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1. The Piano Teacher (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 71,979 | Gross: $1.90M
2. Babylon Berlin (2017– )
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: 30,033
3. The Seventh Continent (1989)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel
Votes: 17,093
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: 3,071
5. 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: 1,847
6. The Story of My Wife (2021)
169 min | Drama, Romance
Jacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel, Sergio Rubini
Votes: 2,782
7. 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: 9,131 | Gross: $0.81M
8. 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: 14,421 | Gross: $0.15M
9. Goodbye Berlin (2016)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip that will probably change their lives.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Tristan Göbel, Aniya Wendel, Justina Humpf, Paul Busche
Votes: 11,049
10. Killer Condom (1996)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
The plot takes place in New York, and in the present. In a Hotel called "Quicky" a professor blackmails a student of his into having sex with him. But when the professor puts on a condom, ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Walz | Stars: Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben, Leonard Lansink
Votes: 3,392
11. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent
Votes: 8,763
12. 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: 813
13. Palermo Shooting (2008)
124 min | Drama
After the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman help him calm himself down?
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Inga Busch
Votes: 3,198
14. The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Young Jewish man bucks orthodox traditions (and mother's meddling) by shaving, shopping outside the faithful, and considering a shiksa for a wife.
Director: Michael Steiner | Stars: Joel Basman, Noémie Schmidt, Udo Samel, Sunnyi Melles
Votes: 4,983
15. The Castle (1997 TV Movie)
123 min | Drama, Mystery
When a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse to allow him to advance to the nearby castle. Increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles arise.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus Paryla, André Eisermann
Votes: 3,572
16. Kommissar Dupin (2014– )
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
By disciplinary action, police chief Georges Dupin is transferred from Paris to Concarneau, in Brittany. His investigations make us visit the most beautiful landscapes in Brittany, that grumpy city dweller will learn to appreciate.
Stars: Pasquale Aleardi, Jan Georg Schütte, Annika Blendl, Christina Hecke
Votes: 144
17. Domain (2009)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the relationship between a teenager, Pierre, and Nadia, a woman in her thirties.
Director: Patric Chiha | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Isaïe Sultan, Alain Libolt, Raphaël Bouvet
Votes: 195
18. Rival (2020)
96 min | Drama
Nine-year-old Roman follows his mother Oksana to Germany where she is working illegally. She is living there with the 62-year-old widower Gert who suffers from diabetes. Gert tries to make ... See full summary »
Director: Marcus Lenz | Stars: Yelizar Nazarenko, Udo Samel, Maria Bruni, Nina Kastorf
Votes: 160
19. Knife in the Head (1978)
113 min | Drama
During a police raid on a youth center, the biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head. When he awakes from a coma, he can't remember anyting. The police accuse him of being a terrorist.
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Heinz Hoenig
Votes: 723
20. The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.
Director: Lutz Hachmeister | Stars: Udo Samel, Kenneth Branagh, Heinrich Brüning, Winston Churchill
Votes: 1,021 | Gross: $0.05M
21. Go for Zucker (2004)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A Journalist of Jewish descent in Berlin feels that he is a loser of the political changes in Germany after 1989. When his mother dies, he has to meet his brother to whom he has not talked ... See full summary »
Director: Dani Levy | Stars: Henry Hübchen, Hannelore Elsner, Udo Samel, Golda Tencer
Votes: 2,886 | Gross: $0.09M
22. Eurocops (1988–1994)
52 min | Crime, Thriller
Eurocops is a European television crime TV-series.
Stars: Heiner Lauterbach, Bernd Jeschek, Bigi Fischer, Alexander Radszun
Votes: 55
23. The Last U-Boat (1993 TV Movie)
99 min | Drama, War
In 1945 an advanced type of German U-boat loaded with atomic technology en route for Japan and escorted by Japanese naval officers receives news that Germany has capitulated.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Kaoru Kobayashi, Gorô Ôhashi
Votes: 308
24. Silentium (2004)
116 min | Crime, Thriller
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Joachim Król, Maria Köstlinger
Votes: 3,524
25. Danni Lowinski (2010–2014)
45 min | Comedy, Drama
Danni Lowinski is a former hairdresser who has graduated to law. When she does not get a job in a noble law firm, she starts to give legal advice from a folding table in the basement of a shopping mall.
Stars: Annette Frier, Axel Siefer, Nadja Becker, Oliver Fleischer
Votes: 393
26. Die Rebellion (1993 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, War
The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and fatherland. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Branko Samarovski, Judit Pogány, Thierry van Werveke, Deborah Wisniewski
Votes: 184
27. The Placebo Effect (2019 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama, Thriller
A Stasi officer and his wife, seeking to save their teenage daughter, uncover the wheeling and dealing between Big Pharma and the East German state.
Director: Urs Egger | Stars: Florian Stetter, Felicitas Woll, Lena Urzendowsky, Corinna Harfouch
Votes: 142
28. Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr (2019– )
88 min | Comedy, Drama
The television series is about the trio Werner Träsch, Ralle Schieber and Tarik Büyüktürk, who work for the Berlin garbage disposal, the three men who are the eponymous "Three from the ... See full summary »
Stars: Uwe Ochsenknecht, Jörn Hentschel, Rainer Strecker, Adelheid Kleineidam
Votes: 58
29. 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
30. Life Guidance (2017)
101 min | Sci-Fi
Life Guidance, the eponymous agency supports people in leading an optimal life. When Alexander lets the wrong thing slip out one day, Life Guidance arrives on the scene immediately.
