| Peas at 5:30 (2004) | 6.9 | |
| Pogo 1104 (1984) | 8.0 | |
| Heldt (2013) | 6.0 | |
| Rocca Changes the World (2019) | 7.2 | |
| Simple (2017) | 6.7 |
Movies and TV shows set in northern germany
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in northern germany ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, tense and melancholic films and TV shows about / with female nudity, small town, police, family drama, family relations, coming of age, death, husband wife relationship, friendship and female full frontal nudity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in Germany, West Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as northern germany: The Golden Glove (2019), Morden im Norden (2012), The Secret of Anna (2008), The Taste of Apple Seeds (2013), Hungarians (1978), Dollars (1971), The Heath Is Green (1972), Rocker (1972), A Pirate's Heart (2006), The White Ribbon (2009).
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List of movies set in northern germany
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, controversial, bleak, perverse ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder of a prostitute, loner, mentally unstable, macabre, brutality, sadism, loser, sex crime, serial murder, misfit ...
Time:
70s, year 2019, year 1974, 20th century, year 1970
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany, germany, west germany, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Morden im Norden is a German Police that has been broadcast by Das Erste. The show is set in Lübeck, Germany
Morden im Norden is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, crime drama, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police investigation, partners against crime, partner, silly humor, law enforcement, disorder, police station, murder investigation, police procedural, small town, whodunit, colleague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
northern germany, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna and Christian Instrupp are a happy and childless marriage. They have a farm of apple production. But their lives are disrupted when the Anna's illegitimate daughter, Ines Arnold, writes a letter to her where she tells him that his adoptive ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, heartfelt ...
Plot:
family drama, village life, adoption, secrets, family secret, motherhood, secret revealed, family relations, villager, problem, relationships, family business ...
Place:
northern germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and ...
Style:
family saga, melancholic, contemplative, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
memory, family drama, inheritance, family secret, grief, mourning, nostalgia, flashback, house, homecoming, literary, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
northern germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, art house, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, migration, anti fascism, social realism, survival, class struggle, oppression, moral dilemma, working conditions, poverty, getting home, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, northern germany
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Style:
hilarious, realistic, semi serious, cynical, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
security system, video surveillance, robbery, caper, bank, deception, strip club, drug dealer, murder of a prostitute, surveillance camera, killer, arson ...
Time:
year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place:
hamburg germany, europe, northern germany, copenhagen, germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Norbert inherited a building in the lonesome German heath and now takes two days off to combine an inspection of his new property with a vacation in the relaxing landscape. Two run-down friends join him, and they swear: No alcohol, no nicotine - no ...
Style:
lighthearted, romantic comedy, pastoral, sex comedy, period piece
Plot:
seduction, vacation, love interest, sexual tension, heterosexuality, country house, escapism, male bonding, friendship, misadventure, inheritance, casual sex ...
Time:
70s
Place:
northern germany
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Genre: Drama, Action, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In Hamburg, West Germany, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a rival gang, a mortal enemy of rocker gangs.
Very authentic movie about life in Hamburg in the early 1970s.
Rock’n’roll, sex, drugs, 70s ...
Plot:
probation, red light district, underage drinking, stealing a car, loss of brother, father son conflict, teenage boy, beer, motorcycle gang, rocker, financial problem, lack of money ...
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany, germany
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
pirate, piracy, nude women, medieval, escapades, brother brother relationship, revenge, rich and poor, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
14th century, ancient times
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style:
disturbing, breathtaking, art house, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punishment, children, sexual abuse, cruelty, physical appearance, suicide, child abuse, death, small town, authoritarianism, transgression, priest ...
Time:
year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, pre world war one, 2000s ...
Place:
germany, northern germany, europe, italy
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, sincere
Plot:
cloning, composer, fear of death, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, solace, life turned upside down, immortal, terminal illness, scientist, genetics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
northern germany, canada, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Pelin, a young single mother from the problem neighborhood of Berlin-Wedding, is sent with her three children by different fathers of different nationalities - Robby (seven), Elvis (four) and Roxanne (ten months) - to a mother-child cure in a ...
Style:
realistic, reflective, emotional, multicultural, queer cinema
Plot:
single mother, family drama, burnout, social realism, family bonds, character study, resilience, social services, slice of life, mental health, working class, bittersweet ...
Place:
northern germany
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Heldt is a German television series, which is broadcast since 2013 on German ZDF.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, crime drama ...
