German Crime Films

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German Crime Films

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1. Victoria (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

77 Metascore

A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit

Votes: 63,118

2. The Golden Glove (2019)

Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

38 Metascore

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Vasiliki Georgina Pseimada, Christine Jensen, Greta Sophie Schmidt

Votes: 18,234

3. Aus dem Nichts (2016)

90 min | Drama

"From Nothing" - Can non-energy be generated from empty space-off? In the 1920s, Carl Schappeller claims to be able to develop a mechanism -a machine-by means of which a hitherto unexplored... See full summary »

Director: Angela Summereder | Stars: Gottfried Breitfuss, Tim Breyvogel, Toby Grotz, Sabina Holzer

Votes: 301

4. Run Lola Run (1998)

R | 80 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

79 Metascore

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri

Votes: 206,933 | Gross: $7.27M

5. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime

76 Metascore

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz

Votes: 40,111 | Gross: $0.48M

6. The Silence (2010)

Not Rated | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

72 Metascore

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Sass

Votes: 8,167 | Gross: $0.10M

7. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)

Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Crime, Comedy

Two terminally ill patients escape from a hospital, steal a car and rush towards the sea.

Director: Thomas Jahn | Stars: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke, Moritz Bleibtreu

Votes: 33,656 | Gross: $0.00M

8. The Counterfeiters (2007)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, History

78 Metascore

The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach

Votes: 47,169 | Gross: $5.48M

9. Vier gegen die Bank (2016)

96 min | Comedy, Crime

Four men, betrayed by the bank, unite to take revenge.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighöfer, Michael Herbig, Jan Josef Liefers

Votes: 3,509

10. Snowflake (2017)

121 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, the outlaws Tan and Javid find themselves trapped in the wicked fairytale of a mysterious screenplay ... See full summary »

Directors: Adolfo J. Kolmerer, William James | Stars: Reza Brojerdi, Erkan Acar, Alexander Wolf, Loretta Stern

Votes: 1,342

11. Godless Youth (2017)

114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.

Director: Alain Gsponer | Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, Fahri Yardim, Emilia Schüle, Alicia von Rittberg

Votes: 1,889

12. Antibodies (2005)

Not Rated | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

57 Metascore

Wanted for a long time, serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police raid. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him and finds out more than he is looking for.

Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Norman Reedus, Christian von Aster, André Hennicke, Waltraud Witte

Votes: 9,035

13. Daniel the Wizard (2004)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Evil assassins want to kill Daniel Kublbock, the third runner up for the German Idols.

Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Daniel Küblböck, Ulli Lommel, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Katja Rupé

Votes: 14,847

14. Cut Off (2018)

132 min | Action, Crime, Horror

Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Lars Eidinger, Fahri Yardim

Votes: 7,669

15. Ein ganz normaler Tag (2019 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama

Youngsters Kevin and Mike beat up a fellow passenger on a tram. The male victim lies in a coma. There were plenty of witnesses, but no one wants to admit to having seen anything.

Director: Ben Verbong | Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Stephanie Amarell, Béla Gabor Lenz, Joachim Paul Assböck

Votes: 50

16. We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014)

123 min | Crime, Drama, History

People from different walks of life in the German city of Rostock intersect when a rampaging mob besieges a residential building occupied by Vietnamese immigrants.

Director: Burhan Qurbani | Stars: Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Devid Striesow, Joel Basman

Votes: 2,343

17. Asphaltgorillas (2018)

103 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A gangster in Berlin tries to change his fate.

Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Samuel Schneider, Ella Rumpf, Jannis Niewöhner, Kida Khodr Ramadan

Votes: 691

18. Sweethearts (2019)

107 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Forced together by fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery, professional criminal Mel and her easily-panicked hostage Franny are in a race against time. Soon pursued by a relentless ... See full summary »

Director: Karoline Herfurth | Stars: Karoline Herfurth, Hannah Herzsprung, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Frederick Lau

Votes: 1,144

19. Sasha (2010)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Sasha is a piano prodigy under pressure to gain admittance to a prestigious music school. What is really stressing Sasha is his emerging sexuality, plus his piano tutor is moving away, because Sasha is in love with him, and no one knows.

