Movies and TV shows set in southern germany
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in southern germany ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, art house, suspense, captivating and dramatic films and TV shows about / with family relations, male nudity, female nudity, friendship, loneliness, nudity, rural setting, countryside, father son relationship and nude plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in Germany, West Germany, Austria and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as southern germany: Silent Night (2012), Ludwig (1973), Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971), A Birthday to Remember (2003), Das Andechser Gefühl (1975), Hubert & Staller (2011), Wackersdorf (2018), The Last Years of Childhood (1979), Der Bulle von Tölz (1996), Die Gruberin (2013).
List of movies set in southern germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1818, when Joseph Mohr is assigned to be the new assistant priest in Oberndorf, a small Austrian town near Salzburg, the young man is full of ideas and ideals. His passion to bring the church closer to the common people sets him on a collision ...
Style:
historical drama, inspirational, period piece, uplifting, dramatic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, christian, faith, religious, biopic, choir, hopes, moral dilemma, redemption, small town, sacrifice, intimate ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
southern germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 238 min.
Story:
A history of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886.
Style:
homoerotic, realistic, captivating, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
decadence, royalty, homosexual subtext, empress, politics, gay, biopic, betrayal, friendship, downfall, tragic hero, state affairs ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1972, turn of the century ...
Place:
southern germany, europe, germany, austria, bavaria ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma ...
Style:
art house, rough, crying
Plot:
drunk, twenty something, male female relationship, ladies man, naivete, maid, male virgin, military, sex, father son relationship, crazy love, spying ...
Place:
southern germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
family conflict, older man younger woman sex, birthday party, dysfunctional family, teenager, family secret, hot and sexy, unrequited love, family relations, friendship, secret, family gatherings ...
Place:
bavaria, germany, southern germany, berlin germany, munich germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he ...
Style:
existential, poignant, psychological, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
alienation, loneliness, bittersweet, midlife crisis, nostalgia, autobiography, provincial life, infidelity, satire, stupidity, beer, drunk ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern germany
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A show about two Bavarian police officers, Franz Hubert and Johannes Staller, who sometimes work a bit differently. Where Franz wants to follow regulations, Johannes likes to do things his own way.
Style:
not serious, funny, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
law enforcement, partners against crime, corpse, best friend, danger, friendship, courage, misfit, prison, gangster, social satire, political satire ...
Place:
bavaria, southern germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Not an easy decision! District Administrator Hans Schuierer from the Upper Palatinate first opposed his own political line in 1981 and finally against the entire Bavarian Free State and Prime Minister Strauss. Because the planned reprocessing plant ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
police brutality, political protest, conflict between friends, disagreement, german history, forest, protestor, german politics, nuclear, family relations, plan, frustration ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
southern germany, west germany, germany, bavaria, munich germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A juvenile offender is handed over to authorities at age 13 and placed in an institution in this somber social drama. Martin is a petty thief who enjoys stealing and looks up to his older brother. When he is informed that his brother has died, ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tragic ending, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
runaway, social realism, juvenile delinquency, teen suicide, reform school, desperation, social criticism, mental health, loneliness, alienation, child psychologist, character study ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern germany
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The Bull of Tölz is commissioned by Sat.1 German crime series.
Style:
detective, suspense, dark comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, police procedural, murder mystery, small town, whodunit, social satire, crime investigation, cop, police, family drama, forensic, overweight man ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bavaria, southern germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sofie Gruber, trapped in a loveless marriage on a remote Bavarian farm, discovers her husband dead one morning, apparently by suicide. As rumors swirl that she had a hand in his death, Sofie must confront isolation, suspicion, and the harsh ...
Style:
suspense, tragic, period drama
Plot:
isolation, suspicion, female protagonist, loneliness, gender roles, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, marital discord, reputation, resilience, family secret, cold ...
Place:
bavaria, southern germany
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The true story of a journalist who investigates the backgrounds of the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980.
Plot:
german history, neo nazi, investigative reporter, german politics, journalist, investigative journalism, government conspiracy, terrorist attack, government coverup, whistleblower, bombing, unsolved crime ...
Time:
year 1980, year 1983, year 2011, year 2006
Place:
southern germany, munich germany, west germany, bavaria
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, art house ...
Plot:
dark humor, prostitute, rise to the top, investigation, lifestyle, writer's life, obsession, journalism, destructive relationship, gender, prodigy, media satire ...
Time:
19th century, 70s
Place:
southern germany, munich germany, europe, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Franz, the local police officer in a tiny bavarian village has to investigate in a case involving a disliked school principal who commited suicide? Or was it murder after all?
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
amateur detective, multiple suspects, brother brother relationship, partners against crime, police investigation, social relations, law enforcement, murder, father son relationship, abuse, swimming pool, monkey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
southern germany, europe, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
Style:
witty, realistic, dark comedy, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, holocaust, small town, female nudity, perseverance, older man younger woman relationship, skinny dipping, alternate history, coming of age, whistleblower, german soldier ...
Time:
year 1990, 70s, 20th century, post world war two, 80s
Place:
germany, west germany, southern germany, bavaria, paris france ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The young Kathrin returns to the small village where she was born to bury her mother, whom she barely knew. Piece by piece she learns the details behind the gruesome murder of an entire family on a farm near the village. It has been two years since ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, atmospheric
Plot:
murder, farm, countryside, serial killer, funeral, farmhouse, true crime, german history, killing spree, forest, family secret, small village ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
southern germany, bavaria
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West ...
Style:
medical drama, telenovela
Plot:
hospital, doctor, surgeon, hospitalization, couples, rural setting, physician, human flesh, pain, emergency room, heart transplant, patient ...
Place:
west germany, southern germany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Plot:
world war two, nazi, agriculture, rural setting, mother in law, farm, servant, german history, german soldier, peasant, cow, pain ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
bavaria, southern germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, erotic, touching, thought provoking
Plot:
brother sister relationship, nubile woman, sex with brother, brother sister incest, sex with sister, forbidden sex, teenage sexuality, brother sister sex, female on male rape, twin brother and sister, puberty, forbidden love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, southern germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at ...
Style:
demonic, disturbing, psychological, sincere, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, epilepsy, mental disorder, small town, domineering mother, religion, friendship, depression, atheism, possession, family relations, character study ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, southern germany, tokyo, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, battle of the sexes, male friendship, couple relations, buddies, contests and competitions, sport team, strong female character, friendship between men, soccer coach, football, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, southern germany
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