This is a list of some of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 2020s.
For an alphabetical list of articles on German films, see .
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | Nine Days Awake | ||||
| Comedy | The Old Man and the Pain in the Neck | ||||
| And Tomorrow the Entire World | Drama | ||||
| Drama | On Thin Ice | ||||
| Documentary | |||||
| Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness | Frauke Sandig, Eric Black | Documentary | German-American co-production | ||
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Drama | ||||
| Black Milk | Drama | Mongolian-German co-production | |||
| Christmas Crossfire | Crime comedy | Wir können nicht anders. Released by Netflix | |||
| Drama | Kokon | ||||
| Contra | Comedy | Remake of Le Brio (2017) | |||
| Thriller | |||||
| Curveball | Comedy | Operation Curveball | |||
| Divine | Comedy | Der göttliche Andere. German-Italian co-production | |||
| Dragon Rider | Tomer Eshed | Animated film | |||
| Science fiction | Ökozid | ||||
| Enfant Terrible | Biography | ||||
| Exile | Drama | Kosovan-German-Belgian co-production | |||
| Science fiction | |||||
| Family | 4 Enchanted Sisters. German-Austrian co-production | ||||
| Superhero film | Released by Netflix | ||||
| , | Charly Hübner, Karoline Schuch, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Peter Schneider, Stefanie Stappenbeck, Christina Große, | Drama | |||
| Gaza mon amour | Palestinian-French-German-Portuguese-Qatari co-production [1] | ||||
| Drama | Gott, du kannst ein Arsch sein! | ||||
| Comedy | Enkel für Anfänger | ||||
| A Handful of Water | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Comedy | Hello Again – Ein Tag für immer | ||||
| Home | Drama | German-Dutch-French-American co-production | |||
| Thriller | |||||
| Crime | |||||
| Drama | Verunsichert – Alles Gute für die Zukunft | ||||
| Into the Beat | Music | ||||
| Isi & Ossi | Comedy | Isi and Ossi. Released by Netflix | |||
| Comedy | Remake of It's for Your Own Good (2017) | ||||
| Fabian Hinrichs, Franziska Walser,, | Comedy | Irgendwann ist auch mal gut | |||
| Thriller | |||||
| Comedy, Fantasy | |||||
| Laura Tonke, | Thriller | ||||
| Drama, Sport | |||||
| , Valerie Niehaus, Marlene Morreis, | Comedy | ||||
| Antje Traue, | Drama | ||||
| Kiss Me Kosher | Comedy | Kiss Me Before It Blows Up. Israeli-German co-production | |||
| Hannelore Elsner, Marlene Morreis, (and with Hannelore Hoger, Judy Winter,, Iris Berben, Eva Mattes) | Drama | ||||
| Lassie Come Home | Family | ||||
| The Last City | John Erdman | Drama | Die letzte Stadt | ||
| Comedy | |||||
| Musical, Biography | Udo Lindenberg | ||||
| Lost in Marseille | Fabian Busch, | Thriller | Spurlos in Marseille | ||
| Louis van Beethoven | Biography, Music | German-Austrian-Czech co-production | |||
| Comedy | Love and Mazel Tov Schönes Schlamassel. German-Austrian co-production | ||||
| Family | German-Austrian co-production | ||||
| Family | Die Wolf-Gäng | ||||
| Docudrama | Die Getriebenen | ||||
| Monster Hunter | Science fantasy action | American-German-Japanese-Chinese-Canadian co-production | |||
| Narcissus and Goldmund | Drama | German-Austrian co-production | |||
| Thriller | Impossible to Kill Ein Schlag ins Gesicht | ||||
| Elyas M'Barek, Palina Rojinski, Frederick Lau | Comedy | ||||
| No Hard Feelings | ,, | Drama | Futur Drei | ||
| Persian Lessons | Drama, War | Persischstunden. Belarusian-German-Russian co-production | |||
| Drama | GOTT | ||||
| Friederike Becht, Hanno Koffler, | Drama | Suddenly so Quiet | |||
| Resistance | Biography, War | American-French-British-German co-production | |||
| Rising High | Crime comedy | Betonrausch. Released by Netflix | |||
| Crime | |||||
| Ein Schritt zu viel | Drama | ||||
| Almila Bagriacik, | War | Im Feuer – Zwei Schwestern | |||
| Sky Sharks | Marc Fehse | Horror | |||
| Michael Venus | Horror | ||||
| Crime | |||||
| Thin Blood | Crime | ||||
| Drama | Altes Land | ||||
| Die Toten am Meer | Crime | ||||
| The Trouble with Being Born | Lena Watson | Science fiction | Austrian-German co-production | ||
| War | |||||
