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1. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 278,213 | Gross: $51.40M
2. Tatort (1970– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 3,078
3. Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996– )
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two police inspectors and their team from a Bonn-Koeln precinct fight all sorts of criminals they encounter daily on major highways in Germany.
Stars: Erdogan Atalay, Gottfried Vollmer, Niels Kurvin, Dietmar Huhn
Votes: 5,852
4. Eskiya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz (2015–2021)
120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The series tells the life of Hizir Cakirbeyli. It has entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.
Stars: Oktay Kaynarca, Yunus Emre Yildirimer, Ozan Akbaba, Hakan Karsak
Votes: 2,901
5. Head-On (2004)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Güven Kiraç, Zarah Jane McKenzie
Votes: 57,800
6. House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and daughter in a horrendous car accident, a reclusive sexagenarian decides to visit a rather peculiar and secretive brothel.
Director: Vadim Glowna | Stars: Vadim Glowna, Angela Winkler, Maximilian Schell, Birol Ünel
Votes: 387 | Gross: $0.00M
7. Soul Kitchen (2009)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan, Anna Bederke
Votes: 40,498 | Gross: $0.27M
8. A Case for Two (1981–2023)
60 min | Crime, Thriller
German crime series centering around a succession of lawyers and a private investigator and former police officer, who typically team up to clear a client of the lawyer, who is usually an innocent suspect in a murder case.
Stars: Claus Theo Gärtner, Renate Kohn, Paul Frielinghaus, Rainer Hunold
Votes: 816
9. In July (2000)
99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A young, insecure teacher embarks on a journey through Europe to Turkey, where he wants to see a woman again whom he believes to be his fate.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus, Idil Üner
Votes: 22,861
10. Sleepless Night (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld finds his secret life exposed when he and his partner are caught stealing cocaine from a powerful drug dealer, a move that puts his son's life in jeopardy.
Director: Frédéric Jardin | Stars: Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier, JoeyStarr
Votes: 5,112 | Gross: $0.00M
11. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History, Music
Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant ... See full summary »
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Alexander Hacke, Ahmed Ulug, Cem Yegul, Mehmed Ulug
Votes: 6,506 | Gross: $0.07M
12. Auf Achse (1980–1996)
48 min | Adventure, Crime
The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Stars: Manfred Krug, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Nele Mueller-Stöfen, Markus Knüfken
Votes: 349
13. Transylvania (2006)
103 min | Drama
Zingarina, who is two-months pregnant, travels from France to Transylvania with her friend Marie to seek out her lover Milan Agustin that was deported from France. They hire the guide and ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Asia Argento, Amira Casar, Birol Ünel, Alexandra Beaujard
Votes: 2,673
14. Doppelter Einsatz (1994–2007)
90 min | Crime, Drama
The cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police.
Stars: Despina Pajanou, Jürgen Janza, Gerhard Garbers, Jockel Tschiersch
Votes: 65
15. Hürkus: Göklerdeki Kahraman (2018)
113 min | Biography, History, War
Vecihi Hurkus is undoubtedly one of the most important figures of Turkish aviation history. Hurkus who lived between the years 1896-1969, is the first aircraft designer and manufacturer of ... See full summary »
Director: Kudret Sabanci | Stars: Hilmi Cem Intepe, Gizem Karaca, Miray Daner, Bora Akkas
Votes: 1,151
16. Der Fahnder (1984–2005)
50 min | Crime
Der Fahnder was an evening crime series of the ARD.
Stars: Dietrich Mattausch, Dieter Pfaff, Norbert Wartha, Klaus Wennemann
Votes: 243
17. I'm Off Then (2015)
92 min | Comedy
Based on the book "Ich Bin Dann Mal Weg" by Hape Kerkeling, in which the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there.
Director: Julia von Heinz | Stars: Devid Striesow, Martina Gedeck, Karoline Schuch, Annette Frier
Votes: 2,582
18. Schimanski (1997–2013)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A German TV series about Horst Schimanski, a spin-off from the popular TV crime series Tatort.
Stars: Götz George, Denise Virieux, Julian Weigend, Chiem van Houweninge
Votes: 382
19. Krimi.de (2005–2013)
45 min | Crime
Stars: Stefan Tetzlaff, Constantin von der Decken, Dominique Horwitz, Mathilde Bundschuh
Votes: 42
20. Hirsiz Var! (2005)
96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
With the death of a billionaire engaged in illegal practices, his billion-dollar fortune is up for the grabs. As his art collection is being prepared to be sold at an auction, two Turkish ... See full summary »
Director: Oguzhan Tercan | Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Mehmet Ali Erbil, Birol Ünel, Gülse Birsel
Votes: 3,280
21. The Unpolished (2007)
95 min | Drama
Director: Pia Marais | Stars: Ceci Chuh, Birol Ünel, Pascale Schiller, Georg Friedrich
Votes: 416
22. Before Snowfall (2013)
96 min | Drama
A sixteen-year-old boy gets wrapped in plastic, and lowered into a tank truck full of crude oil. That's how Hisham Zaman's long awaited feature film debut begins.
