Best German mystery movies

The Ghost Writer (2010)

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

DETLEV (2024)

A constantly freezing man in his forties drives to a lonely petrol station every evening and orders a microwaved Toast Hawaii. Detlev indulges in this in a bizarre ritual, because it's the only thing that warms him in his daily life. But when he is observed by a stranger one night, his world begins to crumble into shameful pieces.

Cargo (2009)

The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.

A Gentle Creature (2017)

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.

Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

Bright Night (2015)

A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface and it seems unlikely the couples will return intact. Faced with an outcome that will upset their delicate balance of happiness, the world offers them a bizarre opportunity to correct it.

The Castle (1997)

Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Das Schloss. K arrives in a remote village a stranger. In attempting to establish himself there, he enters the nightmarish world of the castle bureaucracy.

The Fever (2021)

Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to soon depart to Brasília, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever.

We Are The Tide (2016)

15 years ago the sea at the coast of Windholm just vanished. Now two young physicists try to find out, why it happened...

Geh ins Herz (2015)

Under the surface of the earth hides horror for a young man, when in a fever of fear he finds the head of his former lover. His only way is to escape, but the power of thought leads him back to the place of past happiness. Can the feeling of love in life be restored? The heartbeat calls him to himself in the fortress of nature. But there already wakes up an echo of the past.

The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)

The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".

Die drei ??? LIVE - und der Super-Papagei (2006)

Deeply (2000)

On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.

Vanessa (1976)

Following her parents' death, Vanessa was raised in a convent. Due to an inheritance, she travels to Hong Kong to learn that she inherited a chain of bordellos. Soon, Vanessa has trouble coping as she's thrust into her new world of carnal delights.

Nightfall (2019)

A long truck is cutting its way through the darkness. Trucker Ray decides that it`s going to be his last ride, when a solitary voice out of the radio is holding him back. Just then he drives by a blood covered girl wandering down the street. Lost as he is, she is strolling through the darkness and so he decides to take her with him. But when he discovers that Ingrid is tracing a trail of destruction and has nothing to lose he starts to hope that she is the one to set him free. But is he ready to leave his past behind and be free?

Die drei ??? LIVE - Master of Chess (2002)

It was Peter's idea to invite his friends on a joyride on Justus' birthday of all days. In pouring rain, a car breakdown forces the three detectives to seek refuge at the creepy "Blackstone" castle. When lightning knocks out the power line, the three investigators are stuck for good. It soon becomes clear to the three junior detectives that the lord of the castle, Count Gallagher, is a real chess fanatic. But not only that - the old castle makes a spooky impression and then there is Moe, the count's sinister servant. What is it about the chess pieces on the dilapidated, centuries-old chess table that seem to move by themselves, move after move, as if by magic? Is the old building really haunted? The first detective is immediately hooked and senses a new case, only Peter wants to run away. It soon becomes clear to the three investigators that this is about much more than just a game of chess...

Die heimlichen Wunden (2013)

Forgotten (2012)

During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years later. Hanna is now married, has a seven-year-old daughter and is the chief resident physician at the hospital where she reunites with Clarissa. Her old friend has been brought to the hospital ER for overdosing on sleeping pills. The two women pick up their friendship where they left off and spontaneously decide to spend a few days on the island, just like in the old days. When Hanna learns that Maria, a playmate of hers from the island’s village, disappeared as a child and was never seen or heard from again, she begins to search in the past. Something horrible must have happened on the island and they must have been involved.

Die drei ??? LIVE – Phonophobia – Sinfonie der Angst (2014)

When "The Three Investigators" Justus Jonas, Peter Shaw and Bob Andrews are forced to make an emergency landing on a rocky plateau during a hot air balloon tour, they have no idea that a new mystery awaits them in this wasteland. They end up in a mysterious institute where the musicians of an orchestra can create the illusion of colours, smells and tastes in the listeners with sounds. The fact that this miraculous world has its dark side becomes apparent at the latest when the three detectives meet Chloe, who has secretly sneaked into the institute to look for her missing sister. Chloe suspects that the mysterious orchestra leader Yamada is holding her sister Fran against her will and wants to use her for dark machinations. Together with Chloe, "The Three Investigators" set out to find Fran and discover the dark secret behind Yamada's vow of revenge: his symphony Phonophobia becomes one of the greatest dangers "The Three Investigators" have ever had to face...

Der Mörder (1979)

Ultima Thule (2002)

A short drama directed by Holger Mandel.

Die drei ??? LIVE - und der seltsame Wecker (2010)

Ein Wecker, der einen furchterregenden schrillen Schrei ausstößt? Den gibt es tatsächlich und die drei Detektive, Justus Jonas, Peter Shaw und Bob Andrews müssen versuchen, das Geheimnis dieses seltsamen Fundstücks zu enträtseln. Im Laufe ihrer Ermittlungen folgen sie zunächst der Fährte des exzentrischen Hörspielsprechers Bert Clock, bevor sie einem raffinierten Kunstraub auf die Schliche kommen. Fast dreißig Jahre nachdem sich Die drei ??? zum ersten Mal mit dem seltsamen Wecker beschäftigt haben, lösen sie den Fall erneut - und zwar live, auf der Bühne in einem einzigartigen Live-Hörspiel-Spektakel. So habt ihr die Geschichte um den schreienden Wecker noch nie erlebt - neu erzählt, mit modernster Technik umgesetzt, Live-Musik, Geräuschemacher und natürlich den Originalsprechern der drei ???.

Die Eylandt Recherche (2008)

The New York lawyer Willam Singer receives three letters, that his father's cousin from Germany wrote to him over the last 5 decades, describing, that she hosted three people in her cellar for more than 60 years. Singer tries to find out, if she wrote the truth.

Pavement (2002)

Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this is a serial killer choosing victims at random, but Sam and Buckley discover a pattern involving health personnel who work in neonatal intensive care. Doctors aren't supposed to play god, but someone's decision years before has driven a killer over the brink. Can they find him?

Mental Space (2014)

A vision in a dream. Follow a stream of consciousness deep into a world transformed by the shaping spirit of the imagination.

Kiss Me Monster (1969)

On an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile, The Red Lips are moonlighting on a striptease world tour, but as soon as they hit the stage, the girls are up to their pasties in stiffs, Satanists and Sapphic sadists, all after the professor's secret formula for human clones!

Thabo and the Rhino Case (2023)

Eleven-year-old Thabo wants to become a private detective like in the movies. If only his home, the small African village of Hlatikulu, was not the most peaceful savannah paradise. But things take a sudden turn when a rhino is murdered in the neighboring safari park because of its precious horn.

Spiritismus (1919)

Das Riesending - 20.000 Meter unter der Erde (2021)

Five cave climbers dive into Germany’s deepest cave.

The Satoshi Mystery: At the Origins of Bitcoin (2021)

In the age of the Internet, "cypherpunks" tried to create an anonymous, autonomous, free and direct digital currency that worked without intermediaries. Many failed - but not Satoshi Nakamoto. In the middle of the subprime mortgage crisis, he was the first to publish the code for Bitcoin