Director: Dennis Todorovic | Stars: Sasa Kekez, Predrag Bjelac, Ljubisa Grujcic, Zeljka Preksavec

Votes: 1,475

20. Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999)

110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.

Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Oliver Korittke, Markus Knüfken, Ralf Richter, Diether Krebs

Votes: 10,824

21. Stereo (I) (2014)

98 min | Crime, Thriller

The appearance of a mysterious, hooded man evokes Erik's sinister past.

Director: Maximilian Erlenwein | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Georg Friedrich

Votes: 5,169

22. The Child I Never Was (2002)

86 min | Crime, Drama

59 Metascore

The true-life story of 19-year-old Jürgen Bartsch, a German pedophile serial killer who murdered four boys, based on his correspondence, over the course of eight years, with German American author Paul Moor.

Director: Kai S. Pieck | Stars: Tobias Schenke, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Ulrike Bliefert, Walter Gontermann

Votes: 645

23. Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)

Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

51 Metascore

Inspired by horrifying true events, Nothing Bad Can Happen follows Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement who falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.

Director: Katrin Gebbe | Stars: Julius Feldmeier, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Annika Kuhl, Gro Swantje Kohlhof

Votes: 2,122 | Gross: $0.00M

24. Gun-Shy (2003)

Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man doing "meals on wheels" instead of ... See full summary »

Director: Dito Tsintsadze | Stars: Fabian Hinrichs, Lavinia Wilson, Johan Leysen, Ingeborg Westphal

Votes: 632

25. Wild Mouse (2017)

103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When Georg loses his job, he conceals the fact from his younger wife Johanna, who wants a child with him. Instead, he embarks upon a campaign of revenge against his former boss and begins to renovate a roller-coaster with an old school friend.

Director: Josef Hader | Stars: Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jörg Hartmann

Votes: 2,855

26. Only God Can Judge Me (2017)

100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a botched robbery attempt five years ago, Ricky went to jail for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif. Now that he is back out of jail, Latif wants to show his gratitude: he says he... See full summary »

Director: Özgür Yildirim | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr, Edin Hasanovic, Peter Simonischek

Votes: 2,421

27. Tatort (1970– )
Episode: Tschiller: Off Duty (2016)

TV-14 | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

German police officer tries to save his daughter from an influence of a vicious crime organization.

Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Til Schweiger, Fahri Yardim, Luna Schweiger, Özgür Emre Yildirim

Votes: 1,771

28. Little Miss Dolittle (2018)

96 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

An 11-year-old girl can talk to animals. When a thief causes trouble at the local zoo, she comes to the rescue.

Director: Joachim Masannek | Stars: Peri Baumeister, Aylin Tezel, Meret Becker, Christoph Maria Herbst

Votes: 565

29. Schutzengel (2012)

130 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.

Director: Til Schweiger | Stars: Numan Acar, Volker Albers, Loyd Bateman, Gode Benedix

Votes: 4,364

30. Not My Day (2014)

Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Bank teller Till Reiners' life is torn out of a rut by a series of offbeat coincidences that ultimately lead him to find himself and realize his life isn't so bad after all.

Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Axel Stein, Jasmin Gerat, Anna Maria Mühe

Votes: 5,012

31. Jargo (2004)

90 min | Crime, Drama

After his father's suicide, 15-year-old Jargo is sent to Berlin from Saudi Arabia. He makes friends with local girl Emilia and petty criminal Kamil, but soon there is tension because both boys fall in love with the pretty Emilia.

Director: Maria Solrun | Stars: Constantin von Jascheroff, Oktay Özdemir, Nora Waldstätten, Udo Kier

Votes: 280

32. A Regular Woman (2019)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

53 Metascore

Aynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Turkish descent, struggles for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers insult and threaten her until she finally reports her oldest brother to the police.

