What are your favorite german films?

EatSleepJeep · 2 years

Das Boot. The best submarine film of them all.

BadgerNose · 2 years

Metropolis

frankrizzo1 · 2 years

Downfall.

Varney · 2 years

The Lives of Others

Allakhellboy · 2 years

M

I'm surprised there's no M love already, IMHO it's Fritz Lang's masterpiece.

Conboy · 2 years

Wings of Desire

BoGD · 2 years

Goodbye Lenin

draxter · 2 years

Gegen die Wand (German/Turkish). Awesome film.

fozzymandias · 2 years

The best German directors are widely considered to be GW Pabst, RW Fassbinder, Michael Haneke, Fritz Lang, FW Murnau, Wim Wenders, and Werner Herzog.

parcivale · 2 years

While I really enjoyed 'The Lives of Others', 'Fitzcarraldo', and 'Das Boot' I very recently saw the Werner Herzog documentary of his relationship with Klaus Kinski,'My Best Fiend.' And for now, that's my favourite.

Spacedoubt · 2 years

Run Lola Run

jnns · 2 years

Muxmäuschenstill

NOLIESDOITELL · 2 years

The white ribbon!?!?!?

Carrotman · 2 years

Das Experiment

jnns · 2 years

Funny Games (actually an Austrian film)

noer86 · 2 years

Check out anything by Werner Herzog and you'll be good to go. I highly recommend Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu or Woyzeck. Also look up some of Fritz Lang's early work before he moved to America, like M and Metropolis.

room23 · 2 years

Requiem

Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage

nessi · 2 years

Just watched The Baader Meinhof Complex and liked it a lot. The version I saw had really poor subtitles, though. To the point that it actually misrepresented some political statements the characters made.

I also really liked: Black Box BRD (like the above about the Baader-Meinhoff group), Aimée und Jaguar (about a lesbian couple in Berlin during the Nazi era; it's also a very pretty movie), Jenseits der Stille (about a girl who grows up with deaf parents), Männerpension (comedy), Stalingrad, Schtonk! (funny satire about the Hitler Diaries hoax), Kleine Haie (comedy), Herbstmilch (about the life of a Bavarian farm life), Hitlerjunge Salomon, Die weiße Rose (about the Scholl resistance group), Der Name der Rose (movie after Umbero Eco's famous book, historical).

winkyburger · 2 years

Das Boot, Woyzech, M, Aguirre, Weisse Band, Downfall. Many more, but those spring to mind.

gladpack99 · 2 years

The Edukators

privacyfilter · 2 years

Revanche (2008) (Austrian)

The_Gecko · 2 years

Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, and Downfall.

giant_squid · 2 years

The Tin Drum

Franz_Kafka · 2 years

Fitzcaralldo

soothslayer · 2 years

Die unendliche Geschichte

MonsieurA · 2 years

Nirgendwo in Afrika - Awesome story about a Jewish family escaping from Nazi Germany.

eatthemenu · 2 years

The enigma of Kasper Hauser.

omgChubbs · 2 years

Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo - 1981 - Based on a true story

Berlin Calling - 2008

giant_squid · 2 years

Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot

Komm, süßer Tod; Silentium and Der Knochenmann (Austrian)

Cornwallis · 2 years

Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari

[deleted] · 2 years

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

jnns · 2 years

The White Sound

jnns · 2 years

The Deathmaker

[deleted] · 2 years

Wings of Desire, Das Boot

VonTurbo · 2 years

What To Do In Case Of Fire has anybody else seen it?

jerry_parker · 2 years

you have to check out movies by rainer werner fassbinder, he was a genius "angst essen seele auf" is a good start http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071141/

ReallyLongLake · 2 years

Just watched American Friend a few days ago. It's good.

