This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 1980s.
For an alphabetical list of articles on West German films see Category:West German films.
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1980
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| As Far as the Eye Sees | Erwin Keusch | Bernd Tauber, Aurore Clément, Jürgen Prochnow, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Werner Kreindl | Thriller | |
| Asphalt Night | Peter Fratzscher | Gerd Udo Heinemann, Thomas Davis | Music | |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Günter Lamprecht, Barbara Sukowa, Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Ivan Desny | Drama | TV miniseries |
| Berlin Chamissoplatz | Rudolf Thome | Hanns Zischler, Sabine Bach | Drama | |
| Berlin Mitte | Peter Beauvais | Ute Christensen, Kristina van Eyck, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Peter Seum | Drama | |
| Big and Little | Peter Stein | Edith Clever | Drama | a.k.a. Big and Small |
| The Boxer | Karl Fruchtmann | Norbert Kappen | Drama | |
| The Candidate | Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, Stefan Aust, Alexander von Eschwege | Documentary | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Car-napping | Wigbert Wicker | Bernd Stephan, Anny Duperey, Ivan Desny, Adrian Hoven, Michel Galabru, Eddie Constantine, Adolfo Celi | Crime comedy | |
| Céleste | Percy Adlon | Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt | Biography | |
| Daniel | George Moorse | Dieter Kirchlechner, Beatrice Kessler, Ian Moorse | Drama | |
| Death Watch | Bertrand Tavernier | Harvey Keitel, Romy Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton, Max von Sydow, Vadim Glowna, Bernhard Wicki | Science fiction | French-West German co-production |
| The Dream House | Ulrich Schamoni | Horst Frank, Judy Winter, Leslie Malton, Jochen Schroeder | Comedy | |
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | Herbert Vesely | Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck, Karina Fallenstein, Marcel Ophuls | Biography | a.k.a. Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment. Austrian-French-West German co-production |
| Exit Sunset Boulevard | Bastian Clevé | Elke Sommer, Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt, Azizi Johari | Drama | |
| Fabian | Wolf Gremm | Hans Peter Hallwachs, Silvia Janisch, Ivan Desny, Hermann Lause, Brigitte Mira | Drama | |
| Flitterwochen | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer, Wolfgang Fierek | Comedy | |
| From the Life of the Marionettes | Ingmar Bergman | Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Heinz Bennent | Drama | Swedish-West German co-production |
| Germany, Pale Mother | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi | Drama, War | Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Gibbi Westgermany | Christel Buschmann | Jörg Pfennigwerth, Eva-Maria Hagen | Drama | |
| Girls | Just Jaeckin | Anne Parillaud, Zoé Chauveau, Charlotte Walior | Drama | French-West German-Canadian co-production[1][2] |
| Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung | Michael Kehlmann | Gertraud Jesserer, Günther Maria Halmer | Drama | |
| Grabbe's Last Summer | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Wilfried Grimpe | Biography | |
| The Green Bird | István Szabó | Hannelore Elsner, Péter Andorai, Krystyna Janda | Drama | |
| A Guru Comes | Rainer Erler | Wolfgang Reichmann, Eric P. Caspar, Jörg Pleva, Wolfgang Kieling | Comedy | a.k.a. Here Comes the Guru |
| Henry Angst | Ingo Kratisch | Klaus Hoffmann | Drama | |
| The Hunger Years: In a Land of Plenty | Jutta Brückner | Sylvia Ulrich, Britta Pohland | Drama | |
| The Ideas of Saint Clara | Vojtěch Jasný | Katharina Böhm | Comedy | |
| Intrigue and Love | Heinz Schirk | Jan Niklas, Dietlinde Turban, Klausjürgen Wussow, Thekla Carola Wied | Drama | |
| Kaiserhofstraße 12 | Rainer Wolffhardt | Christoph Eichhorn, Doris Schade, Sigfrit Steiner, Monika Baumgartner | War, Drama | |
| Kolportage | Peter Weck | Klausjürgen Wussow, Christiane Hörbiger, Georg Thomalla, Sascha Hehn, Sissy Höfferer | Comedy | |
| Land, das meine Sprache spricht | Michael Kehlmann | Dagmar Mettler, Volkert Kraeft, Guido Wieland, Günter Mack, Gert Haucke | Drama, War | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Laufen lernen | Jutta Brückner | Sylvia Ulrich, Rita Rischak | Drama | |
| Lightning Over Water | Wim Wenders | Nicholas Ray | Documentary | a.k.a. Nick's Film. West German-Swedish co-production |
| The Longest Second | Kristian Kühn | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Christine Ostermayer, Kristina van Eyck, Hans Korte, Ivan Desny | Thriller | |
| Luftwaffenhelfer | Volker Vogeler | Till Topf, Christoph Eichhorn, Alexander Radszun, Arthur Brauss | War | |
| Lulu | Walerian Borowczyk | Anne Bennent, Michele Placido, Heinz Bennent, Udo Kier | Drama | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste | Péter Bacsó | Derek Jacobi, Judy Winter | Crime | a.k.a. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke. West German-Swedish-Hungarian co-production |
| Ein Mann fürs Leben | Erwin Keusch | Manfred Krug, Hannelore Hoger, Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | |
| Ein Mann von gestern | Tom Toelle | Will Quadflieg, Michael Degen, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Gert Westphal, Witta Pohl | Drama | |
| Meister Timpe | Hartmut Griesmayr | Hans Christian Blech, Hans-Georg Panczak | Drama | |
| Mosch | Tankred Dorst | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Katharina Thalbach, Valter Taub, Herbert Grönemeyer | Drama | |
| On Southern Slopes | Michael Verhoeven | Helmut Zierl, Andrea Jonasson | Drama | |
| Order | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Heinz Lieven | Drama | |
| Palermo or Wolfsburg | Werner Schroeter | Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Ida Di Benedetto | Drama | West German-Swiss co-production. Won the Golden Bear at Berlin |
| Panic Time | Udo Lindenberg, Peter Fratzscher |
Udo Lindenberg, Leata Galloway, Walter Kohut, Vera Tschechowa, Hark Bohm, Eddie Constantine | Musical comedy | |
| Die Paulskirche | Carlheinz Caspari | Hannes Messemer, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Drama | a.k.a. Trilogie 1848: Die Paulskirche |
| Der Preis fürs Überleben | Hans Noever | Michel Piccoli | Political thriller | a.k.a. The Price of Survival. Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Purity of Heart | Robert van Ackeren | Elisabeth Trissenaar, Matthias Habich, Heinrich Giskes | Drama | |
| Put on Ice | Bernhard Sinkel | Helmut Griem, Martin Benrath, Ángela Molina | Political thriller | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| Die Reventlow | Rainer Wolffhardt | Donata Höffer | Biography | a.k.a. Franziska Countess zu Reventlow |
| Slow Attack | Reinhard Hauff | Burkhard Driest, Rolf Zacher, Katja Rupé | Drama | a.k.a. Endstation Freiheit |
| Star Without a Sky | Ottokar Runze | Uwe Drißler, Andreas Hameder, Hieronymus Blößer, Martin Fuchs | Drama, War | |
| Sunday Children | Michael Verhoeven | Nora Barner, Erika Pluhar | Drama | |
| Švabica | Rainer Wolffhardt | Frano Lasić, Regine Lamster | Drama | a.k.a. Die Deutsche. Yugoslav-West German co-production |
| Theo Against the Rest of the World | Peter F. Bringmann | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Guido Gagliardi, Claudia Demarmels | Road movie, Action comedy | |
| Der Thronfolger | Oswald Döpke | Jan Kollwitz, Günter Strack, Maria Schell, Jan Niklas, Dietlinde Turban, Siegfried Wischnewski | Biography | |
| ... und raus bist du | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Elga Sorbas, Hans-Joachim Grubel, Dietrich Mattausch | Drama | |
| The Ungrateful | Franz Josef Wild | Dietlinde Turban, Walter Kohut | Drama | |
| The Uprising | Peter Lilienthal | Augustin Pereira | Drama | West German-Costa Rican co-production |
| The Weavers | Fritz Umgelter | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Martin Lüttge, Karin Baal | Drama | |
| Why the UFOs Steal Our Lettuce | Hansjürgen Pohland | Tommi Piper, Ursela Monn, Curd Jürgens, Hildegard Knef, Raimund Harmstorf | Comedy | |
| The Wonderful Years | Reiner Kunze | Gabi Marr, Martin May, Dietrich Mattausch, Christine Wodetzky | Drama | |
| The World That Summer | Ilse Hofmann | Jan Schwarzbauer, Katrin Schaake, Hermann Lause, Grete Wurm | Drama | |
| Das Ziel | Hartmut Griesmayr | Peter Sattmann | Drama |
1981
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ach du lieber Harry | Jean Girault | Dieter Hallervorden, Iris Berben | Comedy | |
