Best family German movies on MUBI in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
10 movies on MUBI in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.7. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.
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1. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
Movie · German · 1h 30m · Documentary, Music · IMDb 7.7 (7.9K votes)
Slow-burnLow-stakesFamily-friendlyLight-hearted
German musician Alexander Hacke explores Istanbul's rich music culture and attempts to create a portrait of Turkey through music genres. On this journey, he encounters a mosaic that covers countless genres from rock to arabesque, electronic to hip-hop.
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2. Dream Work (2001)
Movie · German · 10m · Mystery · IMDb 6.9 (1.4K votes)
Slow-burnCold & detachedFamily-friendlyVisually stunning
A woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic cinematography. An homage to Man Ray, dedicated to the beginning of the European avant-garde film within the surrealist movement.
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3. Manifesto (2017)
Movie · German · 1h 38m · Drama · IMDb 6.5 (7.7K votes)
Slow-burnCold & detachedLow-stakesFunny
An edited version of Rosefeldt's installation work of the same name, Manifesto is an outstanding tribute to various (art) manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth century, ranging from Communism to Dogme, in connection with thirteen different characters, including a homeless man, a factory worker and a corporate CEO,
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4. Train Again (2021)
Movie · German · 20m · Documentary · IMDb 6.9 (374 votes)
Slow-burnTwistyLow-stakesFamily-friendly
Peter Tscherkassky condenses the long history of railways in the movies into a rousing blast for the senses in a heartfelt tribute to another legend of experimental cinema Kurt Kren.
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5. Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017)
Movie · German · 1h 39m · Comedy · IMDb 6.5 (635 votes)
Slow-burnFunnyTwistyLow-stakes
The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign exchange student Camille that his job in the countrysi
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6. Divided Heaven (1964)
Movie · German · 1h 56m · Drama, Romance · IMDb 6.5 (555 votes)
Slow-burnTwistyFamily-friendlySerious
After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin
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7. Phantoms of July (2025)
Movie · German · 1h 30m · Drama, Comedy · IMDb 6.6 (420 votes)
Slow-burnHeartwarming
Ursula and Neda, an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, both feel trapped and lonely in their precarious lives. One summer evening, Ursula falls for a mysterious musician from the city, while Neda is convinced that she recognized an old friend from Tehran in an equally en
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8. Berlin Troika (2014)
Movie · German · 11m · Drama, Comedy · IMDb 6.9 (211 votes)
Dialogue-drivenFunnyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
During a stormy night of grave political crisis, an expert interpreter suffers a nervous breakdown. Young diplomat Konrad Gelb is recruited to step in and interpret between the two conflicting superpower leaders, who seem to hold the fate of humanity in their hands - an absurd responsibility, which by extension rests o
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9. In My Room (2018)
Movie · German · 2h · Drama · IMDb 6.2 (1.5K votes)
Slow-burnCold & detachedDark & grittySerious
Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared.
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10. Manufractur (1985)
Movie · German · 3m · Drama · IMDb 6.0 (581 votes)
TwistySlow-burnCold & detachedFamily-friendly
A tangled network woven with tiny particles of movements broken out of found footage and compiled anew: the elements of the "to the left, to the right, back and forth" grammar of narrative space, discharged from all semantic burden. What remains is a self-sufficient swarm of splinters, fleeting vectors of lost directio
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