Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
1971 |
Apokal | Paul Anczykowski | Inken Sommer, Heinrich Giskes, Tilo Prückner | Drama | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival[25] |
Beware of a Holy Whore | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Marquard Bohm, Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Comedy-drama | [26] |
The Captain | Kurt Hoffmann | Heinz Rühmann, Horst Tappert | Comedy | |
The Cat o' Nine Tails | Dario Argento | Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, James Franciscus, Rada Rassimov, Horst Frank | Thriller | Italian-French-West German co-production[27] |
Daughters of Darkness | Harry Kümel | Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen, Andrea Rau | Horror | Belgian-French-West German co-production[28] |
Delusions of Grandeur | Gérard Oury | Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Karin Schubert | Comedy | French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production[29] |
Das falsche Gewicht | Bernhard Wicki | Helmut Qualtinger, Evelyn Opela | Drama | |
Fata Morgana | Werner Herzog | Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, James William Gledhill, Eugen des Montagnes | | [30] |
Handicapped Future | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
He Who Loves in a Glass House | Michael Verhoeven | Senta Berger, Hartmut Becker, Marianne Blomquist | Drama | [31] Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives | Rosa von Praunheim | | | |
Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Volker Vogeler | Gottfried John, Rolf Zacher | | Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
Jailbreak in Hamburg | Wolfgang Staudte | Horst Frank, Christiane Krüger, Heinz Reincke, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Crime thriller | |
Kommissar X jagt die roten Tiger | Harald Reinl | Tony Kendall, Brad Harris | Thriller | Kommissar X film. West German-Italian-Pakistani co-production |
Land of Silence and Darkness | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | [32] |
Mathias Kneissl | Reinhard Hauff | Hans Brenner, Eva Mattes, Ruth Drexel, Hanna Schygulla | | [33] |
The Merchant of Four Seasons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Ingrid Caven, Klaus Löwitsch, Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab | Drama | [34] |
Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Benoît Ferreux, Michel Lonsdale, Gila von Weitershausen | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production[35] |
Our Willi Is the Best | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt | Comedy | [36] |
Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach | Volker Schlöndorff | | Drama | |
Return of Sabata | Frank Kramer | Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Annabella Incontrera | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production[37] |
Rio das Mortes | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Michael König, Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla | Comedy | |
She Killed in Ecstasy | Jesus Franco | Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Horst Tappert | Horror | West German-Spanish co-production[38] |
Trotta | Johannes Schaaf | András Bálint, Doris Kunstmann | Drama | [39] |
Twenty Girls and the Teachers | Werner Jacobs | Mascha Gonska, Heidi Kabel, Rudolf Schündler | Comedy | |
Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen | Alfred Vohrer | Ruth Leuwerik, Horst Frank, Horst Tappert, Judy Winter, Alain Noury, Doris Kunstmann | Thriller | Based on the book by Johannes Mario Simmel, German Film Award |
The Vampire Happening | Freddie Francis | Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Ferdy Mayne, Ingrid van Bergen | Comedy, Horror | [40] |
Vampyros Lesbos | Jesus Franco | Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Andrés Monales | Horror | Spanish-West German co-production |
Web of the Spider | Antonio Margheriti | Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski | Horror, Mystery | Italian-French-West German co-production[42][43] |
What the Peeper Saw | James Kelley, Andrea Bianchi | Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger, Lilli Palmer, Harry Andrews | Thriller | British-Spanish-Italian-West German co-production |
Whity | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla, Ron Randell, Ulli Lommel, Katrin Schaake, Harry Baer | Drama | [44] |
1972 |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo | Adventure, historical film | [45] |
Baron Blood | Mario Bava | Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer | Horror | Italian-West German co-production[46] |
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla | Drama | [47] |
Bluebeard | Edward Dmytryk | Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon, Marilù Tolo, Agostina Belli, Karin Schubert | | French-Italian-West German co-production |
Blutiger Freitag | Rolf Olsen | Raimund Harmstorf, Gila von Weitershausen, Amadeus August | Crime thriller | West German-Italian co-production |
The Call of the Wild | Ken Annakin | Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf | Adventure | British-French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production |
César and Rosalie | Claude Sautet | Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey | Comedy-drama | French-Italian-West German co-production[48] |
