11. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The ( Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Das )
Year of Release: 1920
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wiene
Actors: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Plot: Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist predict deadly things.
12. Stroszek
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg
Plot: In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
13. Victoria
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Actors: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit
Plot: A young Spanish immigrant living in Berlin encounters a group of friends on a night out and becomes embroiled in a bank heist.
14. Experiment, The ( Experiment, Das )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Plot: Based on the "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971 - a group of 20 ordinary males are asked to take part in paid study. One group will be "prisoners" the others will be "guards" - the set of rules to follow are mild, anyone can quit at any time - yet what starts off as an amicable study soon devolves into a struggle for power as those in authority take things ever farther.
15. Nosferatu the Vampyre ( Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht )
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Plot: Jonathan Harker is sent to Count Dracula, who is looking to buy a house in Varna. Upon seeing a photo of Lucy, Jonathan's wife, he makes the trip - with death following in his footsteps.
16. Christiane F.
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Uli Edel
Actors: Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal, Rainer Woelk
Plot: A teen living in 1970s Berlin finds herself drawn into the world of drugs and disco via a series of recorded tapes she made.
17. Head-On ( Gegen die Wand )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fatih Akin
Actors: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Meltem Cumbul
Plot: A man who tries his hardest to erase his Turkish past turns to drugs and alcohol - and thoughts of suicide. A young woman who yearns to break free from her family, yet can't bring herself to break her parent's heart likewise thinks suicide is the only escape. The two meet each other in the hospital and form a bond - marriage seems to be the answer to their problems. But this marriage of convenience soon turns into something much more as they learn to love each other.
18. Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marc Rothemund
Actors: Julia Jentsch, Gerald Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf
Plot: This movie is a historical recreation of the last days of Sophie Scholl, a member of a non-violent German resistance movement during WWII.
After the German army suffered heavy losses at the battle of Stalingrad, a small number of University students, appalled with the stories of Nazi atrocities that were filtering through to them, set up an anti-war group called the White Rose.
In and around Munich University, a campaign is Spearheaded by the students as they organise leaflet handouts and daub graffiti over government buildings attacking Hitler and his policies.
19. Run Lola Run ( Lola rennt )
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
Plot: A women in Germany has 20 minutes to rob 100,00 Deutschmarks as each possible scenario runs through her head.
20. Fear of Fear ( Angst vor der Angs )
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann
Plot: A housewife is being driven insane by her family and her boring life.
