List of German films of 2014 explained

The German film industry produced over four hundred feature films in 2014. This article fully lists all non-pornographic films, including short films, that had a release date in that year and which were at least partly made by Germany. It does not include films first released in previous years that had release dates in 2014.

Also included is an overview of the major events in German film, including film festivals and awards ceremonies, as well as lists of those films that have been particularly well received, both critically and financially.

Major releases

January–June

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Studio	Genre(s)	Ref.
J A N U A R Y	17	Reasonable Doubt	Director: Peter Howitt Cast: Dominic Cooper, Samuel L. Jackson	Dutch FilmWorks	Crime Thriller	^[1]
	19	A Most Wanted Man	Director: Anton Corbijn Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Grigoriy Dobrygin	Entertainment One	Thriller	^[2]
		The Voices	Director: Marjane Satrapi Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver	Lions Gate Entertainment	Horror Comedy	^[3]
	22	Lost in Karastan	Director: Ben Hopkins Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, MyAnna Buring, Noah Taylor, Ali Cook	Brandstorm Entertainment AG	Comedy	^[4]
F E B R U A R Y	1		Director: Marcel Walz Cast: Manoush, Nick Principe, Sarah Hayden, Annika Strauss, Natalie Scheetz, Caroline Williams, Christa Campbell, Jared Demetri Luciano	Boll World Sales	Horror	^[5]
	6	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Director: Wes Anderson Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson, Tony Revolori	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Comedy	^[6]
	7	Jack	Director: Edward Berger Cast: Ivo Pietzcker		Drama	^[7]
		The Lamb	Director: Kutluğ Ataman Cast: Güven Kiraç		Drama	^[8]
		The Monuments Men	Director: George Clooney Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, Cate Blanchett	20th Century Fox	War	^[9]
	8	Beloved Sisters	Director: Dominik Graf Cast: Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius		Biography	^[10]
		Land of Storms	Director: Ádám Császi Cast: András Sütő, Ádám Varga, Sebastian Urzendowsky	TLA Releasing	Drama	^[11]
		Stereo	Director: Maximilian Erlenwein Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu	Wild Bunch	Thriller	^[12]
	9	History of Fear	Director: Benjamín Naishtat Cast: Jonathan Da Rosa		Drama	^[13]
		Pierrot Lunaire	Director: Bruce LaBruce Cast: Susanne Sachsse, Luizo Vega, Maria Ivanenko	Die Lamb	Musical	^[14]
		Stations of the Cross	Director: Dietrich Brüggemann Cast: Hanns Zischler		Drama	^[15]
		Superegos	Director: Benjamin Heisenberg Cast: André Wilms		Drama	^[16]
	10	A Long Way Down	Director: Pascal Chaumeil Cast: Toni Collette, Pierce Brosnan, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots	Lionsgate	Comedy	^[17]
		Age of Cannibals	Director: Johannes Naber	Studio TV Film	Drama	^[18]
		The Dark Valley	Director: Andreas Prochaska Cast: Sam Riley		Western	^[19]
	11	Futuro Beach	Director: Karim Aïnouz Cast: Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuita Barbosa	California Filmes	Drama	^[20]
		Inbetween Worlds	Director: Feo Aladag Cast: Ronald Zehrfeld		Drama	^[21]
	12	Beauty and the Beast	Director: Christophe Gans Cast: Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier	Pathé	Fantasy, Romance	^[22]
		Diplomacy	Director: Volker Schlöndorff Cast: André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup	Gaumont	Historical Drama	^[23]
	18	Pompeii	Director: Paul W. S. Anderson Cast: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland	Constantin Film	Historical Disaster Romance	^[24]
M A R C H	6	Fair Play	Director: Andrea Sedláčková Cast: Vlastina Svátková		Drama	^[25]
		The Judgment	Director: Stephan Komandarev Cast: Assen Blatechki		Drama	^[26]
	27	Amsterdam Express	Director: Fatmir Koçi Cast: Blerim Destani, James Biberi,Natasha Goulden	Film and Music Entertainment	Drama	^[27]
M A Y	15	Mr. Turner	Director: Mike Leigh Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Joshua McGuire, Dorothy Atkinson	Entertainment One	Drama Biography	^[28]
		That Lovely Girl	Director: Keren Yedaya		Drama	^[29]
	16	Amour Fou	Director: Jessica Hausner Cast: Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel, Stephan Grossmann	Coproduction Office	Comedy Drama	^[30]
			Directors: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Menashe Noy, Sasson Gabai, Simon Abkarian	Les films du losange	Drama	^[31]
		Winter Sleep	Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Cast: Haluk Bilginer, Demet Akbağ, Melisa Sözen, Tamer Levent, Nejat İşler	New Wave Films	Drama	^[32]
	18	Jauja	Director: Lisandro Alonso Cast: Viggo Mortensen	NDM	Historical Drama	^[33]
		The Wonders	Director: Alice Rohrwacher Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, André Hennicke, Monica Bellucci		Drama	^[34]
	19	Maps to the Stars	Director: David Cronenberg Cast: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson	Entertainment One	Satire Drama	^[35]
	22	Bridges of Sarajevo	Directors: Aida Begić, Leonardo Di Constanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perišić, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde		Documentary	^[36]
	23	Clouds of Sils Maria	Director: Olivier Assayas Cast: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz	Les films du losange	Drama	^[37]
		White God	Director: Kornél Mundruczó Cast: Zsófia Psotta		Drama	^[38]
J U N E	7	Der Spalt	Director: Kim Schicklang Cast: Marie Fischer, Folker Dücker, Dorothea Baltzer	Schöne Neue Medien	Drama Thriller	^[39]
	12	Madame Bovary	Director: Sophie Barthes Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Paul Giamatti, Ezra Miller, Rhys Ifans	20th Century Fox	Drama	^[40]

