German films about parallel worlds

List of the best German films about parallel worlds, selected by visitors to our site: Monster Hunter, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Four Against the Bank, Iron Sky, In Her Name, Don't Believe the Hype, Phoenix, Kill Me, Ice Princess Lily, Gut zu Vögeln.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, China, Germany, Japan

A portal transports Lt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, USA, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belgium, China, Thailand
Duration01:47

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryGermany

Four men, betrayed by the bank, unite to take revenge.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryFinland, Germany, Belgium, Australia, France, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom
Duration01:33

    In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.

    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: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany

    Dawid, Vanessa and Ludwig are the finalists at a pitch-competition for a movie about the German Rap phenomenon CRO. As the three youngsters work out their extraordinary film ideas, they must fight through unexpected personal challenges.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
    CountryGermany, Poland
    Duration01:38

    A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg
    Duration01:31

    A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryGermany, Canada

    A young dragon looking for his own fire must fight against an evil wizard with help of the beautiful ice princess, Lilli.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:11

    After her fiancee cancels the wedding, Merlin's life changes drastically when she moves in with one of her brother's best friends.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:08

    An overwhelmed family man (Bastian Pastewka) starts to produce counterfeit money in his own run down print shop.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreadventure, family
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:30

    New summer adventure of the Crocodiles, who set up their detective skills to find out who is behind the accidents of the factory where Ollie and Mary's parents work , which could mean the closure of the plant, the move of the family and the dissolution of the gang.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredocumentary
    CountryGermany

    Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryGermany

    A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never left their hometown and took care of their father until his passing. After their fathers funeral, the brothers decide on a whim, and with some help from the alcohol, to fulfil their old dream: travel trough Germany together on their mopeds.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryAustria, Germany, France

    An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, France
    Duration01:50

    Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryIsrael, Germany
    Duration02:00

    Thomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who has frequent business visits in Berlin. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking for answers regarding his death. Under a fabricated identity, Thomas infiltrates the life of Anat, his lover’s newly widowed wife, who owns a small Café in downtown Jerusalem. Thomas starts to work for her, creating German cakes and cookies that bring her Café to life. Thomas finds himself involved in Anat’s life in a way far beyond his anticipation. To protect the truth he will stretch his lie to a point of no return.

    Markimdb: 2.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, family, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany, Australia
    Duration01:34

    Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, drama, cartoon
    CountryIsrael, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, USA, India
    Duration01:58

    More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, Robin Wright decides to take her final job: preserving her likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her digital doppelganger will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want, with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio’s head animator, Wright’s double rises to immortal stardom. With her contract expiring, she is invited to speak at Miramount's "Futurological Congress". However, a group of terrorists plot an attack on the convention.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:48

    Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a daring plan to help Paul save Iris from marrying the wrong man.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:49

    Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence.

    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: 7.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, short
    CountryGermany
    Duration00:21

    A 30-sth. businessman gets stuck on a man-eating traffic island in the middle of a forest for an entire year.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, drama, detective
    CountryRussia, Germany, Japan, Italy, France, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:20

    Faust inhabits an earthy, 19th-century world of primitive autopsies and medical rituals. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Margarete and desperately turns to a physically grotesque moneylender to conjure their union.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:00

    Sonia breaks the perhaps most exciting time of her life, because the 20-year-old moves to Berlin for a mathematics study. Once there, she soon began to build up a new circle of friends, and then she fell in love with the kind, but irresponsible Ladja. There is only one big catch: the dear money is a bit scarce and therefore Sonia one day, financially, but also from curiosity, the path to prostitution. From now on, it leads a brisk double flight, which can fly at any time. Her experiences are ambivalent, as part-time she often gets into difficult situations, but also gets to know nice people, while she enjoys life just as a student. But how long can it maintain the double game?

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
    CountryGermany

    A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon shattered, when it becomes apparent that both the parents and their son have a screw loose.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:04

    After losing his brick laying job, Christian begins to work at a supermarket.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:10

    A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime, history
    CountryGermany

    On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as "The Night of the Fire." The riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, Netherlands
    Duration02:04

    Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, drama, detective
    CountryThailand, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Malaysia, South Korea, Mexico, USA, Norway
    Duration01:10

    In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, and forms a telepathic bond with one of them.

