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1. The Aftermath (2019)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.
Director: James Kent | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ned Wills, Pandora Colin, Jason Clarke
Votes: 23,898 | Gross: $1.62M
2. The Golden Glove (2019)
Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Vasiliki Georgina Pseimada, Christine Jensen, Greta Sophie Schmidt
Votes: 18,389
3. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,820 | Gross: $2.22M
4. Baltic Crimes (2014– )
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Crime series set on the German Poland border. Police gain the help of an ex convict, a former prosecutor convicted of murder.. With her experience and help the crimes are solved whilst she deals with family and community issues.
Stars: Katrin Sass, Rainer Sellien, Max Hopp, Rikke Lylloff
Votes: 493
5. Barbara (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke
Votes: 16,037
6. Backbeat (1994)
R | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles' early history.
Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell
Votes: 6,600 | Gross: $2.39M
7. No One's with the Calves (2021)
116 min | Drama
Cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan in Mecklenburg. Their relationship is loveless. Time seems to stand still - until 46-year-old engineer Klaus turns up.
Director: Sabrina Sarabi | Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Rick Okon, Godehard Giese, Andreas Döhler
Votes: 339
8. Großstadtrevier (1986– )
50 min | Crime, Comedy, Drama
The daily lives of police officers in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg.
Stars: Maria Ketikidou, Jan Fedder, Saskia Fischer, Till Demtrøder
Votes: 374
9. North Sea is Dead Sea (1976)
87 min | Drama
Two 14-year-old boys try to escape their oppressive home in a working-class suburb of Hamburg, first by taking a homemade raft and later a stolen sailboat down the Elbe towards the open sea.
Director: Hark Bohm | Stars: Dschingis Bowakow, Uwe Bohm, Marquard Bohm, Herma Koehn
Votes: 468
10. A Thousand Lines (2022)
93 min | Drama
Follows the real-life 2018 fake news scandal involving disgraced Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius.
Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Jonas Nay, Donald Trump, Elyas M'Barek, Colin Kaepernick
Votes: 877
11. Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war (2023)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
Joachim Meyerhoff's autobiographical recollections include his childhood and teenager years living on the premises of a psychiatric clinic, his father being the director of the child and adolescent ward.
Director: Sonja Heiss | Stars: Arsseni Bultmann, Laura Tonke, Devid Striesow, Pola Geiger
Votes: 478
12. Great Freedom No. 7 (1944)
111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The film tells the story of the blond "singing sailor" Hannes Kröger who works in a St. Pauli club on the Große Freiheit 7, and falls in love with a girl. But she prefers his rival Willem and Hannes returns to the sea.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hans Albers, Ilse Werner, Hans Söhnker, Hilde Hildebrand
Votes: 1,046
13. Homevideo (2011 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama
Shy, sensitive gymnasium (high school)-outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy... See full summary »
Director: Kilian Riedhof | Stars: Jonas Nay, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Nicole Marischka, Sophia Boehme
Votes: 1,278
14. Rocca Changes the World (2019)
101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.
Director: Katja Benrath | Stars: Luna Maxeiner, Caspar Fischer-Ortmann, Luise Richter, Leo Knizka
Votes: 587
15. Buddenbrooks (2008)
151 min | Drama
In the 1840s, Lübeck is a dominating commercial town on the Baltic coast, and the Buddenbrooks are among the town's first families. Consul Jean Buddenbrook has two sons, Thomas and ... See full summary »
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Iris Berben, Jessica Schwarz, August Diehl
Votes: 1,569
16. Mittagsstunde (2022)
93 min | Drama
The lecturer Ingwer Feddersen sets up a sabbatical to take care of his parents and moves back to his North Frisian home village of Brinkebüll for a year. There's nothing here anymore as it ... See full summary »
Director: Lars Jessen | Stars: Charly Hübner, Lennard Conrad, Peter Franke, Rainer Bock
Votes: 400
17. Blueprint (2003)
108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The story of the first cloned human being, told in her own words: At age 30, world-famous composer Iris Sellin, who wants to live forever, learns that she has an incurable illness. She ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf Schübel | Stars: Franka Potente, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Ulrich Thomsen, Katja Studt
Votes: 902
18. Effi Briest (2009)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Ambitious German imperial hussars veteran baron Geert von Instetten takes office as coastal district administrator, hoping to e promoted to the colonies. His childhood love, Luise, married ... See full summary »
Director: Hermine Huntgeburth | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Heike Warmuth, Mirko Lang, Ludwig Blochberger
Votes: 888
19. Neues aus Büttenwarder (1997– )
Comedy, Drama
News from Büttenwarder.