| After Midnight | Wolf Gremm | Désirée Nosbusch, Nicole Heesters, Hermann Lause | Drama | |
| Angels of Iron | Thomas Brasch | Hilmar Thate, Katharina Thalbach | Crime drama | Entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival |
| Der Aufsteiger | Bernd Fischerauer | Reiner Schöne, Alexandra Bogojevic, Werner Asam, Günter Strack | Drama | |
| Die Baronin | Lutz Büscher | Marianne Hoppe, Iris Berben | Biography | a.k.a. Elisabeth von Ardenne |
| Berlin Tunnel 21 | Richard Michaels | Richard Thomas, Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer | Drama | American-West German co-production |
| Birgitt Haas Must Be Killed | Laurent Heynemann | Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Lisa Kreuzer | Thriller | French-West German co-production |
| Blind Spot | Claudia von Alemann | Rebecca Pauly | Drama | |
| Bloody Moon | Jesús Franco | Olivia Pascal | Horror | |
| Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer | War | Based on a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Columbia Pictures |
| Burning Rubber | Norman Cohen | Bay City Rollers, Olivia Pascal, Sascha Hehn | Action | |
| Charlotte | Frans Weisz | Birgit Doll, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Brigitte Horney, Derek Jacobi, Patricia Hodge | Biography, War | Dutch-West German co-production |
| Children | Oswald Döpke | Lilli Palmer, Judy Winter, Jan Niklas, Cordula Trantow | Drama | |
| Christiane F. | Uli Edel | Natja Brunckhorst | Drama | |
| Circle of Deceit | Volker Schlöndorff | Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Gila von Weitershausen | Drama, War | West German-French co-production |
| Collin | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Curd Jürgens, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Margot Werner, Thekla Carola Wied, Hannes Messemer | Drama | |
| Confused Feelings | Étienne Périer | Michel Piccoli, Pierre Malet, Gila von Weitershausen | Drama | a.k.a. Confusion. French-West German co-production |
| The Curse of the Tarniffs | Hajo Gies | Rüdiger Vogler, Anne-Marie Kuster, Herlinde Latzko, Monica Gruber | Drama | a.k.a. Beate and Mareile |
| Day of the Idiots | Werner Schroeter | Carole Bouquet, Ingrid Caven, Christine Kaufmann | Psycho-fantasy drama | Entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival |
| Desperado City | Vadim Glowna | Siemen Rühaak, Beate Finckh, Vera Tschechowa, Karin Baal | Drama | |
| Es geht seinen Gang oder Mühen in unserer Ebene | Günter Gräwert | Wolfgang Bathke, Helga Koehler, Barbara Stanek, Wilfried Klaus | Drama | |
| Fantasma d'amore | Dino Risi | Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Wolfgang Preiss, Eva Maria Meineke | Drama | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Fear Not, Jacob! | Radu Gabrea | André Heller | Drama | a.k.a. Don't Be Afraid, Jacob |
| Fire and Sword | Veith von Fürstenberg | Christoph Waltz, Antonia Preser, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth, Vladek Sheybal | Fantasy | |
| Flächenbrand | Alexander von Eschwege | Horst Frank, Manfred Krug, Curt Bois | Drama | |
| François Villon | Werner Schlechte | Jörg Pleva, Louise Martini | Biography | |
| Frankfurt: The Face of a City | Roger Fritz | Michaela Karger, Dave Balko, Hanno Pöschl, Kurt Raab | Exploitation | |
| Freak Orlando | Ulrike Ottinger | Delphine Seyrig, Magdalena Montezuma, Eddie Constantine | Drama | |
| Geld oder Leben | Peter Patzak | Stephan Schwartz, Karl Michael Vogler, Adelheid Arndt | Crime | |
| God's Angry Man | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| Hot Bubblegum | Boaz Davidson | Yftach Katzur, Jonathan Sagall, Zachi Noy, Sibylle Rauch | Comedy | a.k.a. Lemon Popsicle III Israeli-West German co-production |
| Huie's Sermon | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| Ich möchte fliehen | Tom Toelle | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulli Philipp | Drama | a.k.a. Ja und Nein |
| In the Land of Cockaigne | Fritz Umgelter | Arnfried Lerche, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting, Karl Michael Vogler, Otto Sander | Drama | a.k.a. Im Schlaraffenland |
| The Inventor | Kurt Gloor | Bruno Ganz, Walo Lüönd | Comedy | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Jeans | Hartmut Griesmayr | Hans-Georg Panczak, Agnes Dünneisen, Dieter Kirchlechner | Drama | |
| Jetzt und alles | Dieter Meier | Richy Müller, Jean-Pierre Kalfon | Drama | |
| Der König und sein Narr | Frank Beyer | Götz George, Wolfgang Kieling, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Gert Haucke | Biography | a.k.a. The King and His Fool a.k.a. The King and His Jester |
| Kudenow | Claus Peter Witt | Ulf Schweikhardt, Witta Pohl, Uwe Dallmeier, Regine Lamster | Drama | |
| Leiche auf Urlaub | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Judy Winter, Jean-Marc Thibault, François-Éric Gendron, Michel Such, Udo Vioff | Thriller | a.k.a. Opération Primevère. West German-French co-production |
| Lili Marleen | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer | Drama, War | |
| Lola | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf | Drama | 3rd part of BRD Trilogy |
| Looping | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Shelley Winters, Hans Christian Blech, Sydne Rome, Ingrid Caven | Drama | |
| A Lot of Bills to Pay | Adolf Winkelmann | Detlev Quandt, Hermann Lause | Comedy | a.k.a. A Lot of Coal |
| Malou | Jeanine Meerapfel | Ingrid Caven, Grischa Huber, Helmut Griem, Ivan Desny | Drama | |
| The Man in Pyjamas | Hartmann Schmige, Christian Rateuke |
Otto Sander, Elke Sommer, Peter Fitz | Comedy | |
| Marianne and Juliane | Margarethe von Trotta | Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler | Drama | a.k.a. The German Sisters |
| Mephisto | István Szabó | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rolf Hoppe, Krystyna Janda, Karin Boyd | Drama | Hungarian-West German-East German-Austrian co-production. Based on a story by Klaus Mann |
| Mit Gewissenhaftigkeit und Würde | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Rainer Hunold | Drama | |
| Der Neger Erwin | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | Entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival |
| Nightfall | Beate Klöckner | Barbara Rudnik, Gordon Mitchell | Thriller | |
| No Mercy, No Future | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Elisabeth Stepanek | Drama | |
| Die Ortliebschen Frauen | Luc Bondy | Edith Heerdegen, Libgart Schwarz, Elisabeth Stepanek, Klaus Pohl | Drama | |
| Pommi Stern | Kristian Kühn | Steve Strange and Visage, Gillian Scalici, Stephan Schwartz, Gustav Fröhlich | Musical | |
| Possession | Andrzej Żuławski | Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen | Horror | French-West German co-production |
| Quartett bei Claudia | Michael Kehlmann | Karl Michael Vogler, Dagmar Mettler, Karin Anselm, Ernst Stankovski, Witta Pohl | Drama | a.k.a. A Quartet at Sheila's |
| Raid in Glasgow | Wolfgang Hantke | Götz George, Evelyn Opela, Ferdy Mayne, Dietlinde Turban, Günter Mack | Crime | a.k.a. Die for Big Betsy |
| Raindrops | Harry Raymon, Michael Hoffmann | Jack Geula, Elfriede Irrall, Walter Renneisen | Drama | |
| Der Richter | Stephan Meyer | Christoph Bantzer, Ingrid Andree, Marianne Hoppe, Jan Niklas, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Wolfgang Büttner | Drama | |
| Die Rumplhanni | Rainer Wolffhardt | Monika Baumgartner | Drama | |
| Der Schatz des Priamos | Karl Fruchtmann | Tilo Prückner, Olga Karlatos, Ronald Hines | Biography | a.k.a. Treasure of Priam |
| The Second Skin | Frank Beyer | Angelica Domröse, Hilmar Thate, Jana Brejchová, Edith Heerdegen | Drama | |
| Sting in the Flesh | Heidi Genée | Helmut Griem, Barbara Lass | Comedy | a.k.a. Thorn in the Flesh |
| Strike Back | Carl Schenkel | Dave Balko, Hanns Zischler, Otto Sander | Crime drama | a.k.a. Cold as Ice |
| The Subjective Factor | Helke Sander | Angelika Rommel | Drama | |
| Taxi zum Klo | Frank Ripploh | Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup | Drama | |
| The Temptation | Krzysztof Zanussi | Maja Komorowska, Helmut Griem, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | |
| Der Traum vom Glück | Maximiliane Mainka | Bernd Herberger, Ulrike Luderer, Martin Umbach | Drama | |
| Trokadero | Klaus Emmerich | Ludwig Hirsch, Franz Xaver Kroetz | Comedy | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Wer den Schaden hat ... | Dieter Wedel | Jörg Pleva, Hannelore Elsner, Rainer Basedow | Drama | |
| Zwei Freunde in Preußen | Rolf Busch | Jan Spitzer, Michael Pan | Biography | West German-East German co-production |
1982
