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1. Rush (I) (2013)
R | 123 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 513,829 | Gross: $26.95M
2. GoldenEye (1995)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a secret space based weapons program known as "GoldenEye" is stolen. James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using the weapon.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen
Votes: 270,278 | Gross: $106.60M
3. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 277,675 | Gross: $51.40M
4. Generation War (2013)
TV-MA | 270 min | Action, Drama, History
Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein
Votes: 32,601 | Gross: $0.09M
5. Siberia (2018)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia in search of him, but instead begins a love affair.
Director: Matthew Ross | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Boris Gulyarin, Ashley St. George, Elliot Lazar
Votes: 17,163
6. The Command (2018)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl
Votes: 21,451
7. O.K. (1970)
80 min | Drama, War
A four-man US fire-team on patrol seizes a dying young Vietnamese girl and continue to torture, rape and kill her. One soldier refuses to take part and reports the incident.
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Gustl Bayrhammer, Hartmut Becker, Rolf Castell, Wolfgang Fischer
Votes: 206
8. Titanic (1943)
TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Drama, History
Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down.
Directors: Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 1,806
9. The Bridge (1959)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History, War
In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Volker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht
Votes: 8,654
10. Lo chiamavano Bulldozer (1978)
115 min | Action, Comedy, Sport
After his fishing boat is "periscoped", ex US footballer Bulldozer docks in an Italian port, where local criminals and American soldiers fight each other. Locals discover Bulldozer's talents and challenge the Yanks to a football game.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Bud Spencer, Raimund Harmstorf, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Nando Paone
Votes: 6,028
11. Adorable Sinner (1959)
91 min | Drama, History, Romance
Czar Alexander II meets a schoolgirl called Katia. Realizing that he loves her, he attempts to push her away but to no avail. She becomes his mistress. With Katia's help, Alexander is working on a liberal constitution.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Antoine Balpêtré
Votes: 484
12. Katzelmacher (1969)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas
Votes: 3,098
13. The Story of Vickie (1954)
108 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
England, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven, Magda Schneider, Karl Ludwig Diehl
Votes: 1,102
14. The Mysterious Magician (1964)
95 min | Crime, Mystery
The sister of the criminal named "Hexer" is murdered. Scotland Yard Inspector Higgins believes that the criminal will surface to take his revenge and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, bodies soon start piling up.
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Drache, Sophie Hardy, Siegfried Lowitz
Votes: 1,616
15. Katie Fforde (2010–2021)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The films of the Katie Forde series - these are melodramas and love stories set in Boston and its picturesque coastal surroundings. At the center are modern women with courage and heart.
Stars: Dave Dyshuk, Frank L. Goodyear, Rolf Becker, René Ifrah
Votes: 40
16. Dead Eyes of London (1961)
Not Rated | 104 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Wealthy, heavily-insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Baal, Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 1,312
17. Montana Trap (1976)
94 min | Comedy, Western
Potato farmer, Fritz, moves to Wild West with his fellow German immigrants. Bandits pretending to be Native Americans on the war path besieged them in an attempt to steal some gold.
Director: Peter Schamoni | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Stephen Boyd, Anton Diffring, Friedrich von Ledebur
Votes: 167
18. The Wild Duck (1976)
100 min | Drama
This tragic drama is adapted from a popular Ibsen play about the relationship between a mother, her ego-maniacal husband, and their daughter. The father never approves of anything the daughter does.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, Anne Bennent, Jean Seberg
Votes: 122
19. Im Tal der wilden Rosen (2006– )
90 min | Drama, Romance
The vast, unspoiled Valley of the Wild Roses, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is the scenery for separate stories of Western life, family drama, and romance. People arrive, leave, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Maximilian Werner, Ralf Bauer, Carin C. Tietze, Alexander Wussow
Votes: 65
20. Der Seewolf (1971)
93 min | Adventure, Drama
The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
Stars: Edward Meeks, Raimund Harmstorf, Emmerich Schäffer, Peter Kock
Votes: 733
21. Russendisko (2012)
100 min | Comedy
Following Russian immigrant narrator Wladimir as he and his friends navigate Berlin around the time of German Reunification, Russendisko holds plotlines pertaining to the lives and relationships of himself and those close to him.
Director: Oliver Ziegenbalg | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Friedrich Mücke, Christian Friedel, Peri Baumeister
Votes: 1,803
22. The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War I, Schweik (played by Heinz Rühmann) is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army as soldier, where he is assigned to be an assistent to Lt. Lukas.
Director: Axel von Ambesser | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ernst Stankovski, Franz Muxeneder, Ursula von Borsody
Votes: 648
23. Coffin from Hong Kong (1964)
93 min | Drama, Thriller
A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.
Director: Manfred R. Köhler | Stars: Heinz Drache, Elga Andersen, Ralf Wolter, Sabine Sesselmann
Votes: 115
24. The Forger of London (1961)
93 min | Crime, Drama
A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Karin Dor, Hellmut Lange, Siegfried Lowitz, Mady Rahl
Votes: 628
25. Das schwarze Schaf (1960)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Father Brown tries to solve some murders.
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karl Schönböck, Maria Sebaldt, Siegfried Lowitz
Votes: 668
26. The Girl and the Legend (1957)
90 min | Drama
London, 1730. Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, lives in poverty. When his son Tom steals the original text of Robinsons's forbidden book, the youth of London, led by Maud (Romy Schneider), revolt.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Erich Ponto, Mathias Wieman
Votes: 216
27. Ohm Krüger (1941)
124 min | Biography, War
Rousing biopic of Paul Kruger, the Boer guerilla fighter turned statesman and first president of South Africa.
