20+ Best German movies on Netflix (December 2024)

2016-04-09 | FlixCatalog Staff

There is no limit to the number of movies and TV shows you can find online on OTT platforms. Deciding on what to watch can be a painful experience sometimes. Looking for the best movie to watch on Netflix? We are here to help. Here is a list of the Top 100 movie to watch on netflix this December.

Fun Fact: The average IMDB rating of all the movies in this list is 6.43 .

Looking for some of the best German movie you can watch online in US? Fret not, we are here to help you. Here is a list of all the German movie you can watch on some of your favourite OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar. Amazon Prime Video has the most content in this language amongst all streaming platforms.

At the age of 24, in 2015, Dennis Kailing set off on his bike into the big wide world without any previous experience with long bike tours, and over the next two years covered 43,600 km, travelling to six continents and 41 countries.

8.2/10111 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Action,Biography,Drama
Rush (2013)

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

8.1/10123 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,Thriller
The Imitation Game (2014)

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

8/10114 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Thriller
Casino Royale (2006)

After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.

8/10144 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

A documentary about smart birds.

7.9/10\N min

Available in 1 platform(s).

On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni's untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair.

7.8/10125 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Crime,Drama
The Irishman (2019)

An old man recalls his time painting houses for his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, through the 1950-70s.

7.8/10209 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.

7.8/10132 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Action,Drama,History
Dunkirk (2017)

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

7.8/10106 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.

7.8/10103 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

7.7/10135 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Comedy,Drama
The Two Popes (2019)

Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.

7.6/10125 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Documentary
RBG (2018)

The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.

7.6/1098 min

Available in 20 platform(s).

Action,Documentary
Free to Play (2014)

Follow three professional video game players as they overcome personal adversity, family pressures, and the realities of life to compete in a $1,000,000 tournament that could change their lives forever.

7.6/1075 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,Romance
Habibie & Ainun (2012)

This movie is based on the memoir written by the 3rd President of Indonesia and one of the world-famous engineer, B.J. Habibie about his wife, Hasri Ainun Habibie.

7.6/10120 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,Romance
Rudy Habibie (2016)

This movie follows the story of the 3rd President of Indonesia, B.J. Habibie, young life when he was studying in the university in Germany, his struggle life as a student, and his love life before he eventually dates Ainun.

7.5/10124 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Documentary,History
Hitler: A career (1977)

This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.

7.5/10150 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,War
Darkest Hour (2017)

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

7.4/10125 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Detective Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, who is carrying out a string of random crimes across Europe.

7.4/10129 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
The Terminal (2004)

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

7.4/10128 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.

7.3/10124 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Comedy,Crime
The Nice Guys (2016)

In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.

7.3/10116 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Comedy,Crime
Lammbock (2001)

Stefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with aphids.

7.3/1093 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite, but the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

7.2/10162 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Music
Berlin Calling (2008)

A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.

7.2/10109 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,War
Riphagen (2016)

The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.

7.1/10131 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

7.1/10109 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,Romance
The Danish Girl (2015)

A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

7.1/10119 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Documentary,War
E-Team (2014)

When atrocities are committed in countries held hostage by ruthless dictators, Human Rights Watch sends in the E-Team (Emergencies Team), a collection of fiercely intelligent individuals ...

7.1/1088 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Namastey London (2007)

A man takes his thoroughly-British daughter to his home country, India. There, he arranges her marriage to someone she considers a fool. The daughter attempts to outwit them, but the groom quietly and patiently hatches his own plan.

7.1/10128 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Adventure,Biography,Drama
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.

7.1/10136 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

The life of five-time Formula One world champion Juan Manuel Fangio. The first official documentary.

7/1092 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

There's one thing milk stands for - health. It's seen as natural and nutrient-rich. But is it really that healthy? We set out to take a critical look at the milk system. Along the way we'll...

7/1090 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.

7/10121 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.

7/10127 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Fantasy
Look Who's Back (2015)

Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.

7/10116 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Music
Seoul Searching (2015)

In 1986, a group of foreign born Korean teenagers attend a summer camp in South Korea.

