Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people. Year 1989.
| Generes: Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Director: Mark Zakharov |
| Writer: Michele Alghisio (adaptation), Grigori Gorin, Evgeniy Shvarts (play), Mark Zakharov |
| Actors: Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Evgeniy Leonov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov |
A look at Germany’s terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and ’70s. Year 2008.
| Generes: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller |
| Director: Uli Edel |
| Writer: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay), Uli Edel (screenplay collaborator), Stefan Aust (book) |
| Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Jan Josef Liefers |
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible? Year 2009.
| Generes: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Michael Haneke |
| Writer: Michael Haneke, Michael Haneke (story) |
| Actors: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur |
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks. Year 1998.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Tom Tykwer |
| Writer: Tom Tykwer (screenplay) |
| Actors: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri |
Balloon is a German thriller that deals with the crossing of the inner German border of the families Strelzyk and Wetzel from the GDR to West Germany with a homemade hot-air balloon. Year 2018.
| Generes: Drama, Family, History, Thriller |
| Director: Michael Herbig |
| Writer: Kit Hopkins (screenplay), Thilo Röscheisen (screenplay), Michael Herbig (screenplay) |
| Actors: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Alicia von Rittberg |
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death. Year 1933.
| Generes: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Fritz Lang |
| Writer: Norbert Jacques (characters), Fritz Lang (scenario), Fritz Lang, René Sti (French adaptation), Thea von Harbou (scenario), Thea von Harbou |
| Actors: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl, Rudolf Schündler |
Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society. Year 2015.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
| Director: David Wnendt |
| Writer: David Wnendt (screenplay), Mizzi Meyer (screenplay), Timur Vermes (based on the novel by), Marco Kreuzpaintner (screenplay adaptation), Johannes Boss (screenplay contributor), Collin McMahon (translation) |
| Actors: Oliver Masucci, Thomas M. Köppl, Marc-Marvin Israel, David Gebigke |
When a woman’s fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate. Year 1921.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller |
| Director: Fritz Lang |
| Writer: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou |
| Actors: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Hans Sternberg |
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. Year 2002.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery |
| Director: Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Writer: Boris Khaimsky (dialogue), Anatoli Nikiforov, Svetlana Proskurina (dialogue), Aleksandr Sokurov (dialogue), Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Actors: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky |
The story of Kafka’s Castle. Year 1994.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Aleksey Balabanov |
| Writer: Aleksey Balabanov, Franz Kafka (novel), Sergey Selyanov |
| Actors: Nikolay Stotskiy, Svetlana Pismichenko, Anvar Libabov, Viktor Sukhorukov |
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Year 2004.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| Writer: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay), Joachim Fest (book), Traudl Junge (book), Melissa Müller (book) |
| Actors: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes |
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup. Year 1995.
| Generes: Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Bryan Singer |
| Writer: Christopher McQuarrie |
| Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak |
The village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982. Year 1984–.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: N/A |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Weigang, Kurt Wagner, Gertrud Bredel |
A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. Year 2015.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller |
| Director: Sebastian Schipper |
| Writer: Sebastian Schipper (story), Olivia Neergaard-Holm (story), Eike Frederik Schulz (story) |
| Actors: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit |
In the spring of 1945, the German troops are practically defeated, and the battalion of Kowalski, major general von Plönnies and Asch is left to its own devices to a large extent. Year 1955.
| Generes: Drama, War |
| Director: Paul May |
| Writer: Hans Hellmut Kirst (novel), Ernst von Salomon |
| Actors: O.E. Hasse, Hannes Schiel, Gustav Knuth, Emmerich Schrenk |
German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy. Year 1951.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War |
| Director: Peter Lorre |
| Writer: Axel Eggebrecht (screenplay), Peter Lorre (novel), Peter Lorre (screenplay), Benno Vigny (screenplay) |
| Actors: Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph, Johanna Hofer |