How come we never get to see war films produced by the Germans and making them the good guys and winning some of the battles?
I got to see them. You have to ask yourself why you didn't. Perhaps you did not bother to look.
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1. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
8.2
Rate
82 Metascore
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for
Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director:
Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars:
Bruno Ganz,
Alexandra Maria Lara,
Ulrich Matthes,
Juliane Köhler
Votes: 315,577 | Gross: $5.51M
2. Valkyrie (2008)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, History, Thriller
7.1
Rate
56 Metascore
A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against
Adolf Hitler during World War II.
Director:
Bryan Singer | Stars:
Tom Cruise,
Bill Nighy,
Carice van Houten,
Kenneth Branagh
Votes: 219,463 | Gross: $83.08M
3. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
8.3
Rate
86 Metascore
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen | Stars:
Jürgen Prochnow,
Herbert Grönemeyer,
Klaus Wennemann,
Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 218,964 | Gross: $11.49M
4. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, History, War
7.6
Rate
53 Metascore
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director:
Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars:
Jude Law,
Ed Harris,
Joseph Fiennes,
Rachel Weisz
Votes: 231,759 | Gross: $51.40M
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5. Cross of Iron (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, War
7.5
Rate
German commander Captain Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) refuses to lie for him.
Director:
Sam Peckinpah | Stars:
James Coburn,
Maximilian Schell,
James Mason,
David Warner
Votes: 24,103
6. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
7.6
Rate
76 Metascore
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Director:
Marc Rothemund | Stars:
Julia Jentsch,
Fabian Hinrichs,
Alexander Held,
Johanna Gastdorf
Votes: 25,538 | Gross: $0.68M
7. Lore (2012)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance, War
7.1
Rate
76 Metascore
As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
Director:
Cate Shortland | Stars:
Saskia Rosendahl,
Kai-Peter Malina,
Nele Trebs,
Ursina Lardi
Votes: 13,745 | Gross: $0.97M
8. Stalingrad (1993)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, War
7.5
Rate
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
Director:
Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars:
Dominique Horwitz,
Thomas Kretschmann,
Jochen Nickel,
Sebastian Rudolph
Votes: 29,171 | Gross: $0.08M
9. The Counterfeiters (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, War
7.6
Rate
78 Metascore
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.
Director:
Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars:
Karl Markovics,
August Diehl,
Devid Striesow,
Martin Brambach
Votes: 41,787 | Gross: $5.48M
10. Before the Fall (2004)
MA15+ | 110 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
7.4
Rate
65 Metascore
Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
Director:
Dennis Gansel | Stars:
Max Riemelt,
Tom Schilling,
Devid Striesow,
Jonas Jägermeyr
Votes: 13,802 | Gross: $0.14M
11. Good (2008)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War
6.2
Rate
40 Metascore
John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, mother, mistress and Jewish friend.
Director:
Vicente Amorim | Stars:
Viggo Mortensen,
Jason Isaacs,
Jodie Whittaker,
Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 6,588 | Gross: $0.02M
12. Generation War (2013)
TV-MA | 270 min | Action, Drama, History
8.5
Rate
57 Metascore
Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
Stars:
Volker Bruch,
Tom Schilling,
Katharina Schüttler,
Miriam Stein
Votes: 23,200 | Gross: $0.09M
13. The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
R | 115 min | Action, Drama, War
6.7
Rate
As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?
Director:
John Guillermin | Stars:
George Segal,
Robert Vaughn,
Ben Gazzara,
Bradford Dillman
Votes: 8,144
14. Europa Europa (1990)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
7.6
Rate
75 Metascore
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Director:
Agnieszka Holland | Stars:
Solomon Perel,
Marco Hofschneider,
René Hofschneider,
André Wilms
Votes: 14,332 | Gross: $5.58M
15. The Misfit Brigade (1987)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
5.9
Rate
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army.
Director:
Gordon Hessler | Stars:
Bruce Davison,
David Patrick Kelly,
D.W. Moffett,
Jay O. Sanders
Votes: 1,761
16. The Aryan Couple (2004)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, War
6.3
Rate
29 Metascore
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.
Director:
John Daly | Stars:
Martin Landau,
Kenny Doughty,
Caroline Carver,
Judy Parfitt
Votes: 1,028
17. The Last Bridge (1954)
102 min | Drama, War
7.3
Rate
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II.
