Top German Movies


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

231. Mark of the Devil aka Burn, Witch, Burn ( Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Armstrong
Actors: Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Fux, Johannes Buzalski

232. When We Leave ( Fremde, Die )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Feo Aladag
Actors: Sibel Kekilli, Nizam Schiller, Derya Alabora, Settar Tanriogen, Tamer Yigit, Florian Lukas

233. Joyless Street, The ( freudlose Gasse, Die )

Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Actors: Renate Brausewetter, Gregori Chmara, Mario Cusmich, Agnes Esterhazy, Greta Garbo, Jaro Fürth

234. A Film Unfinished

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yael Hersonski
Actors: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler
Plot: Yael Hersonski crafts a documentary around an infamous piece of Nazi propaganda discovered after the war showing the Warsaw Ghetto. Despite its nature, it has been used as a historical resource and when a long-missing reel turns up, it stirs up more debate.

235. Merry Jail, The ( Fidele Gefangnis, Das )

Year of Release: 1917
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Harry Liedtke, Ossi Oswalda, Emil Jannings, Erich Schönfelder, Kitty Dewall, Agda Nielson

236. Different from the Others ( Anders als die Andern )

Year of Release: 1919
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Oswald
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh, Ernst Pittschau, Fritz Schulz
Plot: Life for a famous musician and his lover becomes intolerable under Paragraph 175, which makes male homosexuality punishable by law

237. Fear ( paura, La )

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt, Kurt Kreuger, Elise Aulinger, Edith Schultze-Westrum

238. Rammbock

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marvin Kren
Actors: Sebastian Achilles, Melanie Berke, Michael Fuith, Anna Graczyk, Harald Geil, Jörn Hentschel
Plot: Returning to Berlin to find his ex-girlfriend, Michael instead comes face-to-face with a zombie outbreak.

239. World on a Wire ( Welt am Drah )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Ulli Lommel, Adrian Hoven
Plot: In the future, Henry Vollmer leads a project to create a virtual world: Simulacron. When Vollmer dies, his successor Dr. Fred Stiller begins to experience strange phenomena from people disappearing, to his own existence being questioned. Is he in the real world or has Simulacron taken over?

240. No Place on Earth

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Janet Tobias
Actors: Chris Nicola, Saul Stermer, Sam Stermer, Sonia Dodyk, Sima Dodyk, Katalin Lábán
Plot: While mapping out the largest cave system in the Ukraine, Chris Nicola makes a startling discovery: during WWII five Jewish families made their home in cave systems for a year and a half to escape the Nazis - the longest uninterrupted underground survival known to man.

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