Director: Sherry Hormann | Stars: Almila Bagriacik, Rauand Taleb, Merve Aksoy, Aram Arami

Votes: 2,441

33. Punk Berlin 1982 (2015)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.

Director: Oskar Roehler | Stars: Tom Schilling, Wilson Gonzalez, Emilia Schüle, Frederick Lau

Votes: 714

34. Sauerkrautkoma (2018)

97 min | Comedy, Crime

Franz Eberhofer feels comfortable as a cop in the small Bavarian village of Niederkaltenkirchen. His transfer to Munich is inconvenient for him. But soon a murder case brings him back to his tiny village.

Director: Ed Herzog | Stars: Sebastian Bezzel, Simon Schwarz, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Enzi Fuchs

Votes: 1,988

35. The Robber (2010)

Not Rated | 101 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

65 Metascore

A story based on Johann Rettenberger, an Austrian marathon runner and a bank robber.

Director: Benjamin Heisenberg | Stars: Andreas Lust, Markus Schleinzer, Roman Kettner, Hannelore Klauber-Laursen

Votes: 4,631 | Gross: $0.08M

36. Goldene Zeiten (2006)

134 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Ingo organizes a charity event for the local golf club. Special guest will be the Hollywood star Douglas Burnett. But who remembers what the aging star looks like today?

Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Dirk Benedict, Wolf Roth, Gennadi Vengerov

Votes: 1,190

37. Der freie Wille (2006)

Unrated | 163 min | Crime, Drama

A man is released from a mental institution after serving 9 years for multiple rape.

Director: Matthias Glasner | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, André Hennicke, Manfred Zapatka

Votes: 3,302

38. Tattoo (I) (2002)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

66 Metascore

Two police detectives, a grizzled veteran and one fresh-faced rookie, hunt a ritualistic serial killer murdering people with tattoos and skinning them.

Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: August Diehl, Christian Redl, Nadeshda Brennicke, Johan Leysen

Votes: 3,292

39. Die Tigerin (1992)

R | 83 min | Crime, Drama

It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him ... See full summary »

Director: Karin Howard | Stars: Valentina Vargas, James Remar, George Peppard, Ferdy Mayne

Votes: 117

40. Short Sharp Shock (1998)

99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Gabriel (Mehmet Kurtulus) gets out of jail and is determined to put his criminal past behind him. Yet with his two friends Bobby (Aleksandar Jovanovic) and Costa (Adam Bousdoukos) drawn to crime, will he be dragged back in?

Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Mehmet Kurtulus, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Adam Bousdoukos, Regula Grauwiller

Votes: 5,368

41. Regular Guys (1996)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more ... See full summary »

Director: Rolf Silber | Stars: Christoph M. Ohrt, Carin C. Tietze, Tim Bergmann, Oliver Stokowski

Votes: 1,497

42. Famous Five (2012)

89 min | Adventure, Crime, Family

Five kids and a dog investigate the disappearance of a professor, uncovering a conspiracy involving criminals related to his alternative energy project; they attempt to rescue him from kidnappers.

Director: Mike Marzuk | Stars: Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen, Neele-Marie Nickel

Votes: 807

43. The Murder Farm (2009)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

On a remote farm an entire family is murdered.

Director: Bettina Oberli | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch, Filip Peeters

Votes: 1,134

44. Playmaker (2018)

99 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

Just released from prison, ex-Footballer Ivo gets tangled up in making his way in the world of rigged sports betting and finding love with the mother of his protege player.

Director: Timon Modersohn | Stars: Natalia Avelon, Blerim Destani, Paul Faßnacht, Michael Hansmann

Votes: 729

45. Der Wixxer (2004)

85 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle.

Director: Tobi Baumann | Stars: Oliver Kalkofe, Bastian Pastewka, Thomas Fritsch, Tanja Wenzel

Votes: 9,163

46. Emil und die Detektive (2001)

111 min | Family, Adventure, Comedy

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.

