List of German films of the 1980s
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.
1980
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ab mit dir ins Vaterland | Horst Flick | Patrick Martin, Witta Pohl, Manfred Günther, Tilli Breidenbach, Wolfgang Büttner | Drama | |
| Ein Abend mit Labiche | Dieter Wedel | Jörg Pleva, Hannelore Elsner, Gertraud Jesserer, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gerd Baltus, Barbara Valentin | Comedy, Anthology, Musical | |
| 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, Petra Jokisch | Music | |
| Auf halbem Weg | Dagmar Damek | Wolf Roth, Marie Colbin | Drama | |
| Der Aufstieg – Ein Mann geht verloren | Peter Patzak | Ernst Schröder | Drama | |
| Aus heiterem Himmel | Wolfgang Panzer | Peter Ehrlich, Renate Schroeter, Ernst Hannawald, Ernst Stankovski | Thriller | a.k.a. The Childkeeper |
| 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, Donata Höffer, Vérénice Rudolph, Stefan Wigger, Hans Putz | 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 | |
| The Cause of the Crime | Michael Verhoeven | Otto Sander, Hannes Messemer | Drama | a.k.a. Die Ursache |
| Céleste | Percy Adlon | Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt | Biography | |
| Daniel | George Moorse | Dieter Kirchlechner, Beatrice Kessler, Ian Moorse | Drama | |
| Dead Men on Leave | Walter Davy | Michael Schottenberg | War | a.k.a. Tote auf Urlaub. Austrian-West German co-production |
| 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 |
| Defekte | Diethard Klante | Klaus Knuth, Harald Dietl, Hannelore Hoger | Crime | |
| 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 |
| Das eine Glück und das andere | Axel Corti | Suzanne von Borsody, Peter Simonischek, Hans Brenner | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Eingriffe | Thomas Fantl | Judy Winter, Jürgen Thormann, Karin Eickelbaum | Drama | |
| Einmal hunderttausend Taler | Wolfgang Spier | Herbert Herrmann, Barbara Schöne, Simone Rethel, Günter Pfitzmann, Ralf Wolter, Wolfgang Völz | Musical | a.k.a. Einmal 100000 Taler |
| Enter Laughing | Ralf Gregan | Ilja Richter, Inge Meysel, Curt Bois | Comedy | a.k.a. Bühne frei für Kolowitz |
| Exit... nur keine Panik | Franz Novotny | Hanno Pöschl, Isolde Barth, Paulus Manker, Eddie Constantine | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Exit... But No Panic. Austrian-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, Charles Régnier | Drama | |
| Der Fall Walrawe | Werner Schlechte | Werner Kreindl | History | a.k.a. Der Fall Walrave |
| A Flea in Her Ear | Sigi Rothemund | Horst Bollmann, Loni von Friedl, Evelyn Hamann, Günter Strack | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Floh im Ohr |
| 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 |
| Geburt der Hexe | Wilfried Minks | Ulla Berkéwicz | Horror | West German-Swiss 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 | a.k.a. Faith, Hope and Charity |
| Grabbe's Last Summer | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Wilfried Grimpe | Biography | |
| The Green Bird | István Szabó | Hannelore Elsner, Péter Andorai, Krystyna Janda | Drama | |
| Grenzfälle | Imo Moszkowicz | Eva Renzi, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Drama | |
| A Guru Comes | Rainer Erler | Wolfgang Reichmann, Eric P. Caspar, Jörg Pleva, Wolfgang Kieling | Comedy | a.k.a. Here Comes the Guru |
| Hay Fever | Rolf von Sydow | Lilli Palmer, Hannelore Elsner, Peter Pasetti, Herbert Herrmann, Michaela May, Reiner Schöne, Christian Wolff | Comedy | a.k.a. Weekend |
| Henry Angst | Ingo Kratisch | Klaus Hoffmann | Drama | |
| Herkulespillen | Michael Günther | Siegfried W. Kernen, Gaby Gasser, Gerhard Olschewski | Comedy | a.k.a. Les Dragées d'Hercule |
| Das höchste Gut einer Frau ist ihr Schweigen | Gertrud Pinkus | Maria Tucci-Lagamba | Docudrama | a.k.a. Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio. Swiss-West German co-production |
| 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 | a.k.a. Kabale und Liebe |
| Johann Sebastian Bach's Futile Journey to Fame | Victor Vicas | Alexander May | Biography, Music | West German-East German co-production |
| Joseph Roth – Ein Leben in Legenden | Georg Madeja | Georg Trenkwitz, Mijou Kovacs | Biography | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die Judenbuche | Rainer Horbelt | Roland Teubner, Harry Raymon, Diether Krebs, Christiane Lemm | Drama | a.k.a. The Jew's Beech |
| Kaiserhofstraße 12 | Rainer Wolffhardt | Christoph Eichhorn, Doris Schade, Sigfrit Steiner, Monika Baumgartner | War, Drama | |
| Die kleine Figur meines Vaters | Wolfgang Glück | Ludwig Hirsch, Rudolf Wessely | Drama | Austrian-Hungarian-West German co-production |
| 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 |
| The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | Péter Bacsó | Derek Jacobi, Judy Winter | Crime | a.k.a. Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste. 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 | |
| Mona und Marilyn | Sven Severin | Juliet Berto, Wolf Roth, Branko Samarovski | Drama | |
| Mosch | Tankred Dorst | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Katharina Thalbach, Walter Taub, Herbert Grönemeyer | Drama | |
| Musik auf dem Lande | Oliver Storz | Harald Leipnitz, Andrea L'Arronge, Hans-Georg Panczak | Comedy | |
| On Southern Slopes | Michael Verhoeven | Helmut Zierl, Andrea Jonasson | Drama | a.k.a. Am Südhang |
| 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, Peter Ehrlich | 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 |
| Private Lives | Dieter Wieland | Sonja Ziemann, Harald Leipnitz, Michael Hinz, Beatrice Richter | Comedy | a.k.a. Intimitäten |
| 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 |
| The Rainmaker | Ludwig Cremer | Götz George, Cornelia Froboess, Walter Richter, Günter Lamprecht, Rolf Becker, Jochen Schroeder | Comedy | |
| Die Reventlow | Rainer Wolffhardt | Donata Höffer | Biography | a.k.a. Franziska Countess zu Reventlow |
| The Scenario | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Wolfgang Kieling, Loni von Friedl, Volkert Kraeft | Drama | a.k.a. Das Drehbuch |
| Schlagzeile | Dagmar Damek | Giovanni Früh, Marie Colbin | Drama | |
| 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 |
| Teegebäck und Platzpatronen | Wolfgang Spier | Brigitte Horney, Rudolf Platte, Charles Régnier | Crime comedy | a.k.a. The Robin Hood Caper |
| 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 | |
| Totally Frozen | Hans Noever | Rio Reiser, Silvia Janisch, Jürgen von Alten, Hanns Zischler | Comedy | |
| ... und raus bist du | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Elga Sorbas, Hans-Joachim Grubel, Dietrich Mattausch | Drama | |
| Under Lock and Key | Wilma Kottusch | Lisa Kreuzer, Jürgen Prochnow, Rudolf Schündler, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Vera Tschechowa, Michaela May | Drama | |
| The Ungrateful | Franz Josef Wild | Dietlinde Turban, Walter Kohut, Silvia Janisch | Drama | a.k.a. Die Undankbare |
| 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 | |
| Weichselkirschen | Michael Günther, Gerard Zalewski | Luitgard Im, Stanisław Zaczyk, Franciszek Pieczka, Christine Merthan, Barbara Ludwiżanka, Aleksandra Śląska, Emilia Krakowska, Bolesław Płotnicki, Wiktor Grotowicz, Helena Dąbrowska | Drama | a.k.a. Wiśnie. West German-Polish co-production |
| 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, Rolf Boysen | Drama | |
| The World That Summer | Ilse Hofmann | Jan Schwarzbauer, Katrin Schaake, Hermann Lause, Grete Wurm | Drama | |
| Das Ziel | Hartmut Griesmayr | Peter Sattmann | Drama | |
| Zwei oder Was sind das für Träume | Berengar Pfahl | Verena Plangger, Ursula von Reibnitz | 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, Marion Kracht | Drama | |
| Alberta und Alice oder Die Unterwerfung | Wilm ten Haaf | Marianne Nentwich, Beatrice Kessler, Ida Ehre | Comedy | a.k.a. Alberta & Alice oder Die Unterwerfung |
| Amphitryon | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Christian Kohlund, Thekla Carola Wied, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Christian Rode, Klaus Höhne | Comedy | |
| Angels of Iron | Thomas Brasch | Hilmar Thate, Ulrich Wesselmann, Katharina Thalbach, Karin Baal, Ilse Pagé | Crime drama | Entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival |
| Der Aufsteiger | Bernd Fischerauer | Reiner Schöne, Alexandra Bogojevic, Werner Asam, Günter Strack | Drama | |
| Aus der Franzosenzeit | Dagmar Damek | Leon Niemczyk, Gojko Mitić, Ute Lubosch, Martin Hellberg, Peter Reusse, Gerry Wolff | Drama | West German-East German co-production |
| Die Baronin | Lutz Büscher | Marianne Hoppe, Iris Berben | Biography | a.k.a. Die Baronin – Fontane machte sie unsterblich 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, Klaus Wennemann, Martin Semmelrogge, Erwin Leder, Jan Fedder, Ralf Richter, Heinz Hoenig, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Otto Sander | War | a.k.a. The Boat. Based on a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Columbia Pictures |
| Burning Rubber | Norman Cohen | Bay City Rollers, Olivia Pascal, Sascha Hehn | Action | |
| Das Casanova-Projekt | F. K. Waechter, Bernd Eilert, Robert Gernhardt, Arend Agthe | Alfred Edel | Comedy | |
| 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 | a.k.a. The Deception. 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 | |
| Comrades | Diethard Klante | Uwe Friedrichsen, Hilde Lermann | Comedy | |
| 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 | |
| Don Quixote's Children | Claudia Holldack | Angelica Domröse, Dietrich Mattausch, Dieter Laser, Pola Kinski | Drama | |
| Double Trouble | Dorothea Neukirchen | Gudrun Landgrebe, Jochen Schroeder | Comedy | a.k.a. Dabbel Trabbel |
| Elisabeths Kind | Rainer Boldt | Roja Knüppel, Henning Grimm, Claudia Demarmels, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Brigitte Janner | Drama | a.k.a. Elisabeth's Child |
| Das Ende vom Anfang | Christian Görlitz | Michael Fass | Drama | |
| Es bleibt in der Familie | Wolfgang Spier | Harald Juhnke, Simone Rethel, Edda Seippel | Comedy | a.k.a. Les Chantrel a.k.a. Les Trois Messieurs de Bois-Guillaume |
| Es geht seinen Gang oder Mühen in unserer Ebene | Günter Gräwert | Wolfgang Bathke, Helga Koehler, Barbara Stanek, Wilfried Klaus | Drama | |
| Etwas wird sichtbar | Harun Farocki | Anna Mandel, Marcel Werner, Hanns Zischler, Inga Humpe, Bruno Ganz, Elfriede Irrall | Drama | a.k.a. Before Your Eyes: Vietnam |
| Fantasma d'amore | Dino Risi | Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Wolfgang Preiss, Eva Maria Meineke | Drama | a.k.a. Ghost of Love. Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Fear Not, Jacob! | Radu Gabrea | André Heller | Drama | a.k.a. Don't Be Afraid, Jacob |
| La Ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa | Rebecca Horn | Valentina Cortese, David Warrilow, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Drama | a.k.a. La Ferdinanda: Sonata for a Medici Villa |
| Fire and Sword | Veith von Fürstenberg | Christoph Waltz, Antonia Preser, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth, Vladek Sheybal | Fantasy | a.k.a. The Legend of Tristan and Isolde |
| Flächenbrand | Alexander von Eschwege | Horst Frank, Manfred Krug, Curt Bois, Nina Hoger | 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 | ||
| Die Grenze | Jürgen Karl Klauß | Gustl Bayrhammer, Manfred Günther | Drama | a.k.a. The Border |
| Gute Reise | Wilfried Dotzel | Siegfried W. Kernen, Monika Gabriel, Rose Renée Roth, Wolf-Dietrich Berg, Heinz Meier, Ulrich Faulhaber, Evelyn Hamann | Comedy | |
| Das Haus im Park | Aribert Weis | Wilfried Labmeier, Ulrich Pleitgen, Christine Pascal | Crime | |
| 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 |
