
10 Best Movies Like The German
If you loved The German, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Street Mobster
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The German for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on....

Graveyard of Honor
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The German for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa....

Tokyo!
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The German for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands tr...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The German for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemp...

The Reader
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The German for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one...

Kamikaze Girls
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The German for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rur...