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    German Romance Movies

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

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    Drive - The Pretenders
    TMDB3.9

    Drive - The Pretenders

    2026 · 1h 43m · DE

    A young mechanic fakes an engagement with racing's most scandalous star — officially for his reputation, secretly for her own shot behind the wheel. But soon the lie threatens to destroy everything — including what's already become so much more than just a deal.

    Regretting You
    TMDB3.5
    FF1.5

    Regretting You

    2025 · 1h 56m · US

    Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara explore what's left behind after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other.

    Never Look Away
    TMDB3.9

    Never Look Away

    2018 · 3h 8m · DE

    German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

    The Csardas Princess
    TMDB4.5

    The Csardas Princess

    1934 · 1h 35m · DE

    Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds out that he is already engaged to a countess.

    Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    TMDB3.4

    Elizabeth: The Golden Age

    2007 · 1h 54m · FR

    When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.

    Wings of Desire
    TMDB3.9

    Wings of Desire

    1987 · 2h 8m · DE

    Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.

    Only Lovers Left Alive
    TMDB3.6
    FF4.0

    Only Lovers Left Alive

    2013 · 2h 3m · UK

    A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

    Fall for Me
    TMDB3.1

    Fall for Me

    2025 · 1h 43m · DE

    Lilli is suspicious of her sister's new fiance, but when an attractive stranger enters her life, she's suddenly distracted by the thralls of desire.

    Hotel Desire
    TMDB3.0

    Hotel Desire

    2011 · 38m · DE

    Antonia is a single mother who works as a hotel maid in Berlin. A normal hot summer day takes a dramatic turn when she crosses paths with a particular guest of the hotel, famous blind portrait painter Julius Pass.

    The Black Forest Girl
    TMDB3.4

    The Black Forest Girl

    1950 · 1h 40m · DE

    The painter Hans Hauser falls head over heels in love with the "Black Forest girl" Bärbele Riederle. He travels to her home village and soon the two realize that they are made for each other.

    Three Girls Around Schubert
    TMDB4.0

    Three Girls Around Schubert

    1936 · 1h 33m · DE

    Composer Franz Schubert becomes involved with a family with three daughters, falling in love with the two blonds, first one, then the other; but will he notice the quiet brunet third daughter, who has fallen madly in love with him?

    First Love
    TMDB2.8

    First Love

    1970 · 1h 29m · DE

    The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.

    Achilles Returns
    TMDB3.8

    Achilles Returns

    2026 · 50m · FR

    After many years, with help of Thetis and negotiations between Zeus and Hades, the Greek hero Achilles is released from the Underworld into the modern world.

    Das Liebesnest

    TMDB5.0

    Das Liebesnest

    1922 · DE

    No overview available

    Black Cat, White Cat
    TMDB3.8

    Black Cat, White Cat

    1998 · 2h 7m · FR

    A small-time hustler makes a deal with a notorious gangster to whom he owes money: marry his teenage son to the latter's daughter. However, the young lovers are not as agreeable.

    Firebird
    TMDB3.7

    Firebird

    2021 · 1h 47m · EE

    At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.

    Wind

    TMDB4.5

    Wind

    1920 · 1h 23m · DE

    A winter land romance as disaster strikes.

    Ariane
    TMDB2.9

    Ariane

    1931 · 1h 23m · DE

    Ariane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner's charming wife, Elizabeth Bergner, likewise making her talkie debut. Young, naive Ariane sets herself for an emotional fall when she falls in love with Konstantin (Rudolf Forster), a much older and very married businessman. For his part, Konstantin regards the girl as just another harmless fling -- until he realizes a shade too late that he's really in love with her after all. Filmed in German, Ariane was simultaneously lensed in an English-language version, The Loves of Ariane.

    The House of the Spirits
    TMDB3.5

    The House of the Spirits

    1993 · 2h 20m · DE

    A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

    Kohlhiesel's Daughters
    TMDB2.9

    Kohlhiesel's Daughters

    1962 · 1h 36m · DE

    Landlord Kohlhiesl has two twin daughters that nevertheless couldn't be more different: Liesel is beautiful, feminine, sophisticated, educated and in love with a fellow, Toni, from back home. The other daughter, Susi, is clumsy, masculine, never left home and wants nothing to do with men. Liesel would dearly love to marry Tony, but her father refuses to allow the wedding until her sister Susi has found a husband first...

