🏷 Discover The Best Germany Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Germany has a rich cinematic and television heritage, blending historical depth with modern storytelling. From gripping war dramas to innovative sci-fi, German media offers something for every viewer. Whether you're fascinated by post-war reconstruction or contemporary thrillers, exploring the best movies and TV shows from Germany provides both entertainment and cultural insight. Discover iconic films and binge-worthy series that showcase the country’s unique perspective on history, society, and human experience.

Cast

Heinz Schubert

Helga Feddersen

Hildegard Krekel

Klaus Dahlen

Ein Herz und eine Seele (1973) TV Show

8.7 33 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Germany

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 25

Audience: NR

Story: Ein Herz und eine Seele is a German cult sitcom based on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part by Johnny Speight. The show premiered on January 15, 1973 and lasted for about twenty episodes, airing its last on November 4, 1974. In 1976, the show had a short-lived revival with another four episodes. Ein Herz und eine Seele was written by Wolfgang Menge.The show was extremely successful during its initial run and it still proves very popular in reruns. Two episodes in particular, Silvesterpunsch and Rosenmontagszug have gained such popularity that they are now shown traditionally on German TV on New Year's Eve and Rosenmontag, respectively.

Plot: berlin, germany, ruhr, family, ekel alfred

Cast

Roberto Benigni

Nicoletta Braschi

Giorgio Cantarini

Giustino Durano

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

8.4 14.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Style: dark

Plot: dying and death, bookshop, love of one's life, nazi, self sacrifice, loss of loved one, riddle, mass murder, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: italy

Cast

Florian Lukas

Uwe Kockisch

Ju00f6rg Hartmann

Ruth Reinecke

Weissensee (2010) TV Show

8.4 32 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 24

Story: Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.

Plot: berlin, germany, berlin wall, german democratic republic, stasi, east berlin

Place: germany

Cast

Michel Bouquet

Reinhard Heydrich

Heinrich Himmler

Adolf Hitler

Night and Fog (1956)

8.3 570 votes

Genre: Documentary, History

Country: France

Duration: 32 min.

Story: Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Plot: destruction of a civilization, nazi, prisoner of war, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, torture, short film

Time: world war ii

Place: germany

Cast

Kirk Douglas

Ralph Meeker

Adolphe Menjou

George Macready

Paths of Glory (1957)

8.3 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Plot: army, based on novel or book, general, patriotism, cowardice, idealism, idealist, black and white, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Place: france, germany

Cast

Volker Bruch

Tom Schilling

Katharina Schu00fcttler

Ludwig Trepte

Generation War (2013) TV Show

8.1 471 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Germany

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-14

Story: Career-soldier Wilhelm, his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm, and their friends Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to meet again after the war.

Plot: berlin, germany, nurse, soviet union, jew persecution, nazi, friends, aspiring singer, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Peter Lorre

Ellen Widmann

Inge Landgut

Otto Wernicke

M (1931)

8.1 2.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Plot: berlin, germany, psychopath, detective inspector, child murder, investigation, film noir, organized crime, ...

Place: germany

Cast

Martina Gedeck

Ulrich Mu00fche

Sebastian Koch

Ulrich Tukur

The Lives of Others (2006)

8.0 4.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

Plot: berlin, germany, government, corruption, espionage, berlin wall, german democratic republic, blackmail, ...

Time: cold war

Place: germany

Cast

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Kurt Wagner

Marita Breuer

Ru00fcdiger Weigang

Gertrud Bredel

Heimat (1984) TV Show

8.0 41 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 11

Story: Spanning 1919 to 1982, in the fictional village of Schabbach, live Maria Simon and her family, whose lives and community are changed by historical events around them.

Plot: small town, narration, forbidden love, photography, change, disappearance, historical, family, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: germany

Cast

Roman Griffin Davis

Thomasin McKenzie

Scarlett Johansson

Taika Waititi

Jojo Rabbit (2019)

8.0 10.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War

Country: New Zealand, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.

Style: satirical, irreverent

Plot: based on novel or book, jew persecution, satire, imaginary friend, hitler youth, single mother, questioning, nazism, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Maximilian Mundt

Danilo Kamperidis

Lena Klenke

Damian Hardung

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (2019) TV Show

7.9 947 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: Germany

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: To win back his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling ecstasy online out of his bedroom -- and becomes one of Europe's biggest dealers.

Style: tense

Plot: drug dealer, high school, based on true story, internet, bitcoin

Place: germany

Cast

Harrison Ford

Sean Connery

Denholm Elliott

Alison Doody

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

7.9 11.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!

Plot: saving the world, nazi, holy grail, venice, italy, entrapment, crusader, riddle, ...

