best films in german
Some flicks from Germany and Austria that I like for whatever reason in chronological order
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- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von WangenheimVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.I know, it's silent and so it's not really in german but what the heck
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsEmil JanningsMaly DelschaftMax HillerAn aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.This not even has intertitles, but you can't make to much publicity for F.W. Murnau
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsMarlene DietrichKurt GerronAn elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.Today it seems unbelievable, but there was a time directors from the U.S. came to Germany to make films, needless to say it was before Goebbels propaganda destroyed german cinema.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsHildegard KnefElly BurgmerErna SellmerAfter returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.First german film after Second World War
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsEdmund MoeschkeErnst PittschauIngetraud HinzeA young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsWerner PetersPaul EsserRenate FischerDiederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
- DirectorPeter LorreStarsPeter LorreKarl JohnHelmuth RudolphGerman scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
- DirectorFalk HarnackStarsErwin GeschonneckKäthe BraunGefion HelmkeAfter a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader, a ship owner, needs to find an executioner to kill the perpetrators and turns to a butcher.
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsPaul HörbigerHans MoserMaria AndergastMusical comedy about confused identities.
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsIsa GüntherJutta GüntherAlice KesslerA remote Austrian village depends economically on its wine production. But no-one has heard of the place, and the wine business is in the doldrums. Then two sets of twins are born in the village simultaneously and a false rumor circulates that they are actually quadruplets. As one of the mothers cannot look after her twins, the rumor is allowed to become fact. The quads make the villages famous, and as they grow up they are a singing attraction to visitors. Romance complicates the issue: with the convenient myth last?
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsMartin HeldHanns LotharEllen SchwiersCourtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid, who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to someone else. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer must overcome the unaccountably-biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor, and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defense lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
- DirectorFranz MarischkaStarsVivi BachAdrian HovenElma KarlowaAlbert and Corinna begin a camping site in their backyard and soon welcome a bunch of eccentric, love lost holiday goers.All your beloved musicstars on vacation in Yugoslavia and they sing, sing and sing
- DirectorKonrad WolfStarsWolfgang HeinzUrsula BurgHilmar ThateProfessor Hans Mamlock is the distinguished chief of surgery in a university hospital. The year is 1933, and although the Professor is Jewish, he remains unconcerned with politics and the growing Nazi threat. Mamlock identifies strongly as a German, and he believes his culture to be simply incapable of the common barbarism associated with the Nazi party. Accordingly, he shows little understanding for people with strong or unpopular political views, such as Walter, a patient, and Rolf, his own son. Indeed, when Rolf joins the communists in resisting the Nazis, Mamlock throws him out of his house. As the persecution of Jews intensifies during the 1930s, Mamlock's own daughter is targeted for anti-Semitic attacks at her school. Professor Mamlock, however, refuses to believe her, and at work he disregards the anti-Semitism of his colleague, Dr. Hellpach. By 1938, however, anti-Jewish racial laws demand Mamlock's removal from office. He is physically marched from the hospital by Nazi guards, leaving him shocked to realize that his German citizenship has been revoked. Professor Mamlock's devastation drives him to desperate measures.
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsPeter WeckGitte HænningMargit NünkeMrs. Applewhite, the millionaire widow of an American chewing gum manufacturer, is creating a romantic scientific institute in a castle in Tyrol.
- DirectorGünter ReischStarsHorst SchulzeLyudmila KasyanovaRita KripsThe biography of the German socialistic politician Karl Liebknecht and his fight against World War I.First Part of a two-piece biography of Karl Liebknecht, the only member of parliament who opposed the First World War and first chairman of the Communist Party of Germany
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsTeri TordaiMike MarshallPascale PetitIn the former Kingdom of Westphalia, where Napoleon's brother Jeröme rules, there is an old inn not far from the university town of Giessen an der Lahn that is owned by the beautiful, red-haired Suzanne.