| Undine | Drama, Fantasy | ||||
| Unorthodox | Drama | Released by Netflix | |||
| Comedy | A Bad Word | ||||
| Thriller | German-Austrian co-production | ||||
| Veins of the World | Bat-Ireedui Batmunkh | Drama | Mongolian-German co-production | ||
| Drama | |||||
| Vivos | Documentary | German-Mexican co-production | |||
| Walchensee Forever | Documentary | ||||
| We Are the Law | Crime comedy | Das Gesetz sind wir | |||
| Comedy | Christmas Daughters | ||||
| Comedy | Blöd gelaufen – Danke für den Abschied | ||||
| Drama |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Wilbusch, Jördis Triebel, Uwe Kockisch, Steffi Kühnert, Peter Schneider, Vincent Redetzki,,, | Drama | Three and a Half Hours 3½ Stunden | |||
| ,, Rainer Bock,,, Bernadette Heerwagen, | Drama | ||||
| Alice, Through the Looking | Adam Donen | Saskia Axten, Elijah Rowen, Vanessa Redgrave, Sophie Vavasseur, Steven Berkoff, Slavoj Zizek, Carol Cleveland | Political Fantasy comedy satire | British-German co-production.aka: Alice, Through the Looking: À La Recherche d'Un Lapin Perdu | |
| Crime | Glauben | ||||
| Am Ende der Worte | Crime | ||||
| , | Drama | Eine Liebe später | |||
| Army of Thieves | Crime | American-German co-production. Released by Netflix | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Milan Peschel, Johanna Wokalek, | Comedy | ||||
| Bergman Island | Drama | French-German-Swedish co-production | |||
| Der Beschützer | , | Thriller | The Protector | ||
| Biography, Sport | Boris Becker: Der Rebell | ||||
| Black Island | Thriller | Released by Netflix | |||
| Peter Meister | Crime comedy | ||||
| , Adam Hoya | Drama | Glück | |||
| Blood Red Sky | Horror | German-British co-production. Released by Netflix | |||
| Bloodsuckers | Comedy | ||||
| Drama | German-Ghanaian co-production | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Comedy | Wenn das fünfte Lichtlein brennt | ||||
| Thriller | Trübe Wolken | ||||
| Comedy | Generation Beziehungsunfähig | ||||
| Drama | A Risky Decision Saving Emily | ||||
| Detlev Buck | Jannis Niewöhner, Liv Lisa Fries, Joachim Król | Comedy | |||
| , | Drama | German-French co-production | |||
| Da kommt noch was | Comedy | German-Swiss co-production | |||
| Comedy | Nie zu spät | ||||
| Crime | |||||
| Daughters | Drama | ||||
| Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes | , Jeff Wilbusch,, | Horror | |||
| Dear Future Children | Documentary | ||||
| Dear Thomas | Biography | Thomas Brasch | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Drama | Feinde – Gegen die Zeit Feinde – Das Geständnis | ||||
| Crime | |||||
| Science fiction | German-Dutch co-production | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Fly | Music | ||||
| Documentary | |||||
| Devid Striesow,, | Comedy | Parents Forever | |||
| The Four of Us | Nilam Farooq, Jonas Nay, Paula Kalenberg, | Drama | Du Sie Er & Wir. Released by Netflix | ||
| Drama | |||||
| Crime | |||||
| Thriller | The House | ||||
| The Girl with the Golden Hands | Drama | ||||
| Crime comedy | |||||
| Great Freedom | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Heiko's World | Martin Rohde | Comedy | |||
| Martin Wuttke, Justus von Dohnányi,, Christian Redl, | Crime | ||||
| Drama | Das weiße Haus am Rhein | ||||
| Science fiction | Das Haus | ||||
| Human Factors | Drama | German-Italian-Danish co-production | |||
| Science fiction | |||||
| I'm Your Man | Science fiction | Ich bin dein Mensch | |||
| Comedy | Always Follow Your Nose | ||||
| In the Woods | , Jolie Sarah Werner | Horror | Im Wald | ||
| Inside the Uffizi | Documentary | ||||
| Instructions for Survival | Yana Ugrekhelidze | Documentary | |||
| Comedy | It's Just a Phase, Honey Es ist nur eine Phase, Hase | ||||
| Je suis Karl | Jannis Niewöhner, Luna Wedler, Milan Peschel | Drama | |||
| King Otto | Documentary, Sport | Greek-American-British-German co-production | |||
| Drama | Nahschuss | ||||
| Leben über Kreuz | Benjamin Sadler, Annette Frier,, | Drama | Crisscrossed Lives | ||
| Comedy | Liebe ist unberechenbar | ||||
| Animated film | German-Australian co-production | ||||
| Drama | Sea Lights | ||||