July–December

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Studio	Genre(s)	Ref.
J U L Y	2	The Chambermaid Lynn	Director: Ingo Haeb Cast: Vicky Krieps, Lena Lauzemis, Steffen Munster, Christian Aumer, Christine Schorn	Sutor Kolonko	Comedy Horror	^[41]
	6	Memories on Stone	Director: Shawkat Amin Korki Cast: Hussein Hassan		Drama	^[42]
	8	Monument to Michael Jackson	Director: Darko Lungulov Cast: Boris Milivojević		Comedy	^[43]
	9	Corn Island	Director: Giorgi Ovashvili Cast: İlyas Salman		Drama	^[44]
		Corrections Class	Director: Ivan Tverdovskiy Cast: Mariya Poezzhaeva, Filipp Avdeev		Drama	^[45]
	20	Veve	Director: Simon Mukali Cast: Lowri Odhiambo, Emo Rugene, Lizz Njagah		Drama	^[46]
A U G U S T	6	Mr. Kaplan	Director: Álvaro Brechner Cast: Héctor Noguera		Comedy	^[47]
	9	Tour de Force	Director: Christian Zübert Cast: Florian David Fitz		Drama	^[48]
	11	Men Who Save the World	Director: Liew Seng Tat Cast: Wan Hanafi Su, Harun Salim Bachik, Soffi Jikan, Jalil Hamid, Azhan Rani	Everything Films	Comedy	^[49]
		Two Shots Fired	Director: Martín Rejtman Cast: Manuela Martelli		Drama	^[50]
	15	Hector and the Search for Happiness	Director: Peter Chelsom Cast: Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Rosamund Pike, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno, Christopher Plummer	Koch Media	Comedy Drama	^[51]
	22	Shockwave, Darkside	Director: Jay Weisman Cast: Mei Melançon, Bill Sage, Sonequa Martin-Green, Rich Ceraulo, Alexander Cendese		Science Fiction	^[52]
		The Prince	Director: Brian A. Miller Cast: Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, John Cusack, Rain, Jessica Lowndes, Johnathon Schaech, Gia Mantegna, 50 Cent	Lionsgate	Crime Thriller	^[53]
	29	She's Funny That Way	Director: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Aniston	Lionsgate Premiere	Comedy	^[54]
	30	The President	Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Cast: Misha Gomiashvili, Dachi Orvelashvili	Makhmalbaf Film House	Drama	^[55]
		Three Hearts	Director: Benoît Jacquot Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve	Wild Bunch	Drama	^[56]
	31	The Cut	Director: Fatih Akın Cast: Tahar Rahim		Drama	^[57]
S E P T E M B E R	2	A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence	Director: Roy Andersson Cast: Nisse Vestblom, Holger Andersson	Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB	Comedy Drama	^[58]
	3	Sivas	Director: Kaan Müjdeci Cast: Dogan Izci		Drama	^[59]
