A monthly online film club to discuss German film
KINO! Film Salon
Each month we choose a German film or series currently available to stream, watch it independently, and come together for a hosted conversation with other fans of German film.
Our next meeting will be about Requiem, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid.
Join us Sunday, March 17th at 11:00am - 12:00pm PST / 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST / 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST.
Popular from Germany
Pandorum
Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing.
- ✭
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States • 2009
- Director Christian Alvart
- Cast Ben Foster, Dennis Quaid, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Eddie Rouse
- Genre Action, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Available on fuboTV, USA Network, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Black Death
In an age of darkness one man will face the ultimate battle against evil.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United Kingdom • 2010
- Director Christopher Smith
- Cast Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten, Kimberley Nixon, John Lynch
- Genre Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Hulu, Hoopla, fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Plex Player
1899
Immigrants on a steamship encounter a mysterious second ship adrift at sea.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States • 2022
- Creator Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
- Cast Emily Beecham, Andreas Pietschmann, Aneurin Barnard, Isabella Wei, Maciej Musiał, Yann Gael
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Das Boot
When the hunters become the hunted.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany • 1981
- Director Wolfgang Petersen
- Cast Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Paris, Texas
A place for dreams. A place for heartbreak. A place to pick up the pieces.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, France, United Kingdom • 1984
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Hunter Carson, Aurore Clément, Bernhard Wicki
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Dark
The complicated lives of locals living in a small German town are revealed during a search for missing children.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States • 2017
- Creator Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
- Cast
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Babylon Berlin
Welcome to the city of sin.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2017
- Creator Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten
- Cast Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch, Denis Burgazliev
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Im Westen nichts Neues)
A German film adaptation of the epic 1929 anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom • 2022
- Director Edward Berger
- Cast Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanović, Devid Striesow, Daniel Brühl
- Genre Action, Drama, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Afire
(Roter Himmel)
When a forest fire traps vacationers in a home on the Baltic Sea, tensions, sexual and otherwise, rise.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- • 2023
- Director Christian Petzold
- Cast Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, Matthias Brandt
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Vudu, Apple TV
Generation War
(Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter)
Five German friends leave for war and promise each other to be back in time for Christmas.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2013
- Creator Philipp Kadelbach
- Cast Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Ludwig Trepte, Miriam Stein, Mark Waschke
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Amazon Prime Video, Tubi TV, Hoopla, Plex, Freevee, Plex Player
New from Germany
Heidi
Like a ray of sunshine, Heidi lights up and soothes the hearts of the people around her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Australia, Germany • 2015
- Creator Christel Gonnard
- Cast Jamie Croft
- Genre Animation, Family, Kids
- Available on Apple TV
Amélie
(Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)
A whimsical love letter to contemporary Parisian life in the form of an eccentric romantic comedy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany • 2001
- Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Cast Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Holy Shit!
(Ach du Scheisse!)
