Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
2001 |
Die Abrafaxe – Unter schwarzer Flagge | Gerhard Hahn | | Animated film | |
Alaska.de | Esther Gronenborn | Jana Pallaske | Drama | |
Berlin Babylon | Hubertus Siegert | | Documentary | |
Das Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Moritz Bleibtreu | Thriller | |
Herz im Kopf | Michael Gutmann | Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Tom Schilling | | |
Lammbock | Christian Zübert | Moritz Bleibtreu | Comedy | |
The Little Polar Bear | Piet De Rycker, Thilo Rothkirch | | Animated film | |
Love the Hard Way | Peter Sehr | Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Pam Grier, August Diehl | | German-American co-production |
Mädchen, Mädchen | Dennis Gansel | Diana Amft, Karoline Herfurth, Felicitas Woll | Comedy | |
Mondscheintarif | Ralf Huettner | Gruschenka Stevens, Tim Bergmann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Bettina Zimmermann | Comedy, Romance | IMDB |
Mostly Martha | Sandra Nettelbeck | Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellitto | | |
Nowhere in Africa | Caroline Link | Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich | Drama | Won Oscar |
Der Schuh des Manitu | Michael Herbig | Michael Herbig, Christian Tramitz, Sky du Mont, Marie Bäumer, Rick Kavanian | Comedy | |
The Tunnel | Roland Suso Richter | Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sebastian Koch | Drama | |
2002 |
666 – Traue keinem, mit dem du schläfst! | Rainer Matsutani | Jan Josef Liefers, Armin Rohde | Comedy | |
Amen. | Costa-Gavras | Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz | War drama | |
Baader | Christopher Roth | Frank Giering | Thriller | |
Bibi Blocksberg | Hermine Huntgeburth | Corinna Harfouch, Katja Riemann, Ulrich Noethen | Children's film | |
Do Fish Do It? | Almut Getto | Tino Mewes | | |
Der Felsen | Dominik Graf | Karoline Eichhorn | Drama | |
Feuer, Eis & Dosenbier | Mathias Dinter | Axel Stein, Rick Kavanian, Herbert Fux, Eva Habermann, Christoph M. Ohrt | Teen/Comedy film | |
Goebbels und Geduldig | Kai Wessel | Ulrich Mühe | War comedy | |
Grill Point | Andreas Dresen | Axel Prahl | | |
Resident Evil | Paul W. S. Anderson | Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Heike Makatsch | Action/Horror | German-British co-production |
Solino | Fatih Akın | Moritz Bleibtreu | | |
Tattoo | Robert Schwentke | August Diehl, Christian Redl | Thriller | |
Vaya con Dios | Zoltan Spirandelli | Michael Gwisdek, Daniel Brühl | Comedy | |
The White Sound | Hans Weingartner | Daniel Brühl | Drama | |
Wie die Karnickel | Sven Unterwaldt | | Comedy | |
2003 |
Anatomy 2 | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Heike Makatsch, August Diehl, Franka Potente | Horror | |
Berlin Blues | Leander Haußmann | Christian Ulmen, Detlev Buck | Comedy | |
Blueprint | Rolf Schübel | Franka Potente | Horror | |
Carolina | Marleen Gorris | Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine | Romantic comedy | German-American co-production |
Distant Lights | Hans-Christian Schmid | August Diehl | | |
Eierdiebe | Robert Schwentke | Wotan Wilke Möhring, Julia Hummer | | |
Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß | Ostalgie | Nom. for Golden Globe, +31 wins +14 nom. |
Hierankl | Hans Steinbichler | Johanna Wokalek, Barbara Sukowa, Josef Bierbichler | Drama | |
Liegen lernen | Hendrik Handloegten | Fabian Busch, Fritzi Haberlandt, Sophie Rois | | |
Luther | Eric Till | Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina, Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz | Biographical film | German-American co-production |
Mein Name ist Bach | Dominique de Rivaz | Vadim Glowna, Jürgen Vogel | Biographical film | Swiss-German co-production |
The Miracle of Bern | Sönke Wortmann | Peter Lohmeyer | Sports film | |
Rosenstrasse | Margarethe von Trotta | Maria Schrader, Katja Riemann | Drama | |
Schultze Gets the Blues | Michael Schorr | Horst Krause | | |
September | Max Färberböck | | | Screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival |
Verschwende deine Jugend | Benjamin Quabeck | Tom Schilling, Robert Stadlober, Jessica Schwarz | | |
Wolfsburg | Christian Petzold | Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss | Drama | |
2004 |
7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood | Sven Unterwaldt | Otto Waalkes, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Nina Hagen | Comedy | |
