Best German movies that are award winners or nominees

The Lives of Others(2006)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.



Toni Erdmann(2016)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.



Revanche(2008)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.



The Shop on Main Street(1965)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that ...