
List of the latest German movies in 2024 and the best German movies of 2023 & the 2010's. Top German movies to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ & other Streaming services, out on DVD/Blu-ray or in cinema's right now.
New German movies in 2024 in Cinema & on VOD
Top movies up for release in 2024 in cinema and on VODMilk Teeth
CAST: Mathilde Bundschuh, Susanne Wolff & Ulrich Matthes
The rest of the world may no longer exist for all that Skalde. She lives within a rural community that is far from the busier aspects of civilization. But she’s seen as more of an outsider given that her mother was seen as such in their own community. Despite having earned trust within the community, she finds herself fascinated by a mysterious girl from the woods. She forms a new friendship with this other outsider, but it’s a friendship that could jeopardize her status and leave her without a community to call her own. This unorthodox drama of family and identity comes from writer and director Sophia Bösch, with a cast that includes Susanne Wolff and Ulrich Matthes. Read more
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Eine Million Minuten
DIRECTOR: Christopher Doll
CAST: Karoline Herfurth, Tom Schilling & Joachim Król
Times are good for a family living in Berlin. The couple of Vera and Wolf are enjoying raising their five-year-old daughter Nina and one-year-old son Simon. Or at least they would be if it weren’t for the pains that come with trying to balance work and home life. Things only get worse when they discover Nina is having trouble with her motor skills and needs extra help. Nina’s ultimate wish is for a million minutes to enjoy family time uninterrupted by the stresses of work. Will her wish come true? This family drama comes from director Christopher Doll and stars Karoline Herfurth, Tom Schilling, Jónmundur Grétarsson, Hassan Akkouch, and Joachim Król. Read more
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60 Minutes
DIRECTOR: Oliver Kienle
CAST: Emilio Sakraya, Dennis Mojen & Marie Mouroum
A martial arts fighter is willing to face any challenge, but faces his toughest ordeal yet concerning custody of his daughter. To ensure he can still see his daughter, the fighter darts across town to make it on time to her birthday party. But it won’t be an easy trek as he blows off a match to attend this party and ends up making some vicious enemies along the way. This fast-paced action picture chases and fights comes from director Oliver Kienle (Bad Banks, Stronger Than Blood) and co-writer Philip Koch (Tribes of Europa), with a cast that includes Emilio Sakraya, Dennis Mojen, Marie Mouroum, Florian Schmidtke, and Paul Wollin. Read more
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The Heartbreak Agency
DIRECTOR: Shirel Peleg
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A journalist has grown highly skeptical that a lovesick agency can help cure people of the lack of love in their lives. Curious about this organization for his latest article, he intends to expose the operations by visiting with the founder. However, while trying to expose the phoniness of the organization, he may end up falling in love himself and coming face to face with his own romantic problems. This romantic comedy comes from director Shirel Peleg (Kiss Me Kosher) and screenwriters Antonia Rothe-Liermann (The Wall Between Us), Elena-Katharina Sohn, and Malte Welding (Love Again), with a cast that includes Rosalie Thomass and Laurence Rupp. Read more
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Best German movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+ or DVD in 2025
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and the 2010's best rated German movies out on DVD, Bluray or streaming on VOD (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+ & More).Afire
DIRECTOR: Christian Petzold
CAST: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer & Langston Uibel
A group of friends take off for a vacation home near the Baltic Sea. The foursome seek a fun summer but the holiday turns deadly when a forrest fire traps them. With nowhere to run and the flames running hot, tensions mount as the emotions flow and friends turn into enemies. Loaded with passion and desire, the sexual summer drama comes from director Christian Petzold (Undine, Transit) and stars Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, and Enno Trebs. Read more
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Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war
DIRECTOR: Sonja Heiss
CAST: Devid Striesow, Laura Tonke & Arsseni Bultmann
Based on the best-selling novel by Joachim Meyerhoff, this coming-of-age tale centers around a director of a child and adolescent psychiatric clinic and the relationship with his on. The son finds it harder to grow up with such an absent father and emotionally wrecked mother, making things all the more awkward when he gets older and has to deal with the issues that come with being a teenager. Loaded with heartfelt drama and touching moments of understanding, this film adaptation comes from director Sonja Heiss (Hotel Very Welcome, Karma Cowboy) and stars Devid Striesow, Leslie Murphy, Laura Tonke, and Arsseni Bultmann. Read more
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Stella. A Life.
