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1. Barry Lyndon (1975)
PG | 185 min | Adventure, Drama, War
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger
Votes: 182,978
2. Waterloo (I) (1970)
G | 123 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 12,613 | Gross: $3.05M
3. The Red Violin (1998)
R | 130 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
Director: François Girard | Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Christoph Koncz, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 34,481 | Gross: $9.47M
4. Joyeux Noel (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, History, Music
In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
Director: Christian Carion | Stars: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay
Votes: 31,983 | Gross: $1.05M
5. 1864 (2014)
TV-14 | 460 min | Drama, History, War
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Bent Mejding, Marie Tourell Søderberg
Votes: 4,092
6. The Devil (1972)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Horror
During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman, Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of his fellow ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek, Iga Mayr
Votes: 2,844
7. Margrete: Queen of the North (2021)
Unrated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
1402. Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden, Norway and Denmark through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: the Kalmar Union.
Director: Charlotte Sieling | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro
Votes: 2,922
8. Catherine the Great (1995 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson, Brian Blessed
Votes: 1,348
9. The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet
Votes: 7,273 | Gross: $0.13M
10. Something for Everyone (1970)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In post-war Austria, young, handsome country lad Konrad Ludwig (Michael York) charms his way into a butler position at the castle of the widowed (and destitute) Countess von Ornstein (... See full summary »
Director: Harold Prince | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, Heidelinde Weis
Votes: 1,078 | Gross: $0.30M
11. Amour Fou (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. ... See full summary »
Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Christian Friedel, Birte Schnöink, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller
Votes: 1,739 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Maries Lied (1994)
90 min | Drama, History
Marie is an adolescent woman who lives in Prussia in 1813 with her mother, a countess. They live in a palace watching the path of history from a far point of view.
Director: Niko von Glasow | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Bastian Trost, Veronica Quilligan, Martin Feifel
Votes: 94
13. Mädchen in Uniform (1958)
91 min | Drama
In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Romy Schneider, Therese Giehse, Blandine Ebinger
Votes: 1,759
14. Hadik (2023)
108 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
During the Seven Years War, Austrian Queen Maria Theresa sends her best general, András Hadik and his Hussars to raid Berlin and humiliate the Prussian King, Frederick the Great.
Director: János Szikora | Stars: Zsolt Trill, Áron Molnár, Tamás Szalma, Gyözö Szabó
Votes: 1,665
15. The Student Prince (1954)
Approved | 107 min | Musical, Romance
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern
Votes: 991
16. The House of Rothschild (1934)
Passed | 88 min | Biography, Drama, History
The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Sidney Lanfield | Stars: George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Votes: 1,326
17. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, History, Romance
A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser
Votes: 7,234
18. Wagner (1983)
300 min | Biography, Drama, History
A huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria, to the final ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, László Gálffi
Votes: 616
19. Effi Briest (1974)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, History
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town.... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm
Votes: 2,695
20. By Way of the Stars (1992–1993)
PG | Adventure, Drama, Family
Spring, 1865. The last spring in the childhood of Lukas Bienmann. Nothing forebodes the calamities about to befall the 13-year-old boy and his family in the peaceful town of Liebenberg, ... See full summary »
Stars: Zachary Bennett, Gema Zamprogna, Christian Kohlund, Anja Kruse
Votes: 167
21. Conquest (1937)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, History, Mystery
A Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent.
Directors: Clarence Brown, Gustav Machatý | Stars: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal
Votes: 1,681 | Gross: $0.73M
22. The Deluge (1974)
287 min | Adventure, History, Romance
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kazimierz Wichniarz
Votes: 3,181
23. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
442 min | Biography, Drama
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels
Votes: 907
24. Coup de Grâce (1976)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War
A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 1,395
25. The Ashes (1965)
234 min | Drama, History, War
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the 19th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Boguslaw Kierc, Piotr Wysocki, Beata Tyszkiewicz
Votes: 467
26. La Marseillaise (1938)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, History, Music
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Léon Larive
Votes: 1,395
27. Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973– )
415 min | Adventure
Stars: Matthias Habich, György ifj. Gonda, Rolf Becker, Alf Marholm
Votes: 83
28. The Making of a King (1935)
91 min | Drama
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Emil Jannings, Werner Hinz, Leopoldine Konstantin, Claus Clausen
Votes: 113
29. Komunaris chibukhi (1929)
65 min | Action, Drama
A Russian telling of the 1871 "Paris Commune", the first proletariat government in history.
