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 The Chambermaid Lynn, directed by Ingo Haeb.
Join us Sunday, December 10th at 11:00am - 12:00pm PST / 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST / 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST.
Pic of the Week
Pic of the Week
Das Verschwinden
Hans-Christian Schmid · 2017-2017 · Germany, Czech Republic
After 20-year-old Janine disappears without a trace, her mother is the only one who is convinced that something untoward has happened. After filing a police report, she is left to her own devices. Undertaking her own investigation into her daughter's life, she discovered more than she bargained for.
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Popular from Germany
Downfall
(Der Untergang)
April 1945, a nation awaits its... Downfall
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria, Italy • 2004
- Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Cast Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Microsoft Store, Shout! Factory TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Alamo on Demand, Kanopy, Peacock Premium, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV, Peacock, Plex Player
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
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 DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV, fuboTV
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
Run Lola Run
(Lola rennt)
Every second of every day, you're faced with a decision that can change your life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1998
- Director Tom Tykwer
- Cast Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde, Joachim Król
- Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
- Available on DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
The Lives of Others
(Das Leben der Anderen)
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's secret police listened to your secrets.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2006
- Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Cast Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
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 DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
Pagan Peak
(Der Pass)
When a gruesomely staged body is found on a mountain pass in the Alps near the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria • 2019
- Creator Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert
- Cast Julia Jentsch, Nicholas Ofczarek, Dominic Marcus Singer
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Topic, Plex, Plex Player
Deutschland 89
Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2020
- Creator Anna Winger, Jörg Winger
- Cast
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on Hulu
The Empress
(Die Kaiserin)
Elisabeth contends with her obligations as Empress after falling in love with and marrying Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2022
- Creator Katharina Eyssen
- Cast Devrim Lingnau, Philip Froissant, Melika Foroutan, Johannes Nussbaum, Elisa Schlott, Jördis Triebel
- Genre Drama
- 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 Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
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 basic with Ads, Netflix
New from Germany
Chess Story
(Schachnovelle)
An Austrian lawyer trapped in a room by nazis becomes immersed in a game of chess.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria • 2021
- Director Philipp Stölzl
- Cast Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch, Birgit Minichmayr, Andreas Lust, Samuel Finzi, Lukas Miko
- Genre Drama, History, Thriller, War
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
Sea of Shadows
To save the world's smallest whale from extinction, activists must face poachers, cartels, and an illegal multimillion-dollar business.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria, Australia, Germany • 2019
- Director Richard Ladkani
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, YouTube, Disney Plus, Apple TV, fuboTV, National Geographic
Berlin Bouncer
A portrait of Berlin's most famous club bouncers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2019
- Director David Dietl
- Cast Sven Marquardt, Frank Künster, Smiley Baldwin
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video
The Magic Flute
(The Magic Flute – Das Vermächtnis der Zauberflöte)
Join 17-year-old Tim Walker as he travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend a legendary boarding school named for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2022
- Director Florian Sigl
- Cast Jack Wolfe, F. Murray Abraham, Iwan Rheon, Jeanne Goursaud, Amir Wilson, Stéfi Celma
- Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV, Hulu
Faking Hitler
The drama of the fascist conman responsible for forging history and truth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2021
- Creator
- Cast Lars Eidinger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sinje Irslinger, Daniel Donskoy, Ulrich Tukur, Hans-Jochen Wagner
- Genre Drama
- Available on Acorn TV, AcornTV Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Spectrum On Demand
The Audition
(Das Vorspiel)
A violin teacher's dedication to one student borders on obsession.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France • 2019
- Director Ina Weisse
- Cast Nina Hoss, Simon Abkarian, Ilja Monti, Serafin Mishiev, Sophie Rois
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
Los Reyes
The lives of real teens revealed through the eyes of two stray dogs living in a Chilean skatepark.
