German survival movies

List of the best German survival movies selected by visitors to our site: As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me, Stowaway, Armageddon Tales, Wrong Turn, Monster Hunter, The Divide, Run Boy Run, Before Snowfall, Suck Me Shakespeer 2, Atomic Blonde.

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: 7.4
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
CountryGermany
Duration02:38

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination...An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Germany

A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

Markimdb: 3.3
Genrefantastic, action
CountryUSA, Germany

After surviving a worldwide pandemic, two men with different agendas, two women from a survival colony, and young girl and a man each form alliances as they cross post-apocalyptic landscapes.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
Duration01:24

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, China, Germany, Japan

A portal transports Lt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, drama, military, biography
CountryGermany, France, Poland
Duration01:48

Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryNorway, Germany, Iraq
Duration01:45

Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family reputation. The mission proves a dangerous one for the inexperienced Siyar. First stop is Istanbul, where he meets Elvin, a young girl who becomes his travel companion. On the way from east to west, through Europe and all the way to Norway, Siyar comes to realize his own need for respect, and for love.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountryGermany
Duration02:53

Mr. Müller is not satisfied with his new work at the Goethe-Gesamtschule. The early getting up and correcting exams annoy him. Director Gerster wants to improve the image of the Goethe-Gesamtschule because she wants to be a symbol of the new company. To achieve this, she wants to take away the partnership from the Schillergymnasium with a Thai school. So, Mr. Müller, Mrs. Schnabelstedt and the 10b must go on a school trip to Thailand.

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: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada, Germany
    Duration02:08

    With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryHungary, Germany, United Kingdom, Israel, France, USA

    An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryGermany, France, Poland
    Duration01:52

    A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, adventure
    CountryFinland, United Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:30

    Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness. 13-year old Oskari is also in that wilderness, on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, action
    CountryNetherlands, Germany, USA
    Duration02:17

    A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:58

    When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

    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
      Genrehorror
      CountryGermany

      A couple spend eternity in a castle until their reality starts to shift, as the unknown moves into their lives.

      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: 6.3
      Genrehorror
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:03

      When lovelorn Michael arrives in Berlin to return a set of keys to his ex-girlfriend, Gabi, as an excuse to see her again, he finds her apartment empty save for a couple of plumbers making repairs to the central heating. Just as Michael learns from the plumber’s apprentice, Harper, that Gabi has popped out for a while but will return soon, the apprentice is attacked by his boss who has unexpectedly and inexplicably transformed into a raging madman. Together, Michael and Harper manage to bundle the crazed plumber out of the apartment and barricade themselves safely inside. Within minutes, they find themselves trapped in apartment block under siege from a horde of similarly insane people, apparently hungry for human flesh.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, South Africa
      Duration01:45

      Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, at the same time, Ceaser runs into a marketer who wants to franchise the Death Race program.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, drama, crime, biography, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, China, Cambodia, USA, Germany
      Duration02:05

      The true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand's most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in Muay Thai tournaments.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama
      CountryGermany, France, Kazakhstan
      Duration01:39

      In a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world...

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective, biography
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:43

      An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
      CountryNorway, United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
      Duration01:49

      The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

      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: 5.2
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryGermany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      Four young offenders and their workers spend a weekend in the remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake, which prides on keeping itself to itself. A minor incident with locals rapidly escalates into a blood-soaked, deliriously warped nightmare.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland
      Duration02:05

      Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. They must now rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
      Duration01:51

      With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
      CountryAustria, United Kingdom, Germany, France

      A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, biography
      CountrySpain, Germany, France
      Duration01:53

      Entre lobos (Among Wolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with a hermetic goatherd in an isolated valley. The old man, who lives in a cave, is unused to human company and at first seems not very interested in having a live-in apprentice. The boy, who was abused by his parents, is frightened and equally aloof initially. Despite this, the shepherd begins teaching Marcos how to herd the goats, as well as how to care for himself and how to survive in the wilderness by trapping and fishing.

      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: 7.8
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, cartoon
      CountryUSA, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom
      Duration01:28

      In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, documentary, military
      CountryBelgium, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Afghanistan
      Duration02:52

      A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers mining in a Lappis Lazulli mine. The trajectory of the blue precious stones goes towards Tajikistan and China, through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children are fleeing away in their personal fantasies and dreams, while the American soldiers are planning their retreat...

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama, adventure
      CountryGermany, Italy, Austria
      Duration01:56

      The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan leader must avenge the massacre of his people and theft of his holy shrine.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, military
      CountryPoland, Germany, Canada
      Duration02:25

      A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland).

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, military, history
      CountryPoland, Netherlands, Germany

      Summer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the protagonists slowly begin to regain what is left of their childhood but the horror returns quickly. Camp Alsatians roam the forests around. Released by the SS earlier on, they have gone feral and are starving. Looking for food they besiege the palace. The children are terrified and their camp survival instinct is triggered.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryGermany, Luxembourg
      Duration01:29

      In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, adventure, history
      CountryGermany
      Duration02:30

      The story of Rob Cole, a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become a physician and vanquish Death itself, he travels to Isfahan in Persia to study medicine under the great Ibn Sina. Through countless ordeals and challenges, and making many sacrifices along the way, he struggles on unwaveringly. His unflagging quest for knowledge leads to the blossoming of friendship and true love.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryGermany, Spain, USA
      Duration02:02

      An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
      Duration01:36

        The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama, military, biography, history
        CountryGermany, Poland
        Duration02:11

        A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian and, for a day or two after the invasion, keeps herself safe, but then the rapes begin. She resolves to control her fate

        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: 5
          Genrethriller
          CountryUSA, Germany, Luxembourg

          Chris, a wealthy divorcee, lives in a high-tech house of his own design in Montana. His life changes when he meets Sky, a mysterious young woman who draws him out of his shell and moves in after Chris is injured.

          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: 7.8
          Genredrama, military, history
          CountryDenmark, Germany
          Duration02:22

          In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys were forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of the Danish sergeant, Carl Leopold Rasmussen.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryBulgaria, Germany
          Duration01:34

          TILT is a love story set against the backdrop of the changing political and social environment in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's. Can this love survive the challenges of emigration, a violent homeland and immoral social atmosphere thanks to a gang of adventurous friends?

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genremelodrama, documentary, military, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
          Duration01:21

          During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryBelgium, Germany

          Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, South Africa, Germany
          Duration01:45

            A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.




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