Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "baader-meinhof"

1. Suspiria (I) (2018)

R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela

Votes: 92,167 | Gross: $2.47M

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: 40,117 | Gross: $0.48M

3. The Raspberry Reich (2004)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A left-wing terrorist group, consisting of several homosexual men and a female leader, kidnaps the son of a wealthy industrialist.

Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Susanne Sachße, Daniel Bätscher, Andreas Stich, Dean Monroe

Votes: 1,760

4. Marianne & Juliane (1981)

106 min | Drama

Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade

Votes: 2,623

5. The Legend of Rita (2000)

103 min | Drama, History, Romance

The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bibiana Beglau, Richard Kropf, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl

Votes: 2,469 | Gross: $0.67M

6. Germany in Autumn (1978)

123 min | Documentary, Drama

Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a ... See full summary »

Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel | Stars: Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bißmeier

Votes: 1,413

7. If Not Us, Who? (2011)

124 min | Biography, Drama

West Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they ... See full summary »

Director: Andres Veiel | Stars: August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling, Thomas Thieme

Votes: 1,306

8. Mogadischu (2008 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama

In 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.

Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Saïd Taghmaoui, Herbert Knaup

Votes: 1,309

9. Terror's Advocate (2007)

Unrated | 135 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Jacques Vergès, Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder, Bassam Abu Sharif

Votes: 1,698 | Gross: $0.04M

10. Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986)

107 min | Crime, Drama

Stammheim 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Hans Kremer, Therese Affolter, Ulrich Pleitgen

Votes: 497

11. Baader (2002)

115 min | Action, Biography, Crime

Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.

Director: Christopher Roth | Stars: Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Vadim Glowna, Can Taylanlar

Votes: 792

12. The Worst Thing (2019)

84 min | Documentary

In 1985, Kathleen lost her brother Eddie, an American soldier, at the hands of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German leftist terrorist organization. Now, decades later, she decides to seek out the group responsible for his murder.

Director: Desireena Almoradie | Stars: Monika Berberich, Kathleen Pequeño, Lutz Taufer

Votes: 20

13. Todesspiel (1997 TV Movie)

177 min | Documentary, Drama, Thriller

Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.

Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Hans Brenner, Robert Viktor Minich, Birol Ünel, Sebastian Koch

Votes: 559

14. Children of the Revolution (2010)

TV-14 | 92 min | Documentary

Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?

Director: Shane O'Sullivan | Stars: Ulrike Meinhof, Fusako Shigenobu, Mei Shigenobu, Bettina Röhl

Votes: 73

15. Die RAF (2007)

170 min | Documentary

From the inner workings of the RAF. Former RAF-member Peter-Jürgen Boock reveal the many secrets and myths about the Baader-Meinhof gang a.k.a. RAF - Rote Armee Fraktion.

Directors: Stefan Aust, Helmar Büchel | Stars: Susanne Albrecht, Andreas Baader, Anneliese Baader, Bommi Baumann

Votes: 12

16. Baader-Meinhof (1986 TV Movie)

120 min | Documentary

One of the first major projects to trace the emergence of the RAF and in particular the developments surrounding the first generation of the RAF and their heads Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin

Director: Stefan Aust | Stars: Heinrich Albertz, Andreas Baader, Anneliese Baader, Bommi Baumann

Votes: 17

17. A German Youth (2015)

93 min | Documentary, History

Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot | Stars: Horst Mahler, Philip Werner Sauber, Holger Meins, Helke Sander

Votes: 548

18. Der Fall Susanne Albrecht (2017 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

"The case Susanne Albrecht" - the many lives of a RAF-terrorist.

Director: Franziska Von Tiesenhausen | Stars: Susanne Albrecht, Kurt Breucker, Barbara Dörr, Gisela Friedrichsen

19. Baader-Meinhof: In Love with Terror (2002 TV Movie)

69 min | Documentary

Explores the Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla movement (aka the Red Army Faction) in 1970s West Germany.

Director: Ben Lewis | Stars: Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Bodo Kindermann, Dieter Kunzelmann

Votes: 73

20. Long Shadows (2008)

92 min | Drama

After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost... See full summary »

Director: Connie Walter | Stars: Christoph Bach, Gottfried Breitfuss, Uwe Kockisch, Udo Lange

Votes: 129

21. Schleyer - Eine deutsche Geschichte (2003 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

In the autumn of 1977, RAF terrorists stopped the vehicle of the employer's president, Hanns Martin Schleyer, killed his three bodyguards, the driver and abducted the man, who was as an ... See full summary »

Director: Lutz Hachmeister | Stars: Kurt Biedenkopf, Heinz Dürr, Kai Hermann, Hans Wolfgang Hirschbrunn

Votes: 30

22. Tussilago (2010)

15 min | Animation, Short, Drama

A woman's story of how she became involved in terrorist activities in the 1970s.

Director: Jonas Odell | Stars: Malin Buska, Camaron Silverek, Niklas Adolfsson, Sofie Adolfsson

Votes: 160

23. Inbetween (II) (2008)

196 min | Drama, Thriller

A young man meets a slacker couple in London who help him in his quest to break away from his criminal past and realize his dreams.

Director: David Antonelli | Stars: Adrian Annis, Ash Bayliss, Sarah Cabrera, Michael Chateau

Votes: 94

24. Andreas Baader - Der Staatsfeind (2002 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

How could the son of a graduate historian and a secretary, who liked to adorn himself with fast cars, fake eyelashes and expensive clothes, who wanted to become an artist, journalist or film director, become the "public enemy No. 1"?

Director: Klaus Stern | Stars: Andreas Baader, Günther Scheicher, Karl-Heinz Köpcke, Holm von Czettritz

Votes: 33

25. Det kallas terrorism (1978)

190 min | Documentary

A four-part TV-series about the new political orientation and activism which expressed itself like urban guerrilla warfare including bank robbery, kidnapping and bombs. The series focus ... See full summary »

Stars: Hans Hederberg, Carl Persson, Norbert Erich Kröcher, Olof Frånstedt

26. Muisti (2011– )
Episode: Terrorismin pelko (2012)

28 min | Documentary, History

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Director: Ari Lehikoinen | Stars: Jukka Pitkänen, Kari Toivonen, Eino Uusitalo, Kaarle J. Lehmus

27. Life at Stake (1978– )
Episode: So, Who's Sick? (1978)

Drama

The story of the 1975 siege of the West German embassy in Stockholm by members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

Director: Ben Rea | Stars: John Abineri, Billy Boyle, Edward Brooks, Anthony Collin

28. World in Action (1963–1998)
Episode: Prisoner of Terrorism (1978)

Documentary

A look at the activities and history of the notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, including an interview with one of the gang's kingpins, Horst Mahler.

Stars: Simon Albury, Hans-Jürgen Bäcker, Horst Mahler

29. History (2000–2023)
Episode: Die RAF - Tödliche Illusion (2007)

Documentary, Drama, History

Reconstruction of the violent "Germany's Autumn."

Stars: Peter-Jürgen Boock, Horst Mahler