Top German Movies


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

61. Vitus

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fredi M. Murer
Actors: Fabrizio Borsani, Teo Gheorghiu, Julika Jenkins, Urs Jucker
Plot: A child prodigy finds a unique way of dealing with being different.

62. Veronika Voss ( Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, Die )

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer

63. Balance

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Plot: A group of mysterious men, all balancing upon a square that floats above an abyss,
become jealous when a music box is found.

64. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste
Plot: Werner Herzog captures the earliest known artistic creations of mankind in an unprecedented look into the Chauvet caves in Southern France.

65. Berlin Alexanderplatz

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Günter Lamprecht, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karlheinz Braun, Hanna Schygulla
Plot: In 1930s Germany, Franz Biberkopf, just out of prison for murdering his girlfriend, struggles to adjust to life on the outside. As he gets more deeply and destructively involved with his best friend -- a pimp -- and various women, the Nazis begin their rise to power. Fassbinder's 16-hour epic was originally shown on German television. Based on the novel by Alfred Doblin.

66. Faust

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Actors: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich
Plot: Doctor Faust eats and sleeps where he studies dead people's bodies. Gradually he ends up selling his ... soul to a deformed man who lures him into catacombs and finally to his doom.

67. Martha

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel
Plot: A woman falls in love with a man, only to find out his is dangerously sadistic.

68. Soul Kitchen

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fatih Akin
Actors: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel, Anna Bederke
Plot: A man with a failing restaurant and relationship finds his life changed for the better when a gypsy cook makes his place incredibly popular and makes him much more money. Yet with all this new-found wealth comes more trouble, maybe more than he can handle.

69. Edukators, The ( Fetten Jahre sind vorbei, Die )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hans Weingartner
Actors: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner

70. Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Paul Richter
Plot: Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Krimhild, a mask that makes him invisible proves to be very useful. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild, she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried's head. Is Gunther going to do her that favor?

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