Frank wakes up from unconsciousness, locked in a porta-potty on a construction site that is slated for imminent demolition.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2022
- Director Lukas Rinker
- Cast Thomas Niehaus, Gedeon Burkhard, Olga von Luckwald, Rodney Charles, Friederike Kempter, Björn Meyer
- Genre Comedy, Thriller
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, VUDU Free, Tubi TV, YouTube, Screambox Amazon Channel, Apple TV
The Traitor
(Il traditore)
After trying to leave the mafia for Brazil, Tommaso Buscetta is forced to return to Italy and become an informant.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Germany • 2019
- Director Marco Bellocchio
- Cast Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi, Luigi Lo Cascio, Bruno Cariello
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz, YouTube, Starz Amazon Channel, Apple TV
Scarlet
(L'envol)
A WWI veteran returns to his French village, discovering his wife's death. Left to care for daughter Juliette, he witnesses her becoming a free-spirited woman.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy, Germany • 2023
- Director Pietro Marcello
- Cast Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, François Négret
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
All of a Sudden
(Auf Einmal)
All of a sudden, Karsten finds himself becoming the prime suspect of a murder he did not commit.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Netherlands • 2016
- Director Aslı Özge
- Cast Sebastian Hülk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Luise Heyer
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Film Movement Plus
The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future
(La vaca que canto una cancion sobre el futuro)
Cecilia travels to her father's farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her long-deceased mother whose presence brings to life a painful past.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Chile, France, United States • 2023
- Director Francisca Alegría
- Cast Leonor Varela, Mía Maestro, Alfredo Castro, Marcial Tagle, Luis Dubó, Enzo Ferrada
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kino Now, YouTube, Apple TV
Sunshine
The story of a Jewish-Hungarian family across three generations during the tumultuous 20th century.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria, Canada • 1999
- Director István Szabó
- Cast Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Deborah Kara Unger, William Hurt
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hoopla, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Wallander
Detective Kurt Wallander investigates crimes in a small Swedish town alongside the newest addition to the force, his daughter Linda.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Germany, Denmark • 2005
- Creator Henning Mankell
- Cast Krister Henriksson, Charlotta Jonsson, Signe Dahlkvist, Mats Bergman, Fredrik Gunnarsson
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Amazon Video, MZ Choice Amazon Channel
The Sinking of the Laconia
After realizing who's onboard, a German U-boat captain defies orders and tries to rescue the ship he just sank.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Germany • 2011
- Creator Uwe Janson
- Cast Franka Potente, Ken Duken, Jacob Matschenz, Stefan Rudolf, Matthias Koeberlin, Frederick Lau
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
(Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle)
The true story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier during WWII who surrendered 10,000 days after the Empire.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Japan, Germany • 2021
- Director Arthur Harari
- Cast Yuya Endo, Kanji Tsuda, Yuya Matsuura, Tetsuya Chiba, Shinsuke Kato, Kai Inowaki
- Genre Adventure, Drama, War
- Available on Freevee, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
Bad Banks
In the world of corporate banking, there is no such thing as clean money.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Luxembourg • 2018
- Creator Christian Schwochow
- Cast Paula Beer, Barry Atsma, Désirée Nosbusch, Albrecht Schuch, Mai Duong Kieu, Tobias Moretti
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Hulu
Sleeping Dog
(Schlafende Hunde)
A former detective, now living on the streets, searches for the truth after a suicide raises doubts about a supposedly closed case.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2023
- Creator Noah Stollman, Oded Davidoff
- Cast Max Riemelt, Luise von Finckh, Carlo Ljubek, Peri Baumeister, Antonio Wannek, Mélodie Wakivuamina
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Angry Indian Goddesses
A group of women’s lives are forever changed after their friend’s bachelorette trip.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- India, Germany • 2015
- Director Pan Nalin
- Cast Sarah-Jane Dias, Rajshri Deshpande, Sandhya Mridul, Amy Maghera, Pavleen Gujral, Tannishtha Chatterjee
- Genre Bollywood, Comedy, Drama
- Available on fuboTV
Behind the Haystacks
(Πίσω από τις Θημωνιές)
A tragic incident on Greece's northern border strikes a local family of three, pushing them to face their impasses while having to deeply consider the price for their actions.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Greece, Germany, North Macedonia • 2022
- Director Asimina Proedrou
- Cast Stathis Stamoulakatos, Eleni Ouzounidou, Evgenia Lavda, Christos Kontogeorgis, Dina Mihailidou, Paschalis Tsarouchas
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus
Telescope Recommends
Homo Sapiens
The images could be taken from a science fiction film set on planet Earth after it’s become uninhabitable. All these locations carry the traces of erstwhile human existence and bear witness to a civilization that brought forth architecture, art, the entertainment industry, technologies, ideologies, wars and environmental disasters.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, Germany, Austria • 2016
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Kanopy
The Counterfeiters
(Die Fälscher)
Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch finds himself entangled in the Nazi's nefarious Operation Bernhard, an effort to destabilize the British economy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria, Germany • 2007
- Director Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Cast Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stübner
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Hold Me Tight
(Serre moi fort)
A woman runs away from her family, and her husband struggles with responsibilities of single parenthood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2021
- Director Mathieu Amalric
- Cast Vicky Krieps, Arieh Worthalter, Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet, Sacha Ardilly, Juliette Benveniste, Aurèle Grzesik
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, Kino Now, YouTube, MUBI Amazon Channel, MUBI, Apple TV
Phoenix
A noirish study of treachery, identity, and survival.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Poland • 2014
- Director Christian Petzold
- Cast Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Caché
All the moments they thought nobody was watching, caught on tape.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Austria, Germany • 2005
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Duval, Maurice Bénichou
- Genre Mystery, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Germany, Year Zero
(Germania anno zero)
The country is obliterated, the buildings are dilapidated and the people are desolated.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Germany • 1948
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne, Heidi Blänkner
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Gavagai
Language may have its limits, but love and friendship are transcendent.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Norway, Canada, Germany • 2016
- Director Rob Tregenza
- Cast Andreas Lust, Mikkel Gaup, Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Joakim Nango
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Tropical Malady
(สัตว์ประหลาด)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Thailand, France, Germany • 2004
- Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Cast Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Huai Dessom, Sirivech Jareonchon, Udom Promma
- Genre Drama, Romance, Fantasy
- Available on Kanopy
Requiem
She claimed she was possessed. There was no way to know for sure.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2006
- Director Hans-Christian Schmid
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner, Imogen Kogge, Friederike Adolph, Anna Blomeier, Nicholas Reinke
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Apple TV, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
(봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄)
What you like, others will also like.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea, Germany • 2003
- Director Kim Ki-duk
- Cast Kim Ki-duk, Kim Young-min, Ha Yeo-jin, Oh Yeong-su, Seo Jae-kyeong, Kim Jong-ho
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Whale Rider
A contemporary story of family, rejection and triumph.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- New Zealand, Germany • 2003
- Director Niki Caro
- Cast Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Starz, Hoopla, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz Amazon Channel, Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Ayka
(Айка)
A young immigrant worker in Moscow desperately works to pay off her debts while dealing with postpartum health issues.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, Germany, Poland • 2019
- Director Sergei Dvortsevoy
- Cast Samal Yeslyamova, Dzhipargul Abdilova, David Alaverdyan, Cholponay Borubaeva, Nurzhan Kunnazarova
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI Amazon Channel, MUBI
Wetlands
(Feuchtgebiete)
Get ready for Helen.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2013
- Director David Wnendt
- Cast Carla Juri, Axel Milberg, Meret Becker, Peri Baumeister, Christoph Letkowski, Edgar Selge
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
Nostalgia for the Light
(Nostalgia de la luz)
Where do we come from?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Chile • 2010
- Director Patricio Guzmán
- Cast Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel, Victor Gonzalez, Vicky Saaveda
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
The Four Times
(Le quattro volte)
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Germany, Switzerland • 2010
- Director Michelangelo Frammartino
- Cast Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kino Now, Kanopy
German Series
Sleeping Dog
(Schlafende Hunde)
A former detective, now living on the streets, searches for the truth after a suicide raises doubts about a supposedly closed case.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2023
- Creator Noah Stollman, Oded Davidoff