Stars: Peter Heinrich Brix, Axel Olsson, Jan Fedder, Sven Walser
Votes: 120
20. Deadly Maria (1993)
106 min | Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
A woman is trying to escape from a depressing life position.
Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Nina Petri, Katja Studt, Juliane Heinemann, Josef Bierbichler
Votes: 1,047
21. Der König von St. Pauli (1998– )
622 min | Crime, Drama
The King of St. Pauli is a six-part television drama by Dieter Wedel.
Stars: Heinz Hoenig, Hilmar Thate, Hans Korte, Oliver Hasenfratz
Votes: 289
22. We Are Next of Kin (2022)
118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The kidnapping of German entrepreneur Jan Philipp Reemtsma is told from his son Johann's perspective.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Claude Heinrich, Adina Vetter, Justus von Dohnányi, Hans Löw
Votes: 194
23. Cowgirl (2004)
84 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs into her childhood sweetheart Max at ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Schlichter | Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Peter Lohmeyer, Gottfried John
Votes: 222
24. The Hamburg Cell (2004 TV Movie)
106 min | Drama, War
A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Karim Saleh, Maral Kamel, Agni Scott, Omar Berdouni
Votes: 837
25. Zwei Münchner in Hamburg (1989–1993)
45 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
Julia Heininger (Uschi Glas) is being transferred by her bank employer from Munich to Hamburg with her son Maximilian and her housekeeper Fanni. Talk about clashes between Bavarians and ... See full summary »
Stars: Uschi Glas, Florian Stubenvoll, Elmar Wepper, Enzi Fuchs
Votes: 84
26. The Swindlers (1959)
132 min | Drama, Romance
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job ... See full summary »
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Belinda Lee, Renato Salvatori, Nino Vingelli
Votes: 618
27. Rocker (1972 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama, Action, Crime
In Hamburg, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a rival gang, a mortal enemy of rocker gangs.
Director: Klaus Lemke | Stars: Hans-Jürgen Modschiedler, Gerd Kruskopf, Michael-Thomas Krannich, Paul Lys
Votes: 440
28. Die Mädels vom Immenhof (1955)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In 1954, after their flight from East Prussia following WWII, orphaned sister Angela, Barbara (Dick), and Brigitte (Dalli) have settled with their Oma (Grandmother) Jantzen near Eutin in ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Angelika Meissner, Heidi Brühl, Christiane König, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 391
29. 12 Paces Without a Head (2009)
108 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy
East Fresia 1401: era of feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end.
Director: Sven Taddicken | Stars: Ronald Zehrfeld, Matthias Schweighöfer, Oliver Bröcker, Hinnerk Schönemann
Votes: 451
30. Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt (2016)
106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Robbi and Tobbi are friends--unusual friends, because Robbi is a little robot. For their adventure travel they construct a perfect vehicle for air, water, and earth: the Fliewatüüt.
Director: Wolfgang Groos | Stars: Arsseni Bultmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Friedrich Mücke
Votes: 248
31. Die Engel von St. Pauli (1969)
102 min | Crime, Drama
In Hamburg's red light district Jule and his mob of macks battle Holleck's competing Viennese clan. When a sex worker is murdered both kingpins join forces to hunt the killer and keep the police from cracking down on their business.
Director: Jürgen Roland | Stars: Horst Frank, Herbert Fux, Werner Pochath, Karl Lieffen
Votes: 140
32. My Brother Simple (2017)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
Ben and Barnabas are inseparable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three.
Director: Markus Goller | Stars: David Kross, Frederick Lau, David Berton, Annette Frier
Votes: 738
33. Hände weg von Mississippi (2007)
98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A girl is staying with her grandparents for the summer, where she meets a horse called Mississippi. Trouble begins when Mississippi is about to be sold, a fight for Mississippi begins.
Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Zoë Mannhardt, Katharina Thalbach, Karl Alexander Seidel, Konstantin Kaucher
Votes: 425
34. Störtebeker (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Adventure
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Alexandre | Stars: Ken Duken, Claire Keim, Gottfried John, Miguel Herz-Kestranek
Votes: 328
35. Süperseks (2004)
95 min | Comedy, Romance, Crime
In order to get money quickly, Elviz founds the first Turkish-language telephone sex hot line in Hamburg, and it's successful.
