Here are the top 10 German movies of all time based on their IMDB movie ratings. IMDB is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group “rec.arts.movies” in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993.
1.The Lives of Others
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. IMDB rating 8.4
2.The Boat
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II. IMDB rating 8.4
3. Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. IMDB rating 8.3
4. Downfall
The final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. IMDB rating 8.2
5. Nosferatu
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter’s wife. IMDB rating 7.9
6. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks IMDB rating 7.8
7. Run Lola Run
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. IMDB rating 7.7
8. Good Bye Lenin!
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. IMDB rating 7.7
9. The Wave
A high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own IMDB rating 7.6
10. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. IMDB rating 7.6
