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German-Language Films

Name: German-Language Films
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Top 500 German-language films from a catalog of 2,824, ranked by TMDB rating.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Country↕	Overview↕
Bride of the Orient	1,989	Urs Odermatt	Drama, Romance	9.6	23	German	Germany	After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.
Me Time	2,022	Ayla Yildiz	Documentary	9.2	13	German	Germany	In this documentary, 6 protagonists tell their personal experiences of abortion and sterilization, from unplanned pregnancy to a happy mother and vice versa from the wanted child to regretting motherhood.
Green Day - Rock am Ring Live	2,013	Marek Lieberber	Music	9.1	14	German	Unknown	Watch Green Day performing 'American Idiot', 'Oh Love', 'Stray Heart' and more live at the Nürburgring racetrack, Germany for Rock am Ring festival.
FAR. The Story of a Journey around the World	2,017	Gwendolin Weisser	Documentary	8.6	44	German	Germany	Documentary about the journey of Patrick Allgair and Gwendolin Weisser, who travelled over 100,000 kilometres on foot and by hitchhiking. Starting in Freiburg, Germany, they travelled eastwards for three and a half years, passing through Ukraine, Russia, China, Japan and Mexico on their way around the world.
Der Herr Karl	1,967	Erich Neuberg	Comedy	8.4	11	German	Austria	The antihero "Mr. Karl" tells a "young person", the viewer, his life story while he sits at work in the warehouse of a delicatessen. The narrator increasingly turns out to be an opportunistic follower from the petty-bourgeois milieu, who maneuvered his way through life in the changing course of Austrian history from the end of the First World War to the end of the occupation in the 1950s.
Rammstein: Völkerball	2,006	Hamish Hamilton	Music, Documentary	8.3	25	German	Unknown	Völkerball shows concert-performances by the band in England, France, Japan and Russia. The Special Edition is extended by a second DVD, which contains the documentaries "Anaconda in the net" by Mathilde Bonnefoy and the "Making of the album Reise, Reise" by Rammstein guitarist Paul Landers. The limited edition was released as a large black and white photo-book with photos by Frederic Batier.
Kaya Yanar - Reiz der Schweiz	2,018	Paul Hauptmann	Comedy, Documentary	8.3	13	German	Switzerland	Stand-up comedian Kaya Yanar dissects the allure of Switzerland through the eyes of a German who's lived there.
Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice	2,022	Simone Unger	Documentary	8.2	10	German	Germany	Harry Belafonte wrote music history. How did the black boy from Harlem manage to become one of the greatest artists of the 20th century in the middle of racist America? The film portrait tells the story of the famous singer, actor, producer and activist.
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story	2,018	Eric Friedler	Documentary	8.2	10	German	Germany	A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee Germany and the Hitler regime in the late 1930s. In New York they wrote music history with their record label Blue Note Records.
The Dreamed Ones	2,016	Ruth Beckermann	Documentary	8.2	10	German	Austria	It’s not uncommon for a film to have a moving love story at its core. Yet this particular set-up is unusual. The lovers here are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, both important representatives of post-war German-language poetry. The story of the relationship between the Austrian and the Jew from Czernowitz is told through their nearly 20-year correspondence (1948–1967). Or, more precisely, by a young woman and a young man reading from their letters in a studio in Vienna’s venerable Funkhaus.
Metropolis	1,927	Fritz Lang	Drama, Science Fiction	8.1	3,037	German	Germany	In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Das Boot	1,981	Wolfgang Petersen	Drama, History, War	8.1	2,436	German	Germany	A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
M	1,931	Fritz Lang	Drama, Thriller, Crime	8.1	2,410	German	Germany	In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Er	1,983	Stefan Julian Neuschäfer	Drama	8.1	23	German	Germany
Hamburger Gitter	2,018	Marco Heinig	Documentary	8.1	16	German	Germany	A city seems traumatized. Even a year after the G20 summit, the police are still looking for hundreds of suspects. 17 interviewees from the police, media, science, stock in this film.
Pumuckl und das große Missverständnis	2,025	Marcus H. Rosenmüller	Comedy, Family	8.1	11	German	Germany	This summer, Pumuckl and Eder have a lot going on: a turtle, a trip to the countryside and then neighbor Burke's birthday! Perhaps too much - becau...
Der König von Köln	2,019	Richard Huber	Comedy	8.1	10	German	Germany	A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few super rich. They want to make quite a lot of profit from a planned large-scale building project. Quicker than anticipated, the father-to-be gets surprised by a couple of amenities and notices that life isn’t too bad in the sphere of these semi-legal affairs. Soon, however, he has a prosecuting attorney on his tails and has to decide himself for a side.
The Lives of Others	2,006	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Drama, Thriller	8	4,011	German	Germany	In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Rammstein in Amerika	2,015	Hannes Rossacher	Documentary, Music	8	55	German	United States of America	The concert film celebrates the band’s legendary show in New York’s Madison Square Garden – Rammstein’s return to the US after a ten-year absence. In HD and 5.1 surround sound. For the documentary, Rammstein provided extensive, previously unreleased footage and photos from the band archive. In numerous interviews from various periods in the band’s history, the band members speak about their experiences across the Atlantic.
Michael Jackson Memorial	2,009	Gregg Gelfand	Documentary	8	18	German	United States of America	A live telecast of the public memorial service for the king of pop, Michael Jackson.
Playing God	2,020	Lars Kraume	Drama	8	11	German	Germany	The 78-year-old former architect Richard Gärtner (Matthias Habich) wants to put an end to his life. However, this should not be done abroad, but quite legally with the help of his family doctor. For Dr. Brandt (Anna Maria Mühe), out of personal conviction, it is out of the question to get her elderly but healthy patient a fatal preparation.
trustWHO	2,018	Lilian Franck	Documentary	8	11	German	Austria	Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization. She shows a frightening portrayal of our present society, in which governmental politics is becoming obsolete. "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." - Martin Luther King
Black Eagles	2,021	Torsten Körner	Documentary	8	10	German	Germany	The documentary Schwarze Adler (Black Eagles) lets black players of the German national football team tell their personal stories for the first time. What road did they take before they got to where we cheer for them? What hurdles did they have to overcome? What prejudices and racist hostility were they exposed to – and what was it like in the past, what is it like today?
Downfall	2,004	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Drama, History, War	7.9	4,199	German	Austria	In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	1,920	Robert Wiene	Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime	7.9	1,730	German	Germany	Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Faust	1,926	F. W. Murnau	Fantasy, Drama, Horror	7.9	384	German	Germany	God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.
Dying	2,024	Matthias Glasner	Drama, Comedy	7.9	41	German	Germany	Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.
The Master Butcher	2,019	Uli Edel	Drama, TV Movie	7.9	15	German	Croatia	After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer	2,022	Thomas von Steinaecker	Documentary	7.9	14	German	Germany	With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist.
Autumn Milk	1,989	Joseph Vilsmaier	Drama	7.9	11	German	Germany	With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.
Wings of Desire	1,987	Wim Wenders	Drama, Fantasy, Romance	7.8	1,460	German	Germany	Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Close to the Horizon	2,019	Tim Trachte	Romance, Drama	7.8	500	German	Germany	Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
Late Shift	2,025	Petra Biondina Volpe	Drama	7.8	192	German	Switzerland	Dedicated nurse Floria navigates the relentless pace of her hospital’s understaffed surgical ward with humanity and warmth. As her overnight shift intensifies, she is pushed to the brink in a race against time.
Lessons of Darkness	1,992	Werner Herzog	War, Documentary, TV Movie	7.8	146	German	France	Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision	2,013	Edgar Reitz	Drama, History	7.8	54	German	Germany	Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Our Daily Bread	2,006	Nikolaus Geyrhalter	Documentary	7.8	41	German	Austria	Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism.
More Beautiful	2,025	Karoline Herfurth	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7.8	40	German	Germany	The main thing is sexy - no matter whether thin, fat, what skin color, young, old, we can all be sexy in different ways. Almost every woman grows up having to work on herself in order to remain desirable. Why? What if we stopped pushing ourselves into a sexy pose with all our might? What if we no longer fought for the right to be sexy, but were truly free? What if we stopped investing all our time and energy in being heard and the world started to hear us? A modern movie about modern women and men - who might be able to find a common language.
The Twelve Jurors	1,963	Günter Gräwert	TV Movie, Drama, Crime	7.8	25	German	Germany	Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict.
Apache Stays Apache	2,022	Nepomuk V. Fischer	Documentary	7.8	19	German	Germany	10 number one hits. More than 2 billion streams. Yet rap superstar Apache 207 is a mystery. Now he breaks his silence and grants access to camera crews. This compelling documentary shows his life, from plattenbau to luxury mansions, from loneliness to sold-out stadiums - accompanied by his family, best friends and rap icons Loredana, BAUSA and XATAR.
Mr. Bachmann and His Class	2,021	Maria Speth	Documentary	7.8	18	German	Germany	Mr. Bachmann And His Class explores the close bond between an elementary school teacher and his students. His unconventional methods clash with the complex social and cultural realities of the provincial German industrial town they live in.
The Waldheim Waltz	2,018	Ruth Beckermann	Documentary	7.8	16	German	Austria	Ruth Beckermann documents the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress during his Austrian presidential campaign, the denial by the Austrian political class, the outbreak of anti-Semitism and patriotism, which finally led to his election.
Videograms of a Revolution	1,992	Harun Farocki	Documentary	7.8	16	German	Germany	A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state television company TVR and video taken by numerous amateurs becomes a new media-based form of historiography.
The Adventures of Werner Holt	1,965	Joachim Kunert	Drama, History	7.8	16	German	East Germany	Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the front, Werner begins to understand the senselessness of war.
Elsewhere - Alone in Africa	2,018	Anselm Nathanael Pahnke	Documentary	7.8	15	German	Germany	414 days, 15.000 km, 15 countries. On his 25th birthday, Anselm starts a journey across Africa on a bicycle with two friends. After they arrive in the scorching Kalahari Desert, the trio suddenly splits. His friends fly home while Anselm decides to continue the ride up north - alone.
Speed: In Search of Lost Time	2,012	Florian Opitz	Documentary	7.8	12	German	Germany	It’s a paradox. Never before in history we have worked more efficiently. Never before we have saved time with more sophisticated technologies. Anyway, nearly all of us are feeling an increasing pressure of time. It seems that the same technology that has been invented to make our life better and easier, is now enslaving us. Why?
The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich	2,013	Antonin Svoboda	Drama	7.8	10	German	Austria	At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man's liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and, being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing far-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a '68 generation in revolt. Written by Novotny & Novotny
All Quiet on the Western Front	2,022	Edward Berger	War, History, Drama	7.7	4,518	German	Germany	Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Nosferatu	1,922	F. W. Murnau	Horror, Fantasy	7.7	2,396	German	Germany	The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
Free Fall	2,013	Stephan Lacant	Drama, Romance	7.7	827	German	Germany	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.
Never Look Away	2,018	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Drama, Romance, History	7.7	742	German	Germany	German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	1,997	Thomas Jahn	Comedy, Crime, Action, Drama	7.7	570	German	Germany	Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	1,974	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Romance, Drama	7.7	444	German	Germany	Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
The Last Laugh	1,924	F. W. Murnau	Drama	7.7	344	German	Germany	An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Alice in the Cities	1,974	Wim Wenders	Drama	7.7	327	German	Germany	German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried	1,924	Fritz Lang	Adventure, Drama, Fantasy	7.7	155	German	Germany	Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
Pappa ante Portas	1,991	Vicco von Bülow	Comedy	7.7	142	German	Germany	Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it’s time for him to retire early. Heinrich suddenly finds himself with nothing to do—except micromanage his household, much to the dismay of his wife Renate and their son Dieter
Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job	2,001	Stefan Prehn	Horror, Comedy	7.7	137	German	Germany	Short film depicting a fictional educational film about fork lift truck operational safety. The dangers of unsafe operation are presented in gory details.
Gloomy Sunday	1,999	Rolf Schübel	Drama, Romance	7.7	66	German	Germany	Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
India	1,993	Paul Harather	Comedy, Drama	7.7	47	German	Austria	Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.
The Door-to-Door Bookstore	2,024	The Chau Ngo	Family, Comedy, Drama	7.7	43	German	Germany	Carl’s life runs like clockwork: every day, he goes door-to-door delivering books to a handful of loyal customers. He knows their preferences and takes pride in selecting the perfect story for each of them. But his well-ordered life is turned upside down by a cheerful nine-year-old girl, Schascha, who decides to join him on his daily book round. Schascha’s unique outlook on life helps Carl to come out of his shell and realise that his customers are so much more than just that to him. But when Carl unexpectedly loses his job, this vibrant community starts to fall apart - and it will take the power of books and all Schascha’s determination to bring them back together again.
The Butcher	1,981	Franz Antel	Drama, History	7.7	25	German	Austria	A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic	2,011	Andreas Baum	Documentary, Comedy	7.7	19	German	Germany	The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
The Flying Classroom	1,954	Kurt Hoffmann	Family, Comedy, Drama	7.7	17	German	Germany	The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand.
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called	2,022	Lukas Hoffmann	Documentary	7.7	13	German	Germany	A portrait of the actress Winona Ryder, the great muse of nineties cinema, who, although she has had an atypical and somewhat erratic career, has always offered performances as sensitive as they are honest.
