Top German Movies


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

131. Ecstasy ( Ekstase )

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gustav Machatý
Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz, Leopold Kramer, Bedrich Vrbský, Jirina Stepnicková

132. Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, Die ( Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, Die )

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller, Erwin Biswanger, Bernhard Goetzke
Plot: After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that they kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfried, but he is protected by her brothers. A fierce battle begins to force her brothers to give Hagen to her.

133. I Was Nineteen ( Ich war neunzehn )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Konrad Wolf
Actors: Jaecki Schwarz, Vasili Livanov, Aleksei Ejbozhenko, Galina Polskikh, Rolf Hoppe, Wolfgang Greese

134. Invisible Adversaries ( Unsichtbare Gegner )

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Valie Export
Actors: Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec, Monica Helfer-Friedrich, Helke Sander, Dominick Dusek

135. Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang, Giorgio Moroder
Actors: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Brigitte Helm, Theodor Loos, Fritz Rasp
Plot: The first ever restoration to the sci-fi classic Metropolis, also made it more appealing to the MTV 80s generation with a modern pop-rock score orchestrated by Giorgio Moroder. Even though this version is accompanied by new shots, new special effects and color tinting, it was the first version since the original Berlin premiere in 1927 that followed closely the original script.

136. Jerichow

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christian Petzold
Actors: Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer, André Hennicke, Claudia Geisler, Marie Gruber

137. Goodnight Mommy ( Ich seh, Ich seh )

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Actors: Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz, Hans Escher, Elfriede Schatz, Karl Purker
Plot: A lonely house between the woods and cornfields - the summer sweltering. Two brothers, 9-year-old twins, wait for their mother to come home following her plastic surgery. She arrives, bruised and bandaged - the boys don't trust this "stranger" and soon the fundamentals of trust and identity emerge.

138. I Don't Want to Be a Man ( Ich möchte kein Mann sein )

Year of Release: 1918
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Ossi Oswalda, Curt Goetz, Ferry Sikla, Margarete Kupfer, Victor Janson

139. Stationmaster's Wife, The ( Bolwieser )

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Udo Kier, Volker Spengler

140. Rabbit Without Ears ( Keinohrhasen )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Til Schweiger
Actors: Til Schweiger, Nora Tschirner, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alwara Höfels, Armin Rohde, Jürgen Vogel
Plot: Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets Anna who has unfinished business with him.

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