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Axe of Wandsbek | Heinrich Breloer, Horst Königstein | Roland Schäfer, Angelika Thomas, Joachim Dietmar Mues | Drama | |
| Banana Joe | Steno | Bud Spencer, Gunther Philipp | Comedy | Italian-West German co-production |
| The Beastmaster | Don Coscarelli | Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn | Fantasy | American production with West German money |
| Brandmale | George Moorse | Gila von Weitershausen, Anne Bennent, Hub Martin | Drama | |
| Captain Berlin | Jörg Buttgereit | Jörg Buttgereit, Bela B | Short | |
| Comeback | Christel Buschmann | Eric Burdon, Julie Carmen | Drama | |
| Crazy Jungle Adventure | Harald Reinl | James Mitchum, Werner Pochath, Thomas Ohrner, Klaus Havenstein | Comedy | |
| Deadly Game | Károly Makk | Barbara Sukowa, Helmut Berger, Mel Ferrer | Thriller | |
| Dear Mr. Wonderful | Peter Lilienthal | Joe Pesci, Karen Ludwig, Evan Handler, Frank Vincent, Paul Herman, Ed O'Ross, Ben Dova, Tony Martin | Drama | a.k.a. Ruby's Dream |
| Depart to Arrive | Alexandra von Grote | Gabriele Osburg, Ute Cremer | Drama | |
| Eine deutsche Revolution | Helmut Herbst | Franz Wittich, Gregor Hansen | Docudrama | a.k.a. A German Revolution. Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Doctor Faustus | Franz Seitz | Jon Finch, André Heller, Hanns Zischler, Siemen Rühaak, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Margot Hielscher, Hans Korte | Drama | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Domino | Thomas Brasch | Katharina Thalbach, Bernhard Wicki, Hanns Zischler, Anne Bennent | Drama | |
| Egmont | Franz Peter Wirth | Manfred Zapatka, Catherine Frot, Rolf Boysen, Rolf Becker, Anouk Ferjac | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Einer von uns | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Siemen Rühaak, Anita Lochner | Drama, War | |
| Elective Affinities | Claude Chabrol | Stéphane Audran, Helmut Griem, Michael Degen | Drama | French-West German-Czechoslovak co-production |
| Eugenie Marlitt und "Die Gartenlaube" | Herbert Ballmann | Cordula Trantow, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ursela Monn, Rolf Henniger, Klaus Herm, Michael Hinz | Biography | |
| Der Fan | Eckhart Schmidt | Désirée Nosbusch, Bodo Staiger | Horror | a.k.a. The Fan |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale | Adventure | |
| Fleeting Acquaintances | Marianne Lüdcke | Günter Lamprecht, Angelica Domröse, Hannes Messemer | Drama | |
| Frau Jenny Treibel | Franz Josef Wild | Maria Schell, Dietlinde Turban, Hannes Messemer, Ernst Jacobi, Karin Anselm | Drama | |
| Fünf letzte Tage | Percy Adlon | Lena Stolze, Irm Hermann | Biography, War | a.k.a. Five Last Days a.k.a. Last Five Days |
| The Ghost | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Hambacher Frühling | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Wolfgang Schwarz, Gaby Dohm, Wolfgang Arps | Docudrama | |
| High Society Limited | Ottokar Runze | Lilli Palmer, Elisabeth Bergner, Hardy Krüger, Vadim Glowna, Heinz Schubert | Comedy | |
| I'll Be Waiting | Stanislav Barabáš | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Monica Bleibtreu, Franz Xaver Kroetz | Crime | |
| Im Morgenwind | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Eva Maria Bauer | Drama | |
| Imperative | Krzysztof Zanussi | Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Leslie Caron, Matthias Habich, Sigfrit Steiner | Drama | |
| Jaipur Junction | W. Werner Schaefer | Herbert Knaup, Victor Banerjee, Neena Gupta | Thriller | |
| Kamikaze 1989 | Wolf Gremm | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Boy Gobert, Brigitte Mira, Franco Nero | Science Fiction | |
| Die Klassefrau | Rainer Wolffhardt | Viola Sauer, Detlef Kessler | Drama | |
| Kraftprobe | Heidi Genée | Hannelore Hoger, Kirstin Genée | Drama | a.k.a. Test of Strength. Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Last Revenge | Rainer Kirberg | Erwin Leder, Der Plan | Musical, Fantasy |
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| Les Maîtres du temps | René Laloux, Tibor Hernádi (technical director) | — | Independent animated science fiction | French-Swiss-West German-British-Hungarian co-production |
| Liebeskonzil | Werner Schroeter | Antonio Salines, Magdalena Montezuma, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen | Drama | a.k.a. The Council of Love a.k.a. The Love Council |
| The Lite Trap | Niklaus Schilling | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Beatrice Kessler | Drama | a.k.a. Der Westen leuchtet! |
| The Logic of Emotion | Ingo Kratisch | Rüdiger Vogler | Drama | |
| The Magic Mountain | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Christoph Eichhorn, Rod Steiger, Charles Aznavour, Marie-France Pisier, Hans Christian Blech | Drama | West German-French-Italian co-production |
| The Man on the Wall | Reinhard Hauff | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Julie Carmen, Towje Kleiner | Drama | |
| Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl | Ulrich König | Hans Clarin (voice), Gustl Bayrhammer | Family | |
| Mira's House | Dagmar Damek | Brigitte Fossey, Doris Kunstmann, Dieter Laser, Franz Buchrieser, Tilo Prückner, Marie Colbin | Drama | |
| The Mysterious Stranger | Peter H. Hunt | Chris Makepeace, Bernhard Wicki, Fred Gwynne, Herbert Fux, Christoph Waltz, Towje Kleiner | Fantasy | American-West German co-production |
| Neon City | Dominik Graf, Wolfgang Büld, Helmer von Lützelburg |
Michaela May, Billie Zöckler, Christiane F., Lisa Kreuzer | Anthology | a.k.a. The City of Neon |
| Night of the Wolves | Rüdiger Nüchtern | Daniela Obermeir, Ali Arkadas, Karl-Heinz von Liebezeit | Drama | |
| Parsifal | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Edith Clever | Musical | West German-French co-production. Screened at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Passerby | Jacques Rouffio | Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Mathieu Carrière, Maria Schell | Drama | French-West German co-production[3][4] |
| Piratensender Powerplay | Sigi Rothemund | Thomas Gottschalk, Mike Krüger | Comedy | |
| Praying Mantis | Jack Gold | Jonathan Pryce, Cherie Lunghi, Pinkas Braun, Friedrich von Thun, Arthur Brauss | Crime | British-West German co-production |
| Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| Red Love | Rosa von Praunheim | Sascha Hammer, Mark Eins, Helga Goetze, Eddie Constantine | Drama | |
| Rendezvous in Paris | Gabi Kubach | Claude Jade, Harald Kuhlmann, Barry Stokes | Thriller | French-West German co-production |
| Room 666 | Wim Wenders | Documentary | French-West German co-production | |
| Sapiches | Boaz Davidson | Yftach Katzur, Jonathan Sagall, Zachi Noy | Comedy | a.k.a. Private Popsicle. Israeli-West German co-production |
| Second Sight | Dominik Graf | Greta Scacchi | Thriller | a.k.a. The Second Face |
| Single liebt Single | Wolf Dietrich | Peter Bongartz, Angelika Bender | Comedy | |
| Sleepless Days | Diethard Klante | Hans Peter Hallwachs, Hannelore Hoger | Drama | |
| The State of Things | Wim Wenders | Patrick Bauchau, Allen Garfield, Rebecca Pauly | Drama | West German-American-Portuguese co-production |
| Stella | Franz Josef Wild | Judy Winter, Dietlinde Turban, Robert Atzorn | Drama | |
| The Sunshine Boys | Rolf von Sydow | Johannes Heesters, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Herbert Herrmann | Comedy | |
| Tarabas | Michael Kehlmann | Helmuth Lohner, Günter Mack, Klausjürgen Wussow | War | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Tscherwonez | Gábor Altorjay | The Wirtschaftswunder, Péter Halász, Stephan Balint, Sheryl Sutton | Crime | a.k.a. Chervonets |
| Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess | Drama | Second in the BRD Trilogy |
| The Visit | Max Peter Ammann | Maria Schell, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | a.k.a. Der Besuch der alten Dame. West German-Swiss co-production. |
| War and Peace | Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld | Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow, Angela Winkler, Heinz Bennent, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Manfred Zapatka | Anthology | |
| Warum hast du so traurige Augen | Tom Toelle | Werner Stocker, Ingrid Caven, Martin Semmelrogge, Michael Habeck, Monika Baumgartner, Kurt Weinzierl, Helga Anders, Irm Hermann, Ulrich Matschoss | Musical | a.k.a. Vorstadt-Tango a.k.a. Geschichten aus einem Tango-Lokal |
| We | Vojtěch Jasný | Dieter Laser, Sabine von Maydell | Science fiction | |
| Die Weiße Rose | Michael Verhoeven | Lena Stolze, Wulf Kessler, Werner Stocker, Ulrich Tukur, Martin Benrath | Historical drama, War | a.k.a. The White Rose |