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- Chile, Germany • 2019
- Director Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy, Apple TV
The School of the Magical Animals
(Die Schule der magischen Tiere)
One day, the teacher at Ida's new school announces that all students will soon have a magical animal. Ida’s magic animal will be the fox, Rabbat.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria • 2021
- Director Gregor Schnitzler
- Cast Emilia Maier, Leonard Artur Conrads, Loris Sichrovsky, Nadja Uhl, Justus von Dohnányi, Heiko Pinkowski
- Genre Adventure, Family
- Available on Freevee, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
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
Paris Calligrammes
In this autobiographical film, contemporary artist Ulrike Ottinger looks back at a formative period in her life and she city where she lived it.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France • 2020
- Director Ulrike Ottinger
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films, Filmforum
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, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
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
Passed by Censor
(Görülmüştür)
By day, Zakir works as a censor at a prison in Istanbul; by night, he is a student in a creative writing course. Then the two worlds collide.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey, Germany, France • 2019
- Director Serhat Karaaslan
- Cast Berkay Ateş, Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Füsun Demirel, Erdem Şenocak, Müfit Kayacan, İpek Türktan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Tubi TV
The Amazing Maurice
A streetwise tomcat acts as the pied piper to a band of rats (and one human kid) and it's all fun and games -- until they run across someone playing a different tune.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States • 2022
- Director Toby Genkel
- Cast Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton, Hugh Bonneville
- Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube, Apple TV, Hulu
Maya
A French war reporter returns to India where he grew up, and reunites with a young girl he once knew.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany • 2018
- Director Mia Hansen-Løve
- Cast Roman Kolinka, Aarshi Banerjee, Alex Descas, Judith Chemla
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, OVID, VUDU Free, YouTube, Apple TV
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.
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- 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
Frozen Planet
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain • 2011
- Creator David Attenborough
- Cast David Attenborough
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Discovery+, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
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, The Roku Channel, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel
The Killing
(Forbrydelsen)
It's Inspector Sarah Lund's last day at work until a dead body is found with links to a local politician.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Norway, Sweden • 2007
- Creator Søren Sveistrup
- Cast Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Hoopla, Topic, Plex, Plex Player
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
The Decalogue
(Dekalog)
A mini-series based on the Ten Commandments set in 1980s Poland.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland, West Germany • 1989
- Creator Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Cast Artur Barciś
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Bridge
(Bron/Broen)
Detectives from neighboring countries must work together on the case of a body found on the Swedish-Danish border.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Denmark, Germany • 2011
- Creator Hans Rosenfeldt
- Cast Sofia Helin, Thure Lindhardt, Mikael Birkkjær, Sarah Boberg, Selma Modéer Wiking, Rafael Pettersson
- Genre Crime, Mystery
- Available on Amazon Video, The Roku Channel, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice, Topic, Plex, , Plex Player
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
Dicte
Newly divorced Danish crime reporter Dicte comes into conflict with the local police over the course of an investigation.
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- Denmark, Sweden, Germany • 2013
- Creator Kasper Barfoed
- Cast Iben Hjejle, Lars Brygmann, Lærke Winther Andersen, Emilie Kruse
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Viaplay, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
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, Hulu
Trapped
(Ófærð)
A small town is trapped after a heavy snowstorm, with a killer hiding among them.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iceland, Denmark, Finland • 2015
- Creator Baltasar Kormákur
- Cast Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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 Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
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
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
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 Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV
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
Das Verschwinden
After her 20-year-old daughter disappears without a trace, her mother undertakes an investigation into her daughter's life, discovering more than she bargained for.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Czech Republic • 2017
- Creator Hans-Christian Schmid
- Cast Julia Jentsch, Elisa Schlott, Stephan Zinner, Golo Euler, Saskia Rosendahl, Nina Kunzendorf
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Apple TV
Deadwind
(Karppi)
Recently widowed detective Sofia Karppi investigates the murder of a woman with ties to Helsinki wind power research firm, Tempo.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Finland, Germany, France • 2018
- Creator Rike Jokela
- Cast Pihla Viitala, Lauri Tilkanen, Mimosa Willamo, Noa Tola, Ville Myllyrinne
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Dogs of Berlin
They're about to cross a line.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2018