Director:
Helmut Käutner | Stars:
Maria Schell,
Bernhard Wicki,
Barbara Rütting,
Carl Möhner
Votes: 325
18. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, War
7.8
Rate
55 Metascore
Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Director:
Mark Herman | Stars:
Asa Butterfield,
David Thewlis,
Rupert Friend,
Zac Mattoon O'Brien
Votes: 178,744 | Gross: $9.03M
19. Land of Mine (2015)
R | 100 min | Drama, History, War
7.8
Rate
75 Metascore
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
Director:
Martin Zandvliet | Stars:
Roland Møller,
Louis Hofmann,
Joel Basman,
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Votes: 30,886 | Gross: $0.44M
20. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
PG | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
6.9
Rate
61 Metascore
A German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
Director:
John Sturges | Stars:
Michael Caine,
Donald Sutherland,
Robert Duvall,
Jenny Agutter
Votes: 17,971
21. The Devil's General (1955)
117 min | Drama, War
7.3
Rate
1941, the Third Reich seems to be winning the war. Luftwaffe (air force) general Harry Harras enjoys the good life as highly respected technician and Berlin ministry/ HQ official. However ...
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Director:
Helmut Käutner | Stars:
Curd Jürgens,
Viktor de Kowa,
Karl John,
Marianne Koch
Votes: 985
22. The Ogre (1996)
R | 118 min | Drama
6.9
Rate
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very ...
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Director:
Volker Schlöndorff | Stars:
John Malkovich,
Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Gottfried John,
Marianne Sägebrecht
Votes: 2,247 | Gross: $0.05M
23. The Tin Drum (1979)
R | 142 min | Drama, War
7.5
Rate
63 Metascore
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Director:
Volker Schlöndorff | Stars:
David Bennent,
Mario Adorf,
Angela Winkler,
Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 21,118
24. The Enemy Below (1957)
Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
7.5
Rate
During World War II, an American destroyer meets a German U-Boat. Both captains are experts, and so begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Director:
Dick Powell | Stars:
Robert Mitchum,
Curd Jürgens,
David Hedison,
Theodore Bikel
Votes: 9,215
25. Germany Year Zero (1948)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, War
7.9
Rate
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.
Director:
Roberto Rossellini | Stars:
Edmund Moeschke,
Ernst Pittschau,
Ingetraud Hinze,
Franz-Otto Krüger
Votes: 9,329
26. The Bridge (1959)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, War
8
Rate
In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.
Director:
Bernhard Wicki | Stars:
Folker Bohnet,
Fritz Wepper,
Michael Hinz,
Frank Glaubrecht
Votes: 6,677
27. Alone in Berlin (2016)
R | 103 min | Drama, History, War
6.5
Rate
52 Metascore
After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.
Director:
Vincent Perez | Stars:
Mikael Persbrandt,
Emma Thompson,
Brendan Gleeson,
Daniel Brühl
Votes: 7,215
28. The Sea Chase (1955)
Approved | 117 min | Action, Drama, War
6.5
Rate
As World War II begins, German freighter Captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
Director:
John Farrow | Stars:
John Wayne,
Lana Turner,
David Farrar,
Lyle Bettger
Votes: 2,646
29. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
7.7
Rate
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director:
Frank Pierson | Stars:
Kenneth Branagh,
Clare Bullus,
Stanley Tucci,
Simon Markey
Votes: 17,490
30. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, War
6.9
Rate
The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
Director:
Henry Hathaway | Stars:
James Mason,
Cedric Hardwicke,
Jessica Tandy,
Luther Adler
Votes: 5,364
31. Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
6.6
Rate
In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
Directors:
Michael Powell,
Emeric Pressburger | Stars:
John Gregson,
Anthony Quayle,
Ian Hunter,
Jack Gwillim
Votes: 3,622
32. 49th Parallel (1941)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Thriller, War
7.3
Rate
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
Director:
Michael Powell | Stars:
Leslie Howard,
Laurence Olivier,
Raymond Massey,
Anton Walbrook
Votes: 5,433
33. The Night of the Generals (1967)
PG | 148 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
7.3
Rate
In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.
Director:
Anatole Litvak | Stars:
Peter O'Toole,
Omar Sharif,
Tom Courtenay,
Donald Pleasence
Votes: 6,730
(added 16 February 2018)