| Who's Crazy, Doc? | Stefan Lukschy, Christian Rateuke | Otto Sander, Sunnyi Melles, Peter Fitz, Hannelore Elsner, Richy Müller, Loriot | Comedy | |
| Wings of Night | Hans Noever | Christine Boisson, Michael König, Armin Mueller-Stahl | Science fiction | |
| Woman with the Red Hat | Tatsumi Kumashiro | Kristina van Eyck, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Shigeru Izumiya | Drama | Japanese-West German co-production |
1983
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Abduction of the Sabine Women | Rolf von Sydow | Gert Fröbe, Martin Held, Edda Seippel, Désirée Nosbusch | Comedy | |
| Banks and Robbers | Rolf Silber | Christoph M. Ohrt, Britta Pohland, Kai Fischer, Tilo Prückner | Comedy | a.k.a. Kassensturz |
| Bella Donna | Peter Keglevic | Krystyna Janda, Erland Josephson, Friedrich-Karl Praetorius, Brigitte Horney | Drama | Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival |
| Bolero | Rüdiger Nüchtern | Michael König, Katja Rupé, Paul Hubschmid | Drama | |
| Burning Patience | Antonio Skármeta | Óscar Castro Ramírez, Roberto Parada, Marcela Osorio | Comedy | West German-Portuguese co-production |
| Cats' Play | István Szabó | Maria Becker, Helmut Qualtinger, Joana Maria Gorvin, Jane Tilden | Drama | a.k.a. Cat's Game a.k.a. Catsplay |
| Chained Heat | Paul Nicholas | Linda Blair, Sybil Danning, Stella Stevens | Exploitation | West German-American co-production |
| City of Lost Souls | Rosa von Praunheim | Jayne County, Angie Stardust, Joaquín La Habana | Musical | |
| Class Enemy | Peter Stein | Udo Samel, Stefan Reck, Tayfun Bademsoy, Ernst Stötzner | Drama | |
| Closed Circuit | Rudolf Thome | Bruno Ganz, Hanns Zischler, Dominique Laffin | Crime drama | a.k.a. System Without Shadow |
| Deep Water | Franz Peter Wirth | Constanze Engelbrecht, Peter Bongartz, Sky du Mont, Raimund Harmstorf, Robert Atzorn | Thriller | |
| Dies rigorose Leben | Vadim Glowna | Ángela Molina, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Viveca Lindfors, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | a.k.a. Nothing Left to Lose. Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Dingo | Ilse Hofmann | Hilmar Thate, Katrin Schaake, Eric Oldfield, Desmond Tester | Drama | |
| Due to an Act of God | Rainer Boldt | Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Gunnar Möller, Hermann Lause | Disaster | a.k.a. In the Sign of the Cross |
| Edith's Diary | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna | Drama | |
| Embers | Thomas Koerfer | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katharina Thalbach, Krystyna Janda, Matthias Habich, Sigfrit Steiner | Drama | a.k.a. Glut. Swiss-West German co-production |
| Eréndira | Ruy Guerra | Irene Papas, Cláudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale | Drama | Mexican-French-West German co-production |
| Für'n Groschen Brause | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Bernd Benneck | Drama | |
| The Garden | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Elisabeth Bergner, Gert Fröbe | Drama | |
| Gefährliches Spiel | Theo Mezger | Helmut Zierl, Simone Rethel, Tommi Piper | Drama, Sport | |
| Gib Gas – Ich will Spass | Wolfgang Büld | Nena, Markus, Karl Dall | Musical comedy | a.k.a. Hangin' Out |
| The Heartbreakers | Peter F. Bringmann | Maria Ketikidou, Sascha Disselkamp, Uwe Bohm | Musical | |
| How Would You Like to Have It? | Rolf von Sydow | Jutta Speidel, Robert Atzorn, Michaela May, Horst Janson, Günther Maria Halmer, Herbert Herrmann | Comedy | |
| The Island of the Bloody Plantation | Kurt Raab | Udo Kier, Barbara Valentin, Karl-Otto Alberty | Exploitation | a.k.a. Escape from Blood Plantation a.k.a. Prison Camp Girls |
| Joseph's Daughter | Gustav Ehmck | Linda Manz, Marie-Christine Barrault, Ana Torrent | Drama | West German-Spanish co-production |
| Joyride | Manfred Stelzer | Rolf Zacher, Iris Berben | Comedy | a.k.a. Bootleg Driver a.k.a. Midnight Blues |
| Julie Darling | Paul Nicholas | Anthony Franciosa, Sybil Danning, Isabelle Mejias, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Thriller | a.k.a. Daughter of Death. West German-Canadian co-production |
| Kehraus | Hanns Christian Müller | Gerhard Polt, Gisela Schneeberger, Dieter Hildebrandt, Jochen Busse, Nikolaus Paryla | Comedy | |
| Kiez | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger, Katja Rupé | Drama | |
| Kinder unseres Volkes | Stephan Rinser | Leslie Malton | Drama | |
| Leuchtturm des Chaos | Wolf-Eckart Bühler, Manfred Blank | Sterling Hayden | Documentary | a.k.a. Pharos of Chaos |
| A Love in Germany | Andrzej Wajda | Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Łysak, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Daniel Olbrychski, Bernhard Wicki | Drama, War | West German-French co-production |
| Martin Luther | Rainer Wolffhardt | Lambert Hamel, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Jörg Pleva, Klaus Grünberg, Dieter Pfaff | Biography | |
| Mensch Berni | Joachim Hess | Christian Kohlund, Peer Augustinski, Hans Richter | Drama | |
| The Oppermanns | Egon Monk | Wolfgang Kieling, Rosel Zech, Michael Degen | Drama | a.k.a. Oppermann Family |
| Pankow '95 | Gábor Altorjay | Udo Kier, Christine Kaufmann, Magdalena Montezuma, Dieter Thomas Heck, Nina Hagen | Science fiction | |
| Peppermint Peace | Marianne Rosenbaum | Peter Fonda, Cleo Kretschmer, Konstantin Wecker, Hans Brenner, Saskia Tyroller | Drama | a.k.a. Peppermint Freedom |
| The Power of Emotion | Alexander Kluge | Hannelore Hoger, Alexandra Kluge | Drama | |
| The Road into the Open | Karin Brandauer | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krista Posch, Hans Clarin | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| The Roaring Fifties | Peter Zadek | Juraj Kukura, Boy Gobert, Peter Kern, Sunnyi Melles, Christine Kaufmann, Freddy Quinn, Eva Mattes, Willy Millowitsch, Ilja Richter, Ingrid Caven, Brigitte Mira, Ivan Desny | Comedy | |
| Die Roppenheimer Sau | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Gérard Buhr, Helmut Zierl | War, Comedy | |
| Ruhe sanft, Bruno | Hajo Gies | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Constanze Engelbrecht, Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger | Comedy | |
| The Sandman | Dagmar Damek | Christoph Waltz, Rudolf Schündler, Irina Wanka, Claus Eberth | Mystery | |
| Satan ist auf Gottes Seite | Wolfgang Staudte | Dieter Kirchlechner, Hannelore Elsner, Hans Christian Blech, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama | |
| Sheer Madness | Margarethe von Trotta | Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler | Drama | West German-French co-production. Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Die Spider Murphy Gang | Georg Kostya | Spider Murphy Gang | Musical | |
| Spring Symphony | Peter Schamoni | Nastassja Kinski, Herbert Grönemeyer, Rolf Hoppe, Bernhard Wicki, André Heller | Biography | |
| Straight Through the Heart | Doris Dörrie | Beate Jensen, Josef Bierbichler | Drama | |
| Strange Fruits | Tankred Dorst | Gerhard Olschewski, Hannelore Hoger, Susanne Lothar, Hans-Michael Rehberg | Drama | a.k.a. Eisenhans |
| Sunshine Reggae in Ibiza | Franz Marischka | Karl Dall | Comedy | |
| Die Supernasen | Dieter Pröttel | Thomas Gottschalk, Mike Krüger | Comedy | |
| The Swing | Percy Adlon | Anja Jaenicke, Lena Stolze, Christine Kaufmann | Drama | |
| Tage im Hotel | Ulrich Stein | Rolf Witt, Rebecca Pauly, Maja Maranow | Drama | a.k.a. Cold Skin |
| The Train Killer | Sándor Simó | Michael Sarrazin, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Towje Kleiner, Constanze Engelbrecht, Teri Tordai, Róbert Koltai, János Derzsi, Dorottya Udvaros | Crime, Historical drama | Hungarian-West German-American co-production |
| Utopia | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Manfred Zapatka | Drama | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Variation | Michael Haneke | Hilmar Thate, Elfriede Irrall | Drama | |
| White Star | Roland Klick | Dennis Hopper, Terrance Robay, David Hess | Drama | a.k.a. Let It Rock |
| White Trash | Uwe Schrader | Peter Franke, Brigitte Janner, Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | |
| Why Am I So Happy? | Michael Kehlmann | Karlheinz Hackl, Vilma Degischer, Alexander Kerst, Klausjürgen Wussow, Gertraud Jesserer | War, Drama | a.k.a. Mich wundert, daß ich so fröhlich bin. Austrian-West German co-production |
| A Woman in Flames | Robert van Ackeren | Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, Hanns Zischler | Drama | |
| Zausel | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Werner Hinz | Drama |
