The 40 most popular german horror movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Nosferatu
1922 · 1h 34m · DE
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.


In the Lost Lands
2025 · 1h 41m · DE
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.


Doom
2005 · 1h 45m · CZ
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.


The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 · 1h 17m · DE
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.


Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · 1h 47m · DE
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.


Blood Red Sky
2021 · 2h 3m · DE
A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.


Shattered
2022 · 1h 32m · DE
Chris, a wealthy divorcee, lives in a high-tech house of his own design in Montana. His life changes when he meets Sky, a mysterious young woman who draws him out of his shell and moves in after Chris is injured.


The Blood Countess
2026 · 1h 59m · AT
The Blood Countess and her maid embark on a quest for the red elixir of life and a book that threatens the vampire realm. Hot on their heels are a police inspector, two vampirologists, a vegetarian nephew and his therapist.


Friend Request
2016 · 1h 32m · DE
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...


Open Water 2: Adrift
2006 · 1h 34m · DE
A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends when they get stuck in the water many miles from shore and a happy reunion turns into a fight for survival.


House of the Dead
2003 · 1h 30m · CA
On an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity.


Pelican Blood
2020 · 2h 1m · BG
Wiebke, a professional horse trainer, faces a unique challenge when she adopts Raya, a five-year-old girl, who is prone to violent outbursts because of her traumatic past.


The Sandman
1983 · 1h 11m · DE
Based on the classic 19th century tale by German writer/composer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the film investigates the tale's themes of obsession and madness, emphasizing expressionist imagery and theatrical style. The story relates the life of the young student Nathanael, whose childhood memories are haunted by a sinister man. As a child, Nathanael believed this dark figure to be the mythic Sandman, who puts children to sleep by stealing their eyes. When confronted by this same evil presence as an adult, he is pushed toward madness as he tries to confront his childhood fears.
Der Templer
Der Templer
2002 · 15m · DE
A Knight Templar returns home from the Crusades in the Promised Land and has lost his faith in God due to his experiences fighting the infidels. When he passes a small village, a young woman is to be burned as a witch there at the same time. The crusader does not think twice, frees the mysterious beauty at the risk of his life and is seriously injured on the run. In the woods, the herbalist takes care of his injuries and nurses the Templar back to health. For her help, however, the mysterious woman demands a very high price...


The Golden Glove
2019 · 1h 50m · DE
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.


Creep
2004 · 1h 25m · DE
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets


Vortex
2001 · 1h 3m · DE
In the near future crime rates are at an all time high. The government counters this development with a new prison: The Vortex. Innocent citizen Vincent is sent there, after he killed a man who tried to rob him in self-defense. In the Vortex everybody has to commit their crime over and over again. Vincents first victim is his neighbour Carl.


What the Peeper Saw
1972 · 1h 29m · IT
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.


The Raven
1951 · 14m · AT
A short horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven.


Joe Killionaire
2007 · US
In pursuit of ratings, resourceful producers come up with the idea of casting female contestants to vie for the affections of a supposed millionaire in a way that will appeal to the audience. Without further ado, the good-for-nothing Evander becomes the Duke of Boofington, 14th Lord of Ticklebottom, and various ladies don't take long to agree to humiliating tests in front of the camera. The program takes an unexpected turn when a slasher from the audience suddenly takes over the direction.


Black Past
1989 · 1h 23m · DE
Tommy finds a cursed mirror and a diary in an attic in the new house they moved in. The mirror starts to give Tommy horrible and gruesome visions as his crush keeps rising from the dead.
Robert
Robert
1966 · 46m · DE
Miss Giehse, an elderly teacher in a boarding school, tries with a lot of good will for her student Robert. The boy seems strangely withdrawn and depressed to her. Robert, whose behavior can be traced back to his parental home, which lacks orderly family relationships, disrupts the lessons with his defiant and rebellious behavior. All her attempts to investigate the causes of this behavior, however, only lead to increasingly serious misunderstandings. In almost hysterical exaggeration, provoked by Robert's tormenting behavior, she finally believes that he is trying to poison her and knocks the boy down during a break. The principal of the boarding school inadvertently witnesses this incident and dismisses Miss Giehse after a heated controversy. The teacher does not overcome the shame of the dismissal and the pain of her own actions and dies on the day she has to leave the boarding school on a trip with the school bus.


