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1. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,396 | Gross: $11.49M
2. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 156,998 | Gross: $20.16M
3. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,405 | Gross: $42.77M
4. Enemy Mine (1985)
PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus
Votes: 51,438 | Gross: $4.27M
5. Das Boot (1985)
TV-MA | 293 min | Drama, War
A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 33,428
6. Luther (2003)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Molina
Votes: 16,004 | Gross: $5.79M
7. The NeverEnding Story III (1994)
G | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy must restore order when a group of bullies steal the magical book that acts as a portal between Earth and the imaginary world of Fantasia.
Director: Peter MacDonald | Stars: Jason James Richter, Melody Kay, Jack Black, Carole Finn
Votes: 12,450
8. The Odessa File (1974)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm
Votes: 12,078 | Gross: $1.11M
9. Veronika Voss (1982)
R | 104 min | Drama
Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer
Votes: 7,789
10. Querelle (1982)
R | 108 min | Drama
A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet
Votes: 7,425
11. Lola (1981)
R | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything-and everyone-is for sale.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs
Votes: 6,824
12. The Serpent's Egg (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent
Votes: 6,358
13. From the Life of the Marionettes (1980 TV Movie)
R | 104 min | Drama
An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Rita Russek
Votes: 4,753
14. Ödipussi (1988)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the... See full summary »
Director: Vicco von Bülow | Stars: Vicco von Bülow, Katharina Brauren, Evelyn Hamann, Edda Seippel
Votes: 4,349
15. Lili Marleen (1981)
R | 120 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel
Votes: 4,295
16. Ace of Aces (1982)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sport
In 1936, a French boxer on his way to the Berlin Olympic Games befriends a local Jewish boy and decides to save him from the Nazis.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Frank Hoffmann, Günter Meisner
Votes: 4,162
17. Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
R | 146 min | Drama, Thriller
An imprisoned rogue USAF general with a secret personal agenda, escapes the brig and takes over an ICBM silo, threatening to start WW3.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 3,726
18. The Harmonists (1997)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The film chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Heinrich Schafmeister
Votes: 3,615 | Gross: $0.48M
19. Despair (1978)
119 min | Drama, History
In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep despair?
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler
Votes: 2,723
20. The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
M | 84 min | Horror, Mystery
A Count executed for murdering twelve virgins in a bid for immortality returns to life, seeking revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Christopher Lee, Carl Lange
Votes: 2,604
21. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
One by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. Each chef murdered in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 2,604
22. Ubit drakona (1988)
123 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people.
Director: Mark Zakharov | Stars: Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Evgeniy Leonov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Votes: 2,001
23. Town Without Pity (1961)
Approved | 105 min | Crime, Drama
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Barbara Rütting, Christine Kaufmann, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 1,982
24. Brother of Sleep (1995)
R | 127 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Jochen Nickel
Votes: 1,679
25. Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm (2000)
92 min | Comedy
Otto has been a foundling and always dreamed about becoming a sailor on the "Queen Henry", because his adoptive grandfather suggested he has been captain there. When Otto finally gets aboard some catastrophes lie ahead..
Director: Edzard Onneken | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Reiner Schöne, Eva Haßmann, Steffen Münster
Votes: 1,643
26. Night Crossing (1982)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Family, History
True tale about two men planning to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Doug McKeon, Keith McKeon
Votes: 1,587 | Gross: $8.00M
27. The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Claus Holm, Mario Adorf, Hannes Messemer, Peter Carsten
Votes: 1,583
28. Brass Target (1978)
PG | 111 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Max von Sydow, George Kennedy
Votes: 1,445 | Gross: $5.01M
29. Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966)
60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Commander McLane and the crew of the fast space cruiser Orion patrol Earth's outposts and colonies in space and defend humanity from the alien 'Frogs'.
Stars: Dietmar Schönherr, Eva Pflug, Wolfgang Völz, Claus Holm
Votes: 1,065
30. Inside the Third Reich (1982 TV Movie)
240 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitler's (Sir Derek Jacobi's) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell, Blythe Danner
Votes: 704
31. Marlene (2000)
125 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The movie follows the life and personality of the famous actress Marlene Dietrich.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer, Herbert Knaup, Heino Ferch
Votes: 656
32. Er kanns nicht lassen (1962)
94 min | Comedy, Crime
Father Brown brings back a stolen painting. Later he examines the mysterious death of a castle owner.