	4	Maya the Bee	Director: Alexs Stadermann Cast: Coco Jack Gillies, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Joel Franco, Richard Roxburgh, Justine Clarke, Jacki Weaver, Miriam Margolyes, Noah Taylor, Andy McPhee	Shout! Factory	Animation Comedy Adventure	^[60]
		The Valley	Director: Ghassan Salhab Cast: Carol Abboud		Drama	^[61]
	5	Big Game	Director: Jalmari Helander Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Felicity Huffman, Victor Garber, Ted Levine, Jim Broadbent, Ray Stevenson	Entertainment One	Action Adventure	^[62]
	6	Labyrinth of Lies	Director: Giulio Ricciarelli Cast: Alexander Fehling		Drama	^[63]
		Who Am I	Director: Baran bo Odar Cast: Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek		Thriller	^[64]
	7	1001 Grams	Director: Bent Hamer Cast: Ane Dahl Torp, Stein Winge, Per Christian Ellefsen		Drama	^[65]
		Meet Me in Montenegro	Director: Alex Holdridge Cast: Rupert Friend, Linnea Saasen, Jennifer Ulrich, Alex Holdridge	The Orchard	Romance Comedy	^[66]
	9	Modris	Director: Juris Kursietis Cast: Kristers Piksa		Drama	^[67]
	22	Break-Up	Director: Alexander Tuschinski Cast: Alexander Tuschinski, Jennifer Pakosch, Sebastian B, Philipp Metzler, Dominic Rödel, Julia Csatary		Experimental Comedy	^[68]
	25	Phoenix	Director: Christian Petzold Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens		Drama	^[69]
		The Seventh Dwarf	Directors: Boris Aljinovic, Harald Siepermann Cast: Peyton List, Norm MacDonald, Nina Hagen	Universal Pictures	Animation	^[70]
O C T O B E R	9		Director: Claudio Fäh Cast: Tom Hopper, Ryan Kwanten, Ken Duken, Charlie Murphy, Ed Skrein, Anatole Taubman, Leo Gregory, James Norton, Darrell D'Silva, Johan Hegg, Danny Keogh	The Salt Company	Historical Action	^[71]
	10	The Farewell Party	Directors: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon Cast: Ze'ev Revach		Drama	^[72]
	16	We Are Young. We Are Strong	Director: Burhan Qurbani Cast: Devid Striesow		Drama	^[73]
	17	Love, Rosie	Director: Christian Ditter Cast: Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Tamsin Egerton, Suki Waterhouse, Jaime Winstone	Lionsgate Based on Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern	Drama Comedy Romance	^[74]
	23	Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn	Director: Jo Kastner Cast: Joel Courtney, Jake T. Austin	VMI Worldwide	Comedy Drama Adventure	^[75]
N O V E M B E R	27	A Borrowed Identity	Director: Eran Riklis Cast: Tawfeek Barhom		Drama	^[76]
D E C E M B E R	15	Head Full of Honey	Director: Til Schweiger Cast: Dieter Hallervorden, Emma Schweiger, Til Schweiger		Drama	^[77]