Agnes and His Brothers | Oskar Roehler | Martin Weiß, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann, Tom Schilling | Drama | 2 wins & 1 nomination |
Aus der Tiefe des Raumes | Gil Mehmert | | Comedy | Set in 1965 |
Before the Fall | Dennis Gansel | Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling | Drama | Best international film, Hamptons International Film Festival, 2004 |
The Blindflyers | Bernd Sahling | | | |
Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes | Drama | Downfall of Adolf Hitler / Nominated for Oscar |
Edelweiss Pirates | Niko von Glasow | Ivan Stebunov, Bela B. | War drama | |
The Edukators | Hans Weingartner | Julia Jentsch, Daniel Brühl | Comedy drama, Crime | Golden Palm Award nomination |
En Route | Jan Krüger | | | Tiger Award: Rotterdam Film Festival |
Guys and Balls | Sherry Hormann | Maximilian Brückner | Sports film/Comedy | |
Head-On | Fatih Akin | Sibel Kekilli, Birol Ünel | Drama | |
Laura's Star | Piet De Rycker, Thilo Rothkirch | | Animated film | |
Lautlos | Mennan Yapo | Joachim Król, Nadja Uhl | Thriller | |
Love in Thoughts | Achim von Borries | Daniel Brühl, August Diehl | Drama | |
Marseille | Angela Schanelec | | | Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival |
Muxmäuschenstill | Marcus Mittermeier | | | |
Night of the Living Dorks | Mathias Dinter | Tino Mewes, Manuel Cortez, Thomas Schmieder, Collien Fernandes | Teen/Comedy film | |
The Ninth Day | Volker Schlöndorff | Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl | Drama | |
Off Beat | Hendrik Hölzemann | Matthias Schweighöfer, Jessica Schwarz | Drama | |
Olgas Sommer | Nina Grosse | Clémence Poésy | | Entered into the 26th Moscow International Film Festival |
Peas at 5:30 | Lars Büchel | Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Fritzi Haberlandt | | |
Resident Evil: Apocalypse | Alexander Witt | Milla Jovovich, Thomas Kretschmann | Action/Horror | German-Canadian-French-British-American co-production |
Stratosphere Girl | Matthias X. Oberg | Chloé Winkel | | |
Summer Storm | Marco Kreuzpaintner | Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann | | |
Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 | Michael Herbig | Michael Herbig, Til Schweiger, Christian Tramitz, Rick Kavanian | Comedy | |
Der Wixxer | Tobi Baumann | Oliver Kalkofe, Bastian Pastewka, Thomas Fritsch, Wolfgang Völz | Crime film parody | |
2005 |
Alles auf Zucker! | Dani Levy | Henry Hübchen, Hannelore Elsner, Udo Samel | Comedy | |
Alone in the Dark | Uwe Boll | Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff | Horror | German-Canadian-American co-production |
Am Tag als Bobby Ewing starb | Lars Jessen | Peter Lohmeyer | | |
Antibodies | Christian Alvart | Wotan Wilke Möhring, André Hennicke, Norman Reedus | Thriller | |
Barfuss | Til Schweiger | Til Schweiger, Johanna Wokalek | | |
BloodRayne | Uwe Boll | Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Billy Zane, Udo Kier, Meat Loaf, Michelle Rodriguez | Fantasy | German-American co-production |
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul | Fatih Akin | | Documentary | Turkish-coproduction |
Ghosts | Christian Petzold | Julia Hummer, Marianne Basler | | |
I Am Guilty | Christoph Hochhäusler | | | Screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival |
Kebab Connection | Anno Saul | Denis Moschitto, Nora Tschirner | Comedy | Turkish-coproduction |
Keine Lieder über Liebe | Lars Kraume | Jürgen Vogel, Heike Makatsch, Florian Lukas | | |
The Little Polar Bear 2 – The Mysterious Island | Piet De Rycker, Thilo Rothkirch | | Animated film | |
NVA | Leander Haußmann | Detlev Buck, Kim Alexander Frank, Jasmin Schwiers | | |
Schneeland | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Maria Schrader, Thomas Kretschmann, Julia Jentsch | Drama | |
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Marc Rothemund | Julia Jentsch | Historical drama | |
Summer in Berlin | Andreas Dresen | Inka Friedrich, Nadja Uhl | | |
The White Masai | Hermine Huntgeburth | Nina Hoss, Jacky Ido, Katja Flint | | |
2006 |
Atomised | Oskar Roehler | Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Franka Potente, Christian Ulmen, Nina Hoss | Drama | |
Emma's Bliss | Sven Taddicken | Jürgen Vogel, Jördis Triebel | | |
Four Minutes | Chris Kraus | Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung | | |
A Friend of Mine | Sebastian Schipper | Daniel Brühl, Jürgen Vogel | | |
Grave Decisions | Marcus H. Rosenmüller | | | |
