Movies and TV shows set in germany

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in germany ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, psychological, tense, melancholic and captivating films and TV shows about / with male nudity, female nudity, world war two, nude, kiss, runaway, love, pubic hair, friendship and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres shot in Germany, France, USA and other countries.
germany movies
1855
TOP 10 movies tagged as germany: Bright Night (2014), The Reader (2008), The Lives of Others (2006), Punish Me (2006), Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021), The Legend of Rita (2000), Frantz (2016), Head-On (2004), Lore (2012), The City Below (2010).

List of movies set in germany

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 5.1
 1K
Bright Night (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface and it seems unlikely the couples will return ...
Style: erotic, psychological, captivating, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot: swinger, sex scene, jealousy, gay couple, gay sex, sex talk, group of friends, swinger couple, swingers, lgbt, conversation, secret ...
Place: germany, indiana
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 7.6
 273K
The Reader (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, touching, sexual, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, coming of age, holocaust, nazi, first love, trial, world war two, older woman younger man sex, sex, unlikely couple ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, year 1958, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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The Lives of Others (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style: gloomy, political thriller, sincere, political, emotional ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surveillance, cold war, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, politics, redemption, espionage, iron curtain, life philosophy, voyeurism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
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 6.6
 642
Punish Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she ...
Style: touching, psychological, sexual, erotic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: old woman, sex game, dominant woman, juvenile delinquent, teenage boy, submissive, masochist, fetishism, age difference, sex slave, male nudity, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, sao paulo brazil, hamburg germany
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story: In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: male nudity, unemployment, nudity, voice over narration, actress, depression, male female relationship, fall in love, relationship vs career, society, fatalism, couple relations ...
Time: 1930s, year 1931
Place: germany, berlin germany
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The Legend of Rita (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens ...
Style: melancholic, captivating, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: lesbian, politics, terrorism, berlin wall, runaway, raf, loneliness, existentialism, starting over, danger, state affairs, lesbian sex ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: germany, east germany, angola, berlin germany, german democratic republic ...
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 7.5
 19K
Frantz (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Style: sentimental, touching, sexy, black and white, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, guilty conscience, german soldier, grave, french soldier, nationalism, death of loved one, war veteran, sadness, casualty of war, soldier, mourning ...
Time: post world war one, 1910s, year 1919, year 2016, 90s ...
Place: germany, paris france, france
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 7.8
 60K
Head-On (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style: depressing, sexy, breathtaking, harsh, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, ethnicity, marriage, sex, immigrant, love story, relationships, culture clash, passion, extramarital affair, marriage of convenience, loneliness ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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 7.1
 16K
Lore (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style: tense, disturbing, bleak, sincere, suspense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, hitler, children, coming of age, youth, war, concentration camp survivor, children in wartime, child as adult ...
Time: year 2012, post world war two, 90s, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place: germany, russia, hamburg germany, berlin germany, poland ...
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 6.2
 795
The City Below (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both married - toy with their unexplainable ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, emotional, contemplative
Plot: forbidden love, unfaithful wife, infidelity, adultery, lovers apart, horny woman, marital infidelity, married woman, couple relations, workplace, crumbling marriage, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, asia, frankfurt germany, indonesia
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 7.2
 1K
Jack (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot: boy, young heroes, teenage life, youth, self discovery, brother brother relationship, child as adult, child care, coming of age, family relations, life turned upside down, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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 8.0
 16K
Deutschland 83 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: cold war, espionage, stasi, spy, secret police, german soldier, double agent, working undercover, state affairs, rivalry, undercover, military ...
Time: year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
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 8.4
 33K
Babylon Berlin (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, costume drama, captivating, tense ...
Plot: espionage, german history, social problems, political intrigue, interwar period, unsolved crime, police detective, conspiracy, national socialism, european history, police investigation, world war two ...
Time: 1920s, pre world war two, year 1929, 1930s, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany
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 7.2
 15K
Summer Storm (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the ...
Style: sexual, sweet, touching, erotic, homoerotic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: gay, gay interest, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lgbtq, gay teenager, homosexual, coming of age, teenager, teenage love, lgbt teen, gay love ...
Time: 2000s
Place: germany, europe, bavaria, berlin germany
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 5.5
 616
Lose Your Head (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller about a Spanish party tourist who gets lost in Berlin. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night at Berghain.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gay interest, gay sex, gay, missing person, mistaken identity, lgbt, gender, chases and races, chase, drug, party, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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Never Look Away (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s ...
Style: suspense, sensual, exciting, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: painter, art gallery, nazi, artist, nazism, berlin wall, sex scene, female pubic hair, forced abortion, romantic relationship, pregnancy, world war two ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, year 1948, 20th century ...