DIRECTOR: Kilian Riedhof
CAST: Paula Beer, Katja Riemann & Lukas Miko
Growing up in Berlin was not easy for Stella considering it was during the time of the Nazi regime. Her ultimate dream is to become a jazz singer but that dream is put on hold when she goes into hiding alongside her parents in 1944. It isn’t long before she is beaten and tortured when threatened by the regime to commit a hideous atrocity. As a shocking and somber contemplation on the horrors of World War II, this war drama comes from director Kilian Riedhof (Der Fall Barschel, Vous n'aurez pas ma haine) and was written by screenwriters Marc Blöbaum, Jan Braren, and Kilian Riedhof. The cast includes Paula Beer, Jannis Niewöhner, and Katja Riemann. Read more
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Cuckoo
DIRECTOR: Tilman Singer
CAST: Hunter Schafer, Jessica Henwick & Dan Stevens
A teenage girl finds herself being placed out of her element when her family forces her to move with them to a resort. While at this resort, she suspects that something is off about this place. The further she digs, the more she comes to understand that something darker lurks under the surface of this resort community. This horror thriller comes from writer and director Tilman Singer (Luz, El Fin Del Mundo, The Events at Mr. Yamamoto's Alpine Residence) and producers Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum. The cast includes the talents of Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csokas, and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey. Read more
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The Zone of Interest
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Glazer
CAST: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller & Medusa Knopf
Just outside the Auschwitz concentration camp, commandant Rudolf Höss plans to create peaceful home life. With his wife Hedwig by his side, he establishes a home and garden where he can settle down and raise a family. But a darkness exists over this peaceful life that resides not too far from the darkness of the concentration camp, where death and despair live. Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin), this historical drama is based on the novel by Martin Amis and features a cast that includes Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Daniel Holzberg, Sascha Maaz, and Max Beck. Read more
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Die Wannseekonferenz
DIRECTOR: Matti Geschonneck
CAST: Philipp Hochmair, Johannes Allmayer & Maximilian Brückner
In the early 1940s, members of the National Socialist Reich government and the SS authorities held a conference. The primary topic of this gathering was to find a final answer to the Jewish question. This secret event, shrouded in mystery, led to the extermination of Jews across Europe, leading to one of the darkest genocides in European history. This historical drama comes from director Matti Geschenneck (In Times of Fading Light) and stars Simon Schwarz, Fabian Busch, and Philipp Hochmair. Read more
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All Quiet on the Western Front
DIRECTOR: Edward Berger
CAST: Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch & Sebastian Hülk
In this classic anti-war tale, World War I changes the lives of young men. One such young man is a German soldier who finds himself distressed by the horrifying experiences he comes to know during this time of great violence. But can one man come to terms with himself during such an uncertain time? Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s revered novel, this historical war picture comes from director Edward Berger and stars Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch, Felix Kammerer, Moritz Klaus, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic, Devid Striesow, and Sebastian Hülk. Read more
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I’m Your Man
DIRECTOR: Maria Schrader
CAST: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens & Sandra Hüller
A Berlin scientist seeks funds for his projects and finds the only way to attain such funds is through a three-week study. The experiment he participates in requires her to live with a humanoid robot for three robots. The robot has been designed to make her happy by providing for her the perfect life. Or is there more to this study than she first thought? Directed and co-written by Maria Schrader (Unorthodox), this Academy Award nominated sci-fi romance stars Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch, Annika Meier, Falilou Seck, Jürgen Tarrach, Henriette Richter-Röhl, and Monika Oschek. Read more
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Human Factors
DIRECTOR: Ronny Trocker
CAST: Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke & Julie Hermann
Written and directed by Ronny Trocker (The Eremites), this intriguing drama takes aim at the nature of class divide. The inciting incident involves a home invasion of a cosmopolitan middle-class family. This event triggers a slew of heated conversations and hidden secrets as the family soon realizes they’re more fragile than they thought when it comes to understanding the world around them. This drama loaded with societal commentary stars the likes of Mark Waschke, Hassan Akkouch, and Spencer Bogaert. Read more
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Undine
DIRECTOR: Christian Petzold
CAST: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski & Jacob Matschenz
Undine Wibeau (Paula Beer) is a historian who finds herself lecturing on the urban development in Berlin. But her life is turned upside down when she discovers that the man she has always loved will be leaving her forever. This troubling development finds a myth of her past coming to life as she is now caught up in a deadly situation. She is then presented with a grim reality of choice: either kill the man she loved or return to the sea from where she once came. Read more
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System Crasher
DIRECTOR: Nora Fingscheidt
CAST: Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch & Gabriela Maria Schmeide