Director: Franziska Buch | Stars: Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla, Jürgen Vogel, Maria Schrader

Votes: 1,246

47. Killing is My Business, Honey (2009)

109 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Enrico Puzzo is an eccentric Italian author who claims he knows the Mafia from inside. Based on these allegations he wrote a book and sold it under a pen name to a German publishing house.

Director: Sebastian Niemann | Stars: Rick Kavanian, Nora Tschirner, Christian Tramitz, Janek Rieke

Votes: 1,436

48. The Passenger (2012)

Unrated | 61 min | Crime, Drama

In the provocative new drama from the director of The Visitor, sexual and moral boundaries are put to the test when a handsome stranger begins to infiltrate the lives of two artists. While ... See full summary »

Director: Tor Iben | Stars: Niklas Peters, Lynn Femme, Urs Stämpfli, Maxim Albert

Votes: 317

49. Der Totmacher (1995)

110 min | Crime, Drama

Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this ... See full summary »

Director: Romuald Karmakar | Stars: Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch, Pierre Franckh, Hans-Michael Rehberg

Votes: 2,348

50. Half Brothers (2015)

117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Julian, Yassin, and Addi have the same mother but different fathers. When they learn about one another's existences, they go on a road trip together in search of their common roots.

Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Sido, Peri Baumeister, Wilson Gonzalez, Manni Laudenbach

Votes: 1,451

51. Hierankl (2003)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Young student Lene is standing at the train station; she must decide whether to take the train back to Berlin where she lives or the one to the Bavarian countryside where her family resides... See full summary »

Director: Hans Steinbichler | Stars: Johanna Wokalek, Barbara Sukowa, Josef Bierbichler, Peter Simonischek

Votes: 369

52. The Pasta Detectives (2014)

97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

The child-duo Rico and Oskar. One is more sluggish but because of fantasy and his own world view; the other is smart but scared of life.

Director: Neele Leana Vollmar | Stars: Anton Petzold, Juri Winkler, Karoline Herfurth, Axel Prahl

Votes: 602

53. Winterkartoffelknödel (2014)

96 min | Comedy, Crime

Crime comedy set in a village somewhere in Bavaria, centering around a village policeman's attempt to solve a murder case, his chaotic private life and the dysfunctional relationship with his wacky father.

Director: Ed Herzog | Stars: Sebastian Bezzel, Simon Schwarz, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Enzi Fuchs

Votes: 2,478

54. The Vexxer (2007)

98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

The Vexxer is back. The notorious criminal mastermind wants to murder seven people in one day. Inspectors Even Longer and Very Long will do everything in their power to stop the Vexxer.

Directors: Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert | Stars: Oliver Kalkofe, Bastian Pastewka, Joachim Fuchsberger, Christiane Paul

Votes: 5,351

55. Tough Enough (2006)

98 min | Crime, Drama

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It's about ... See full summary »

Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: David Kross, Jenny Elvers, Erhan Emre, Oktay Özdemir

Votes: 3,541

56. Snowman's Land (2010)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime

52 Metascore

While protecting a crime boss's home in the Carpathian Mountains, a contract killer and his old friend get into a dangerous situation when the boss's wife is accidentally killed.

Director: Tomasz Thomson | Stars: Jürgen Rißmann, Thomas Wodianka, Reiner Schöne, Eva-Katrin Hermann

Votes: 738 | Gross: $0.00M

57. Rico, Oskar und der Diebstahlstein (2016)

94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Amateur sleuths Rico and Oskar deal with thieves of a valuable stone.

Director: Neele Leana Vollmar | Stars: Anton Petzold, Juri Winkler, Karoline Herfurth, Ronald Zehrfeld

Votes: 255

58. Rewind: Die zweite Chance (2017)

106 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Ex-Police Commissioner Lenders makes a staggering discovery while investigating a murder: one of the victims comes from another time period.