Utta Danella - Mit dir die Sterne sehen	2,008	Gloria Behrens	Drama	7.7	12	German	Germany	Pretty Floriane does not believe in love anymore, since she has learned that her boyfriend is really married and does not even think about leaving his wife. Surprisingly, the charming townspeople Sebastian comes into their lives: The handsome contractor was actually just passing through - but after a car breakdown, he hired himself in Florianes small country inn. It does not take long for an intimate love to develop between the two. But then it turns out that Sebastian also has a girlfriend who is ready to fight him.
Bluebeard's Castle	1,963	Michael Powell	TV Movie, Music, Drama	7.7	11	German	Germany	Based on the Béla Bartók opera, Duke Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, Judit, opening the seven doors of his castle to ultimately reveal his still living previous wives, among whom Judit must take her place.
Who Am I	2,014	Baran bo Odar	Thriller	7.6	1,673	German	Germany	Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Victoria	2,015	Sebastian Schipper	Crime, Thriller, Romance	7.6	1,316	German	Germany	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.
Fitzcarraldo	1,982	Werner Herzog	Drama, Adventure	7.6	855	German	Germany	Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
System Crasher	2,019	Nora Fingscheidt	Drama	7.6	376	German	Germany	Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to change her ways, and has one goal: go back home to her mother. When anger management trainer Micha is hired to help, suddenly there is hope.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse	1,933	Fritz Lang	Crime, Mystery, Thriller	7.6	276	German	Germany	After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler	1,922	Fritz Lang	Crime, Thriller	7.6	207	German	Germany	Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
Gigantic	1,999	Sebastian Schipper	Drama, Comedy	7.6	97	German	Germany	The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore.
Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis	2,022	Volker Heise	Documentary	7.6	66	German	Germany	In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-taking drama that ends in a shootout and three deaths.
All You Need Is Love	2,009	Edzard Onneken	Romance, Comedy, Drama	7.6	41	German	Germany	When Katharina got an unexpected letter from her son Hans announcing that he was getting married and that he and his fiancé Nicki were leaving Berl...
The Best of All Worlds	2,017	Adrian Goiginger	Drama	7.6	35	German	Germany	Seven-year-old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite this, Adrian has a happy childhood, the best of all worlds. But it is tested to the limit when the authorities and child welfare services find out about Helga's addiction.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven	1,975	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama	7.6	34	German	Germany	Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide.
The Dark Glow of the Mountain	1,985	Werner Herzog	Documentary, TV Movie	7.6	29	German	Germany	Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.
Who Killed Johnny R.?	1,966	José Luis Madrid	Western	7.6	23	German	Germany	An assumed-dead gangster wants to implicate a completely innocent man to pay for his crimes so he can give the slip to his avengers and persecutors.
Moon Conspiracy	2,011	Thomas Frickel	Documentary, Comedy	7.6	21	German	Austria	During his work as chief reporter for DDC-TV, a German-speaking television station in the USA, Dennis Mascarenas has met some pretty strange people and gotten into quite a few hairy situations. But when he is asked to make a film about the Germans' relationship to the moon, it is the beginning of the craziest and most unbelievable assignment of his career. 'The Moon Conspiracy' is like a glimpse into Pandora's Box: it takes Dennis and his audience on a surreal journey into hidden universes, only to end up at the frozen bottom of the German soul.
Why Are We Creative?	2,018	Hermann Vaske	Documentary	7.6	18	German	Germany	A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?"
Momo	2,025	Christian Ditter	Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Drama	7.6	16	German	Germany	Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.
Wild Heart	2,018	Charly Hübner	Music, Documentary	7.6	13	German	Germany	A portrait of Jan "Monchi" Gorkow, front man for the punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet, and his campaign against racism and right-wing extremism.
Athos	2,016	Peter Bardehle	Documentary	7.6	12	German	Austria	The Athos peninsula in Greece is one of Europe's last secrets. Over 2000 monks live on Athos - cut off from the outside world. Access is denied to women, tourists are not welcome. Only workers and pilgrims can obtain a visa. The "Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain" attracts people who feel like they are missing something from their modern lives. With the help of three Athos monks, "Athos - A Taste of Heaven" tells the story of the island and its inhabitants in a unique filmed diary style. The film's guiding theme is the path we as people have to find and follow - each and everyone for themselves. "First we must heal our own souls, only then we can help others", is one of Father Galaktions core messages. He lives as a hermit on the holy mountain. Not all monks, however, live as secluded and demure as Father Galaktion. The film team is also received by Father Epiphanios - a gifted and poetic cook who certainly does not disdain the pleasures of life.
The Price of Protest	2,019	Annebeth Jacobsen	Documentary, TV Movie	7.6	11	German	France	United States, September 1st, 2016. American football player Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem, protesting police brutality against black people. Part of the population regards the gesture as an unacceptable affront to the flag. Later, he loses his place on his team. Today, however, he is considered by many as a true hero.
Emil and the Detectives	1,954	Robert A. Stemmle	Family, Comedy, Crime, Adventure	7.6	11	German	Germany	Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
My Brothers and Sisters in the North	2,016	Sung Hyung Cho	Documentary	7.6	10	German	Germany	The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a country with a very strong social cohesion and the unprecedented admiration of the people for their leader, which is absolutely unique and incomprehensible especially from a Western point of view. The native Korean director Sung-Hyung Cho tries to understand this by accompanying several Koreans from different backgrounds in their daily lives. The film shows the country and its people in a way, as it is rarely done in Western media, non-judgmental and respectful towards the people.
The Wave	2,008	Dennis Gansel	Drama, Thriller	7.5	3,537	German	Germany	A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
Good Bye, Lenin!	2,003	Wolfgang Becker	Comedy, Drama	7.5	2,578	German	Germany	Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God	1,972	Werner Herzog	History, Adventure, Drama	7.5	1,208	German	Germany	A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
The White Ribbon	2,009	Michael Haneke	Drama, Mystery	7.5	1,113	German	Italy	An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Head-On	2,004	Fatih Akin	Drama, Romance	7.5	613	German	Germany	With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Persian Lessons	2,020	Vadim Perelman	War, Drama	7.5	471	German	Russia	Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
Balloon	2,018	Michael Herbig	Thriller, Drama, History	7.5	466	German	France	Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
The Seventh Continent	1,989	Michael Haneke	Drama	7.5	348	German	Austria	Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.
My Blind Date with Life	2,017	Marc Rothemund	Comedy, Drama	7.5	284	German	Germany	An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
Pandora's Box	1,929	G.W. Pabst	Drama, Crime, Romance	7.5	253	German	Germany	The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed	1,926	Lotte Reiniger	Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance	7.5	228	German	Germany	Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.
Bang, Boom, Bang	1,999	Peter Thorwarth	Crime, Action, Comedy	7.5	223	German	Germany	Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.
The Bridge	1,959	Bernhard Wicki	Drama, History, War	7.5	186	German	Germany	A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.
Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord	2,021	Eva Müller	Documentary, Crime	7.5	147	German	Germany	Max S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom in this story that inspired the series "How to Sell Drugs Online."
Balance	1,989	Christoph Lauenstein	Drama, Animation	7.5	139	German	Germany	The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City	1,927	Walter Ruttmann	Documentary	7.5	125	German	Germany	A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World	2,018	Aron Lehmann	Comedy, Romance, Drama, Music	7.5	120	German	Germany	17-year-old Cyril is funny, smart and an all-round good guy. Just his somewhat overlarge nose spoils the picture. On a school trip to Berlin with Roxy, a stunning new classmate, Cyril is not the only one taken with her. Benno, the class Casanova has his eye on the girl too and makes a nasty wager. Roxy is more interested in the introverted Rick, who is not only shy but also slow. Cyril hastens with his spoken word skills to Rick's aid, and falls head over heels in love with Roxy himself. So whose brave heart will win the fair lady?
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge	1,924	Fritz Lang	Adventure, Drama, Fantasy	7.5	118	German	Germany	When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.
The Wildcat	1,921	Ernst Lubitsch	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7.5	46	German	Germany	A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
The Verdict	2,016	Lars Kraume	TV Movie	7.5	35	German	Germany	A hijacker threatens to bring down a passenger plane to a crowded football stadium. Fighter pilot Lars Koch decides to shoot down the machine. The court of Berlin should decide whether Lars Koch is a hero or a murderer. The viewers become jurors, and their decision determines the outcome of the film.
Three Men in the Snow	1,955	Kurt Hoffmann	Comedy	7.5	34	German	Austria	The multi-millionaire Eduard Schlüter takes part under the name Schulze in a raffle of his own Schlüter works and wins a stay at the Grand Hotel. Disguised as a poor swallower, he would like to study the reactions of the hotel staff and guests. As an assistant, he takes his reliable servant Johann with him. Once there, he makes friends and also has cause for annoyance when his daughter and the housekeeper arrive.
Rocca Changes the World	2,019	Katja Benrath	Family, Comedy	7.5	33	German	Germany	11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.
The Last Fine Day	2,011	Johannes Fabrick	Drama, TV Movie	7.5	18	German	Germany	The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day...
Kästner and Little Tuesday	2,016	Wolfgang Murnberger	History, Drama	7.5	17	German	Austria	Germany, 1931. The youth novel "Emil and the Detectives" is being filmed, which will make its author, Erich Kästner, world famous. An unusual friendship begins between the childless author and fatherless Hans, the 9-year-old playing the character Little Tuesday. Their friendship is put to the ultimate test in the Third Reich when Kästner's books are banned and little Hans becomes a Hitler Youth. Based on a true story.
The Periwig-Maker	1,999	Steffen Schäffler	Animation, Drama	7.5	15	German	Germany	Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker.
Unschuldig	2,018	Nicolai Rohde	Drama, Crime	7.5	14	German	Germany	A condemned man comes out of prison and does his utmost to find the true murderer of his wife in order to get his children back. This is the starting point for the touching crime drama "Innocent" with crime scene commissar Felix Klare in the lead role. He plays with great intensity the family man who wants to bring the truth to light on his own. For relatives, witnesses and even the police, this could be a problem. Between the fronts, Britta Hammelstein becomes an indomitable commissioner, exposing a fatal network of false statements and investigation errors.
The Flying Train	1,902	Unknown	Documentary	7.5	14	German	Germany	The Flying Train depicts a ride on a suspended railway. The footage is almost as impressive as the feat of engineering it captures. For many years our curators believed our Mutoscope rolls were slightly shrunken 70mm film, but they were actually shot on Biograph’s proprietary 68mm stock. Formats like Biograph’s 68mm and Fox’s 70mm Grandeur are of particular interest to researchers visiting the Film Study Center because the large image area affords stunning visual clarity and quality, especially compared to the more standard 35mm or 16mm stocks.
Rickerl	2,023	Adrian Goiginger	Comedy, Drama	7.5	13	German	Austria	Erich „Rickerl“ Bohacek is a likeable loser who on the one hand tries to build up a music career and on the other still wants to be a good father for his little son.
Borga	2,021	York-Fabian Raabe	Drama	7.5	12	German	Germany	"Borga" is Better. A Borga is a Ghanaian abroad living an excessive wealthy lifestyle. At least that's what they want everyone to believe.
The End of Meat	2,017	Marc Pierschel	Documentary	7.5	12	German	Germany	Although evidence of meat consumption's negative impact on the planet and on human health continue stacking up as animal welfare is on the decline, humanity's love affair with hamburgers, steaks, nuggets and chops just doesn't end. In The End of Meat, filmmaker Marc Pierschel embarks on a journey to discover what effect a post-meat world would have on the environment, the animals and ourselves. He meets Esther the Wonder Pig, who became an internet phenomenon; talks to pioneers leading the vegan movement in Germany; visits the first fully vegetarian city in India; witnesses rescued farm animals enjoying their newly found freedom; observes the future food innovators making meat and dairy without the animals, even harvesting "bacon" from the ocean and much more. The End of Meat reveals the hidden impact of meat consumption; explores the opportunities and benefits of a shift to a more compassionate diet; and raises critical questions about the future role of animals in our society.
Taste the Waste	2,011	Valentin Thurn	Documentary	7.5	12	German	Germany	Documentary about how much food goes to waste in our society and why.
Gold	1,934	Karl Hartl	Crime, Science Fiction	7.5	12	German	Germany	Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold.
Kaya Yanar - Planet Deutschland	2,018	Kaya Yanar	Comedy, Family	7.5	11	German	Germany
Die fidelen Detektive	1,957	Hermann Kugelstadt	Comedy	7.5	11	German	Germany	Two retired Bavarian traffic police officers and a Berlin detective work together to track down jewelry thieves.
Anna Christie	1,930	Jacques Feyder	Drama	7.5	11	German	United States of America	A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)
Oskar, das Schlitzohr und Fanny Supergirl	2,022	Markus Herling	TV Movie, Comedy, Family	7.5	10	German	Germany	Grandpa Oskar takes neither the truth nor himself very seriously. The rascal has just been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for imposture. Since the ex-con needs a place to stay, he quartered himself in the old construction trailer in the farthest corner of the garden of his daughter Tilda, who is still mad at him. The senior soon meets his autistic granddaughter Fanny, whose antics and peculiarities threaten to break the family under. In contrast to the old man, the 8-year-old takes the truth very seriously. In order to gain their trust, Oskar does not introduce himself to the comic-loving girl as the criminal grandpa, who has been missing for years, but as Professor Krypton. For Fanny, who prefers to wear a brightly colored superhero costume and is teased at school for it, the omniscient mentor from the Superman planet comes along just at the right time, because she has a dream: To win the talent competition at school!
