Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "post-war-germany"

1. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 137,909 | Gross: $8.18M

2. Taking Sides (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War

After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr

Votes: 3,805 | Gross: $0.19M

3. The Aftermath (2019)

R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War

Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.

Director: James Kent | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ned Wills, Pandora Colin, Jason Clarke

Votes: 23,824 | Gross: $1.62M

4. Never Look Away (2018)

R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl

Votes: 25,363 | Gross: $1.30M

5. The Defeated (2020)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war.

Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Michael C. Hall, Logan Marshall-Green, Nina Hoss

Votes: 8,098

6. Germany Year Zero (1948)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama

A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger

Votes: 13,719

7. 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

8. Ku'damm 56 (2016)

100 min | Drama

Generations clash when the feisty daughter of a dance studio owner defies her mother's wishes and embraces the fight for gender equality in 1950s Berlin.

Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle

Votes: 2,428

9. Turncoat (2020– )

173 min | Drama, History, War

1944. Walter Proska is a young Wehrmacht soldier who begins to question the purpose of the war, who the real enemy is and whether his real duty should be to his fatherland or his own conscience.

Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, Malgorzata Mikolajczak, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Rainer Bock

Votes: 1,741

10. The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.

Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Jörg Schüttauf

Votes: 6,120 | Gross: $0.28M

11. Ku'damm 59 (2018)

278 min | Drama

This is a story about a woman and her three daughters in Germany in the 1950s. One of the daughters wants more from life and becomes a part of the rock'n'roll subculture.

Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle

Votes: 1,341

12. Bye Bye Germany (2017)

102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.

Director: Sam Garbarski | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Tim Seyfi, Mark Ivanir

Votes: 1,766 | Gross: $0.07M

13. The Devil Makes Three (1952)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller

In 1947, an American pilot returns to Germany to find a family that saved his life during WW2 but he stumbles upon a secret Neo-Nazi group.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan

Votes: 532

14. Germany Pale Mother (1980)

152 min | Drama, History, War

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and ... See full summary »

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas

Votes: 847

15. Krupp: A Family Between War and Peace (2009– )

270 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Alfried Krupp and his family and of the Krupp company, which has been preeminent in German industry. The family company was a key supplier of weapons and material to the Nazi regime during WWII.

Stars: Iris Berben, Benjamin Sadler, Valerie Koch, Barbara Auer

Votes: 212

16. 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

17. Whirlpool (1959)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

On the run from her murderous wartime partner in crime Hermann, Lora hides on a Rhine barge captained by heroic Rolf. The crew of three, Georg, Dina and Braun, quickly accepts her. But, both Hermann and the police are on her trail.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Juliette Gréco, O.W. Fischer, Muriel Pavlow, Marius Goring

Votes: 112

18. Sources of Life (2013)

174 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

This is a family story that covers 30 years in the life of the Freytag family, narrated by grandson Robert. When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "... See full summary »

Director: Oskar Roehler | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Meret Becker, Moritz Bleibtreu, Lavinia Wilson

Votes: 522

19. Sealed Verdict (1948)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A former U.S. special prosecutor, Major Robert Lawson, begins to suspect that a Nazi war criminal on death row, General Otto Stiegman, has been wrongfully convicted of leveling a French village along with all of its inhabitants in WWII.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Ray Milland, Florence Marly, John Hoyt, Norbert Schiller

Votes: 76

20. Black Gravel (1961)

113 min | Drama

The story takes place in postwar Germany, following Germany's loss in World War II. For years, people struggled with shortages of everything, housing, water, food, clothing.

Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy, Wolfgang Büttner

Votes: 267

21. Die Wölfe (2009– )

270 min | Drama, History

The birth, separation and reunion of a group of friends in Berlin at three key times: as children in the streets of postwar Berlin, in the 60s when walls are built, and in the late 80s when a new generation breaks them down.

Stars: Axel Prahl, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Johanna Gastdorf

Votes: 162

22. Die Akte Joel (2001 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

Beate Thalberg's critically acclaimed documentary tells the story of two German families, whose ways first cross in the 1930s. Karl Amson Joel owned the fourth largest mail order company in... See full summary »

Director: Beate Thalberg | Stars: Ben Becker, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Alexander Joel

Votes: 24

23. Die Unbeugsamen (2021)

99 min | Documentary

DIE UNBUGSAMEN tells the story of women in the Bonn republic who literally had to fight for their participation in the democratic decision-making processes against success-obsessed and ... See full summary »

Director: Torsten Körner | Stars: Carola von Braun-Stütze, Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Renate Faerber-Husemann, Elisabeth Haines

Votes: 207

24. Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe (2021)

87 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The continuous story of Brandner Kaspar in Bavaria in the mid-1950s. When Death (Boandlkramer) is supposed to take little Maxl, he falls in love with his mother Gefi. Confused by previously unknown feelings, he confides in the devil