Director: Johannes Sievert | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Sylvia Hoeks, Maximilian von Pufendorf, Idil Üner

Votes: 173

59. Dampfnudelblues (2013)

95 min | Comedy, Crime

'Die, you pig!'. The words are emblazoned on the wall of school principal Höpfl's home for all the villagers to see. Soon after, this very man is found lying dead as a doornail on the train... See full summary »

Director: Ed Herzog | Stars: Sebastian Bezzel, Ilse Neubauer, Eisi Gulp, Simon Schwarz

Votes: 2,882

61. Picco (2010)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Koch | Stars: Constantin von Jascheroff, Joel Basman, Frederick Lau, Martin Kiefer

Votes: 767

62. Trick or Treaters (2007)

Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime

Countryside thieves are won over by a young orphan girl.

Director: Hayo Freitag | Stars: Joachim Król, Bela B., Charly Hübner, Katharina Thalbach

Votes: 898

63. Koxa (2017)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Four Turkish friends who make their living as small time drug dealers in Stuttgart, Germany, get in over their heads when they receive a shipment of Colombian cocaine.

Director: Ekrem Engizek | Stars: Burak Doruk, Hivzo Lekovic, Tito Uysal

Votes: 172

65. Chiko (2008)

92 min | Crime, Drama

Loyalty between two friends is stretched to its limit by one's deception.

Director: Özgür Yildirim | Stars: Denis Moschitto, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volkan Özcan, Reyhan Sahin

Votes: 3,822

66. Banklady (2013)

118 min | Action, Biography, Crime

The sudden transformation of a lower middle class woman who falls in love with a bank robber and soon becomes one herself.

Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Heinz Hoenig, Ken Duken, Nadeshda Brennicke, Charly Hübner

Votes: 844

67. The Peppercorns and the Curse of the Black King (2017)

99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Mia and Benny are two enterprising kids from Hamburg with a passion for investigations. On a trip to the Gruber family farmhouse in southern Tyrol, they discover that the farm has been hit by the Black King's curse.

Director: Christian Theede | Stars: Leo Seppi, Lilly Barshy, Marleen Quentin, Ruben Meiller

Votes: 221

68. Slave (2012)

110 min | Crime, Thriller

Twists and turns as a clever policeman investigates the death of an abusive businessman who has recently divorced his wife and taken custody of their only child, by revealing her past as a ... See full summary »

Director: Jorgo Papavassiliou | Stars: Boris Aljinovic, Lucas Babin, Rosalind Baffoe, Ben Braun

Votes: 34

69. Fünf Freunde 3 (2014)

95 min | Adventure, Crime, Family

The five friends on vacation on an exotic island while diving in a shipwreck exploring around they found a mysterious compass, which is the indication of a pirate treasure, according to the... See full summary »

Director: Mike Marzuk | Stars: Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen, Neele-Marie Nickel

Votes: 458

70. Baader (2002)

115 min | Action, Biography, Crime

Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.

Director: Christopher Roth | Stars: Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Vadim Glowna, Can Taylanlar

Votes: 792

71. Schrotten! (2016)

95 min | Comedy, Crime

Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are... See full summary »

Director: Max Zähle | Stars: Lucas Gregorowicz, Frederick Lau, Anna Bederke, Heiko Pinkowski

Votes: 642

72. Bastard (2012)

100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. Criminal psychologist Claudia notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child, in particular Nikolas' mother, who appears to be hiding something.

Director: Carsten Unger | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Markus Krojer, Antonia Lingemann, Thomas Thieme

Votes: 265

73. Jerry Cotton (2010)

90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers of gangster boss Serrano.

Directors: Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert | Stars: Christian Tramitz, Christian Ulmen, Mónica Cruz, Christiane Paul

Votes: 985

74. Schweinskopf al dente (2016)

TV-G | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

Crime comedy centering around a German village policeman who has to hunt down an escaped killer in his hometown in the backwoods of Bavaria while also chasing after his girl friend who has run off to Italy with another man.