1984
1985
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ain't Nothin' Without You | Pia Frankenberg | Pia Frankenberg, Klaus Bueb | Comedy | a.k.a. Noisy Martha |
| Alpha City | Eckhart Schmidt | Al Corley, Claude-Oliver Rudolph | Thriller | |
| Andre Handles Them All | Peter Fratzscher | Franco Nero, Ingrid Steeger, Willeke van Ammelrooy | Comedy | |
| Angry Harvest | Agnieszka Holland | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak | Drama, War | |
| The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time | Alexander Kluge | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jutta Hoffmann, Rosel Zech, Alfred Edel | Drama | |
| Backfischliebe | Rolf Hädrich | Chris Ahrens, Maria von Bismarck, Manuela Joest, Diana Körner, Karl-Heinz von Hassel | Comedy | |
| Beethoven's Nephew | Paul Morrissey | Wolfgang Reichmann, Dietmar Prinz, Jane Birkin, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| The Berlin Affair | Liliana Cavani | Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki, Hanns Zischler | Drama | West German-Italian co-production |
| Close-Up | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Thriller | a.k.a. Hautnah |
| Colonel Redl | István Szabó | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe, Hans Christian Blech, Jan Niklas | Drama | West German-Hungarian co-production |
| Commando Leopard | Antonio Margheriti | Lewis Collins, Klaus Kinski | Action | Italian-West German co-production |
| Concert for Alice | Thomas Koerfer | Beate Jensen, Towje Kleiner | Musical | Swiss-West German- Austrian co-production |
| The Cop and the Girl | Peter Keglevic | Jürgen Prochnow, Annette von Klier | Action, Drama | |
| Crooks in Paradise | Thomas Fantl | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jutta Speidel, Walo Lüönd, Ruth Maria Kubitschek | Crime comedy | |
| Daheim sterben die Leut’ | Klaus Gietinger, Leo Hiemer |
Walter Nuber, Heribert Weber, Norbert Hauber, Anni Rapps | Comedy | |
| The Dark Glow of the Mountains | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| Day Thieves | Marcel Gisler | Dina Leipzig, Rudolf Nadler, Lutz Deisinger | Drama | a.k.a. Tagediebe |
| Deadly Twins | Joe Oaks | Audrey Landers, Judy Landers, Jan Fedder | Thriller | a.k.a. Deadly Trigger |
| The Death of the White Stallion | Christian Ziewer | Thomas Anzenhofer, Angela Schanelec, Udo Samel, Ulrich Wildgruber, Dietmar Schönherr | Drama | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Father of a Murderer | Carlheinz Caspari | Hans Korte | Drama | |
| Feel the Motion | Wolfgang Büld | Ingolf Lück, Limahl, Falco, Pia Zadora, Die Toten Hosen | Music | a.k.a. Der Formel Eins Film |
| Forget Mozart | Miloslav Luther | Max Tidof, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Winfried Glatzeder, Wolfgang Preiss | Biography | |
| Girl in a Boot | Herbert Ballmann | Ursela Monn, Christian Kohlund | Comedy | a.k.a. A Berlin Love Story |
| Grünstein's Clever Move | Bernhard Wicki | Fred Düren, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Jörg Gudzuhn, Rolf Hoppe | Drama | West German-East German co-production |
| Hans: A Young Man in Germany | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Martin Pasko | Drama | a.k.a. Hans: A Boy in Germany |
| Hart an der Grenze | Wolfgang Tumler | Klaus Löwitsch | Thriller | |
| Der Hochzeitstag | Konrad Sabrautzky | Witta Pohl, Dieter Kirchlechner, Maja Maranow | Drama | |
| In the Belly of the Whale | Doris Dörrie | Janna Marangosoff, Eisi Gulp, Peter Sattmann, Silvia Reize | Drama | |
| Joey | Roland Emmerich | Joshua Morrell, Tammy Shields, Eva Kryll | Horror | a.k.a. Making Contact. West German-American co-production |
| Kaminsky | Michael Lähn | Klaus Löwitsch, Hannelore Elsner, Beate Finckh, Alexander Radszun | Drama | |
| Käthe Kollwitz | Herbert Ballmann | Cordula Trantow | Biography, Docudrama | |
| Lindhoops Frau | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Cornelia Meinhardt | Drama | |
| Mamas Geburtstag | Egon Günther | Brigitte Horney, Helmuth Lohner, Angelica Domröse, Michael Hinz | Drama | |
| Ein Mann ist soeben erschossen worden | Thomas Engel | Hannelore Elsner, Robert Atzorn, Georg Thomalla, Erik Schumann | Thriller | |
| Mary Ward | Angelika Weber | Hannelore Elsner, Mario Adorf, Bernhard Wicki, Mathieu Carrière | Biography | |
| Men... | Doris Dörrie | Heiner Lauterbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Ulrike Kriener | Comedy | |
| Morenga | Egon Günther | Jacques Breuer, Ken Gampu | Drama | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Die Nacht | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Edith Clever | Drama | a.k.a. The Night |
| Non-Stop Trouble with the Family | Dieter Hallervorden, Christian Rateuke |
Dieter Hallervorden | Comedy | a.k.a. Didi und die Rache der Enterbten |
| November Moon | Alexandra von Grote | Gabriele Osburg, Christiane Millet, Danièle Delorme | Drama, War | West German-French co-production |
| On the Killer's Track | Hajo Gies | Götz George, Renan Demirkan, Charles Brauer, Rufus, Eberhard Feik | Action, Drama | a.k.a. A Tooth for a Tooth. Film with TV hero Schimanski (Tatort) |
| Otto – Der Film | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Otto Waalkes, Sky du Mont, Jessika Cardinahl, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Peter Kuiper, Johannes Heesters | Comedy | a.k.a. Otto: The Movie |
| Red Heat | Robert Collector | Linda Blair, Sylvia Kristel, Elisabeth Volkmann | Exploitation | West German-American co-production |
| Richy Guitar | Michael Laux | Die Ärzte | Coming of Age, Music | |
| Die Sache ist gelaufen | Rainer Wolffhardt | Uwe Ochsenknecht, Cornelia Köndgen | Comedy | |
| Der Schiedsrichter | Rolf von Sydow | Wolfgang Kieling | Drama | |
| Seduction: The Cruel Woman | Elfi Mikesch, Monika Treut | Mechthild Großmann, Udo Kier | Drama | |
| The Snowman | Peter F. Bringmann | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Polly Eltes, Towje Kleiner | Action thriller | |
| Die Spur der anderen | Daniel Christoff | Manfred Zapatka, Nicole Heesters | Drama | |
| Sugarbaby | Percy Adlon | Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp | Comedy | |
| Tokyo-Ga | Wim Wenders | Documentary | ||
| Verworrene Bilanzen | Peter Beauvais | Gottfried John, Beatrice Kessler, Michael Hampe, Siemen Rühaak | Crime | |
| Westler | Wieland Speck | Rainer Strecker, Sigurd Rachman | Drama | |
| Wodzeck | Oliver Herbrich | Detlev Kügow | Drama | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Zwischen den Zeiten | Lutz Büscher | Manfred Günther, Manfred Heidmann, Katja Flint | Drama |
1986
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland | Tevfik Başer | Özay Fecht, Yaman Okay, Demir Gökgöl | Drama | a.k.a. 40 qm Deutschland |
| Abschiede | Gedeon Kovács | Karlheinz Hackl, Mijou Kovacs | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Am Morgen meines Todes | Rainer Wolffhardt | Christoph Moosbrugger, Ilse Matheis | Biography | |
| Auf den Tag genau | Michael Lähn | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Günther Maria Halmer, Werner Kreindl, Ivan Desny | Thriller | |
| Boundaries of Time: Caspar David Friedrich | Peter Schamoni | Helmut Griem, Sabine Sinjen, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Otto Sander, Rolf Hoppe | Biography, Docudrama | |
| Didi Drives Me Crazy | Wigbert Wicker | Dieter Hallervorden | Comedy | |
| Der Drücker | Uwe Frießner | Andreas Buttler, Heinz Hoenig | Drama | |
| Du mich auch | Anja Franke, Helmut Berger, Dani Levy | Anja Franke, Dani Levy | Comedy | a.k.a. Same to You |
| Egomania: Island Without Hope | Christoph Schlingensief | Tilda Swinton, Udo Kier | Drama | |
| Fatal Love | Wolf Gremm | Dietlinde Turban, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Brigitte Mira | Thriller | a.k.a. Possession |
| Fatherland | Ken Loach | Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Cristine Rose | Drama | British-West German-French co-production |
| Fire and Ice | Willy Bogner | Suzy Chaffee, John Eaves | Sport, Romantic comedy | |
| Flight North | Ingemo Engström | Katharina Thalbach, Jukka-Pekka Palo, Lena Olin | Drama | Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Franza | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gabriel Barylli, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sky du Mont, Gottfried John | Drama | |
| Fraulein | Michael Haneke | Angelica Domröse, Lou Castel | Drama | |
| Die Fräulein von damals | Dietrich Haugk | Horst Buchholz, Karin Baal, Johanna von Koczian, Doris Kunstmann, Judy Winter, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Drama | |