Director: Hisham Zaman | Stars: Abdullah Taher, Suzan Ilir, Bahar Ozen, Ava Abdulsattar
Votes: 599
23. Strangers (II) (2007)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
Directors: Guy Nattiv, Erez Tadmor | Stars: Liron Levo, Lubna Azabal, Abdallah El Akal, Birol Ünel
Votes: 519
24. Deutschland ist... Heim (2019)
Drama
Abdullah, who is trying to provide for his family by working as a taxi driver in Berlin, has serious problems with his fourteen-year-old daughter, Hatice. Abdullah also has a past anger ... See full summary »
Director: Cenk Yengiloglu | Stars: Sibel Kekilli, Jale Arikan, Mehmet Çepiç, Emily Kusche
25. Balko (1995–2006)
45 min | Comedy, Crime
Balko was a comedy crime series that aired on the private channel RTL.
Stars: Ludger Pistor, Armin Krug, Mathias Kniesbeck, Bruno Eyron
Votes: 197
26. Wa(h)re Liebe (1993–2004)
45 min | Talk-Show
The television program Wa (h) re Liebe was regularly aired on VOX on Thursday evenings from 1994 to 2004. The program dealt almost exclusively with topics of sexuality.
Stars: Lilo Wanders, Dolly Buster, Katja Kassin, Till Kraemer
Votes: 52
27. Todesspiel (1997 TV Movie)
177 min | Documentary, Drama, Thriller
Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Hans Brenner, Robert Viktor Minich, Birol Ünel, Sebastian Koch
Votes: 562
28. Kalbin Zamani (2004)
111 min | Drama
In this lush police mystery, the love of three different men for one woman spans five decades and results in one man's death.
Director: Ali Özgentürk | Stars: Hülya Avsar, Halil Ergün, Birol Ünel, Oktay Kaynarca
Votes: 351
29. König der Diebe (2003)
101 min | Drama
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, 10-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West. Caruso... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Fíla | Stars: Lazar Ristovski, Iakov Kultiasov, Katharina Thalbach, Julia Khanverdieva
Votes: 419
30. Valerie (2006)
81 min | Drama
When a photo model gets replaced by a batch of new younger prettier girls, her life of riches melts in front of her eyes and she's forced to live like a homeless person in a parking lot of a high class hotel she once lived in.
Director: Birgit Möller | Stars: Agata Buzek, Devid Striesow, Birol Ünel, Anne Sarah Hartung
Votes: 267
31. Sous les toits de Paris (2007)
98 min | Drama
Beneath the rooftops of Paris - The song is no longer the same. Beneath the rooftops of Paris today, it's sweltering... Above all, when one is very old, or very poor ... Dying slowly in ... See full summary »
Director: Hiner Saleem | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Bénichou, Marie Kremer
Votes: 119
32. Falling (V) (2016)
89 min | Drama, Romance
ASLAN has 24 hours to change the memories his ex, ALMA, has of their life together.
Director: Ana Rodríguez Rosell | Stars: Birol Ünel, Emma Suárez, Gabriel Tineo, Celines Toribio
Votes: 36
33. Brombeerchen (2002)
91 min | Drama
A young couple in search of true love and a real life flee the big city frenzy to Spain and get caught up in an excessive party with drugs, sex, sacred goldfish and a washed-up crook.