7/10105 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building ...

7/10123 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Thriller
Don 2 (2011)

Don turns himself in and escapes with Vardhaan from prison, following which he recruits a team to steal currency printing plates from a bank in Berlin.

7/10148 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
The Climb (2017)

A young man from the suburbs with no mountaineering experience decides to climb Mt Everest to show a woman he'd do anything for her.

6.9/10103 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Austrian Waffen-SS Lieutenant-colonel Otto Skorzeny was Hitler's favorite commando. His participation in daring military actions such as the rescue of Benito Mussolini in the Apennines or ...

6.8/1067 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Mystery,Thriller
Unknown (2011)

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

6.8/10113 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Glimpse into the brain's vast potential for memorization through the eyes of four competitive memory athletes as they share techniques and insights.

6.7/1085 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls.

6.7/10110 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.

6.7/10122 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,History,War
Sarajevo (2014)

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is in Sarajevo with his wife, Sophie. While through the city by car, they are victims of an attack and die. This is the trigger of the First World War.

6.7/1098 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Joy, a young Nigerian woman caught in the vicious cycle of sex trafficking, is instructed by her exploiter Madame to supervise Precious, a teenage girl who is not ready to accept her fate.

6.6/1099 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
Operation Finale (2018)

A team of secret agents set out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.

6.6/10122 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Young Jewish man bucks orthodox traditions (and mother's meddling) by shaving, shopping outside the faithful, and considering a shiksa for a wife.

6.6/1094 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Thriller
The Berlin File (2013)

Jong-seong, a North Korean ghost agent, interrupts an illegal arms sale in Berlin. A notorious North Korean agent tests the loyalties of everyone involved as Jong-Seong prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice.

6.6/10121 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Thriller
Quantum of Solace (2008)

James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.

6.6/10106 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".

6.6/1095 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Six girls living along the Amazon, Nile, Mississippi, Danube, Ganges, and Yangtze rivers learn about water and sustainability and use their newfound education to protect their communities and homes.

6.5/1067 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Janne's new boss's brother-in-law rapes her, but she doesn't report the incident and continues her way of life as usual. But her silence has consequences, not only for her but also for the love that she feels for her friend Piet.

6.5/1090 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents does not like that and are even more in constant fear of their daughter.

6.5/10105 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Crime,Thriller
Stereo (2014)

The appearance of a mysterious, hooded man evokes Erik's sinister past.

6.5/1098 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Vizontele Tuuba is the sequel to Vizontele and recounts the 1980 military coup, the repercussions of the coup in a small southeastern town in Turkey. This is a very confusing period: every ...

6.5/10111 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Comedy,Romance
Isi & Ossi (2020)

To realize their culinary and boxing dreams, the daughter of a billionaire forms a mutually beneficial alliance with the son of a struggling single mom.

6.4/10113 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope.

6.4/1096 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Familiye tells the story of an ex-con who, after his release from prison, has to care for his two younger brothers. One of whom is a gambling addict, the other has Down Syndrome.

6.4/1092 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
Milada (2017)

The story of Milada Horáková, democratic pre-WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post-war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country.

6.3/10124 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

The 101 year old man Allan Karlsson goes through Europe in search for a Russian soda recipe he lost during the early 70s. Unfortunately, he is not the only one who is looking for it.

6.3/10108 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Horror,Mystery
Berlin Syndrome (2017)

A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

6.2/10116 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death (Huo Yuanjia) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious ...

6.2/10106 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Comedy
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly named villain Goldmember, who is working with Dr. Evil.

6.2/1094 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Natascha Kampusch, an Austrian girl, got kidnapped, while she was walking to school.

6/1045 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.

6/10100 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama
Rising High (2020)

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

5.9/1094 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Two free spirits, one dog. Traveling the vast spaces of an enormous continent in search of something more.

5.9/1095 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
Lída Baarová (2016)

A biographical film about the black-and-white era Czech actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair with one of the Third Reich's most powerful men: the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

5.9/10106 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Comedy,Family,Romance
A Cinderella Story (2004)

Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.

5.9/1095 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.