Place: east germany, berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, west germany ...
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 7.2
 59K
Anthropoid (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
Style: emotional, factual, visually stunning, slasher, social ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, conspiracy, gestapo, murderer, assassination, betrayal, nazi occupation, friendship between men, ss, suspicion, repression ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, year 2016, 90s, y2k ...
Place: germany, prague, central europe, munich germany, berlin germany ...
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 7.5
 24K
Zentropa (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An American, Leopold Kessler, goes to post-war Germany in 1945 to work as a railroad conductor for the Zentropa Rail Line instead of going into the Army because he feels its a more valuable thing to do for the state of the world. He meets Katharina ...
Style: art house, surreal, gloomy, psychological, black and white ...
Plot: train, world war two, assassination, idealism, betrayal, suicide, against humanity, misfit, chess, surrealism, fascism, terrorism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1991, post world war two, 90s
Place: germany, frankfurt germany, nebraska, munich germany, europe ...
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War
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 7.2
 17K
Barbara (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is the summer of 1980 in East Germany and, alone, Barbara is confined to living and working as a doctor in a small provincial town - her punishment for attempting to emigrate to the West. She has only one focus; to escape and for this, she has to ...
Style: tense, melancholic, compassionate, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: doctor, escape, stasi, cold war, fascism, lovers apart, iron curtain, communism, introspection, character study, power relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1980
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, northern germany, german democratic republic ...
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 8.4
 35K
Generation War (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well.
Style: tense, captivating, thought provoking, serious, anime ...
Plot: world war two, nazism, holocaust, soldier, military, nazi germany, guilt, danger, eastern front, atrocity, wehrmacht, friends ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, east germany, hawaii, soviet union ...
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The State I Am In (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: With 1970s Germany in the background, this film depicts the story of a family from the “R.A.F. Terrorist” group and their search for a normal life and their inner self.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, political ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, grownups, youth, love and romance, family problems, family relations, teenage love, parent child relationship, puberty, fall in love, eccentric family, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: germany, portugal, europe, brazil
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 7.6
 67K
Victoria (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: 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.
Style: tense, harsh, intense, breathtaking, disturbing ...
Plot: gangster, running from police, heist gone wrong, bank robbery, heist, death of friend, group of friends, drunk, panic attack, language barrier, bullet wound, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, y2k, 90s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany, peru, spain
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Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
Style: funny, romantic, humorous, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: teacher, high school, high school life, teachers and students, happy ending, fish out of water, school, sister sister relationship, robbery, released from prison, cons and scams, female teacher ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 18th century, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: art house, political, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot: racism, culture clash, female nudity, relationships, older woman younger man relationship, loneliness, working class, old woman, impossible love, forbidden love, male nudity, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: west germany, munich germany, germany, europe, central europe ...
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Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style: erotic, romantic, sexual, romantic drama, historical drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtq, lesbian interest, holocaust, gays and lesbians, woman in danger, nazi, society, forbidden love, couples ...
Time: ancient times, year 1999, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
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A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian ...
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, female nudity, war, rape, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, brutal rape, war crime, brutality, post war germany, military, women ...
Time: year 1945, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, east germany, west germany ...
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 5.8
 13K
Wetlands (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the ...
Style: sexy, controversial, erotic, touching, intense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, hospital, childhood trauma, divorced parents, sexuality, sexual fantasy, masturbation, dysfunctional family, misfit, dark humor, mother daughter relationship, sex ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, turkey
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story: A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: hitler, world war two, nazism, fascism, against humanity, racism, politics, political unrest, dictatorship, nazi, leadership, ss ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: germany, europe, austria
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Naked Among Wolves (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Naked Among Wolves (German: Nackt unter Wölfen) is a German drama film directed by Philipp Kadelbach in 2015. It is based on the novel of the same name by Bruno Apitz, which was published in 1958 by the East German Publishing house. It was created ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, world war two, nazi concentration camp, liberation, world war, shoah, little boy, resistance, death, child in peril ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: germany, switzerland
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 5.2
 725
The Visitor (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Cibrâil, a young policeman, is living happily with his girlfriend in Berlin. He is well integrated in society despite his Turkish background. One day his girlfriend's cousin comes to stay and Cibrâil's life is turned upside down.
Style: lgbt cinema, psychological, sexy, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: gay interest, gay lead character, gay relationship, male nudity, sexual attraction, male pubic hair, nudity, swimming, hugging, tattoo, police officer, lgbt ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, central europe
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