The Congo Tribunal	2,017	Milo Rau	Documentary	7.5	10	German	Germany	The war in Congo has caused more than six million deaths over the last twenty years. The population is suffering, but the offenders stay with impunity. Many people see this conflict as one of globalisation's crucial econimic distribution battles because the country has major deposits of many high-tech raw materials. Milo Rau, one of Europe's most acclaimed theatre directors, succeeds in gathering victims, perpetrators, observes and analysts of the conflict for a unique civil tribunal in eastern Congo. The documentary film brings these spectacular court trials to life on the big screen and creates an unvarnished portrait of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in human history.
Untitled	2,017	Michael Glawogger	Documentary	7.5	10	German	Austria	More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
Conni & Co	2,016	Franziska Buch	Comedy, Adventure, Family	7.5	10	German	Germany	A young girl goes through the ups and downs of school-life.
Cecelia Ahern: Zwischen Himmel und hier	2,014	Michael Karen	Comedy, Romance, Drama	7.5	10	German	Ireland	Young Amelia learns from her mother Magda that she was adopted as a baby. Her biological parents are from Ireland. When Magda dies of a heart attack shortly afterwards, Amelia feels that nothing is keeping her in Germany anymore. She leaves the bookshop she inherited and her bewildered fiancé and sets off headlong to find her real family on the Emerald Isle. Upon arriving in Ireland, something magical happens to the young woman. Amelia follows the mysterious clues. This leads her to meet the attractive private detective Bobby.
The Little Polar Bear: Lars and the Little Tiger	2,002	Thilo Rothkirch	Family, Animation	7.5	10	German	Germany	Hans der Beer's beloved polar bear Lars returns for more adventures, with a new feline friend.
The Experiment	2,001	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Drama, Thriller	7.4	1,181	German	Germany	20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
3096 Days	2,013	Sherry Hormann	Drama	7.4	974	German	Germany	A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
The Counterfeiters	2,007	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Drama, War	7.4	673	German	Germany	The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
The Collini Case	2,019	Marco Kreuzpaintner	Drama, Thriller	7.4	427	German	Germany	A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
The Marriage of Maria Braun	1,979	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama	7.4	293	German	Germany	Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Pina	2,011	Wim Wenders	Documentary	7.4	271	German	Germany	Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.
The Silent Revolution	2,018	Lars Kraume	Drama, History	7.4	255	German	Germany	In 1956 Stalinstadt, East Germany, during the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, local teenagers perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.
The Keeper	2,018	Marcus H. Rosenmüller	Drama, War, History	7.4	233	German	Belgium	The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant	1,972	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama, Romance	7.4	230	German	Germany	Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
All About Me	2,018	Caroline Link	Drama, Comedy	7.4	191	German	Germany	Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians, Hape Kerkeling.
Destiny	1,921	Fritz Lang	Drama, Fantasy	7.4	168	German	Germany	As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
It Happened in Broad Daylight	1,958	Ladislao Vajda	Crime, Thriller	7.4	144	German	Germany	The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
Kings of the Road	1,976	Wim Wenders	Drama	7.4	143	German	Germany	Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.
Windstorm 3	2,017	Katja von Garnier	Family, Adventure	7.4	137	German	Germany	Ostwind and Mika have found a real home at the farm Kaltenbach with Mika's grandmother. In the hustle of running therapy center and due to Mika's fame as a horse-whisperer, she feels that she doesn't have enough freedom and time to ride. After a serious disagreement with her grandmother, Mika secretly sets off for the night in eastern Andalusia, Spain, where she suspects Ostwind's roots are.
Wunderschön	2,022	Karoline Herfurth	Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.4	121	German	Germany	After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday,...
The Bone Man	2,009	Wolfgang Murnberger	Crime, Thriller, Comedy	7.4	108	German	Austria	Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway to the countryside. But before long he becomes embroiled in the convoluted world of the locals of a supposedly quiet town.
Fog in August	2,016	Kai Wessel	Drama	7.4	100	German	Austria	A Yenish 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.
Dream Factory	2,019	Martin Schreier	Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.4	92	German	Germany	A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
The Doll	1,919	Ernst Lubitsch	Comedy, Fantasy, Romance	7.4	88	German	Germany	The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
Vitus	2,006	Fredi M. Murer	Music, Drama	7.4	84	German	Switzerland	Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Hitler: A Career	1,977	Joachim Fest	Documentary, History	7.4	83	German	Germany	A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul	2,005	Fatih Akin	Documentary, Music	7.4	77	German	Germany	German musician Alexander Hacke explores Istanbul's rich music culture and attempts to create a portrait of Turkey through music genres. On this journey, he encounters a mosaic that covers countless genres from rock to arabesque, electronic to hip-hop.
War Photographer	2,001	Christian Frei	Documentary	7.4	71	German	Switzerland	Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
Land of Silence and Darkness	1,973	Werner Herzog	Documentary	7.4	71	German	Germany	Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot	2,014	Sebastian Dehnhardt	Documentary	7.4	50	German	Germany	This documentary chronicles the life story of the Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki and his inspiring journey from Germany to superstardom in the NBA.
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"	2,022	Manfred Oldenburg	Documentary, History	7.4	41	German	Germany	Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?
Distant Lights	2,003	Hans-Christian Schmid	Drama	7.4	31	German	Germany	Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
From Caligari to Hitler	2,015	Rüdiger Suchsland	Documentary, History	7.4	27	German	Germany	Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)
The Glory of Life	2,024	Judith Kaufmann	Drama, Romance, History	7.4	26	German	Austria	Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-known writer has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. In the summer of 1923, he met Dora Diamant in the seaside resort Graal-Müritz on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. He is a man of world, the 14 years younger woman is from the deep East, he can write, she can dance. She has both feet firmly on the ground, he is always hovering a little above it. She embraces the indicative, he gets tangled up in the conjunctive. But the worldly wise Dora accepts him as he is. And he accepts her. Together they go to Berlin and when Franz's health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. They are granted a single year together until Franz Kafka's health deteriorates incurable. However their year together allows them to feel the glory of life.
No More Mr. Nice Guy	1,993	Detlev Buck	Comedy	7.4	26	German	Germany	The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet Viktor, a deserted Russian soldier who kidnaps them, and Nadine, who joins them voluntarily. On their way to their inheritance, the protagonists get into some seemingly hopeless situations.
Long Story Short	2,025	David Dietl	Comedy, Drama	7.4	23	German	Germany	A group of close friends celebrate parties over an extended period of time. They experience a lot of fun together, but also tragic moments that prove that love and friendship are the most important gifts of all our lives.
Final Account	2,021	Luke Holland	Documentary, War	7.4	20	German	United Kingdom	A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
Stars	1,959	Konrad Wolf	Drama, War	7.4	19	German	Bulgaria	Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter – a German Wehrmacht sergeant and artist – lives in almost idyllic distance from the war. Then a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. When Ruth, one of the internees, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman, the two form an unlikely bond.
In the Mirror of Maya Deren	2,002	Martina Kudlácek	Documentary	7.4	17	German	Austria	Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
No Dogs Allowed	2,024	Steve Bache	Drama	7.4	16	German	Germany	Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager who goes to school, plays video games with his best friend, and does other things a normal teenager would do – except he’s not. He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control. He befriends Dave, a much older man with his fantasies. Lines soon start to blur between a trusting friendship and being groomed. Once Dave is arrested on suspicion of statutory rape, Gabo must suddenly decide whether to testify against his mentor with the risk of exposing his secret.
The White Stadium	1,928	Arnold Fanck	Documentary	7.4	14	German	Switzerland	A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum	2,005	Florian Schneider	Music	7.4	13	German	Germany	Kraftwerk are one of the most influential bands in music history. Over the last two years, Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert and Henning Schmitz have toured the world, performing approximately 90 live shows that were unlike anything seen before, prompting global headlines such as this from the London Evening Standard: Is This The Greatest Show London Has Ever Seen? Said performance at London's Royal Festival Hall was also included in Time Out's recent list of best shows ever witnessed in the Capital.
Tach, Herr Dokter! – Der Heinz-Becker-Film	1,999	Gernot Roll	Comedy	7.4	13	German	Germany	Next to the home of Heinz and Hilde Becker is the villa of the company boss Dr. Bernhard Schenkberg and his wife, who he called "Püppchen". While Schenkberg always politely strives for a good neighborly relationship, his elegant, arrogant wife looks down contemptuously on the grumpy, constantly do-it-yourself Heinz and the conservative, naive housewife Hilde.
The Parallel Street	1,962	Ferdinand Khittl	Drama	7.4	12	German	Germany	Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".
Das Schweigen der Esel	2,023	Karl Markovics	Crime, Comedy	7.4	10	German	Austria	Fake detective Jonas Horak is now in custody after being arrested by police officer Sophie Landner. A series of murders has Horak on edge, and he fears a serial killer is targeting him.
Death Is My Trade	1,977	Theodor Kotulla	War, Drama	7.4	10	German	Germany	A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
Run Lola Run	1,998	Tom Tykwer	Action, Drama, Thriller	7.3	2,498	German	Germany	Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Funny Games	1,997	Michael Haneke	Drama, Horror, Thriller	7.3	2,022	German	Austria	Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Colonia	2,016	Florian Gallenberger	Drama, History	7.3	1,963	German	Germany	A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Christiane F.	1,981	Uli Edel	Drama	7.3	1,412	German	Germany	This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
Nosferatu the Vampyre	1,979	Werner Herzog	Drama, Horror	7.3	1,055	German	Germany	A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Stalingrad	1,993	Joseph Vilsmaier	Drama, History, War	7.3	613	German	Germany	A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Vampyr	1,932	Carl Theodor Dreyer	Horror, Fantasy, Mystery	7.3	582	German	France	Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.
Sissi	1,955	Ernst Marischka	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7.3	509	German	Austria	The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.
Schumacher	2,021	Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns	Documentary	7.3	440	German	Germany	Through exclusive interviews and archival footage, this documentary traces an intimate portrait of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher.
Head Full of Honey	2,014	Til Schweiger	Comedy, Drama	7.3	366	German	Germany	Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser	1,974	Werner Herzog	Drama, History	7.3	362	German	Germany	The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
The Blue Angel	1,930	Josef von Sternberg	Drama	7.3	357	German	Germany	Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Europa	1,991	Lars von Trier	Crime, Drama, Thriller	7.3	349	German	Denmark	Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
This Crazy Heart	2,017	Marc Rothemund	Drama	7.3	297	German	Germany	When 30-ish rich kid Lenny has to take care of 15-year-old David, who’s suffering from heart disease, it’s the beginning of a wild adventure. Lenny fearlessly breaks all the rules to fulfill his young friend’s every wish.
Windstorm	2,013	Katja von Garnier	Adventure, Family	7.3	295	German	Germany	While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.
Stroszek	1,977	Werner Herzog	Drama	7.3	291	German	Germany	Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Windstorm 2	2,015	Katja von Garnier	Family, Adventure, Drama, Romance	7.3	217	German	Germany	Summer vacation. Mika is overjoyed to see Windstorm again. But then she discovers strange wounds on the belly of Windstorm, for which no one has an explanation. Yet this is Kaltenbach verge of bankruptcy! With a heavy heart Mika decides to participate in a variety tournament in which beckons a high prize money. But during training affects Windstorm distracted, often he runs away easily. Mika pursued the black stallion until deep into the forest and is quite surprised: From the thicket a seemingly magical gray mare appears and the two horses dance around lovingly. Suddenly, a strange boy named Milan appears, who says the mare had escaped him. He claimed that he could Help Mika to win the tournament. But is there still time to save Kaltenbach?
My Best Fiend	1,999	Werner Herzog	Documentary	7.3	210	German	Germany	A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
Great Freedom	2,021	Sebastian Meise	Drama, Romance, Crime	7.3	192	German	Austria	In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.
303	2,018	Hans Weingartner	Romance, Drama, Comedy	7.3	148	German	Germany	Two university students gain insight into life and love as they get to know each other during a road trip across Europe.
The Divine Order	2,017	Petra Biondina Volpe	Comedy, Drama	7.3	137	German	Switzerland	Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
Naked Among Wolves	2,015	Philipp Kadelbach	History, Drama, War	7.3	134	German	Germany	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.
Girl You Know It's True	2,023	Simon Verhoeven	Drama, History, Music	7.3	120	German	France	The rise and fall of Milli Vanilli, a studio group assembled by German producer Frank Farian and fronted by nightclub dancers Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan. After a string of worldwide hit singles, awards and performances, it was revealed that the duo never sang a note of their songs, leading to one of the biggest scandals in music history.
Diary of a Lost Girl	1,929	G.W. Pabst	Drama	7.3	120	German	Germany	Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Cherry Blossoms	2,008	Doris Dörrie	Drama, Romance	7.3	114	German	Germany	After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course...
From the Life of the Marionettes	1,980	Ingmar Bergman	Drama	7.3	113	German	Germany	An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
More Than Honey	2,012	Markus Imhoof	Documentary	7.3	97	German	Switzerland	With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees — spanning California, Switzerland, China and Australia — more ambitious than any previous work on the topic.