| Die Jahre vergehen | Peter Keglevic | Stephan Schwartz, Silvia Reize, Hanno Pöschl, Karl Michael Vogler, Rosel Zech, Herbert Fux | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Jeans | Hartmut Griesmayr | Hans-Georg Panczak, Agnes Dünneisen, Dieter Kirchlechner | Drama | |
| Jetzt und alles | Dieter Meier | Richy Müller, Jean-Pierre Kalfon | Drama | |
| The Just Assassins | Frank Guthke | Jan Niklas, Heidelinde Weis | Drama | a.k.a. Die Gerechten |
| Das Käthchen von Heilbronn | Peter Beauvais | Marita Marschall, Manfred Zapatka, Günter Lamprecht, Cornelia Froboess, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Drama | |
| Komm doch mit nach Monte Carlo | Berengar Pfahl | Ulrike Kriener | Comedy | |
| 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, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Hark Bohm, Christine Kaufmann | War, Music, Drama | |
| Lisa und Tshepo | Erika Runge | Pia Hänggi, Dumisani Mabaso | Drama | |
| Lola | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs | 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 a.k.a. Die bleierne Zeit |
| 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 Mond ist nur a nackerte Kugel | Jörg Graser | Sigfrit Steiner, Elisabeth Stepanek, Peter Turrini | Drama | |
| Der Nächste, bitte | Michael Günther | Rosel Zech, Evelyn Hamann, Ernst Stankovski, Gerhard Olschewski, Joachim Kemmer, Wolfgang Wahl | Comedy | a.k.a. La main passe |
| Der Neger Erwin | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | Entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival |
| Nightfall | Beate Klöckner | Barbara Rudnik, Gordon Mitchell | Thriller | a.k.a. Kopfschuss |
| No Mercy, No Future | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Elisabeth Stepanek | Drama | a.k.a. Die Berührte |
| No Terraced House for Robin Hood | Wolf Gremm | Jutta Speidel, Hermann Lause, Brigitte Mira | Crime | a.k.a. Kein Reihenhaus für Robin Hood |
| Die Ortliebschen Frauen | Luc Bondy | Edith Heerdegen, Libgart Schwarz, Elisabeth Stepanek, Klaus Pohl | Drama | |
| Perle der Karibik | Manfred Stelzer | Alisa Saltzman, Diethard Wendtland | Comedy | |
| Der Poltergeist | Jindřich Mann | Heinz Moog, Friedhelm Ptok, Elisabeth Rath, Mareike Carrière | 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 |
| Preußische Nacht | Oswald Döpke | Gerd Böckmann, Cordula Trantow | Biography | |
| Pseudonym Hans Fallada | Lutz Büscher | Joachim Bliese, Dieter Borsche | Biography | |
| Quartett bei Claudia | Michael Kehlmann | Karl Michael Vogler, Dagmar Mettler, Karin Anselm, Ernst Stankovski, Witta Pohl, Willy Semmelrogge | Drama | Based on 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 | |
| Schattenlinien | Dagmar Damek | Claus Eberth, Barbara Freier, Felix von Manteuffel | Drama | |
| Der Schatz des Priamos | Karl Fruchtmann | Tilo Prückner, Olga Karlatos, Ronald Hines, Heinz Moog | Biography | a.k.a. Treasure of Priam |
| The Second Skin | Frank Beyer | Angelica Domröse, Hilmar Thate, Jana Brejchová, Edith Heerdegen | Drama | |
| Der Spot oder Fast eine Karriere | Rainer Erler | Claus Obalski, Wolfgang Kieling, Alexander May, Dietrich Mattausch, Andrea L'Arronge, Elisabeth Endriss | Comedy | a.k.a. The Commercial, or Halfway Up the Ladder of Success |
| 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 |
| Student Gerber | Wolfgang Glück | Gabriel Barylli, Werner Kreindl | Drama | a.k.a. Young Gerber a.k.a. Der Schüler Gerber. Austrian-West German co-production |
| The Subjective Factor | Helke Sander | Angelika Rommel | Drama | |
| Le Système Ribadier | Claus Peter Witt | Harald Juhnke, Gerd Baltus, Heinz Schubert, Gaby Gasser | Comedy | a.k.a. System Ribadier |
| 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, Lisi Mangold | Comedy | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Und plötzlich bist du draußen | Eugen York | Wolfgang Bathke, Dagmar Biener | Drama | |
| Von einem Tag zum anderen | Wolfgang Becker | Gerd Böckmann, Karin Anselm | Drama | |
| Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne | Claudia Holldack | Eva Mattes, Klaus Pohl, Peter Seum | Drama | |
| Der Wald | Wilm ten Haaf | Maria Schell, Ekkehardt Belle, Monika Baumgartner, Herbert Fleischmann, Wolfgang Büttner | Comedy | a.k.a. The Forest |
| Warnung aus dem Käfig | Peter von Zahn | Günter Mack, Christine Wodetzky, Horst Frank, Gerhard Olschewski | Docudrama, Cold War spy film | a.k.a. Der Fall Frucht |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any Wednesday | Wolfgang Spier | Barbara Schöne, Liselotte Pulver, Günter Pfitzmann, Herbert Herrmann | Comedy | a.k.a. Jeden Mittwoch |
| The Axe of Wandsbek | Heinrich Breloer, Horst Königstein | Roland Schäfer, Angelika Thomas, Joachim Dietmar Mues | Drama | |
| Die Aufgabe des Dr. med. Graefe | Thomas Fantl | Günther Flesch, Sabine Postel | Drama | |
| Banana Joe | Steno | Bud Spencer, Gunther Philipp | Comedy | Italian-West German co-production |
| Die Barrikade | Jürgen Karl Klauß | Heinz Hoenig, Alexander Radszun, Peter Pasetti, Gert Haucke, Christine Wodetzky, Míla Myslíková | History | West German-Czechoslovak co-production |
| Be Gentle, Penguin | Peter Hajek | Marie Colbin, Heinz Hoenig, Rainer Hunold, Petra Jokisch | Comedy | a.k.a. Sei zärtlich, Pinguin. Austrian-West German co-production |
| The Beastmaster | Don Coscarelli | Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn | Fantasy | American production with West German money |
| Das blaue Bidet | Claus Peter Witt | Klaus Schwarzkopf | Comedy | |
| Brandmale | George Moorse | Gila von Weitershausen, Anne Bennent, Hub Martin | Drama | |
| Brigitta | Wolfgang Glück | Joséphine Derenne, András Bálint | Drama | Austrian-West German-Hungarian co-production |
| 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 | |
| Danny's Dream | Sigi Rothemund | Alexander Rosenberg, Jutta Speidel | Drama | |
| The Deadlock | Rolf Busch | Leslie Malton, Heinz Baumann, Gerd Baltus, Udo Vioff | Drama | a.k.a. In der Sackgasse |
| 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 | |
| Dr. Margarete Johnsohn | Dagmar Damek | Judy Winter, Christoph Waltz, Karl Walter Diess, Jutta Speidel | Drama | a.k.a. Frau Dr. Johnsohn |
| Drei gegen Hollywood | Sigi Rothemund | Hans Peter Korff, Beatrice Richter, Ulrich Faulhaber, Lambert Hamel, Elisabeth Volkmann, Christine Zierl, Brigitte Mira | Comedy | a.k.a. Once in a Lifetime |
| Egmont | Franz Peter Wirth | Manfred Zapatka, Catherine Frot, Rolf Boysen, Rolf Becker, Anouk Ferjac | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Ehe oder Liebe | Sigi Rothemund | Heidi Brühl, Claus Biederstaedt | Comedy | |
| 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 |
| Euch darf ich's wohl gestehen | Egon Günther | Robert Freitag, Michael Gempart | Biography | |
| Eugenie Marlitt und "Die Gartenlaube" | Herbert Ballmann | Cordula Trantow, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ursela Monn, Rolf Henniger, Klaus Herm, Michael Hinz | Biography | |
| Falsche Liebe | Annelie Runge | Verena Buss, Stefan Matousch | Drama | |
| 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 | Angelica Domröse, Günter Lamprecht, Helmut Berger, Hannes Messemer, Christa Berndl, Petra Jokisch | Drama | |
| Flucht aus London | Wolfgang Storch | Matthias Ponnier, Friedhelm Ptok | Crime | a.k.a. Two Men in Twenty |
| Flucht aus Pommern | Eberhard Schubert | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marie-Charlott Schüler, Klaus Höhne, André Wilms, Rudolf Schündler, Stephan Schwartz, Alexander Radszun | War | |
| Frau Jenny Treibel | Franz Josef Wild | Maria Schell, Dietlinde Turban, Christian Berkel, Ernst Jacobi, Hannes Messemer, 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 |
| Der Gärtner von Toulouse | Günter Gräwert | Hildegard Knef, Benedict Freitag, Silvia Janisch | Drama | |
| Der Gast | Wolfgang Mühlbauer | Rolf Zacher, Peter Sattmann, Monika Baumgartner, Jörg Hube, Claus Theo Gärtner | Comedy | |
| The Ghost | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Das Glück beim Händewaschen | Werner Masten | Mario Baumgartner, Brigitte Karner | Drama | Austrian-Swiss-Italian-West German co-production |
| Der glücklose Mann | Rolf Basedow | Rolf Zacher, Kurt Raab, Silvia Janisch | Crime | |
| God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore | Axel Corti | Johannes Silberschneider, Armin Mueller-Stahl | Drama | a.k.a. Where to and Back 1. Austrian-West German-Swiss co-production |
| Ein gutes Land | Horatius Haeberle | Tariq Yunus, Petra Jokisch, Dieter Laser, Ivan Desny, Rolf Zacher | Drama | West German-Indian co-production |
| Hambacher Frühling | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Wolfgang Schwarz, Gaby Dohm, Wolfgang Arps | Docudrama | |
| Heimkehr nach Deutschland | Eberhard Pieper | Eva-Maria Hagen, Paul Dahlke, Monica Bleibtreu, Claudio Caramaschi, Evelyn Opela | Drama | |
| The Heiress | Franz Josef Wild | Heidelinde Weis, Alexander Kerst, Alexander Waechter | Drama | a.k.a. Die Erbin |
| Herr Herr | Nicolas Gessner | Rudolf Bissegger, Katja Rupé, César Keiser, Helmut Förnbacher, Wolfram Berger, Sigfrit Steiner, Gert Westphal, Anne-Marie Blanc, Peter Arens | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Der Heuler | Rosemarie Fendel | Heidelinde Weis | Family | |
| High Society Limited | Ottokar Runze | Lilli Palmer, Elisabeth Bergner, Hardy Krüger, Vadim Glowna, Heinz Schubert | Comedy | |
| Ich fühle was, was Du nicht fühlst | Helga Krauss | Donata Höffer, Yves Jansen | 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 | |
| Jägerschlacht | Wigbert Wicker | Bernd Stephan, Günther Ungeheuer | Drama | |
| Jaipur Junction | W. Werner Schaefer | Herbert Knaup, Victor Banerjee, Neena Gupta | Thriller | |
| Kamikaze 1989 | Wolf Gremm | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Boy Gobert, Franco Nero, Brigitte Mira, Günther Kaufmann, Richy Müller, Nicole Heesters, Petra Jokisch | Science Fiction | |
| Die Klassefrau | Rainer Wolffhardt | Viola Sauer, Detlef Kessler | Drama | |
| Der kleine Bruder | Rainer Söhnlein | Herbert Stass, Ilsemarie Schnering, Hannes Messemer | Drama | a.k.a. The Little Brother |
| 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 |
|
| Leben im Winter | Hartmut Griesmayr | Brigitte Mira, Paul Dahlke, Elisabeth Endriss, Herbert Stass | Drama | |
| 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! |
| Little Zaches called Cinnabar | Frank Strecker | Werner Kwoll, Bernd Herberger, Ernst Stankovski, Dietlinde Turban, Günter Pfitzmann, Günter Mack | Fantasy | a.k.a. Little Zaches, Surnamed Zinnober a.k.a. Little Zack |
| The Logic of Emotion | Ingo Kratisch | Rüdiger Vogler, Grischa Huber, Remo Remotti, Klaus Hoffmann, Hanns Zischler, Bruno Ganz | 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 |
| Les Maîtres du temps | René Laloux, Tibor Hernádi (technical director) | — | Independent animated science fiction | a.k.a. Time Masters. French-Swiss-West German-British-Hungarian co-production |
| The Man on the Wall | Reinhard Hauff | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Julie Carmen, Towje Kleiner | Drama | |
| Mein Bruder und ich | Claus Peter Witt | Hermann Prey, Rada Rassimov, Dorothea Parton, Wolfgang Kieling, Michael Degen, Gert Haucke, Kurt Nachmann | Musical | |
| 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 | |
| Die Mutprobe | Michael Verhoeven | Peter Welz, Günther Maria Halmer, Gabi Marr, Melanie Horeschowsky | 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] |
| The Passionate | Thomas Koerfer | Lutz Weidlich, Sunnyi Melles, Hanns Zischler | Drama, Biography | a.k.a. Die Leidenschaftlichen. West German-Swiss-Austrian co-production |
| Piratensender Powerplay | Sigi Rothemund | Thomas Gottschalk, Mike Krüger | Comedy | |
| Die Präsidentin | Michael Günther | Heinz Schubert, Gaby Gasser, Claus Biederstaedt, Bruni Löbel | Comedy | a.k.a. La Présidente |