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Wim Wenders | Arthur Brauss, Erika Pluhar, Kai Fischer | | West German-Austrian co-production[49] |
Harlis | Robert van Ackeren | Rolf Zacher, Ulli Lommel, Gabriele Lafari, Mascha Rabben | Drama | [50] |
Havoc | Peter Fleischmann | Reinhard Kolldehoff, Vitus Zeplichal | Drama | West German-French co-production |
King, Queen, Knave | Jerzy Skolimowski | David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf | Comedy | American-West German co-production[51] |
Liebe Mutter, mir geht es gut | Christian Ziewer | Claus Eberth | Drama | |
Ludwig | Luchino Visconti | Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe, Romy Schneider, Helmut Griem | | Italian-French-West German co-production |
Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Harry Baer, Ingrid Caven | | |
The Master Touch | Michele Lupo | Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan, Wolfgang Preiss, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Crime thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
Rocker | Klaus Lemke | | | |
State of Siege | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, O. E. Hasse | | French-Italian-West German co-production[52] |
Tears of Blood | Alfred Vohrer | Alain Noury, Anita Lochner, Wolfgang Reichmann | | West German-French co-production[53] |
Der Tod der Maria Malibran | Werner Schroeter | Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann, Candy Darling | | |
What? | Roman Polanski | Sydne Rome, Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production[54] |
What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger | Mystery, thriller | Italian-West German co-production[55] |
Wildwechsel | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Eva Mattes, Harry Baer, Jörg von Liebenfelß, Ruth Drexel | Drama | TV film |
Willi Manages The Whole Thing | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt | Comedy | [56] |
Die Wollands | Marianne Lüdcke, Ingo Kratisch | Nicolas Brieger, Elfriede Irrall | Drama | |
1973 |
Alter Kahn und junge Liebe | Werner Jacobs | Roy Black, Barbara Nielsen | | [57] |
The Experts | Norbert Kückelmann | Mathias Eysen | Drama | Won a Silver Bear at Berlin |
Housewives on the Job | Ernst Hofbauer | Marie-Georges Pascal, Elisabeth Volkmann, Ingrid Steeger | | [58] |
Little Mother | Radley Metzger | Christiane Krüger, Siegfried Rauch, Ivan Desny | Drama | American-West German-Yugoslav co-production |
Mark of the Devil Part II | Adrian Hoven | Anton Diffring, Reggie Nalder | Horror | [59] |
My Name is Nobody | Tonino Valerii | Terence Hill, Henry Fonda | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production[60][61] |
The Pedestrian | Maximilian Schell | Gustav Rudolf Sellner | Drama | West German-Swiss-Israeli co-production |
The Scarlet Letter | Wim Wenders | Senta Berger, Hans-Christian Blech, Lou Castel | | West German-Spanish co-production[62] |
Supermarkt | Roland Klick | Charly Wierzejewski, Eva Mattes, Walter Kohut | Crime drama | |
The Tenderness of Wolves | Ulli Lommel | Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven | Drama | [63] |
Trip to Vienna | Edgar Reitz | Elke Sommer, Hannelore Elsner, Mario Adorf | Comedy-drama | [64] |
World on a Wire | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Barbara Valentin, Ivan Desny, Günter Lamprecht, Gottfried John | Science Fiction | TV film |
Zinksärge für die Goldjungen | Jürgen Roland | Henry Silva, Herbert Fleischmann, Horst Janson, Raf Baldassarre | Crime | West German-Italian co-production |
1974 |
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin | Drama | [65] |
Alice in the Cities | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | [66] |
And Then There Were None | Peter Collinson | Charles Aznavour, Stéphane Audran, Elke Sommer, Gert Fröbe, Herbert Lom, Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough, Adolfo Celi | Mystery thriller | British-Spanish-French-Italian-West German co-production |
Charlotte | Roger Vadim | Sirpa Lane, Roger Vadim, Mathieu Carrière | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production[67] |
Effi Briest | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel | Drama | [68] |
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Werner Herzog | Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira | | [69] |
In the Name of the People | Ottokar Runze | | Documentary | [70] |
Julia | Sigi Rothemund | Sylvia Kristel, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Terry Torday, Ekkehardt Belle | | |
Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Therese Giehse, Holger Loewenadler | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production[71] |
Der Lord von Barmbeck | Ottokar Runze | Martin Lüttge, Judy Winter, Inken Sommer | | |
Martha | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm | Drama | TV film |
The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Klaus Löwitsch | Thriller | British-West German co-production[72][73] |
One or the Other of Us | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer | Thriller | [74] |
Only the Wind Knows the Answer | Alfred Vohrer | Maurice Ronet, Marthe Keller, Raymond Pellegrin, Karin Dor | | West German-French co-production. Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival |
Der Räuber Hotzenplotz | Gustav Ehmck | Gert Fröbe, Lina Carstens, Rainer Basedow, Josef Meinrad | Family | |
Sie sind frei, Dr. Korczak | Aleksander Ford | Leo Genn | Drama | West German-Israeli co-production |
Der Springteufel | Heinz Schirk | Dieter Hallervorden | Thriller | TV film based on story by Derrick Sherwin (Doctor Who) |
Ein toter Taucher nimmt kein Gold | Harald Reinl | Horst Janson, Monika Lundi, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo | Adventure | West German-South African co-production |
Die Verrohung des Franz Blum | Reinhard Hauff | Jürgen Prochnow, Burkhard Driest | Drama | |
1975 |
Berlinger | Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel | Martin Benrath, Hannelore Elsner | Drama | |
Earthquake in Chile | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Julia Peña, Víctor Alcázar | Drama | |
End of the Game | Maximilian Schell | Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw, Martin Ritt | Mystery | West German-Italian co-production |
Everyone Dies Alone | Alfred Vohrer | Hildegard Knef, Carl Raddatz | Drama | |
Evrydiki BA 2O37 | Nikos Nikolaidis | Vera Tschechowa, John Moore, Niki Triantafillidi | Drama | Greek-West German co-production[75] |
Fox and His Friends | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven | Drama | |
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
Ice Age | Peter Zadek | O. E. Hasse, Ulrich Wildgruber, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger, Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival |
John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | Dieter Laser, Marie-Christine Barrault | | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival |
Lina Braake | Bernhard Sinkel | Lina Carstens, Fritz Rasp | Comedy | German Film Award for Best Feature Film 1975 |
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum | Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow | Drama | |
That Most Important Thing: Love | Andrzej Żuławski | Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen | Drama | |
The Net | Manfred Purzer | Mel Ferrer, Elke Sommer, Klaus Kinski, Heinz Bennent | Thriller | |
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Grischa Huber, Heinrich Giskes | | |
The Wrong Move | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny, Hans Christian Blech, Nastassja Kinski, Marianne Hoppe, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | |
1976 |
2 geile Hirsche auf der Flucht | Alois Brummer | | Adult | |
1900 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Donald Sutherland | Romantic drama/ War | Italian-American-French-West German co-production. 1 win & 1 nom. |
Das Brot des Bäckers | Erwin Keusch | Günter Lamprecht, Bernd Tauber, Silvia Reize | | |
Chinese Roulette | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina, Ulli Lommel, Macha Méril, Alexander Allerson, Brigitte Mira, Volker Spengler, Andrea Schober | Drama | West German-French co-production |
Coup de Grâce | Volker Schlöndorff | Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | West German-French co-production. Set in the Russian Civil War |
Heart of Glass | Werner Herzog | Josef Bierbichler | Drama | |
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
I Only Want You To Love Me | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Vitus Zeplichal, Alexander Allerson | Drama | TV film |
Jack the Ripper | Jesús Franco | Klaus Kinski | Thriller | West German-Swiss co-production |
Kings of the Road | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler | Drama | Won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival |
A Lost Life | Ottokar Runze | Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | Olschewski won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin |
The Marquise of O | Éric Rohmer | Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz | Drama | French-West German co-production[76] |
No One Will Play with Me | Werner Herzog | | Short | |
Nordsee ist Mordsee | Hark Bohm | | | |
Salon Kitty | Tinto Brass | Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin | | Italian-West German-French co-production |
Sommergäste | Peter Stein | Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Jutta Lampe, Otto Sander | | |
Der starke Ferdinand | Alexander Kluge | Heinz Schubert | Drama | |
The Sternstein Manor | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Katja Rupé, Tilo Prückner, Peter Kern | Drama | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival |
Vera Romeyke ist nicht tragbar | Max Willutzki | Rita Engelmann | Drama | |
Die Wildente | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Jean Seberg, Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, Anne Bennent | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
1977 |
The American Friend | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer | Thriller | West German-French co-production. Entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival |
The Conquest of the Citadel | Bernhard Wicki | András Fricsay, Ivan Desny | Drama | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, Senta Berger, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna, Arthur Brauss | War | West German-British co-production |
