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    German Thriller Movies

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

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    Ninja Assassin
    TMDB3.4
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    Ninja Assassin

    2009 · 1h 39m

    country: United States

    Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.

    The Name of the Rose
    TMDB3.7

    The Name of the Rose

    1986 · 2h 10m

    country: France

    14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

    Point Break
    TMDB3.0

    Point Break

    2015 · 1h 54m

    country: Germany

    A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    TMDB3.8

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    2009 · 2h 32m

    country: Denmark

    Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

    Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
    TMDB3.5

    Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

    2021 · 1h 50m

    country: United States

    An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

    The Lives of Others
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    The Lives of Others

    2006 · 2h 17m

    country: Germany

    In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

    Exterritorial
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    Exterritorial

    2025 · 1h 49m

    country: Germany

    When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.

    Run Lola Run
    TMDB3.7

    Run Lola Run

    1998 · 1h 20m

    country: Germany

    Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

    Fall for Me
    TMDB3.0

    Fall for Me

    2025 · 1h 43m

    country: Germany

    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.

    Sixty Minutes
    TMDB3.4

    Sixty Minutes

    2024 · 1h 29m

    country: Germany

    Desperate to keep custody of his daughter, a mixed martial arts fighter abandons a big match and races across Berlin to attend her birthday party.

    Shattered
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    Shattered

    2022 · 1h 32m

    country: Germany

    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 Ghost Writer
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    The Ghost Writer

    2010 · 2h 8m

    country: France

    A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

    The Wave
    TMDB3.7

    The Wave

    2008 · 1h 47m

    country: Germany

    A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

    Brick
    TMDB2.9

    Brick

    2025 · 1h 39m

    country: Germany

    When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.

    K-19: The Widowmaker
    TMDB3.3

    K-19: The Widowmaker

    2002 · 2h 18m

    country: Canada

    When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

    Machete
    TMDB3.1

    Machete

    2010 · 1h 45m

    country: United States

    After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

    The Ghost and the Darkness
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    The Ghost and the Darkness

    1996 · 1h 49m

    country: Germany

    Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

    The Golden Glove
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    The Golden Glove

    2019 · 1h 50m

    country: Germany

    A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

    The Girl Who Played with Fire
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    The Girl Who Played with Fire

    2009 · 2h 9m

    country: Denmark

    Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

    Guns Akimbo
    TMDB3.2

    Guns Akimbo

    2020 · 1h 38m

    country: Belgium

    An ordinary guy suddenly finds himself forced to fight a gladiator-like battle for a dark website that streams the violence for viewers. In order to survive and rescue his kidnapped ex-girlfriend, he must battle Nix, a heavily armed and much more experienced fighter.

    Blood Red Sky
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    Blood Red Sky

    2021 · 2h 3m

    country: Germany

    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.

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    1920 · 1h 17m

    country: Germany

    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.

    The Colony
    TMDB2.9

    The Colony

    2021 · 1h 44m

    country: Germany

    In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.

    The Collini Case
    TMDB3.7

    The Collini Case

    2019 · 1h 58m

    country: Germany

    A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

    Balloon
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    Balloon

    2018 · 2h 5m

    country: France

    Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

    My Son
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    My Son

    2021 · 1h 35m

    country: Germany

    When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. [To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.]

    M
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    1931 · 1h 50m

    country: Germany

    In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

    Running Scared
    TMDB3.5

    Running Scared

    2006 · 2h 2m

    country: Germany

    A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.

    Two Prosecutors
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    Two Prosecutors

    2025 · 1h 58m

    country: France

    In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.

    Stowaway
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    Stowaway

    2021 · 1h 56m

    country: Germany

    A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    TMDB3.5

    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

    2009 · 2h 27m

    country: Denmark

    After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

    Who Am I
    TMDB3.8

    Who Am I

    2014 · 1h 45m

    country: Germany

    Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.

    Big Game
    TMDB2.7

    Big Game

    2014 · 1h 30m

    country: Finland

    Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.

    The Calendar Killer
    TMDB3.1

    The Calendar Killer

    2024 · 1h 33m

    country: Germany

    Klara is going to die today unless she kills her husband instead. The Calendar Killer has given her that impossible choice. When Jules starts his night shift at a telephone safety helpline for lonely women on their way home, Klara's call reaches him. He soon becomes her last hope for survival and races against time to save her.

    Pride and Glory
    TMDB3.2

    Pride and Glory

    2008 · 2h 10m

    country: United States

    A saga centered on the Tierneys, a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.

    The Operative
    TMDB2.9

    The Operative

    2019 · 2h

    country: Germany

    A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

    The Experiment
    TMDB3.7

    The Experiment

    2001 · 2h

    country: Germany

    20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.

    No Good Deed
    TMDB2.7

    No Good Deed

    2002 · 1h 37m

    country: United States

    While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

    The Fin
    TMDB3.0

    The Fin

    2026 · 1h 24m

    country: South Korea

    In a post-war, ecologically devastated Korea, mutated outcasts known as Omegas are exploited as cheap labor. Su-jin, a young government worker, begins to question the state's ideology as she pursues Mia, an Omega living in hiding.

    Chess Story
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    Chess Story

    2021 · 1h 50m

    country: Austria

    1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

    About German Thriller 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.

    Thriller

    Thrillers are engineered for tension: the pace, the withholding, the sense that something is closing in. The genre blends freely with crime, horror, and science fiction, and it's where a lot of the sharpest genre craft happens.

    In this list

    Years covered
    1920–2026
    Best reviewed
    M (8.1)
    Often also
    Drama, Action, Crime

    Common questions

    What are the best German thriller movies?
    By popularity across Flickfolio and TMDB, the top picks right now are Ninja Assassin, The Name of the Rose, and Point Break. The full ranked list of 40 sits above — open any movie for ratings, reviews, and streaming availability.
    How is this list ranked?
    German thriller 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.
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