Top 50 German Movies 2021-2022, a list by maik

7.5

/75269/

75

/2757/

74

/1427/

4.2

/360182/

97

/216/

78

/269/

91

/42/

4.0

age 15+

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

83

7.5

/8626/

73

/279/

73

/189/

4.0

/33851/

97

/62/

91

/10/

89

/18/

3.5

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.

82

7.8

/47874/

77

/1023/

72

/265/

3.9

/41794/

97

/103/

88

/76/

82

/22/

3.5

age 14+

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

82

7.3

/754/

75

/50/

72

/6/

3.7

/2271/

100

/55/

79

/9/

88

/18/

4.0

age 11+

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk (Poland) before the beginning of the Shoah.

81

7.2

/6491/

69

/206/

69

/168/

3.8

/15508/

97

/88/

97

/8/

81

/24/

3.5

A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the unresolved fears that have gripped him. He’s also eager to see his ex-lover Csilla and preoccupied about his old father, Otto. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin sliver of apparent understanding and calm.

81

7.4

/108103/

72

/3939/

70

/1450/

3.9

/602172/

91

/361/

74

/222/

93

/60/

4.0

age 15+

As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.

80

7.6

/3445/

75

/185/

76

/49/

3.8

/7471/

99

/88/

87

/11/

76

/20/

3.0

age 15+

Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland. Despite her agency, depth and perspective, O’Connor’s unflinching refusal to conform means that she has often been patronized and unfairly dismissed as an attention-seeking pop star.

80

7.7

/9603/

79

/734/

82

/324/

4.1

/46615/

96

/99/

94

/139/

70

/23/

2.5

age 14+

This documentary offers a deeply intimate look at extraordinary teenager Billie Eilish. Award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler follows her journey on the road, onstage, and at home with her family as the writing and recording of her debut album changes her life.

80

7.3

/1922/

74

/132/

74

/20/

3.5

/1972/

93

/70/

91

/29/

3.5

age 13+

A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

77

7.6

/16159/

73

/777/

72

/214/

3.8

/41229/

93

/123/

89

/121/

2.5

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.

77

7.8

/307535/

77

/10701/

77

/4453/

4.1

/1007201/

90

/177/

90

/610/

76

/37/

2.0

age 16+

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

77

6.9

/8832/

68

/244/

64

/163/

3.6

/36711/

93

/150/

66

/18/

86

/39/

4.0

age 14+

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

76

7.3

/25015/

73

/1417/

71

/277/

3.6

/38992/

96

/24/

85

/37/

2.5

age 15+

A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

76

7.1

/40581/

71

/1738/

70

/740/

3.3

/29620/

100

/8/

82

/106/

age 16+

During WWII's crucial Battle of the Scheldt, the lives of a glider pilot, a Nazi soldier and a reluctant Resistance recruit tragically intersect.

75

7.0

/155064/

71

/7573/

72

/2425/

3.7

/1831202/

93

/218/

83

/195/

76

/39/

2.5

age 17+

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

75

7.1

/14945/

69

/624/

67

/352/

3.5

/30572/

95

/143/

80

/52/

78

/26/

3.0

Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom, a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.

75

6.7

/7143/

68

/462/

68

/192/

3.3

/5141/

86

/69/

78

/25/

71

/16/

4.0

age 15+

Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.

75

6.9

/2752/

66

/69/

62

/57/

3.5

/6826/

100

/26/

65

/6/

81

/10/

3.5

Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.

74

7.4

/39901/

73

/1294/

74

/619/

3.7

/64624/

82

/62/

84

/62/

62

/15/

3.0

age 14+

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.

79

73

7.1

/3532/

70

/214/

69

/270/

3.4

/5167/

100

/19/

98

/53/

Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other choice but to conclude an agreement whose consequences, over the months, will upset the fate of our three characters.

73

6.8

/3303/

67

/112/

66

/159/

3.4

/5481/

91

/69/

74

/4/

68

/21/

3.5

When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life.

73

6.6

/4417/

62

/175/

61

/85/

3.5

/13988/

92

/153/

65

/6/

81

/32/

3.5

age 13+

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.

74

73

6.6

/20357/

69

/995/

67

/424/

3.2

/18187/

100

/5/

78

/48/

age 14+

April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.

72

7.0

/880/

68

/35/

76

/13/

3.4

/2584/

96

/26/

83

/2/

70

/8/

2.0

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist.

71

6.7

/2410/

66

/85/

64

/101/

3.6

/8461/

86

/49/

48

/3/

82

/13/

3.5

At dawn, Clarisse takes a last look at her husband and two sleeping children, hesitates to leave a note, and hits the road. A desperate escape that gradually reveals its layers as Clarisse — who seems to have an extra-sensory connection to the family she has left behind — loses herself in the world.

