German movies about time travel

List of the best German movies about time travel, changing the past or the future according to visitors to the site: A Sound of Thunder, The Jacket, Ruby Red, Fantastic Four, Fast & Furious 6, Safari, The Stolen, Bullyparade: The Movie, Mara and the Firebringer, Look Who's Back.

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: 4.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany
Duration01:41

    When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:42

    A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:02

    Gwendolyn Shepherd is a normal 16-year-old, but her family holds a secret: A time-travel gene is expressed in the clan inherited, but not every member of the family is blessed with. Everyone is certain that Gwen's cousin Charlotte has the gene. However, someday Gwendolyn suddenly finds herself in London at the end of the 19th century and realizes that it her, who was born a time traveler. While she is not very enthusiastic about it she will do everything possible to solve the ancient mysteries of the red ruby.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration02:40

    Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom
    Duration02:10

    Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredocumentary
    CountryAustria, Denmark, France, Germany
    Duration02:16

    Africa. In the wild expanses, where bush-bucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, western
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand
    Duration01:55

    The story of a woman who must find her kidnapped son, navigating a world she doesn't know, on the edge of danger with every heartbeat.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany

    A multi-episode movie based on the skit TV show "bullyparade".

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:39

    Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains.

    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: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryItaly, Luxembourg, France, Germany
    Duration01:42

    Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France
    Duration02:14

    Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryGermany, Italy
    Duration01:55

    A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she'll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama, adventure, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Germany
    Duration02:17

    The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where these concepts are gradually being lost.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryGermany, Finland
    Duration01:36

    Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been unexplainable thrown back into her past - to the time before she met her new love. Is what seems at first glance a cruel setback in reality actually a second chance?

    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.

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    Genredrama, documentary
    CountryUkraine, Germany, Latvia, Estonia
    Duration02:00

    Vitaly Mansky’s intimate and insightful new documentary finds him crisscrossing the Ukraine in the wake of the Maidan uprising, which has left his relatives scattered on both sides of a highly charged and dizzyingly complex political situation.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, France, Germany
    Duration01:33

      Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables him to experience the final 8 minutes of another person's life. Colter re-lives the train incident over and over again, gathering more clues each time. But can he discover who is responsible for the attack before the next one happens?

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryNetherlands, Belgium, Germany, Republic of Ireland
      Duration02:20

      An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the contract.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration03:02

      STEFFEN VOGT, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His theory of a time-traveler who made a video of Jesus is laughed at by everyone, however, including SHARON, an attractive Israeli woman he adores. Although no one appears to believe him, his find certainly seems to have generated interest: Steffen is attacked shortly afterwards in his hotel room by strange men; then he discovers that the German embassy and the secret service are after him; and when his friend DAN is murdered, he goes into hiding.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama, family
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:12

      It is a Saturday in autumn, and Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and youngest sister Clara. This family gathering provides the occasion for a dinner together, at which other relatives appear over the course of the day. While the family members animate the apartment’s space with their conversations, everyday activities and cooking preparations, the cat and dog range through the various rooms. they too become a central element in this quotidian familial dance that repeatedly manifests stylized elements, disrupting any naturalistic mode of presentation. In this way, adjoining spaces open up between family drama, fairy tale and the psychological study of a mother.

      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: 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
      CountryGermany, Bulgaria, Austria
      Duration02:22

      A group of German construction workers set out for a foreign construction site in the Bulgarian province. The strange country awakens adventure feelings among the men. At the same time, they are confronted with their prejudices and mistrust. For two of the men, a nearby village becomes the stage for a competition for the recognition and favor of the village.