| , Oliver Stokowski, | Comedy | No One Asked Me | |||
| The Middle Man | Comedy | Norwegian-Canadian-Danish-German co-production[2] | |||
| Miguel's War | Michel (Miguel) Jleilaty | Documentary | Lebanese-Spanish-German co-production | ||
| Maren Kroymann, | Comedy | ||||
| Monster Family 2 | Animated film | German-British co-production | |||
| Drama | Swiss-Austrian-German co-production | ||||
| Moonbound | Animated film | Peterchens Mondfahrt | |||
| Crime | |||||
| Comedy | Alles in bester Ordnung | ||||
| Comedy | Mom Quits Mutter kündigt | ||||
| Munich – The Edge of War | Historical drama | British-German co-production | |||
| My Son | Drama | ||||
| Comedy | Nestwochen | ||||
| Next Door | Daniel Brühl, Peter Kurth | Drama | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Comedy | |||||
| No One's with the Calves | Drama | Niemand ist bei den Kälbern | |||
| One Night Off | Emilio Sakraya, | Comedy | Released by Amazon Prime Video | ||
| Other Cannibals | Walter Giroldini, Diego Pagotto | Black comedy | Altri Cannibali | ||
| Precious Ivie | , | Drama | Ivie wie Ivie | ||
| Prey | Thriller | Released by Netflix | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Drama | |||||
| Drama | |||||
| Kostja Ullmann, | Thriller | The Visitation The Infestation Die Heimsuchung | |||
| Horror | German-Canadian co-production | ||||
| Drama | Chess Story | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Drama | |||||
| Family | The School of the Magical Animals | ||||
| Schumacher | Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker, Michael Wech | Documentary, Sport | Michael Schumacher. Released by Netflix | ||
| Thriller | |||||
| , | Comedy | Ich Ich Ich | |||
| Drama | |||||
| , | Drama | Blurred Lines Räuberhände | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Sterben ist auch keine Lösung | Comedy | ||||
| Barbara Auer, Fritz Karl, | Thriller | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Tides | Nora Arnezeder, Iain Glen | Science fiction | German-Swiss co-production | ||
| Comedy | |||||
| Drama | Die unheimliche Leichtigkeit der Revolution | ||||
| Die Vergesslichkeit der Eichhörnchen | , | Drama | |||
| Crime, Comedy | |||||
| Drama | The World Stands Still | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | Ani Karseladze, Giorgi Bochorishvili | Drama | Georgian-German co-production | ||
| Wikipedia and the Democratization of Knowledge | Lorenza Castella, Jascha Hannover | Documentary | |||
| Wirecard | Docudrama | Der große Fake – Die Wirecard-Story | |||
| Alexandra Maria Lara, Sylvester Groth, Nilam Farooq,, | Thriller | 8 Zeugen | |||
| Anke Bak | Drama | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Science fiction | |||||
| Thriller | Return to the Sea |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Konstantin Korenchuk, | Drama | Four Days to Eternity | |||
| Sophie Rois, Udo Kier,, | Comedy | German-French co-production | |||
| Biography | Alice Schwarzer | ||||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl | War | Released by Netflix | ||
| All Russians Love Birch Trees | Drama | Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt | |||
| Emily Cox, | Biography | Austrian-German-Swiss-Czech co-production | |||
| The Amazing Maurice | Animated film | German-British co-production | |||
| Drama | Und dann steht einer auf und öffnet das Fenster | ||||
| Friederike Becht, | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Drama | |||||
| Thriller | Blood Wood | ||||
| Die Bürgermeisterin | Drama | The Mayoress | |||
| Cloud Under the Roof | Drama | ||||
| Coming Home | Anna Maria Mühe, | Drama | Die Geschichte einer Familie | ||
| Corsage | Vicky Krieps,, Finnegan Oldfield | Biography | Austrian-German-Luxembourgian-French co-production | ||
| Dark Satellites | Drama | Die stillen Trabanten | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Mystery thriller | German-Austrian co-production | ||||
| Drama | Hear This | ||||
| Thriller | German-Austrian co-production | ||||
| , | Drama | Alle wollen geliebt werden | |||
| Sönke Wortmann | Iris Berben, Florian David Fitz, Christoph Maria Herbst | Comedy | Der Nachname | ||