| Das Go! Projekt | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Diego Wallraff, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Hark Bohm | Science fiction | |
| Herschel und die Musik der Sterne | Percy Adlon | Josef Meinrad, Rolf Illig, Karin Anselm | Drama | a.k.a. Herschel and the Music of the Stars |
| Jimmy Allegretto | Berengar Pfahl | Sona MacDonald, Guido Gagliardi, Volker Lippmann, Judy Winter, Ivan Desny | Musical | |
| Johnny Flash | Werner Nekes | Helge Schneider | Comedy | |
| The Journey | Markus Imhoof | Markus Boysen, Corinna Kirchhoff, Will Quadflieg, Claude-Oliver Rudolph | Drama | West German-Swiss co-production |
| Kennwort Möwe | Tom Toelle | Hans Christian Blech, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Dieter Kirchlechner, Beatrice Kessler | Thriller | |
| Killing Cars | Michael Verhoeven | Jürgen Prochnow, Senta Berger, William Conrad, Agnès Soral, Bernhard Wicki, Daniel Gélin | Action thriller | |
| Laputa | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Sami Frey, Krystyna Janda | Drama | Screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival |
| Das Mädchen und die Tauben | Rainer Wolffhardt | Ilse Matheis, Thomas Schücke | Fantasy | |
| Mademoiselle Fifi | Karl Fruchtmann | Christoph Eichhorn, Desirée Meiser, Rüdiger Vogler | Drama, War | |
| Meier | Peter Timm | Rainer Grenkowitz, Nadja Engelbrecht | Comedy | |
| Momo | Johannes Schaaf | John Huston, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Radost Bokel | Fantasy | West German-Italian co-production |
| The Name of the Rose | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Ron Perlman, Helmut Qualtinger, Michael Lonsdale, Michael Habeck, Volker Prechtel, Valentina Vargas | Mystery | West German-Italian-French co-production[5][6][7] |
| Now or Never | Christel Buschmann | Eva Mattes, Werner Stocker | Drama | |
| Nuclear Conspiracy | Rainer Erler | Birgit Doll, Albert Fortell | Thriller | |
| One Glance and Love Breaks Out | Jutta Brückner | Rosario Bléfari, Regina Lamm | Anthology | |
| Operation Dead End | Nikolai Müllerschön | Uwe Ochsenknecht, Hannes Jaenicke, Isabelle Willer, Hannelore Elsner | Thriller | |
| Paradise | Doris Dörrie | Katharina Thalbach, Heiner Lauterbach, Sunnyi Melles, Hanne Wieder | Drama | |
| Please, Let the Flowers Live | Duccio Tessari | Klausjürgen Wussow, Birgit Doll, Hannelore Elsner, Hans Christian Blech, Radost Bokel | Drama | |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Margarethe von Trotta | Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander | Biography | Sukowa won Best Actress at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Rose King | Werner Schroeter | Magdalena Montezuma, Mostéfa Djadjam, Antonio Orlando | Drama | French-West German-Portuguese-Dutch co-production |
| Rückfahrt in den Tod | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Peter Bongartz, Iris Berben, Dominique Pinon | Thriller | a.k.a. Terminus |
| Runaway Horse | Peter Beauvais | Vadim Glowna, Rosel Zech | Drama | |
| Stammheim | Reinhard Hauff | Ulrich Tukur, Therese Affolter, Ulrich Pleitgen | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Die Stunde des Léon Bisquet | Lutz Büscher | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Beatrice Kessler | Drama | |
| The Summer of the Samurai | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Cornelia Froboess, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Wojciech Pszoniak, Nadja Tiller | Crime | |
| Tarot | Rudolf Thome | Hanns Zischler, Rüdiger Vogler, Katharina Böhm, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Ticket to Rome | Vivian Naefe | Leslie Malton, Hanno Pöschl, Rainer Grenkowitz | Drama | |
| Das Totenreich | Karin Brandauer | Leslie Malton, Michael König, Vadim Glowna, Kurt Raab, Richard Münch | Drama | |
| The Two Faces of January | Wolfgang Storch | Charles Brauer, Yolande Gilot, Thomas Schücke | Thriller | |
| Va banque | Diethard Küster | Winfried Glatzeder, Grażyna Dyląg, Achim Reichel | Crime | |
| A Virus Knows No Morals | Rosa von Praunheim | Rosa von Praunheim, Hella von Sinnen | Comedy | |
| Wahnfried | Peter Patzak | Otto Sander, Christoph Waltz, Anton Diffring | Biography | Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival |
| Wilhelm Busch | Hartmut Griesmayr | Peter Ehrlich, Christiane Hörbiger, Rosemarie Fendel, Towje Kleiner, Jörg Hube, Tobias Moretti | Biography | a.k.a. Wer einsam ist, der hat es gut, weil keiner da, der ihm was tut |
| Zischke | Martin Theo Krieger | David Strempel | Drama | |
| Zoning | Ulrich Krenkler | Hubertus Gertzen, Norbert Lamla, Dieter Meier | Crime | |
| Zweikampf | Gert Steinheimer | Joachim Wichmann, Adolf Laimböck | Crime |
1987
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Aggression | Theodor Kotulla | Pascale Petit, Michael König | Drama | |
| Das andere Leben | Nicolas Gessner | Christiane Hörbiger | Drama | |
| Anita: Dances of Vice | Rosa von Praunheim | Ina Blum | Biography | |
| Bagdad Café | Percy Adlon | Marianne Sägebrecht, C. C. H. Pounder, Jack Palance | Comedy | a.k.a. Out of Rosenheim |
| Bang! You're Dead! | Adolf Winkelmann | Ingolf Lück, Rebecca Pauly, Hermann Lause | Spy comedy | |
| Cargo | Michael Gutmann | Stefan Wood | Drama | |
| Die Chinesen kommen | Manfred Stelzer | Jörg Hube, Hans Brenner, Monika Baumgartner, Martin Sperr, Rolf Zacher | Comedy | |
| Cobra Verde | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski | Drama | |
| The Colony | Orlando Lübbert | Michael Degen, Grischa Huber | Drama | |
| The Cry of the Owl | Tom Toelle | Matthias Habich, Birgit Doll, Jacques Breuer, Hans Christian Blech, Doris Kunstmann | Thriller | |
| Days to Remember | Jeanine Meerapfel | Barbara Sukowa, Horst-Günter Marx | Drama | a.k.a. Die Verliebten. Entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Death of Empedocles | Straub–Huillet | Andreas von Rauch | Drama | |
| Death Stone | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Heather Thomas, Elke Sommer, Brad Harris, Tony Kendall, Siegfried Rauch | Action, Drama | |
| Devil's Paradise | Vadim Glowna | Jürgen Prochnow, Sam Waterston, Suzanna Hamilton, Mario Adorf, Dominique Pinon, Ingrid Caven | Drama | a.k.a. Victory |
| The Distant Land | Luc Bondy | Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier | Drama | West German-French-Austrian co-production |
| Dolly, Lotte and Maria | Rosa von Praunheim | Dolly Haas, Lotte Goslar, Maria Ley-Piscator | Documentary | |
| Dragon Chow | Jan Schütte | Bhasker Patel, Ric Young | Drama | |
| Flohr und die Traumfrau | Günter Gräwert | Heidelinde Weis, Siegfried Lowitz | Comedy | |
| Francesca | Vérénice Rudolph | Mockumentary | ||
| Friedenspolka | Rolf Hädrich | Eva Renzi, Pinkas Braun, Gert Westphal | Drama | |
| Gambit | Peter F. Bringmann | Despina Pajanou, Rolf Zacher, Dominic Raacke, Max Tidof, Heinz Bennent, Werner Kreindl | Thriller | |
| Gegen die Regel | Michael Verhoeven | Günter Lamprecht, Helmut Zierl | Drama | |
| The Gentle Hook | Günter Gräwert | Gila von Weitershausen, Hans Caninenberg, Peer Augustinski | Thriller | a.k.a. Dies Bildnis ist zum Morden schön |
| The Girl with the Lighters | Ralf Huettner | Rupert J. Seidel, Stefan Wood, Enrico Boetcher, Arnold Frühwald | Comedy | a.k.a. Cripples Go Christmas |
| The Glass Sky | Nina Grosse | Helmut Berger, Sylvie Orcier | Drama | |
| Helsinki Napoli All Night Long | Mika Kaurismäki | Kari Väänänen, Roberta Manfredi, Eddie Constantine, Samuel Fuller | Comedy thriller | Finnish-West German-Swiss co-production |
| Hollywood-Monster | Roland Emmerich | Jason Lively, Paul Gleason, Chuck Mitchell | Comedy | a.k.a. Ghost Chase. West German-American co-production |
| The Hothouse | Peter Goedel | Christian Doermer, Jörg Hube, Hanns Zischler | Drama | a.k.a. Das Treibhaus |
| In der Wüste | Rafael Fuster Pardo | Claudio Caceres Molina, Mustafa Saygili | Drama | |
| Kunyonga: Murder in Africa | Hubert Frank | Ron Williams, Werner Kreindl, Christoph Eichhorn | Action | |
| Lethal Obsession | Peter Patzak | Peter Maffay, Michael York, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Gould, Tahnee Welch | Action, Drama | a.k.a. Der Joker |
| The Little Prosecutor | Hark Bohm | Hark Bohm, Martin Lüttge | Drama | |
| Losers | Bernd Schadewald | Ralf Richter, Campino | Drama | |
| The Madonna Man | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Lonsdale, Peter Kraus | Thriller | a.k.a. Operation Madonna |
| Magic Sticks | Peter Keglevic | George Kranz, Kelly Curtis, Chico Hamilton | Music | |
| Nebel im Fjord | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Hannes Jaenicke, Hans Korte, Rosel Zech, Kjersti Døvigen, Janne Kokkin, Kjell Stormoen, Even Stormoen | Drama, War | a.k.a. Nebel im Fjord der Lachse |