71

7.2

/211897/

69

/8157/

70

/2690/

3.7

/847700/

72

/285/

80

/71/

63

/47/

3.0

age 15+

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

71

6.6

/11475/

65

/384/

62

/232/

3.6

/50791/

84

/164/

53

/32/

80

/32/

3.5

age 16+

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

70

6.6

/3711/

67

/129/

65

/90/

3.3

/2265/

95

/19/

76

/8/

68

/5/

2.5

1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union.

70

7.5

/70908/

75

/3597/

74

/1226/

3.7

/56951/

75

/219/

85

/191/

53

/35/

2.0

age 16+

The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.

70

6.7

/71572/

69

/5093/

68

/1589/

3.4

/189151/

71

/261/

73

/444/

60

/52/

3.5

age 16+

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.

69

6.4

/263/

70

/4/

59

/12/

3.3

/229/

92

/13/

62

/4/

3.0

A newly retired couple embarks on a cruise, but they find themselves drifting further apart. When things don’t go as planned, they learn to evolve their relationship in this affectionate comedy about self-discovery and developing new ways to spend one’s golden years.

69

6.2

/1672/

61

/69/

61

/43/

3.0

/2663/

71

/21/

99

/4/

66

/5/

3.0

Jewish aesthete Cioma, 21, does not let anyone take away his joy of life, especially not the Nazis. In 1942, he has to find new ways to make his living in Berlin and escape deportation. In the process he discovers his talent for forgery: not only with passports, but also his own identity.

69

6.5

/11334/

63

/328/

60

/238/

3.5

/39565/

85

/158/

59

/47/

76

/35/

3.0

age 15+

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

77

68

Trakt

73

/332/

69

/35/

100

/32/

86

/21/

76

/5/

age 10+

Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan farmer, boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to the most desired and valuable pez dispensers. If he succeeds, he will pull his family out of poverty and finally find a purpose in his mundane life.

68

6.9

/2815/

68

/110/

68

/159/

3.5

/6311/

79

/57/

83

60

/15/

2.0

Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.

68

7.0

/6078/

70

/322/

72

/205/

3.4

/12470/

84

/32/

74

/8/

61

/6/

2.0

age 13+

Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixing rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, this documentary celebrates the legendary Brazilian footballer who personified football as art.

68

6.6

/42850/

69

/2822/

65

/765/

3.1

/51126/

83

/115/

65

/138/

65

/27/

3.0

age 12+

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

68

6.0

/1890/

61

/59/

59

/38/

3.3

/5872/

93

/30/

50

/4/

83

/11/

3.0

Lisa is moving. Upheaval all around: Her mother flirts with a handyman. An eccentric woman seems to be preparing for a glamorous event, a family next door returns from vacation, and a girl documents the adventurous day. As boxes are transported, walls painted white, and furniture is assembled, underlying problems in need of fixing are revealed, a to-do list expands, and desires and needs flair up.

67

6.8

/38993/

68

/1528/

69

/623/

3.4

/38970/

83

/87/

78

/106/

53

/20/

2.0

age 14+

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.

65

5.8

/3614/

57

/220/

55

/54/

3.3

/15770/

85

/93/

49

/19/

79

/26/

3.0

age 17+

At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.

65

6.3

/530/

65

/36/

63

/12/

3.4

/574/

81

/26/

42

/5/

76

/8/

2.5

This provocative consideration of the lasting influence and draw of Hitler provides insight into the resurgence of white supremacy, antisemitism, and the weaponization of history.

65

6.6

/1364/

65

/59/

65

/46/

3.5

/7583/

87

/23/

60

/4/

75

/9/

1.5

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography, and the telegraph are transforming the social order, and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money, and the government are not all but fictions.

68

65

5.5

/5183/

60

/552/

57

/243/

2.8

/7851/

90

/29/

94

/31/

In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Swiss mountain girl Heidi transforms herself into a kick-ass female fighting force who sets out to liberate the country from a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.

65

7.1

/202464/

70

/7839/

73

/3592/

3.9

/987016/

57

/364/

52

/589/

61

/63/

2.5

age 17+

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

65

6.5

/225100/

69

/14648/

73

/6011/

2.7

/269355/

62

/349/

92

/4898/

50

/52/

2.5

age 11+

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

63

6.3

/2894/

60

/109/

57

/98/

3.1

/8602/

76

/58/

54

/3/

63

/19/

3.0

Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema. Several months later, Amir becomes a star. But as soon as he acquires fame, he breaks up with Peter, leaving him alone to face himself.

63

6.5

/4820/

65

/183/

64

/59/

2.7

/4733/

73

/26/

70

/38/

51

/6/