- DirectorWerner JacobsStarsPeter AlexanderHans KrausHannelore ElsnerDr. Peter Roland, a Geneva TV reporter and prankster, is ordered as punishment to cover the German schools. So he cheats his brother in law William 'Willy' Tell to steal his identity as exchange program teacher in Mommsen gymnasium (classical high school) in Baden-Baden (SW Germany). There he's assigned to class 10a, where local businessman Kurt Notnagel's son Pepe rules the pranking roost. Instead of siding with principal Dr. Gottlieb Taft's staff, he can't resist teaming up with Pepe, whose sister Marion digs slick Peter.Oh yes, the wild 68's storm the school and the great Peter Alexander mocks the authority. Plus the dutch childstar Heintje has one of the weirdest appearances I've ever seen in a movie
- DirectorGünter ReischStarsHorst SchulzeLyudmila KasyanovaUte IllmannBiographical war drama about the life of German socialist Karl Liebknecht.Second Part of the Biography of Liebknecht
- DirectorHeiner CarowStarsAngelica DomröseWinfried GlatzederHeidemarie WenzelPaul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.
- DirectorWerner W. WallrothStarsDean ReedGojko MiticGisela Freudenberg1864, Sand Creek, Co. When an army detail massacres men, women and children of a Cheyenne village a disgusted soldier called Harmonica deserts his post, befriends and lives with the Cheyenne, joining their fight as the army raids continue.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsVlastimil BrodskýErwin GeschonneckHenry HübchenA Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.
- DirectorDean ReedStarsDean ReedFriederike AustGerry WolffVictor Jara is one of the most popular singers in Chile. In 1973 he is arrested by the military and his body is found dead.
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsKarl MerkatzAlfred BöhmHans HoltA politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenStarsLena StolzeMartin BenrathWulf KesslerDuring the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provocative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsUlrich TukurHans KremerTherese AffolterStammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and accused of the murder of four US servicemen in a terrorist bombing attack. After a hunger strike at the trial's start, Meins dies. The next to die is Meinhof, an apparent suicide. As the trial stretches on, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe continuously disrupt the proceedings with accusations that they are being purposely undernourished and spied upon.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsGerulf PannachFabienne BabeSigfrit SteinerA singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsThomas AhrensHark BohmClaus-Peter DamitzA young girl travels to Berlin, searching for a rock-star who got her pregnant in a one night stand. She gets stuck on the subway, and she meets a vast array of different characters.
- DirectorVicco von BülowStarsVicco von BülowKatharina BraurenEvelyn HamannGray-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 role of women in society in his carnival club. When he meets psychologist Margarete Tietze, "Pussi" finally begins to rebel against his dominant mother.
- DirectorArmin Mueller-StahlStarsArmin Mueller-StahlBob BalabanHark BohmAn American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time. After much deliberation and identity-searching, Mr Webster ends up shooting and killing the self-proclaimed Hitler.
- DirectorPeter KeglevicStarsChristoph WaltzMariella AhrensWolfgang BathkeMock Roy Black with Chritoph Waltz
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsJosef HaderSimon SchwarzBarbara RudnikEx-detective Brenner wants to keep himself out of trouble but several murder cases and his ex-girlfriend Klara finally get him involved. But making decisions is not one his strengths.
- DirectorChristopher RothStarsFrank GieringLaura TonkeVadim GlownaAndreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.ahistorical film about the RAF. Much better than this right wing Baader-Meinhof-Complex *beep*
- DirectorJeff KanewStarsMichael DegenBarbara De RossiKatrin SassBabi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
- DirectorJoachim BornemannStarsSven BruxKlaus-Peter BubkeRoger Hasenbein"St. Pauli. - Rausgehen-Warmmachen-Weghauen" accompanies the demolition and reconstruction of the south stand of the Millertor Stadium, the resurgence of Hamburg's cult club FC St. Pauli into the 2nd Bundesliga, and the beginning of a new era for the club so steeped in tradition that it has always retained its otherness. As peculiar is the most famous district of Hamburg and the protagonists are. The atmosphere on the Reeperbahn, the Kiez, Schanzen and Karoviertel are captured just as much as the tension before the all-important match against Dynamo Dresden. In short: a documentary about life and people in the neighborhood and the most important thing for every St. Paulian - FC St. Pauli. Thanks to the closeness to the protagonists, the film shows an attitude to life that can only be found in St. Pauli.Forza FCSP!