| Praying Mantis | Jack Gold | Jonathan Pryce, Cherie Lunghi, Pinkas Braun, Friedrich von Thun, Arthur Brauss | Crime | British-West German co-production |
| Qualverwandtschaften | Ulrich Heising | Hans Christian Blech, Bernd Tauber, Günter Mack | Drama | |
| 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 | a.k.a. Men Never Know. 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, Thomas Schücke | 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 | |
| Die Stunde des Löwen | Hartmut Griesmayr | Judy Winter, Dietmar Schönherr, Dieter Kirchlechner, Udo Vioff | Thriller | |
| 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 |
| Der Tod in der Waschstraße | Friedemann Schulz | Benjamin Völz, Beate Finckh, Henning Venske, Rosemarie Fendel | Drama | |
| Tscherwonez | Gábor Altorjay | The Wirtschaftswunder, Péter Halász, Stephan Balint, Sheryl Sutton | Crime | a.k.a. Chervonets |
| The Unapproachable | Krzysztof Zanussi | Leslie Caron, Danny Webb, Leslie Malton | Drama | a.k.a. Die Unerreichbare |
| Ungleicher Lohn | Christa Maar | Walo Lüönd, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Veronika Fitz, Rolf Zacher | Drama | |
| 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 | |
| Wir haben uns doch mal geliebt | Daniel Christoff | Lisa Kreuzer, Joachim Bliese | Drama | |
| Woman with the Red Hat | Tatsumi Kumashiro | Kristina van Eyck, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Shigeru Izumiya | Drama | Japanese-West German co-production |
| Die Zeit dazwischen | Klaus Weise | Ulla Berkéwicz | Comedy | |
| Zero Point | Jochen Richter | Victoria Tennant, Hans Peter Hallwachs, James Faulkner, Heinz Trixner | Crime | a.k.a. Nullpunkt – Ich bin dein Killer |
1983
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Abduction of the Sabine Women | Rolf von Sydow | Gert Fröbe, Martin Held, Edda Seippel, Désirée Nosbusch | Comedy | |
| Die andere Seite der Welt | Hanno Brühl | Hildegard Lena Kuhlenberg | Drama | a.k.a. Out of Sight, Out of Mind |
| Angst vor dem Leben | Hagen Mueller-Stahl | Hilmar Thate, Hannelore Hoger, Heinz Hoenig | Drama | |
| Banks and Robbers | Rolf Silber | Christoph M. Ohrt, Britta Pohland, Kai Fischer, Tilo Prückner | Comedy | a.k.a. Kassensturz |
| Die Beine des Elefanten | Michael Günther | Viyada Umarin, Gerhard Olschewski, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Drama | |
| 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 |
| The Captain's Doll | Claude Whatham | Jeremy Irons, Gila von Weitershausen, Jane Lapotaire, Leigh Lawson, Ivan Desny, Sheila Ruskin, Michael Sheard | Drama | British-West German 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 |
| Danni | Martin Gies | Brigitte Karner, Robert Hunger-Bühler | Thriller | |
| Datenpanne – Das kann uns nie passieren | Daniel Christoff | Wolfgang Bathke, Gudo Hoegel, Alexandra Bogojevic, Gerd Böckmann | Science fiction | |
| Dear Melanie | Michael Verhoeven | Melanie Horeschowsky, Senta Berger, Friedrich von Thun, Michael Ande, Eva Mattes, Ulrich Tukur | Drama | |
| 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 |
| The Edge of Darkness | Jochen Richter | Barbara Rudnik, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Drama | a.k.a. Am Ufer der Dämmerung |
| 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 |
| Empfänger unbekannt | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Umran Ertok, Iris von Reppert-Bismarck, Manfred Zapatka | Drama | a.k.a. Addressee Unknown |
| Eréndira | Ruy Guerra | Irene Papas, Cláudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale | Drama | Mexican-French-West German co-production |
| Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher | Vojtěch Jasný | Heinz Rühmann, Katharina Böhm | Drama | a.k.a. Il y a encore des noisetiers |
| 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 | |
| Geheimsender 1212 | Rudolf Nussgruber | Michael Hinz, Dietrich Mattausch, Karl-Heinz von Liebezeit, Helen Vita | War, Docudrama | a.k.a. Radio 1212 |
| Gib Gas – Ich will Spass | Wolfgang Büld | Nena, Markus, Karl Dall | Musical comedy | a.k.a. Hangin' Out |
| The Gin Game | Tom Toelle | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Edda Seippel | Drama | a.k.a. Gin-Rommé |
| Die große Kapitulation | Wolfgang F. Henschel | Arthur Brauss, Ernst Stankovski, Volkert Kraeft | Drama | |
| Hanna von acht bis acht | Egon Günther | Angelica Domröse, Karl Michael Vogler, Heidi Brühl, Lisa Kreuzer, Claus Theo Gärtner, Christoph Eichhorn, Anja Jaenicke | Drama | |
| The Heartbreakers | Peter F. Bringmann | Maria Ketikidou, Sascha Disselkamp, Uwe Bohm | Musical | |
| Heinrich Heine – Die zweite Vertreibung aus dem Paradies | Karl Fruchtmann | Wolfgang Hinze, Donata Höffer, Sabine Sinjen | Biography | |
| Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist | Hans Neuenfels | Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | |
| Herrenjahre | Axel Corti | Peter Simonischek, Josefin Platt | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| How Would You Like to Have It? | Rolf von Sydow | Jutta Speidel, Robert Atzorn, Michaela May, Horst Janson, Günther Maria Halmer, Herbert Herrmann | Comedy | |
| In Zeiten wie diesen | Wolfgang Bauer | Towje Kleiner | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| The Island of the Bloody Plantation | Kurt Raab | Udo Kier, Barbara Valentin, Karl-Otto Alberty | Adventure, Drama, War | a.k.a. Escape from Blood Plantation a.k.a. Prison Camp Girls. West German-Filipino co-production |
| 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 a.k.a. Schwarzfahrer |
| Julie Darling | Paul Nicholas | Anthony Franciosa, Sybil Danning, Isabelle Mejias, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Thriller | a.k.a. Daughter of Death. West German-Canadian co-production |
| Kampftag | Manfred Grunert | Siegfried Rauch, Josef Bierbichler, Monika Baumgartner | Drama | |
| 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, Peter Seum, Witta Pohl, Dietmar Schönherr, Günter Strack, Alexander May | Drama | |
| Klawitter | Günter Gräwert | Gerhard Olschewski, Dieter Kirchlechner, Rosel Zech | Drama | |
| Der Kleine | Klaus Lemke | Arthur Radwan, Micha Lampert, Isa Jank | Crime | |
| Der Kunstfehler | Peter Beauvais | Winfried Glatzeder, Thekla Carola Wied | Drama | |
| Die leichten Zeiten sind vorbei | Ulli Weiß | Heinz Hoenig, Jan Fedder, Kristina van Eyck | 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 | |
| Die Matrosen von Kronstadt | Jürgen Karl Klauß | Siemen Rühaak, Gottfried John, Pinkas Braun, Gert Haucke, Dietrich Mattausch, Werner Kreindl, Jacques Breuer | History | a.k.a. The Sailors of Kronstadt |
| Melzer | Heinz Bütler | Rüdiger Vogler, Adelheid Arndt | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Mensch Berni | Joachim Hess | Christian Kohlund, Peer Augustinski, Hans Richter | Drama | |
| Ein Mord liegt auf der Hand | Ralf Gregan | Uwe Friedrichsen, Brigitte Horney, Rudolf Platte, Harald Leipnitz | Crime comedy | a.k.a. An Obvious Murder |
| Nachruf auf Othello | Michael Braun | Werner Hinz, Herbert Fleischmann, Barbara Rütting, Dietlinde Turban, Jörg Pleva | Crime | |
| 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 Feelings | Alexander Kluge | Hannelore Hoger, Alexandra Kluge | Drama | a.k.a. The Power of Emotion a.k.a. Die Macht der Gefühle |
| Randale | Manfred Purzer | Angelica Domröse, Jocelyne Boisseau | Drama | a.k.a. Girls Riot |
| Red Lights | Wolfgang Storch | Bernd Tauber | Thriller | a.k.a. The Hitchhiker a.k.a. Feux Rouges a.k.a. Reifenwechsel |
| 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 | |
| Schnelles Geld | Renate Stegmüller, Raimund Koplin | Carlo Ghirardelli, Agnes Dünneisen, Udo Samel | Crime | |
| Sheer Madness | Margarethe von Trotta | Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck | Drama | West German-French co-production. Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Solo Run | Wolfgang Staudte | Dieter Kirchlechner, Hannelore Elsner, Hans Christian Blech, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama | a.k.a. Satan ist auf Gottes Seite |
| Sorry | Thomas Engel | Jutta Speidel, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Knut Koch, Peter Schiff | Drama | |
| 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, Music | |
| Der Stille Ozean | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Hanno Pöschl, Marie-France Pisier | Drama | a.k.a. The Silent Ocean. Austrian-West German co-production |
| 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, Gottlieb Wendehals, Olivia Pascal | 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 | a.k.a. The Case of Szilveszter Matuska. Hungarian-West German-American co-production |
| Tramps | Peter Patzak | Elliott Gould, Heinz Moog, Andrea Jonasson | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Trap for a Lonely Man | Oswald Döpke | Wolf Roth, Judy Winter, Helmut Zierl, Hans Caninenberg | Thriller | a.k.a. Die Falle |
| Traumlage | Konrad Sabrautzky | Karin Baal, Richard Haller, Ilse Neubauer | Drama | |
| Unternehmen Arche Noah | Konrad Sabrautzky | Karin Baal, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Paul Dahlke, Dagmar Biener | Comedy | |
| Utopia | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Manfred Zapatka, Birgit Anders, Gundula Petrovska, Johanna Sophia, Imke Barnstedt, Gabriele Fischer | Drama | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Variation | Michael Haneke | Hilmar Thate, Elfriede Irrall | Drama | |
| Wer raucht die Letzte? | Hartmut Griesmayr | Manfred Krug, Ingrid van Bergen, Dieter Kirchlechner, Anita Lochner, Monika Lundi, Matthias Ponnier, Udo Vioff, Klaus Herm | 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 |
| Wie es geschah | Thomas Engel | Jutta Speidel, Reinhild Solf | Drama | |
| A Winter in Majorca | Imo Moszkowicz | Eleonore Weisgerber, Krystian Martinek, Anton Diffring | Biography | a.k.a. A Winter in Mallorca |
| A Woman in Flames | Robert van Ackeren | Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, Hanns Zischler | Drama | a.k.a. Die flambierte Frau |
| Zausel | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Werner Hinz | Drama | |
| Ziemlich weit weg | Dietrich Schubert | Burghart Klaußner, Christiane Lemm, Wolfgang Kraßnitzer | Drama | |
| Zuckerhut | Vivian Naefe | Despina Pajanou | Comedy | |
| Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl | Joachim Roering | Claus Biederstaedt, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Heinz Ehrenfreund, Peter Pasetti, Jürgen von Manger, Alexander May, Brigitte Mira | Comedy | |
| Die zweite Frau | Herbert Ballmann | Christoph Moosbrugger, Ruth Olafs, Paul Dahlke, Hartmut Becker, Doris Kunstmann, Luitgard Im, Gisela Uhlen, Rainer Hunold | Drama |
1984
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abenteuer aus dem Englischen Garten | Margit Saad | Werner Stocker, Silvia Janisch | Drama | |
| Abwärts | Carl Schenkel | Götz George, Renée Soutendijk, Wolfgang Kieling, Hannes Jaenicke | Thriller | a.k.a. Out of Order |
| After Your Decrees | Jerzy Hoffman | Sharon Brauner, Anna Dymna, Günter Lamprecht, Mathieu Carrière | War | a.k.a. Ruth. Polish-West German co-production |
| Anna's Mother | Burkhard Driest | Gudrun Landgrebe | Drama | |
| Auf einem langen Weg | Christian Görlitz | Nils Viktor Sorge, Mark Heine | War | |
| Augustus the Strong | Rudolf Nussgruber | Gert Fröbe, Herlinde Latzko, Evelyn Opela, Anja Schüte, Hannes Messemer, Günter Strack | Biography | a.k.a. August der Starke |
| Der Ausflug | Otto Schnelling | Alina De Simone, Gert Haucke, Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | |
| Das Autogramm | Peter Lilienthal | Juan José Mosalini | Drama | a.k.a. The Autograph. Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Baby | Uwe Frießner | Udo Seidler, Volkmar Richter, Reinhard Seeger | Crime | |
| Bali | István Szabó | Winfried Glatzeder, Loni von Friedl, Michael König, Nicole Heesters | Drama | |