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?	1,970	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama	7.3	90	German	Germany	Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pressures him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old schoolmates drop by, as do neighbours. Some comment on his wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr R. run amok?
Back on Track	2,013	Kilian Riedhof	Drama, Comedy	7.3	89	German	Germany	A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.
Spies	1,928	Fritz Lang	Thriller, Romance	7.3	89	German	Germany	The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
Sanctuary	2,015	Marc Brummund	Drama	7.3	87	German	Germany	Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
A Regular Woman	2,019	Sherry Hormann	Drama	7.3	79	German	Germany	Hatun Aynur Sürücü, a German woman of Kurdish origin, was shot dead by her brothers at a bus stop in 2005. The story of a woman who fought for her freedom and independence despite her family's objections, and whose life ended in a horrific murder.
Come, Sweet Death	2,000	Wolfgang Murnberger	Comedy, Crime	7.3	67	German	Austria	Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organizations.
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe	1,977	Werner Herzog	Documentary	7.3	58	German	Germany	Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.
The Captain from Kopenick	1,956	Helmut Käutner	Comedy, Drama	7.3	53	German	Germany	A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to ...
Asphalt	1,929	Joe May	Drama	7.3	48	German	Germany	Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.
We Feed the World	2,005	Erwin Wagenhofer	Documentary	7.3	42	German	Austria	A documentary that exposes the shocking truths behind industrial food production and food wastage, focusing on fishing, livestock and crop farming. A must-see for anyone interested in the true cost of the food on their plate.
Riefenstahl	2,024	Andres Veiel	Documentary	7.3	39	German	Germany	Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime's atrocities.
My Fairy Troublemaker	2,022	Caroline Origer	Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy	7.3	39	German	Germany	Violetta (337), a curious and cheeky fairy, gets lost in the human world. To find her way back to the fairy world, she teams up with the human girl Maxie (12) and discovers her true destiny.
Open the Wall	2,014	Christian Schwochow	Drama, Comedy	7.3	39	German	Germany	A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
Grand Prix of Europe	2,025	Waldemar Fast	Animation, Adventure, Comedy	7.3	38	German	Germany	Edda, a young mouse and the daughter of fairground operator Erwin, dreams of becoming a race car driver. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the European Grand Prix, Edda gets the opportunity to meet her idol, racing star Ed, and to help her father save his failing business. But to do so, she'll have to get behind the wheel herself.
Mother's Day	1,994	Harald Sicheritz	Comedy	7.3	33	German	Austria	48 hours in the life of the Neugebauer family. The May weekend with a small family celebration, which was planned as peaceful and contemplative, turns out to be a kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show in Vienna's municipal housing estate. Just like the other residents, the Neugebauers are preparing for the impending Mother's Day.
Port of Freedom	1,944	Helmut Käutner	Drama, Romance	7.3	30	German	Germany	Singing sailor Hannes, who now entertains the crowd at St. Pauli's Hippodrome after years at sea, promises his dying brother that he will take care of his ex-girlfriend Gisa. Taking Gisa to Hamburg to live with him, Hannes quickly falls in love with her, but soon has to face Gisa's affection for another man, Willem.
As Green As It Gets	2,018	Florian Gallenberger	Comedy, Drama	7.3	25	German	Germany	Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like to talk much. He never has. His marriage has long lost all its magic and on top of that, he has trouble to connect with his daughter. Only when he is flying in his own rickety biplane, Schorsch feels truly free. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, claiming the shade of green of the grass Schorsch has planted on the golf course is not right, insolvency seems unavoidable. So just when his airplane is about to be impounded, Schorsch grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself. He embarks onto a journey into the unknown, to places he has never seen before, full of odd and special encounters - and with every take-off and every landing, this tough man's heart slowly warms up to what you might call an idea of happiness.
Biking Borders	2,021	Max Jabs	Documentary	7.3	23	German	Germany	Best friends Max and Nono bike from Berlin to Beijing, collecting donations to build a school for a unique fundraising adventure in this documentary.
Arthur & Claire	2,018	Miguel Alexandre	Comedy, Drama	7.3	21	German	Austria	The chance meeting of two people at the darkest moments of their lives leads to a bright new beginning : Arthur (around 50) and Claire (around 30) pull each other from the abyss – by trying to save the other they see the worth of their own life.
The Terrible People	1,960	Harald Reinl	Crime, Thriller	7.3	21	German	Germany	The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
I Was Nineteen	1,968	Konrad Wolf	Drama, History, War	7.3	19	German	East Germany	A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.
The Unheard Woman	2,016	Hans Steinbichler	TV Movie, Drama, History	7.3	18	German	Germany	What if nobody wants to believe you? Hanni, a farmer's wife and mother of three, is worried about her daughter Magdalena. The girl is smaller than the others, more sensitive, vomits more often and has increasingly poor eyesight. The doctors, the teacher and the family all say it must be her psyche. Glasses with normal lenses will certainly help. But as a mother, Hanni senses that a new pair of glasses won't change anything and that there is more at stake. Even plagued by an unheard-of memory from her youth, she begins to fight unwaveringly and unstoppably for her daughter's suffering, not only putting her family's happiness and her livelihood at risk, but also not shying away from the Bavarian justice system in the end.
Forget Me Not	2,013	David Sieveking	Documentary	7.3	16	German	Unknown	David Sieveking left home years ago to make films. Now he has returned – and for a reason: To help his mother, Gretel, who has Alzheimer’s, and relieve her long-time carer and his father Malte for a few weeks. The filmmaker takes on the role of carer and documents this encounter with his camera. Gretel no longer knows the people around her, but her puns and charm have not faded. The time spent with his mother becomes a journey into David’s unexpected family history. Once active in Zurich’s left-wing scene, David’s parents enjoyed a lifelong “open relationship”, characterised by a loving distance and mutual respect. VERGISS MEIN NICHT is a film about dementia, but it’s first and foremost a declaration of a love of life and family.
Faust	1,960	Peter Gorski	Drama, Fantasy	7.3	16	German	Germany	In 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The brilliant production was a huge success and ran for a couple of years. In 1959 Peter Gorski captured the performance on film in his directorial film debut. Basically it is a registration of the production, but Gorksi did manage to accentuate the details of the acting by using enough medium and close-up shots which give a view on the acting you normally would not able to see in a theater.
Chasing the Line	2,021	Andreas Schmied	Drama, History	7.3	15	German	Austria	Barely 22, Franz Klammer finds himself at the “eye of the storm” when he shows up for the men’s downhill competition at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. Since the previous season the charismatic newcomer has won virtually every race. The pressure from the media and the public and the hopes of an entire nation are off the scales. His sponsor is pushing him to switch equipment right before the competition, the weather is getting steadily worse, and his toughest rivals know that Franz has to do better than just a flawless run. Franz senses that he has to find his own path and that only the love of his life can give him the strength to do that. This is the most important race of his life in which he skis a line that nobody even thought was possible and which will make him to this day a legend in the sport of downhill skiing.
Fly Rocket Fly	2,018	Oliver Schwehm	Documentary	7.3	14	German	Germany	A long time ago, years before Elon Musk reached for the stars with his Space X project, a young man had his own childhood dream about a journey into space. This documentary tells the fantastic story of German astrophysicist Lutz Kayser who developed the world's first private space company. He did this under the curious and concerned eyes of secret services around the world.
Because We Are Champions	2,022	Christoph Schnee	Comedy	7.3	12	German	Germany	Things are not going well for basketball coach Andreas: He gets fired, his wife leaves him, and then he is caught driving under the influence. The consequence? Community hours. From now on, Andreas will coach a basketball team of players with mental disabilities.
Peter in Magicland	1,990	Wolfgang Urchs	Animation, Family	7.3	12	German	Germany	After Sumsemann the beetle loses one of his arms to a troll, he invites brother and sister Peterchen and Annaliese to join him on a journey to the moon in a quest to retrieve his lost arm.
Oeconomia	2,020	Carmen Losmann	Documentary	7.3	10	German	Germany	What is money? What are debts? What are the consequences of both? And how can images be found for them? In Oeconomia, Carmen Losmann undertakes a journey in the strategic heartlands of neoliberal policy.
Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex	2,017	Til Schweiger	Adventure, Comedy, Family	7.3	10	German	Germany	Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters from being destroyed by the construction of a hotel there.
Kaya Yanar - Made in Germany	2,008	Unknown	Comedy, Documentary, TV Movie	7.3	10	German	Unknown
The NeverEnding Story	1,984	Wolfgang Petersen	Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Drama	7.2	4,291	German	Germany	While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
The Teachers' Lounge	2,023	İlker Çatak	Drama	7.2	670	German	Germany	When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Labyrinth of Lies	2,014	Giulio Ricciarelli	Drama, History	7.2	595	German	Germany	A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
The Captain	2,018	Robert Schwentke	War, Drama, History	7.2	483	German	Germany	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.
Bagdad Cafe	1,987	Percy Adlon	Comedy, Drama	7.2	430	German	Germany	A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
Heidi	2,015	Alain Gsponer	Adventure, Family, Drama	7.2	426	German	Germany	Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
The Edukators	2,004	Hans Weingartner	Drama, Comedy	7.2	371	German	Austria	Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Barbara	2,012	Christian Petzold	Drama	7.2	352	German	Germany	In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
A Coffee in Berlin	2,012	Jan Ole Gerster	Drama, Comedy	7.2	347	German	Germany	Niko, a twenty-something college dropout, lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then on one fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes.
The Edge of Heaven	2,007	Fatih Akin	Drama	7.2	347	German	Germany	The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
North Face	2,008	Philipp Stölzl	Adventure, Drama, Action, History, Thriller	7.2	303	German	Austria	North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Europa Europa	1,990	Agnieszka Holland	History, Drama, War	7.2	270	German	France	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.
Revanche	2,008	Götz Spielmann	Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller	7.2	241	German	Austria	Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.
In July	2,000	Fatih Akin	Adventure, Comedy, Romance	7.2	231	German	Germany	Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him.
Contra	2,020	Sönke Wortmann	Comedy, Drama	7.2	195	German	Germany	With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outburst spreads like wildfire on the Internet, and the university’s president, Lambrecht, is called to deal with the incident. But Pohl is not dismissed. Instead, he is put to the task of helping Naima prepare for an important debating competition. The lecturer and the student could not be more different, yet they are thrown together to work as a team.
Run Boy Run	2,014	Pepe Danquart	Drama, War, History	7.2	194	German	Germany	A 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.
Rock My Heart	2,017	Hanno Olderdissen	Adventure, Drama, Family	7.2	153	German	Germany	17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents does not like that and are even more in constant fear of their daughter.
Veronika Voss	1,982	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama	7.2	150	German	Germany	In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
Fox and His Friends	1,975	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama	7.2	148	German	Germany	Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for love and affection soon spirals into tragedy.
The Punch Bowl	1,944	Helmut Weiss	Comedy, Family	7.2	148	German	Germany	Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me	2,001	Hardy Martins	Drama, War	7.2	144	German	Germany	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.
Mephisto	1,981	István Szabó	Drama	7.2	142	German	Germany	A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
The Diary of Anne Frank	2,016	Hans Steinbichler	Drama	7.2	133	German	Germany	The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
The Crocodiles	2,009	Christian Ditter	Adventure, Family	7.2	127	German	Germany	Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ...
Under the Sun	2,015	Vitaly Mansky	Documentary	7.2	121	German	Czech Republic	Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
Woman in the Moon	1,929	Fritz Lang	Drama, Science Fiction, Romance	7.2	112	German	Germany	A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
People on Sunday	1,930	Robert Siodmak	Drama	7.2	111	German	Germany	A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
The Last Train	2,006	Joseph Vilsmaier	War, Drama	7.2	74	German	Czech Republic	A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.
Tartuffe	1,926	F. W. Murnau	Drama, Comedy	7.2	74	German	Germany	A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
Gundermann	2,018	Andreas Dresen	Drama	7.2	73	German	Germany	The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.
Toyland	2,007	Jochen Alexander Freydank	Drama, War	7.2	70	German	Germany	On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat to find him. The neighbors' door, with a Star of David painted on it, is ajar, the furnishings in disarray, the family gone. She asks passersby, runs to the police then on to the rail yard. Flashbacks show that Heinrich and the neighbors' son Paul are six years old and best friends. Paul's family's deportation is expected soon; Heinrich's mother tells her son that they're going to Toyland. Heinrich wants to go with them, has a bag packed, and listens for their departure. His mother realizes he's joined them, and her resolve becomes more urgent. Will she arrive in time to save Heinrich?
Silentium	2,004	Wolfgang Murnberger	Thriller, Crime, Comedy	7.2	69	German	Austria	A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.
Tour de Force	2,014	Christian Zübert	Drama, Comedy	7.2	66	German	Germany	Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the adventure, after all they know that what counts the most is the time they spend together. It's only after the tour has begun that Hannes tells his friends that he's suffering from an incurable disease. The trip is to be his last. At first, the group is shocked and helpless, but after they hit the road again, they embark on a wild and one-of-a-kind adventure. Through Hannes, they realize how precious life is. Equipped with a list of things that still remain to do, and aware that nothing will be the same after this trip, they celebrate life as they never did before.
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner	1,974	Werner Herzog	Documentary	7.2	65	German	Germany	A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
Bonnie and Bonnie	2,019	Ali Hakim	Drama, Romance	7.2	60	German	Germany	Shattering the patriarchal concept that a true crime duo requires a man, Bonnie and Bonnie showcases the development of true friendship between two strong and independent women, determined to make their mark on the world.