Director: Ed Herzog | Stars: Sebastian Bezzel, Simon Schwarz, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Gregor Bloéb

Votes: 2,129

75. Der Clown (2005)

104 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A crime fighter dressed as a clown has helped out the police. The now retired clown returns when the German gold reserve is robbed by a criminal gang.

Directors: Sebastian Vigg, Roland Leyer | Stars: Sven Martinek, Thomas Anzenhofer, Eva Habermann, Götz Otto

Votes: 649

76. Famous Five 2 (2013)

88 min | Adventure, Crime, Family

The five friends George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dog, go for the first time together on holiday. Without parents they set out on a bike ride that takes them into the legendary Cat ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Marzuk | Stars: Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen, Neele-Marie Nickel

Votes: 540

77. The Devil and Ms. D (1999)

101 min | Comedy, Crime

Psychiatrist Cora is facing a professional crisis as two of her patients have fallen for each other. Stanislaus Nagy visits her practice, a peculiar young man who claims to be possessed by Maria Callas.

Director: Bernd Eichinger | Stars: Til Schweiger, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Christine Neubauer

Votes: 698

78. Hardcover (2008)

88 min | Comedy, Crime

Christopher, 31, tolerably good-looking but frustrated single and proud owner of a little Renault car, is dreaming of a celebrated career as an author. But he is stuck on writing dime ... See full summary »

Director: Christian Zübert | Stars: Lucas Gregorowicz, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Justus von Dohnányi, Anna Dereszowska

Votes: 574

79. Fünf Freunde 4 (2015)

97 min | Adventure, Crime, Family

Bernhard, the father of Julian, Dick and Anne organized an exhibition to Egypt. Here, discover the friends after an attempted burglary an old gold amulet. So they fly with Elena, a ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Marzuk | Stars: Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen, Neele-Marie Nickel

Votes: 389

80. Cowgirl (2004)

84 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs into her childhood sweetheart Max at ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Schlichter | Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Peter Lohmeyer, Gottfried John

Votes: 222

81. Straight Shooter (1999)

Unrated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Bohn | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint, Hannelore Hoger

Votes: 741

82. Nichts als die Wahrheit (1999)

128 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The infamous Dr. Josef Mengele - the "Angel of Death" of Auschwitz, who killed more than 300,000 people - comes back from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man. He must ... See full summary »

Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Kai Wiesinger, Götz George, Karoline Eichhorn, Doris Schade

Votes: 887

83. BitterSüß (2016)

95 min | Crime, Drama

After a 19-year-old argues with her parents, she moves in with her prostitute sister, falls in love with a DJ at a bar, and ends up scared for her life and forced to consider selling her virginity to settle her lover's gambling debts.

Director: Krishna Ashu Bhati | Stars: Lisa Brand, Manuel Cortez, Jessy Moravec, Steffen Jürgens

Votes: 80

84. Jailbirds (1996)

96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Ein weiteres Highlight am deutschen Kinohimmel. Ein Förderprogramm bringt die beiden Knackis Gerd und Steinbock in die Obhut von Frauen. Dort sollen sie beweisen, dass sie in der Lage sind ... See full summary »

Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Til Schweiger, Detlev Buck, Leander Haußmann, Marie Bäumer

Votes: 1,687

85. Der namenlose Tag (2017)

89 min | Crime

The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a "death messenger", now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Thomas Thieme, Devid Striesow, Ursina Lardi, Stephanie Amarell

Votes: 130

86. TKKG und die rätselhafte Mind-Machine (2006)

117 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Four teenage sleuths solve a case regarding abducted children and teenagers and a mind machine.

Director: Tomy Wigand | Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, Jonathan Dümcke, Lukas Eichammer, Svea Bein

Votes: 398

87. Dinosaurier (2009)

105 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Elderly Lena Braake loves her tiny house, but her bank wants the property, so a loan officer talks Lena into a new mortgage.

Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Eva-Maria Hagen, Ezard Haußmann, Walter Giller, Nadja Tiller

Votes: 277

88. The Culpable (2015)

95 min | Crime, Drama

The life and faith of a Catholic prison minister is shaken when his friend and colleague is taken into custody under suspicion of sexual abuse, which drives him to discover the truth.

