Best German movies of 2009

Actors : Lars Eidinger, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka, Birgit Minichmayr,
Directors : Maren Ade,

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.

Actors : Heino Ferch, Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run ...

Actors : Daniel Brühl, Hannah Herzsprung, Henry Hübchen, Kirsten Block,
Directors : Alain Gsponer,

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.

Actors : Sebastian Urzendowsky, Axel Prahl, Robert Gallinowski, Karoline Herfurth,
Directors : Kaspar Heidelbach,

In the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance as it is decided whether or not a Jewish athlete can be a part of the German Olympic team.

Actors : Mirko Lang, Heike Warmuth, Ludwig Blochberger, Julia Jentsch,
Directors : Hermine Huntgeburth,

Ambitious German imperial hussars veteran baron Geert von Instetten takes office as coastal district administrator, hoping to e promoted to the colonies. His childhood love, Luise, married ...

Actors : Lino Banfi, Mina Tander, Maren Kroymann, Christian Ulmen,
Directors : Neele Leana Vollmar,

When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian patriarch. Antonio won't hear of a wedding anywhere else than in Campobello, ...

Actors : Jens Harzer, Stefan Konarske, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, David Kross,
Directors : Detlev Buck,

Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student ...

Actors : Dieter Mann, Robert Gwisdek, Amit Shah, Max Riemelt,
Directors : Frieder Wittich,

The friends Moritz and Dirk get accepted at the TU Darmstadt and leave their small home village in Brandenburg to set out for the big town to study business arithmetic (mathematical economics).

Actors : Alexis Santiago Hernandez, Victor Varnado, Raimund Wallisch, Michael Ostrowski,
Directors : Michael Glawogger,

An episodic comedy that follows the lives of four men living in Vienna.

Actors : Til Schweiger, Stipe Erceg, Jana Pallaske, Luna Schweiger,
Directors : Matthias Emcke,

Marc (Til Schweiger) is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker whose life changes in an instant when he loses his left leg in a hit-and-run accident.

Actors : Michael Mittermeier, Pilar Bardem, Alina Freund, Sami Herzog,
Directors : Stefan Ruzowitzky,

Little Lilly is apprenticed to become the successor of Surulunda the Witch. Based on the internationally best-selling book series.

Actors : Oliver Bröcker, Ronald Zehrfeld, Matthias Schweighöfer, Hinnerk Schönemann,
Directors : Sven Taddicken,

East Fresia 1401: the era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon...

Actors : Maxim Mehmet, Thomas Thieme, Anna Fischer, Felicitas Woll,
Directors : Peter Timm,

Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes...

Actors : Henry Stange, Alexandra Maria Lara, Benno Fürmann, Michael Gwisdek,
Directors : Esther Gronenborn,

This film was inspired by the horrifying and mysterious crimes committed against the Gruber family in 1922 Germany.

Actors : Florian Panzner, Guntram Brattia, Hannah Herzsprung, Cornelius Schwalm,
Directors : Rudolf Thome,

Does love kill? Is it possible to find true love in a world of betrayals? Can a poet who describes love with a matchless vibrant passion find Mr. Right? Pink is a punkpoet. She's young, ...

Actors : Sabine Timoteo, Christian Tramitz, Helmut Köpping, Ulrich Tukur,
Directors : Michael Glawogger,

The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family ...

Actors : Marie Leuenberger, Dominique Jann, Oriana Schrage, Beat Schlatter,
Directors : Micha Lewinsky,

Rahel Hubli is employed as a civil registrar. She hasn't believed in the so-called "love of her life" in ages. But when a childhood friend, Ben, suddenly turns up, Rahel recalls again what ...