| Ballad of the Little Soldier | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| The Bear | Don Askarian | Hans Peter Hallwachs, Elisabeth Rath | Comedy | |
| Beautiful Wilhelmine | Rolf von Sydow | Anja Kruse, Rainer Hunold | Biography | |
| Bluebeard | Krzysztof Zanussi | Vadim Glowna, Karin Baal, Vera Tschechowa, Margarethe von Trotta, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Barbara Lass | Drama | |
| The Broken House: Growing Up Under Hitler | Michael Günther | Till Topf, Ursela Monn, Manuel Vaessen, Sona MacDonald, Klaus Höhne, Hans Caninenberg, Hans Helmut Dickow, Hannes Messemer | Drama, War | a.k.a. A Crack in the Wall: Growing Up Under Hitler |
| Chinese Boxes | Chris Petit | Will Patton, Robbie Coltrane, Adelheid Arndt, Gottfried John, Beate Jensen | Thriller | British-West German co-production |
| Code Name: Wild Geese | Antonio Margheriti | Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Klaus Kinski, Mimsy Farmer | Action | Italian-West German co-production |
| Cold Fever | Josef Rusnak | Klaus Rohrmoser, Lisa Kreuzer, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Katharina Böhm | Crime | |
| Dear Karl | Maria Knilli | Ulrich Reinthaller, Hans Brenner, Krista Stadler | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Decoder | Muscha | F.M. Einheit, William "Bill" Rice, Christiane F., William S. Burroughs | Drama | |
| Deutschlandlied | Ernst Witzel | Bernd Herzsprung, Hans Hass Jr., Isolde Barth | Drama | |
| Deutschland-Tournee | Berengar Pfahl | Ulrike Kriener, Verena Plangger | Comedy | |
| The Devil's Lieutenant | John Goldschmidt | Helmut Griem, Ian Charleson, Barbara De Rossi, Claudine Auger | Drama | British-West German-Italian-French co-production |
| Don Carlos | Franz Peter Wirth | Jacques Breuer, Robert Atzorn, Rolf Boysen, Marita Marschall, Bernhard Minetti, Rolf Becker, Renan Demirkan | Drama | |
| Donauwalzer | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Christiane Hörbiger, Hans-Michael Rehberg | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Dorado – One Way | Reinhard Münster | Uwe Schwalbe, Adriana Altaras, Dominik Bender, Uwe Büschken | Comedy | |
| Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press | Ulrike Ottinger | Veruschka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig | Drama | a.k.a. The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press |
| End of the World | Imo Moszkowicz | Günter Mack, Hans von Borsody, Anton Diffring | Historical drama | a.k.a. Weltuntergang. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die ewigen Gefühle | Peter Beauvais | Michael Degen, Christine Merthan, Gila von Weitershausen, Renate Krößner, Rolf Hoppe, Jörg Gudzuhn, Rolf Ludwig, Herbert Grönemeyer | Drama | |
| Faces in the Dark | Kristian Kühn | Wolfgang Wahl, Monica Bleibtreu, Wolf-Dietrich Berg, Jürgen Schmidt | Thriller | |
| Fanny Morgane | Klaus Ickert | Barbara Rudnik, Rüdiger Vogler | Drama | a.k.a. Fanny Morgane oder Irgendwie muß das Glück ja heißen |
| Fear of Falling | Christian Rischert | Horst Buchholz, Franziska Bronnen, Tilo Prückner, Constanze Engelbrecht | Drama | a.k.a. Wenn ich mich fürchte |
| Fire for the Big Dragon | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Peter Sattmann, Ulrike Luderer, Erdal Merdan, Tayfun Bademsoy | Drama | a.k.a. Feuer für den großen Drachen |
| Flight to Berlin | Chris Petit | Tusse Silberg, Paul Freeman, Lisa Kreuzer, Jean-François Stévenin, Eddie Constantine | Drama | a.k.a. Fluchtpunkt Berlin. British-West German co-production |
| Forbidden | Anthony Page | Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow | Drama, War | West German-British co-production |
| Die Försterbuben | Peter Patzak | Franco Nero, Tilo Prückner, Georg Friedrich, Thomas Sigwald, Anja Jaenicke, Heinz Moog | Drama | a.k.a. The Forester's Sons. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die Frau des Kommissars | Michael Günther | Heinz Schubert, Ursela Monn, Klaus Höhne, Simone Rethel, Claus Biederstaedt, Ilja Richter | Comedy | a.k.a. La Femme du Commissaire |
| Die Friedenmacher | Stanislav Barabáš | Richard Münch, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Walter Schmidinger, Günter Mack, Paul Edwin Roth, Hans Peter Korff, Gerhard Olschewski | History | a.k.a. The Peacemakers: The Munich Agreement |
| The Future of Emily | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Brigitte Fossey, Hildegard Knef, Ivan Desny | Drama | a.k.a. Flügel und Fesseln. West German-French co-production |
| Gefühlssachen | Klaus Ickert | Vera Tschechowa, Gabriel Barylli | Drama | |
| Gegenlicht | Michael Kehlmann | Karlheinz Hackl, Günter Mack, Dagmar Mettler, Kurt Nachmann, Gregor Schönstein | Thriller | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Das Geschenk | Marcus Scholz | Inge Meysel, Marion Kracht, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama | |
| Gnadenlos | Wolfgang Panzer | Birgit Doll, Rüdiger Vogler, Günter Lamprecht, Winfried Glatzeder | Drama | |
| Gratwanderung | Barbara Kappen | Irina Hoppe, Petra Seeger, Anneli Feik-Wagner, Michael Altmann | Drama | a.k.a. On the Edge |
| Heimat | Edgar Reitz | Marita Breuer, Jörg Hube, Kurt Wagner, Michael Lesch, Gudrun Landgrebe | Drama | TV series |
| Heiraten ist immer ein Risiko | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Carl-Heinz Schroth, Edda Seippel, Willy Semmelrogge | Crime comedy | |
| Horror Vacui | Rosa von Praunheim | Lotti Huber, Ingrid van Bergen | Drama | |
| House Guest | Jürgen Roland | Horst Frank, Judy Winter, Jürgen Goslar, Anton Diffring, Evelyn Opela, Diana Körner | Thriller | a.k.a. Der Besuch |
| Hur und heilig | Cornelia Schlingmann | Isolde Barth, Udo Kier | Drama | |
| Jagger und Spaghetti | Karsten Wichniarz | Stephan Schwartz, Peter Buchholz | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Jagger & Spaghetti |
| Julius geht nach Amerika | Hans Noever | Hanno Pöschl, Gabi Marr, Silvia Janisch | Drama | |
| Jungle Warriors | Ernst R. von Theumer | Nina Van Pallandt, Sybil Danning, Woody Strode, Alex Cord, Paul L. Smith, John Vernon | Exploitation | |
| Kerbel's Escape | Erwin Keusch | Peter Sattmann, Barbara Rudnik, Jan Niklas, Bernd Tauber | Drama | |
| A Kind of Anger | Uli Edel | Rolf Zacher, Klaus Löwitsch, Hannelore Elsner, Bernhard Wicki | Thriller | |
| Klassenverhältnisse | Straub-Huillet | Christian Heinisch, Mario Adorf, Laura Betti | Drama | a.k.a. Class Relations. West German-French co-production |
| Knock on the Wrong Door | Gabriela Zerhau | Claudia Demarmels, Rolf Zacher, August Zirner, Iris Berben | Comedy | a.k.a. Tapetenwechsel |
| Kolossale Liebe | Jutta Brückner | Kirsten Dene, Richard Münch | Biography | |
| Kolp | Roland Suso Richter | Frank Röth, Katja Flint, Ottfried Fischer, Heiner Lauterbach, Charles M. Huber | Crime | |
| Kornelia | Wilm ten Haaf | Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Hans Caninenberg, Klaus Höhne | Comedy | a.k.a. Clic-Clac |
| Ein Kriegsende | Volker Vogeler | Rüdiger Kirschstein | War | |
| Lenin in Zürich | Rolf Busch | Wolf-Dietrich Berg, Hans Christian Blech | Biography | |
| Love Is Not an Argument | Marianne Lüdcke | Erika Pluhar, Friedrich-Karl Praetorius, Günter Lamprecht, Nina Hoger, Heinz Schubert, Karin Baal | Drama | |
| Love Is the Beginning of All Terror | Helke Sander | Helke Sander, Lou Castel, Rebecca Pauly | Comedy | |
| The Lufthansa Heist | Wolfgang Storch | Peter Bongartz, Christian Brückner, Günther Maria Halmer, Grażyna Dyląg | Crime | a.k.a. The Million Dollar Hijack |
| Mama Mia – Don't Panic | Dieter Pröttel | Uschi Glas, Thomas Gottschalk, Helmut Fischer | Romantic comedy | |
| A Man Like E.V.A. | Radu Gabrea | Eva Mattes, Werner Stocker, Lisa Kreuzer, Charles Régnier, Charles M. Huber | Biography | |
| Man Under Suspicion | Norbert Kückelmann | Maximilian Schell, Lena Stolze, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama | a.k.a. Morgen in Alabama. Won the Silver Bear at Berlin |
| Man Without Memory | Kurt Gloor | Michael König, Lisi Mangold, Hannelore Elsner | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Ein Mann namens Parvus | Rudolf Nussgruber | Günter Lamprecht, Constanze Engelbrecht, Wolfgang Preiss, Iris Berben, Wolf-Dietrich Berg | Biography | |
| Manuel | Peter Obrist | Kai Buth, Eva Renzi, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Elisabeth Volkmann | Drama | a.k.a. Jäger des Herzens |
| Marlene | Maximilian Schell | Documentary | ||
| Mascha | Hans-Eberhard Quelle | Rosel Zech | Drama | |
| Meeting Place at Infinity | Heinrich Breloer, Horst Königstein | Till Topf, Angelika Thomas, Vera Tschechowa | Biography | a.k.a. Meeting Point in Infinity a.k.a. Rendezvous in Infinity |
| Morgengrauen | Peter Sämann | Albert Fortell, Hannelore Elsner, Barbara Rudnik, Hans-Georg Panczak | Science fiction | a.k.a. Time Troopers. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Moving Targets | Volker Vogeler | Bernard Fresson, William Berger, Oliver Stritzel | Crime | a.k.a. Zielscheiben |
| Nebenwirkungen | Ralph Bridle | Bernd Tauber, Ulrich Matschoss, Ursela Monn | Drama | |
| The NeverEnding Story | Wolfgang Petersen | Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach | Fantasy | West German-American co-production |
| Night Of The Four Moons | Jörg A. Eggers | Günther Maria Halmer, Kathina Kaiser, Gunnar Möller, Sylva Koscina | Drama | West German-Yugoslav co-production |
| No One Cries Forever | Jans Rautenbach | Howard Carpendale, Zoli Marki, Elke Sommer, Siegfried Rauch | Romance | West German-South African co-production |
| No Time for Tears: The Bachmeier Case | Hark Bohm | Marie Colbin | Drama | |
| No Time to Die | Helmut Ashley | John Phillip Law, Christopher Mitchum, Horst Janson, Grażyna Dyląg, Winfried Glatzeder | Adventure | a.k.a. Hijacked to Hell |
| The Noah's Ark Principle | Roland Emmerich | Richy Müller, Franz Buchrieser | Science fiction | Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Non-Stop Trouble with My Double | Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Dieter Hallervorden | Comedy | a.k.a. Didi – Der Doppelgänger |
| The Other Side of the Moon | Michael Lähn | Gudrun Landgrebe, Alexander Radszun | Crime | |
| Overheard | Rolf von Sydow | Götz George, Peter Ustinov, Hansjörg Felmy, Heidelinde Weis | Comedy | |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Hunter Carson, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | West German-French co-production. Won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival |
| Peaceful Days | Richard Blank | Katharina Thalbach | Science fiction | |
| Die Platzanweiserin | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Brigitte Karner, Thomas Anzenhofer, Maria Hartmann | Drama | |
| Pogo 1104 | Wigbert Wicker | Richy Müller, Ralf Richter, Anja Schüte, Erich Bar | Comedy | |
| Rallye Paris – Dakar | Peter Welz | Hanno Pöschl, Iris Berben | Adventure | a.k.a. Paris–Dakar Rally |
| Rambo Zambo | Reinhard Donga | Werner Stocker, Bettina Redlich, Horst Kummeth, Eddie Constantine, Peter Kern, Barbara Valentin, Walter Sedlmayr | Crime comedy | |
| The Record | Daniel Helfer | Uwe Ochsenknecht, László I. Kish, Catarina Raacke, Kurt Raab, Dietrich Mattausch, Jochen Busse, András Fricsay | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Rekord. German-Swiss co-production |
| The Return of the Time Machine | Jürgen Karl Klauß | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Peter Pasetti, Siegfried Wischnewski | Science fiction | |
| Das schöne Ende dieser Welt | Rainer Erler | Robert Atzorn, Claire Oberman, Judy Winter, Götz George, Werner Kreindl | Thriller | |
| Das schöne irre Judenmädchen | Götz Fischer | Renan Demirkan, Christian Berkel, Marcel Ophuls, Martha Mödl, Heinz Schubert, Herbert Fux | Drama | |
| Silent Poison | Erwin Keusch | Peter Sattmann, Peter Bongartz, Günter Lamprecht, Sabine Bach | Drama | a.k.a. Slow Poison |
| Skizze eines Unglücks | Hilde Bechert | Constanze Engelbrecht, Klaus Grünberg | Drama | |