Minor releases

Title	Director	Release Date	Genre
2+2	Thomas Ciulei		Comedy
3/4	Maike Höhne	26 September 2014 (Germany)	Drama

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Nationality	Profession	Notable films
January	19		88	German-English	Director, Producer, Screenwriter
April	14		style=2text-align:center;	95	German-English	Actress
May	12		89	Lithuanian-German	Actress
29		86	German-Austrian	Actor
June	26		86	German-Canadian	Director, Producer
July	5		89	German-American	Actress, Singer
16		61	German	Film Editor
August	19		87	German-English	Producer, Production Manager
September	1		72	German	Actor
11		87	German	Actor
November	19		83	German-American	Director, Producer, Screenwriter
December	30		104	German-English	Actress

See also

• 2014 in film
• 2014 in Germany
• Cinema of Germany
• List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Notes and References

1. Web site: Reasonable Doubt. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
2. Web site: A Most Wanted Man. BBFC. 28 November 2015.
3. Web site: The Voices. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
4. Web site: Lost in Karastan. BBFC. 8 January 2016.
5. Web site: Blood Valley: Seed’s Revenge (2014). Dead Central. 2 January 2016.
6. Web site: The Grand Budapest Hotel. BBFC. 28 November 2015.
7. Web site: Jack. Berlinale. 2 January 2016.
8. Web site: Kuzu. Berlinale. 2 January 2016.
9. Web site: The Monuments Men. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
10. Web site: Beloved Sisters. Box Office Mojo. 1 January 2016.
11. Web site: Land of Storms. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
12. Web site: Stereo at the Voices Festival 2014. Voices Festival. 2 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812223636/http://www.voices-festival.org/en/razdely-filmov/competition-program/stereo. 12 August 2014. dead.
13. Web site: Berlin Film Review: ‘History of Fear’. Variety. 2 January 2016.
14. Web site: Pierrot Lunaire. Rotten Tomatoes. 2 January 2016.
15. Web site: Stations of the Cross. BBFC. 29 December 2015.
16. Web site: ÜBER-ICH UND DU. Rotten Tomatoes. 1 January 2016.
17. Web site: A Long Way Down. BBFC. 28 November 2015.
18. Web site: Age of Cannibals (Zeit der Kannibalen): Berlin Review. The Hollywood Reporter. 2 January 2016.
19. Web site: The Dark Valley. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
20. Web site: Futuro Beach. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
21. Web site: Zwischen Welten (Inbetween Worlds). Rotten Tomatoes. 2 January 2016.
22. Web site: Beauty and the Beast. Rotten Tomatoes. 23 December 2015.
23. Web site: Diplomacy. BBFC. 23 December 2015.
24. Web site: Pompeii. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
25. Web site: Oscars: Czechs Nominate Andrea Sedlackova's 'Fair Play' in Foreign-Language Category. The Hollywood Reporter. 2 January 2016.
26. Web site: Stephan Komandarev’s film “The Judgment” premiered at Sofia Film Fest 2014. FilmFund. 2 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012757/http://www.filmfund.gov.mk/News/Stephan-Komandarev-s-film-The-Judgment-premiered-at-Sofia-Film-Fest-2014. 24 September 2015. dead.
27. Web site: Amsterdam Express. Rotten Tomatoes. 2 January 2016.
28. Web site: Mr. Turner. BBFC. 30 November 2015.
29. Web site: 'That Lovely Girl' ('Loin de mon pere'): Cannes Review. The Hollywood Reporter. 29 December 2015.
30. Web site: Amour Fou. BBFC. 3 January 2016.
31. Web site: Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem. BBFC. 24 December 2015.
32. Web site: Winter Sleep. BBFC. 29 December 2015.
33. Web site: Jauja. BBFC. 27 December 2015.
34. Web site: The Wonders. BBFC. 1 January 2016.
