German films about murder

List of the best German films about murder according to the audience: Blood Red Sky, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Atomic Blonde, Arena of the Street Fighter, Amour Fou, Hot Dog, Berlin Syndrome, In the Fade, In Her Name, The Collini Case.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryGermany, USA

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantasy, drama, crime
CountryGermany, France, Spain, USA
Duration02:27

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration02:32

    An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genreaction
    CountryGermany

    The "Bloods" are the most intimidating and violent gang in the city. A lawless city... where gangs rule the streets... The vicious and blood thirsty murderer Slater is their leader. The city is his domain... he rules! There are those who are not members of gangs such as Mikey and his friends. Mikey lives on the edge, he is daring and always in trouble and fights. His brother Mathis and his friends try to avoid trouble at any cost. Revenge becomes the motive to Mikey when his brother Mathis goes missing and is killed..... Written by Generation X Group GmbH

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryAustria, Luxembourg, Germany
    Duration01:36

    A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:25

    A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryAustralia, Germany

    A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGermany, France
    Duration01:21

    Katja's life falls apart in the blink of an eye when two neo-Nazis kill her husband and 6-year-old son in a bomb attack. Her quest for justice soon pushes her to the edge as the two suspects stand trial for murder.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryFrance, Germany
    Duration01:40

    In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:30

    A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
    Duration02:14

    Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:04

    Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryBulgaria, Germany, Macedonia

    A road movie set in present day Bulgaria, a country remains optimistic, mainly because all the realists and pessimists have left. At a meeting with his banker, a small business owner, who drives a cab to make ends meet, discovers the bribe he will have to pay to get a loan has doubled. The ethics board that reviewed his complaint about extortion now wants its share of the action. At his wit's end, he shoots the banker and then himself. The incident sparks national debate on talk radio about how despair has taken over civil society. Meanwhile, six taxi drivers and their passengers move through the night, each in hope of finding a brighter way forward.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada
    Duration02:26

      An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
      Duration01:30

      In Paris, a motley group of young people engineer a deadly plan to spread shock and awe in the city. Each plays their own role. Then they all hide in a department store, a symbol of the consumerist society they are attacking.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany, Sweden, United Kingdom

      Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn't even have time to notice that she's not alone.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountrySweden, Germany
      Duration01:00

      Rebecka Martinsson from Kiruna has not really found herself despite her big successes at a law firm in Stockholm. When a friend from her childhood passes away, Rebecka returns to Kiruna where she's drawn into a thrilling hunt for a killer.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA, Germany

      Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run a American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of Egyptian culture. During these long lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess ISHTAR. He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryIndia, Germany

      Frieda, a fashioncommercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she’s getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette celebration that lasts for a full week. A riotous roller-coaster ride of girl bonding; friendships, break ups, make ups, fuck ups, passion, devastation, hesitation, terrorization and self realization. Amidst the fun and frenzy, heartbreak and heartache, passion and obsession, youth and innocence, secrets tumble out, tensions emerge, bonds are formed and emotions run high. Soon events will take a more serious turn, but for the moment these women are determined to seize the day.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg
      Duration01:36

      For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin games and twin love. A confined world where emotions rise, where pressure mounts into rage… The turmoil of adolescence.

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      Genredocumentary
      CountryItaly, Germany

      2 1/2 hour-documentary on the rise and fall of one of the most controversial Italian genres every created. Starting with Deep River Savages arriving to the infamous Cannibal Ferox.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryDenmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
      Duration01:55

      In 1994 two young twins are found brutally murdered in a summer cottage. A number of clues points in the direction of a group of young upper class students from a nearby boarding school, but the case is closed as a local outsider pleads guilty and is convicted for the murders. When the case ends up on Carls Mørck’s desk 20 years later, he soon realises that something is terribly wrong. As Carl and Assad start investigating the case, they are led on to an old emergency call from a desperate girl who seems to know the secrets of the murders. Soon they are plunged into an intense search for the girl, Kimmie, who has been missing since the murders happened. But Carl and Assad are not the only ones trying to track her down as the girl’s testimonial is of great danger to a group of influential men at the top of society who will do all they can to keep her silent.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, France
      Duration01:35

      In Cairo, weeks before the 2011 revolution, Police Detective Noredin is working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station when he is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the power elite, close to the President’s inner circle.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryCanada, Germany
      Duration01:31

      When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch's worst fears come true when he realizes that he acquitted a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, France
      Duration02:07

      JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:11

      Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, Mexico, Germany, South Africa
      Duration02:15

      With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryIran, Germany
      Duration01:30

      In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryIceland, United Kingdom, Germany

      When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryGermany, Canada
      Duration01:43

      Bill Williamson is back, alive and well and doing a recon mission around D.C. This time he wants to cause a major population disruption within the USA which result in devastating consequences reverberating throughout the world. His new mission this time to bring down The President of the United States and his Secret Service detail. Bill brings with him all the freak-in havoc and acidity of the previous 2 movies.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryNorway, Sweden, Germany
      Duration01:37

      Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Germany
      Duration01:47

      Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reunion - in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
      CountryCanada, Germany, USA
      Duration01:33

      Follows a group of friends that decide to go snowmobiling during their winter break. They make a "wrong turn", getting lost in a storm.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryColombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Luxembourg, France

      During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryGermany
      Duration02:07

      When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountrySpain, Germany

      Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryPhilippines, France, United Kingdom, Germany
      Duration02:00

      A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, crime, biography
      CountryGermany, France
      Duration01:04

      A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryPoland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia, France
      Duration01:45

      A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryFinland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, USA
      Duration02:03

      Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genredrama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:35

      A haunting portrait of a well-established German family living on the outskirts of Berlin in their ideal world, but are slowly shaken by external influences. It's a subtle portrait of human desire, inner desolation, self-deception and moral decadence. The Larsens are a picture perfect family from the German upper-middle class. However, the head of the family, Markus, an architect, lives a secret, bisexual double life as his wife Christine and their eleven-year-old daughter Elisabeth drown in unendurable loneliness. Markus realizes that he has a strong yearning for one of his daughter's school friends, Johannes, 12. He succeeds in getting closer to Johannes and binds the boy to himself with ever-increasing intensity. His wife is desperately aware of the emotional distance of her husband, but only her daughter Elizabeth, reacting to the sexually laden atmosphere, sees through the lies and secrets that she instinctively knows to be an growing, disruptive threat to the entire family

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, western, detective
      CountryNetherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:45

      In the menacing inferno of the old American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryFrance, Germany, Armenia, Monaco
      Duration01:42

      The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA, France, Bulgaria, Germany
      Duration02:16

      Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrecomedy, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:40

      The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, Czech Republic, France, China
      Duration02:17

      The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryGermany

      13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryGermany

      In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen's and the thousands of people like him.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
      Duration01:33

      A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
      Duration01:51

      A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.




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