| Sleep of Reason | Ula Stöckl | Ida Di Benedetto | Drama | |
| Der Snob | Wolfgang Staudte | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Heinz Bennent, Sigfrit Steiner, Nicole Heesters | Comedy | |
| Der Sohn des Bullen | Heinz Schirk | Martin May, Edwin Marian, Jan Fedder, Richy Müller | Crime | |
| The Sprinter | Christoph Böll | Wieland Samolak, Gerhard Olschewski, Dieter Eppler | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Sprinter |
| Die Story | Eckhart Schmidt | Thomas Davis, Ulrich Tukur, Sibylle Rauch, Dietmar Schönherr, Burkhard Driest, Sabine von Maydell | Crime | |
| The Story of the Dolls | Hubert Frank | Tetchie Agbayani, Max Thayer, Sabine Mucha, Vanessa Vaylord, Carina Schally, Brigitta Cimarolli, Jean Saburit | Drama, Romance | a.k.a. Taifun der Zärtlichkeit. West German-Filipino co-production |
| Super | Adolf Winkelmann | Udo Lindenberg, Renan Demirkan, Hannelore Hoger, Günter Lamprecht, Gottfried John, Inga Humpe | Science Fiction | |
| Swann in Love | Volker Schlöndorff | Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| Thousand Eyes | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Barbara Rudnik, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe, Karin Baal, Peter Kraus, Vera Tschechowa, Hannelore Hoger | Crime | a.k.a. 1000 Eyes |
| Tiger: Springtime in Vienna | Peter Patzak | Art Metrano, William Berger, Eddie Constantine, Lukas Resetarits | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Titanic – Nachspiel einer Katastrophe | Lutz Büscher | Hans Korte, Volkert Kraeft, Arthur Brauss, Sigmar Solbach | Docudrama | |
| Tod eines Schaustellers | Dietrich Haugk | Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Hans Helmut Dickow, Karin Baal, Heinz Moog, Hans Korte, Wilfried Baasner, Herbert Stass, Sigmar Solbach | Crime | |
| Das Tor zum Glück | Michael Verhoeven | Wieland Bubmann | Sport | |
| Trauma | Gabi Kubach | Birgit Doll, Lou Castel, Armin Mueller-Stahl | Drama | |
| Treffer | Dominik Graf | Dietmar Bär, Barbara Rudnik, Beate Finckh, Tayfun Bademsoy, Maximilian Wigger, Guido Gagliardi | Drama | |
| Unerreichbare Nähe | Dagmar Hirtz | Kathrin Ackermann, Brigitte Karner, Klaus Grünberg, Loni von Friedl | Drama | |
| Unser Mann vom Südpol | Peter Adam | Jan Fedder, Tilo Prückner, Monika Baumgartner | Comedy | |
| The Wannsee Conference | Heinz Schirk | Dietrich Mattausch, Reinhard Glemnitz, Jochen Busse, Robert Atzorn | Docudrama, War | |
| Wenn die Musik aus ist, dann ist auch die Liebe aus | Reinhard Donga, Volker Maria Arend | Ferdinand Zander, Carola Niemann | Drama | a.k.a. When the Music Is Over, Love Is Gone |
| What's Up, Chancellor? | Gerhard Schmidt | Tommi Piper, Constanze Engelbrecht, Günter Lamprecht, Wolfgang Neuss, Dieter Hildebrandt, Dieter Hallervorden | Comedy | |
| What Shall Become of You | Horst Flick | Michael Karnowsky, Peter Seum, Anita Lochner | Drama | |
| Where the Green Ants Dream | Werner Herzog | Bruce Spence | Drama | West German-Australian co-production. Entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival |
| Who Was Edgar Allan? | Michael Haneke | Paulus Manker, Rolf Hoppe | Mystery | Austrian-West German co-production |
| The Willow Tree | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Josef A. Stehlík | Drama | West German-Czechoslovak co-production |
| The Woman Without a Body and the Projectionist | Niklaus Schilling | Gabriel Barylli, Liane Hielscher | Drama | West German-Luxembourgian co-production |
| Work and Leisure | Detlev Buck | Detlev Buck | Comedy | a.k.a. First the Work – And Then? |
| Wundkanal | Thomas Harlan | Alfred Filbert | Drama | |
| Yerma | Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay | Gudrun Landgrebe, Titusz Kovács, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | Hungarian-West German co-production |
| Zwei Nasen tanken Super | Dieter Pröttel | Thomas Gottschalk, Mike Krüger | Comedy | a.k.a. 2 Nasen tanken Super |
1985
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 250.000 Mücken im Pappkarton | Norbert Schultze Jr. | Peer Schmidt, Heinz Baumann | Crime comedy | |
| Die Abschiebung | Marianne Lüdcke | Tayfun Bademsoy, Nina Hoger, Franz Buchrieser, Karin Baal | Drama | a.k.a. The Deportation |
| Abschied in Berlin | Antonio Skármeta | Bernhard Veith, Käte Jaenicke, Gabriel Skármeta, Ernesto Malbrán | Comedy | West German-Portuguese co-production |
| The Accomplices | Stanislav Barabáš | Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Ain't Nothin' Without You | Pia Frankenberg | Pia Frankenberg, Klaus Bueb | Comedy | a.k.a. Noisy Martha |
| Alles Paletti | Michael Lentz | Levin Kress, Maria Ketikidou, Peter Lohmeyer, Branko Pleša | Drama | |
| Alpha City | Eckhart Schmidt | Al Corley, Isabelle Willer, Claude-Oliver Rudolph | Thriller | |
| Alte Sünden rosten nicht | Axel von Ambesser | Gert Fröbe, Marion Kracht, Richard Münch | Comedy | |
| Eine andere Frau | Marco Serafini | Bruno Dallansky, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Leslie Malton, Helmut Zierl | Drama | |
| 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, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Alfred Edel | Drama | |
| Backfischliebe | Rolf Hädrich | Chris Ahrens, Maria von Bismarck, Manuela Joest, Diana Körner, Karl-Heinz von Hassel | Comedy | |
| Bartolomé oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Gottfried John, Elpidia Carrillo, Carmen Bunster, Rubén Pagura | Biography | West German-Mexican-Costa Rican co-production |
| Beethoven's Nephew | Paul Morrissey | Wolfgang Reichmann, Dietmar Prinz, Jane Birkin, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| Beinah Trinidad | Oliver Storz | Iris Berben, Elmar Wepper, Peter Zilles | Crime comedy | |
| The Berlin Affair | Liliana Cavani | Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki, Hanns Zischler | Drama | West German-Italian co-production |
| Betrayed | Harun Farocki | Roland Schäfer, Nina Hoger, Katja Rupé | Crime | a.k.a. Betrogen |
| Black and Without Sugar | Lutz Konermann | Edda Heiðrún Backman, Lutz Konermann | Drama | |
| Close-Up | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Thriller | a.k.a. Hautnah |
| Coconuts | Franz Novotny | Hanno Pöschl, Olivia Pascal, Rainhard Fendrich, Mario Adorf | Crime comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| 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 | a.k.a. Der Bulle und das Mädchen |
| A Crime of Honour | John Goldschmidt | David Suchet, Maria Schneider, Dietmar Schönherr | Drama | a.k.a. A Song for Europe a.k.a. Streng vertraulich. British-West German-Austrian-Swiss co-production |
| 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 |
| Dormire | Niklaus Schilling | Sunnyi Melles, Sabina Trooger | Drama | |
| Double Exposure | Hajo Gies | Wolfram Berger, Gunnar Möller, Brigitte Karner | Thriller | a.k.a. Geheime Mission |
| Drei gegen Drei | Dominik Graf | Trio, Sunnyi Melles, Ralf Wolter, Peer Augustinski, Günter Meisner | Comedy | a.k.a. 3 gegen 3 |
| Edvige Scimitt | Matthias Zschokke | Ingrid Kaiser | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Entführung | Günter Gräwert | Gerhard Olschewski, Manfred Zapatka, Towje Kleiner | Crime | |
| The Father of a Murderer | Carlheinz Caspari | Hans Korte | Drama | |
| The Feather Fairy | Juraj Jakubisko | Giulietta Masina, Tobias Hoesl, Soňa Valentová | Family | a.k.a. Frau Holle. Czechoslovak-West German-Austrian-Italian co-production |
| Feel the Motion | Wolfgang Büld | Ingolf Lück, Limahl, Falco, Pia Zadora, Die Toten Hosen | Music, Comedy | a.k.a. Der Formel Eins Film |
| Feuerwanzen küss ich nicht | Karl Heinz Deickert | Christian Quadflieg, Gaby Dohm | Comedy | |
| Flammenzeichen | Franz Seitz | Dietrich Mattausch | War, Biography | a.k.a. Flammenzeichen – Das Leben des Jesuitenpaters Rupert Mayer |
| Forget Mozart | Miloslav Luther | Max Tidof, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Catarina Raacke, Winfried Glatzeder, Wolfgang Preiss, Katja Flint | Biography | |
| Die Frau mit den Karfunkelsteinen | Dagmar Damek | Irina Wanka, Martin Maria Blau, Christian Quadflieg, Christoph Eichhorn, Agnes Fink, Sigfrit Steiner, Miko, Barbara Valentin | Drama | |
| German Dreams | Lienhard Wawrzyn | Ilona Lewanowski, Angela Leiberg | Drama | |
| Das Gespinst | Ilse Hofmann | Heiner Lauterbach, Wolfgang Reichmann | Science fiction | |
| Gesucht: Urlaubsbekanntschaften, männlich | Wolfgang Mühlbauer | Monika Baumgartner, Matthias Ponnier, Henry van Lyck, Anita Lochner, Vérénice Rudolph, Nicolas Brieger, Cornelia Meinhardt, Felix von Manteuffel, Joseline Gassen, Wolfgang Bathke | Comedy | |
| Girl in a Boot | Herbert Ballmann | Ursela Monn, Christian Kohlund | Comedy | a.k.a. A Berlin Love Story a.k.a. Einmal Ku'damm und zurück |
| Grenzenloses Himmelblau | Marcus Scholz | Inge Meysel, Evelyn Hamann, Wolfgang Kieling, Pinkas Braun, Christian Wolff | Comedy | |
| Grottenolm | Rainer Kirberg | Amanda Lear, Tchéky Karyo, Caroline Chaniolleau, Matthias Fuchs | Drama | |
| Grünstein's Clever Move | Bernhard Wicki | Fred Düren, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Jörg Gudzuhn, Rolf Hoppe | Drama | a.k.a. Die Grünstein-Variante. 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 | |
| Das Hintertürl zum Paradies | Reinhard Donga | Elmar Wepper, Michaela May, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Martin Sperr | Comedy | |
| Der Hochzeitstag | Konrad Sabrautzky | Witta Pohl, Dieter Kirchlechner, Maja Maranow | Drama | |
| Die Hose | Otto Schenk | Hilmar Thate, Angelica Domröse, Sabine Sinjen, Friedrich-Karl Praetorius | Comedy | a.k.a. The Knickers |
| Der Hund im Computer | Rudolf Nussgruber | Christian Wolff | Comedy | |
| In the Belly of the Whale | Doris Dörrie | Janna Marangosoff, Eisi Gulp, Peter Sattmann, Silvia Reize | Drama | |
| The Invincible | Gusztáv Hámos | Piero von Arnim, Udo Kier, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Kurt von Ruffin, Lotti Huber | Science fiction | a.k.a. Der Unbesiegbare |
| Joey | Roland Emmerich | Joshua Morrell, Tammy Shields, Eva Kryll | Horror | a.k.a. Making Contact. West German-American co-production |
| Julia | Wolfgang Glück | Rosel Zech, Michael Degen | Comedy | a.k.a. Adorable Julia a.k.a. Theatre |
| Kaminsky | Michael Lähn | Klaus Löwitsch, Hannelore Elsner, Beate Finckh, Alexander Radszun | Drama | |
| Der Kampfschwimmer | Alexander von Eschwege | Peter Lohmeyer, Holger Schulzendorf, Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | |
| Käthe Kollwitz | Herbert Ballmann | Cordula Trantow | Biography, Docudrama | |
| King Kongs Faust | Heiner Stadler | Leonard Lansink | Mockumentary | |
| Der kleine Riese | Imo Moszkowicz | Hans Clarin, Raimund Harmstorf, Doris Kunstmann, Beatrice Richter | Drama | |
| Der Krieg meines Vaters | Nico Hofmann | Hans-Joachim Grau | War | |
| Liebe lässt alle Blumen blühen | Marco Serafini | Beatrice Kessler, Giovanni Früh, Jean-Claude Pascal, Darry Cowl, Roger Carel | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Liebe läßt alle Blumen blühen |
| Die Liebesforscherin | Annelie Runge | Grischa Huber | Drama | |
| Liebfrauen | Wolfgang Panzer | Marianne Hoppe, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Lindhoops Frau | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Cornelia Meinhardt | Drama | |
| Loft | Eckhart Schmidt | Andreas Sportelli, Karl-Heinz von Liebezeit, Sibylle Rauch, Max Tidof, Catarina Raacke, Ralph Schicha | Horror | |
| 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 | |
| Mit Axel auf Achse | Wilfried Dotzel | Uwe Friedrichsen | Comedy | |
| Die Mitläufer | Erwin Leiser, Eberhard Itzenplitz | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Karin Baal, Lisi Mangold, Horst Bollmann | Docudrama, War | a.k.a. The Sympathizers a.k.a. Following the Führer |
| Mord im Spiel | Hartmut Griesmayr | Gerd Baltus, Krista Posch, Stephan Schwartz, Gerhard Olschewski | Crime | |