    Heaven
    TMDB3.2

    Heaven

    2002 · 1h 36m · FR

    A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

    Mothering Sunday
    TMDB2.7

    Mothering Sunday

    2021 · 1h 44m · DE

    On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.

    Perfect Addiction
    TMDB3.4

    Perfect Addiction

    2023 · 1h 37m · DE

    A female boxing trainer discovers that her champion cage-fighter boyfriend has been cheating on her with her sister and decides to seek revenge by training up his arch-rival to challenge him.

    Penelope
    TMDB3.4

    Penelope

    2006 · 1h 44m · UK

    Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soulmate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company? This untraditional fairy tale is about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.

    Last Stop
    TMDB3.3

    Last Stop

    1935 · 1h 30m · DE

    Endstation offers the American viewer tantalizing glimpses of busy, bustling mid-1930s Vienna. Otherwise, this minor yarn of an amorous streetcar conductor is strictly formula material. The film benefits from the star power of Paul Horbiger, resplendently garbed in an elaborate conductor's uniform. Also worth noting is the performance of Maria Andergest as the woebegone hatmaker whose fate is inextricably linked with hero Horbiger. Incidentally though the direction is credited with one E. W. Emo, Paul Horbiger actually called most of the shots on Endstation.

    Paris Je T'aime
    TMDB3.4

    Paris Je T'aime

    2006 · 2h · FR

    Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

    Undine
    TMDB3.2

    Undine

    2020 · 1h 29m · FR

    Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.

    Weihnachtsmann gesucht
    TMDB3.1

    Weihnachtsmann gesucht

    2002 · 1h 27m · DE

    A hired Santa makes promises to a little boy he can't really keep.

    Cocoon
    TMDB3.0

    Cocoon

    2020 · 1h 39m · DE

    In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.

    Fireworks
    TMDB3.1

    Fireworks

    1954 · 1h 37m · DE

    The quiet life of an extended family is shaken up when a circus comes into town.

    Annelie
    TMDB3.5

    Annelie

    1941 · 2h 50m · DE

    On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15 minutes will again and again become the girl′s fate.

    The Musketeer
    TMDB2.6

    The Musketeer

    2001 · 1h 44m · DE

    Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.

    Womb
    TMDB3.1
    FF2.0

    Womb

    2010 · 1h 51m · DE

    A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

    Rabbit Without Ears
    TMDB3.1

    Rabbit Without Ears

    2007 · 1h 56m · DE

    Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets Anna who has unfinished business with him.

    Engel sucht Flügel
    TMDB1.6

    Engel sucht Flügel

    2001 · 1h 30m · DE

    A bittersweet tale about three people - a young pianist, a moody antique dealer and a notorious thief - who are transformed by love.

    General Housecleaning

    TMDB4.5

    General Housecleaning

    1935 · 1h 24m · DE

    The head of a squad of maids captures the heart of a wealthy young bachelor.

    Der Vogelhändler
    TMDB2.8

    Der Vogelhändler

    1962 · DE

    No overview available

    Pygmalion
    TMDB3.4

    Pygmalion

    1935 · 1h 31m · DE

    When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

    Night Train to Lisbon
    TMDB3.3

    Night Train to Lisbon

    2013 · 1h 51m · DE

    Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

    Love 600
    TMDB5.0

    Love 600

    1970 · 1h 35m · DE

    Eva is the object of rich Sugar Daddy's affection. But while he showers her with gifts, she wants someone younger - namely Erich, who's more her style. Learning that Eva has left, the Sugar Daddy sends his chauffeur, Theo, to find her and Erich.

    About German Romance Movies

    German cinema

    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.

    Romance

    Romance is the genre most shaped by its era's ideas about intimacy, which makes watching across decades a genuine education. It spans the screwball comedies, the sweeping melodramas, and the modern indie two-hander.

    In this list

    Years covered
    1920–2026
    Best reviewed
    Wings of Desire (7.8)
    Often also
    Drama, Comedy, Fantasy

    Common questions

    What are the best German romance movies?
    By popularity across Flickfolio and TMDB, the top picks right now are Drive - The Pretenders, Regretting You, and Never Look Away. The full ranked list of 40 sits above — open any movie for ratings, reviews, and streaming availability.
    How is this list ranked?
    German romance movies are ordered by overall popularity, which blends how often a title is viewed, searched, and logged. It updates as viewing habits shift, so the list reflects what people are actually watching rather than a fixed critical canon.
    Where can I watch these movies?
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