Director: Axel von Ambesser | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Peter Parten, Grit Boettcher, Ruth-Maria Kubitschek
Votes: 575
33. Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious (1965)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, War
During World War II, a lonely German air-raid warden captures two downed American airmen and keeps them prisoner in his basement way past the end of the war.
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford, Anita Höfer
Votes: 494
34. The Swiss Conspiracy (1976)
PG | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former U.S.Justice Department official is hired as a security consultant for a Zurich based Swiss bank when five of its clients are blackmailed.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: David Janssen, Senta Berger, John Ireland, John Saxon
Votes: 483
35. The American Success Company (1979)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
Director: William Richert | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Steven Keats
Votes: 435
36. Jack of Diamonds (1967)
Unrated | 108 min | Crime, Drama
The protege of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Evans
Votes: 433
37.
Das Boot (1985)
Episode:
Part 1
(1985)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, War
The German U-Boat crew embarks on its mission at the beginning of World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 391
38. The Rats (1955)
91 min | Drama
In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 372
39.
Das Boot (1985)
Episode:
Part 2
(1985)
TV-MA | 102 min | Drama, War
The crew is trying to carry out its mission which has proven to be extremely difficult.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 369
40. Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (2003)
90 min | Sci-Fi
Directors: Michael Braun, Theo Mezger | Stars: Heinz Beck, Günter Becker, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Siegfried von Cosel
Votes: 364
41.
Das Boot (1985)
Episode:
Part 3
(1985)
TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, War
For almost four weeks, the submarine is traveling south-west of Ireland and is held underwater by a destroyer during its first attack on an English convoy. Exploding depth charges hurl the crew and submarine into chaos.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 340
42. Ein Mann geht durch die Wand (1959)
99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Story of a man who out of frustration discovers that he has the ability to walk through walls.
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Rudolf Vogel, Hubert von Meyerinck, Peter Vogel
Votes: 331
43. Deadly Decision (1954)
92 min | Biography, Drama, War
Brief biopic of Wilhelm Canaris, army intelligence (Abwehr) chief of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1944.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: O.E. Hasse, Barbara Rütting, Adrian Hoven, Martin Held
Votes: 311
44. Max, der Taschendieb (1962)
91 min | Comedy, Crime
Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the "big" crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother.
Director: Imo Moszkowicz | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Elfie Pertramer, Hans Clarin, Ruth Stephan
Votes: 295
45. King, Queen, Knave (1972)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Adopted by his rich uncle from Germany, British teenager Frank falls in-love with his uncle's Italian wife Martha, and has conflicting feelings when she suggests he should kill his uncle in order to have her and the family fortune.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf
Votes: 293
46. The Last Escape (1970)
G | 90 min | Action, Drama, War
During the final days of WW2, an Allied commando team races toward a German rocket base to abduct a Nazi scientist before the fast advancing Soviet troops could reach him.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Stuart Whitman, John Collin, Martin Jarvis, Pinkas Braun
Votes: 288
47. Scampolo (1958)
89 min | Comedy, Romance
A naive, poor girl falls for an architect on the beautiful island of Ischia.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Romy Schneider, Paul Hubschmid, Georg Thomalla, Eva Maria Meineke
Votes: 256
48. Mein Schulfreund (1960)
94 min | Drama, Comedy
Theatrical adaptation: In the 3rd Reich a mailman writes Goering,an old school chum, to end the war. To avoid a death sentence, Goering has the man declared insane.Which causes complications years later.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Loni von Friedl, Ernst Schröder, Hertha Feiler
Votes: 217
49. Manila (2000)
113 min | Drama
Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher ... See full summary »
Director: Romuald Karmakar | Stars: Eddi Arent, Ana Capri, Margit Carstensen, Michael Degen
Votes: 186
50. Cry of the Black Wolves (1972)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Alaska 1903: Jack Harper is looking for Bill Robinson, the alleged murderer of Mike Williams. But when Bill saves his life twice in the icy deserts of Alaska, the two become allies in the fight against Tornado Kid and his gang.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Ron Ely, Raimund Harmstorf, Gila von Weitershausen, Arthur Brauss
Votes: 181