| 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 |
| Nachtgelächter | Dagmar Damek | Michael König, Grischa Huber | Drama | |
| The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl | Margit Saad | Peter Pasetti, Leslie Malton, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Geschichte vom guten alten Herrn und dem schönen Mädchen |
| 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 |
| Paulchen | Michael Günther | Walter Gross | Comedy | |
| Pilot Error | Hartmut Griesmayr | Peter Ehrlich, Dieter Kirchlechner, Wolfgang Völz | Crime | a.k.a. Der Fehler des Piloten |
| The Play's the Thing | Otto Schenk | Martin Benrath, Ursela Monn, Helmuth Lohner, Hans Clarin | Comedy | a.k.a. The Play at the Castle |
| Power of Evil | Krzysztof Zanussi | Vittorio Gassman, Marie-Christine Barrault, Benjamin Völz, Raf Vallone, Hark Bohm | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| The Practice of Love | Valie Export | Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Vogler | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Das Rätsel der Sandbank | Rainer Boldt | Peter Sattmann, Burghart Klaußner, Isabel Varell, Gunnar Möller | Spy thriller | a.k.a. The Riddle of the Sands. Short edited version of the eponymous TV series |
| Red Heat | Robert Collector | Linda Blair, Sylvia Kristel, Elisabeth Volkmann | Exploitation | West German-American co-production |
| Retouche | Beat Lottaz, Dieter Funk | Bernd Tauber | Drama | |
| 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 | |
| Schwarzer Lohn und weiße Weste | Marco Serafini | Karl Walter Diess, Peer Schmidt, Brigitte Mira | Crime | |
| Seduction: The Cruel Woman | Elfi Mikesch, Monika Treut | Mechthild Großmann, Udo Kier | Drama | |
| Sie rüsten zur Reise ins Dritte Reich | Jens-Peter Behrend | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Peter Matić | Docudrama | a.k.a. Kurt Tucholsky und der Prozeß Harden |
| 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 | |
| Der Stadtbrand | Oliver Storz | Ernst Stankovski | Drama | |
| Sterne fallen nicht vom Himmel | Ulrich Stark | Diether Krebs, Tilo Prückner, Reiner Schöne, Sky du Mont | Comedy | |
| Strafmündig | Roland Gall | Robert Düssler | Drama | |
| The Strangers in the House | Bernd Fischerauer | Walter Buschhoff, Anja Jaenicke, Karl Michael Vogler, Werner Stocker | Thriller | a.k.a. Stranger in the House |
| Strawberry Fields | Kristian Kühn | Beate Jensen, Rolf Zacher, Thomas Schücke, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | a.k.a. Die doppelte Welt. West German-Austrian co-production |
| Suddenly at Home | Thomas Engel | Jutta Speidel, Michael Degen, Monika Peitsch, Udo Vioff | Crime | a.k.a. Plötzlich und unerwartet |
| Sugarbaby | Percy Adlon | Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp | Comedy | |
| Sunday | Stanislav Barabáš | Lisa Kreuzer, Hans Georg Panczak, Catriona MacColl, Wolfgang Büttner, Eva Maria Meineke, Francesco Carnelutti | Thriller | |
| Tango im Bauch | Ute Wieland | Karina Fallenstein | Drama | |
| Time to Kill | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Gila von Weitershausen, Ursela Monn, Peer Augustinski | Thriller | a.k.a. Bereit zum Mord. West German-Swiss co-production |
| Tokyo-Ga | Wim Wenders | Documentary | ||
| Le Transfuge | Philippe Lefebvre | Bruno Cremer, Heinz Bennent, Lisa Kreuzer, Jean-François Balmer | Cold War spy film | a.k.a. Stegers letzte Chance. French-West German co-production |
| Verworrene Bilanzen | Peter Beauvais | Gottfried John, Beatrice Kessler, Michael Hampe, Siemen Rühaak | Crime | |
| Walkman Blues | Alfred Behrens | Heikko Deutschmann | Drama | |
| Westler | Wieland Speck | Rainer Strecker, Sigurd Rachman | Drama | |
| Wodzeck | Oliver Herbrich | Detlev Kügow | Drama | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Das Wunder | Eckhart Schmidt | Anja Schüte, Raimund Harmstorf, Dagmar Lassander | Drama | |
| Die Wupper | Jürgen Flimm | Klaus Pohl, Willy Millowitsch, Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger, Peter Franke, Felix von Manteuffel, Angela Schanelec, Christoph Waltz | Drama | |
| Zwischen den Zeiten | Lutz Büscher | Manfred Günther, Manfred Heidmann, Katja Flint | Drama |
1986
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| '38 – Vienna Before the Fall | Wolfgang Glück | Tobias Engel, Sunnyi Melles | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland | Tevfik Başer | Özay Fecht, Yaman Okay, Demir Gökgöl | Drama | a.k.a. Forty Square Meters of Germany a.k.a. 40 m2 Deutschland |
| Abschiede | Gedeon Kovács | Karlheinz Hackl, Mijou Kovacs | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Abschiedsvorstellung | Peter Weck | Eberhard Fechner, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Peter Pasetti, Anne-Marie Blanc, Susi Nicoletti, Lola Müthel, Diether Krebs, Sabine Sinjen | Crime comedy | |
| Am Morgen meines Todes | Rainer Wolffhardt | Christoph Moosbrugger, Ilse Matheis | Biography | |
| Die Andere | Ilse Hofmann | Heiner Lauterbach, Magdalena Ritter | Thriller | |
| Andrea Roll – Eine Zumutung | Jürgen Sehmisch | Hildegard Lena Kuhlenberg, Peter Bongartz, Antje Hagen | Drama | |
| Aranka | Gernot Eigler | Anke Sevenich, Suzanne von Borsody | Drama | |
| Auf den Tag genau | Michael Lähn | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Günther Maria Halmer, Werner Kreindl, Ivan Desny | Thriller | |
| Der Aufstand | Peter Patzak | Joachim Bißmeier, Monica Bleibtreu | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Bankgeheimnisse | Frank Strecker | Hans Peter Korff, Volkert Kraeft | Drama | |
| Betrogene Liebe | Diethard Klante | Rosel Zech, Harald Kuhlmann, Agnes Fink | Drama | |
| Blinding Moment: Anton Webern's Death | Gert Jonke | Stuart Rudin, Peter Fitz | War | a.k.a. Geblendeter Augenblick – Anton Weberns Tod |
| Boundaries of Time: Caspar David Friedrich | Peter Schamoni | Helmut Griem, Sabine Sinjen, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Otto Sander, Rolf Hoppe | Biography, Docudrama | West German-East German-French co-production |
| Die Brücke am schwarzen Fluß | Berengar Pfahl | Judy Winter | Drama | |
| Cortuga | Edwin Marian | Heiner Lauterbach, Sissy Höfferer | Drama | |
| Deadly Nightcap | Gerhard Klingenberg | Andrea Jonasson, Karl Michael Vogler, Wolfgang Reichmann, Dietlinde Turban | Crime | a.k.a. Mord am Pool |
| Didi Drives Me Crazy | Wigbert Wicker | Dieter Hallervorden | Comedy | a.k.a. Didi auf vollen Touren |
| 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 | a.k.a. Singing the Blues in Red. British-West German-French co-production |
| Fire and Ice | Willy Bogner | Suzy Chaffee, John Eaves | Sport, Romantic comedy | |
| Der Flieger | Erwin Keusch | Martin May, Ulrike Kriener | Drama | |
| Flight North | Ingemo Engström | Katharina Thalbach, Jukka-Pekka Palo, Lena Olin | Drama | West German-Finnish co-production. Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Flucht nach vorn | Heidi Genée | Nina Hoger, Magdalena Ritter | Drama | a.k.a. Flucht nach vorne |
| Franza | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gabriel Barylli, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sky du Mont, Gottfried John | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die Frau des Reporters | Heide Pils | Marthe Keller, Alejandro Parodi, Malena Doria | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| 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 ganz helle Licht | Dagmar Damek | Michael König, Ilse Ritter | Drama | |
| Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Carl-Heinz Schroth, Vera Tschechowa, Christian Wolff, Hans Clarin | Crime | a.k.a. The Man Who Changed His Name |
| Das Go! Projekt | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Diego Wallraff, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Hark Bohm | Science fiction | |
| The Golden Cage | Heidi Genée | Heike Faber | Drama | |
| Heidenlöcher | Wolfram Paulus | Florian Pircher, Matthias Aichhorn, Albert Paulus | Drama, War | a.k.a. Hideouts. Austrian-West German co-production |
| 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 |
| Der Junge mit dem Jeep | Michael Werlin | Richy Müller, Christina Plate, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Comedy | |
| Der Kandidat | Thomas Engel | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Chariklia Baxevanos, Harald Leipnitz | Comedy | a.k.a. The Candidate a.k.a. Le Candidat |
| 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 | a.k.a. Blitz |
| Kolping | Wilm ten Haaf | Robert Atzorn | Biography | a.k.a. Adolph Kolping |
| Laputa | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Sami Frey, Krystyna Janda | Drama | Screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival |
| Die letzte Rolle | Egon Günther | Hans Christian Blech, Jürgen Holtz, Corinna Kirchhoff, Juraj Kukura | Drama | |
| Das Mädchen und die Tauben | Rainer Wolffhardt | Ilse Matheis, Thomas Schücke | Fantasy | |
| Mademoiselle Fifi | Karl Fruchtmann | Christoph Eichhorn, Desirée Meiser, Rüdiger Vogler | Drama, War | |
| Mary Stuart | Heinz Schirk | Anja Kruse, Dietrich Mattausch, Erik Frey, Karl Walter Diess, Daniela Ziegler | Drama | a.k.a. Maria Stuart |
| Meier | Peter Timm | Rainer Grenkowitz, Nadja Engelbrecht | Comedy | |
| Menu total | Christoph Schlingensief | Alfred Edel, Helge Schneider | Horror | |
| Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars | Frank Ripploh | Miko | Music, Comedy | |
| Miscellaneous News | Alexander Kluge | Marita Breuer, Rosel Zech, André Jung, Sabina Trooger | Drama | a.k.a. Vermischte Nachrichten |
| Momo | Johannes Schaaf | John Huston, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Radost Bokel, Mario Adorf, Leopoldo Trieste, Ninetto Davoli | Family, Fantasy | West German-Italian co-production |
| The Murder Menu | Michael Günther | Witta Pohl, Hannelore Elsner, Michael Degen | Thriller | a.k.a. Deadly Embrace |
| Murder with Love | Wolf Dietrich | Peter Bongartz, Barbara Rudnik, Peter Fricke, Arthur Brauss, Tilo Prückner | Crime | a.k.a. Kein Alibi für eine Leiche |
| 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] |
| November Cats | Sigrun Koeppe | Angela Hunger, Ursela Monn, Katharina Brauren | Drama | |
| Now or Never | Christel Buschmann | Eva Mattes, Werner Stocker | Drama | a.k.a. Auf immer und ewig |
| Nuclear Conspiracy | Rainer Erler | Birgit Doll, Albert Fortell | Thriller | a.k.a. News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future |
| 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 | |
| Oranisches Tor | Lilly Grote | Shelley Hirsch, Martina Klemczak | Drama | |
| Orchideen des Wahnsinns | Nikolai Müllerschön | Diana Körner | 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 | |
| Der Polenweiher | Nico Hofmann | Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger, Gerhard Olschewski, Eberhard Feik, Ursula Cantieni, Britta Pohland, Heinz Meier | Crime, War | |
| Preis der Feigheit | Horst Flick | Ulrich Hoppe, Peter Aust | Crime | |
| Der Prinz | Sven Severin | Robert Düssler, Marcus Sauk | Drama | |
| Quadrille | Franz Josef Wild | Heidelinde Weis, Claudia Wedekind, Hartmut Reck, Heinz Ehrenfreund, Anita Kupsch | Comedy | |
| The Rebellion of the Hanged | Juan Luis Buñuel | Manuel Ojeda, Roberto Sosa, Fernando Balzaretti, Elena Sofia Ricci, Günther Maria Halmer, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Reiner Schöne, Jean-François Stévenin, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, José Carlos Ruiz, Jorge Russek, Enrique Lucero | Drama | Mexican-French-West German co-production |
| 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 | |
| Santa Fe | Axel Corti | Gabriel Barylli, Ernst Stankovski, Monica Bleibtreu, Gideon Singer, Johannes Silberschneider | Drama, War | a.k.a. Where to and Back 2. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Seine letzte Chance | Alexander von Eschwege | Gerhard Olschewski, Jürgen Vogel | Crime | |