Rocks	2,003	Chris Stenner	Animation, Comedy	7.2	53	German	Germany	The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Therefore they're only mildly amazed by the ongoi...
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate	2,023	Benjamin Cantu	Documentary	7.2	50	German	Germany	A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.
C(r)ook	2,004	Pepe Danquart	Comedy, Crime, Thriller	7.2	48	German	Austria	A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes	1,937	Karl Hartl	Comedy, Crime	7.2	44	German	Germany	Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
SCHW31NS7EIGER: Memories - Von Anfang bis Legende	2,020	Robert Bohrer	Documentary	7.2	39	German	Unknown	Schweinsteiger's glittering career, which peaked with lifting the World Cup in 2014.
The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter	2,017	Andreas Dresen	Family, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy	7.2	35	German	Germany	The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
Master of the Universe	2,013	Marc Bauder	Documentary	7.2	32	German	Germany	He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now, he sits on one of the upper floors of an empty bank building in the middle of Frankfurt, overlooking a skyline of glass and steel. And talks. In an extended mix of a monologue and an in-depth interview, which is as frightening as it is fascinating, he shares his inside knowledge from a megalomaniac parallel world where illusions are the market's hardest currency. Marc Bauder's 'Master of the Universe' is based on meticulous research and provides us with geniune insight into the notoriously secretive and self-protective 'universe' of which our nameless protagonist experiences himself a master. Where other films on the financial meltdown have focused on the epic nature of larger-than-life business, Bauder probes the mentality that made it possible in the first place. A tense drama where psychology meets finance - two things that are more closely linked than you would like to believe.
Single Bells	1,997	Xaver Schwarzenberger	Comedy, TV Movie	7.2	30	German	Germany	Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at a...
Everything Will Be Okay	2,015	Patrick Vollrath	Drama, Thriller	7.2	28	German	Austria	A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can't help feeling that something isn't right. So begins a fateful journey.
I Only Want You to Love Me	1,976	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama, TV Movie	7.2	27	German	Germany	Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the pr...
Under the Bridges	1,946	Helmut Käutner	Romance, Drama, Comedy	7.2	22	German	Germany	Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.
The Love of Jeanne Ney	1,927	G.W. Pabst	Drama	7.2	22	German	Germany	In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
The Green Planet	2,012	Jan Haft	Documentary	7.2	19	German	Germany	It covers thirty percent of the Earth's land mass and yet, most of us barely scratch the surface. Now, discover what few people have seen, as The Green Planet follows the stories of forest inhabitants, from graceful red deer to cunning foxes and impressive wild boar. With cutting edge technology, we also explore some of the more bizarre and wonderful forest dwellers: the purple emperor, liverworts, stag beetles and corydalis. See flowers bloom and blades of grass cut through the snow. Spend time in a foxes den with her new born cubs and follow tiny insects and creatures with microscopic detail. Be a part of a journey that takes you through the seasons and be prepared to be amazed by the natural wonder of creation, destruction and rebirth in this incomparable landscape.
Befriending the Grouch	2,019	Marco Petry	Comedy, TV Movie	7.2	17	German	Germany	Olav Hintz, a retired teacher who loves only himself, needs care as he sits in a wheelchair. The nurse, the single parent Trixi has several jobs to complete and gives the care to her 3 children. Chaos is on.
Putin's Bears - The Most Dangerous Hackers in the World	2,024	David	Documentary, TV Movie	7.2	16	German	Germany	They call themselves Fancy Bear, Cozy Bear or Voodoo Bear. Elite units of the Russian secret services are hidden behind these code names. They are among the most dangerous hackers in the world. The bears were already in the computer of then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015, interfered in the US election campaign in 2016 and are currently influencing the war in Ukraine. The makers of the successful YouTube channel “Simplicissimus” in co-production with funk and SWR are back and show the destructive potential of state hacking with this documentary. With the help of leading German hackers, cyberspace experts and a lot of humor, they delicately demystify the Russian bears: Who are the people behind them? How do they operate? And what makes them so incredibly dangerous?
System Error	2,018	Florian Opitz	Documentary	7.2	16	German	Germany	Melting glaciers, gullied seas, the financial markets are about to collapse. Spectacular images of how growth continues to be blinding. Outside you can hardly see anything because of the smog and the smoke screen.
08/15	1,954	Paul May	War, Drama	7.2	16	German	Germany	Life in the barracks, drill, harassment, and private Asch′s pranks are the ingredients of Hans Hellmut Kirst′s successful novel "08/15" (the number of an Army regulation). Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein belong to the same unit but could not be more contrary. The instructors use every opportunity to bully the clumsy Vierbein with erratic corporal Platzek leading the way. The harassment starts with minor extra duties but soon the methods become more and more brutal. Finally, Asch comes to Vierbein′s help and takes on his superiors. Joachim Fuchsberger stars in his first major role.
The Devious Path	1,928	G.W. Pabst	Drama	7.2	15	German	Germany	Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.
The Congress Dances	1,931	Erik Charell	History, Comedy	7.2	15	German	Germany	Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
Alkohol	2,020	Andreas Pichler	Documentary	7.2	14	German	Germany	Alcohol: No substance in the world seems so familiar to us and is so incredibly diverse in its effect. Alcohol is available everywhere and this particular molecule has the power to affect all 200 billion neurons of our human brain in completely different ways. But hardly anyone calls alcohol a drug despite its psychoactive and cell-destroying effect. Why do we tolerate the death of three million people every year? Have we turned a blind eye to the dangers and risks for thousands of years? What role does the powerful alcohol industry play with an annual turnover of 1.2 trillion euros in this on-going concealment? The author, who himself enjoys having a drink, looks into the question why we drink at all, what alcohol does to us and to what extent the alcohol industry influences society and politics.
Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint	2,019	Halina Dyrschka	Documentary	7.2	13	German	Germany	How can an artist discover abstraction by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody is noticing? A woman, misjudged and concealed, rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer creating her first abstract painting in 1906, four years before Vassily Kandinsky. But why was she ignored? Why are her paintings not available on the market? This first film on her is about her life and work, the role of women in art history and the discovery of an art scandal. Her quest for meaning in life and a boundless thinking led into a timeless, outstanding oeuvre.
Dark Blue Girl	2,017	Mascha Schilinski	Drama	7.2	13	German	Germany	Luca is a strong-willed, soulful seven-year-old. After a two-year separation, her parents take her on a trip to pack up and sell their vacation home on a quiet island in the Aegean. Once there, her parents’ romantic connection is reignited. This newfound intimacy unsettles the family dynamic, as Luca suddenly ceases to be the center of attention. With childish cleverness and determination, she plays her parents against each other, intent on keeping her place as the center of their worlds.
School of Magical Animals 4	2,025	Bernhard Jasper	Family, Fantasy	7.2	12	German	Germany	Ida's friend Miriam visits the school for three months, but a secret threatens to tear them apart. Miriam is entrusted with the tarsier Fitzgeraldo, while Max, deeply in love, is given the owl Muriel. Meanwhile, the sale of the school is imminent, and the future of the magical community is in peril.
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods	2,017	Christine Franz	Music, Documentary	7.2	12	German	Germany	Documentary following British punk duo Sleaford Mods on their two year journey from Nottingham bedroom recording sessions to chart success
Mario Barth: Männer sind schuld, sagen die Frauen	2,013	Volker Weicker	Comedy	7.2	12	German	Unknown
The Endless Night	1,963	Will Tremper	Comedy	7.2	12	German	Germany	Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Berlin.
Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight	1,966	Harald Philipp	Crime	7.2	12	German	France	Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high.
Heidi	1,952	Luigi Comencini	Drama, Family	7.2	12	German	Switzerland	Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he resents her presence, but, after a short while, Heidi manages to pierce his gruff exterior, and the two become close. She also befriends a young shepherd named Peter. After three years, Heidi's aunt arrives and demands Heidi's return to Frankfurt.
The Broken Jug	1,937	Gustav Ucicky	Comedy	7.2	12	German	Germany	Today is a fateful day for village judge Adam. Who broke Widow Kull’s jug fleeing head over heels after his nightly visit to her daughter? As the trial unfolds, it becomes clear to everyone that the judge himself is the culprit. Judge Adam twists and turns, invents countless explanations, and piles up the most absurd lies. But he is conducting a trial against himself—one he cannot win.
Unterwerfung	2,018	Titus Selge	Drama, TV Movie	7.2	11	German	Germany	François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and polygamy and loses his job. In his growing loneliness, Rector Rediger's offer to resume his teaching at the Sorbonne reaches him on one condition: he must convert to Islam.
Volcano	2,009	Uwe Janson	Drama, Action, TV Movie	7.2	11	German	Germany	When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents.
Curveball	2,021	Johannes Naber	Comedy, Drama, War	7.2	10	German	Germany	Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name “Curveball”.
Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life	2,013	Ben von Grafenstein	Documentary, History, TV Movie	7.2	10	German	Germany	On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second Social Democratic head of government in the Federal Republic of Germany, he shaped the country like few other chancellors. Even 30 years after the end of his time in government, he is still a highly esteemed expert whose advice and opinions are in demand. He is one of the most popular chancellors among the population and is held in the highest esteem by his party; even his political opponents at the time pay him the greatest respect.
Sapphire Blue	2,014	Felix Fuchssteiner	Fantasy, Romance, Drama	7.1	1,020	German	Germany	Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days	2,005	Marc Rothemund	Drama, History	7.1	449	German	Germany	In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.
The American Friend	1,977	Wim Wenders	Drama, Thriller, Crime	7.1	425	German	France	Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Angst	1,983	Gerald Kargl	Thriller, Crime, Horror	7.1	401	German	Austria	A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Sissi: The Young Empress	1,956	Ernst Marischka	Drama, Comedy, Romance	7.1	365	German	Austria	Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor how to rule and also Sissi how to be a mother.
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress	1,957	Ernst Marischka	Romance, Drama, History	7.1	352	German	Austria	After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.
The Tank	2,025	Dennis Gansel	War, Action, Drama	7.1	344	German	Germany	A German Tiger tank crew is sent on a dangerous mission to rescue the missing officer Paul von Hardenburg from a top-secret bunker behind enemy lines. As they make their way through the lethal no-man's land, they must confront not only the enemy, but also their own fears and inner demons. Fueled by the Wehrmacht's methamphetamine, their mission increasingly becomes a journey into the heart of darkness.
Center of My World	2,016	Jakob M. Erwa	Drama, Romance	7.1	268	German	Austria	A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
Nowhere in Africa	2,001	Caroline Link	Drama	7.1	176	German	Germany	A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
Mario	2,018	Marcel Gisler	Drama, Romance	7.1	144	German	Switzerland	Two young gay soccer players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.
John Rabe	2,009	Florian Gallenberger	Drama, History, War	7.1	125	German	Austria	A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Treasure of Silver Lake	1,962	Harald Reinl	Western, Adventure	7.1	123	German	France	Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.
Mädchen in Uniform	1,931	Leontine Sagan	Drama, Romance	7.1	117	German	Germany	A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
Vampire Sisters 2: Bats in the Belly	2,014	Wolfgang Groos	Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy	7.1	115	German	Germany	Teen half vampire Dakaria falls in love with rock singer vampire Murdo. Dakaria, her friends and family have to face vampire Xantor who has dark plans.
Weekend Rebels	2,023	Marc Rothemund	Comedy, Drama	7.1	113	German	Germany	Mirco von Juterczenka's novel "Wir Wochenendrebellen" is the story of a father and his ten-year-old son, who is Asperger's autistic. The boy has set his mind on finally finding his favourite football club. But his selection criteria are very specific and besides, he wants to experience all the clubs (no matter in which league they play) live in the stadium.
The Dumpling Affair	2,017	Ed Herzog	Comedy, Crime	7.1	108	German	Germany	After a provincial policeman gets falsely accused of a crime that was committed with his pocket knife, he begins a turbulent hunt for the real murderer.
The Tunnel	2,001	Roland Suso Richter	Drama, Thriller	7.1	108	German	Germany	Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Sauerkrautkoma	2,018	Ed Herzog	Comedy, Crime	7.1	101	German	Germany	When a hilariously dull policeman moves in with his best buddy in Munich, he has to deal with scandals, a corpse — and potential marriage.
Tokyo-Ga	1,985	Wim Wenders	Documentary	7.1	100	German	Germany	German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.
Chinese Roulette	1,977	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama	7.1	98	German	Germany	Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, plan for the weekend on separate trips, lying to the other about their trysts. However, their itineraries are complicated when they both arrive at the family's country home with their respective lovers.
Life Eternal	2,015	Wolfgang Murnberger	Comedy, Crime, Thriller	7.1	83	German	Austria	Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former girlfriend and the major sin he committed when he was young, murders and a fateful gunshot to the head result. After Brenner comes out of a coma, he begins to search for the person who tried to kill him - however, everybody claims that he himself is responsible. In the beginning Brenner was at the end of his rope, but he could face a new beginning in the end.
