German movies

List of the best German movies selected by visitors to our site: My Blind Date with Life, In the Aisles, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, Berlin, I Love You, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Coconut The Little Dragon: Into The Jungle, Risk, Look Who's Back, Resistance, Fanny Lye Deliver'd.

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

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: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryGermany
Duration02:04

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

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRomania, Germany, Bulgaria, France, Czech Republic
Duration01:15

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

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: 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: 5.6
Genrecartoon
CountryGermany

This is going to be the best holiday ever. Coconut The Little Dragon is thrilled about going to summer camp with his best friends Oscar and Matilda. But due to wild Water Dragons and carnivorous plants, the adventure he wished for turns out tougher than expected.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredocumentary
CountryGermany, USA

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.

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: 4.9
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
Duration01:32

It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. They have headed into the mountains to join the Resistance.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany

On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have been robbed and need a place to stay. But are these strangers really who they say they are?

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: 2.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, military
CountryCanada, Italy, USA, Germany
Duration01:30

A bacteriological weapon developed by the US Government to create a super soldier - spreads an epidemic in a quiet little town in the middle of Eastern Europe. All citizens have been turned into infected zombies. The plan is to bring an atomic bomb into the city's nuclear plant to pretend a terrible accident occurred. No one has to know the truth. A team of mercenaries is hired to complete the mission. The battle is on. Hordes of monsters against the team. Who will survive?

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror
CountryGermany
Duration01:08

Suddenly Jennifer is torn from her comfortable and non-assuming life. While planning to move, Jennifer and her husband will experience anything but an ordinary day! It all begins with a strange visit from her soon to be ex-neighbor, the postman who mentions an urgent need. Later when Jennifer comes home from grocery, she discovers an elderly neighbor, who is her son's babysitter, has disappeared. She also receives a terrifying and disturbing letter which contains a macabre death poem, plus some compromising sex photos of her husband and the missing babysitter! To get over the initial shock, she decides to take a bath, and promptly falls asleep in the bathtub. When she awakes, she finds herself on the floor of her apartment covered in blood and body parts! Center to this surreal and horrific scene is a mysterious masked man who promises to lead Jennifer on the right path toward the sacred white light . The story continues as a tale of physical and mental torture!

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
Duration01:36

    In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
    CountryCanada, Germany, USA, Bulgaria
    Duration01:31

    A small West Virginia town is hosting the legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where throngs of costumed party goers gather for a wild night of music and mischief. But an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals kill the fun when they trick and treat themselves to a group of visiting college students.

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    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryRussia, Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom

    1945 year. The International Military Tribunal begins work in Nuremberg. The trial, which will later be called the Process of the Century, attracts a huge number of people from all over the world: the city is overflowing with journalists, lawyers, translators, witnesses and many participants and employees of the process. Among those who come to Nuremberg to work at the Trial is Igor Volgin. He is young, but went through the war, has awards, speaks several foreign languages. Volgin will be a translator for the Soviet delegation led by Colonel Migachev. Once on the street of Nuremberg Volgin meets a young Russian girl Lena. Their nascent feeling will go through many trials, but love is the only thing that at all times saved the world from dehumanization.

    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: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryTurkey, France, Germany, Qatar
    Duration01:58

    In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:16

    Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryGermany, Luxembourg

    In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUSA, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Luxembourg, United Kingdom

    An eye-opening documentary that asks the question: Are we going to let climate change destroy civilization, or will we act on technologies that can reverse it? Featuring never-before-seen solutions on the many ways we can reduce carbon in the atmosphere thus paving the way for temperatures to go down, saving civilization.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, history
    CountryFrance, Canada, Russia, Germany
    Duration01:41

    1979: Cousins Carole and Jérôme go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. During the day, posing as tourists celebrating their engagement, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening they slip away from the group and meet “refuseniks”, Jews persecuted by the Soviet regime for wanting to leave the country. While Carole is motivated by political commitment and a taste for risk, Jérôme’s motivation is Carole.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, Austria, Estonia
    Duration02:09

    In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreadventure, family, cartoon
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:28

    One of the most classic and revered stories of all time, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan returns to the big screen for a new generation. Tarzan and Jane face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash in the African jungle.

    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: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:25

    On the request of his mother Gitte, Marko, who has been living in Berlin for years, drives off to the countryside to visit his parents. His hopes of spending a quiet and relaxing time with his family fall short when Gitte surprises everyone by revealing that she has recovered after a long mental illness. Marko is the only one who respects her wish from now on to be treated as a full member of this family and, as a result, ends up tipping more than just the delicate balance of his parent’s seemingly harmonious relationship.

    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: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:45

    It is the summer of 1980 in East Germany and, alone, Barbara is confined to living and working as a doctor in a small provincial town - her punishment for attempting to emigrate to the West. She has only one focus; to escape and for this, she has to wait patiently. Until Andre, her supervisor in the hospital, takes her off course. Are his motives of love or duty to the authorities? The day-to-day pretense, and content supervision slowly take their toll as the tension builds.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, Norway

    Between New York City and the far north of Norway, an American painter and a Russian émigré find each other in the Arctic circle. Together under a sun that never sets, they discover a future and family that they didn’t know they had.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGermany

    Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:57

    A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryGermany, Austria
    Duration02:11

    Özge Dogruol, a young Vienna based taxi driver of Turkish origin. She witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The offender seems to be a crazed serial killer and he is convinced that Özge has seen him. A life-and-death struggle ensues.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUkraine, Germany, Monaco

    A series of odd coincidences has left Lukas, an interpreter for an OSCE military checkpoint inspection tour, stranded near a small southern Ukrainian steppe town. With nowhere to turn, this city boy finds shelter at the home of a colorful local named Vova. With Vova as his guide, Lukas is confronted by a universe beyond his imagination, one in which life seems utterly detached from any identifiable structure. Fascinated by his host and his host's daughter Marushka, with whom he is rapidly falling in love, Lukas’s contempt for provincial life slowly melts away and sets him on a quest for a happiness he had never known could exist.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, family
    CountryGermany
    Duration00:58

    German TV adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen‘s famous fairy tale “The Little Mermaid“.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Canada
    Duration01:25

      After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter named Nissa, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryGermany

      A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryGermany

      Udo is invisible - no one ever seems to notice him. He makes the most of it, working as a department store detective and living off other people's lives as they never notice him tagging along. Until he meets the one woman who sees him.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama
      CountryGreece, France, Germany
      Duration01:22

      In a monastery set on the top of sandstone pillars young monk Theodoros and nun Urania find themselves physically drawn to one and other after devoting their lives to the strict rituals and practises of the monasteries. Below them the eternal cycle of farm-life provides a strong contrast to their lives and they are forced to choose between human desire and spiritual devotion

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:27

        After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama
        CountryAustria, Germany, France
        Duration01:32

        Hope, the third film in the PARADISE TRILOGY, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Under the supervision of a tattooed trainer and a creepy doctor, the teenagers attempt to do sports during the day and secretly get drunk in the evening. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the doctor who is 40 years her senior.

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