1. M
Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Gustaf Gründgens, Friedrich Gnaß, Theo Lingen
Plot: When the police can't solve a mystery, others are brought in to join the search.
2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien, J. Farrell McDonald, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, Ralph Sipperly
Plot: A farmer falls in love with a city girl who tries to convince him to murder his wife and make it look like a suicide.
3. Lives of Others, The ( Leben der Anderen, Das )
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Actors: Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Martina Gedeck, Charly Hübner, Thomas Thieme
Plot: Focuses on the spying aspect of the former East Germany
4. Metropolis
Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Alfred Abel, Gustav Froehlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos, Erwin Biswanger
Plot: In the future, where the society is divided into thinkers and workers, one man appears to be more than just a thinker and more than a worker.
5. Downfall ( Untergang, Der )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Thomas Kretschmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Matthes, Corinna Harfouch
Plot: The final days of Adolf Hitler are told by his secretary...
6. Aguirre, Wrath of God ( Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes )
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Cecilia Rivera, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Peter Berling
Plot: An adventure set in the 1500's, Spanish soldiers begin to loose touch with
themselves as greed takes over their search for riches.
7. Phoenix
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christian Petzold
Actors: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block
8. Das Boot
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Bernd Tauber, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
Plot: A crew in a U-Boat during World War II suffers a meltdown.
9. Wings of Desire ( Himmel über Berlin, Der )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Hans Martin Stier
Plot: A discontented angel wanders around Berlin, listening to people's thoughts, until he falls in love with a circus acrobat and decides to become human so he can be with her. Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
10. All Quiet on the Western Front ( Im Westen nichts Neues )
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward Berger
Actors: Daniel Brühl, Felix Kammerer, Joe Weintraub, Sebastian Hülk, Albrecht Schuch, Anton von Lucke
Plot: Follows a group of young, idealistic germans who quickly enlist during WWI whose lives are shattered by the brutal reality of the war.
