German officer movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant german officer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic and exciting films and TV shows about / with german officer, world war two, nazi, war, soldier, wartime life, military, german, german soldier and wartime plots mostly in War, Drama and Romance genres shot in UK, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as german officer: Suite Française (2014), Silence of the Sea (2004), Valkyrie (2008), Amen. (2002), The Poet (2007), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), Odyssey of Heroes (2012), The Liberation of Skopje (2016), Berenshtein (2021), Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983).

List of german officer movies

Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style: emotional, realistic, romantic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german soldier, german officer, war, fall in love, wartime life, love and romance, nazi officer, adultery, nazi occupied france ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place: france, europe, paris france, england, germany ...
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Silence of the Sea (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: world war two, german officer, nazi occupation, nazi, french resistance, german soldier, war, female protagonist, german occupation, pianist, grandfather granddaughter relationship, relationship problems ...
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 7.1
 249K
Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style: factual, tense, bad ending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, war, nazism, hitler, conspiracy, nazi germany, suspense, resistance, politics, german soldier, wehrmacht ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, africa, poland, europe ...
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 7.2
 15K
Amen. (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style: political, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, priest, politics, christian, conscience, ss, nazi, war, concentration camp, pope ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 1930s, 20th century
Place: vatican, germany, rome italy, poland, czechoslovakia ...
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The Poet (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, bleak ...
Plot: forbidden love, sexual content, world war two, war, couples, against humanity, soldier, family relations, age difference, wartime, rabbi, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, year 1940, year 1939
Place: poland, europe, russia
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, intense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, war, italian army, wartime, german, resistance fighter, love and romance, impossible love, wartime life, fall in love, social relations, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: greece, rome italy, germany, italy, europe ...
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Odyssey of Heroes (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: When their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: naval battle, world war one, german officer, war, suspense, weapons, escapades, love and romance, sea, british empire, german history, sea battle ...
Time: year 1914
Place: germany
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The Liberation of Skopje (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia, Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and ...
Style: rough, psychological, tense, thought provoking
Plot: world war two, boy, liberation, german occupation, traitor, german officer, nazi occupation, prisoner, partisan, assassination, arrest, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, year 1944
Place: europe, former yugoslavia, balkan, macedonia
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 6.8
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Berenshtein (2021)
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The unbelievable story of Leonid Bernshtein, a young Jewish soldier who rose to become the leader and led the operation to destroy the secret facility of the notorious Nazi V2 ballistic missiles.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: world war two, soldier, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi occupation, life is a bitch, military, warrior, suspense, german soldier, moral dilemma, historical event ...
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Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he ...
Style: parody, cult film
Plot: world war two, satire, diva, french resistance, german officer, lgbt, singer, musician, debate, widow, revenge, family reunited ...
Time: 1940s, 70s
Place: france, paris france
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 6.8
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Joanna (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved ...
Style: suspenseful, sincere, captivating
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, german, hiding place, officer, secret, treason, loneliness, suspense, girl, wartime life, jewish girl ...
Place: poland
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Head in the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sentimental, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: world war two, lesbian, orgy, love triangle, spanish civil war, bisexual woman, sexual relations, lesbianism, group sex, war, betrayal, love story ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, year 1944, year 1938 ...
Place: paris france, spain, germany, france, england ...
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Morenga (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on a novel of the same title by Uwe Timm and set in 1904 in South Africa, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins. Gottschalk (Jacques ...
Plot: german history, german officer, military officer, mass murder, imperialism, genocide, desert, brutality, horse riding, murder, repression, injustice ...
Time: 20th century
Place: africa, namibia
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War and Remembrance (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 1620 min.
TV show
Story: War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Style: saga, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, war, holocaust, nazi germany, military, german, submarine, nazi, wartime, winston churchill, soldier, behind enemy lines ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, asia, japan, pearl harbor, pacific ocean ...
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The Brylcreem Boys (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, anti war, love triangle, rivalry, love and romance, fall in love, human spirit, war, rescue, german officer, pow, irish ...
Time: 1940s
Place: ireland, europe, london
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 7.1
 7K
The Blue Max (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Style: sexy, dramatic, epic, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot: world war one, fighter plane, fighter pilot, war, ambition, aviation, military, biplane, rivalry, soldier, german army, aerial combat ...
Time: 70s, 1930s, 1910s, year 1916
Place: berlin germany, germany, france, england
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 5.0
 2K
Black Angel (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 128 min.
Story: March 1945 Asolo, Italy. Livia Mazzion, the attractive wife of a top ministry official, slips into the car of lawyer Ugo Oggiano, Livia's admirer and her husband's informer. Livia must reach Venice and her lover Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht ...
Style: erotic, captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual relations, love triangle, love affair, family problems, destructive relationship, wartime life, moral dilemma, fascism, destiny, politics, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, venice, italy
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 7.3
 4K
36 Hours (1964)
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, spy, war, military, d day, hospital, mind game, nazi, aviation, nazi germany, secret mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: europe, germany, portugal, normandy, london ...
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The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style: exciting, intense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, spy, suspense, runaway, insubordination, rescue, commando mission ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: germany, poland, england, europe, berlin germany
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Sign of the Beast (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, suicide, wedding, german officer, fistfight, widow, deserter, field hospital, wounded soldier, sniper, anti war ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: finland
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The Day and the Hour (1963)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, wartime life, resistance movement, nazi occupied france, train, french resistance, aviator, gestapo, military police, police, french police ...
Time: year 1944
Place: france
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Shadow of the Deceased (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he's wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno is called back to the front and dies. Helga has a daughter, Dorli, as a result of the affair and they ...
Plot: czech history, female protagonist, death of father, world war two, political prisoner, shoah, communist, exhumation, nun, german officer, convent, war violence ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 50s
Place: africa
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The Lady Vanishes (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot: missing person, spy, mind game, secret agents, train, woman in danger, amateur detective, dishonesty, american abroad, world war two, railway, intrigue ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two, year 1939
Place: germany, london, austria
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Inside Out (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Telly Savalas is an American ex-WW II POW who returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with James Mason, the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal (Wolfgang Lukschy) from jail. He's the only ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, heist, spy, berlin wall, anti nazi, prison, kidnapping, post war germany, stash, escapades, unlikely partners, partners ...
Place: germany, england, europe, london, east berlin ...
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 5.0
 1K
Breakthrough (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in ...
Plot: world war two, eastern front, nazi, tank, military, war, troops, assassination, d day, ambush, hitler, retreat ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: normandy, france, paris france
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Raid on Rommel (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission. On the way they pick up and drug ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, tank, nazi, commando, battles, desert, british soldier, survival, prostitute, military, rescue ...
Time: year 1943
Place: africa, libya
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 2K
The Vultures (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: foreign legion, world war two, war, military life, dishonesty, heroic mission, couple relations, cons and scams, anti war, heist, military, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1943
Place: tunisia
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How I Won the War (1967)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Style: humorous, clever, witty, intellectual, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, anti war, working class, war, politics, satire, death, british, nude, singer, the beatles, childhood ...
Time: 1940s
Place: africa, iraq, europe, middle east, egypt
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Escape to Athena (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek for an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.
Style: exciting, captivating, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, island, chase, soldier, daring rescue, survival, military, archaeologist, relic, suspense, leader ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: greece, europe, balkan
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What War May Bring (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, strong female presence, haunted by the past, saving a life, concentration camp, autobiography, saved from execution, accused of murder, american soldier, nazi, love ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: france, paris france
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