Director: Torsten Wacker | Stars: Denis Moschitto, Marie Zielcke, Hilmi Sözer, Meral Perin
Votes: 587
36. Peas at 5:30 (2004)
111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A theater director loses his sight in an accident and must learn to live without his eyes. He and the blind woman assigned to help him go on a funny and romantic adventure that will change both their lives.
Director: Lars Büchel | Stars: Fritzi Haberlandt, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Tina Engel, Harald Schrott
Votes: 1,093
37. Otto - Der Außerfriesische (1989)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Otto is the only one who is able to save his Frisian homeland, but he needs the help of his brother, who is abroad. But when his brother does not want to fulfill what he has sworn to do, Otto tries to convince him.
Directors: Marijan David Vajda, Otto Waalkes | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Barbara May, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Volkmar Kleinert
Votes: 2,757
38. Grün ist die Heide (1951)
90 min | Drama
The former landowner Lüder Lüdersen had to flee East Prussia because of the war and is now working as an administrator for his cousin in Lüneburg.
Director: Hans Deppe | Stars: Hans Stüwe, Sonja Ziemann, Otto Gebühr, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 102
39. Der Fall Barschel (2015 TV Movie)
177 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Film about the death of the German politician Uwe Barschel, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his hotel room in 1987, and the surrounding political scandals.
Director: Kilian Riedhof | Stars: Alexander Fehling, Fabian Hinrichs, Matthias Matschke, Antje Traue
Votes: 298
40. Grün ist die Heide (1972)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Norbert inherited a building in the lonesome German heath and now takes two days off to combine an inspection of his new property with a vacation in the relaxing landscape. Two run-down ... See full summary »
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Roy Black, Monika Lundi, Peter Millowitsch, Jutta Speidel
Votes: 99
41. Finkenwerder Geschichten (1986– )
Comedy, Drama, Family
Stars: Alexander Weisswange, Wigand Witting, Gerlind Rosenbusch, Klaus Dittmann
42. Die fremde Frau (2004 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Matthias Glasner | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Tukur, Carola Regnier, Judith Engel
Votes: 128
43. Wacken (2014)
TV-MA | 95 min | Documentary, Music
Artists and attendees of the 24th annual Wacken Open Air festival discuss the impact heavy metal music and the festival itself has had on them.
Director: Norbert Heitker | Stars: Rammstein, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Motörhead
Votes: 409
44. Unsere Hagenbecks (1991–1994)
45 min | Drama, Comedy, Family
The Little Red Hen's quest for a better lunch turns the farm upside-down. Can her friends help? Then, for Hansel and Gretel, a confectionery house owned by a witch is an amazing find, but ... See full summary »
Stars: Tilly Lauenstein, Peter Striebeck, Rainer Rudolph, Franz Josef Steffens
Votes: 16
45. Ein Bayer auf Rügen (1993–1997)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Wolfgang Fierek, Ottfried Fischer, Luise Deschauer, Veronika Fitz
Votes: 37
46. Full Metal Village (2006)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Music
The documentary examines the lives of the residents of a small German village in the Schleswig-Holstein region, Wacken, through a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival.
Director: Sung Hyung Cho | Stars: Uwe Trede, Lore Trede, Klaus H. Plähn, Irma Schaack
Votes: 1,092
47. Pogo 1104 (1984– )
180 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Three young men somehow get together and start a pirate broadcaster.
Stars: Richy Müller, Erich Bar, Ralf Richter, Anja Schüte
Votes: 53
48. St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken (1979–1982)
25 min | Family, Drama
Stars: Rolf Becker, Inge Meysel, Eva Maria Bauer, Gerda-Maria Jürgens
Votes: 53
49. Polizeirevier Davidswache (1964)
97 min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
A couple of days in the life of a police station in Hamburg.
Director: Jürgen Roland | Stars: Wolfgang Kieling, Hannelore Schroth, Günther Ungeheuer, Günther Neutze
Votes: 104
50. Your Children (2016 TV Movie)
130 min | Thriller
Two children disappear without a trace. Their grandfather recognizes similarities with an abduction in the past.
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: Georg Arms, Matthias Brandt, Fabian Busch, Rike Eckermann
Votes: 176