| Stammheim | Reinhard Hauff | Ulrich Tukur, Therese Affolter, Ulrich Pleitgen, Hans-Michael Rehberg | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Stinkwut | Michael Verhoeven | Friedrich von Thun, Veronika Fitz, Christine Neubauer | Comedy | |
| Storm, der Schimmelreiter | Claudia Holldack | Erland Josephson, Till Topf | Biography | a.k.a. Theodor Storm |
| Die Stunde des Léon Bisquet | Lutz Büscher | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Beatrice Kessler, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Matthias Ponnier, Günter Mack | Drama | |
| Süchtig | Manfred Grunert | Michael König | 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 | |
| Time Of Silence | Thorsten Näter | Irina Hoppe, Pavel Sacher | Drama | |
| Tommaso Blu | Florian Furtwängler | Alessandro Haber | Drama | West German-Italian co-production |
| 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 | |
| Transitträume | Hartmut Jahn, Peter Wensierski | Marita Marschall | Comedy | a.k.a. Dream On |
| Der Unfried | Rainer Wolffhardt | Christine Neubauer | Drama | |
| Das unverhoffte Glück | Franz Josef Wild | Harald Leipnitz, Gerlinde Locker, Marie Theres Relin, Nikolaus Paryla | Comedy | |
| 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, Tatja Seibt, Christoph Waltz, Anton Diffring | Biography, Music | Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival |
| Die Walsche | Werner Masten | Marie Colbin, Lino Capolicchio, Remo Remotti, Hannes Thanheiser | Drama | West German-Italian-Austrian-Swiss co-production |
| Was zu beweisen war | Peter Weck | Martin Held | Crime comedy | |
| Weil's solche Liebe nicht täglich gibt | Frank Guthke | Christine Ostermayer, Peter Striebeck, Anja Franke | Drama | a.k.a. Weil's solche Liebe nicht tagtäglich gibt |
| Welcome in Vienna | Axel Corti | Gabriel Barylli, Claudia Messner, Nicolas Brieger, Karlheinz Hackl | Drama, War | a.k.a. Where to and Back 3. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Wiedergefundene Zeit | Jochen Richter | Adelheid Arndt, William Mang, Edgar M. Böhlke | Drama | |
| Der wilde Clown | Josef Rödl | Sigi Zimmerschied, Sunnyi Melles, Peter Kern | Drama | |
| 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 |
| Zerbrochene Brücken | Franz Peter Wirth | Monika Woytowicz, Christian Wolff, Jürgen Schmidt, Rolf Becker, Maria Sebaldt, Alice Treff, Dietrich Mattausch, Charles Brauer, Eleonore Weisgerber, Evelyn Meyka, Helmut Zierl | Biography | a.k.a. Lily Braun – Memoiren einer Sozialistin |
| Zischke | Martin Theo Krieger | David Strempel | Drama | |
| Zoning | Ulrich Krenkler | Hubertus Gertzen, Norbert Lamla, Dieter Meier, Eleonore Weisgerber | Crime | |
| Zwei Reisen mit Flesch | Klaus Dexel | Heiner Lauterbach, Marie-Charlott Schüler | Drama | |
| Zweikampf | Gert Steinheimer | Joachim Wichmann, Adolf Laimböck | Crime |
1987
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Aggression | Theodor Kotulla | Michael König, Pascale Petit, Claude-Oliver Rudolph | Thriller | a.k.a. Der Angriff |
| Das andere Leben | Nicolas Gessner | Christiane Hörbiger, Dietrich Mattausch | Drama | |
| Anita: Dances of Vice | Rosa von Praunheim | Ina Blum | Biography | |
| Aquaplaning | Eva Hiller | Werner Stocker, Martina Gedeck | Drama | |
| 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 | |
| Between Heaven and Earth | Thomas Engel | Katja Flint, Ralph Schicha, Andreas Seyferth, Gustáv Valach, Andrej Hryc, Ľudovít Kroner | Drama | West German-Czechoslovak co-production |
| Cargo | Michael Gutmann | Stefan Wood | Drama | |
| Changeling | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Friederike Brüheim, Katharina Bacarelli, Henning Gissel | Drama | a.k.a. Wechselbalg |
| 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 | |
| Deshima | Beat Kuert | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Kaho Minami, Leon Askin, Miyoko Akaza | Drama | Swiss-Japanese-West German co-production |
| 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 | a.k.a. Far and Wide a.k.a. Undiscovered Country. 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 | West German-Swiss co-production |
| Duo Valentianos | Gertrud Pinkus | Gilles Lotthe, Margarete Wiedstruck, Angelika Bartsch | Drama | |
| Empty World | Wolfgang Panzer | Tilman Schaich | Science fiction | |
| Die Erbschaft | Wolfgang Luderer | Inge Meysel, Günter Lamprecht, Hans Peter Korff, Angelika Bender, Jörg Pleva, Anke Sevenich | Comedy | |
| Erloschene Zeiten | Krzysztof Zanussi | Elisabeth Trissenaar, Mathieu Carrière, Maja Komorowska | Docudrama | |
| Evelyn und die Männer | Rolf von Sydow | Evelyn Hamann, Loriot, Rüdiger Vogler, Jörg Pleva, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Hans Clarin, Diether Krebs | Comedy | |
| 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 | |
| Gunda's Father | Michael Verhoeven | Karin Thaler, Karl Scheydt, Monika Baumgartner, Wilfried Klaus | 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 | |
| Kinder aus Stein | Volker Maria Arend | Natja Brunckhorst, Claude-Oliver Rudolph | Crime | a.k.a. Children Made of Stone |
| Die Klette | Herbert Ballmann | Désirée Nosbusch, Peter Sattmann | Drama | |
| Komplizinnen | Margit Czenki | Pola Kinski, Therese Affolter, Ilse Pagé, Marianne Rosenberg | 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 | |
| Lockwood Desert, Nevada | Hans Noever | Tobias Hoesl | Crime | |
| Löhners Paula | Anna Kersting | Anne Wehner-Bachschmidt | Drama | |
| Losers | Bernd Schadewald | Ralf Richter, Mario Irrek, 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 | |
| Maschenka | John Goldschmidt | Cary Elwes, Irina Brook, Freddie Jones, Sunnyi Melles, Lena Stolze, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michael Gough | Drama | British-West German-French-Finnish co-production |
| Die Menagerie von Sanssouci | Jens-Peter Behrend | Friedhelm Ptok, Joachim Bliese, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Comedy, Biography | |
| Nächtliche Schatten | Hagen Mueller-Stahl | Barbara Freier, Christiane Lemm, Claudia Butenuth | Thriller | a.k.a. Night Shade |
| 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 | |
| Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel | Thees Klahn | Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hark Bohm, Alfred Edel | Comedy | |
| 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 |
| Reichshauptstadt – privat | Horst Königstein | Ruth Niehaus, Heinz Baumann, Rolf Becker | War, Docudrama | |
| Eine Reise nach Deutschland | Heidi Genée | Hannes Jaenicke, Heike Faber | Drama | |
| 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 |
| Schiefweg | Jo Baier | Daniela Schötz | Biography | |
| Schlange, Herz und Pantherkopf | Rainer Wolffhardt | Joachim Bißmeier | Drama | |
| Sentimental Journey | Peter Patzak | Otto Sander, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean-Pierre Cassel | Drama | |
| Sierra Leone | Uwe Schrader | Christian Redl, Ann-Gisel Glass, Rita Russek, Constanze Engelbrecht | Drama | |
| Sommer in Lesmona | Peter Beauvais | Katja Riemann, Benedict Freitag, Alexander Radszun, Richard Münch, Gila von Weitershausen, Siemen Rühaak, Stephan Schwartz | Drama | Short edited version of the eponymous TV series |
| Storms in May | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Gabriel Barylli, Claudia Messner | Drama | a.k.a. Gewitter im Mai. 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 |
| Das Wahlergebnis | Joachim Roering | Michael Degen, Volkert Kraeft, Rosemarie Fendel, Gerd Baltus, Uwe Friedrichsen, Jörg Pleva, Rainer Hunold | Comedy, Mockumentary | |
| Wann, wenn nicht jetzt | Michael Juncker | Friedrich von Thun, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Gudrun Gabriel, Hannelore Schroth | Comedy | |
| Wer ist dran? | Hartmut Griesmayr | Rosemarie Fendel, Heinz Reincke | Drama | |
| Wer lacht schon über Rosemann | Michael Günther | Michael Degen, Heike Faber | Comedy | |
| Der Werwolf von W. | Manfred Müller | Henry Hübchen, Michael Gwisdek | Mystery | |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Solveig Dommartin, Curt Bois | 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 |
| Wir sind Utopia | Dagmar Damek | Michael König, Alexander Radszun | Drama |
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 |
| Appointment with Yesterday | Wolf Gremm | Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Ferdy Mayne, Dietrich Mattausch, Heidi Brühl, Brigitte Mira, Brigitte Grothum | Thriller | a.k.a. Im Schatten der Angst |
| 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 | |
| Die Beute | Dominik Graf | Martina Gedeck, Hannes Jaenicke | Crime | |
| The Black Obelisk | Peter Deutsch | Udo Schenk, Rainer Hunold, Karina Thayenthal | Drama | a.k.a. Der schwarze Obelisk |
| 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, Eberhard Feik | 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 | |
| Chimeras | Nico Hofmann | Hans Peter Hallwachs | Science fiction | |
| 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 |
| Herbst in Lugano | Ulrich Stark | O. W. Fischer, Maria Schell, Liselotte Pulver | Anthology | a.k.a. Autumn in Lugano |
| Ignaz Semmelweis – Arzt der Frauen | Michael Verhoeven | Heiner Lauterbach | Biography | a.k.a. Ignaz Semmelweis, Gynecologist. West German-Hungarian-Austrian co-production |
| In guten Händen | Rolf von Sydow | Rainer Hunold, Helmut Berger, Anke Sevenich, Günter Mack, Peter Pasetti | Thriller | |
| 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 Knick – Die Geschichte einer Wunderheilung | Joachim Roering | Peter Bongartz, Claudia Demarmels, Peter Pasetti, Rolf Becker | Comedy | |
| Der Krähenbaum | Frank Guthke | Holger Hartung, Christoph Wendelmuth, Florian Schmidt-Foß, Ilona Grübel, Ruth Hausmeister | War | |
| Land der Väter, Land der Söhne | Nico Hofmann | Karl-Heinz von Liebezeit | Drama, War | |
| Lenin...The Train | Damiano Damiani | Ben Kingsley, Leslie Caron, Dominique Sanda | Historical drama | Italian-West German-Austrian-French-Spanish co-production |
| Liebe ist stärker als der Tod | Juraj Herz | Gigi Proietti, Éléonore Klarwein | Drama | |
| Linie 1 | Reinhard Hauff | Inka Groetschel, Rainer Strecker, Dieter Landuris, Petra Zieser | Musical | |
| Der Lockspitzel | Michael Lähn | Tilo Prückner, Vadim Glowna, Rita Russek | 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 | |
| Manöver | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Johannes Herrschmann, Adriana Altaras, Alfred Edel | Comedy | |
| Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community | Karin Brandauer | Franziska Walser, August Schmölzer, Inge Maux | Drama | a.k.a. Einstweilen wird es Mittag. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Martha Jellneck | Kai Wessel | Heidemarie Hatheyer, Dominique Horwitz, Ulrich Matschoss | Drama | |
| Me and Him | Doris Dörrie | Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene, Carey Lowell, Craig T. Nelson | Comedy | West German-American co-production |
| Michas Flucht | Claus Peter Witt | Martin May, Dieter Kirchlechner, Witta Pohl | Drama | |
| The Microscope | Rudolf Thome | Vladimir Weigl, Adriana Altaras, Małgorzata Gebel | Comedy | |
| 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 | |
| Münchhausens letzte Liebe | Wolfgang Glück | Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Anne Tismer, Peter Pasetti, Walter Buschhoff, Gunnar Möller | Drama | |
| Nachsaison | Wolfram Paulus | Albert Paulus, Mercedes Echerer, Günther Maria Halmer, Daniela Obermeir | Drama | a.k.a. Off Season. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die Nacht des Marders | Maria Theresia Wagner | Annamirl Bierbichler, Franz Buchrieser, Claus Eberth | Drama | |
| Ein naheliegender Mord | Oliver Storz | Michael Roll, Iris Berben, Peter Sattmann | Crime | |
| 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 | a.k.a. Rausch der Verwandlung. French-West German co-production |
