German movies about demons

List of the best German movies about demons selected by visitors to our site: Masks, Slender Man, Luz, Hut in the Woods, Men in the City 2, Atomic Blonde, Beloved Sisters, 100 Things, A Most Wanted Man, The Devil's Advocate.

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: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryGermany
Duration01:52

In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor “shine”. Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama student, gets accepted at the „Matteusz Gdula“-school. When she bears witness to some strange occurrences, she gets drawn into the bizarre and deadly web that surrounds the dark secret of the school...

Markimdb: 3.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryGermany, USA
Duration02:27

In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryGermany

Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves.

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: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryGermany
Duration01:52

The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.

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: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryGermany, Austria, Luxembourg

    A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:46

    Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A story about contemporary materialism and the quest for the truely important things in life.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany
    Duration02:02

    A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:24

    A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany

    A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.

    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: 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: 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: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryGermany

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

    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: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico, Germany
    Duration02:00

    After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, history
    CountryFrance, Germany, Netherlands
    Duration01:54

    Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:37

    A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what it means to fall in love with another man. Torn between his family and his new feelings for Kay, Marc sees his world careening more and more out of control. Suddenly, his life is in free fall and Marc realizes that try as he may, he can't make everyone happy. Least of all, himself.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryGermany, Norway
    Duration01:37

    Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, military
    CountryGermany, Russia, Ukraine
    Duration01:33

    Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, family
    CountryGermany

    The life of 14-year-old Lilith is similar to that of a normal teenager, but there is a peculiarity: she is the daughter of the devil and lives with him in hell. Because she is totally bored there and also wants to have fun and explore the world, she makes a pact with her father: she is allowed to go to earth for a week - but she has to convert a good person to evil there. If she succeeds in this challenge, she may stay on earth forever, otherwise she'll be waving a hell of a boring job in the bookkeeping of the underworld.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:41

    Canadian scientist, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a human regeneration gene—that also has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg
    Duration02:15

    An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryGermany

    A young man struggles with the pressure of caring for his terminally ill father while trying to unlock a secret that his father seems determined to keep from him. The story takes another dramatic turn when Ron, Burghardt’s long-lost friend from his youth, re-appears — and a well-kept family secret is uncovered.

    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: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:40

    A girl who always tends to fall in love with the wrong guy meets one who believes the world is coming to an end next Tuesday.

    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
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:37

    Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In the boiler room of their recently built housing complex, the three stressed husbands create a secret refuge where they can watch football, eat fast-food, drink beer and curse the opposite sex undisturbed. When Aykut, the complex’s facility manager, discovers their last bastion of masculinity, he threatens to close it down. One thing is for sure, the men are not going to give up their little slice of paradise without a fight. Based on the stage play bearing the same name, director Franziska Meyer Price allows men to return to rebellious ladhood.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:36

    Vincent, a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, has just lost his mother. His father, a successful politician, does not want to take care of him and therefore places him into a mental institution. He is put into a room with Alexander, a guy with a compulsive disorder, and is shown around by Marie, an anorectic girl.

    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
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany, Liechtenstein, France
    Duration01:46

    In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, biography
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:42

    After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryGermany

    Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:34

    Hartmut Mackowiak, a German taxi driver, tries to help 6 year old Turkish girl to find her mother.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:24

    Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob, rejecting the banking world for farming, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist - something a spontaneous trip to Berlin. Proving that true love can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and rewarding as it is heart-warming.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:27

    The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecrime
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, Germany

    Jack Taylor is an Irish television drama based on a series of novels by Ken Bruen. Set in Galway, the series stars Iain Glen in the eponymous role of Jack Taylor, a former officer with the Garda Síochána who becomes a "finder" after leaving the service. Taylor is a man who goes looking for clues where others have not bothered to. He also knows the streets of his hometown like the back of his hand.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography, history, sport
    CountryCanada, Germany, France
    Duration02:40

    Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy. Starring Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, Carice Van Houten and William Hurt - Race is an enthralling film about courage, determination, tolerance, and friendship, and an inspiring drama about one man's fight to become an Olympic legend.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryGermany, Austria
    Duration02:20

    A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construction of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.

    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: 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
    CountryGermany

    Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:30

    Keeping secrets can be difficult, especially when you’re a twelve-year-old half-vampire moving from Transylvania to a new life in Germany. Going to school, making new friends and fitting in — it’s all tough when you can’t just be yourself. With a vampire father and a human mother, sisters Dakaria (Daka) and Silvania don’t live in your typical blended family. Each girl embraces a different side of her genetic makeup: Daka wishes she was 100% vampire; Silvania wishes she was 100% human; and both believe they can finally realize their hearts’ desires when the opportunity to change presents itself. Will Daka and Silvania realize that, sometimes, your uniqueness is your greatest strength?

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, adventure, family, biography
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:11

    A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryGermany

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

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:50

    When Banker Till (Axel Stein) is kidnapped during a bank robbery, he has the time of his life...

    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: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:19

    A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob's mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
    CountryFinland, Germany, Australia, France, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom
    Duration02:23

    Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. The truth behind the creation of mankind will be revealed when an old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity they must fight the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race and their army of dinosaurs.




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