Director: Kote Marjanishvili | Stars: Ushangi Chkheidze, Sergei Zabozlayev, Veriko Anjaparidze, T. Menzon
Votes: 62
30. Pferd und Reiter Springen über ein Hindernis (1888)
1 min | Short
A horse with rider jumping over an obstacle
Director: Ottomar Anschütz
Votes: 445
31. Fridericus (1937)
97 min | Drama
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
Director: Johannes Meyer | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Hilde Körber, Lil Dagover, Agnes Straub
Votes: 86
32. Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Harald Juhnke, Udo Samel, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 130
33. A Love Story (1954)
97 min | Drama, Romance
During a New Year's Eve ball, Prussian cavalry officer Jost von Fredersdorff falls in love with Lili, the lover of his superior. When they decide to get married, their plans are opposed by ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Hildegard Knef, O.W. Fischer, Viktor de Kowa, Karl Ludwig Diehl
Votes: 17
34. Friedrich - Ein deutscher König (2012 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Jan Peter | Stars: Katharina Thalbach, Anna Thalbach, Oliver Nägele, Christina Große
Votes: 54
35. Glory and Defeat - The Franco-Prussian War 1870/71 (2021 Video)
Documentary
Glory and Defeat is a documentary series chronicling the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 week by week - From the Ems Dispatch to the Paris Commune and the Treaty of Frankfurt. It covers not ... See full summary »
Director: Toni Steller | Star: Jesse Alexander
Votes: 7
36. Eine Handvoll Helden (1967)
94 min | Drama, War
A handful of Prussian soldiers defend a strategic outpost, against rushing Frenchmen. Goal is to hold up the Frenchmen as long as possible, to save time for regular forces to retreat.
Director: Fritz Umgelter | Stars: Horst Frank, Valeria Ciangottini, Karlheinz Fiege, Volkert Kraeft
Votes: 64
37. 1815 - The Battle of Waterloo (1992)
55 min | Documentary
This program tells the story of the final thunderous battle of the Napoleonic era featuring stunning excerpts from major feature films, specially filmed authentic reconstruction and ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Carruthers
38. Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Brühl (1985 TV Movie)
182 min | Drama, History, War
Director: Hans-Joachim Kasprzik | Stars: Ezard Haußmann, Gunter Schoß, Rolf Hoppe, Irma Münch
Votes: 55
39. Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Gräfin Cosel (1987 TV Movie)
166 min | Drama, History
Director: Hans-Joachim Kasprzik | Stars: Marzena Trybala, Dietrich Körner, Alfred Struwe, Klaus Piontek
Votes: 66
40. Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria - Aus dem siebenjährigen Krieg (1985 TV Movie)
165 min | Drama, History, War
Anna Constantia von Brockdorff - the Countess of Cosel - rises to become the mistress of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. After the ruler's death in 1733, his ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Joachim Kasprzik | Stars: Ezard Haußmann, Jitka Molavcová, Rolf Hoppe, Irma Münch
Votes: 56
41. Kadetten (1939)
94 min | Drama, War
During the 18th century's Seven-Year War, a group of young Prussian army cadets are captured by Russian soldiers. After enduring brutal treatment, the cadets come up with a plan to escape ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Mathias Wieman, Carsta Löck, Andrews Engelmann, Theo Shall
Votes: 40
42. Potsdam: Germany's City of Ghosts (1979)
52 min | Documentary
Filmed in 1979, "Potsdam: Germany's City of Ghosts" documents the compelling past and present of the East German city. Once residence to the Prussian Kings and later on the German emperors,... See full summary »
Director: Michael Blackwood | Star: David Binder
43. Fridericus Rex - 1. Teil: Sturm und Drang (1922)
Drama
Part 1 of a four part series of biographical films about king Friedrich II of Prussia focuses on his early life, his love of music and his father's displeasure with it.
Director: Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Albert Steinrück, Gertrud de Lalsky, Erna Morena
Votes: 10
44. Fridericus Rex - 4. Teil: Schicksalswende (1923)
Part 4 of a four part series of biographical films about the Friedrich II of Prussia shows the king as the man who leads the Prussian army to the ultimate victory in the seven-years-war.
Director: Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Lothar Müthel, Eduard von Winterstein, Wolfgang von Schwindt
45. Der Fall Walrawe (1980 TV Movie)
History
Director: Werner Schlechte | Stars: Werner Kreindl, Xenia Pörtner, Kathrin Ackermann, Kornelia Boje
46. Fridericus Rex - 3. Teil: Sanssouci (1923)
Drama
Part 3 of a four part of biographical films about Friedrich II of Prussia. Friedrich befriends the French philosopher Voltaire and he realizes a long held dream by building the castle of Sanssouci.
Director: Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Erna Morena, Gertrud de Lalsky, Anton Edthofer
47. Fridericus Rex - 2. Teil: Vater und Sohn (1922)
Part 2 of a four part series of biographical films about Friedrich II of Prussia tells of his continued interest in music, his marriage to Elisabeth-Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, and ... See full summary »
Director: Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Albert Steinrück, Gertrud de Lalsky, Erna Morena
48. The Prussian Spy (1909)
5 min | Short, Drama
Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers the hiding place and threatens to kill the spy.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Marion Leonard, Harry Solter, Owen Moore, Florence Lawrence
Votes: 17
49. Wizja lokalna 1901 (1980)
86 min | Drama, History
A group of Polish students oppose the teaching of religion in German, for which they are persecuted by the Prussian authorities.
Director: Filip Bajon | Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Zygmunt Bielawski
Votes: 58
50. Spreeland. Fontane (2018)
79 min | Documentary
Director: Bernhard Sallmann | Star: Judica Albrecht