| Caro Cult, | Drama | Released by Netflix | |||
| War | Der Passfälscher | ||||
| War | Austrian-German co-production | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Grand Jeté | , | Drama | |||
| Comedy | Finnish-German co-production | ||||
| , Simon Schwarz, Lisa Maria Potthoff,, | Crime comedy | ||||
| Heinrich Vogeler | Biography | ||||
| Drama | Süßer Rausch | ||||
| Thriller | Das weiße Schweigen | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Human Flowers of Flesh | Drama | German-French co-production | |||
| Comedy | Remake of Hunting Season (2019) | ||||
| In a Land That No Longer Exists | Drama | ||||
| Thriller | |||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Comedy | Einfach mal was Schönes | ||||
| Biography, Sport | Franz Beckenbauer | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Comedy, Fantasy | |||||
| Ein Leben lang | Henry Hübchen, | Drama | |||
| Comedy | Anyone Can Teach! | ||||
| Light in a Dark House | Thriller | ||||
| The Limit Is Just Me | , Steffi Rostoski | Documentary | |||
| Comedy | Eingeschlossene Gesellschaft | ||||
| Comedy | Liebesdings | ||||
| The Magic Flute | Music | ||||
| War, Biography | |||||
| Meine Freundin Volker | Comedy | ||||
| Charly Hübner, Rainer Bock, | Drama | ||||
| More Than Ever | Drama | French-German-Luxembourgian-Norwegian co-production | |||
| Mother | Drama | ||||
| My Fairy Troublemaker | Animated film | German-Luxembourgian co-production | |||
| Nazi Hunters | Docudrama, War | ||||
| Melika Foroutan, | Horror | Released by Netflix | |||
| The Ordinaries | Science Fiction | ||||
| , | Documentary, War | ||||
| Music | |||||
| Drama | |||||
| Drama | Over and Out | ||||
| Julius Weckauf, Nonna Cardoner | War | German-Spanish co-production | |||
| Comedy | Freibad | ||||
| The Privilege | , | Horror | Released by Netflix | ||
| Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush | Drama | ||||
| Disaster | Ramstein – Das durchstoßene Herz | ||||
| Rhinegold | Crime | ||||
| Drama | German-Swiss-Austrian co-production | ||||
| Family | German-Swiss co-production | ||||
| , | Comedy | Released by Netflix | |||
| Running | Anna Schudt, Katharina Wackernagel, Maximilian Brückner, Gaby Dohm, | Drama | Laufen | ||
| Max Hubacher,, | Comedy | German-Austrian co-production. Released by Amazon Prime Video | |||
| Family | The School of the Magical Animals 2 | ||||
| Ein Schritt zum Abgrund | Drama | Remake of Doctor Foster, Series 1 (2015) | |||
| Verena Altenberger,, Florian Stetter, | Drama | Gesicht der Erinnerung | |||
| The Silent Forest | Thriller | Schweigend steht der Wald | |||
| Skin Deep | Science fiction | Aus meiner Haut | |||
| Drama | Servus Papa, See You in Hell | ||||
| Marven Gabriel Suarez-Brinkert, | Science fiction | ||||
| Comedy | The Divider | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Drama | Alle reden übers Wetter | ||||
| Tár | Drama | American-German co-production | |||
| A Thousand Lines | Drama | A 1000 Lines | |||
| Drama | Illusion of Safety | ||||
| Die Wannseekonferenz | Docudrama, War | The Conference | |||
| We Are Next of Kin | , | Drama | Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen | ||
| We Might As Well Be Dead | Science fiction | ||||
| Weil wir Champions sind | Comedy, Sport | Because We Are Champions. Remake of Champions (2018) | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Who Buries the Undertaker? | ,, | Comedy | Wer gräbt den Bestatter ein? | ||
| Historical drama | |||||
| Wunderschön | Karoline Herfurth | Nora Tschirner, Martina Gedeck, Karoline Herfurth | Comedy | Beautiful |
List of German films of 2023 (Cinema Releases in Chronological Order)
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | |||||
| Afire | Drama | Roter Himmel | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Anselm | Documentary | ||||
| Das Beste kommt noch! | Comedy | Remake of The Best Is Yet to Come (2019) | |||
| Black Box | Luise Heyer, Christian Berkel, Manal Issa, Inka Friedrich, Anna Brüggemann, Marc Zinga, | Drama | |||
| Blind at Heart | Mala Emde, Max von der Groeben, | Drama | Die Mittagsfrau. German-Swiss-Luxembourgian co-production | ||