35. Web site: Maps to the Stars. BBFC. 27 December 2015.
36. Web site: LES PONTS DE SARAJEVO (BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO). Rotten Tomatoes. 23 December 2015.
37. Web site: Clouds of Sils Maria. BBFC. 23 December 2015.
38. Web site: White God. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
39. Web site: Der Spalt. QueerMD. 2 January 2016.
40. Web site: Madame Bovary. Box Office Mojo. 2 January 2016.
41. Web site: The Chambermaid Lynn. Rotten Tomatoes. 2 January 2016.
42. Web site: Film Review: ‘Memories on Stone’. Variety. 2 January 2016.
43. Web site: Filmovi u konkurenciji za domaćeg kandidata za Oskara. b92. 28 December 2015.
44. Web site: Corn Island. Rotten Tomatoes. 23 December 2015.
45. Web site: Corrections Class. Rotten Tomatoes. 2 January 2016.
46. Web site: Veve. Rotten Tomatoes. 12 December 2015.
47. Web site: Por Uruguay al Oscar. ICAU. 31 December 2015.
48. Web site: Kino! 2015 Review: Tender, Human, & Emotionally Immersive 'Tour De Force'. Indiewire. 2 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20150413002643/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/kino-2015-review-tender-human-and-emotionally-immersive-tour-de-force-20150409. 13 April 2015. dead.
49. Web site: Liew Seng Tat’s ‘Lelaki Harapan Dunia’ is Malaysia’s pick as Oscar entry. The Malay Mail Online. 28 December 2015.
50. Web site: Film Review: ‘Two Shots Fired’. Variety. 2 January 2016.
51. Web site: Hector and the Search for Happiness. BBFC. 4 December 2015.
52. Web site: Shockwave, Darkside (movie review).. SFcrowfest. 2 January 2016.
53. Web site: The Prince. BBFC. 4 December 2015.
54. Web site: She's Funny That Way. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
55. Web site: The President. BBFC. 29 December 2015.
56. Web site: 3 Hearts. Rotten Tomatoes. 22 December 2015.
57. Web site: The Cut. BBFC. 29 December 2015.
58. Web site: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. BBFC. 22 December 2015.
59. Web site: Turkey's Oscar Entry Sivas: No Country for Little Boys. Huffington Post. 2 January 2016.
60. Web site: Maya the Bee. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
61. Web site: 'The Valley' ('Al-Wadi'): Toronto Review. The Hollywood Reporter. 2 January 2016.
62. Web site: Big Game. BBFC. 4 December 2015.
63. Web site: Labyrinth of Lies. Box Office. 2 January 2016.
64. Web site: Who Am I. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
65. Web site: 1001 Grams. Box Office Mojo. 2 January 2016.
66. Web site: Meet Me in Montenegro. Rotten Tomatoes. 4 December 2015.
67. Web site: Modris. Rotten Tomatoes. 3 January 2016.
68. Web site: Trilogy of Rebellion - Menschenliebe, Break-Up, Timeless . Alexander Tuschinski . 2 January 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160207122243/http://alexander-tuschinski.de/styled/TrilogyOfRebellion.html . 7 February 2016 .
69. Web site: Phoenix. BBFC. 2 January 2016.
70. Web site: FAIRYTALE: STORY OF THE SEVEN DWARVES. Rotten Tomatoes. 2 January 2016.
71. Web site: Northmen: A Viking Saga. BBFC. 12 December 2015.
72. Web site: The Farewell Party. Box Office Mojo. 2 January 2016.
73. Web site: Germany Picks 8 Titles to Vie for Oscar Submission. Indiewire. 2 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200403/http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/germany-picks-final-eight-titles-to-vie-for-oscar-submission-20150813. 3 March 2016. dead.
74. Web site: Love, Rosie. BBFC. 4 December 2015.
75. Web site: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn. Rotten Tomatoes. 3 January 2016.
76. Web site: Dancing Arabs. Rotten Tomatoes. 22 December 2015.
77. Web site: Honig im Kopf. Honig im Kopf. 3 January 2016.