Best German Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best German Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: realistic, psychological, interesting, weird, captivating and entertaining. Plot: blood, death, love, friendship, danger, profanity, violence, murder, female nudity and gun. Genre: Drama, Comedy and Romance. Country: Germany, USA and UK.
Best German Movies
Best German Movies
TOP Movies: The Experiment (2001), Isi & Ossi (2020), Who Am I (2014), Run Lola Run (1998), Victoria (2015), The Physician (2013), Inglourious Basterds (2009), The Reader (2008), Good Bye Lenin! (2003), The Pianist (2002), Gran Torino (2008), All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Nomadland (2020), Fight Club (1999), The Mist (2007), Manifesto (2015), The Hangover (2009), Blood & Gold (2023), Spy (2015), Love, Rosie (2014).

List of Best Movies

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 7.7
 96K
The Experiment (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, rough, suspense ...
Plot: experiment, prison, torture, aggression, psychology, social experiment, isolation, degradation, abuse, sociology, violence, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: germany, canada
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 6.4
 10K
Isi & Ossi (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: sweet, entertaining, captivating, light, rom com ...
Audience: teens
Plot: male female relationship, relationships, promise, boxing, friendship, male female friendship, love, rivalry, boxer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, direction and purpose, ambitious woman ...
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 7.4
 62K
Who Am I (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: hacker, hacking, computer, computer hacker, computers and web, computer cracker, cybercrime, plot twist, dark web, split personality, deception, internet ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 7.7
 206K
Run Lola Run (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: surreal, clever, postmodern, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: time loop, race against time, time, destiny, running, parallel universe, repeated event, fate, butterfly effect, heist, self sacrifice, robbery ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, future
Place: germany, berlin germany, seattle, europe
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 7.6
 63K
Victoria (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
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: intense, tense, realistic, meditative, neo noir ...
Plot: gangster, running from police, bank robbery, heist, death of friend, drug use, male nudity, bullet wound, panic attack, language barrier, group of friends, heist gone wrong ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 90s, y2k, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany, peru
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 7.2
 42K
The Physician (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 155 min.
Story: The story of Rob Cole, a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become a physician and vanquish Death itself, he travels to Isfahan in Persia to study ...
Style: breathtaking, captivating, epic, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: medicine, follow your dream, surgery, apprentice, medieval, culture clash, medical school, orphan, ambition, doctors and patients, mentor, healer ...
Time: middle ages, 11th century, medieval times, year 2014
Place: persia, iran, germany, israel, england ...
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. ...
Style: suspense, absurd, atmospheric, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: world war two, vengeance, nazi, war, nazism, revenge, violent, dark humor, alternate history, violence, brutality, working undercover ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, germany, america, europe
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 7.6
 258K
The Reader (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
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: melancholic, sexy, touching, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, holocaust, nazi, first love, older woman younger man sex, secret, trial, world war two, sexuality ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, year 1980, year 1958, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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 7.7
 152K
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An affectionate and refreshing East/West-Germany comedy about a boy who’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell and when she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happen (since she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, witty, touching, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: berlin wall, coma, politics, capitalism, idealism, communism, society, cold war, culture clash, childhood, amnesia, communist ...
Time: year 2003, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: east germany, germany, german democratic republic, berlin germany, east berlin ...
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 8.5
 904K
The Pianist (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style: emotional, harsh, bleak, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, pianist, nazi occupation, hunger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1945, 1930s ...
Place: poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, persia ...
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 8.1
 811K
Gran Torino (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, friendship, elderly, veteran, racism, prejudice, gunfight, widower, gangster, interracial relations, old man, vigilante ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan, italy, north america
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, novela ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, battles, military, battlefield, soldier, death of friend, german army, infantry, dying young, german soldier, death ...
Time: year 1917, year 1914, 2020s, year 1918, 1910s ...
Place: germany, france
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 7.3
 181K
Nomadland (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style: road movie, serious, social, sad, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: van, homeless, traveler, motor home, loss of job, on the road, journey, nomad, road trip, homelessness, snow, loneliness ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011
Place: nevada, nebraska, arizona
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 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
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 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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 6.5
 7K
Manifesto (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An outstanding tribute to various (art) manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth century, ranging from Communism to Dogme, in connection with thirteen different characters, including a homeless man, a factory worker and a corporate CEO, who are ...
