Best German TV Shows on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best German TV Shows on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 97 titles in category code 65198. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Das Boot (1985)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, from 1985. The original television miniseries version of the classic war thriller about a German U-Boat crew's harrowing, deadly mission in World War II.
2. Monaco Franze (1983)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, from 1983. A Munich detective falls into various misadventures as he pursues criminals and tries to evade women across the city.
3. Der Tatortreiniger (2011)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2011. This dark comedy follows a crime scene cleaner who sweeps in to deal with the grim aftermath of murder scenes once the cops are done.
4. Babylon Berlin (2017)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, from 2017. A Soviet freight train's hijacking leads a haunted cop and a poor typist to uncover a political conspiracy amid the vice and glamour of 1929 Berlin.
5. Stromberg (2004)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, from 2004. Sarcastic, selfish and ambitious, Bernd Stromberg is the world's worst supervisor to his beleaguered insurance office staff in this workplace comedy.
6. Die Mockridges - Eine Knallerfamilie (2016)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, from 2016. In this comedy series, a big family of stand-ups, performers and YouTube stars struggle to balance everyday life with the weirdness of show business.
7. Weissensee (2010)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, from 2010. In Cold War-era East Berlin, two families -- one loyal to the Stasi secret police, the other firm dissidents -- are united by an unexpected romance.
8. Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1972)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, from 1972. The Pythons elevate the absurd to new heights and bring their sketches to German TV, working in phonetic German, at times with an Australian accent.
9. Mord mit Aussicht (2008)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 2008. An aspiring investigator from Cologne accepts a post as detective in the small Eifel Mountains village of Hengasch, and meets the eccentric citizens.
10. Dr. Psycho (2009)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 2009. Despite himself, a bumbling and unpopular police psychologist helps an organized crime unit solve cases, while trying to untangle his own messy life.