CaptInsane · 2 years

Mostly Martha, Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)

nephros · 2 years

Not my favorites, but they're good and haven't been mentioned here yet:

Hitlerjunge Salomon

Stalingrad

Lammbock

Nacktschnecken (Austrian)

spike · 2 years

Pandora's Box

wiriamou · 2 years

Der Baeder-Meinhof Complex

Jazzbandrew · 2 years

Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiter) (2007)

javo93 · 2 years

All quiet on the western front.

ArbyL · 2 years

Stroszek

mastermrt · 2 years

I love that one where Hitler finds out he's been banned from Xbox Live.

amethystpurple · 2 years

Triump of the Will

tinhat · 2 years

Hogan's Heros.

MrGoodbytes · 2 years

German Goo Girls?

a_flaky_croissant · 2 years

Definitely not Phantom der Nacht.

Edit: Oh yeah, Alice in den Städten was really good.

queenofshovels · 2 years

Das Edukators, and What To Do In Case Of Fire

George_Kaplan · 2 years

I enjoyed 'Antibodies' - not my favourite but it deserves a mention.

Les_Ismore · 2 years

Sunrise. Murnau. 'nuf said.

dropastory · 2 years

Im Juli - German romcom, very sweet.

bowling4meth · 2 years

My favourites (in no order):

Die Welle
Der Bader Meinhoff Complex
Das Leben der Anderen
Goodbye Lenin
M
Der Untergang
Kondom des Grauens

That should get you started.

bobored · 2 years

Downfall Tin Drum Run Lola Run

curl7985 · 2 years

A Nations Pride.

ariellecyan · 2 years

"what to do in case of fire"..pretty much anything with til schweiger.

ripitupandstartagain · 2 years

The Goalkeeper's Fear Of The Penalty by Wim Wenders has the best title of any film and is very good but I really like Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr Mabuse

DontNeglectTheBalls · 2 years

Among others posted in this thread (Lola Rennt especially), Four Minutes moved me.

[deleted] · 2 years

I've only seen two. Downfall and Run Lola Run. They're both worth watching.

[deleted] · 2 years

Run Lola Run.

Alexis_ · 2 years

Run Lola Run

More recent, I liked Die Welle and Die Baader-Meinhof Complex

Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo is also a classic. If you want to scare the shit out of your kids and make sure they never do drugs, show them this film :)

terrestrial · 2 years

I thoroughly enjoyed watching "Tuvalu"

Bunnios · 2 years

Nowhere in Africa

DrZudermon · 2 years

Der Todesking

TheAntiRudin · 2 years

Die Siebtelbauern

Metropolis

Moikee · 2 years

Run Lola Run (or Lola Rennt) White Ribbon (Weisse Band) Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Die letzten Tage)

kleinchen · 2 years

Thanks a lot for all the propositions!!

toshu · 2 years

Soul Kitchen
Der Untergang
Good Bye Lenin!
The Wave

nephros · 2 years

Two versions of German Humour*:

Otto

Pappa ante Portas

*) Humour is exceptionally rare in Germans north of Bavaria.

bollverk · 2 years

Post-war German films: Gegen die Wand, Soul Kitchen, Elementarteilchen, Die Welle, Das Experiment and for comedy check the Loriot movies. Pre war: Nosferatu (!!!), Metropolis, Triumph des Willens (major inspiration for Star Wars). And for the fucked up shit: Uwe Boll's Amoklauf, Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik.

xX_p0laris_Xx · 2 years

I don't think it was actually a "German film" as much as it was set in Germany. I swore it was called Swingers but I'll be damned if I can find it.

It was about these kids who liked to swing dance back when it was all but illegal to do so in east germany.

One of the kids ended up joining German army and uncle Tom'd the rest of the kids.

I recall it being a very good movie... I just wish I could remember the name. Hopefully someone else can help us both out with it.

ekki · 2 years

Would these films be interesting for a person that does not understand German? What are the differences between German cinema and Western cinema?

crowleysapple · 2 years

Watch Sommersturm, for drama, Das Boot, for a brilliant warfilm and Der Schuh des Manitu for a hilarious comedy!

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