5.8/10104 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
The Girl King (2015)

THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.

5.8/10106 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Action,Drama,Mystery
The Operative (2019)

A woman is recruited by the Mossad to work undercover in Tehran.

5.7/10116 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Adventure,Animation,Comedy
Latte & the Magic Waterstone (2019)

Follows the journey of a young hedgehog who wants to save the forest and its inhabitants from a horrible drought by reclaim a magical waterstone from the bear king.

5.6/1081 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Comedy
Wild Oats (2016)

Everything changes for Eva when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for five million dollars instead of the expected fifty thousand dollars. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.

5.6/1086 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Action,Horror,Sci-Fi
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

5.5/10102 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Pettson promised Findus they would have the best christmas ever this year, but then everything goes wrong. Findus is afraid that Christmas is going to be cancelled at all. So he tries to get help on his own.

5.5/1080 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,War
My Führer (2007)

The action comedy is set in 1944. Hitler appears in it as physically and mentally destroyed person who takes the advice of Goebbels in the actor-teacher of Jewish concentration camp for ...

5.5/1089 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Music
Right Here Right Now (2018)

On New Year's Eve in Hamburg, a young club owner is struggling to keep the party going when a violent ex-pimp, the police, a former rock star and the love of his life are all coming for him.

5.4/10100 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Mystery,Sci-Fi,Thriller
Mute (2018)

A mute bartender goes up against his city's gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner.

5.4/10126 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

The Yildiz brothers - Celal, Sami and Mesut - still live under one roof - despite their differences. The family bridal shop is doing really badly and they each yearn for a different life: ...

5.4/1095 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Tipped by a mysterious tramp, a meek fry cook discovers she has superpowers -- and uncovers an unsavory, vast conspiracy.

5.4/1092 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Music,Romance
Into the Beat (2020)

5.3/10102 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,Thriller
The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

An attempted terrorist attack on a Paris bound train is prevented by three courageous young Americans. Their friendship was their greatest weapon that saved the lives of those on board.

5.3/1094 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

Best friends Bibi and Tina have to come to terms with an exchange pupil who cheats to undermine their endeavors to win a geocache search.

5.3/10110 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

The third installment of the Børning-franchise.

5.1/10100 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

While a murderer is roaming the streets, a young courier suspects that a doctor might be the sister he hasn't seen since childhood.

5/1098 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

In turbulent action comedy OFFLINE, champion gamer Jan (Moritz Jahn) has to fight for his digital identity, winning back his real life as well.

5/1091 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

5/1094 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Young millennial German fueled by wanderlust and a lack of real world responsibilities travels the globe by bike, peddling across 22 countries and over 20,000 kms to find meaning in life. ...

5/1080 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

When robbers hit Frankenstein castle, teen Bibi and pal Tina hunt for the cooks, then devise a plan to save the neighbors' failing ranch.

5/10137 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Snatched off the street and held for ransom, a bound and gagged woman uses her limited powers to derail her two masked abductors' carefully laid plans.

4.9/1089 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A fictional Castillian village but located in Basque Country tries become part of Switzerland after a surprising discovery.

4.8/1086 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Fantasy,Horror
The Maus (2017)

Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina to discover more about each other. Lost and seemingly surrounded by land mines a pair of locals offer to guide them home.

4.7/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Bibi Blocksberg is a girl with special powers: she is a witch. With her best friend Tina brings her summer holidays at the riding school. Together the girls are riding every day. But this ...

4.7/10101 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Adventure,Animation,Comedy
Tellur Aliens (2016)

Three teenaged best friends on the planet Telluria begin an incredible journey of adventure as they fight against the most evil being in the universe

4.4/1067 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Bibi and Tina make friends with two young refugees and an Albanian schoolgirl on the run from her family who wants to marry her off.

4/10106 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.

3.9/1097 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Berlin, Berlin (2020)

Lolle's love life in Berlin is as complicated as ever. After the story with Sven, her second cousin, was over, she got together with her best friend Hart and the two are about to get married. That is, if Sven doesn't ruin things.

3.8/1080 min

Available in 1 platform(s).