| Blindspot | Thriller | ||||
| Blood & Gold | War | Blood and Gold. Released by Netflix | |||
| Bones and Names | Fabian Stumm, Knut Berger, | Drama | |||
| Boy Kills World | Action, Science fiction | American-German-South African co-production | |||
| Thriller | German-Austrian co-production | ||||
| Drama | Between You and Me | ||||
| Comedy | Caveman | ||||
| Demminer Chants | Documentary | ||||
| The Dive | Thriller | German-Maltese co-production. Remake of Breaking Surface (2020) | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Elaha | Drama | ||||
| Drama | German-British co-production | ||||
| Romantic comedy | Released by Netflix | ||||
| Comedy | Remake of C'est la vie! (2017) | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Drama | |||||
| Family | |||||
| Girl You Know It's True | Biography, Music | German-American French-South African co-production | |||
| Gondola | , Nino Soselia | Comedy | German-Georgian co-production | ||
| Hard Feelings | Comedy | Hammerharte Jungs. Released by Netflix | |||
| Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives | Horror | ||||
| Ich bin! Margot Friedländer | Docudrama, War | ||||
| In the Blind Spot | ,, Çağla Yurga, | Thriller | Im toten Winkel | ||
| Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert | Biography | ||||
| Inside | Thriller | Greek-German-Belgian co-production | |||
| Kidnapped: 14 Days of Survival | Sonja Gerhardt, Torben Liebrecht, Cecilio Andresen | Crime | Kidnapped: 14 Days Survival | ||
| Lost in Athens | Thriller | Spurlos in Athen | |||
| Das Mädchen von früher | Crime | The Girl from Before | |||
| Comedy | Manta Manta – Zwoter Teil | ||||
| Measures of Men | Drama | A Place in the Sun Der vermessene Mensch | |||
| The Million Robbery | Crime | The 8 Million Heist | |||
| Mission: School of Fun | Comedy | Die unlangweiligste Schule der Welt | |||
| Crime | |||||
| Music | Drama | German-French-Serbian co-production | |||
| Nach uns der Rest der Welt | Drama | After Us, the Rest of the World | |||
| The Night Between Us | , Aaron Altaras, | Drama | Zwischen uns die Nacht | ||
| Drama | Geranien | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| , | Comedy | Letzter Abend | |||
| Science fiction | Released by Netflix | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Perfect Days | Drama | Japanese-German co-production | |||
| , Simon Schwarz, Lisa Maria Potthoff,, | Crime comedy | ||||
| Senta Berger, | Comedy | Weißt du noch | |||
| Schlamassel | Drama | ||||
| Denis Moschitto, | Crime | Shock | |||
| Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes | Biography | ||||
| Fantasy | Released by Amazon Prime Video | ||||
| Sisi & I | Biography | Sisi and I. German-Swiss-Austrian co-production[3] [4] | |||
| Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything | , | Drama | |||
| Comedy, Fantasy | |||||
| War, Drama | |||||
| Die stillen Mörder | Crime | ||||
| Sun and Concrete | Levy Rico Arcos, Vincent Wiemer, Rafael Luis Klein-Hessling, Aaron Maldonado Morales | Crime | |||
| Talk to Me | Drama | Sprich mit mir | |||
| The Teachers' Lounge | Drama | ||||
| Family, Mystery | The Three Investigators and The Dragon's Legacy | ||||
| Till the End of the Night | , | Thriller | |||
| Trauzeugen | Lena May Graf, | Comedy | |||
| Thriller | Released by Amazon Prime Video | ||||
| Unbestechlich | , | Thriller | Incorruptible | ||
| Comedy | The Intangible Joy of Love | ||||
| The Universal Theory | Mystery | Die Theorie von Allem. German-Swiss-Austrian co-production | |||
| Crime | Remake of Innocent, Series 2 (2021) | ||||
| Thriller | |||||
| We Have a Deal | Drama | Wir haben einen Deal | |||
| Weekend Rebels | Comedy | ||||
| Devid Striesow, Laura Tonke,, | Drama | ||||
| Spy thriller | |||||
| Who Will Feed the Rabbit? | Drama | Wer füttert den Hasen? | |||
| Drama | German-Austrian co-production | ||||
| Willie and Me | Comedy | American-German co-production | |||
| Wolfsjagd | Crime | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Comedy |
List of German films of 2024 (Cinema Releases in Chronological Order)