Director: Oliver Rihs | Stars: Mina Tander, Robert Stadlober, Birol Ünel, Graham Roberts
Votes: 90
34. My Mother (2001)
86 min | Drama
Anam, age 40, is a traditional Turkish wife and mother who lives with her family in a German city. She works as a cleaner and has made two friends: man-crazy German Rita and superstitious ... See full summary »
Director: Buket Alakus | Stars: Nursel Köse, Tayfun Bademsoy, Najely Chumana, Jülide Girisken
Votes: 71
35. Not a Lovestory (2004)
115 min | Romance, Thriller
Young American Aaron Cobbs comes to Berlin to revenge his now deceased father who was crippled by Mafia boss Morici a long time ago. While Aaron tries to find Morici he falls in love with a... See full summary »
Director: Aaron Allred | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Katinka Härte, Birol Ünel, Errol Trotman-Harewood
Votes: 22
36. Back to Nothing (2016)
90 min | Drama
Congo drifts lonely through the fallow land of the city proclaiming ruin, end and demise. Strasser returns in search of a new home to his wife Luna, who is trailing the old drug dreams of ... See full summary »
Director: Miron Zownir | Stars: Timo Jacobs, Mario Mentrup, Steve Morell, Aljkzindyr Narmer
Votes: 17
37. North Pole: 90° North
Adventure | Pre-production
General Umberto Nobile's 1928 expedition to the North Pole goes awry when the airship Italia crashes on the hostile pack ice. With eight survivors and his dog Titina, Nobile fights for ... See full summary »
Directors: Teresina Moscatiello, Simone Orlandini | Stars: Gary Lewis, Mehdi Nebbou, Götz Otto, Birol Ünel
38. Welcome to Germany (1988)
102 min | Drama
An US-based film director returns from the US to Germany, where he was forced along with other concentration camp prisoners to participate in an Anti-Semitic propaganda film in 1942. He plans to make a documentary on this part of his past.
Director: Thomas Brasch | Stars: Tony Curtis, Katharina Thalbach, Matthias Habich, Karin Baal
Votes: 100
39. Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz (1999–2000)
45 min | Action
Martial arts gym owner Josh - Der Puma - is enlisted by the police to help save the life of his friend Lisa after their negotiations with the bandits who have taken her hostage fail.
Stars: Mickey Hardt, Susanne Hoss, Ercan Durmaz, Armin Dillenberger
Votes: 55
40. Planet Alex (2001)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Berlin Alexanderplatz; within 24 hours, various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the subway shafts, between larger and smaller fates, that slowly but surely become entangled.
Director: Uli M. Schüppel | Stars: Marusha, Marie Zielcke, Nadeshda Brennicke, Baki Davrak
Votes: 63
41. Die Stadtindianer (1994–1996)
45 min | Crime
A new generation of rebellion including petty crimes and Berlin excesses.
Stars: Richy Müller, Rolf Becker, Max Tidof, Michael Trischan
Votes: 19
42. Dealer (1999)
74 min | Crime, Drama
Can is a drug dealer in Berlin. He sees no way to change his situation until his supplier Hakan offers him to run a bar, but then Hakan is shot. Abandoned by his girlfriend Jale, Can is then arrested and sentenced to four years in prison.
Director: Thomas Arslan | Stars: Tamer Yigit, Idil Üner, Birol Ünel, Baki Davrak
Votes: 286
43. Netekim Karakolu (2015)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Yasin Korkmaz | Stars: Bulut Genç, Deniz Sandalci, Samil Mehmet Korkmaz, Sinan Uguz
Votes: 9
44. SK Babies (1996–2003)
45 min | Action, Crime
Stars: Fabian Harloff, Michael Deffert, Türkiz Talay, Raffaello Kramm
Votes: 55
45. Gegen die Wand: Making of (2004 Video)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Against the wall: Making of.
Directors: Yorgos Arvanitis, Türker Süer | Stars: Fatih Akin, Sibel Kekilli, Birol Ünel
Votes: 46
46. Der Clown (1998–2001)
45 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Max Zander, top agent for the international police agency WIPA, battles the forces of crime and stands up for the rights of the little people.
Stars: Sven Martinek, Diana Frank, Thomas Anzenhofer, Volkmar Kleinert
Votes: 692
47. In the Last Moment (2011)
16 min | Short, Drama
We meet three people in different stages of life in three locations in Europe - Provence, Berlin and Oslo. All of them in the moment of their last gasp, and all of them seen through the eyes of Death.
Director: Øystein Stene | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Wenche Foss, Cecilie A. Mosli, Beatrice Murmann
Votes: 30
48. 1989 (2015)
30 min | Short, Drama
The journey of Katrin and her father through Berlin, or better, through his recollection of a city that doesn't exist anymore. A search to fill the voids of his memory confused by ... See full summary »
Director: Francesca Mazzoleni | Stars: Olga Helen Bach, Maria Chiara Giannetta, Eckehard Hoffmann, Birol Ünel
49. Mau Mau (1992)
92 min | Comedy
A couple of stories revolve around the last days of a Berlin strip-club called 'Mau Mau'.
Director: Uwe Schrader | Stars: Marlen Diekhoff, Peter Franke, Catrin Striebeck, Myriam Mézières
Votes: 57
50. 2000 vu par... Une collection internationale (1998–1999)
60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A mini-series of 10 films depicting the approaching turn of the millennium seen from the perspectives of 10 different countries.
Stars: Frédéric Pierrot, Michael Degen, Manfred Zapatka, Catherine Baugué