Director: Ruth Mader | Stars: Fritz Karl, Katharina Lorenz, Florian Teichtmeister, Nicolas Jarosch
Votes: 179
31. 14 Tagebücher des Ersten Weltkriegs (2014)
52 min | Drama, History, War
100 years after its outbreak, this series lets viewers experience WWI solely through the eyes of those who lived it.
Stars: Udo Samel, George Morris, Mark Camacho, Angela Galuppo
Votes: 277
32. Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001)
312 min | Biography, Drama
Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Monica Bleibtreu, Jürgen Hentsch, Veronica Ferres
Votes: 714
33. Kaspar Hauser (1993)
139 min | Drama, History, Mystery
Kaspar Hauser is the son of the duke of Baden. At the age of one he was swapped by another baby that has been killed right after the change. The real Kaspar Hauser grew up in prison without... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sehr | Stars: André Eisermann, Udo Samel, Jeremy Clyde, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 506
34. Die Braut (1999)
112 min | Biography, Drama
The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for ... See full summary »
Director: Egon Günther | Stars: Veronica Ferres, Herbert Knaup, Sibylle Canonica, Franziska Herold
Votes: 171
35. Stolberg (2006–2013)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Rudolf Kowalski, Aurel Manthei, Eva Scheurer, Victoria Mayer
Votes: 85
36. How I Taught Myself to Be a Child (2019)
140 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply-strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor--and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities.
Director: Rupert Henning | Stars: Valentin Hagg, Sabine Timoteo, Karl Markovics, Nikolaas von Schrader
Votes: 195
37. Night of a 1000 Hours (2016)
92 min | Horror, Mystery
When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a... See full summary »
Director: Virgil Widrich | Stars: Laurence Rupp, Amira Casar, Johann Adam Oest, Lukas Miko
Votes: 210
38. Der Kinoerzähler (1993)
98 min | Drama
Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good... See full summary »
Director: Bernhard Sinkel | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Martin Benrath, Andrej Jautze, Tina Engel
Votes: 43
39. My Best Enemy (2011)
Unrated | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A dark WWII comedy about two friends, stolen artwork, and an unfortunate case of mistaken identity as a Jewish man switches places with his Nazi best friend in order to survive
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss, Marthe Keller
Votes: 1,534
40. Mit meinen heißen Tränen (1986)
285 min | Biography, Drama
Depicts the final years of the life of 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert.
Stars: Udo Samel, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Traugott Buhre
Votes: 119
41. Caspar David Friedrich - Grenzen der Zeit (1986)
84 min | Biography, Drama
A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.
Director: Peter Schamoni | Stars: Helmut Griem, Sabine Sinjen, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Walter Schmidinger
Votes: 64
42. Serviam - Ich will dienen (2022)
106 min | Thriller
In an all-girl Catholic boarding school for the wealthy Austrian elite, an energetic young nun fights against the decline of faith.
Director: Ruth Mader | Stars: Anna Elisabeth Berger, Maria Dragus, Sophia Gómez-Schreiber, Fritz Karl
Votes: 41
43. Das Ende des Regenbogens (1979)
107 min | Drama
A 17 year old Berlin boy turns prostitute and petty thief. Despite the attempts of a social worker to help, the boy runs into real trouble when a burglary goes awry.
Director: Uwe Frießner | Stars: Thomas Kufahl, Slavica Rankovic, Henry Lutze, Udo Samel
Votes: 118
44. Groß und Klein (1980)
269 min
Lotte embarks on a bizarre journey across Germany after a divorce. The people she meets are wrapped up in their own worlds.
Director: Peter Stein | Stars: Edith Clever, Gunter Berger, Gerhard Bienert, Tina Engel
Votes: 7
45. Alles Schwindel (2013 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy
Gustav Klint's famous "The Kiss" is stolen from an Austrian museum. The night-watchman on duty has an instant cardiac arrest, which brings his haughty daughter back from Paris, where she ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Ursula Strauss, Benno Fürmann, Bibiane Zeller, Udo Samel
Votes: 73
46. Faust (1994–1997)
60 min | Action, Crime
Hamburg police commissioner undercover tries to solve his cases.
Stars: Heiner Lauterbach, Stephanie Bothor, Ünal Silver, Janette Rauch
Votes: 45
47. Variation - oder Daß es Utopien gibt, weiß ich selber! (1983 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama
Two middle-aged people abandon their respective partners for a love affair.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Elfriede Irrall, Suzanne Geyer, Hilmar Thate, Monica Bleibtreu
Votes: 94
48. Our Big Time (2012)
88 min | Drama, Music, War
Set in the midst of World War 2 and interspersed with beautiful choir music, the horrors of the war unfold when the Germans realized one of the boys in the choir is a Jew and they must find him immediately.
Director: Wolfram Paulus | Stars: Lorenz Willkomm, Johannes Nussbaum, Benedikt Hösl, Felix Jancik
Votes: 170
49. Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Harald Juhnke, Udo Samel, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 131
50. Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 (1980)
103 min | Family
The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise, however, their tight-knit group unravels... See full summary »
Directors: Usch Barthelmeß-Weller, Werner Meyer | Stars: Bernd Riedel, René Schaaf, May Buschke, Juergen Frei
Votes: 63