| Quicker Than the Eye | Nicolas Gessner | Ben Gazzara, Mary Crosby, Jean Yanne, Ivan Desny, Christoph Waltz | Thriller | Swiss-Austrian-West German-French 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 |
| Reise ohne Auftrag | Friedemann Schulz | Christian Brückner, Karl Michael Vogler | Drama | |
| Rosinenbomber | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Carl Raddatz, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Barbara Schöne, Rolf Zacher, Ernst Stankovski | Drama | |
| Schloß Königswald | Peter Schamoni | Camilla Horn, Marika Rökk, Marianne Hoppe, Carola Höhn, Dietlinde Turban, Anja Kruse | War, Comedy | |
| 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 | |
| The Summer of the Hawk | Arend Agthe | Janos Crecelius, Andrea Lösch, Rolf Zacher, Hermann Lause | Family, Adventure | |
| Three D | Sönke Wortmann | Michael Schreiner, Katharina Müller-Elmau | Comedy | |
| Torquemada | Stanislav Barabáš | Francisco Rabal, Jacques Breuer, Michel Auclair, Dietmar Schönherr, Constanze Engelbrecht, Rainer Hunold | Drama, Biography | a.k.a. Darkness Covers the Earth a.k.a. The Inquisitors. West German-British-Spanish-French-Portuguese co-production |
| 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 | |
| Ein Treffen mit Rimbaud | Ernst-August Zurborn | Anke Sevenich, Sven Wollter, Hannelore Elsner | Crime | a.k.a. Encounter with Rimbaud |
| Ein Unding der Liebe | Radu Gabrea | Erich Bar, Doris Kunstmann | Drama | a.k.a. An Absurdity of Love |
| The Venus Trap | Robert van Ackeren | Sonja Kirchberger, Hanns Zischler, Myriem Roussel, Horst-Günter Marx | Comedy | |
| Vergessen Sie's | C. Cay Wesnigk | Edgar M. Marcus | Thriller | |
| 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 | |
| Wherever You Are... | Krzysztof Zanussi | Julian Sands, Renée Soutendijk | Drama | Polish-British-West German-French co-production |
| Why Is There Salt in the Sea? | Peter Beauvais | Nicolin Kunz, Siemen Rühaak | Drama | |
| The Winter Beach | Wolf Gremm | Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Ferdy Mayne, Heinz Baumann | Science fiction | a.k.a. Dem Tod auf der Spur |
| 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 | |
| Der Zauberbaum | Martin Wiebel | Paulus Manker, Traugott Buhre, Rolf Illig | 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 | |
| African Timber | Peter F. Bringmann | Heiner Lauterbach, Deborah Lacey, Julien Guiomar, Dietmar Schönherr, Charles Kofi Bucknor, Alexandra Duah, Fred Amugi | Thriller | |
| Der Atem | Niklaus Schilling | Charles Brauer, Karina Fallenstein, Ian Moorse | Science fiction | a.k.a. The Spirit. West German-Swiss co-production |
| Die aufrichtige Lügnerin | Gerhard Klingenberg | Marina Krauser, Rudolf Bissegger, Judy Winter | Crime comedy | a.k.a. The Honest Liar a.k.a. A Shot in the Dark |
| Bangkok Story | Rolf von Sydow | Heiner Lauterbach, Günther Maria Halmer, Rolf Hoppe | Thriller | a.k.a. Killing Drugs |
| Berta Garlan | Peter Patzak | Birgit Doll, Kitty Speiser, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Riccardo De Torrebruna | Drama | Austrian-West German-Swiss co-production |
| Besuch | Cordula Trantow | Judy Winter, Wolfgang Reichmann | Thriller | |
| Black Past | Olaf Ittenbach | Olaf Ittenbach | Horror | |
| 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 |
| Eine Bonner Affäre | Bernd Schadewald | Helmut Zierl, Gerhard Olschewski, Ursela Monn, Ulrich Pleitgen, Monika Baumgartner, Hark Bohm | Drama | |
| Boomerang Boomerang | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Jürgen Vogel, Katja Studt, Lambert Hamel, Jan Plewka | Crime | |
| The Break | Frank Beyer | Götz George, Rolf Hoppe, Otto Sander, Ulrike Krumbiegel | Crime | West German-East German co-production |
| C*A*S*H: A Political Fairy Tale | Norbert Kückelmann | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Rolf Zacher, Claudia Messner, Hans-Michael Rehberg | Comedy | a.k.a. Schweinegeld |
| Come into My Parlor | Gerhard Klingenberg | Judy Winter | Crime | a.k.a. Ich melde einen Selbstmord |
| 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 |
| Der Doppelgänger | Emanuel Boeck | Uwe Ochsenknecht, Simon Oates | Thriller | West German-Swiss co-production |
| Earthbound | Oliver Herbrich | Hannes Thanheiser, Vera Tschechowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Hark Bohm, Peter Radtke, Alfred Edel, Christian Doermer | Drama | a.k.a. Erdenschwer |
| Ede und das Kind | Jörg Grünler | Carl-Heinz Schroth | Crime comedy | |
| Ekkehard | Diethard Klante | Gabriel Barylli, Zdena Studenková, András Fricsay | Drama | Short edited version of the eponymous TV series |
| Er – Sie – Es | Sven Severin | Renan Demirkan, Helmut Berger, Lotti Huber, Vadim Glowna, Sissi Perlinger, Eberhard Feik | Comedy | |
| Europa, abends | Claudia Schröder | Christoph Moosbrugger, Eddie Constantine, Maja Maranow, Susanne Beck, Heinz Schubert, Matthias Fuchs | Science fiction | |
| 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 |
| Franta | Mathias Allary | Jan Kurbjuweit | Drama, War | a.k.a. Franta Zlin |
| Frei zum Abschuss | Manfred Grunert | William Mang, Hilmar Thate, Vera Tschechowa | Thriller | |
| Ein gemachter Mann | Manfred Grunert | Nikolaus Paryla, Grischa Huber, Leslie Malton | Drama | |
| Das geregelte Leben der Gertie H. | Franz Josef Wild | Christa Berndl | Drama | |
| Giovanni oder Die Fährte der Frauen | Jochen Richter | Jörg Richter, Anja Kruse, Katja Flint, Alfred Edel, Juraj Kukura, Billie Zöckler | Comedy | |
| The Grass Is Greener Everywhere Else | Michael Klier | Mirosław Baka, Marta Klubowicz | Drama | a.k.a. Überall ist es besser, wo wir nicht sind |
| Gummibärchen küßt man nicht | Walter Bannert | Christopher Mitchum, Angela Alvarado, Draco Rosa, Ernest Borgnine, John Hillerman, Art Metrano | Comedy | a.k.a. Gummibärchen küsst man nicht 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 | ||
| Die Hexe von Köln | Hagen Mueller-Stahl | Marita Breuer | Historical drama | |
| Himmelsheim | Manfred Stelzer | Elke Sommer, Sigi Zimmerschied, Hanns Zischler | Comedy | |
| In der Stille ... Mord! | Sylvia Hoffman | Karin Anselm, Dietrich Mattausch, Ingmar Zeisberg, Jean Le Mouël, Alexander Kerst | Thriller | |
| 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 | |
| Der lange Sommer | Jochen Richter | Katja Flint, Thomas Schücke, Maurizio Crozza, Pietro Sarubbi, Enzo Iacchetti | Comedy | a.k.a. Corriger la fortune |
| Langusten | Rolf Hädrich | Agnes Fink | Drama | a.k.a. I Only Want an Answer |
| 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 |
| Das Leben ein Alptraum | Mario Caiano | Roger Miremont, Lorenza Guerrieri, Günter Mack, Béla Ernyey | Thriller | a.k.a. La Vie en miettes. French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Der Leibwächter | Adolf Winkelmann | Franz Xaver Kroetz, Raymond Pellegrin, Hanns Zischler, Heinz Hoenig | Thriller | |
| Lockvögel | Rolf Silber | Winfried Glatzeder, Krista Posch | Comedy | |
| Maria von den Sternen | Thomas Mauch | Katja Junge, Robert Düssler, 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 | |
| Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Brian Gibson | Ben Kingsley, Renée Soutendijk | Biography | American-British-Hungarian-West German co-production |
| Noch ein Wunsch | Thomas Koerfer | Matthias Habich, Hannelore Elsner, Johanna Lier | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| 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, Friederike Tiefenbacher, Claudia Matschulla | 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 |
| Ein Prachtexemplar | Bruno Jonas | Stephan Schwartz, Hans Korte | Comedy | |
| Quarantine | Nico Hofmann | Günther Maria Halmer, Renan Demirkan, Ulrich Matschoss, Ben Becker | Disaster | |
| 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 |
| Schuldig | Michael Mackenroth | Klaus Wennemann, Ulrike Kriener | Drama | |
| Schulz & Schulz | Ilse Hofmann | Götz George, Martina Gedeck, Klaus J. Behrendt | Comedy | a.k.a. Schulz und Schulz |
| Schwarzenberg | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Max Tidof, Ulrich Pleitgen, Thomas Heinze | War | |
| Sealed in Salt | Rainer Wolffhardt | Michael Roll, Patricia Adriani, Rolf Illig | Drama | a.k.a. Der Mann im Salz. Austrian-West German-Czechoslovak co-production |
| 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 | a.k.a. 7 Women |
| 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 |
| Souterrain | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Claudia Messner, August Schmölzer | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| The Sparrow Murderer | Wolf Gremm | Paul Cabanis, Hans Clarin, Robert Atzorn, Anita Kupsch, Eberhard Feik | Thriller | |
| Spider's Web | Bernhard Wicki | Ulrich Mühe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Andrea Jonasson, Corinna Kirchhoff | Drama | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| The State Chancellery | Heinrich Breloer | Roland Schäfer, Hermann Lause, Dietrich Mattausch, Grischa Huber, Burghart Klaußner | Docudrama | a.k.a. Die Staatskanzlei – Barschels Fall |
| The Story Teller | Rainer Boldt | Udo Schenk, Anke Sevenich, Christine Kaufmann, Peter Sattmann | Thriller | a.k.a. A Suspension of Mercy a.k.a. Der Geschichtenerzähler |
| 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 |
| Tam Tam oder Wohin die Reise geht | Berengar Pfahl | Judy Winter, Hannelore Elsner, Hannes Jaenicke | Drama | |
| Tennessee Waltz | Nicolas Gessner | Julian Sands, Stacey Dash, Ned Beatty, Rod Steiger | Thriller | a.k.a. Tennessee Nights a.k.a. Black Water. Swiss-American-West German co-production |
| Tiger, Lion, Panther | Dominik Graf | Natja Brunckhorst, Martina Gedeck, Sabine Kaack, Peter Lohmeyer | Comedy | |
| Umwege nach Venedig | Joachim Roering | Heidelinde Weis, Peter Bongartz, Heiner Lauterbach | Comedy | |
| Ungewiss ist die Zukunft der Leibwächter | Volker Einrauch, Lothar Kurzawa | Martin Lüttge, Peter Lohmeyer | Crime | |
| Eine unheimliche Karriere | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Helmut Zierl, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Comedy | |
| Unsichtbare Mauern | Wolfgang Mühlbauer | Hannes Jaenicke, Jacques Breuer | Drama | |
| Verfolgte Wege | Uwe Janson | Barbara Auer, Peter Cieslinski | Drama | |
| Violent Shit | Andreas Schnaas | Andreas Schnaas | Horror | |
| 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 | |
| Die weißen Zwerge | Dirk Schäfer | Nirit Sommerfeld, Michael Schech | Drama | |
| Wie du mir ... | Dagmar Damek | Ernst Jacobi, Michael Degen, Otto Sander | Crime comedy | |
| With the Next Man Everything Will Be Different | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Antje Schmidt, Dominic Raacke, Volkert Kraeft, Despina Pajanou, Billie Zöckler | Comedy | |
| Zwiebelmuster, oder Wenn einer keine Reise tut | Claudia Holldack | Günter Mack, Antje Hagen | Drama |
References
- ^ "Girls - Die kleinen Aufreisserinnen". Filmportal.de. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
- ^ "Item Display". Collections Canada. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
- ^ "Die Spaziergängerin von Sans Souci". Filmportal.de. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
- ^ "La PASSANTE DU SANS SOUCI". BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 5, 2009. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
- ^ "Le Nom de la rose" (in French). Bifi.fr. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
- ^ Tobey, Matthew. "The Name of the Rose". AllMovie. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
- ^ "Der Name der Rose" (in French). filmportal.de. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
- ^ "Top 10 Films 1987". Screen International. 1988. p. 40.
External links
- German film at the Internet Movie Database (maintains separate lists for West Germany and East Germany)
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