Style: art house, captivating, psychological, disturbing, social ...
Plot: art, women, housewife, social problems, society, social issues, multiple storylines, lifestyle, modern art, dialogue, cinema, dark humor ...
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 7.7
 840K
The Hangover (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, buddy comedy, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: buddies, party, bachelor party, friendship between men, comedy of errors, memory loss, weirdo, nothing goes right, hung over, friendship, friends, wedding ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, america, iran, north america ...
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 6.5
 17K
Blood & Gold (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.
Style: brutal, period piece, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, weapons, world war, bazooka, handgun, fight, gold, army, violence, treasure, mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: germany
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 7.0
 258K
Spy (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Style: funny, parody, humorous, action comedy, spoof ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, adult
Plot: spy, espionage, undercover agent, female spy, cia agent, cia, assassin, undercover, female protagonist, female killer, female agent, secret service ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, bulgaria, budapest ...
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 7.1
 154K
Love, Rosie (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, teen, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love story, love, best friends in love, couples, love affair, love and romance, youth, friends in love, teenage pregnancy, true love, best friend, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, england, los angeles, usa, boston
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, surreal, witty, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: hotel, prison escape, art theft, mentor protege relationship, murder, luxury hotel, escapades, painting, gunfight, greed, fictional country, mentor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: eastern europe, alps, europe, america, persia ...
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 6.7
 14K
Planet Hulk (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When the Hulk becomes too dangerous for the Earth, the Illuminati trick Hulk into a shuttle and launch him into space to a planet where the Hulk can live in peace. Unfortunately, the Hulk's struggle to escape makes a malfunction in the shuttle ...
Style: stylized, exciting, semi serious, anime, suspense ...
Audience: family outing, teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: superhero, betrayal, exile, transformation, space and aliens, comic book, rivalry, danger, ruler, distant planet, female warrior, mutant ...
Time: 2010s
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 107K
Asteroid City (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Style: entertaining, humorous, captivating, romantic, existential ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: astronomy, small town, love, asteroid, arizona desert, alien, diner, desert, male female relationship, military, actress, photographer ...
Time: 1950s, year 1955
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 7.7
 490K
Tangled (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When the kingdom's most wanted-and most charming-bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, romantic, uplifting, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: princess, disney princess, fall in love, couples, female protagonist, love and romance, horse, happy ending, power of love, unlikely couple, magical, strong female character ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 19th century, 17th century, 1810s
Place: fictional island, germany
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 7.1
 127K
Let Me In (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style: suspense, gothic, atmospheric, melancholic, biting ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: vampire, loneliness, first love, gory, blood, childhood, supernatural, friendship, adolescence, children, boy, coming of age ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place: new mexico, usa
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The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, psychotronic
Plot: teacher, investigation, sleuth, private investigation, crime investigation, framed for a crime, school teacher, female teacher, who done it, accusation, uncover truth, crime solving ...
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Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return ...
Style: feel good, claymation, humorous, light, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: farm, dog, stop motion, hospital, city, friendship, countryside, best friend, animal life, amnesia, creativity, farmer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: london
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As a swingin' fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, entertaining, hilarious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: time travel, spy, spy spoof, espionage, dumb, 007, satire, culture clash, secret service, stupidity, good versus evil, james bond spoof ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997, 60s, year 1967
Place: las vegas, usa, london
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 6.9
 108K
Alpha Dog (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the ...
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, teen, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: kidnapping, gang, true crime, sex scene, youth, friendship, culture clash, crime gone awry, gangster, unlikely friendships, revenge, loss of virginity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2005, year 2003
Place: los angeles, usa, california, albuquerque new mexico, palm springs california
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 7.4
 192K
K-PAX (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: alien, mental institution, patient, planet, extraterrestrial, mysterious character, hypnosis, space and aliens, mental illness, psychiatrist, science, investigation ...
Time: future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, persia, new york, greenland, newfoundland ...
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