The House Is Burning | Holger Ernst | | | Screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival |
Ich bin die Andere | Margarethe von Trotta | Katja Riemann, August Diehl, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Dieter Laser, Karin Dor | Drama | |
The Last Train | Joseph Vilsmaier | Sibel Kekilli, Gedeon Burkhard | Drama | |
Lights in the Dusk | Aki Kaurismäki | Janne Hyytiäinen, Ilkka Koivula, Maria Järvenhelmi | Comedy-drama | Finnish-German-French co-production |
The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch | Drama | Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 7x Deutscher Filmpreis |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Tom Tykwer | Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman | Drama | 12 wins & 12 nominations |
Requiem | Hans-Christian Schmid | Sandra Hüller | Thriller | |
Der Rote Kakadu | Dominik Graf | Max Riemelt, Jessica Schwarz, Ronald Zehrfeld | Drama | |
Running on Empty | Bülent Akinci | Jens Harzer | | Entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival |
Summer '04 | Stefan Krohmer | Martina Gedeck | Drama | |
The Thief Lord | Richard Claus | Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Rollo Weeks, Vanessa Redgrave | Adventure | British-German co-production |
Tough Enough | Detlev Buck | David Kross, Jenny Elvers | Drama | |
Die Wilden Kerle 3 | Joachim Masannek | Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht | Sport/Children's film | |
2007 |
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him | Malte Ludin | Hanns Ludin | Documentary | |
Adam Resurrected | Paul Schrader | Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe | Drama | American-German-Israeli co-production |
And Along Come Tourists | Robert Thalheim | Alexander Fehling, Ryszard Ronczewski, Barbara Wysocka | Drama | |
The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow | Drama | German-Austrian co-production |
The Edge of Heaven | Fatih Akın | Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziółkowska, Nursel Köse, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla | Drama | Won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes |
Eight Miles High | Achim Bornhak | Natalia Avelon, Matthias Schweighöfer | Biographical film | |
Ein fliehendes Pferd | Rainer Kaufmann | Katja Riemann, Ulrich Tukur, Ulrich Noethen | | |
Full Metal Village | Cho Sung-hyung | | Documentary | |
Happily N'Ever After | Paul J. Bolger | | Animated film | German-American co-production |
In the Name of the King | Uwe Boll | Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Burt Reynolds, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta | Fantasy | German-Canadian-American co-production |
Love Life | Maria Schrader | Netta Garti, Rade Šerbedžija | | German-Israeli co-production |
My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler | Dani Levy | Helge Schneider, Ulrich Mühe, Sylvester Groth | Comedy | Entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival |
El otro | Ariel Rotter | | | Argentine-French-German co-production |
Rabbit Without Ears | Til Schweiger | Til Schweiger, Nora Tschirner, Matthias Schweighöfer | Comedy | 6 wins & 2 noms. for German film awards |
Reclaim Your Brain | Hans Weingartner | Moritz Bleibtreu | Comedy | |
Resident Evil: Extinction | Russell Mulcahy | Milla Jovovich | Action/Horror | German-Australian-French-British-American co-production |
Toyland | Jochen Alexander Freydank | | Short | Oscar 2009 |
Die Wilden Kerle 4 | Joachim Masannek | Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht | Sport/Fantasy | |
Yella | Christian Petzold | Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann | | |
2008 |
Absurdistan | Veit Helmer | | | Entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival |
The Baader Meinhof Complex | Uli Edel | Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Bruno Ganz | Drama | Nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film / nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |
Berlin Calling | Hannes Stöhr | Paul Kalkbrenner, Corinna Harfouch | | |
Buddenbrooks | Heinrich Breloer | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Iris Berben, Jessica Schwarz, Mark Waschke, August Diehl | | |
Cherry Blossoms | Doris Dörrie | Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner | | |
Chiko | Özgür Yildirim | Denis Moschitto, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volkan Özcan, Fahri Yardım, Reyhan Şahin | Crime Drama | |