The nine-year-old girl Benni (Helena Zengel) who is exceptionally wild and violent. A mere touch of her face will send her into a frenzy as a result of a childhood trauma. Because of her outbursts, she is thought of to be a system crasher, someone who is destined to fall through the cracks of a society that will fail them. But she may just find a means of coping with the help of the unlikely friendship in the trainer Michael Heller (Albrecht Schuch). This bittersweet and sincere German drama comes from writer/director Nora Fingscheidt. Read more
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The Most Beautiful Couple
DIRECTOR: Sven Taddicken
CAST: Maximilian Brückner, Luise Heyer & Florian Bartholomäi
Liv and Malte are a German couple spending their holidays in Spain. One night, Liv gets assaulted. Afterwards, the couple seem to deal with the trauma surprisingly well, but this changes when Malte runs into one of the perpetrators again. A dark, psychological drama that will stay with you for a couple of days after watching it. – Read more
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Lara
DIRECTOR: Jan-Ole Gerster
CAST: Corinna Harfouch, Tom Schilling & Volkmar Kleinert
On the day of Lara's sixtieth birthday, her son will be playing his debut piano concert. Lara has always supported her son's musical career, but somehow, she doesn't seem to be welcome at the event. Maybe she has pushed her son a little to hard over the years? Read more
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Never Look Away
DIRECTOR: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
CAST: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl
Eight years after the disappointing 'The Tourist', German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ('The Lives of Others') returns with another historical German epic. 'Never Look Away' tells the tale of a talented yet traumatised painter from the DDR and his tyrannical father-in-law with a dubious Nazi past. 'Never Look Away' is three-hour movie, spanning over 30 years. Despite its melodramatic tendencies, it sure makes for some great old-fashioned cinema kicks. Read more
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The Golden Glove
DIRECTOR: Fatih Akin
CAST: Marc Hosemann, Jonas Dassler, Adam Bousdoukos, Margarete Tiesel
Based on a true story, 'The Golden Glove' evolves around Fritz Honka, a notorious German serial killer from Hamburg. Read more
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Western
DIRECTOR: Valeska Grisebach
CAST: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Fragnova
A tense German Drama set in Europe's neighboring countries, mainly in Bulgaria, about a construction site where to communities come to stand at odds with one another. Read more
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Caravan
DIRECTOR: Sebastian Schipper
CAST: Fionn Whitehead Moritz Bleibtreu Claudia Trujillo
After the absolute stunner 'Victoria' (2015), German director Sebastian Schipper is back in 2018 with 'Caravan'. The movie deals with the contemporary European immigrant crisis in a playful way. The story evolves around a British lad who, after being bored for a long time, flees his parents Moroccan resorts and teams up with a Congolese refugee who's looking for a better life in Europe. Together they travel the continent. Read more
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RATING: 90/100
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Aus dem Nichts
DIRECTOR: Fatih Akin
CAST: Diane Kruger Denis Moschitto Numan Acar
Turkish-German director Fatih Akin ('Auf der Anderen Seite', 'Gegen die Wand') returns with a heartbreaking film about a young German mother who loses both her (Muslim) husband and son after a terrorist attack. When it seems like the terrorists are getting away with it, she decides to take matters in her own hands. Read more
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RATING: 79/100
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24 Wochen
DIRECTOR: Anne Zohra Berrached
CAST: Julia Jentsch Bjarne Mädel Johanna Gastdorf
A powerful and unsentimental German drama about a young, happy couple expecting a child. After a few months of pregnancy, the soon-to-be parents discover that their child will be severely disabled, both mentally and psychically. They are now faced with a horrible dilemma. Read more
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RATING: 75/100
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Toni Erdmann
DIRECTOR: Maren Ade
CAST: Sandra Hüller Peter Simonischek Michael Wittenborn
After the modest success of her low key relationship drama 'Alle Anderen', German director Maren Ade returns with one of the most unusual (and brilliant) films we've seen in the last couple of years. Mixing bizarre comedy with gripping drama, 'Toni Erdmann' tells the story of a rebellious old hippie trying to reconnect with his ambitious daughter. As he unexpectedly shows up during a business trip of hers, a very weird series of events is set into motion. Read more
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RATING: 77/100
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Feuchtgebiete
DIRECTOR: David Wnendt
CAST: Carla Juri Christoph Letkowski Marlen Kruse
The story highlights the adventures of a young daughter of a divorced couple, who has a very eccentric view of sexuality and an unusual attitude towards hygiene. Read more
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RATING: 58/100
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Kreuzweg
DIRECTOR: Dietrich Brüggemann
CAST: Lea van Acken Franziska Weisz Florian Stetter
Stations of the Cross tells the story of the radically devote Catholic fourteen year old girl Maria who wants to become a saint. Through fourteen separate chapters (parallel to the fourteen stations Jesus had to pass on his way to Golgotha),we’re witnessing her journey. In line with the austerity of the plot ( in so far there is one), director Brüggeman shot the entire film with a stationary camera. This doesn’t make Stations of the Cross an easy watch per se, but it encourages the audience to contemplate on the film’s thought evoking theme. Read more
