German films about the Third Reich

List of the best German films about the Third Reich according to visitors: Iron Sky, Cold War, Arch of Triumph, Control, Never Look Away, Look Who's Back, 13 Minutes, Good, The Captain, Urban Explorer.

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: 5.9
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: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
    CountryPoland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium
    Duration02:02

    A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgement, they become involved in a doomed affair.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia, Japan, France
    Duration02:02

    Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryGermany, Italy
    Duration02:16

    Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:12

    Adolf Hitler wakes up in a vacant lot in Berlin, with no knowledge of anything that happened after 1945. Homeless and destitute. Although everyone recognizes him, nobody believes that he is Hitler; instead, they think he is either a comedian, or a method actor.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryGermany, Italy
    Duration01:44

    The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance fighters.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Cayman Islands
    Duration01:36

    The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.

    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: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:34

    Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life!

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryGermany

    A German man fells in love with a Turkish woman and changes his lifestyle for her family.

    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: 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: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, military
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:58

    Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, France
    Duration01:50

    Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Paul and their traditionalist interpretation of Catholicism. Everything that Maria thinks and does must be examined before God. And since the Lord is a strict shepherd, she lives in constant fear of committing some misconduct...

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, family, history
    CountryGermany, Luxembourg

    In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.

    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: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryItaly, France, Germany
    Duration01:45

    The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:28

    An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.

    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: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryRussia, Netherlands, Germany
    Duration02:07

    A chance meeting between Nicolai and Nina, a friend from the past, makes Nicolai return to an abandoned hotel in which, many years ago, he experienced his only love, full of tragedy and an overwhelming feeling.

    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: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:03

    Henry is a playboy who has no idea that he is the father of a beautiful, cute girl out of a One-night-Stand. Her mother left the daughter in front of Henry door after her husband realized after 8 years of marriage that he is not the father so their relationship now is breaking up... By the way: Kokowääh, is how a German (in this case an 8 Year old child) that has never heard the dish before - would pronounce "Coq Au Vin" (chicken in a wine sauce).

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:11

    This is the politically incorrect third and final part of the now famously successful trilogy, where Mr. Müller and his problem kids Chantal, Danger and Co. once again take up arms against their sworn enemy, the German education system.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:11

    While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration01:44

    In the aftermath of 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 widower who lives with them.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGermany, Netherlands, France, Canada

    An adaptation of Doblin's text to 2015 Berlin to tell the story of 30-year-old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat which crossed the Mediterranean illegally. Without citizenship papers, Francis is drawn into the underbelly of the city.

    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: 7.3
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany

    The story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Based on real events.

    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: 6.9
    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: 6.9
    Genrecrime
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:20

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    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, military
    CountryGermany, Luxembourg, Belgium, France
    Duration02:18

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, history
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:03

    A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:34

    Inexperienced guardian angel, Buddy (Michael Herbig) arrives to assist Eddie (Alexander Fehling) with getting his life back on track, but instead only causes more chaos.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryGermany

    Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:49

    Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet...

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryGermany, Austria, Sweden
    Duration01:39

    Pia's life, a girl from a small German town, changes when surprisingly, finds in her garden a huge black monster. She soon discovers that the mysterious creature, which called Yoko, is actually a kind yeti spiritually protecting animals and children worldwide. Yoko is constantly showing his friends Pia and their unique qualities, but children are not the only ones who want the Yeti. Its great value calls attention to two hunters who want to take advantage of the yeti.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryGermany

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    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryGermany, Belgium

    The true story of a young woman whose lust for life means she is determined to be so very much more than just another cancer patient.

    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: 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: 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: 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: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountrySerbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia

    Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryFrance, Germany

    Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:28

    The little swift Manou grows up believing he's a seagull. Learning to fly he finds out he never will be. Shocked, he runs away from home. He meets birds of his own species and finds out who he really is. When both seagulls and swifts face a dangerous threat, Manou becomes the hero of the day.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration02:25

    The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryAustria, Germany, France
    Duration01:44

    Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:42

    Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.




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