German police movies

List of the best German police movies selected by visitors to our site: Pierrot Lunaire, Irgendwann ist auch mal gut, Jürgen - Heute wird gelebt, Pride and Glory, Retablo, Oh! Mammy Blue, The Cloud, Yuli, The Titan, Spoor.

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: 4.8
Genredrama, music
CountryGermany, Canada

A young girl that regularly dresses as a boy falls in love and seduces a young girl that has no clue that her lover has the same sex. When the girl introduces 'her boyfriend' to her father he becomes skeptical and unmasks the fraud. Even though, strangely, the feelings of the girl persist without shifting, the father does not allow them to ever see the other again. Furious and delusional the 'boy' develops an adventurous plan to prove his true 'masculinity' to the father of his lover.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryGermany

The life of Karsten, a mortician, isn’t going that well at the moment. Just in time for Christmas, his parents inform him during the festive dinner that they want to commit suicide together. In five days. Usually used to death, he tries everything to convince the dear mother Marion and the father Theodor, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, not to pursue their plan. But the conflict about the self-determined death opens up old wounds – and as Karsten’s own health deteriorates rapidly, it is no longer clear who needs to be saved.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountryGermany

"Jürgen - Heute wird gelebt" is about two lonely middle age men that crush together, searching for the woman of their dreams, on the way to Poland.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:10

A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryPeru, Germany, Norway

Segundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains of Peru. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he artfully crafts altarpieces for church and homes, and is preparing his son to follow in his footsteps. But cracks form in their tight bond.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountrySpain, Venezuela, Germany

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:45

    DIE WOLKE (The Cloud) is about a breakdown of a nuclear power station in Germany and the story of two teenager-lovers Hannah and Elmar who take refuge. 38.000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountrySpain, Cuba, United Kingdom, Germany

    Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His father, however, has other ideas, and knowing that his son has a natural talent for dance, sends him to the National Ballet School of Cuba. Despite his repeated escapes and initial poor behaviour, the boy is inevitably drawn to the world of dance, and begins to shape his legendary career from a young age, becoming the first black dancer to be cast in some of the most prestigious ballet roles, originally written for white dancers, in companies such as the Houston Ballet or the Royal Ballet in London.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Germany
    Duration02:22

    On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryPoland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia, France
    Duration01:45

    A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
    Duration01:41

    A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, Czech Republic, France, China
    Duration02:17

    The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, military
    CountryGermany, Austria

    A Roma boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director, the lives of the child victims, and the struggles of the child protagonist. More than five thousand children died in the Nazi euthanasia program.

    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: 4.9
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg
    Duration01:36

    For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin games and twin love. A confined world where emotions rise, where pressure mounts into rage… The turmoil of adolescence.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredocumentary, biography, sport
    CountryGermany

    Through exclusive interviews and archival footage, this documentary traces an intimate portrait of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher.

    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: 3.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy
    CountryGermany

    A team of Arctic geologists stumble across an abandoned laboratory in which the Nazis developed an incredible and brutal secret weapon during the final months of WW2. Deep in the ice, they accidentally awake a deadly army of flying zombie sharks ridden by genetically mutated, undead super-humans, who are unleashed into the skies, wreaking their bloodthirsty revenge on any aircraft that takes to the air. An elite task force is assembled to take on this deadly threat and stop the Sky Sharks from conquering the air, but as time runs out, the task force realises they will have to fight fire with fire, and the stage is set for the greatest flying super-mutant zombie shark air battle the world has ever seen....

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration02:10

      Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary

      Constance, 1410. Marie, daughter of the richest bourgeois of the city, is on the eve of marrying a prestigious lawyer, son of an earl. Although the compromise fills with pride the girl's father, anxious to ennoble, Marie is not just convinced about her fiancé, who she has only seen twice. Her suspicions are confirmed tragically on the eve of the wedding when, after signing the marriage contract, a stranger breaks into the house ensuring that Marie has slept with other men in exchange for gifts, like a vile harlot. From that moment, the life of the girl will give a terrible unexpected turnaround. Alone, with his reputation ruined, she will have no choice to survive than partnering with a prostitute and lying on the roads.

      Genredrama
      CountryGeorgia, Germany

      In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way to recognize each other.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryGermany

      The failed documentary film maker Lukas Schmidt interviews the successful writer Agnes Lehner in a hotel room. As a past acquaintance between them is revealed, different accounts of a traumatic event are mixed with lies and deceit, leading to dire consequences.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryIndia, Germany

      Frieda, a fashioncommercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she’s getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette celebration that lasts for a full week. A riotous roller-coaster ride of girl bonding; friendships, break ups, make ups, fuck ups, passion, devastation, hesitation, terrorization and self realization. Amidst the fun and frenzy, heartbreak and heartache, passion and obsession, youth and innocence, secrets tumble out, tensions emerge, bonds are formed and emotions run high. Soon events will take a more serious turn, but for the moment these women are determined to seize the day.

      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: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Austria
      Duration01:33

      While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated through her spoken-for boss, Jonny.

      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: 7.3
      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: 6.9
      Genredrama, biography, history, sport
      CountryGermany

      Two brothers start a sportswear company in the 1920s, hoping to make the best shoes in the world. Their relationship deteriorates until they become bitter rivals.

      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: 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: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryGermany

      Franz, the local police officer in a tiny Bavarian village has to investigate in a case involving a disliked school principal that appears to have committed suicide...

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy
      CountryGermany

      Based on Tommy Jaud's bestselling novel, this comedy focuses on a dispassionate clerk and his set-backs in life. 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts just circle around finding a new girl-friend after being left by his last one year ago. While his Croatian cleaner tries to procure him, his efforts to chat up women in clubs also fail. However, he finds the woman of his dreams (and mother of their future children) in his most hated coffee shop, although not having a clue how to win her heart...

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:33

      Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

      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
      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: 6.4
        Genredrama, military
        CountryWest Germany, United Kingdom, Germany, Republic of Ireland, USA
        Duration00:16

        A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

        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: 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: 6.1
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryGermany, Sweden
          Duration00:56

          Thirteen year-old Nils Holgersson is bored dwelling on a farm with his parents. Instead of helping on the farm, he prefers to play pranks and tease animals. One day life unexpectedly changed Nils...

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
          CountryGermany

          After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

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