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1. The Hairdresser (2010)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
After being turned down to work at a hair salon because of her figure, a financially struggling hair dresser works to open her own shop.
Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Natascha Lawiszus, Ill-Young Kim, Christina Große
Votes: 1,073
2. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,115 | Gross: $0.48M
3. Emmas Glück (2006)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Max is very ill. He decides to steal in his own company. But when he tries to run away with the money, he has a car accident that takes him to Emma's pigs farm.
Director: Sven Taddicken | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Jürgen Vogel, Maik Solbach, Martin Feifel
Votes: 2,089
4. 7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough (2006)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The Seven Dwarfs are back, this time, they go to the city.
Directors: Miguel Angelo Pate, Sven Unterwaldt Jr. | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Mirco Nontschew, Boris Aljinovic, Ralf Schmitz
Votes: 4,056
5. Krabat (2008)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: David Kross, Christian Redl, Daniel Brühl, Robert Stadlober
Votes: 6,850
6. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,625 | Gross: $2.22M
7. Grave Decisions (2006)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
Sebastian, an 11-year-old Bavarian boy, feels responsible for his mother's death, who died during his birth, and naively attempts multiple ways to reach immortality (procreation, reincarnation, sanctification) to prevent his tenure in hell
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller | Stars: Markus Krojer, Fritz Karl, Jürgen Tonkel, Jule Ronstedt
Votes: 5,669
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: 152,618 | Gross: $4.06M
9. Eine Insel namens Udo (2011)
80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Udo is invisible - no one ever seems to notice him. He makes the most of it, working as a department store detective and living off other people's lives as they never notice him tagging along. Until he meets the one woman who sees him.
Director: Markus Sehr | Stars: Kurt Krömer, Fritzi Haberlandt, Bernd Moss, Kari Ketonen
Votes: 532
10. Durch diese Nacht sehe ich keinen einzigen Stern (2005)
112 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Dagmar Knöpfel | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, Bolek Polívka, Petr Forman, Ondrej Vetchý
Votes: 54
11. Liegen lernen (2003)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Helmut, living in West Germany in the early 1980s, has a big crush on a fellow student, Britta. He does everything to get to know her, but, when she suddenly moves away to San Francisco, he's devastated.
Director: Henk Handloegten | Stars: Fabian Busch, Susanne Bormann, Fritzi Haberlandt, Sophie Rois
Votes: 1,370
12. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 375,132 | Gross: $5.51M
13. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf
Votes: 28,662 | Gross: $0.68M
14. The Edukators (2004)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Director: Hans Weingartner | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner
Votes: 32,375 | Gross: $0.18M
15. 7 Zwerge (2004)
95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Seven Dwarves live deep within a female-free-zone of the Enchanted Forest, but they cannot resist the innocent charms of Snow White when she enters their world. So when the evil queen (Nina Hagen) abducts her, it is up to the dwarves to save her life.
Director: Sven Unterwaldt Jr. | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Mirco Nontschew, Boris Aljinovic, Markus Majowski
Votes: 6,401
16. Siegfried (2005)
89 min | Comedy
Once upon a time the beautiful Rhineland was swamped in wars and battles. Many legends came and went and yet evil always triumphed. Since then, people have been hoping for a miracle, for a savior who will rescue them from the dark bondage.
Director: Sven Unterwaldt Jr. | Stars: Tom Gerhardt, Dorkas Kiefer, Volker Büdts, Axel Neumann
Votes: 1,807
17. Voll normaaal (1994)
91 min | Animation, Comedy, Thriller
Tommie works as mechanic in a garage and loves crazy exhausts. But when he steals the exhaust of the procurer Jupp a lot of trouble starts: Jupp gives Tommie an ultimatum to replace the ... See full summary »
Director: Ralf Huettner | Stars: Tom Gerhardt, Hilmi Sözer, Veronica Ferres, Grace Simon
Votes: 3,587
18. Sommer vorm Balkon (2005)
107 min | Drama
A tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Inka Friedrich, Nadja Uhl, Andreas Schmidt, Stephanie Schönfeld
Votes: 2,948
19. Germanikus (2004)
79 min | Adventure, Comedy
Comedy takes place in the 4th century and is about a Bavarian (Gerhard Polt) named Germanikus, who is kidnapped to Rome and unintentionally causes mischief there.
Director: Hanns Christian Müller | Stars: Gerhard Polt, Gisela Schneeberger, Thiam Aïssatou, Rufus Beck
Votes: 517
20. Ernstfall in Havanna (2002)
86 min | Comedy
Stefan Balsiger is a congenial, average councillor to the Swiss embassy in Havanna. While accompanying an US senator on his mission in Cuba, he makes a botch of so many things, that a minor... See full summary »
Director: Sabine Boss | Stars: David Chrisman, Jean-Pierre Cornu, Jorge Cueli, Noah Cuellar
Votes: 386
21. Rascals on the Road (2005)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Four kids - Eugen, Wrigley, Bäschteli and Eduard - leave for an adventure around Switzerland, searching for the fabulous treasure of Titicaca Lake, discovered by Fritzli Bühler.
Director: Michael Steiner | Stars: Manuel Häberli, Janic Halioua, Dominic Hänni, Alex Niederhäuser
Votes: 751
22. Undercover (2005)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Sabine Boss | Stars: Viktor Giacobbo, Anna Schinz, Nana Krüger, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 90
23. Berlin Blues (2003)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called "Herr Lehmann", is part of a lethargic West Berlin-microcosm. His lifestyle is disturbed when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with his girlfriend and his best friend acts strange.
Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski, Detlev Buck, Janek Rieke
Votes: 7,630
24. Manitou's Shoe (2001)
87 min | Comedy, Western
The hilarious adventures of two best friends, Apache chief Abahachi and cowboy Ranger, in the Wild West.
Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Michael Herbig, Christian Tramitz, Marie Bäumer, Sky du Mont
Votes: 20,271
25. Bundle of Joy (2000)
91 min | Comedy
A girlie stranger to a small village seduces some men and causes real chaos in the lives of some straight citizens.
Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Mavie Hörbiger, Simon Schwarz, Pierre Besson, Detlev Buck
Votes: 349
26. Gigantic (1999)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr., Julia Hummer
Votes: 4,892
27. Manta, Manta (1991)
91 min | Comedy
Proud German owners of Opel Manta's race the streets against VW's and Mercedes. They decide to set up a real race with lots of money involved.
Director: Wolfgang Büld | Stars: Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland, Stefan Gebelhoff, Sabine Berg
Votes: 5,821
28. Funny Games (1997)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering
Votes: 84,046
29. Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)
R | 93 min | Comedy
Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Król, Rufus Beck
Votes: 6,413 | Gross: $0.37M
30. Schtonk (1992)
115 min | Comedy, Crime
The slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries.
Director: Helmut Dietl | Stars: Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hörbiger, Dagmar Manzel
Votes: 4,028
31. No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993)
92 min | Comedy
Two brothers both of which can neither read nor write making their way across Germany in order to claim to their inheritance. On their way they meet Viktor, a deserted soldier of the sowjet... See full summary »
Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Joachim Król, Horst Krause, Konstantin Kotljarov, Sophie Rois
Votes: 1,326
32. 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: 4,347
33. 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter (1994)
90 min | Comedy
Detective 00 Schneider has to return from retirement to catch a mad art collector.
Directors: Christoph Schlingensief, Helge Schneider | Stars: Helge Schneider, Helmut Körschgen, Andreas Kunze, Werner Abrolat
Votes: 2,685
34. Making Up! (1993)
55 min | Comedy, Romance
Cartoonist Frenzy needs new amorous story lines to bring her writer's block to an end. So she starts to draw inspiration from her romance obsessed friend Maischa and her love escapades.
Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Katja Riemann, Nina Kronjäger, Gedeon Burkhard, Max Tidof
Votes: 601
35. Attention, Papa Arrives! (1991)
89 min | Comedy, Family
After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire. The former manager has plenty of time now to spend with his wife and their 16... See full summary »
Directors: Vicco von Bülow, Renate Westphal-Lorenz | Stars: Evelyn Hamann, Vicco von Bülow, Irm Hermann, Hans-Peter Korff
Votes: 5,938
36. Holly - The Movie (1984)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Otto, a young man from East-Frisia, comes to the big city of Hamburg to make his fortune. Most of all he is engaged with two problems: How can he impress Silvia, a wealthy young girl; and ... See full summary »
Directors: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Otto Waalkes | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Sky du Mont, Jessika Cardinahl
Votes: 4,621
37. Otto - Der Neue Film (1987)
82 min | Comedy, Romance
Otto loses his flat, because he could not pay the rent. To work off his rent arrears he is doing dirty work for the caretaker. Just now Gaby moves into the house and Otto falls in love, but Gaby has eyes only for Amboss the bodybuilder.
Directors: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Otto Waalkes | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Anja Jaenicke, Ute Sander, Friedrich Schoenfelder
Votes: 2,649
38. Merlin (1980– )
25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The story of conquerors and prophets - The series takes place in Celtic Britain of the fifth century. The 13 year old Merlin grows up at the Court of his grandfather, King Ostar. His mother... See full summary »
Stars: Roman Fromlowitz, Franz-Günther Heider, Manfred Schott, Michael Klemm
Votes: 43
39. 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: 7,258
40. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Horror
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Votes: 40,500
41. Mark of the Devil (1970)
R | 90 min | Drama, History, Horror
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
Directors: Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven | Stars: Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder
Votes: 3,903
42. The Vampire Happening (1971)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Horror
An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Yvor Murillo, Ingrid van Bergen
Votes: 722
43. Nosferatu (1922)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Votes: 105,399
44. Winnetou (1963)
91 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
When violent conflict breaks out between greedy railroaders and a tribe of Mescalero Apaches, only two men, destined to be blood brothers, can prevent all-out war: chief's son Winnetou and German engineer Old Shatterhand.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marie Versini, Mario Adorf
Votes: 4,604
45. Winnetou: The Red Gentleman (1964)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel, Karin Dor
Votes: 3,552
46. Winnetou: The Last Shot (1965)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for the murder of Jicarilla Chief's son.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia, Ralf Wolter
Votes: 2,870
47. Maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht! (2009)
96 min | Comedy
When Jan decides to marry his girlfriend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, an Italian patriarch. Antonio won't hear of a wedding anywhere else than in Campobello, his ... See full summary »
Director: Neele Leana Vollmar | Stars: Christian Ulmen, Mina Tander, Lino Banfi, Maren Kroymann
Votes: 2,248
48. Hotel Very Welcome (2007)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.
Director: Sonja Heiss | Stars: Ricky Champ, Gareth Llewelyn, Eva Löbau, Chris O'Dowd
Votes: 561
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