      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
      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: 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: 7.5
      Genrehorror, drama, cartoon
      CountryChile, Germany

      María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at the service of the military dictatorship ruled by Augusto Pinochet—, is punished for having lost three pigs, so she decides to run away and take refuge in an abandoned house hidden in the forest.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, short
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:40

        When the kingdom's most wanted-and most charming-bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, China, USA
        Duration01:41

        An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run from his employers across Munich's autobahns.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA, India, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
        Duration02:35

        The tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji's world - pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they'll play as characters from the game.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:43

        A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy
        CountryGermany

        Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes to an abrupt end, as he builds a self-inflicted accident on highway with 230 km / h and raced through a guardrail. When he wakes up in the hospital again, he faces a devastating diagnosis: paraplegia. Actually, a rehabilitation stay of several months is planned in the hospital, but Oliver soon falls on his head and ends up in a disabled shared flat with the name "Die Goldfische"

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genredrama
        CountryMexico, Germany

        Miguel and Johnny know each other since childhood. They are dedicated to skate and have fun. To earn easy money and continue skating, they sell their own blood to a clandestine contact in a hospital. The activity becomes business until a large transaction is not as they imagined.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryBrazil, Germany
        Duration01:46

        Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.

        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: 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: 7.1
        Genredrama
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:52

        Astrid is a comedian who makes people laugh for a living; her husband Markus is her manager and the two of them work well together. They have a nine-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child. When they learn that their child will not be born healthy, they are at first optimistic that they will be able to meet this challenge – although they have no idea what awaits them. But the closer it gets to the due date, the more Astrid begins to worry about the future of her unborn child as well as that of her family and her career. After many discussions and arguments Astrid realises that the decision that will affect all their lives must be made by her alone. What complicates matters further is the fact that, as a successful entertainer, she is in the eye of the public and the media.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy
        CountryGermany

        The celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Capitol-Insurance” is due – that's what the bosses thought. All employees are invited to join the party in a hotel. However, rumors say the company's not doing very well. To avoid unemployment due to the possible shutdown of the smaller branch office the only option is to move to the headquarters. Now that's the ultimate challange for Stromberg, who is notoriously trying to be the example of a department manager, gathering all of his employees behind him.

        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.

        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: 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: 6.1
        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: 7.5
        Genremelodrama
        CountryGermany
        Duration02:26

        Two university students gain insight into life and love as they get to know each other during a road trip across Europe.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, music
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:38

        The ambitious punk rocker Max and the eco-activist Inge cannot stand each other, ever since Max publicly exposed her by singing the offensive song "When Inge is Dancing" in front of the whole school. But for Max and his classmates Fabio, Joscha and Lukas this song in particular has become a real hit at school as well as in the regional music scene: Their band called Systemfehler is on the verge of a breakthrough. But just before the important gig, which could get them a record deal, guitarist Josha is injured and can't play. Inge happens to be an excellent guitarist, and the only person who can fill in at such short notice. But when Max asks for her help, she imposes one non-negotiable condition: If she decides to play with the band, they will not perform the song "Wenn Inge tanzt".

        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: 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
        Genrefantasy, drama, detective, history
        CountryRussia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark
        Duration01:36

        A French marquis wanders through a vast labyrinth of corridors, theaters and ballrooms at a reception for a Persian ambassador.

        Markimdb: 3
        Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure, military
        CountryGermany, Canada, USA, Bulgaria
        Duration01:26

        Hazen Kaine, an American contract killer living in Sofia, Bulgaria, gets more than he bargains for when he enters into a contract with the mob. One last job before he gets out and starts a new life for himself. The targets: the three children of royal billionaire Andon Dupont. Seems simple enough, or so he thought. Hazen apprehends the children, and before he can blink an eye, a simple necklace worn by one of the children sends his life spiraling back to medieval times. Now completely out of his element, Hazen fights for his life as he tries to escape a medieval army and a fierce fire-breathing dragon.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, family
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:21

        "The Crocodiles" are celebrating the birthday of Hannes and the beginning of the best summer vacation they have ever had. Although the boys have grown and developed different interests, the band remains united against all odds. During a wild karts race that ends in a terrible accident, Frank is taken to hospital by ambulance. His life is in danger: he needs a transplant from a close relative to save his life. The only possible donor is his brother, Dennis, who was put behind bars by the Crocodiles with their teammate Kevin. Time is running out, but true friends never give up! With the help of Jenny and Hannes' mother , the band surprises us with a bold plan




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