Shortcut
2020 · 1h 20m · DE
A group of five classmates is trapped inside their school bus after an encounter with a mysterious creature on the road. Amid constant threats from the creature, the teen's anxiety increases while their survival chances decrease.


Black Death
2010 · 1h 42m · UK
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.


Making Contact
1985 · 1h 34m · DE
A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not everything is good for Joey as his newly gained powers accidentally awake an evil supernatural force that is contained inside the body of an old ventriloquist's dummy that Joey found in an abandoned house. The supernatural Dummy shows similar powers to Joey's, and soon he puts the lives of everyone near Joey in danger as the evil Dummy has dark plans for Joey's special powers.


Hagazussa
2018 · 1h 42m · AT
In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.


Nekromantik 2
1991 · 1h 43m · DE
Monika lives with Rob, a corpse she loves. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets Mark and considers a normal life with him. She must choose between her affection for Rob and a new relationship.


Old People
2022 · 1h 41m · DE
A woman who's returned home with her two kids to attend her sister's wedding must suddenly defend their lives against older people on a killing spree.


Haunted Hospital: Heilstatten
2018 · 1h 29m · DE
Group of Youtubers enter an abandoned surgery ward for 24-hour challenge, hoping to go viral. They will soon learn that they're not welcome.


Faust
1926 · 1h 46m · DE
Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.


Dead Past
2010 · DE
David's wife is murdered in their vacation home in the woods. David tries to solve her murder and finds out that her killer was unable to finish the job back then and will therefore probably return to the scene of the crime at some point. He decides to stay in the vacation home over the winter and wait for the killer to take revenge! But the long winter nights and the never-ending loneliness are not his only problem... The house harbors a dark secret!


Deathwatch
2002 · 1h 34m · DE
In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.


Pique Dame
1918 · 1h 18m · DE
Russia in the 19th century. The young Lieutenant Stanislaus Kovolski is in constant financial difficulties. One day he meets a fortune-teller, who prophesies that the great blessing is to expect.


Frankenstein's Bloody Terror
1968 · 1h 31m · DE
A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.


Krabat
2008 · 2h · DE
A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is not only taught the craft of milling, but is also instructed in the sinister world of the darker arts. When the life of his friend and protector is threatened, Krabat must struggle to free himself from an evil sorcerer's control in a gripping fight for freedom, friendship and love.


We Are the Night
2010 · 1h 40m · FR
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, the parties. But soon the murderous blood lust of her comrades in arms proves too much for her, and she falls dangerously in love with Tom, a young undercover cop.


BloodBound
2007 · DE
Vic and Stan reliably carry out assignments and courier services, which may involve the use of forceful arguments. When they transport a seemingly empty suitcase to a bar full of strangely tattooed guys for their boss, they get into a fight and Stan is injured. Later, they both learn that their opponents may have been of demonic origin and were seeking world domination. Vic sides with their opponents, but discovers that Stan has already been infected by the demons.


Terror 2000
1993 · 1h 19m · DE
Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this matter in Rassau, exploring a world of obsessive sex, mislead lust and an over-whelming irrational love to the German nation, infiltrating anyone's mind. Rascism doesn't start with shaved hair and boots but rather in the middle of society itself...


Eerie Tales
1919 · 1h 41m · DE
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.


The Devil's Female
1974 · 1h 24m · DE
At a girls boarding school, a beautiful blonde orphan is possessed by an evil demon.
German cinema's two great periods bookend the century: Weimar-era Expressionism, whose shadows and angles built the visual grammar of horror and noir, and the New German Cinema of the 1970s under Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders.
Horror is cinema's most reliable laboratory — cheap to make, endlessly reinvented, and unusually good at smuggling in subtext. Every few years a national wave redefines it: Italian giallo, Japanese J-horror, the Korean thriller, American indie horror.