- Cast Max Riemelt, Luise von Finckh, Carlo Ljubek, Peri Baumeister, Antonio Wannek, Mélodie Wakivuamina
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Biohackers
In this high-octane thriller, medical student, Mia, discovers her visionary and eccentric biology professor is abusing advanced biohacking technology.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2020
- Creator Christian Ditter
- Cast Luna Wedler, Jessica Schwarz, Adrian Julius Tillmann, Thomas Prenn, Jing Xiang, Caro Cult
- Genre Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Lexx
A group of desperate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny finds themselves in control of a massively powerful starship.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, Germany, United Kingdom • 1997
- Creator Paul Donovan, Jeffrey Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff
- Cast Brian Downey, Jeffrey Hirschfield, Tom Gallant, Xenia Seeberg
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Amazon Video, The Roku Channel, Hoopla, VUDU Free, VIX , Freevee
Wallander
Detective Kurt Wallander investigates crimes in a small Swedish town alongside the newest addition to the force, his daughter Linda.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Germany, Denmark • 2005
- Creator Henning Mankell
- Cast Krister Henriksson, Charlotta Jonsson, Signe Dahlkvist, Mats Bergman, Fredrik Gunnarsson
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Amazon Video, MZ Choice Amazon Channel
The Sinking of the Laconia
After realizing who's onboard, a German U-boat captain defies orders and tries to rescue the ship he just sank.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Germany • 2011
- Creator Uwe Janson
- Cast Franka Potente, Ken Duken, Jacob Matschenz, Stefan Rudolf, Matthias Koeberlin, Frederick Lau
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel
Weissensee
Romeo and Juliet meets the communist East Berlin of the 1980s.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2010
- Creator Friedemann Fromm
- Cast Florian Lukas, Uwe Kockisch, Jörg Hartmann, Ruth Reinecke, Katrin Sass, Anna Loos
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
Dicte
Newly divorced Danish crime reporter Dicte comes into conflict with the local police over the course of an investigation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Sweden, Germany • 2013
- Creator Kasper Barfoed
- Cast Iben Hjejle, Lars Brygmann, Lærke Winther Andersen, Emilie Kruse
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Viaplay, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel
Gomorrah
(Gomorra - La serie)
Ciro, a member of the brutal Neapolitan crime organization the Camorra, must navigate the dangers of the criminal underworld.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Germany • 2014
- Creator Roberto Saviano
- Cast Salvatore Esposito, Marco D'Amore, Ivana Lotito, Arturo Muselli
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Heidi
Like a ray of sunshine, Heidi lights up and soothes the hearts of the people around her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Australia, Germany • 2015
- Creator Christel Gonnard
- Cast Jamie Croft
- Genre Animation, Family, Kids
- Available on Apple TV
Deutschland
A young spy comes of age in the divided Germany of 1983 where everyone is hiding something.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2015
- Creator Anna Winger
- Cast Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video
The Same Sky
(Der gleiche Himmel)
Lars, an East German Romeo agent, must seduce powerful West German women in order to gain valuable information.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2017
- Creator Paula Milne
- Cast Tom Schilling, Sofia Helin, Friederike Becht, Ben Becker, Hannes Wegener, Uwe Preuss
- Genre War & Politics, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel
You Are Wanted
A man works to prove his innocence after a hacker implicates him in a crime.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2017
- Creator Richard Kropf, Hanno Hackfort
- Cast Matthias Schweighöfer
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Amazon Prime Video
Charité at War
(Charité)
Doctors at a Berlin hospital struggle under the political pressure of the Nazi regime.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2017
- Creator Sönke Wortmann, Anno Saul
- Cast Mala Emde, Ulrich Noethen, Jannik Schümann, Luise Wolfram, Artjom Gilz, Jacob Matschenz
- Genre Drama
- Available on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel
Tribes of Europa
Three siblings fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic Europe broken into warring tribes.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2021
- Creator Philip Koch
- Cast Emilio Sakraya, Henriette Confurius, David Ali Rashed, Oliver Masucci, Melika Foroutan, James Faulkner
- Genre Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
4 Blocks
Toni Hamady is tired of running a crime gang and wishes to turn his life around, but life has other plans...
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2017
- Creator Hanno Hackfort, Bob Konrad, Richard Kropf
- Cast Frederick Lau
- Genre Drama
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max
German Films Celebrates its 70th Anniversary
In 2024, German Films celebrates 70 years of supporting, promoting, and accompanying German feature films and German filmmakers around the world. Here we look back at a selection of those films.
Animals United
(Konferenz der Tiere)
A group of animals bands together to try to convince the humans not to interfere with nature.
