Top German Movies


The Top German Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top German List". Lists are calculated daily.

91. Triumph of the Will ( Triumph des Willens )

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Actors: Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess
Plot: Leni Riefenstahl's infamous documentary/propaganda film covering the Nazi party's 1934 rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

92. Taxi to the Toilet ( Taxi zum Klo )

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Ripploh
Actors: Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Orpha Termin, Peter Fahrni

93. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Thomas Jahn
Actors: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke, Moritz Bleibtreu

94. Closely Watched Trains ( Ostre sledované vlaky )

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jirí Menzel
Actors: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
Plot: An oblivious young man works at a train depot in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during WWII and seeks out his first sexual experience.

95. Westfront 1918

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Actors: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Moebis, Claus Clausen
Plot: Follows a group of German infantrymen during WWI, where trench warfare takes its toll on the men but for one member of the group, Karl, finds that coming home brings its own emotional toll.

96. From the Life of the Marionettes ( Aus dem Leben der Marionetten )

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Rita Russek
Plot: One of Ingmar Bergman's later works, "From the Life of the Marionettes" explores a couple's troubled marriage, and the motives behind the husband's murder of a call girl.

97. In July ( Im Juli. )

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fatih Akin
Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus, Idil Üner

98. Golem, The ( Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, Der )

Year of Release: 1921
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
Actors: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch

99. Paragraph 175

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Actors: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel
Plot: Paragraph 175 tells of a gap in the historical record and reveals the lasting consequences, as told through personal stories of gay men and women who lived through it, including: Karl Gorath; Gad Beck, the half-Jewish resistance fighter who spent the war helping refugees escape Berlin; Annette Eick, the Jewish lesbian who escaped to England with the help of a woman she loved; Albrecht Becker, German Christian photographer, who was arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality, then joined the army on his release because he "wanted to be with men"; and Pierre Seel, the French Alsatian teenager, who watched as his lover was eaten alive by dogs in the camps.

100. Alice in the Cities ( Alice in den Städten )

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl
Plot: A German journalist with writer's block decides to leave the U.S. and return to Germany. At the airport her meets a fellow German and her nine-year-old daughter Alice. They strike up a friendship out of necessity and he thinks nothing of it when she asks to look after her daughter for a time. But he soon realizes Alice will be in his care for much longer and the two soon strike off on an adventure in Europe as he seeks out the girl's grandmother.

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