- Creator Christian Alvart
- Cast Felix Kramer
- Genre Action & Adventure
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
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
Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle
(Die Dasslers)
Rivals Forever recounts the family saga behind the rise of two global brands, Adidas and Puma.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2017
- Creator
- Cast Christian Friedel, Hanno Koffler, Hannah Herzsprung, Alina Levshin, Ted Otis, John Keogh
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Amazon Video, Hoopla, MZ Choice Amazon Channel
Perfume
(Parfum)
An old group of friends are investigated after one of them is murdered.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2018
- Creator Oliver Berben, Philipp Kadelbach, Eva Kranenburg
- Cast Friederike Becht, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Juergen Maurer, Ken Duken, Natalia Belitski, August Diehl
- Genre Crime
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Pagan Peak
(Der Pass)
When a gruesomely staged body is found on a mountain pass in the Alps near the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria • 2019
- Creator Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert
- Cast Julia Jentsch, Nicholas Ofczarek, Dominic Marcus Singer
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Topic, Plex, Plex Player
Berlin Station
Daniel Miller moves from American to work undercover in Berlin.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, Germany • 2016
- Creator Olen Steinhauer
- Cast Richard Armitage, Rhys Ifans, Richard Jenkins, Michelle Forbes, Leland Orser, Tamlyn Tomita
- Genre Action & Adventure
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, fuboTV, Spectrum On Demand, MGM Plus Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel
Arthur's Law
(Arthurs Gesetz)
Everyone needs a little luck now and then. Even murderers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2018
- Creator Benjamin Gutsche
- Cast Jan Josef Liefers, Martina Gedeck, Nora Tschirner, David Bredin, Ronald Kukulies, Michael Klammer
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
A high school nerd becomes the biggest online ecstasy dealer in Europe in an attempt to win back his ex-girlfriend.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2019
- Creator Philipp Kässbohrer, Matthias Murmann
- Cast Maximilian Mundt, Lena Klenke, Danilo Kamperidis, Damian Hardung, Lena Urzendowsky, Leonie Wesselow
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Departure
An aviation investigator is called in to investigate a plane that vanished over the Atlantic Ocean.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United Kingdom, United States • 2019
- Creator Vincent Shiao
- Cast Archie Panjabi, Christopher Plummer, Kristen Holden-Ried, Jason O'Mara
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Redbox, Peacock Premium
Holiday Secrets
(Zeit der Geheimnisse)
A family reunion at Christmas opens up the past, showing the intimate complexities of one family's history.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2019
- Creator Katharina Eyssen
- Cast Corinna Harfouch, Christiane Paul, Svenja Jung, Leonie Benesch, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Golo Euler
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Before We Die
(Innan vi dör)
Stockholm police inspector Hanna is drawn into her colleague and lover's investigation of a criminal motorcycle gang when he disappears.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Germany, Norway • 2017
- Creator Wilhelm Behrman, Niklas Rockström
- Cast Marie Richardson, Adam Pålsson, Magnus Krepper, Cedomir Djordjevic
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel
The Eddy
A jazz club owner is desperate to pay off his debt.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States • 2020
- Creator Jack Thorne
- Cast André Holland, Joanna Kulig, Amandla Stenberg, Tahar Rahim, Leïla Bekhti, Adil Dehbi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
A Perfect Crime
(Rohwedder)
A docuseries about the unsolved assassination of German politician Detlev Rohwedder.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2020
- Creator Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Christian Beetz
- Cast Oliver Reissig, Beate Malkus, Tom Pilath, Juliane Werner, Peter Miklusz, Alfred Hartung
- Genre Erotic
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Deutschland 89
Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2020
- Creator Anna Winger, Jörg Winger
- Cast
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on Hulu
Barbarians
(Barbaren)
In 9 A.D., a former hostage of Rome unites the oppressed Germanic tribes against the invaders.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2020
- Creator Arne Nolting, Jan Martin Scharf, Andreas Heckmann
- Cast Laurence Rupp, Jeanne Goursaud, David Schütter, Gaetano Aronica, Bernhard Schütz, Eva Verena Müller
- Genre Action & Adventure, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Shadowplay
(Schatten der Mörder – Shadowplay)
An American cop arrives in post-World War II Berlin to fight the violent crimes threatening the city.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Canada • 2020
- Creator Måns Mårlind
- Cast Taylor Kitsch, Michael C. Hall, Nina Hoss, Sebastian Koch, Tuppence Middleton, Logan Marshall-Green
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Turncoat
(Der Überläufer)
During World War II, a young German soldier questions whether his priorities should be to his country or his conscience.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2020
- Creator
- Cast Jannis Niewöhner, Małgorzata Mikołajczak, Leonie Benesch, Rainer Bock, Katharina Schüttler, Bjarne Mädel
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Mhz Choice
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo
(Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo)
Six teenagers fight for their dreams, leaving behind all the problems with parents and teachers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Czech Republic, Italy • 2021
- Creator Annette Hess
- Cast Jana McKinnon, Lena Urzendowsky, Lea Drinda, Bruno Alexander, Michelangelo Fortuzzi, Jeremias Meyer
