Movies like Zeitgeist Stammheim (2009)
The best movies like Zeitgeist Stammheim (2009) are Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (2017), Victoria (2015) and Michael Jackson: HIStory World Tour - Live in Munich (1997). If Zeitgeist Stammheim hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedVictoria (2015)7.6/10 from 1,423 votes
- NewestEldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (2023)Released 2023
- In GermanMagical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (2017)Also in German
Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (2017)
Under the auspicious name "Magical Mystery" the Berlin techno label BummBumm Records wants to go on a rave tour. Karl Schmidt aka Charly himself was once an aspiring artist on the scene, until he retired after a nervous breakdown five years ago. Since then he lives in a supervised withdrawal WG in Hamburg. Now, as a driver and custodian for the party-loving DJs and their producers, he becomes part of "Magical Mystery", trying to lead a self-determined life after years of patronizing and well-intentioned advice.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVictoria (2015)
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMichael Jackson: HIStory World Tour - Live in Munich (1997)
The King of Pop rocks the Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany during his concerts on June 4th and 6th, 1997, as part of the HIStory World Tour.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisEldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (2023)
A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRammstein in Amerika (2015)
The concert film celebrates the band’s legendary show in New York’s Madison Square Garden – Rammstein’s return to the US after a ten-year absence. In HD and 5.1 surround sound. For the documentary, Rammstein provided extensive, previously unreleased footage and photos from the band archive. In numerous interviews from various periods in the band’s history, the band members speak about their experiences across the Atlantic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCabaret (1972)
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Golden Glove (2019)
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEight Miles High (2007)
Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisG.I. Blues (1960)
Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open a nightclub once he's discharged. Although he may lack the capital for such a venture, a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But when the friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaybe... Maybe Not (1994)
The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat to Do in Case of Fire? (2001)
The humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former East Germany. At the end of the 80s, they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to terms with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe Are the Night (2010)
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, the parties. But soon the murderous blood lust of her comrades in arms proves too much for her, and she falls dangerously in love with Tom, a young undercover cop.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEuroTrip (2004)
When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristiane F. (1981)
A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlonde Venus (1932)
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLola (1981)
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEuropa (1991)
In 1945 Germany, following the end of World War II, Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, is hired by his uncle as a sleeping car conductor on the Zentropa train line. Leopold's wish is to be neutral to the ongoing purges of loyalists by Allied forces and do what he can to help a hurting country, but ultimately finds himself being used by both sides.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisExotica (1994)
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfterparty (2017)
In recent years, city of Belgrade has been proclaimed the capital of European clubbing. From the perspective of prestigious city club bartender Mare, this is story about modern day Belgrade and its residents.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Carnifex (2016)
Several years after an infamous serial killer was active, the town of Heemskerk is shocked by a horrible murder in the mensroom of a local club. A smashed skull in the urinal, blood on the tiles. And this is only the beginning... Their days of partying, drinking and getting stoned are over. One by one the friends die an insane and gruesome death. Hunted by the psychopath, Bram tries to find the killer. What happened that Christmas night two years ago? Why isn't the police helping? How are those Mexicans involved?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Once upon a Line (1947)
Model husbands prove that size isn't everything as they get steamed up over Lilliput locomotives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Kavi Uddheshichathu..? (2016)
Kavalam Jimmy and Vattathil Bosco are rivals from their school days and Minnal Simon always tries to benefit from this situation.Three of them have their own intentions and they back stab each other to attain their own aims.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Ben Tumbling (1985)
A stuntman who dabbles as a petty thief for corrupt policemen decides to quit. His bosses do not let him go but, instead, he is tortured. His consistent brushes with the law earn him a prize on his head and attention from a daily.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Never Stop - A Music That Resists (2017)
Featuring the pioneers of techno music Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Carl Craig, and Jeff Mills, Never Stop takes us into the fascinating universe of techno labels in Detroit. This film highlights the deep roots of the creation, more than thirty years ago, by each of the African-American pioneers of techno music, of their own record labels.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Stage Mother (2020)
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Single Moms Club (2014)
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWelcome Home (2013)
This documentary gives a voice to organizers, DJs and party guests. Through their memories and confessions as well as unpublished videos and photos 20 years of history come back to life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Zeitgeist Stammheim?
The closest matches to Zeitgeist Stammheim are Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (2017), Victoria (2015) and Michael Jackson: HIStory World Tour - Live in Munich (1997). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Zeitgeist Stammheim?
Start with Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (2017), the closest match to Zeitgeist Stammheim.
What is the highest-rated movie like Zeitgeist Stammheim?
Victoria (2015), rated 7.6/10 by 1,423 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Zeitgeist Stammheim?
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Zeitgeist Stammheim?
Yes: Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt (2017), Victoria (2015) and Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (2023).
How are movies similar to Zeitgeist Stammheim chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Zeitgeist Stammheim, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.