Best German movies of 1990s

Actors : Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Florijan Ajdini, Branka Katic, Bajram Severdzan,
Directors : Emir Kusturica,

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the river Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a ...

Actors : Benno Fürmann, Lars Rudolph, Franka Potente, Joachim Król,
Directors : Tom Tykwer,

Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life, seemingly entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes...

Actors : Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg, Benno Fürmann, Franka Potente,
Directors : Stefan Ruzowitzky,

Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to ...

Actors : Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Actors : August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp,
Directors : Hans-Christian Schmid,

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his inheritance in a flat and a ...

Actors : Helge Schneider, Ulrich Tukur, Wolfgang Hess, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Michael Schaack,

A cat must investigate brutal murders of other cats in a neighborhood he has moved into with his owner.

Actors : Barbara Auer, Bilge Bingul, Richy Müller, Julia Hummer,
Directors : Christian Petzold,

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been searched by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security ...

Actors : Jens Veith, Sandra Borgmann, Sascha Backhaus, Simon Goerts,

The film (the third of the Reding brothers) is about a German teenager following his identity crisis. The boy, transformed by the usual down-trodden socio-economic conditions of ...

Actors : Frank Droese, Arthur Rakk, Toni Blume, Jana Pallaske,
Directors : Esther Gronenborn,

A female teenager witnesses a murder in a desolate high density housing area on the outskirts of Berlin and is henceforth in danger.

Actors : Matthias Kerl, Marc Trinkhaus, Ralf Hess, Mathias Abbes,
Directors : Andreas Schnaas,

Two doctors are trying to stop a rampant epidemic of zombieism. They fend off zombies spilling many a gallon of blood in the process.

Actors : Heiner Lauterbach, Corinna Harfouch, Fritzi Eichhorn, Floriane Eichhorn,
Directors : Joseph Vilsmaier,

Ten years ago Wolf and Sabine Palfy got divorced. Since then their daughter Charlie grew up with her father and her twin sister Louise lived with her mother. They never knew anything about ...

Actors : Hansa Czypionka, Heinz Hoenig, Katja Flint, Herbert Knaup,
Directors : Dominik Graf,

Simon, the "invincible" leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a ...

Actors : Christian Redl, Felix Eitner, Götz George, Jeanette Hain,
Directors : Hermine Huntgeburth,

Zobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of ...

Actors : Edita Malovcic, Tudor Chirila, Nina Proll, Astrit Alihajdaraj,
Directors : Barbara Albert,

Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young ...

Actors : Jasmin Tabatabai, Ulrich Noethen, Heike Makatsch, Marcus Thomas,
Directors : Xavier Koller,

The summerly adventures of Kurt (Tucholsky) and girl friend staying in a Swedish castle whilst the political changes in Germany in the thirties.

Actors : Richy Müller, Nicolette Krebitz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Lars Rudolph,
Directors : Matthias Glasner,

Actors : Ken Duken, Regula Grauwiller, Gregor Törzs, Max Herbrechter,
Directors : Miguel Alexandre,

Three jailers, a wheelchaired man and a mentally handicapped girl climb a mountain in the alps along with their supervisors.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Anna Thalbach, Thomas Heinze, Mathias Gnädinger,
Directors : Hans W. Geissendörfer,

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and...

Actors : Natalie Morse, Ulrich Tukur, George Tabori, Pauline Collins,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from ...

Actors : Jirí Lábus, Ewa Gawryluk, Claudia Vaseková, Vladimír Hajdu,
Directors : Iva Svarcová,

1969, the first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague: 13-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land as though on a completely different planet in the German economic wonderland.