- ✭ ✭
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States • 2010
- Director Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe
- Cast Christoph Maria Herbst, Ralf Schmitz, Thomas Fritsch, Bastian Pastewka, Oliver Kalkofe, Nana Spier
- Genre Animation, Comedy, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Toni Erdmann
In this absurdist tale of estrangement, a practical joker visits his workaholic daughter in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria, Monaco • 2016
- Director Maren Ade
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Pütter, Ingrid Bisu
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Good Bye, Lenin!
The German Democratic Republic lives on -- in 79 square meters!
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2003
- Director Wolfgang Becker
- Cast Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Marriage of Maria Braun
(Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
During World War II, a German woman named Maria struggles to live and to love.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany • 1979
- Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cast Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, George Eagles, Gisela Uhlen, Elisabeth Trissenaar
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Wings of Desire
(Der Himmel über Berlin)
There are angels on the streets of Berlin.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, France • 1987
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Hans Martin Stier
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
The White Ribbon
(Das weisse Band)
In rural Germany just before World War I, strange things are happening to a once-ordinary, authoritarian village society.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria, France • 2009
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Ursina Lardi, Ulrich Tukur, Burghart Klaußner, Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Susanne Lothar
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
I'm Your Man
(Ich bin dein Mensch)
To secure funding for her work, an archeologist signs up to test a robot designed to be her perfect partner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2021
- Director Maria Schrader
- Cast Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Annika Meier
- Genre Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Hulu, Apple TV
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Im Westen nichts Neues)
A German film adaptation of the epic 1929 anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom • 2022
- Director Edward Berger
- Cast Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanović, Devid Striesow, Daniel Brühl
- Genre Action, Drama, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Oscar Season: Sandra Hüller
Toni Erdmann
In this absurdist tale of estrangement, a practical joker visits his workaholic daughter in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
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- Germany, Austria, Monaco • 2016
- Director Maren Ade
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Pütter, Ingrid Bisu
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
I'm Your Man
(Ich bin dein Mensch)
To secure funding for her work, an archeologist signs up to test a robot designed to be her perfect partner.
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- Germany • 2021
- Director Maria Schrader
- Cast Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Annika Meier
- Genre Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Hulu, Apple TV
Munich: The Edge of War
A British bureaucrat travels to Munich for negotiations, and must face a former friend who is now a German diplomat.
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- United States, United Kingdom • 2022
- Director Christian Schwochow
- Cast George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Sandra Hüller, Jeremy Irons, August Diehl, Ulrich Matthes
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Netflix basic with Ads, Netflix
Above Us Only Sky
(Über uns das All)
A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was...
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- Germany • 2011
- Director Jan Schomburg
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Georg Friedrich, Felix Knopp, Kathrin Wehlisch, Valery Tscheplanowa, Stephan Grossmann
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Anatomy of a Fall
(Anatomie d'une chute)
After Sandra is put on trial for the murder of her husband, their blind son faces a moral dilemma.
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- France • 2023
- Director Justine Triet
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado-Graner, Swann Arlaud, Saadia Bentaïeb, Jehnny Beth, Samuel Theis
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube, Apple TV
Requiem
She claimed she was possessed. There was no way to know for sure.
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- Germany • 2006
- Director Hans-Christian Schmid
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner, Imogen Kogge, Friederike Adolph, Anna Blomeier, Nicholas Reinke
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Apple TV, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel
Oscar Season: Ilker Çatak
Fidelity
(Sadakat)
When Aslı gives shelter to a young political activist sought by the police, her family’s lives start to become compromised.
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- Germany • 2014
- Director Ilker Çatak
- Cast Sanem Öge, Özer Arslan, Barış Gönenen, Mustafa Uzunyılmaz, Recep Çata, Saydam Yeniay
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
(Es gilt das gesprochene Wort)
A impersonal marriage arrangement between a Turkish gigolo and a German pilot begins to develop into something deeper.
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- Germany, France • 2019
- Director Ilker Çatak
- Cast Anne Ratte-Polle, Ogulcan Arman Uslu, Godehard Giese, Jörg Schüttauf, Johanna Polley, Sebastian Urzendowsky
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.