The 3 Penny Opera	1,931	G.W. Pabst	Music, Crime	7.1	62	German	Germany	In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Oskar's Dress	2,022	Hüseyin Tabak	Drama	7.1	59	German	Germany	Since Ben has been living apart from his ex-wife Mira and his children, his life has fallen apart. But unexpectedly, he gets a second chance: when Mira, pregnant to the teeth, has to be hospitalized, his children live with him again. This time, everything will be fine - he thinks! But his son Oskar brings a small problem: he wears a dress that he doesn't want to take off.
The Cleaners	2,018	Hans Block	Documentary	7.1	52	German	Brazil	A deep dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violence, porn and political content.
The Fox	2,023	Adrian Goiginger	History, Drama, War	7.1	51	German	Austria	At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger’s great-grandfather.
Black Rider	1,993	Pepe Danquart	Comedy	7.1	50	German	Germany	A young black man is verbally harassed by an older woman on a streetcar, while the other passengers remain silent. He finally exacts his revenge.
A Whole Life	2,023	Hans Steinbichler	Drama, History	7.1	48	German	Austria	When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, bringing light and noise to the valley along with electricity. He also finds the love of his life in Marie, but their happiness is short-lived. Only many years later, when Andreas embarks on his final journey, she is with him once again. And in amazement Andreas looks back at all the years that lie behind him.
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery	2,014	Arne Birkenstock	Crime, Documentary, History	7.1	48	German	Germany	Wolfgang Beltracchi got away with forging art masterpieces for over 40 years. He may be egotistical and nihilistic, but his genius in undeniable. He managed to fool gallery owners, historians and investors with the stroke of a brush. This documentary follows his last days as a free man.
The Foster Boy	2,011	Markus Imboden	Drama	7.1	46	German	Germany	Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his. But when the new teacher stands up for Max, it only makes a bad situation much worse. The only thing preserving his will to survive is his friendship with Berteli, who was also taken on to work at the farm. Max dreams of Argentina with her: a fantasy world, where allegedly even hayforks are made of silver.
The Swissmakers	1,978	Rolf Lyssy	Comedy, Romance, Drama	7.1	39	German	Switzerland	This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
Journey of Hope	1,990	Xavier Koller	Drama	7.1	35	German	France	In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe. Will anyone reach the land of promise?
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film	2,018	Joachim Lang	Drama, Comedy, Fantasy	7.1	34	German	Belgium	Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political, and incisive.
Homo Sapiens	2,016	Nikolaus Geyrhalter	Documentary	7.1	33	German	Austria	HOMO SAPIENS is visionary documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter's exploration of the finiteness and fragility of human existence, the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we're gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities, increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature. Comprised of a succession of eerily depopulated, dystopian landscapes from across the world, HOMO SAPIENS offers an at once mesmerizing and chilling vision of what a posthuman future might look like.
Copy Shop	2,001	Virgil Widrich	Drama, Comedy, Animation	7.1	33	German	Austria	Wordless story about a man who awakes in his bed wearing his clothes (including a check vest). He rises, washes his face, combs his hair, and heads for work across the street at a copy shop. He inadvertently makes a photocopy of his hand, and then the machine beings turning out copies of photographs of himself, the street outside, and his apartment. He unplugs the copier and heads home. He repeats the scene we saw earlier. Copies of himself emerge from bed; baffled, he watches them go to work. Soon, it seems, he's part of a society in which everyone looks like him and wears check vest. Can he get things back to normal?
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl	1,993	Ray Müller	Documentary	7.1	32	German	Belgium	This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.
Annaluise & Anton	1,999	Caroline Link	Family, Comedy, Drama	7.1	30	German	Germany	Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.
Little Sharks	1,992	Sönke Wortmann	Comedy	7.1	29	German	Germany	When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. Written by emkarpf
Hitler: A Film from Germany	1,978	Hans-Jürgen Syberberg	Drama, History, War	7.1	24	German	France	A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of personality in propaganda to how said propaganda was associated with pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual, and national heritage to the Holocaust and the ideology behind it, particularly from Himmler's point of view.
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?	1,959	Frank Wisbar	Drama, War	7.1	24	German	Germany	In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
The Hidden Life of Trees	2,020	Jörg Adolph	Documentary	7.1	21	German	Unknown	When Peter Wohlleben published his book "The Hidden Life of Trees" in 2015, he quickly entered bestseller lists. The forester wrote vividly about his experience that trees are able to communicate with each other, a thesis explored here.
Echoes from a Sombre Empire	1,990	Werner Herzog	Documentary	7.1	20	German	Germany	Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
Emil and the Detectives	1,931	Gerhard Lamprecht	Family, Comedy, Crime	7.1	20	German	Germany	When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun	1,989	Werner Herzog	Documentary	7.1	18	German	France	Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.
North Sea Is Death Sea	1,976	Hark Bohm	Drama	7.1	18	German	Germany	14-year-old Uwe lives in a suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has not much to expect from his parents. To get his hands on some money, he prizes open vending machines, and to let out his frustration, he beats up "wogs". Among them is Dschingis, his nemesis. But one day, the rivals make peace. They become friends because they realize that they have the same problems and are driven by the same dreams and hopes.
Zwei Herzen und ein Thron	1,955	Hans Schott-Schöbinger	Comedy	7.1	18	German	Unknown
Hamlet	1,921	Svend Gade	Drama	7.1	18	German	Germany	A free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama. The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy, and thus, the girl lives her life as 'Prince' Hamlet. Her father poisoned by a venomous snake placed by the treacherous Claudius, Hamlet fakes madness to investigate without suspicion.
Checker Tobi und das Geheimnis unseres Planeten	2,019	Martin Tischner	Family, Documentary, Adventure	7.1	16	German	Germany	The greatest adventure of his life begins for Checker Tobi on a pirate ship in the middle of the sea. There he discovers a message in a bottle containing a riddle. If he solves it, he will reveal the secret of our planet. An exciting scavenger hunt around the world begins! Tobi climbs the crater of a fire-breathing volcano, dives with sea dragons in the Pacific, explores the loneliest parts of the Arctic with climate researchers and ends up in India at the driest time of the year. In Mumbai, he becomes a Bollywood star before the monsoon transforms the megacity. Tobi finally realizes that he had the solution to the puzzle in mind throughout his journey.
The Culpable	2,015	Gerd Schneider	Crime, Drama	7.1	16	German	Germany	Jakob, Dominik and Oliver are best friends, they play soccer and work as priests. They are united in their belief that the catholic church can make the world a better place. But when Dominik is confronted with allegations that he abused a boy, Jakob's world collapses. Torn between his beliefs and the friendship to Dominik, he's committed to finding the truth.
Little Germans	2,019	Frank Geiger	Documentary	7.1	15	German	Germany	LITTLE GERMANS combines animation and documentary film to tell the story of children that are born into extreme right-wing families. From a young age on they are trained to hate everything that seems 'foreign'. How does it feel to grow up in a world, where empathy is subsidiary and 'the nation' stands above everything? And who do those 'little Germans' become once they grow up?
The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy	2,009	Peter Liechti	Documentary	7.1	15	German	Switzerland	The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man's detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti's film is a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event: a cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character's radical renunciation of life itself.
Oh Sheep!	2,012	Gottfried Mentor	Animation, Comedy	7.1	14	German	Germany	Two flocks of sheep are searching for companionship. But their shepherds, being at odds with each other, do everything to keep them separated.
Trainer!	2,013	Aljoscha Pause	Documentary	7.1	13	German	Germany	This behind-the-scenes sports documentary follows the careers of three young German professional soccer coaches over the course of a single season.
Käpt’n Blaubär – Der Film	1,999	Hayo Freitag	Animation	7.1	13	German	Germany	Captain Blaubär’s archenemy Prof. Dr. Feinfinger, kidnapped the grandson of Blaubär, three little bears, from his custody to avenge himself at Blaubär, who had destroyed the years before Feinfinger’s plans to conquer the world. Together with his friend Hein Blöd, Blaubär sets out to free them.
Enkel für Fortgeschrittene	2,023	Wolfgang Groos	Comedy	7.1	12	German	Germany
Portrait: Werner Herzog	1,986	Werner Herzog	Documentary	7.1	12	German	Germany	An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.
Curious Tobi and the Treasure Hunt to the Flying Rivers	2,023	Johannes Honsell	Family, Adventure	7.1	10	German	Germany	In Curious Tobi and the Treasure Hunt to the Flying Rivers, adventurer Tobi needs to find his best friend from childhood Marina, the only person who can help him unlock a mysterious treasure chest. Tobi’s search for Marina kickstarts an adventure that takes him to the greatest and most stunning places in the world. Always with one goal in mind: solving the riddle of the treasure chest and finding the mysterious flying rivers.
Anderst schön	2,015	Bartosz Werner	TV Movie, Comedy, Drama	7.1	10	German	Germany	Roger has his own clear world. He loves his apartment. Roger works as a janitor in a house about to be demolished. Leftover GDR supporters, failed geniuses, artistic neo-Nazis live there.
Meine Tochter Anne Frank	2,015	Raymond Ley	Drama	7.1	10	German	Germany	The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding from the Nazis. With this docu-drama, the first major German film adaptation of the life story of the Frankfurt girl is now available. The film follows Anne's fate from a happy childhood to hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It focuses on the relationship between father and daughter. Otto Frank was the only one who survived the betrayal of the Secret Annex residents. The most secret thoughts and longings
Suck Me Shakespeer	2,013	Bora Dağtekin	Comedy	7	1,745	German	Germany	Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.
Toni Erdmann	2,016	Maren Ade	Comedy, Drama	7	1,071	German	Austria	Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.
Emerald Green	2,016	Katharina Schöde	Fantasy, Action, Mystery	7	877	German	Germany	Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.
The Baader Meinhof Complex	2,008	Uli Edel	Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller	7	640	German	Czech Republic	When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
The Dark Valley	2,014	Andreas Prochaska	Drama, Thriller	7	417	German	Austria	The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.
Before the Fall	2,004	Dennis Gansel	Drama	7	355	German	Germany	In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
The Most Beautiful Day	2,016	Florian David Fitz	Comedy, Drama	7	271	German	Germany	The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the most awesome day before its too late.
The Golem: How He Came Into the World	1,920	Carl Boese	Fantasy, Horror	7	232	German	Germany	In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance	1,995	Michael Haneke	Drama	7	201	German	Austria	71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit	2,019	Caroline Link	Drama	7	174	German	Germany	In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.
The Little Witch	2,018	Michael Schaerer	Family, Comedy, Drama	7	146	German	Germany	The little witch is only 127 years old – too young for the annual coven of witches. Although she is not yet old enough to be a real witch she wants to become a really good one. This decision causes trouble inside her magic world.
Adidas Vs. Puma: The Brother's Feud	2,016	Oliver Dommenget	Drama	7	144	German	Germany	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.
Stations of the Cross	2,014	Dietrich Brüggemann	Drama	7	129	German	Germany	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 h...
Winterkartoffelknödel	2,014	Ed Herzog	Comedy, Crime	7	128	German	Germany	A policeman suspects that several bizarre deaths in the same family were murders and that the killer is a mysterious woman who just moved to the village.
Sun and Concrete	2,023	David Wnendt	Crime, Drama	7	116	German	Germany	The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain plan.
Grave Decisions	2,006	Marcus H. Rosenmüller	Drama, Comedy	7	114	German	Germany	In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too young to be a murderer. He's convinced that he killed his mother on the day he was born and is certain he's already been condemned to purgatory. Deciding he might be able to knock off a few years of his sentence by doing good deeds, Sebastian sets out to find a wife for his father Lorenz. When Lorenz and Sebastian's schoolteacher Veronika fall madly in love with each other, it seems the heavens must be smiling. There's just one hitch: Veronika is married.
Schweinskopf al dente	2,016	Ed Herzog	Comedy, Crime	7	111	German	Germany	As he tries to win back his ex-girlfriend, a lethargic Lower Bavarian police officer gets sidetracked by a panicky boss and an escaped psychopath.
Leberkäsjunkie	2,019	Ed Herzog	Comedy, Crime	7	104	German	Germany	While dealing with a burnt-down house, smelly diapers and brutal lack of sleep, a Lower Bavarian police officer faces his worst adversary: cholesterol.
Marianne and Juliane	1,981	Margarethe von Trotta	Drama	7	76	German	Germany	Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.
Momo	1,986	Johannes Schaaf	Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Family, Mystery	7	73	German	Germany	Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.
Solino	2,002	Fatih Akin	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7	69	German	Germany	The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.
Nothing Bad Can Happen	2,013	Katrin Gebbe	Drama, Horror, Crime	7	63	German	Germany	Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement, falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.
Of Fathers and Sons	2,017	Talal Derki	Documentary, War	7	58	German	Germany	Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.
The White Sound	2,001	Hans Weingartner	Drama	7	58	German	Germany	Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
The Invisibles	2,017	Claus Räfle	Drama, History	7	57	German	Germany	Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
Jack	2,014	Edward Berger	Drama	7	56	German	Germany	Ten-year-old Jack has to take care of his little brother, six-year-old Manuel, every day from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed. When Manuel suffers an accident, their lives change forever.
Jungle Child	2,011	Roland Suso Richter	Adventure, Drama	7	51	German	Germany	A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.
From Hilde, with Love	2,024	Andreas Dresen	War, Drama, History	7	50	German	Germany	In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
Different from the Others	1,919	Richard Oswald	Drama	7	50	German	Germany	Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).
The Bloom of Yesterday	2,017	Chris Kraus	Romance, Drama, Comedy	7	41	German	Austria	An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.
