Best German movies of 2020

Actors : Paula Beer, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz, Franz Rogowski,
Directors : Christian Petzold,

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.

Actors : Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Nina Hoss, Jens Albinus,

Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.

Actors : Andreas Lust, Noah Saavedra, Tonio Schneider, Mala Emde,
Directors : Julia von Heinz,

How far one is willing to go for the sake of one's political commitment.

Actors : Sophia Thomalla, Emily Goss, Frederick Lau, David Kross,
Directors : Cüneyt Kaya,

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

Actors : Oliver Masucci, Katja Riemann, Felix Hellmann, Hary Prinz,
Directors : Oskar Roehler,

The life and the impact of iconic German New Wave director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Actors : Agnieszka Grochowska, Marthe Keller, André Jung, Gottfried Breitfuss,
Directors : Bettina Oberli,

The Polish woman Wanda, 35, looks after Joseph, 70, in his family villa by the lake. She is there for him around the clock and also helps his wife Elsa, 75. The youngest son Gregi, 28, ...

Actors : Lars Eidinger, David Schütter, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Jonas Nay,
Directors : Vadim Perelman,

A young Jewish man pretends to be Iranian to avoid being executed in a concentration camp.

Actors : Darcy Rose Byrnes, Langston Uibel, Pegah Ferydoni, Lisa Vicari, Dennis Mojen,
Directors : Oliver Kienle,

To realize their culinary and boxing dreams, the daughter of a billionaire forms a mutually beneficial alliance with the son of a struggling single mom.

Actors : Wotan Wilke Möhring, Tim Oliver Schultz, Nina Kunzendorf, Cornelia Gröschel,
Directors : Felix Binder,

Tipped by a mysterious tramp, a meek fry cook discovers she has superpowers -- and uncovers an unsavory, vast conspiracy.

Actors : Benny Radjaipour, Eidin Jalali, Banafshe Hourmazdi, Mashid Shariat,
Directors : Faraz Shariat,

Second-generation Irani-German Parvis works at a refugee shelter where he meets brother and sister Irani refugees and develops a tenuous romance with Amon as his friends attempt refugee status.

Actors : Maximilian Anthony, Serge Barbagallo, Leonie Benesch, Peter Beck,
Directors : Vadim Perelman,

1942. Gilles, a young Belgian man, is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is ...

Actors : Lena Urzendowsky, Anja Schneider, Jella Haase, Elina Vildanova, Lena Klenke,
Directors : Leonie Krippendorff,

Berlin-Kreuzberg is Nora's microcosm. Nora, the silent observer, is always tagging along: At parties, at school, at the pool, on rooftops and in apartments. Nora drifts around the ...

Actors : Misel Maticevic, Sandra Hüller, Thomas Mraz, Rainer Bock,
Directors : Visar Morina,

EXIL tells the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who feels discriminated and bullied at work, plunging him into an identity crisis.

Actors : Lavinia Wilson, Lukas Spisser, Anna Unterberger, Elyas M'Barek,
Directors : Ulrike Kofler,

A couple facing fertility issues finds their marriage tested on a vacation to a Sardinian resort - and the family next door only adds to the tension.

Actors : Dominik Warta, Lena Watson, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon,
Directors : Sandra Wollner,

Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

Actors : Julian Looman, Caro Cult, Frederick Lau, Elyas M'Barek,
Directors : Simon Verhoeven,

Milo works as a bartender in Berlin and one night gets to know his dream woman Sunny through a series of coincidences. The two meet for a date, but the perfect romantic evening so far.

Actors : Susanne Gschwendtner, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon, Simon Hatzl,
Directors : Sandra Wollner,

Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

Actors : Sebastian Blomberg, Virginia Kull, Simon Kerrison, Marcus Calvin,
Directors : Johannes Naber,

CURVEBALL tells the grotesque, at times even surreal, true story of how the Iraq war was started based on nothing but fake intelligence and the involvement of the German government and the German secret service.

Actors : Henriette Confurius, Lukás Bech, Jannis Niewöhner, Sabin Tambrea,
Directors : Stefan Ruzowitzky,

Goldmund is to study in the monastery Mariabronn. His father sent him there. There he meets a religious monk named Narcissus. He has subjected himself to a strict life and lives completely ascetically.

Actors : Philipp Droste, David Garzón Bardua, Nura Habib Omer, Frederik von Lüttichau,
Directors : Kevin Kopacka,

After his colleague Schweitzer goes missing during a drug raid, undercover cop Till Hager is tasked with tracking down a mysterious new drug called "Abaddon" - a substance which supposedly drags its users down the deepest depths of hell.