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video
Around the World in 80 Days
Phileas Fogg, his valet Passepartout, and journalist Abigail Fix attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Italy • 2021
- Creator Ashley Pharoah, Caleb Ranson
- Cast David Tennant, Leonie Benesch, Ibrahim Koma
- Genre Action & Adventure, Family
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Crackle, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel
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
The Billion Dollar Code
A David and Goliath story, with Google as Goliath.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2021
- Creator Robert Thalheim, Oliver Ziegenbalg
- Cast Leonard Scheicher, Marius Ahrendt, Mark Waschke, Mišel Matičević, Lavinia Wilson, Seumas F. Sargent
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Oh Hell
Otherwise known as "Hell," 24-year-old Helene does not have it all figured out. But that won't stop her from trying to live the life she always imagined on her own terms.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2022
- Creator Johannes Boss
- Cast Mala Emde, Edin Hasanović, Salka Weber, Knut Berger, Deborah Kaufmann, Thomas Loibl
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max
Faking Hitler
The drama of the fascist conman responsible for forging history and truth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2021
- Creator
- Cast Lars Eidinger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sinje Irslinger, Daniel Donskoy, Ulrich Tukur, Hans-Jochen Wagner
- Genre Drama
- Available on Acorn TV, AcornTV Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Spectrum On Demand
Queer Eye Germany
Five experts in lifestyle, fashion, beauty, health, and design dazzle a nation and transform lives in this makeover series.
- ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2022
- Creator
- Cast Jan-Henrik Scheper-Stuke, Aljosha Muttardi, Ayan Yuruk, Leni Bolt
- Genre Reality
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
King of Stonks
Can the mastermind behind the most successful FinTech company of all time also be a decent human being?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2022
- Creator Philipp Käßbohrer, Matthias Murmann
- Cast Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Thomas Schubert, Matthias Brandt, Larissa Sirah Herden, Maryam Zaree, Jasin Challah
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Empress
(Die Kaiserin)
Elisabeth contends with her obligations as Empress after falling in love with and marrying Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2022
- Creator Katharina Eyssen
- Cast Devrim Lingnau, Philip Froissant, Melika Foroutan, Johannes Nussbaum, Elisa Schlott, Jördis Triebel
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Swarm
An ecological thriller about the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2023
- Creator Frank Doelger, Frank Schätzing
- Cast Alexander Karim, Cécile de France, Leonie Benesch, Joshua Odjick, Takehiro Hira, Krista Kosonen
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on The CW, Spectrum On Demand
A Thin Line
Twin sisters Anna and Benni are determined cyber activists, bent on exposing environmental crimes, until a hack on a government server goes wrong.
- ✭
- Germany • 2023
- Creator Jakob Weydemann, Jonas Weydemann
- Cast Saskia Rosendahl, Hanna Hilsdorf, Peter Kurth, Sebastian Hülk, Hadewych Minis
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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The Ritchie Boys
They fought their own kind of war.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, Germany • 2004
- Director Christian Bauer
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Chai Flicks, Kanopy, Tubi TV
The Settlers
(המתנחלים)
The history of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and their growth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Israel • 2016
- Director Shimon Dotan
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube
Wadjda
(وجدة)
After a fight with a neighborhood boy, Wadjda attempts to raise money for a bicycle to beat him in a race.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany • 2012
- Director Haifaa Al-Mansour
- Cast Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Algohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf, Dana Abdullilah
- Genre Drama
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
Queen Margot
(La Reine Margot)
Margot is an heiress to the throne amidst both a religious war and the late 16th-century reign of the neurotic, hypochondriac King Charles IX.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy, Germany • 1994
- Director Patrice Chéreau
- Cast Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Pérez, Virna Lisi, Dominique Blanc
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube
Morris from America
The romantic, coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American who just relocated to Germany with his single father.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States • 2016
- Director Chad Hartigan
- Cast Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Lina Keller, Carla Juri, Jakub Gierszał
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, Cinemax Amazon Channel, YouTube, Apple TV
The Vanishing
(Spoorloos)
Has anyone seen this woman?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Netherlands, France, West Germany • 1988
- Director George Sluizer
- Cast Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gène Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Pierre Forget, Bernadette Le Saché
- Genre Horror, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
A Judgement in Stone
(La Cérémonie)
Subservience can be deadly.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany • 1995
- Director Claude Chabrol
- Cast Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, Valentin Merlet
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel
Jackie
I want them to see what they have done to Jack.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Chile, France, United States • 2016
- Director Pablo Larraín
- Cast Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Richard E. Grant
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
The Law
