German Dramas on Netflix

Traumatized, violent and yearning for love, 9-year-old Benni bonds with a gruff mentor as child-services workers struggle to find her a home.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 02:00:08
Netflix ID: 81071573 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After Albanian German teen Yara and tough orphan Kiki fall in love, they steal a car and go on the run to escape Yara's impending arranged marriage.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:27:49
Netflix ID: 81498299 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Jewish couple and their daughter emigrate from Germany to Kenya to escape the Nazis and are forced to adapt to life on an unfamiliar continent.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:15:34
Netflix ID: 60026143 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A teenager's intimate video of himself accidentally fall into the hands of bullies, wreaking havoc in his already troubled life.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:28:38
Netflix ID: 80001124 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an aspiring boxer is recruited to train with the Nazis, he eagerly accepts -- despite the objections of his father, who adamantly opposes Hitler.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 01:49:56
Netflix ID: 70038930 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A fascinating portrait of coal miner-turned-songwriter Gerhard 'Gundi' Gundermann, whose ties to the German Stasi fueled his views and work.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:07:28
Netflix ID: 81076897 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Life is good for electronic music composer Martin as he tours the globe with his manager and girlfriend and prepares to release what's be his biggest album yet -- then he's admitted to a Berlin psych ward whacked out of his mind on drugs.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:49:33
Netflix ID: 70114977 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman who has grown up in a strict, cult-like religious community begins to rebel during her teenage years, creating conflict in her family.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:25:03
Netflix ID: 70308603 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After three years in a coma, a woman wakes up to discover parts of her memory missing, and her husband and child now living with her best friend.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:28:45
Netflix ID: 70308604 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this docudrama set in 1943 Berlin, four Jewish young adults take harrowing risks to stay in their city and hide in plain sight from the Third Reich.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:50:22
Netflix ID: 81034929 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During the World War II Nazi occupation, a mill owner in the Sudetenland tries to hide a big secret as he contends with betrayal and other atrocities.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:40:18
Netflix ID: 81324779 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Facing trouble in a new home, a dog named Lassie takes off for an adventure to find her most beloved companion.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:36:17
Netflix ID: 81318124 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tracing every year of socialist activist Rosa Luxemburg's remarkable career, this documentary draws on thousands of pages of her own correspondence.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:56:59
Netflix ID: 80010203 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Officials interrogate German worker Georg Elser when a bomb he plants detonates after Hitler has left a rally, thwarting his assassination attempt.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:49:14
Netflix ID: 80088000 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Long past his heyday, a still-virile boxer tries to reconnect with his daughter as he confronts the onset of a terminal, degenerative neural disorder.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:49:09
Netflix ID: 80082749 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a Swiss village in 1971, men write the rules -- and a fed up housewife launches a suffrage campaign ahead of a referendum on women's right to vote.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:36:26
Netflix ID: 80189869 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Seventeen-year-olds Kati and Steffi are best friends. But while Steffi has a great boyfriend and a loving home, Kati is lovelorn amid her family's incessant squabbling -- but the tables are about to turn.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:31:37
Netflix ID: 60030191 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Residents of a small town learn of the state government's plans to build a nuclear plant as doubts rise, protests spark and a local politician steps up.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 02:02:36
Netflix ID: 81435605 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After her father dies, Hannah notices that her mother is acting very strangely. A look back at her mother's troubled childhood yields explanations.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:15:38
Netflix ID: 70018270 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As war-torn Germany faces defeat in 1944, German Col. Claus von Stauffenberg leads a daring plot to bomb one of Hitler's conference rooms.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:32:02
Netflix ID: 70117206 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As the 1954 World Cup draws near, a POW finally returns to his West German home and reconnects with his family, including his soccer-obsessed son.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:57:44
Netflix ID: 80218312 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A German nurse helps — and soon falls for — an injured British pilot who is hiding out in her hospital during the brutal WWII Dresden bombing raids.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix ID: 70281038 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Biography of the poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller which traces his rebellious youth, first romances, and early artistic achievements.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:29:18
Netflix ID: 70308606 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A thrill-seeking teenage girl with a heart defect bonds with a rowdy black stallion and fights to ride in a race despite her life-threatening illness.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:49:18
Netflix ID: 81051688 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This docudrama traces the life of playwright Bertolt Brecht from his romantic exploits to his radical plays amid war and political turmoil in Germany.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 03:05:12
Netflix ID: 81443344 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