Director: Gerd Schneider | Stars: Sandra Borgmann, George Tounas, Sebastian Blomberg, Kai Schumann

Votes: 255

89. A Hitman's Solitude Before the Shot (2014)

80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn't had a single hit. Bored and ... See full summary »

Director: Florian Mischa Böder | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Mavie Hörbiger, Wolf Roth, Rolf Berg

Votes: 183

90. Fritz Lang (2016)

TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama

Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.

Director: Gordian Maugg | Stars: Heino Ferch, Thomas Thieme, Samuel Finzi, Johanna Gastdorf

Votes: 377

91. Lautlos (2004)

94 min | Action, Crime, Romance

Viktor, a methodical hit man, probably on his last job, has no plan for his retirement. He does not kill Nina, a woman sleeping beside his latest mark; then he follows her and rescues her ... See full summary »

Director: Mennan Yapo | Stars: Joachim Król, Nadja Uhl, Christian Berkel, Rudolf Martin

Votes: 1,052

92. Stronger Than Blood (2010)

Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama

Fresh out of juvenile prison, Tommy has sworn off the drugs. But when the going gets tough, the only support he finds is from his best friend Sule - who has "the master plan": one last drug deal to finance their own auto body shop.

Director: Oliver Kienle | Stars: Lennart Betzgen, Adrian Meschkat, Anthony Anken, Tan Ipekkaya

Votes: 313

93. Bearkittens (2018)

71 min | Comedy, Crime

Petra is an idealistic social worker and about to enter her favorite place, the forest, with a group of young girls who have to do community service for their misdeeds. Little does she know that this trip will end in disaster.

Director: Lars Henriks | Stars: Stefanie Borbe, Hannah Bortz, Lisa Eschenbrenner, Maren Kraus

Votes: 81

94. Der Räuber Hotzenplotz (2006)

94 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

Children's story about an always-unlucky Highwayman of of the southern-German forests in the late-19th century, featuring witty grammification by the author in, of course, German language.

Director: Gernot Roll | Stars: Armin Rohde, Martin Stührk, Manuel Steitz, Rufus Beck

Votes: 534

95. Rettet Raffi! (2015)

97 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Dr. Henry Wiese went to the Afghan front, his wife Helen, also MD, refused to follow and even threatened with divorce. Kid son Samuel 'Sammi' now clings completely to the hamster Raffi he ... See full summary »

Director: Arend Agthe | Stars: Nicolaus von der Recke, Sophie Lindenberg, Henriette Heinze, Claes Bang

Votes: 214

96. Im Schatten (2010)

86 min | Crime, Drama

Released from prison, a Trojan (Misel Maticevic) begins to plan an armored car robbery with an old friend and a crooked cop.

Director: Thomas Arslan | Stars: Misel Maticevic, Karoline Eichhorn, Uwe Bohm, Rainer Bock

Votes: 683

98. Gravity (2009)

97 min | Crime, Drama

The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives... See full summary »

Director: Maximilian Erlenwein | Stars: Fabian Hinrichs, Jürgen Vogel, Nora Waldstätten, Thorsten Merten

Votes: 846

99. Sisters! Share everything (2017)

92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Ama, Senta and Klara are sisters in their thirties and couldn't be more different. Ama studies medicine, Senta is a dedicated prostitute and Klara is more of a house maker, who desperately ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss | Stars: Margit Bendokat, Hans Brückner, Winnie Böwe, Floriane Daniel

100. Solo for Clarinet (1998)

93 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller

A detective sees a woman flee the scene of a murder but loses her. No one else saw her. He meets the woman and falls in love. Confronting her with his suspicions, he discovers that she, too, is a victim.

Director: Nico Hofmann | Stars: Götz George, Corinna Harfouch, Tim Bergmann, Barbara Auer

Votes: 402



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