Comradeship	1,931	G.W. Pabst	Drama	7	40	German	Germany	At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
Hambre	2,023	Esra Laske	Drama	7	38	German	Germany	Leni and Paul are „all good!“, as Paul likes to emphasise. But on this evening even he realises that this is not true at all. Their new neighbours, Mariam and Ayla, who come over for dinner embody exactly what Leni and Paul have not been for one another as a couple for years. While finishing up dessert, the relationship of the perfect couple, centered on their fluffy dog Amor, unfolds.
Big Mäck: Gangsters and Gold	2,023	Fabienne Hurst	Documentary	7	34	German	Germany	A man is convicted of a robbery he didn't commit and spends six years in jail. Decades later, he becomes a suspect again — but is he still innocent?
Wings of Hope	1,999	Werner Herzog	Documentary, TV Movie	7	34	German	Germany	Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.
A Heavy Heart	2,016	Thomas Stuber	Drama	7	30	German	Germany	A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Amrum	2,025	Fatih Akin	Drama	7	27	German	Germany	On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends, his mother sinks into depression, and he must navigate new conflicts while struggling to find his own path.
Hut in the Woods	2,011	Hans Weingartner	Drama	7	26	German	Germany	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.
Roses for the Prosecutor	1,959	Wolfgang Staudte	Drama, Comedy	7	21	German	Germany	April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
Graf Porno und seine Mädchen	1,969	Günter Hendel	Comedy	7	19	German	Germany	Graf Porno is a real playboy who makes money out of everything that falls into his hands. During great sex parties he puts his girls on and afterwards everything that is not nailed down is missing. Harry Holst, on the other hand, is a young man who has successfully completed a correspondence course as a private detective and is now waiting for clients...waiting and waiting.
The Street	1,923	Karl Grune	Drama, Crime	7	18	German	Germany	The movie follows two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place.
Food Chains	2,014	Sanjay Rawal	Documentary	7	17	German	United States of America	This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to dictate low wages and inhumane labor conditions for farmworkers in the United States.
Die Deutschmeister	1,955	Ernst Marischka	Romance, Comedy, Music	7	17	German	Austria	Young Stanzi who is visiting Vienna helps a young corporal and musician to become famous for his marching song "Die Deutschmeister".
At Eye Level	2,016	Joachim Dollhopf	Comedy, Drama, Family	7	16	German	Germany	11-year-old Michi lives in a children's home, every day fighting to win the respect of the other kids, till the day he finds his real dad, Tom - wh...
Somewhere Else Tomorrow	2,014	Daniel Rintz	Documentary	7	16	German	Unknown	War zone borders, engine trouble and the difficulties of making money to survive couldn't outweigh the thrill of adventure and discovery Daniel Rintz encountered while motorcycling around the world for two and a half years.
Hochzeit auf Immenhof	1,956	Volker von Collande	Comedy, Drama, Family	7	16	German	Germany	The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. In order to save the manor house, Dalli has started a "pony circus" with the village children in the barn, while Dick has given up hope of Ethelbert ever returning.
Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser	2,019	Niklaus Hilber	Drama, History, Adventure	7	15	German	Austria	1984: Searching for an experience that goes deeper than the superficiality of modern civilization, Bruno Manser travels into the jungles of Borneo and finds it with the nomadic Penan tribe. It is an encounter that changes his life forever. When the existence of the Penan is threatened by relentless deforestation, Manser takes up the fight against logging with a courage and determination that makes him one of the most renowned and credible environmentalists of his time. Eventually, it costs him everything. Based on a true story.
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country	2,017	İlker Çatak	Drama	7	12	German	Germany	A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.
The Secret of Loch Ness	2,008	Michael Rowitz	Adventure, Fantasy, Family	7	12	German	Austria	11-year-old Tim is way ahead of the other boys his age: nothing excites him more than explorers, myths, dinosaurs and legends - and planning his mother's life! One day, however, Tim's life is about to change completely: He accidentally discovers a photo of an explorer living in Scotland on the internet and he looks like the spitting image of his dead father! The adventurous boy secretly sets off on a journey to Iverness, the famous Scottish village on the banks of the legendary Loch Ness. And what awaits him there exceeds Tintin's wildest expectations.
Seven Minutes	1,989	Klaus Maria Brandauer	Drama, History	7	12	German	Germany	A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
Die Whistleblowerin	2,023	Elmar Fischer	Drama, Thriller, TV Movie	7	11	German	Germany	Suddenly the Russian Galina reappears in her ex-boyfriend Tom's life and asks him to contact his sister, who heads the crisis team at the Foreign Office. Galina offers herself as a whistleblower to Germany after hackers specifically attacked the computer systems of the Berlin Central Hospital. She has the code that can thwart further attacks, but in return she demands money, asylum and inclusion in a witness protection program for herself and her young daughter.
Harter Brocken: Der Geheimcode	2,019	Markus Sehr	Crime, Drama, Thriller	7	11	German	Germany	Policeman Koops witnesses a car accident. The dying driver gives him an envelope with the part of a code. Shortly thereafter, Koops gets in the sights of a contract killer.
Gipsy Queen	2,019	Hüseyin Tabak	Drama	7	11	German	Austria	Ali, once a promising young boxer from the Romani community and the only daughter of a Romani leader, falls in disgrace when she gives birth to her second child out of wedlock.
Marlene	1,984	Maximilian Schell	Documentary	7	11	German	Germany	Retrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.
Mein Name ist Otto	2,024	Christine Uschy Wernke	Documentary	7	10	German	Germany	The film tells the fairytale story of a scrawny East Frisian who, despite minimal starting opportunities, has had a unique career. Otto has always trusted his gut feeling, even when he often faced challenges that threatened to jeopardize his career. My Name is Otto shows comical moments and emotional high points, but also addresses the fears of a man who to this day firmly believes that his lucky streak could one day end.
The Village Next to Paradise	2,024	Mo Harawe	Drama	7	10	German	Germany	In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths.
Dries	2,017	Reiner Holzemer	Documentary	7	10	German	Belgium	For the first time fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year Reiner Holzemer documents the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections, the rich fabrics, embroidery and prints exclusive to his designs. As well as the emblematic fashion shows that bring his collections to the world and have become cult “must sees” at Paris Fashion Week. This film offers an insight into the life, mind and creative heart of a master fashion designer who, for more than 25 years, has remained independent in a landscape of fashion consolidation and globalization.
Nacht über Berlin	2,013	Friedemann Fromm	Drama, TV Movie	7	10	German	Germany	Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic congressman and Jewish doctor Albert Goldman, and the two become a slightly odd couple. Albert is a sworn pacifist after his experiences in the First World War. Contrary to his beliefs he agrees to act as courier for his brother Edwin, who belongs to a radical communist cell.
Das Ende einer Nacht	2,012	Matti Geschonneck	Thriller	7	10	German	Germany
Black Gravel	1,961	Helmut Käutner	Drama, Crime, Thriller	7	10	German	Germany	Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.
Ruby Red	2,013	Felix Fuchssteiner	Fantasy, Drama, Romance	6.9	1,140	German	Germany	On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.
Isi & Ossi	2,020	Oliver Kienle	Romance, Comedy	6.9	949	German	Germany	Isi and Ossi couldn't be any more different: She's a billionaire's daughter from Heidelberg, he's a struggling boxer from the nearby town of Mannheim. But when Isi meets Ossi, the two quickly realize that they can take advantage of one another: She dates the broke boxer to provoke her parents and get them to fund a long-desired chef training in New York. He tries to rip off the rich daughter to finance his first professional boxing match. Their plans soon develop into emotional chaos that challenges everything the two believe to know about money, career and love.
In the Fade	2,017	Fatih Akin	Drama, Crime	6.9	869	German	Germany	Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
The Golden Glove	2,019	Fatih Akin	Crime, Thriller, Horror, Comedy	6.9	631	German	Germany	A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Soul Kitchen	2,009	Fatih Akin	Drama, Comedy	6.9	578	German	France	In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.
The Tin Drum	1,979	Volker Schlöndorff	Drama, History, War	6.9	518	German	France	In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Benny's Video	1,992	Michael Haneke	Crime, Drama	6.9	384	German	Austria	A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
Triumph of the Will	1,935	Leni Riefenstahl	Documentary	6.9	300	German	Germany	A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
Hannah Arendt	2,012	Margarethe von Trotta	Drama	6.9	287	German	Germany	A portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.
Stromberg – The Movie	2,014	Arne Feldhusen	Comedy	6.9	251	German	Germany	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.
25 km/h	2,018	Markus Goller	Comedy, Drama, Adventure, Family	6.9	230	German	Germany	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.
Lammbock	2,001	Christian Zübert	Comedy	6.9	222	German	Germany	Stefan and Kai run a thriving business: a home-grown cannabis trade disguised as a pizza delivery service. For now they just have to fight aphids.
In the Aisles	2,018	Thomas Stuber	Drama	6.9	187	German	Germany	Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He's trained to stocks goods and operate a forklift by Bruno, a wistful former truck driver, who introduces Christian to a colorful group of overnight workers, including Marion, with whom Christian develops a troubled infatuation.
Faraway, So Close!	1,993	Wim Wenders	Drama, Fantasy	6.9	175	German	Germany	A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.
Apache Gold	1,963	Harald Reinl	Western, Adventure	6.9	170	German	France	The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.
Single By Contract	2,010	Marc Rothemund	Romance, Comedy	6.9	161	German	Germany	A love connection clicks for Lila when she moves back to Berlin and meets Christopher -- never realizing that she's fallen for a rock star who's signed a contract to remain single for life.
Cobra Verde	1,987	Werner Herzog	Adventure, Drama	6.9	161	German	Germany	A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.
The Royal Game	2,021	Philipp Stölzl	History, Drama, War, Thriller	6.9	147	German	Austria	1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.
The Princess and the Warrior	2,000	Tom Tykwer	Romance, Drama	6.9	139	German	Germany	Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the man of her dreams. But when she finds him weeks later she is rejected, as Bodo is stuck somewhere between a traumatic past and a criminal future.
Lola	1,981	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Drama	6.9	130	German	Germany	Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
The Desperado Trail	1,965	Harald Reinl	Adventure, Western	6.9	120	German	Germany	Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for the murder of Jicarilla Chief's son.
Import/Export	2,007	Ulrich Seidl	Drama	6.9	119	German	Austria	A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both a...
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations	1,938	Leni Riefenstahl	Documentary	6.9	119	German	Germany	Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
Lessons of a Dream	2,011	Sebastian Grobler	Drama	6.9	118	German	Germany	An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.
Ödipussi	1,988	Vicco von Bülow	Comedy	6.9	118	German	Germany	Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum	1,975	Volker Schlöndorff	Drama	6.9	102	German	Germany	After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
The Crocodiles Strike Back	2,010	Christian Ditter	Family, Adventure	6.9	95	German	Germany	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.
The Hunt for the Hidden Relic	2,002	Sebastian Niemann	Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller	6.9	95	German	Germany	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.
The Crocodiles: All for One	2,011	Wolfgang Groos	Action, Family, Adventure, Drama, Comedy	6.9	88	German	Germany	“The Crocodiles” are back and they are in for quite an adventure! Frank is seriously hurt and needs a liver donation. In order to save him, the gang needs to get Frank’s brother out of prison. Their plan is risky and the stakes are high.
Schtonk!	1,992	Helmut Dietl	Comedy, History	6.9	85	German	Germany	Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.
Berlin Alexanderplatz	2,020	Burhan Qurbani	Drama, Crime	6.9	84	German	Germany	In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.
Kaiserschmarrndrama	2,021	Ed Herzog	Comedy, Crime	6.9	81	German	Germany	A dicey murder investigation. A fuming best friend. A chaotic living situation. Village police officer Franz Eberhofer has a lot on his plate right now.
Beyond Silence	1,996	Caroline Link	Drama, Music	6.9	77	German	Germany	Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.
When We Leave	2,010	Feo Aladag	Drama, Family	6.9	73	German	France	Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, which results in a life-threatening situation.
Windstorm 4	2,019	Theresa von Eltz	Family, Adventure, Drama	6.9	72	German	Germany	Grandmother Maria, Sam and the riding instructor Kaan are trying together to keep Gut Kaltenbach running, which is in financial difficulties. The ambitious Isabell supports her, although she secretly pursues her own goals. The impulsive Ari comes to riding training in Kaltenbach, where she develops a special relationship with Windstorm, the eponymous horse of the film series, and she also makes friends with Mika. Mika and Ari try to save the estate and protect Windstorm from reckless horse trainer Thordur Thorvaldson.
The Murderers Are Among Us	1,946	Wolfgang Staudte	Drama, Romance, Thriller	6.9	71	German	Germany	After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.
Martha	1,974	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	TV Movie, Drama, Thriller	6.9	68	German	Germany	After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
Race to the Summit	2,023	Nicholas de Taranto	Documentary, Action, Adventure	6.9	66	German	Germany	Fearless alpine climbers Ueli Steck and Dani Arnold enter into a death-defying rivalry to set speed records on the Swiss Alps' great north faces.
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher	2,016	Sebastian Niemann	Thriller	6.9	65	German	Germany	A serial killer walks the streets of Whitechapel, London, attacking and killing women, which later came to be known as the 'Whitechapel murders' stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891 included in the London Metropolitan Police Service Investigation.