(Tilaï)
When his father takes his promised bride for himself, a man risks everything to continue an affair with his beloved.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, United Kingdom, France • 1990
- Director Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Cast Rasmané Ouédraogo, Ina Cissé, Roukietou Barry, Assane Ouedraogo, Sibidou Sidibe, Moumouni Ouedraogo
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Kanopy
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
(As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 1, O Inquieto)
To avoid being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales of modern Portugal each night.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Portugal, France, Germany • 2015
- Director Miguel Gomes
- Cast Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes, Carloto Cotta, Adriano Luz, Rogério Samora, Maria Rueff
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, Apple TV
Machines
Follow a group of workers inside a giant textile factory in India.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- India, Germany, Finland • 2017
- Director Rahul Jain
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, Metrograph, YouTube, Apple TV
Joyeux Noël
France, 1914: a moment of humanity that made history.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, United Kingdom • 2005
- Director Christian Carion
- Cast Benno Fürmann, Diane Kruger, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Alex Ferns, Dany Boon
- Genre Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
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
The Usual Suspects
While being interrogated by police, a criminal attempts to tell his side of the story while his partners each tell their own in this neo-noir drama.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, Germany • 1995
- Director Bryan Singer
- Cast Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite
- Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Apple iTunes, Vudu, Microsoft Store, FandangoNOW, Redbox, AMC on Demand, DIRECTV
The Strange Little Cat
(Das merkwürdige Kätzchen)
In this family apartment, the mundane is not what it seems.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2013
- Director Ramon Zürcher
- Cast Anjorka Strechel, Jenny Schily, Matthias Dittmer, Luk Pfaff
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
I Was at Home, But...
(Ich war zuhause, aber)
After a 13-year-old disappears for a week and suddenly returns, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Serbia • 2019
- Director Angela Schanelec
- Cast Maren Eggert, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Jirka Zett, Dane Komljen, Thorbjörn Björnsson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Apple TV
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
(Lingui, les liens sacrés)
A single mother goes against the church and the patriarchy to obtain an illegal abortion for her fifteen-year-old daughter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Belgium • 2021
- Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Cast Achouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro, Briya Gomdigue, Saleh Sambo, Mounira Michala
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Vudu, Apple TV, MUBI Amazon Channel, MUBI
Every Man for Himself
(Sauve qui peut (la vie))
The lives of a man and a woman and a prostitute intersect.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Switzerland, West Germany • 1980
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Cécile Tanner, Anna Baldaccini
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Apple TV
News from Home
A female film director explores New York City while enduring demanding letters from her mother.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, France, West Germany • 1977
- Director Chantal Akerman
- Cast Chantal Akerman
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel
Spotlight: Lars Eidinger
Faking Hitler
The drama of the fascist conman responsible for forging history and truth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2021
- Creator
- Cast Lars Eidinger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sinje Irslinger, Daniel Donskoy, Ulrich Tukur, Hans-Jochen Wagner
- Genre Drama
- Available on Acorn TV, AcornTV Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Spectrum On Demand
Cut Off
(Abgeschnitten)
Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2018
- Director Christian Alvart
- Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Lars Eidinger, Fahri Yardım, Niels-Bruno Schmidt
- Genre Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Freevee, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, VUDU Free, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
My Little Sister
(Schwesterlein)
The bond of twin siblings is tested by a diagnosis of leukemia in this poignant Swiss drama.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, Germany • 2020
- Director Stéphanie Chuat
- Cast Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus, Thomas Ostermeier
- Genre
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Apple TV
Clouds of Sils Maria
A veteran actress faces some uncomfortable truths when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Switzerland • 2014
- Director Olivier Assayas
- Cast Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger, Johnny Flynn, Brady Corbet
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, AMC+, Apple TV, Plex Player
Home for the Weekend
(Was bleibt)
When Gitte tells her family that she has recovered after a long mental illness, everyone responds differently, threatening the delicate balance of their relationships.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2012
- Director Hans-Christian Schmid
- Cast Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler, Ernst Stötzner, Picco von Groote, Egon Merten
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, The Roku Channel
Personal Shopper
A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Czech Republic • 2016
- Director Olivier Assayas
- Cast Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Hammou Graïa
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Plex, Tubi TV, , YouTube, Pluto TV, Apple TV, Plex Player, Hulu