| Nichts ist, wie es ist | Karl Heinz Kramberg | Rita Russek, Christiane-Bettina Pfannkuch, Miroslav Nemec | Drama | |
| Otto: The New Movie | Xaver Schwarzenberger, Otto Waalkes |
Otto Waalkes, Anja Jaenicke, Dirk Dautzenberg, Friedrich Schoenfelder | Comedy | Most popular film of the year with 6.4 million admissions[8] |
| Our Man in the Jungle | Rudolf Steiner, Peter Stripp | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katja Rupé | Adventure | a.k.a. Amazonas Mission |
| Sansibar oder der letzte Grund | Bernhard Wicki | Peter Kremer, Michael Gwisdek, Peter Sodann | Drama | a.k.a. Flight to Afar. East German-West German co-production |
| Schlange, Herz und Pantherkopf | Rainer Wolffhardt | Joachim Bißmeier | Drama | |
| Sierra Leone | Uwe Schrader | Christian Redl, Ann-Gisel Glass, Constanze Engelbrecht | Drama | |
| Storms in May | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Gabriel Barylli, Claudia Messner | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Sturmflut | Lutz Büscher | Jörg Pleva, Susanne Beck, Hildegard Krekel, Dietrich Mattausch | Disaster, Docudrama | |
| Taxi nach Kairo | Frank Ripploh | Frank Ripploh, Christine Neubauer | Comedy | a.k.a. Taxi to Cairo |
| Three Crazy Jerks | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Thomas Gottschalk, Michael Winslow, Helmut Fischer, Dey Young | Comedy | a.k.a. Lovable Zanies |
| Der Unsichtbare | Ulf Miehe | Klaus Wennemann, Barbara Rudnik, Nena | Comedy | a.k.a. The Invisible Man |
| Wann, wenn nicht jetzt | Michael Juncker | Friedrich von Thun, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Gudrun Gabriel, Hannelore Schroth | Comedy | |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk | Drama | a.k.a. Der Himmel über Berlin. Won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Winner Takes All | Marianne Lüdcke | Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | a.k.a. Pattberg's Legacy |
1988
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.D.A.M. | Herbert Ballmann | Désirée Nosbusch, Helmut Berger | Comedy | |
| Adrian und die Römer | Klaus Bueb, Thomas Mauch | Klaus Bueb, Gertraud Jesserer, Katharina Abt, Gert Haucke, Sabine von Maydell | Comedy | |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams | Fantasy adventure | British-American-West German co-production |
| Anna | Frank Strecker | Silvia Seidel, Patrick Bach, Anton Diffring | Musical | Sequel of the TV miniseries Anna |
| Autumn Milk | Joseph Vilsmaier | Dana Vávrová, Werner Stocker | Drama | |
| Ballhaus Barmbek: Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye | Christel Buschmann | Nico, Ulrich Tukur, Zazie de Paris, Jörg Pfennigwerth, Kiev Stingl | Musical | |
| Bei Thea | Dominik Graf | Hannes Jaenicke, Marianne Hoppe, Ida Ehre | Drama | |
| Beule | Ralf Gregan | Diether Krebs, Peter Bongartz, Dirk Dautzenberg, Towje Kleiner, Ursula Karven, Oliver Stritzel | Comedy | |
| The Bomb | Christian Görlitz | Michael Degen, Rolf Becker, Matthias Fuchs, Rosel Zech | Thriller, Disaster | |
| The Boss from the West | Vivian Naefe | Barbara Auer, Alexander Radszun | Comedy | |
| Burning Beds | Pia Frankenberg | Ian Dury, Pia Frankenberg | Comedy | |
| Burning Secret | Andrew Birkin | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Faye Dunaway | Drama | West German-British co-production |
| The Case of Mr. Spalt | René Perraudin | Otto Sander, Katharina Thalbach, Rolf Zacher | Comedy | |
| The Cat | Dominik Graf | Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Heinz Hoenig, Ralf Richter | Crime thriller | |
| The Commander | Antonio Margheriti | Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence | Action | Italian-West German co-production |
| Crash | Tom Toelle | Matthias Habich, Corinne Touzet | Drama | |
| The Curse | Ralf Huettner | Dominic Raacke, Barbara May | Horror | |
| Cycling the Frame | Cynthia Beatt | Tilda Swinton | Short | |
| A Father's Revenge | John Herzfeld | Brian Dennehy, Ron Silver, Joanna Cassidy, Christoph M. Ohrt | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Faust | Dieter Dorn | Helmut Griem, Romuald Pekny, Sunnyi Melles, Cornelia Froboess | Drama | |
| Felix | Margarethe von Trotta, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Helke Sander, Christel Buschmann | Ulrich Tukur | Comedy | |
| Fifty-Fifty | Peter Timm | Heinz Hoenig, Dominique Horwitz, Suzanne von Borsody | Comedy | |
| The French as Seen by... | Werner Herzog | Short film | ||
| Geheime Reichssache | Michael Kehlmann | Alexander Kerst, Hans Schulze, Michael Degen, Werner Pochath | Docudrama, War | |
| Hanussen | István Szabó | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson | Drama | West German-Hungarian co-production |
| Hell Hunters | Ernst R. von Theumer | Maud Adams, Stewart Granger, George Lazenby | Exploitation | a.k.a. Rage to Kill. West German-American co-production |
| Incident at Twilight | August Everding | Mario Adorf, Horst Bollmann | Crime | a.k.a. One Autumn Evening |
| Judgment in Berlin | Leo Penn | Martin Sheen, Sam Wanamaker, Jutta Speidel, Heinz Hoenig | Drama | American-West German co-production |
| The Kiss of the Tiger | Petra Haffter | Beate Jensen, Stéphane Ferrara | Thriller | West German-French co-production |
| Der Krähenbaum | Frank Guthke | Holger Hartung, Christoph Wendelmuth, Florian Schmidt-Foß, Ilona Grübel, Ruth Hausmeister | War | |
| Linie 1 | Reinhard Hauff | Inka Groetschel, Rainer Strecker, Dieter Landuris, Petra Zieser | Musical | |
| Der Lockspitzel | Michael Lähn | Tilo Prückner, Vadim Glowna | Crime | |
| Love and Fear | Margarethe von Trotta | Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino | Drama | a.k.a. Three Sisters. French-Italian-West German co-production. Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Man spricht deutsh | Hanns Christian Müller | Gerhard Polt, Gisela Schneeberger, Dieter Hildebrandt, Werner Schneyder, Pamela Prati, Enzo Cannavale | Comedy | |
| Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community | Karin Brandauer | Franziska Walser, August Schmölzer, Inge Maux | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Me and Him | Doris Dörrie | Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene | Comedy | West German-American co-production |
| Midnight Cop | Peter Patzak | Morgan Fairchild, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Michael York, Frank Stallone | Thriller | a.k.a. Killing Blue |
| Mother's Mask | Christoph Schlingensief | Karl Friedrich Mews, Helge Schneider, Udo Kier | Drama | |
| Nekromantik | Jörg Buttgereit | Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski | Horror | |
| Ödipussi | Loriot | Loriot, Evelyn Hamann | Comedy | |
| An Odd Couple | Peter Keglevic | Judy Winter, Diego Wallraff, Karl Michael Vogler | Drama | a.k.a. Ein ungleiches Paar |
| The Passenger – Welcome to Germany | Thomas Brasch | Tony Curtis, Katharina Thalbach, Matthias Habich | Drama | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Pizza Express | Vivian Naefe | Bettina Kupfer, August Zirner, Hannelore Elsner | Crime comedy | |
| Plaza Real | Herbert Vesely | Mia Nygren, Jon Finch | Drama | |
| The Post Office Girl | Édouard Molinaro | Évelyne Bouix, Mario Adorf, Niels Arestrup, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| Red Roses for a Call Girl | Bobby A. Suarez | Maria Isabel Lopez, Robert Marius, Werner Pochath, Julia Kent, Manfred Seipold | Drama | a.k.a. Rose Tattoo a.k.a. Manila Tattoo. Philippine-West German co-production |
| Rosinenbomber | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Carl Raddatz, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Barbara Schöne, Rolf Zacher, Ernst Stankovski | Drama | |
| Schmetterlinge | Wolfgang Becker | Bertram von Boxberg | Drama | a.k.a. Butterflies |
| Schön war die Zeit | Klaus Gietinger, Leo Hiemer |
Gottfried John, Edgar Selge, Ewa Błaszczyk | Drama | |
| Singles | Eckehard Ziedrich | Helmut Zierl, Claudia Demarmels | Comedy | |
| Sleepless Nights | Marcel Gisler | Rudolf Nadler | Drama | |
| Starke Zeiten | Otto Retzer, Rolf Olsen, Sigi Rothemund | Dey Young, David Hasselhoff, Michael Winslow, Rudi Carrell, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Karl Dall | Comedy, Anthology | a.k.a. Strong Times |
| Stowaways on the Ark | Wolfgang Urchs | — | Animated | |
| Three D | Sönke Wortmann | Michael Schreiner, Katharina Müller-Elmau | Comedy | |
| A Touch of Danger | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Iris Berben, Hans Clarin | Thriller | a.k.a. Tagebuch für einen Mörder |
