51. Counterfeiters, The ( Fälscher, Die )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Actors: August Diehl, Karl Markovics, Martin Brambach, Devid Striesow, Veit Stübner, Lenn Kudrjawizki
Plot: In a Nazi concentration camp, several criminals and Jews are mixed together to create numerous foreign currencies in order to fund Germany's war effort. Eventually the moral dilemma of helping the Nazis versus saving themselves begins to take its toll on the prisoners.
52. Europa Europa
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Actors: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski, André Wilms, Ashley Wanninger
Plot: In order to hide his Jewish heritage, a young boy in Nazi Germany joins
the Hitler Youth.
53. Baader Meinhof Complex, The ( Baader Meinhof Komplex, Der )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Uli Edel
Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers, Stipe Erceg
Plot: The roots of the infamous German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction, are traced to the turbulent events of the late 1960s. When a political riot leaves a protester dead and an assassination attempt is made on a left-wing leader, student radicals Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin join forces with journalist Ulrike Meinhof to form a violent faction that turns to bombings, kidnappings, and murder to achieve its goals.
54. Last Laugh, The ( Letzte Mann, Der )
Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher, Olaf Storm
55. Stalingrad
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Actors: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph, Dana Vávrová, Martin Benrath
Plot: In the spring of 1942 German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union, en route to Stalingrad.
56. Lore
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cate Shortland
Actors: Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid, Mika Seidel, Kai-Peter Malina, Ursina Lardi
Plot: The Nazi regime has fallen. As the allies sweep across Germany, Lore and her siblings trek across the country as refugees and learn first-hand the truth they have been told is all a front. Faced with the aftermath of WWII they will have to rely on people - including those they have been told are enemies - in order to survive.
57. Woyzeck
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler, Paul Burian
Plot: In a town, soldier, orderly and husband Woyzeck is an anomaly. He sometimes hears voices and feels disjointed with those around him. His captain treats him as a fool, the local doctor treats him as cruel test subject and his wife often flirts and has affairs. Yet when he finally learns the truth, it will lead to a confrontation based on his increasing madness.
58. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance ( 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls )
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel, Branko Samarovski
Plot: Michael Haneke's final part in his Glaciation Trilogy revolves around 71 scenes involving a recent immigrant, a couple who recently adopted their daughter, a college student and a lonely, old man.
59. Pandora's Box ( Büchse der Pandora, Die )
Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Actors: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Gustav Diessl, Krafft-Raschig
60. Transit
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christian Petzold
Actors: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer
Plot: A man hastily leaves France as the Nazi invasion begins - impersonating a dead author whose papers he happens to possess. Finding himself stuck in Marseilles he meets a young woman trying to find her husband - who just so happens to be the identity of the man he has stolen.