    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: 3.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:15

    Fairy tales collide when Mambo and Munk tip the scales of good and evil once again.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, military, biography
    CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Hungary
    Duration02:07

    With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich – head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, military, history
    CountryGermany, France, Poland, China, Portugal
    Duration01:51

    Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:41

    After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything. To comfort his cousin Cenk, a child of six years, who was humiliated at school and labeled as "foreign", Canan tells a fantastic story about how they left Turkey and went to Germany.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, short
    CountryGermany
    Duration00:38

    The story is about a woman who lives alone. Her son went to his father in another place. The first character is a maid in a hotel to serve the people. First, she got some serious problems in her job. She couldn't take care of both, her job and her son. Her supervisor solved some her problems because he was a good man and may like her. She was not rich and proud, she listened her colleague advice about sex because she didn't have sex for about seven years. She went accidentally to a room who a blind man is living. He was naked after a shower and he talked on his phone. after that, he looked for his socks but he touched the maid body that listened his conversation and be completely quiet. then they started to do sex.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:33

    Öllers and Niederländer have everything under control. For the past six years, the two successful business consultants have been traveling through some of the seediest countries around the world in order to satisfy their clients greed. They have achieved almost everything, but there is one career move left: to finally become a partner in the company! When they find out that their team colleague Hellinger made the cut, they are at their wits end. Up or Out is the name of the game. The fact that Hellinger falls from an office window for no explainable reason doesnt seem to help the situation. Of all people, the young and ambitious Bianca steps in for Hellinger. Öllers and Niederländer are irritated, sarcasm spreads, neuroses break out. The fight for survival within the company takes its toll the AGE OF CANNIBALS dawns.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:13

    15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:50

    A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and humans) most plants prove more resistant because of their complex DNA. However, the simple genes of the plants lead humans to become grotesque mutations, in most cases even to death. Within one week, 90% of mankind are either extinct or no longer human. However, a small fraction of the earth?s population remains immune to the virus and must survive in this new and constantly changing ecological system. Tom cellar is one the survivors and on an old military base in the Eifel he has entrenched himself. Further survivors come together and succeed in carving out a life in this new world. But the GMOs - the ?genetically modified organisms? - constantly develop themselves further, and soon the fence of the base offers no more protection.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
    Duration02:09

    A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

    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: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:09

    Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually demeans herself in order to get at least some love and romance, Leni who runs a coffee shop and has just been ditched by her long term boyfriend, and Vivienne who ends up falling in love with a puppy-eyed pasta designer with 21 dogs.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredocumentary, biography, sport
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:58

    Klitschko tells the captivating story of the boxing worlds most famous brothers: Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko. From the socialist drill of their childhood in the Ukraine, and their first successes as amateurs, to their move to Germany and subsequent rise as international stars on the verge of holding the championship titles of all five boxing federations (Wladimir secured this with his unanimous World Boxing Association win against David Haye on July 2nd, 2011). Along the way they experience defeats and setbacks, low points and triumphant comebacks as well as conflicts with each other. Exciting conversations with companions and opponents, including the very first with the Klitschkos parents, give insight into their personal lives, plus never-before-seen footage of the draining preparations for a fight, and the spectacular boxing matches. Director Sebastian Dehnhardt composes an intimate and fascinating portrait of two exceptional athletes who are, before all else, brothers.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:45

    Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller about a Spanish party tourist who gets lost in Berlin. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night at Berghain.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:29

    A luxury hotel. Steaks frizzle, muffintops getting massaged. Clemens (rare) joins the wellness area as a rookie. Lara (well-done) needs to assert herself in the kitchen pack. The elevator brings the two of them together. They encounter each other, until they clash.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany

    A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:34

    Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the confident and gorgeous, Fabio. The two develop a romantic relationship that tests the boundaries of love. ROMEOS forgoes stereotypes and conventions to offer an honest and humorous examination of the most basic of human conditions: friendship, sex, and love.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:13

    Silent Youth is a film for misfits, dreamers and lovers. It's the classic story of a coming out, but it focuses on the moments one tends to quickly forget: the first approach, the creaking of the chair while sitting across from each other, not knowing what to say. And it's about the silence.

    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.




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