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RATING: 75/100
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Oh Boy
DIRECTOR: Jan Ole Gerster
CAST: Tom Schilling Katharina Schüttler Justus von Dohnányi
Jan Ole Gerster’s debut feature film won about every award there is to win in Germany last year. Whether it received a little bit too much praise or not is debatable, but yet it’s hard to deny that Oh Boy is refreshing debut. In my local cinema it was released in the same week as Noah Baumbach’s excellent Frances Ha. And indeed these two films would make a nice double bill. Both films, shot in black and white and clearly paying homage to Woody Allen’s Manhattan, deal with restless, self-centered twentysomethings who seem to drown in modern day’s first world problems. Read more
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RATING: 74/100
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Zwei Leben
DIRECTOR: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann
CAST: Juliane Köhler Liv Ullmann Sven Nordin
Katrine, in her fifties and happily married, lives in Norway after she managed to escape the GDR’s iron grip in the late sixties. When the Berlin Wall falls in ’89 however, information about her past is about to be released and it becomes clear some things are not quite what they seem. Films like these can be pretty hard to judge on its actual cinematic qualities, since the actual historical happenings are so interesting the film will grasp you attention anyway. Let’s put it this way: the choice to select this film as the German entry for the Best Foreign Film at the Oscars last February was a pretty safe one. Read more
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RATING: 71/100
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Lore
DIRECTOR: Cate Shortland
CAST: Saskia Rosendahl Kai-Peter Malina Nele Trebs
You don’t see that many World War two films from a German’s point of few, which makes this German youth film all the more interesting. The story takes off when the war is over. Lore, fourteen year old, is the daughter of an established Nazi officer who sees herself and her infant siblings forced to flee as her parents become outlaws all of a sudden. As she travels the country by foot, she finds out what exactly was going on the last five years, which makes her question her firm beliefs in the Nazi ideology. An honest and nuanced film with some stunning photography as well. Read more
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RATING: 71/100
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Die Andere Heimat: Chronik einer Sehnsucht
DIRECTOR: Edgar Reitz
CAST: Jan Dieter Schneider Antonia Bill Maximilian Scheidt
A prequel to Reitz’ much acclaimed and utterly ambitious Heimat trilogy, which covers the lives of a few generations of the Simon family, while showing Germany’s tumultuous modern history along their paths. Chronik einer Sehnsucht takes place in 1842, at a time when a lot of Germans from the rural parts of the country emigrated and tried their luck in the America’s. The film’s main protagonist, Jakob Simon, dreams of leaving too. A beautiful and deeply melancholy film about having dreams and not being able to make those come true as people are often too deeply rooted in what they call their heimat. The film takes its time (nearly four hours) and often challenges the viewer, as it is not without flaws, but is extremely rewarding in the end. A stunning and highly authentic look into the lives of nineteenth-century common German villagers. Read more
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RATING: 80/100
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The Strange Little Cat
DIRECTOR: Ramon Zürcher
CAST: Leon Alan Beiersdorf Matthias Dittmer Lea Draeger
The Strange Little Cat is what you call a slow burner. It screened at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2013, but it wasn’t until a couple of months ago before the blogosphere started to pick it up. In this remarkable little gem in the veins of Jacques Tati’s observational humorist films, we follow a middle class German family from dusk till dawn. Nothing much happens and the camera barely leaves the apartment but first time director Zürcher succeeds in showing the mundane in such a way that it becomes absurd. Read more
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RATING: 67/100
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Der Junge Karl Marx
DIRECTOR: Raoul Peck
CAST: August Diehl Stefan Konarske Vicky Krieps
A biographical film about the friendship between young Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the 'founders' of what came to be known as communism. 'Der Junge Karl Marx' is a well-crafted, yet somewhat predictable period drama about the formative years of two of Europe's most influential thinkers. Read more
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RATING: 74/100
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Axolotl Overkill
DIRECTOR: Helene Hegemann
CAST: Jasna Fritzi Bauer Arly Jover Laura Tonke
A gripping coming of age film about Mifti, a sixteen year old girl from Berlin struggling with the death of her mother. When she falls for a older woman who happens to be a white-collar criminal, her life is completely turned upside down. Read more
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RATING: 85/100
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The Conference
DIRECTOR: Matti Geschonneck
CAST: Philipp Hochmair, Johannes Allmayer & Maximilian Brückner
On the morning of 20 January 1942, in a villa on the lakefront of the Wannsee in Berlin, leading members of the Nazi regime came together. The sole topic on the agenda that morning was what the Nazis... Read more
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Transit
DIRECTOR: Christian Petzold
CAST: Franz Rogowski Paula Beer Godehard Giese
In 1942, a German flees to France, assuming the identity of a dead author. Read more
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RATING: 86/100
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