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Michael Herbig, Hape Kerkeling, Hannah Herzsprung, Josef Staber

Votes: 636

25. Lost Daughter (1949)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Intrigued by the portrait of a Jewish girl at a London art gallery, a British Army Major attempts to find her amongst the refugees living in various camps for displaced people in post-World War II Germany.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom

Votes: 202

26. The General Case (2016 TV Movie)

92 min | Drama, History

Its 1959. German Public Prosecutor Bauer is convinced he has found the long sought Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. This tense drama shows his struggle to have him brought to ... See full summary »

Director: Stephan Wagner | Stars: Ulrich Noethen, David Kross, Bernhard Schütz, Dieter Schaad

Votes: 299

27. Wir Kellerkinder (1960)

86 min | Comedy, Drama, War

A camera team is desperately searching for swastika graffiti. Finally they find a man willing to paint one -- on the window of his fathers nightclub. And he tells them also, how his father ... See full summary »

Director: Wolfgang Bellenbaum | Stars: Wolfgang Neuss, Karin Baal, Ingrid van Bergen, Jo Herbst

Votes: 149

28. The Secrets of Handsome Leo (2018)

80 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

Leo Wagner was a co-founder of the CSU, the Conservatives, and a member of the German Federal Parliament in Bonn. During the day, the wartime generation of politicians did their duty at the... See full summary »

Director: Benedikt Schwarzer | Stars: Ruth Schwarzer, Alfred Sauter, Richard Thiel, Hans Korneli

Votes: 20

29. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick

Votes: 24

30. Anton the Magician (1978)

102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Car mechanic Anton Grubske manages to flee from captivity by using his wits. With the same cunning, he succeeds in escaping from a widow who is not only beautiful but also conniving. Anton ... See full summary »

Director: Günter Reisch | Stars: Ulrich Thein, Anna Dymna, Erwin Geschonneck, Barbara Dittus

Votes: 62

31. Pod zolotym orlom (1958)

Drama

A group of Soviet expelled citizens after WW2 tries to get back to homeland from one of camps in Western Germany.

Director: Mariya Afanasyeva | Stars: Tatyana Alekseeva, Evgeniy Baliev, Feodosiya Barvinskaya, Baiba Indriksone

32. The David Niven Show (1959)
Episode: Portrait (1959)

30 min | Drama

In post-war Germany two GIs outline two divergent interpretations of a portrait of a beautiful woman: one sees a charming but unscrupulous cafe entertainer, the other sees a chemist intent ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Carolyn Jones, James Best, Robert Nichols, Joe Turkel

Votes: 10

33. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode: Liberation & Revenge (2005)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

In 1945, Red Army soldiers liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau. As other liberations occur in the following months, the world is appalled. Surviving Jews face horrors as they try to return to their lives, and few SS-men are found and put on trial.

Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Vasily Gromadsky

Votes: 168

34. Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode: Politics (2019)

Documentary, History

Delving into the corridors of power where Germany's top political mastermind sees an opportunity to use the popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.

Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Stephan Malinowski, Mike Jackson, Richard John Evans, Helena Kennedy

Votes: 139

35. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Reckoning: 1945... and after (1974)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

As wretched survivours suffer deprivations amongst the ruins, half of Germany and eastern Europe trade one socialist tyranny for another as the Soviets take power. Japan is occupied by the U. S., but the colonial empires disintegrate.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Stephen Ambrose, William Robertson, Kay Summersby

Votes: 335

36. 1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode: The Dawn of the Cold War

56 min | Documentary, History, War

For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the atomic bomb.

Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: François Kersaudy, Clifton Truman Daniel, Curtis Roosevelt, Yuri Borko

37. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: Victory in Europe (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

In 1945, Germany is crumbly on both fronts. The Western Allies cross the Rhine and take most of Germany, while the Red Army quickly advances into Berlin. After Hitler's suicide, Germany surrenders and is divided among the allied powers.

Stars: Adolf Hitler, Gerd von Rundstedt, Albert Kesselring, Bernard L. Montgomery

Votes: 212

38. Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (2013)
Episode: Teil 3 (2013)

TV-MA | 96 min | Drama, History

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Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Josefine Preuß, Heino Ferch, Marie Bäumer, Ken Duken

Votes: 74

39. Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode: Albert Speer (2023)

Documentary, History, War

In his role as Adolf Hitler's favourite architect, Albert Speer was a central figure in the Fuhrer's inner circle and helped cement his position in power.

Director: Tom Williams | Stars: Karina Urbach, Magnus Brechtken, Paul B. Jaskot, Alexander Schmidt

40. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: Unrepentant: The SS and its Myth After 1945 (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Drawing a line to the present, the atrocities of the SS are beyond all doubt, yet, there is a cult surrounding 'old comrades' today.

Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: James Milano, Peter Hammerschmidt, Benjamin Ferencz, Bastian Hein