Plot:
law enforcement, cons and scams, police investigation, kidnapping, dishonesty, forgery, television, investigation, police procedural, commissioner, whodunit, justice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, northern germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In order not to end up as a lock keeper in the country like his father, 18-year-old Abel wants to go to the USA to become a stuntman. Girlfriend Merle is supposed to come along, but then finds out that she is pregnant.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, serious, touching
Plot:
teenage crush, teen romance, teenage love, teen angst, love, teenage pregnancy, teenager, unwanted pregnancy, coming of age, teenage runaway, sexuality, pregnant teenager ...
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Leon and Felix show up at Felix's family's holiday home to discover Nadja, a mysterious woman, already there. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their well-being, relationships are ...
Style:
romantic comedy
Plot:
friendship between men, friendship, forest fire, novelist, satire, bare chested male, wildfire, insecurity, writers, summer, publisher, sexual attraction ...
Place:
northern germany, germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older ...
Style:
art house, costume drama, black and white, postmodern, serious ...
Plot:
crazy love, literary, marriage of convenience, young wife, duel, age difference, adultery, countryside, german history, women, summer, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, year 1974, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
berlin germany, northern germany, germany, europe, prussia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who ...
Style:
reflective, melancholic, poignant
Plot:
coming of age, psychiatric hospital, family drama, autobiography, childhood, grownups, maturation, bittersweet, nostalgia, mental health, father figure, family secret ...
Time:
80s
Place:
northern germany
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Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
Style:
detective, realistic, captivating, semi serious, sentimental
Plot:
policewoman, police, workplace, police station, power relations, law enforcement, urban, boss and employee, workplace situations, partner, police investigation, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
germany, hamburg germany, northern germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, rough, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, family problems, teenage life, youth, misfit, blackmail, public humiliation, first love, relationships, bullying, teasing ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After their partner swap experiment takes a turn, four friends arrive at a remote beach hut to face the fallout and purge themselves of deeper truths.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, semi serious, f word
Plot:
love quadrangle, romantic triangle, mate swapping, wife swapping, adultery, social experiment, swinger couple, free love, unfaithful girlfriend, unfaithful boyfriend, marital problem, relationships ...
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, psychological
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
bullying, teenage girl, homeless, teacher student relationship, teenage life, children, space program, father daughter relationship, home alone, social change, dead mother, female bully ...
Place:
hamburg germany, germany, northern germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
CLOUD WHISPERS (WT) tells the tragicomic story of 60-year old Charlotte, who leaves her old life behind at a motorway pull-in in order to embark on a road trip with her granddaughter Jo and a dead cat. Her husband Paul and her daughter Alex are left ...
Style:
tragicomedy, road movie, touching, heartfelt, life affirming ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, escape, self discovery, female protagonist, road trip, midlife crisis, family drama, healing, second chance, intimate, female empowerment, rebirth ...
Place:
northern germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three. This also gave him the nickname "Simpel". ...
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
mental disorder, loss of mother, family drama, brotherhood, siblings, brothers, loyalty, grief, loss, compassion, empathy, intellectual disability ...
Place:
northern germany, hamburg germany
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Janne Flecker returns to her hometown of Cuxhaven because her brother Erik was found murdered in the mud. There, Janne's picture of her family is crumbling, known shipyard owners.
Style:
crime drama, atmospheric, tense, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, coastal town, north sea, family secret, small town, female detective, family drama, secrets, betrayal, suspicion, grief ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
northern germany, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Three young men somehow get together and start a pirate broadcaster.
Style:
satirical, comedy drama
Plot:
friendship, youth culture, counterculture, coming of age, anti establishment, unhappiness, small town, satire, ambition, police chase, radicalism, experimental narrative ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, northern germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg.
Style:
suspense, dark, tension, period piece, noir ...
Plot:
red light district, prostitution, gangster, underworld, murder mystery, mobster, organized crime, nightlife, moral ambiguity, urban, power struggle, police corruption ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Die zehnjährige Emma freut sich auf die Ferien bei Oma Dolly auf dem Land. Nach ihrer Ankunft muss sie jedoch erfahren, dass der alte Herr Klipperbusch gestorben ist und sein schmieriger Neffe Albert Gansmann, genannt „Der Alligator“, alles ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, educational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
rider horse relationship, veterinarian, animal rescue, family relations, little girl, grandmother granddaughter relationship, friendship, strong female character, child's point of view, horse, funeral, rural setting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, northern germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style:
saga, realistic, costume drama, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, victorian england, rivalry, impossible love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (played by Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
the beatles, music, rock and roll, musician, biopic, rock, artist, music history, art, friendship, rock music, pop music ...
Time:
60s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
hamburg germany, england, germany, liverpool, northern germany ...
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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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