World War II, General Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower serves as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe. On a personal level, he has an extramarital affair with his driver Kay Summersby.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Lee Remick, Dana Andrews, J.D. Cannon
Votes: 465
21. Paul Temple (1969–1971)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Crime-novelist Paul Temple solves mysteries with the help of his wife Steve.
Stars: Francis Matthews, Ros Drinkwater, June Ellis, George Sewell
Votes: 93
22. The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
103 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse uses hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 3,780
23. 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: 266
24. Hannibal Brooks (1969)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Oliver Reed, John Alderton, Michael J. Pollard, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 1,736
25. The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Carl Raddatz
Votes: 2,984
26. The Salzburg Connection (1972)
PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Karen Jensen
Votes: 554
27. Dead Run (1967)
R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller
A petty thief on the run is drawn into a high-stakes game of espionage.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Peter Lawford, Ira von Fürstenberg, Georges Géret, Maria Grazia Buccella
Votes: 89
28. Lafayette (1962)
Not Rated | 158 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the American War of Independence, French officer and nobleman La Fayette comes to America's aid with men, money and weapons and becomes a Major-General under George Washington's command.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Pascale Audret, Jack Hawkins, Michel Le Royer, Folco Lulli
Votes: 186
29. 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: 524
30. The Master Touch (1972)
PG | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A just released from prison professional thief decides to do one last high-risk heist, which could settle him for life or land him behind bars again.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 694
31. Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Approved | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.
Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss, Dany Carrel
Votes: 2,078
32. Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)
93 min | Drama, War
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss, Carl Lange
Votes: 836
33. The Terror of Doctor Mabuse (1962)
88 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
German Police Inspector Lohmann investigates a string of crimes resembling Dr. Mabuse's M.O. but Mabuse is in Professor Polland's care inside an insane asylum.
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Senta Berger, Helmut Schmid, Charles Regnier
Votes: 603
34. Fantasma d'amore (1981)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Eva Maria Meineke, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 816
35. The Mad Executioners (1963)
92 min | Crime, Horror
A group of vigilantes hang wrong-doers.
Director: Edwin Zbonek | Stars: Hansjörg Felmy, Maria Perschy, Dieter Borsche, Rudolf Forster
Votes: 375
36. Night of the Vampires (1964)
Approved | 86 min | Horror
A mad scientist and his bevy of vampires terrorize a German village. A detective and a witch set out to stop them.
Director: Ákos Ráthonyi | Stars: Adrian Hoven, Erika Remberg, Carl Möhner, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 401
37. Backfire (1964)
94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout in this thrilling adventure.
Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Enrico Maria Salerno, Renate Ewert
Votes: 332
38. Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, War
Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along ... See full summary »
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter, Robert Hundar, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 297
39. The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Evil mastermind Dr. Mabuse is using brainwashed prison inmates to commit crimes but the German police aided by an FBI agent is on his trail.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Lex Barker, Daliah Lavi, Fausto Tozzi
Votes: 784
40. Haie und kleine Fische (1957)
120 min | War, Drama
Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Hansjörg Felmy, Sabine Bethmann, Mady Rahl, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 201
41. The Second Victory (1987)
PG | 95 min | Drama, War
After the end of WW2, a lone elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Anthony Andrews, Max von Sydow, Helmut Griem, Mario Adorf
Votes: 65
42. Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino (1958)
94 min | Drama, War
In 1944, German paratroopers must defend the Monte Cassino area of Italy from Allied attacks while artifacts from the nearby historical abbey are evacuated to the Vatican by army trucks.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Elma Karlowa, Antje Geerk, Ewald Balser
Votes: 132
43. Playgirl 70 (1969)
90 min | Comedy
Jane, a young and fascinating model, participates in a cruise with some representatives of a rich and corrupt world connected to the cinema business. Jane's beauty gets her only bitterness and disappointment.
Director: Federico Chentrens | Stars: Ira von Fürstenberg, Luciana Paluzzi, Jean Sobieski, Venantino Venantini
Votes: 16
44. Wallenstein (1978– )
340 min | Biography, History
The rise of Albrecht von Wallenstein from minor Moravian nobleman to imperialist generalissimo in the Thirty Years-War, and his fall once the emperor begins to doubt his loyalty.
Stars: Rolf Boysen, Romuald Pekny, Werner Kreindl, Karl Schwetter
Votes: 101
45. Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
April 1945. Because he stole two boxes of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Martin Held, Walter Giller, Ingrid van Bergen, Camilla Spira
Votes: 622
46. The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Crime, Drama
Evil mastermind Dr. Mabuse seeks Professor Erasmus' secret invention, a device that makes one invisible, but a murder in a revue theatre brings the German police and the FBI into the mix.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Siegfried Lowitz, Rudolf Fernau
Votes: 587
47. Code Name: Jaguar (1965)
107 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A super spy Jeff Larson is assigned to a mission that has him trying to discover the whereabouts of a new Russian spy device that is at present costing his organization a good deal of precious information to leak into the wrong hands.
Director: Maurice Labro | Stars: Ray Danton, Pascale Petit, Conrado San Martín, Roger Hanin
Votes: 89
48. Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (1963)
90 min | Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
Director: Paul May | Stars: Peter van Eyck, Sabine Bethmann, Dieter Borsche, Werner Peters
Votes: 442
49. Prisoner of the Volga (1959)
102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: John Derek, Elsa Martinelli, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 82
50. Das Kriminalmuseum (1963–1970)
75 min | Crime, Drama
The Crime Museum is the title of a German television crime series.
Stars: Reinhard Glemnitz, Johannes Buzalski, Hans Kern, Heini Göbel
Votes: 70