Time: medieval, 1930s

Place: germany

Cast

Bruno Ganz

Solveig Dommartin

Otto Sander

Curt Bois

Wings of Desire (1987)

7.8 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Style: melancholy

Plot: berlin, germany, dreams, library, circus, angel, berlin wall, immortality, ...

Cast

Tom Schilling

Sebastian Koch

Paula Beer

Saskia Rosendahl

Never Look Away (2018)

7.7 758 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: Germany, Italy

Duration: 188 min.

Audience: R

Story: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

Plot: painter, dresden, germany, art gallery, adolf hitler

Time: world war ii

Place: germany

Cast

Louis Wolheim

Lew Ayres

John Wray

Arnold Lucy

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

7.7 937 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Plot: friendship, army, based on novel or book, disillusion, steel helmet, patriotism, boot camp, battlefield, ...

Time: world war i

Place: germany

Cast

Keanu Reeves

Donnie Yen

Bill Skarsgu00e5rd

Ian McShane

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

7.7 8.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 170 min.

Audience: R

Story: With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

Plot: new york city, martial arts, berlin, germany, paris, france, hitman, sequel, ...

Cast

Brigitte Mira

El Hedi ben Salem

Irm Hermann

Barbara Valentin

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

7.7 454 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Germany

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

Plot: husband wife relationship, unsociability, parent child relationship, cleaning lady, foreigner, german-turkish living together, munich, germany, ...

Place: germany

Cast

Max Schreck

Gustav von Wangenheim

Greta Schru00f6der

Georg H. Schnell

Nosferatu (1922)

7.7 2.5K votes

Genre: Fantasy, Horror

Country: Germany

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: based on novel or book, self sacrifice, transylvania, loss of loved one, vampire, shapeshifting, coffin, supernatural, ...

Place: germany, romania

Cast

Rami Malek

Russell Crowe

Michael Shannon

Leo Woodall

Nuremberg (2025)

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Hungary

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.

Plot: based on novel or book, nuremberg trials, based on true story, nuremberg, germany, post world war ii, historical drama, hermann göring

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Laia Costa

Frederick Lau

Franz Rogowski

Max Mauff

Victoria (2015)

7.6 1.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: NR

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.

Plot: berlin, germany, love at first sight, bullet wound, bank robbery, playing piano, real time, genre bending, ...

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Top German Movies That Define Cinema

German cinema has long been celebrated for its bold narratives and visual storytelling. Whether you're a cinephile or a casual viewer, these films capture the essence of German culture, history, and innovation.

Classic German Films

Metropolis (1927) – Fritz Lang’s silent sci-fi masterpiece remains one of the most influential films ever made, exploring themes of class struggle and technological dystopia.
The Lives of Others (2006) – This Oscar-winning drama delves into life under the Stasi in East Germany, offering a gripping portrayal of surveillance and human resilience.
Run Lola Run (1998) – A high-energy thriller that follows a woman racing against time to save her boyfriend, blending minimalist aesthetics with dynamic pacing.

Modern German Cinematic Gems

Victoria (2015) – Shot in one continuous take, this intense crime thriller follows a young woman caught in a bank heist gone wrong.
Systemsprenger (2019) – A raw and emotional drama about a troubled foster child, highlighting systemic failures in Germany’s social services.
Im Westen nichts Neues (2022) – Netflix’s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic war novel, offering a harrowing look at World War I’s brutality.

Must-Watch German TV Shows for Binge-Worthy Entertainment

German television has evolved into a powerhouse of gripping series, from crime procedurals to dark comedies. These shows provide a mix of suspense, humor, and cultural depth, making them perfect for streaming enthusiasts.

Popular German TV Series

German TV series have gained international acclaim for their high production values and compelling storytelling. Here are some standout titles:

Dark (2017-2020) – A mind-bending sci-fi mystery that weaves together time travel, family secrets, and apocalyptic themes across multiple generations.
Babylon Berlin (2017–present) – Set in the Weimar Republic, this lavish crime drama combines political intrigue, jazz-age glamour, and gritty detective work.
Tatort (1970–present) – Germany’s iconic crime anthology series, featuring long-running detective duos solving murders in different cities each episode.

Emerging German Streaming Hits

For those looking for fresh and innovative content, these newer series are making waves:

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (2019–2021) – A dark comedy based on a true story, following a teenager who accidentally becomes the world’s biggest online drug dealer.
Kitz (2021–present) – A high-stakes thriller set in the glamorous yet cutthroat world of Alpine skiing, blending sports drama with criminal intrigue.
Barbarians (2020–present) – A historical drama set during the Roman Empire’s expansion into Germania, focusing on the clash between cultures and power struggles.

Whether you're drawn to German cinema’s historical depth or TV’s fresh narratives, exploring these titles offers a deep dive into one of Europe’s most vibrant media landscapes. From award-winning films to binge-worthy shows, Germany’s entertainment scene continues to captivate audiences worldwide.