| Das Traumauto | Hajo Gies | Ralf Komorr, Maria Ketikidou, Klaus Herm, Erich Bar, Elisabeth Volkmann, Towje Kleiner | Comedy | |
| The Venus Trap | Robert van Ackeren | Sonja Kirchberger, Hanns Zischler, Myriem Roussel, Horst-Günter Marx | Comedy | |
| Das Viereck | Oliver Storz | Iris Berben, Towje Kleiner, Michael Roll, Monika Schwarz | Comedy | |
| Virgin Machine | Monika Treut | Ina Blum | Drama | |
| The Vulture Wally | Walter Bockmayer | Samy Orfgen, Elisabeth Volkmann, Ralph Morgenstern, Joy Fleming | Comedy | |
| Why Is There Salt in the Sea? | Peter Beauvais | Nicolin Kunz, Siemen Rühaak | Drama | |
| Das Winterhaus | Hilde Lermann | Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Vogler, Werner Kreindl, Elfriede Rückert | Drama | |
| Wohin? | Herbert Achternbusch | Gabi Geist, Josef Bierbichler, Kurt Raab | Drama | |
| Yasemin | Hark Bohm | Ayse Romey, Uwe Bohm | Drama | |
| Year of the Turtle | Ute Wieland | Heinz Bennent, Karina Fallenstein | Drama |
1989
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Years of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour in the Führerbunker | Christoph Schlingensief | Udo Kier, Margit Carstensen, Alfred Edel, Volker Spengler | Drama, War | |
| Affäre Nachtfrost | Sigi Rothemund | Gudrun Landgrebe, Hansjörg Felmy | Thriller | |
| Bangkok Story | Rolf von Sydow | Heiner Lauterbach, Günther Maria Halmer, Rolf Hoppe | Thriller | a.k.a. Killing Drugs |
| Black Sin | Straub-Huillet | Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Howard Vernon | Short | Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Blue Eyed | Reinhard Hauff | Götz George, Miguel Ángel Solá | Drama | West German-Argentine co-production |
| Boomerang Boomerang | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Jürgen Vogel, Katja Studt, Lambert Hamel, Jan Plewka | Crime | |
| The Break | Frank Beyer | Götz George, Rolf Hoppe, Otto Sander | Crime | |
| C*A*S*H: A Political Fairy Tale | Norbert Kückelmann | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Rolf Zacher, Claudia Messner | Comedy | a.k.a. Schweinegeld |
| Coming Out | Heiner Carow | Matthias Freihof, Dirk Kummer, Dagmar Manzel | Drama | East German DEFA film studio production; Premiered November 1989. Silver Bear and Teddy Award at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival in 1990. |
| The Dancing Girl | Masahiro Shinoda | Hiromi Go, Lisa Wolf, Rolf Hoppe, Brigitte Grothum, Haruko Kato, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Christoph Eichhorn | Drama | a.k.a. The Dancer a.k.a. Maihime. Japanese-West German co-production |
| Farewell to False Paradise | Tevfik Başer | Zuhal Olcay | Drama | |
| Follow Me | Maria Knilli | Pavel Landovský, Marina Vlady, Katharina Thalbach | Drama | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Fool's Mate | Mathieu Carrière | Michael Marwitz, Victoria Tennant | Drama | a.k.a. Zugzwang. Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Francesco | Liliana Cavani | Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, Andréa Ferréol, Mario Adorf, Hanns Zischler | Biography | Italian-West German co-production |
| Frei zum Abschuss | Manfred Grunert | William Mang, Hilmar Thate, Vera Tschechowa | Thriller | |
| Das geregelte Leben der Gertie H. | Franz Josef Wild | Christa Berndl | Drama | |
| The Grass Is Greener Everywhere Else | Michael Klier | Mirosław Baka, Marta Klubowicz | Drama | |
| Gummibärchen küßt man nicht | Walter Bannert | Christopher Mitchum, Angela Alvarado, Draco Rosa, Ernest Borgnine, John Hillerman, Art Metrano | Comedy | a.k.a. Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears |
| Hard Days, Hard Nights | Horst Königstein | Wigald Boning, Rita Tushingham, Al Corley | Comedy | |
| Herdsmen of the Sun | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| Himmelsheim | Manfred Stelzer | Elke Sommer, Sigi Zimmerschied, Hanns Zischler | Comedy | |
| Joan of Arc of Mongolia | Ulrike Ottinger | Delphine Seyrig, Gillian Scalici, Irm Hermann, Peter Kern | Drama | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Karambolage | Franz Peter Wirth | Iris Berben, Constanze Engelbrecht, Peter Sattmann, Volkert Kraeft | Comedy | |
| Laser Mission | BJ Davis | Brandon Lee, Ernest Borgnine, Werner Pochath | Action | American-West German co-production |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | Uli Edel | Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young | Drama | West German-British co-production |
| Laurin | Robert Sigl | Dóra Szinetár | Mystery | West German-Hungarian co-production |
| Der Leibwächter | Adolf Winkelmann | Franz Xaver Kroetz, Raymond Pellegrin, Hanns Zischler, Heinz Hoenig | Thriller | |
| Maria von den Sternen | Thomas Mauch | Katja Junge, Robert Duessler, Heikko Deutschmann, Michael Lott | Drama | |
| Der Mitwisser | Ulrike Neulinger | Thomas Kretschmann, Joachim Bißmeier | Crime drama | |
| Money | Doris Dörrie | Billie Zöckler, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Sunnyi Melles, August Zirner | Comedy | |
| Otto: The Alien from East Frisia | Otto Waalkes, Marijan David Vajda |
Otto Waalkes, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Barbara May | Comedy | |
| The Philosopher | Rudolf Thome | Johannes Herrschmann, Adriana Altaras | Comedy | |
| The Play with Billions | Peter Keglevic | Ulrich Tukur, Barbara Auer, Friedrich von Thun, Hans Christian Blech, Vadim Glowna | Drama | a.k.a. Das Milliardenspiel |
| Reunion | Jerry Schatzberg | Jason Robards, Françoise Fabian, Samuel West, Christien Anholt | Drama | British-French-West German co-production |
| RobbyKallePaul | Dani Levy | Dani Levy, Frank Beilicke, Josef Hofmann, Maria Schrader, Anja Franke | Comedy | West German-Swiss co-production |
| Rosalie Goes Shopping | Percy Adlon | Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold | Comedy | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Rose Garden | Fons Rademakers | Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler | Drama | American-West German-Austrian co-production |
| Schulz & Schulz | Ilse Hofmann | Götz George, Martina Gedeck, Klaus J. Behrendt | Comedy | |
| Schwarzenberg | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Max Tidof, Ulrich Pleitgen, Thomas Heinze | Drama | |
| Seven Minutes | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brian Dennehy | Drama, War | a.k.a. Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland |
| Seven Women | Rudolf Thome | Johannes Herrschmann, Adriana Altaras | Comedy | |
| Silence Like Glass | Carl Schenkel | Jami Gertz, Martha Plimpton, George Peppard | Drama | a.k.a. Two Women. West German-American co-production |
| Ein Sohn aus gutem Hause | Karin Brandauer | Alexander Lutz, Angelica Ladurner, Georg Friedrich, Felix von Manteuffel, Ewa Błaszczyk, Rolf Boysen, Walter Schmidinger | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Spider's Web | Bernhard Wicki | Ulrich Mühe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl | Drama | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| The State Chancellery | Heinrich Breloer | Roland Schäfer, Hermann Lause, Dietrich Mattausch, Grischa Huber | Docudrama | a.k.a. Die Staatskanzlei |
| Sugar | Rainer Erler | Helmuth Lohner, Bruce Spence, Colin McEwan | Science fiction | a.k.a. Zucker – Eine wirklich süße Katastrophe |
| Sukkubus | Georg Tressler | Pamela Prati, Peter Simonischek, Giovanni Früh | Horror | a.k.a. Succubus |
| Tiger, Lion, Panther | Dominik Graf | Natja Brunckhorst, Martina Gedeck, Sabine Kaack, Peter Lohmeyer | Comedy | |
| Eine unheimliche Karriere | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Helmut Zierl, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Comedy | |
| Verfolgte Wege | Uwe Janson | Barbara Auer, Peter Cieslinski | Drama | |
| The Voice | Gustavo Graef Marino | Jon Finch, Ian Dury, Suzanna Hamilton, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Heinz Hoenig, Richy Müller, Claude-Oliver Rudolph | Thriller | |
| The Voice of the Turtle | Margit Saad | Leslie Malton, Erich Hallhuber | Comedy | a.k.a. Das Lied der Taube |
| Waller's Last Trip | Christian Wagner | Herbert Knaup | Drama | |
| Wedding | Heiko Schier | Harald Kempe, Roger Hübner, Angela Schmid-Burgk, Heino Ferch | Drama | |
| With the Next Man Everything Will Be Different | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Antje Schmidt, Dominic Raacke, Volkert Kraeft, Despina Pajanou, Billie Zöckler | Comedy |
References
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External links
- German film at the Internet Movie Database (maintains separate lists for West Germany and East Germany)
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