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1. Babylon Berlin (2017– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Lars Eidinger, Fritzi Haberlandt
Votes: 29,987
2. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,409 | Gross: $42.77M
3. Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
TV-14 | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History
A profile of the life of Adolf Hitler with a unique slant, as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National Socialist German Workers Party prior to World War II.
Stars: Peter Stormare, Friedrich von Thun, Peter O'Toole, Zoe Telford
Votes: 23,634
4. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,503 | Gross: $0.03M
5. Pandora's Box (1929)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz
Votes: 11,859 | Gross: $0.01M
6. House of Promises (2022–2023)
45 min | Drama, Romance
Berlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden. They are marked by poverty and crime.
Stars: Naemi Florez, Ludwig Simon, Alexander Scheer, Nina Kunzendorf
Votes: 613
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Not Rated | 931 min | Crime, Drama
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser
Votes: 4,902
8. Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Unrated | 176 min | Drama, Romance
1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Tom Schilling, Albrecht Schuch, Saskia Rosendahl, Michael Wittenborn
Votes: 2,285
9. Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984)
924 min | Drama, History, War
The village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982.
Stars: Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Weigang, Kurt Wagner, Gertrud Bredel
Votes: 3,334
10. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Not Rated | 242 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9,174
11. The Serpent's Egg (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent
Votes: 6,358
12. Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (2023)
TV-MA | 92 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler's rise to power.
Directors: Benjamin Cantu, Matt Lambert | Stars: Robert Beachy, Eren Güvercin, Katrin Himmler, Eli Otto Kappo
Votes: 1,503
13. Hitler: A Career (1977)
Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary, History
This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.
Directors: Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | Stars: Gert Westphal, Stephen Murray, Artur Axmann, General Bergeret
Votes: 3,035
14. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary
This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
Director: Walter Ruttmann | Star: Paul von Hindenburg
Votes: 4,797
15. Three Comrades (1938)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
Votes: 2,078
16. Bauhaus - A New Era (2019)
45 min | Drama, History, Romance
The year is 1919, the Great War is over, and Dörte Helm becomes part of a group of young artists and revolutionaries who evolve from the Lost to the Golden Generation. The series introduces... See full summary »
Stars: August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe, Trine Dyrholm, Valerie Pachner
Votes: 573
17. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance
At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
Directors: Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla
Votes: 3,739
18. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
442 min | Biography, Drama
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels
Votes: 906
19. Asphalt (1929)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to ... See full summary »
Director: Joe May | Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann
Votes: 1,687
20. Why We Fight (1942)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Walter Huston, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, Kai-Shek Chiang, Walter Darré
Votes: 2,409
21. The Hitler Gang (1944)
101 min | Biography, Drama, History
The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film. The ... See full summary »
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Bobby Watson, Roman Bohnen, Martin Kosleck, Victor Varconi
Votes: 170
22. Clash of Futures (2018)
52 min | Drama, History, War
"Clash of Futures" created by Jan Peter and Gunnar Dedio explores the dramatic era of the 1920s and '30s. The eight-part series follows the fates of extraordinary men, women and children ... See full summary »
Stars: Bernt Hahn, Wenzel Banneyer, Hüseyin Michael Cirpici, Tom Jacobs
Votes: 308
23. Fabian (1980)
R | 110 min | Drama
Novel-based story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.
Director: Wolf Gremm | Stars: Hans Peter Hallwachs, Hermann Lause, Silvia Janisch, Mijanou Van Baarzel
Votes: 154
24. Berlin 1933 - Tagebuch einer Großstadt (2023)
Documentary, History
Using extracts from individuals' diaries and some film records, this documentary series tells the story of the changes that occurred in Berlin (and Germany) during the pivotal year of 1933.
Stars: Tobias Büchner, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Sophie Diernberger, August Diernberger
Votes: 72
25. Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933)
87 min | Drama
In the depths of the Great Depression and in the waning days of the crumbling Weimar Republic, a poor Berlin youth is torn between loyalty to his unemployed Communist father and his ever-growing fascination of the Hitler Youth movement.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Heinrich George, Berta Drews, Jürgen Ohlsen, Hermann Speelmans
Votes: 1,822
26. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
71 min | Drama
During Great Depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called Kuhle Wampe.
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer
Votes: 822
27. From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014)
119 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its 'collective spirit' in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Based on celebrated sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's seminal book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947).
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland | Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang, Volker Schlöndorff
Votes: 897
28. Fritz Lang (2016)
TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama
Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.
Director: Gordian Maugg | Stars: Heino Ferch, Thomas Thieme, Samuel Finzi, Johanna Gastdorf
Votes: 378
29. The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
70 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.
Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Hannjo Hasse, Christoph Beyertt, Wolfgang Kalweit, Georg Leopold
Votes: 336
30. Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954)
124 min | Biography, Drama, War
This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti, Erich Franz, Erika Dunkelmann
Votes: 145
31. Jugend ohne Gott (1991 TV Movie)
107 min | Drama
A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi ideals as time goes on.
Director: Michael Knof | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Katrin Martin, Alexander Zschiedrich, Alexander Terhorst
Votes: 53
32. Les Alsaciens: ou les deux Mathilde (1996)
90 min | Drama, History
The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their ... See full summary »
Stars: Caroline Tresca, Catherine Aymerie, Hélène Schwaller, Aurore Clément
Votes: 84
33. Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975 (1976)
302 min | Documentary
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Winifred Wagner, Gottfried Wagner, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Votes: 88
34. Die Konterrevolution (2011 TV Movie)
88 min | History
Germany, 1920. First World War is lost. The peace treaty of Versailles obliges Germany to reduce its army, the "Reichswehr" to 100,000 soldiers. Influencal groups of economists and military... See full summary »
Director: Bernd Fischerauer | Stars: Hans-Michael Rehberg, Michael Rotschopf, Christian Hoening, Michael Roll
Votes: 36
35. Hitler's Coup 1923 (2023 TV Special)
Documentary, History
In 1923, Adolf Hitler led the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to take power in Germany by force. It was a day that changed the world forever, birthing Hitler's regime.
Directors: Dominic Saville, Lyndy Saville | Stars: Giles Milton, Clare Mulley, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Richard John Evans
36. Nacht über Berlin (2013 TV Movie)
108 min | Drama, History
Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social ... See full summary »
Director: Friedemann Fromm | Stars: Anna Loos, Jan Josef Liefers, Sven Lehmann, Claudia Eisinger
Votes: 275
37. Laissez-faire (2015)
80 min | Documentary, History, War
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
Director: Ruggero Arenella | Stars: Stefano Accomo, Giovanni Agnelli, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Salvador Allende
Votes: 14
38. Bauhaus World (2019)
164 min | Documentary, History
How has the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, Germany's best-known art-school, shaped the world we live in today?
Stars: Laura Wilkinson, Annemarie Jaeggi, Claudia Perren, Yinka Ilori
Votes: 12
39. The Sun Island (2017)
89 min | Documentary, Biography
The Sun Island is an essay film using home movies and interviews to document a historic love triangle among architects. Time and place: Frankfurt and Berlin between the wars (1927-1935), during WWII (1940-46) and in the present (2008-2018).
Director: Thomas Elsaesser | Stars: Konrad Elsaesser, Regine Elsaesser, Silvan Linden, Martin Elsaesser
Votes: 6
40. Die gläserne Fackel (1989– )
615 min | Drama, History
Stars: Walter Plathe, Walfriede Schmitt, Renate Blume, Alfred Müller
Votes: 18
41. 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
42.
The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode:
Why Anarchism Will Always Fail
(2017)
18 min | News
Star: Styxhexenhammer666
43. Wonderful Times (1950)
95 min | Documentary
Directors: Erik Ode, Günter Neumann | Stars: Bruno Fritz, Edith Schollwer, Tatjana Sais, Erik Ode
Votes: 28
44. Autumn 1929 - Shadows above Babylon (2020 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary
Autumn 1929: Berlin becomes more and more the scene of political disputes. The world economic crisis intensifies the polarization, even division, of the city. A media mogul allies himself ... See full summary »
Director: Matthias Luthardt | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Fritzi Haberlandt, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Godehard Giese
45. Searching 4-Tabernero (2020)
72 min | Documentary
This is the documented story of Peter Paul Weinschenk, who fled Berlin in 1933 to become Pablo in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and Tabernero in the Argentina of Perón and Evita.
Director: Eduardo Montes-Bradley | Stars: Ricardo Aronovich, Fernando Martín Peña, Felix Chango Monti, Norberto A. García
Votes: 6
46. So wie ein Wunder - Das singende Kino des Herrn Heymann (2012 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Werner R. Heymann, Elisabeth Trautwein-Heymann
47. Swastika: Historian's Introduction (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Biography, History
Stars: Jonathan Petropoulos, Adolf Hitler
48. In Sachen Erzberger gegen Helfferich (1967 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
Director: Paul May | Stars: Helmut Peine, Heinz Weiss, Dieter Borsche, Bettina Schön
Votes: 10
49. Der vergessene Führer: Aufstieg und Fall des Medienzaren Alfred Hugenberg (1982)
146 min | Documentary
The documentary sheds light on the historical role of German industrialist, media mogul and politician Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951). During his tenure as chairman of the board of Krupp AG, ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Heller
50.
Babylon Berlin (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #3.5
(2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rath, Charlotte and Böhm attend Rot's mysterious event. Nyssen visits Helga, who questions her recent actions. Greta returns to court for sentencing.
Directors: Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries | Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch, Lars Eidinger
Votes: 619