List of German films of the 2000s
This is a list of some of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 2000s.
For an alphabetical list of articles on German films see :Category:German films.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 2000 | - | - | - | - |
| Anatomy | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos | Horror | |
| Ants in the Pants | Marc Rothemund | Tobias Schenke, Axel Stein | Comedy | |
| Crazy | Hans-Christian Schmid | Robert Stadlober, Tom Schilling, Julia Hummer | ||
| Enlightenment Guaranteed | Doris Dörrie | Uwe Ochsenknecht, | ||
| Erkan & Stefan | Michael Herbig | John Friedmann,, Alexandra Neldel | Comedy | |
| The Farewell | Jan Schütte | Josef Bierbichler, Monica Bleibtreu | Biographical film | Screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival |
| Gran Paradiso | Ken Duken, | |||
| Gripsholm | Xavier Koller | Ulrich Noethen, Heike Makatsch, Jasmin Tabatabai | ||
| Im Juli | Fatih Akin | Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul | Road movie | |
| In the Name of the King | Uwe Boll | Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Ron Perlman | Action fantasy | |
| Kalt ist der Abendhauch | Rainer Kaufmann | August Diehl, Heinz Bennent, Fritzi Haberlandt, Gisela Trowe | Drama | |
| The Legend of Rita | Volker Schlöndorff | Bibiana Beglau, Nadja Uhl | Drama | |
| Lost Killers | Dito Tsintsadze | Lasha Bakradze, Misel Maticevic | Screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Marlene | Joseph Vilsmaier | Katja Flint | Biographical film | |
| No Place to Go | Oskar Roehler | Hannelore Elsner | Drama | |
| The State I Am In | Christian Petzold | Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Julia Hummer | Drama |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 2001 | - | - | - | - |
| Die Abrafaxe – Unter schwarzer Flagge | Animated film | |||
| Alaska.de | Esther Gronenborn | Jana Pallaske | Drama | |
| Berlin Babylon | Documentary | |||
| Emil and the Detectives | Franziska Buch | Jürgen Vogel | ||
| Das Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Moritz Bleibtreu | Thriller | |
| ' | 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 | Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Pam Grier, August Diehl | German-American co-production | ||
| Mädchen, Mädchen | Dennis Gansel | Diana Amft, Karoline Herfurth, Felicitas Woll | Comedy | |
| Mondscheintarif | Gruschenka Stevens, Tim Bergmann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Bettina Zimmermann | Comedy, Romance | ||
| Mostly Martha | Sandra Nettelbeck | Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellitto | ||
| Nowhere in Africa | Caroline Link | Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich | Drama | |
| 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! | Jan Josef Liefers, Armin Rohde | Comedy | ||
| Amen. | Costa-Gavras | Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz | War drama | |
| Baader | Christopher Roth | Frank Giering | Thriller | |
| ' | Hermine Huntgeburth | Corinna Harfouch, Katja Riemann, Ulrich Noethen | Children's film | |
| Bungalow | Lennie Burmeister, Trine Dyrholm, Devid Striesow | Drama | ||
| Do Fish Do It? | Tino Mewes | |||
| ' | Urs Egger | Mario Adorf, Bruno Ganz, Otto Tausig, Günter Lamprecht, Annie Girardot, Nina Hoss | Drama | |
| ' | 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 | ||
| A Map of the Heart | Dominik Graf | Karoline Eichhorn | Drama | |
| 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, :de:Christian Redl |Christian Redl | Thriller | |
| Vaya con Dios | Zoltan Spirandelli | Michael Gwisdek, Daniel Brühl | Comedy | |
| The White Sound | Hans Weingartner | Daniel Brühl | Drama | |
| Wie die Karnickel | ,, | 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. |
| Gun-Shy | Dito Tsintsadze | Fabian Hinrichs, Lavinia Wilson, Johan Leysen, Christoph Waltz | Crime drama | |
| Hierankl | Hans Steinbichler | Johanna Wokalek, Barbara Sukowa, Josef Bierbichler | Drama | |
| Liegen lernen | 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 | Vadim Glowna, Jürgen Vogel | Biographical film | Swiss-German co-production | |
| The Miracle of Bern | Sönke Wortmann | Peter Lohmeyer | Sports film | |
| ' | Tom Schilling, Robert Stadlober, Jessica Schwarz | |||
| Rosenstrasse | Margarethe von Trotta | Maria Schrader, Katja Riemann | Drama | |
| Schultze Gets the Blues | Michael Schorr | Horst Krause | ||
| September | Max Färberböck | Justus von Dohnányi, Nina Proll, Jörg Schüttauf | Screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Soloalbum | Gregor Schnitzler | Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Tschirner | ||
| Wolfsburg | Christian Petzold | Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss | Drama | |
| 2004 | - | - | - | - |
| Venussian Tabutasco | Daryush Shokof | Narges Rashidi, Daryush Shokof | Comedy | |
| 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood | Otto Waalkes, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Nina Hagen | Comedy | ||
| Agnes and His Brothers | Oskar Roehler | , Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann, Tom Schilling | Drama | 2 wins & 1 nomination |
| ' | , | 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 | Ricarda Ramünke, Maria Rother | Musical | |
| Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes | Drama, War | 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 | Martin Kiefer, Anabelle Lachatte, Florian Panzner | 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 | ||
| Love in Thoughts | Achim von Borries | Daniel Brühl, August Diehl | Drama | |
| Marseille | Angela Schanelec | Maren Eggert, Alexis Loret, Devid Striesow | Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Muxmäuschenstill | Jan Henrik Stahlberg | |||
| Night of the Living Dorks | Tino Mewes, Manuel Cortez,, Collien Fernandes | Teen/Comedy film | ||
| The Ninth Day | Volker Schlöndorff | Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl | Drama | |
| Off Beat | Matthias Schweighöfer, Jessica Schwarz | Drama | ||
| Olgas Sommer | Nina Grosse | Clémence Poésy | Entered into the 26th Moscow International Film Festival | |
| ' | Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Fritzi Haberlandt | |||
| ' | Alexander Witt | Milla Jovovich, Thomas Kretschmann | Action/Horror | German-Canadian-French-British-American co-production |
| Soundless | Mennan Yapo | Joachim Król, Nadja Uhl | Thriller | |
| Stratosphere Girl | 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 | Oliver Kalkofe, Bastian Pastewka, Thomas Fritsch, Wolfgang Völz | Crime film parody | ||
| Boo, Zino & the Snurks | , | Animated film | ||
| 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 |
| ' | 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 |
| ' | Sven Martinek, Eva Habermann, Götz Otto, Xenia Seeberg | Action | ||
| ' | Fatih Akin | Documentary | Turkish-coproduction | |
| Ghosts | Christian Petzold | Julia Hummer, Marianne Basler | ||
| I Am Guilty | Christoph Hochhäusler | Constantin von Jascheroff | Screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Joyeux Noël | Christian Carion | Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis, Alex Ferns, Dany Boon, Daniel Brühl | War drama | Co-produced with France & UK |
| Kebab Connection | Anno Saul | Denis Moschitto, Nora Tschirner | Comedy | Turkish-coproduction |
| ' | 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 | |
| Sleeper | Benjamin Heisenberg | Bastian Trost, Mehdi Nebbou | 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 | - | - | - | - |
| Asudem | Daryush Shokof | Narges Rashidi, yangzom Brauen | Horror | |
| Atomised | Oskar Roehler | Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Franka Potente, Christian Ulmen, Nina Hoss | Drama | |
| The Conclave | Christoph Schrewe | Manuel Fullola, Brian Blessed | Historical drama | Co-produced with Canada |
| Emma's Bliss | 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 | Markus Krojer, Fritz Karl | ||
| The House Is Burning | Holger Ernst | Harley Adams, John Diehl, Melissa Leo | 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 |
| ' | 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 | Martina Gedeck | Drama | ||
| The Thief Lord | 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 | Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht | Sport/Children's film | ||
| 2007 | - | - | - | - |
| Breathful | Daryush Shokof | Narges Rashidi, Taies Farzan | Comedy | |
| 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, | 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,, Nursel Köse, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla | Drama | Won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes |
| Eight Miles High | Natalia Avelon, Matthias Schweighöfer | Biographical film | ||
| 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 | Julio Chávez | Argentine-French-German co-production | |
| Pool of Princesses | Documentary | |||
| 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 | |
| ' | Russell Mulcahy | Milla Jovovich | Action/Horror | German-Australian-French-British-American co-production |
| Runaway Horse | Rainer Kaufmann | Katja Riemann, Ulrich Tukur, Ulrich Noethen | ||
| Toyland | Jochen Alexander Freydank | Julia Jäger | Short | Oscar 2009 |
| Die Wilden Kerle 4 | Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht | Sport/Fantasy | ||
| Yella | Christian Petzold | Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann | ||
| 2008 | - | - | - | - |
| Absurdistan | Veit Helmer | Kristýna Malérová-Podzimková, Maximilian Mauff | 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, :de:Christian Redl |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. |
| ' | Christian Görlitz | Maxim Mehmet, Andreas Schmidt, Anna Fischer, Susanne Lothar | ||
| 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 | Ronald Zehrfeld, Matthias Schweighöfer | Adventure comedy | ||
| Berlin 36 | 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 | 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 | Devid Striesow, Nadja Uhl | Crime comedy | ||
| The International | Tom Tykwer | Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen | Thriller | American-German co-production |
| 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 | |
| Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu | Drama | |||
| 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 | |
| Vicky the Viking | Michael Herbig | , 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 |