German Movies on Netflix
Last updated March 09, 2025
Extinction
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsA retrovirus able to crossbreed the genes of plants, animals and humans is accidentally released, creating a world of horrific mutations. In just two days, most of humankind is dead, and the rest are turned into hideous, murderous mutations.
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Moonbeam Bear and His Friends
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIn this animated adventure, Mr. Moon falls out of the sky, and it's up to Moonbeam Bear to find him -- which he does. But when Mr. Moon falls asleep after a night of snacks and games, Moonbeam and his pals can't wait to make him glow again.
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The Door
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsDown-and-out artist David Andernach (Mads Mikkelsen) gets a chance to travel back in time and set things right after his young daughter, Leonie, drowns in the family pool in this gripping thriller based on Akif Pirinçci's terrifying novel. Five years after the tragedy, the guilt-racked David -- who was bedding his mistress as Leonie died -- steps through a time portal leading to the day of her death. Can he save Leonie, or is it all an illusion?
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Chiko
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIsa Cakiroglu (Denis Moschitto) is a young criminal who goes by the name Chiko when doing business with his Hamburg gang. Will he get the respect he desires or become just another victim of the drugs and violence of the streets? As this band of immigrant outsiders pursues money and power via any means necessary, Chiko must confront his own sense of loyalty and friendship. Özgür Yildirim directs.
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Mein Kampf
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsSatire and history blend in director Urs Odermatt's adaptation of playwright's George Tabori's imaginative and controversial retelling of Adolf Hitler's early life as a young man desperate to be admitted to art school. In pre-World War I Vienna, Hitler (Tom Schilling) is befriended by elderly Jew Schlomo Herzl (Götz George), who takes the starving artist under his wing and encourages him to enter politics.
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Cloud 9
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen 60-year-old Inge (Ursula Werner) suddenly delves into a lively, adulterous affair with the even older Karl (Horst Westphal), she finally confesses her newfound passion to her husband of 30 years, Werner (Horst Rehberg). But will she end her illicit relationship with Karl to keep her unexciting-but-stable marriage intact? Andreas Dresen directs this compelling drama also starring Steffi Kühnert.
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Women Without Men
2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAmid the tumult of the American- and British-backed coup that reinstated the Shah in early-1950s Tehran, the heart-wrenching tales of four very different Iranian women converge in a lovely orchard garden, where they find both freedom and friendship. Director and acclaimed visual artist Shirin Neshat brings a striking aesthetic style to this stirring drama, an adaptation of the magical-realist novella by Shahrnoush Parsipour.
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Womb
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsRecently widowed Rebecca (Eva Green) attempts to surmount her unbearable heartache by having her deceased husband cloned. This morally controversial decision, however, ushers the unyielding woman down a difficult path she never expected.
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Adam Resurrected
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsDecades after he survived the Holocaust by becoming a pet "dog" to a brutal concentration camp commandant (Willem Dafoe), Jewish circus entertainer Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum) finds himself confined to an Israeli mental institution. But when he encounters a feral young boy being held like a dog in the hospital's basement, Stein discovers a new opportunity to reclaim his humanity. Paul Schrader directs this biting drama.
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80 Minutes
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAlex owes an angry creditor $15,000, and if he doesn't pay it back within the next 80 minutes, he's dead. Injected with a time-delayed poison, Alex frantically races all over Berlin looking for money but finds more problems instead.
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Madchen in Uniform
1958 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsSent to an austere, all-girls boarding school after the death of her parents, spunky orphan Manuela von Meinhardis (Romy Schneider) soon develops a sensual attraction to one of her teachers, the beautiful Elisabeth von Bernburg (Lilli Palmer). As Manuela's forbidden attraction becomes stronger, the suggestion of lesbian scandal sends the school's headmistress into a rage. Géza von Radványi's directs this 1958 remake of the 1931 classic.
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How to Cook Your Life
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsGerman filmmaker Doris Dörrie documents a summer in the life of renowned Zen practitioner and cook Edward Espe Brown as he teaches culinary classes in Zen centers in Austria and California, revealing the role food plays in our bodies and spirits.
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Errors of the Human Body
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsAfter his infant son dies from a rare genetic mutation, Dr. Geoff Burton moves to Germany to continue his work on a regenerative drug that might have saved the boy's life. But he soon suspects that something is afoot with his new colleagues.
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Grimm Love
2006 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsIn this shocking thriller based on a true tale, graduate student Katie Armstrong's research into killer and cannibal Oliver Hartwin and his willing victim, Simon Grombeck, leads to a dark journey into the men's twisted deed and tortured psyches.
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Blubberella
2011 | NR | 2.3 out of 5 StarsIn this gleefully low-rent action-comedy, hefty half-vampire Blubberella sets her always-ravenous sights on a Nazi leader who's concocting a diabolical plan: to create an army of undead soldiers to help his Führer conquer the globe.
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