From her on-screen triumphs to her off-screen tribulations, this biopic focuses on the captivating life and career of actress Romy Schneider.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:46:06
Netflix ID: 81316276 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman who's still struggling to come to terms with an accident that took place seven years ago channels her grief into anger and destruction.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6
Runtime: 01:28:27
Netflix ID: 80220648 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a textiles company owner from Cologne falls in love with a Vietnamese prostitute, their romance threatens to destroy his family and career.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 5.9
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:33:06
Netflix ID: 70308605 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Determined to feed and fight for her family, a feisty working mom catches the eye of an ex-boxer and gets her chance to enter the ring, swinging.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:53:14
Netflix ID: 81339358 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A married writer returns to New York City after many years, where he seeks out a former lover to revisit the ghosts of their romantic past.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:46:29
Netflix ID: 81394888 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When France elects its first Muslim president, the shifting cultural climate drastically changes a literary scholar's life.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:28:00
Netflix ID: 81022390 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An accident at a nuclear power plant creates a radioactive cloud, leaving two enamored teens to search for refuge amid devastation and contamination.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:42:29
Netflix ID: 81436659 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After an accident scares her off riding, a young champion equestrian forms a life-changing bond with a mistreated but spirited stallion.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:31:18
Netflix ID: 81248635 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Devastated by the loss of his son to the war in Afghanistan, a committed pacifist retreats to a frigid mountain hut where he's driven into violence.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 01:28:22
Netflix ID: 81022877 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a meek security guard trainee falls under the wing of a fighting vigilante, she unleashes a taste for street justice that neither of them expects.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 01:27:10
Netflix ID: 81151855 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A 20-year-old mathematics student in Berlin starts dabbling in prostitution to earn extra money, but soon finds her double life hard to manage.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.3
Runtime: 01:36:06
Netflix ID: 80204349 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Reeling from her mother's death, a troubled teen drifts into a hedonistic world of excess as she pushes her limits in the company of dubious adults.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.3
Runtime: 01:30:04
Netflix ID: 80171025 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Years after a traumatic accident, an adventurous young woman craves exuberant sex to suppress deep-seated issues from her tragic past.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5
Runtime: 01:29:17
Netflix ID: 81151835 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An elderly music teacher who gives piano lessons to prisoners finds a prodigy in a young inmate and devotes herself to developing that talent.

Year: 2006
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:55:24
Netflix ID: 70098886 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces political upheaval over keeping her country's borders open amid a 2015 refugee crisis in this quick-paced drama.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:58:57
Netflix ID: 81295089 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During the 1953 uprising in East Germany, a West Berlin journalist risks his life to enter East Berlin, where his brother and father are in danger.

Year: 2003
Runtime: 01:27:46
Netflix ID: 81316279 · Watch on Netflix

After evading deportation in Nazi Germany, a Jewish woman and her son are forced to navigate a series of struggles while in hiding.

Year: 2006
Runtime: 01:35:25
Netflix ID: 81353990 · Watch on Netflix

When two university students meet in West Germany during the 1960s, their relationship blurs the lines between love, politics, and revolution.

Year: 2011
Runtime: 02:05:38
Netflix ID: 81394887 · Watch on Netflix

In this update of the Alfred Döblin novel, Francis is an undocumented West African man who seals his fate when he falls in with a German drug dealer.

Runtime: 03:03:36
Netflix ID: 81048770 · Watch on Netflix

After discovering their beloved horse farm is on the brink of financial ruin, three sisters work together to keep the property in the family.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:41:56
Netflix ID: 81077163 · Watch on Netflix

A detective with an anxiety disorder transfers from the big city to a tiny village in search of serenity. But hope fades when the mayor is found dead.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:29:02
Netflix ID: 81405378 · Watch on Netflix

When her grandmother passes, a woman inherits a house filled with bittersweet childhood memories and generations of family history.

Year: 2013
Runtime: 02:00:21
Netflix ID: 81435603 · Watch on Netflix

In this speculative drama set in the year 2034, nations devastated by climate change sue the German government over its destructive climate policies.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:29:42
Netflix ID: 81443478 · Watch on Netflix

A doctor urges his teen daughter to volunteer at a hospital abroad during her gap year but her need for independence soon clashes with his expectations.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:22:46
Netflix ID: 81443347 · Watch on Netflix

While treating the injured in the Alps, a group of doctors in training is sent on a risky rescue mission when a mountain guide mysteriously disappears.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:29:09
Netflix ID: 81443359 · Watch on Netflix

During the Christmas holidays, Hubert and Staller investigate the demise of an elderly pensioner who died suspiciously but unnoticed a year earlier.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:29:52
Netflix ID: 81461089 · Watch on Netflix

A Jewish girl and her family flee from Berlin and make their way around Europe in an attempt to escape the Nazi occupation. Based on a true story.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:58:59
Netflix ID: 81349555 · Watch on Netflix