Geliebte Clara | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Martina Gedeck, Pascal Greggory, Malik Zidi | Biographical film | |
Hardcover | Christian Zübert | Wotan Wilke Möhring, Lucas Gregorowicz | Crime comedy | |
Jerichow | Christian Petzold | Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer | Drama | |
Krabat | Marco Kreuzpaintner | David Kross, Daniel Brühl, Christian Redl, Robert Stadlober, Paula Kalenberg, Daniel Steiner | Fantasy/Drama/Thriller film | Based on the children's novel Krabat written by German children's books author Otfried Preußler. |
The Moon and Other Lovers | Bernd Böhlich | Katharina Thalbach, Birol Ünel, Fritzi Haberlandt | | Entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival |
My Friend from Faro | Nana Neul | Anjorka Strechel, Lucie Hollmann, Manuel Cortez | Drama | |
North Face | Philipp Stölzl | Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur | Historical fiction | |
Novemberkind | Christian Schwochow | Anna Maria Mühe, Ulrich Matthes | Drama | |
Otto; or Up with Dead People | Bruce LaBruce | Jey Crisfar, Marcel Schlutt | Horror | German-Canadian co-production |
The Red Baron | Nikolai Müllerschön | Matthias Schweighöfer, Joseph Fiennes, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey | War | |
Robert Zimmermann Is Tangled Up in Love | Leander Haußmann | Tom Schilling, Maruschka Detmers | | |
Transsiberian | Brad Anderson | Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley | Thriller | British-German-Spanish co-production |
The Wave | Dennis Gansel | Jürgen Vogel, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich | Drama | |
Wolke Neun | Andreas Dresen | Ursula Werner | | |
A Woman in Berlin | Max Färberböck | Nina Hoss, Yevgeny Sidikhin | Drama | |
A Year Ago in Winter | Caroline Link | Karoline Herfurth, Josef Bierbichler, Corinna Harfouch | Drama | |
2009 |
12 Paces Without a Head | Sven Taddicken | Ronald Zehrfeld, Matthias Schweighöfer | Adventure comedy | |
Berlin 36 | Kaspar Heidelbach | Karoline Herfurth, Sebastian Urzendowsky | Drama | |
Desert Flower | Sherry Hormann | Liya Kebede | Drama | |
The Door | Anno Saul | Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Heike Makatsch | Mystery thriller | |
Effi Briest | Hermine Huntgeburth | Julia Jentsch, Sebastian Koch, Mišel Matičević, Barbara Auer | Drama | |
Everyone Else | Maren Ade | Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger | | |
Gravity | Maximilian Erlenwein | Jürgen Vogel, Fabian Hinrichs | Crime drama | |
Hilde | Kai Wessel | Heike Makatsch, Dan Stevens | Biographical film | |
Hinter Kaifeck | Esther Gronenborn | Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Michael Gwisdek | Thriller | |
I've Never Been Happier | Alexander Adolph | Devid Striesow, Nadja Uhl | Crime comedy | |
John Rabe | Florian Gallenberger | Ulrich Tukur, Steve Buscemi, Daniel Brühl | Historical drama | |
Men in the City | Simon Verhoeven | Christian Ulmen, Nadja Uhl, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Til Schweiger | Comedy | |
Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling | Sebastian Niemann | Rick Kavanian, Nora Tschirner, Christian Tramitz, Bud Spencer, Franco Nero | Comedy | |
Pandorum | Christian Alvart | Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster | Science Fiction | German-British co-production |
Pope Joan | Sönke Wortmann | Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman | Drama | German-British-Italian-Spanish co-production |
Same Same but Different | Detlev Buck | David Kross, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk | Drama | |
Soul Kitchen | Fatih Akın | Adam Bousdoukos, Birol Ünel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anna Bederke | Comedy | |
Tannöd | Bettina Oberli | Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu | Drama | |
Vicky the Viking | Michael Herbig | Jonas Hämmerle, Waldemar Kobus, Günther Kaufmann | Children's film, Family film, Adventure film, Action film, Film adaptation | Based on the German-Austrian-Japanese Anime Television series of the same name. |
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen | Margarethe von Trotta | Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung | Biographical film | |
The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke | Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaußner, Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar | Drama | German-Austrian co-production |