post war germany movies

The Aftermath (2019)
6.458 / 10

War, Drama, Romance

In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions...

Great Freedom (2021)
7.2 / 10

Drama, Romance, Crime

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which...

Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
7.2 / 10

Drama, History

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

A Foreign Affair (1948)
7 / 10

Romance, Comedy, Drama

In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.

The Search (1948)
6.908 / 10

Drama, War

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother...

The Victors (1963)
6.3 / 10

Drama, War

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to...

Hilde (2009)
5.4 / 10

Drama

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Verboten! (1959)
6.4 / 10

War, Drama, Thriller

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

Fraulein (1958)
7 / 10

War, Romance

In melodramatic fashion, the film tells the tale of a young German woman who finds herself alone in the world when the rest of her family is killed...

The Berliner (1948)
7.4 / 10

Drama, History, Comedy

Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his...

Inside Out (1975)
6.2 / 10

Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a...

Assignment Redhead (1956)
4.6 / 10

Crime, Drama

An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls...

Verfolgte Wege (1989)
0 / 10

Drama, History

Post-war Germany in 1946 while people are struggling to make ends meet, the film follows Hermann, a war veteran who finds employment at a train...

The Devil Makes Three (1952)
6.1 / 10

Crime, Romance, Thriller

Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.

Tiefe Furchen (1965)
4 / 10

Drama

Nachruf auf Jürgen Trahnke (1962)
0 / 10

The Haunted Screen: German Film After World War I (1998)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to...

Love and So Forth (1968)
0 / 10

Drama

Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello...

Glimpses of Western Germany (1954)
6.5 / 10

Documentary

This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich, and Heidelberg. Included are scenes of World...

Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary

Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the club to its first German championship, was...