Eismayer	2,022	David Wagner	Drama, History, Romance	6.9	57	German	Austria	Vice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down.
Winter Sleepers	1,997	Tom Tykwer	Drama, Romance	6.9	55	German	Germany	Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cin...
Where the Green Ants Dream	1,984	Werner Herzog	Drama	6.9	55	German	Australia	The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
The Free Will	2,006	Matthias Glasner	Crime, Drama	6.9	54	German	Germany	After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.
Trick or Treaters	2,007	Hayo Freitag	Animation, Fantasy, Family	6.9	51	German	Germany	Three robbers pilfer from the countryside until they are charmed by a young orphan girl.
Kein Pardon	1,993	Hape Kerkeling	Comedy	6.9	50	German	Germany	Since childhood Peter Schlönzke dreams of a career as a TV presenter. His great role model is Heinz Wäscher, who is always looking for talented young entertainers for his popular show. Peters mother announces her shy boy for an audition, which, although mercilessly goes wrong, but brings him a job as a cable helper. He meets the popular entertainer from the unlikely side: as a bus scrapper who despises his audience. When Peter stumbles into the limelight by chance, he has a unique chance - as successor to scrubber.
Colonel Redl	1,985	István Szabó	Drama, History	6.9	50	German	Austria	Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
The Story of Vickie	1,954	Ernst Marischka	History, Romance, Comedy	6.9	50	German	Austria	Vickie, short for Victoria, is crowned Queen of England and as such needs to learn the responsibilities of her new post.
Stopped on Track	2,011	Andreas Dresen	Drama	6.9	46	German	Germany	Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Timeless Love	2,019	Brian Brough	Drama, Romance, TV Movie, Thriller	6.9	45	German	United States of America	Megan seems to have the perfect life with a wonderful husband named Thomas and 2 adorable children. Then she finds herself awakening from a coma - and discovers she is not and has never been married. But when she meets Thomas for real, she seizes the chance to help him fall in love with her, again-for the first time.
Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World	2,014	Belinda Sallin	Documentary	6.9	45	German	Switzerland	An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.
Sachertorte	2,022	Tine Rogoll	Drama, Comedy, Romance	6.9	42	German	Austria	Karl meets Nini at a Berlin train station: it is love at first sight. But the few hours they spend together before she travels back to Vienna end in a mishap in which Karl loses her phone number. He decides to move to the Austrian capital to find his dream woman again.
Into Great Silence	2,005	Philip Gröning	Documentary	6.9	37	German	Germany	An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. The Carthusians finally contacted Gröning 16 years later to say they were now willing to permit Gröning to shoot the movie, if he was still interested.
Liebelei	1,933	Max Ophüls	Drama, Romance	6.9	36	German	Germany	Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he me...
Peacock	2,025	Bernhard Wenger	Comedy	6.9	35	German	Austria	Matthias is a master of pretense, from cultured boyfriend to perfect son or marital coach. He makes a career of being someone else. The real challenge begins when he has to be himself.
Plastic Planet	2,009	Werner Boote	Documentary	6.9	32	German	Austria	Werner Boote presents an up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic. He takes us on a journey around the globe, showing that plastics have become a threat for both environment and human health.
The Flying Classroom	1,973	Werner Jacobs	Comedy	6.9	32	German	Germany	A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
The Devil Strikes at Night	1,957	Robert Siodmak	Drama, Thriller, Crime	6.9	31	German	Germany	Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.
The Blue Light	1,932	Leni Riefenstahl	Drama, Adventure	6.9	31	German	Germany	As sole female Junta is the only one who can climb a dangerous mountain, villagers deem her as a witch.
Sunday in August	2,004	Marc Meyer	Drama	6.9	29	German	Germany	A couple on a boat. Their love is burnt out. But how to let go when souls are entangled?
Bells from the Deep	1,993	Werner Herzog	Documentary	6.9	29	German	Germany	A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the city of Kitesh. According to the legend, God saved the city from the Mongolian prince Batyi's soldiers by letting it sink to the bottom of the lake. If you listen carefully you can hear the bells of the Kitesh cathedral toll deep down.
Needle Park Baby	2,020	Pierre Monnard	Drama	6.9	28	German	Switzerland	Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park and the public drug scene in Zurich, eleven-year-old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside. While caring for her mother, Mia spends time with her imaginary friend and a gang of local teenage misfits. These friendships finally give her the strength to rebel and break free from her abusive mother.
Jacob the Liar	1,974	Frank Beyer	History, Drama, Comedy	6.9	28	German	Czechoslovakia	A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.
Isenhart: The Hunt Is on for Your Soul	2,011	Hansjörg Thurn	TV Movie, Thriller, Adventure, Fantasy	6.9	27	German	Austria	In the middle of century XII much of the European territory is ruled by the Holy Roman Empire and violence and cruelty are the order of the day. Several German regions are terrorized by a dangerous murderer who is dedicated to kill young girls. Therefore, Isanhart and Laurin, his faithful companion in arms, will travel from end to end of the old continent to hunt the ruthless criminal.
The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott	2,010	Andreas Prochaska	Comedy	6.9	25	German	Austria	Horst receives the monthly pension from his grandmother. The only problem is, that she is dead. As a local politician wants to congratulate the grandmother to her birthday Horst "borrows" an old lady from a hospital nearby, not recognizing that he just kidnapped actress Elfriede Ott.
I Often Think of Piroschka	1,955	Kurt Hoffmann	Romance, Comedy	6.9	25	German	Germany	Andreas, a young German student comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas has to leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return some day.
Why I Kidnapped My Boss	2,014	Peter Gersina	TV Movie, Comedy	6.9	22	German	Germany	Anna is a young working mom, with baby twins. Her boss who doesn't understand the situation fires her just before losing his memory in an accident. Anna then decides to teach him a lesson and switch places with him.
Moon Man	2,012	Stephan Schesch	Family, Animation, Fantasy	6.9	22	German	Ireland	One night, a shooting star appears, whizzing through outer space towards the moon. Moon Man seizes his chance, grabs the speeding comet by the tail and hitches a ride to earth. This 'attack from outer space' sets the alarm bells ringing in the Presidential Headquarters. While escaping the President and his soldiers, Moon Man sets off on a long journey and marvels at the many wonders the earth has to offer – and he realizes how much children love and need him.
The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD	2,011	Martin Witz	Documentary	6.9	22	German	Germany	By coincidence rather than by design, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. He realizes that he is dealing with a powerful molecule that will have an impact that reaches far beyond the scientific world. THE SUBSTANCE is an investigation into our troubled relationship with LSD, told from its beginnings to today.
Enlightenment Guaranteed	2,000	Doris Dörrie	Comedy, Drama	6.9	21	German	Germany	Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves.
Mittagsstunde	2,022	Lars Jessen	Drama	6.9	20	German	Germany	When his grandmother Ella becomes increasingly confused and his grandfather Sönke simply doesn't want to part with his pub, the Dorfkrug, 47-year-old Ingwer Feddersen sees the time has come to return to his home village Brinkebüll. The village tavern isn't what it used to be - but that's also true for the whole village. Ingwer wonders when exactly was the point in time when the village of Brinkebüll went downhill? Was it in the 1970s when the hedges disappeared after the land consolidation and then the birds too? When larger and larger farms were built so that smaller ones had to give way? Is it perhaps his fault because he left his grandfather alone with gastronomy to study in Kiel? Based on Dörte Hansen's 2018 novel of the same name.
Hands off Mississippi	2,007	Detlev Buck	Family, Adventure, Comedy	6.9	20	German	Germany	Full of anticipation, ten-year-old Emma goes on vacation to her grandma Dolly in the country. Once there, however, the girl learns that old Klipper...
Wunderland	2,024	Sabine Howe	Documentary	6.9	19	German	Germany	The train carriages in "Miniatur Wunderland" wind their way for kilometers through blooming landscapes and rocky mountain gorges. With the creation of this magical model universe, twin brothers Frederik and Gerrit Braun have fulfilled their childhood dream of building the largest model railroad in the world. Opened in 2001 in Hamburg's Speicherstadt warehouse district, the exhibition now stretches from the Elbphilharmonie concert hall to Antarctica and is one of the biggest crowd pullers in Europe, attracting more than 1.5 million visitors a year. This film now brings this fabulous dream world to the big screen for the first time with elaborate Cinemascope footage as a documentary event.
Something to Remind Me	2,002	Christian Petzold	Thriller, Drama, TV Movie	6.9	19	German	Germany	Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees. The next morning Thomas awakes to find Leyla and his laptop, which contains vital case files, missing.
Little Mountain Boy	2,015	Xavier Koller	Family, Adventure	6.9	18	German	Switzerland	A boy must brave deep winter snow to obtain an important family keepsake. Before he can even start this difficult journey he must first help his family survive financial ruin, rescue his beloved pet goat, and with his best friend, outwit a bratty bully who seems out to get him at every turn. Will he make it back to the village in time to celebrate the end-of-winter holiday of Chalandamarz?
Kuma: The Second Wife	2,012	Umut Dağ	Drama	6.9	17	German	Austria	Fatma is around 50, a housewife with six children. She lives in Vienna but grew up in Turkey and clings stubbornly to the traditions and values of the old country. Ayse is 19, and the film begins with her wedding in rural Turkey, to Fatma’s son Hasan. However, when the family takes Ayse to Vienna this is revealed as a charade, for Ayse is to be the kuma (second wife) of Fatma’s husband Mustafa.
Jesus Christ Saviour	2,008	Peter Geyer	Documentary	6.9	17	German	Germany	Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was documented to electrifying effect in Werner Herzog’s 1999 portrait My Best Fiend. This documentary provides further fascinating insight into the talent and the tantrums of the great man. Beset by hecklers, Kinski tries to deliver an epic monologue about the life of Christ (with whom he perhaps identifies a little too closely). The performance becomes a stand-off, as Kinski fights for control of the crowd and alters the words to bait his tormentors. Indispensable for Kinski fans, and a riveting introduction for newcomers, this is a unique document, which Variety called ‘a time capsule of societal ideals and personal demons.’
Wet Dog	2,021	Damir Lukacevic	Drama	6.9	14	German	Germany	Based on a provocative autobiography, this story — set in a largely Muslim neighborhood in Berlin — follows a teenage gang member who is caught between hiding his Jewish identity and saving his life.
Space Dogs	2,019	Elsa Kremser	Documentary	6.9	14	German	Austria	Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants. While shooting this film, the directors little by little realised that they knew the street dogs only as part of our human world; they have never looked at humans as a part of the dogs’ world.
Kaddisch für einen Freund	2,012	Leo Khasin	Drama, Comedy	6.9	14	German	Germany	Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, 14-year-old Ali Messalam learned to hate "the Jews" from an early age. After fleeing Lebanon with his fam...
Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness	2,011	Christoph Hochhäusler	Drama	6.9	14	German	Germany	An ailing police inspector (Stefan Kurt) hunts a dangerous criminal who escaped from custody.
Sky Without Stars	1,955	Helmut Käutner	Drama, Romance	6.9	14	German	Germany	Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl, who helps her cross the border, and they fall in love.
All Is One. Except 0	2,020	Klaus Maeck	Documentary	6.9	13	German	Germany	In 1981, Wau Holland and other hackers established the Hamburg based Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The idiosyncratic freethinkers were inspired by Californian technology visionaries and committed themselves to hacker ethics. All information must be free. Use public data, protect private data. But not everyone followed the rules. Computer technology was still in its infancy and the emerging Internet became a projection screen for social utopias. What has become of them? The story of the German hackers, told by the protagonists themselves in a montage of found video and audio material.
Serengeti	2,011	Reinhard Radke	Documentary	6.9	13	German	Germany	Main subject of Serengeti is the mass migration of wildebeest , which in search of nutritious grass hundreds of kilometers annually by the savannah draw. At the end of the rainy season, they break into a huge herd of over a million animals on the north. The wildebeest and other animals are joining the migration, as zebras and gazelles , continuously exposed to hazards, particularly by predators such as lions and cheetahs . A highlight of the great migration, the crossing of the Mara is: There, the wildebeest have to overcome not only meter high cliffs, they are also crocodiles delivered. With the onset of the rainy season, however, leave the wildebeest north again what had long been a mystery. The reason for this is that the grass in the north a phosphorus deficiency , and said thus wildebeest forces to retreat to the south.
Kopftuchmafia - Ein Stinatz-Krimi	2,024	Daniel Prochaska	Crime, Comedy	6.9	12	German	Austria	Something terrible happens at a Croatian wedding in the municipality of Stinatz: the bride disappears without a trace after “stealing the bride“. None of those present can explain what could have happened to her.
Johatsu - Into Thin Air	2,024	Arata Mori	Documentary	6.9	12	German	Germany	In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else. Meet some of them in a film that soberly examines a modern phenomenon.
Merkel	2,022	Eva Weber	Documentary	6.9	12	German	Denmark	Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman, a scientist, and an East German – became the de facto leader of the “Free World”, told for the first time for an international audience.
Botticelli – Inferno	2,016	Ralph Loop	Documentary	6.9	12	German	Germany	The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a journey through hell with fascinating and exciting insights into Botticelli's art and its hidden story.
Alki Alki	2,015	Axel Ranisch	Drama, Comedy	6.9	12	German	Germany	Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on his family and career. Everything changes when Tobias tells this to Flasche.

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