Directors: Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Votes: 286
28. The Great British Train Robbery (1966– )
104 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
It is the story of the famous British train robbery from the 1960s, told in almost documentary style from the view of the robbers.
Stars: Horst Tappert, Hans Cossy, Günther Neutze, Karl-Heinz Hess
Votes: 219
29. Wasser für Canitoga (1939)
119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Vehicle for the popular Hans Albers, as a confident, cynical engineer in 1905 Canada suspected of trying to sabotage construction of a water project.
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Charlotte Susa, Hans Mierendorff, Hilde Sessak
Votes: 120
30. Der Schnüffler (1983)
91 min | Comedy
The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put him the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert ... See full summary »
Director: Ottokar Runze | Stars: Dieter Hallervorden, Catherine Alric, Tilo Prückner, Anton Diffring
Votes: 440
31. Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
90 min | Drama
"My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.
Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Anna Dammann, René Deltgen, Paul Wegener, Werner Hinz
Votes: 79
32. The Avenger (1960)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.
Director: Karl Anton | Stars: Heinz Drache, Ingrid van Bergen, Benno Sterzenbach, Ina Duscha
Votes: 389
33. Death and Diamonds (1968)
91 min | Action, Thriller
(1968) George Nader. Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Solar, Carl Mohner. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist. Jerry is able to make off with the ... See full summary »
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Silvia Solar, Carl Möhner
Votes: 175
34. Die feuerrote Baronesse (1959)
99 min | Action, Thriller
A British agent is sent in to infiltrate a German atomic laboratory and steal top secret documents. The daughter of a secret service officer aids him.
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Dawn Addams, Joachim Fuchsberger, Wera Frydtberg, Paul Dahlke
Votes: 42
35. Headquarters State Secret (1960)
103 min | Drama
Director: Paul May | Stars: Hans Reiser, Gert Fröbe, Klausjürgen Wussow, Helmut Schmid
Votes: 16
36. Spy for Germany (1956)
102 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
In 1944, Nazi agent Erich Gimpel is summoned by a German general staff that knows it is about to lose the war. This loyal officer is given a last chance mission: to go to the United States ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Martin Held, Nadja Tiller, Walter Giller, Viktor Staal
Votes: 160
37. Deutschlandspiel (2000 TV Movie)
178 min | Drama
Das Deutschlandspiel is a 2-part German TV movie produced 2000. It tells the story of German reunification. In addition to scenes the protagonists of the unification were interviewed. The game scenes are supported by original documents.
Director: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Rudolf Wessely, Udo Samel, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Votes: 120
38. Unter heißem Himmel (1936)
101 min | Adventure
In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain,and a ship is in danger of sinking.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Hans Albers, Lotte Lang, Aribert Wäscher, Eberhard Leithoff
Votes: 35
39. Heroin (1968)
87 min | Crime
Two dead are found and cans of tomato juice filled with heroin are found on a railway embankment outside Berlin. Commissioner Peter Zinn from Customs is charged with the investigation.
Directors: Horst E. Brandt, Heinz Thiel | Stars: Günther Simon, Günter Wolf, Werner Dissel, Walter Lendrich
Votes: 18
40. Im Schatten des Pferdemondes (2010 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama
Veterinarian Eric Gustavson is supposed to heal a traumatized mare on the estate of widow Jane Hamilton. The animal is behaving very aggressively and doesn't even let other horses near her.... See full summary »
Director: Michael Steinke | Stars: Philippe Brenninkmeyer, Catherine Flemming, Suzan Anbeh, Volkert Kraeft
Votes: 28
41. Reichsautobahn (1986)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Hartmut Bitomsky | Stars: Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Fritz Todt, Ernst Vollbehr
Votes: 37
42. Bürgerkrieg in Russland (1967– )
History
Stars: Nikolaj Rytjkov, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Hubert Suschka, Dieter Wagner
Votes: 29
43. Die Affaire Dreyfus (1968– )
280 min | Biography, Drama
Stars: Hartmut Reck, Romuald Pekny, Alexander Kerst, Howard Vernon
Votes: 29
44. Kaiserspiel - Bismarcks Reichsgründung in Versailles (2021 TV Movie)
90 min | History
150 years ago, the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles: a revenge on the defeat of Jena in 1806. From the battle of Sedan in September 1870, ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Twente | Stars: Thomas Thieme, Peter Meinhardt, Hubertus Hartmann, Anna Tenta
Votes: 26
45. Seven Slaps (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Martin | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Alfred Abel, Oskar Sima
Votes: 57
46. Der Uranberg (2010 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, History
Kurt Meinel returns from his Soviet POW camp to his native mining village, hating Hitler enough for wrecking Europe to support the Russian regional occupation commander Bursky, in charge of... See full summary »
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Vinzenz Kiefer, Nadja Bobyleva, Henry Hübchen, Christian Redl
Votes: 62
47. Stresemann (1957)
105 min | Biography, Drama
The efforts of the German Foreign Minister, Gustav Stresemann, to achieve European unity and world peace are shown through the eyes of two young people.
Director: Alfred Braun | Stars: Ernst Schröder, Leonard Steckel, Anouk Aimée, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 57
48. G.P.U. (1942)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Meanwhile a young Baltic couple are caught up in the ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, Marina von Ditmar, Andrews Engelmann
Votes: 74
49. Anschlag auf Baku (1942)
91 min
Competition between the British and the Germans to help the Russians with oil fields around Baku, after the Great War.
Director: Fritz Kirchhoff | Stars: Boris Alekin, Günther Ballier, Paul Bildt, Otto Braml
Votes: 15
50. Die Caine war ihr Schicksal (1959 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama
Director: Hanns Farenburg | Stars: Robert Meyn, Hans Paetsch, Josef Dahmen, Rudolf Fernau
Votes: 19