Death is My Trade | Theodor Kotulla | Götz George, Hans Korte | | |
The Devil's Advocate | Guy Green | John Mills, Stéphane Audran, Jason Miller, Raf Vallone | Drama | Film production with money from West German private tax-shelter film funds ("Geria") |
The Expulsion from Paradise | Niklaus Schilling | Herb Andress, Elke Haltaufderheide | | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
Grete Minde | Heidi Genée | Katerina Jacob, Siemen Rühaak, Hannelore Elsner, Tilo Prückner, Hans Christian Blech | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production. Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
Hitler: A Film from Germany | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Peter Kern, Heinz Schubert, André Heller | | West German-French-British co-production |
Hitler – Eine Karriere | Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | | Documentary | |
Die Konsequenz | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow | | Petersen won the 1978 Adolf Grimme Awards |
Der Mädchenkrieg | Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel | Kaki Hunter, Adelheid Arndt, Matthias Habich, Hans-Christian Blech | Drama | |
The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent | | American-West German co-production |
La Soufrière | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
The Stationmaster's Wife | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Kurt Raab, Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | TV film |
Stroszek | Werner Herzog | Bruno S., Eva Mattes | | |
Twilight's Last Gleaming | Robert Aldrich | Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Joseph Cotten, Melvyn Douglas | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
Vanessa | Hubert Frank | Olivia Pascal | | |
1978 |
Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit – Redupers | Helke Sander | Helke Sander | | |
Despair | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | West German-French co-production |
Fedora | Billy Wilder | William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, Mario Adorf, Michael York, Henry Fonda | Drama | West German-French co-production |
The Fifth Commandment | Duccio Tessari | Helmut Berger | Crime | Italian-West German co-production |
Flaming Hearts | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Peter Kern, Barbara Valentin | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
Germany in Autumn | Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Helmut Griem, Heinz Bennent, Vadim Glowna, Hannelore Hoger, Wolf Biermann | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
The Glass Cell | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Helmut Griem, Brigitte Fossey, Dieter Laser, Walter Kohut, Bernhard Wicki | Thriller | |
In a Year of 13 Moons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven | Drama | |
Just a Gigolo | David Hemmings | David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell | | |
Knife in the Head | Reinhard Hauff | Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Heinz Hoenig | Drama | |
The Left-Handed Woman | Peter Handke | Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Michael Lonsdale, Angela Winkler, Bernhard Wicki, Bernhard Minetti, Rüdiger Vogler, Gérard Depardieu | Drama | Entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival |
Melody in Love | Hubert Frank | Sascha Hehn, Melody O'Bryan | | |
Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe | Leslie H. Martinson | Peter Graves, Curd Jürgens, John Carradine, Karin Schubert | | American-Italian-Spanish-West German-Iranian co-production |
Moritz, Dear Moritz | Hark Bohm | | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
Passion Flower Hotel | André Farwagi | Nastassja Kinski, Gerry Sundquist | Comedy | |
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna | Chantal Akerman | Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Magali Noël, Helmut Griem, Hanns Zischler, Lea Massari | | Belgian-French-West German co-production |
Rhinegold | Niklaus Schilling | Elke Haltaufderheide | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
Der Schimmelreiter | Alfred Weidenmann | John Phillip Law, Gert Fröbe, Anita Ekström, Lina Carstens, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Vera Tschechowa, Dirk Galuba, Werner Hinz | Drama | |
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Margarethe von Trotta | Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach | Drama | |
1979 |
1+1=3 | Heidi Genée | Adelheid Arndt | Comedy | |
Americathon | Neal Israel | John Ritter | Comedy | American production with West German money |
Bildnis einer Trinkerin | Ulrike Ottinger | Tabea Blumenschein, Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma | Drama | |
Bloodline | Terence Young | Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Gert Fröbe, Irene Papas | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
David | Peter Lilienthal | Mario Fischel, Valter Taub, Irena Vrkljan, Eva Mattes | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin |
The First Polka | Klaus Emmerich | Maria Schell, Erland Josephson | Drama | Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival |
Fleisch | Rainer Erler | Jutta Speidel | Thriller | TV film |
Ein komischer Heiliger | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer, Wolfgang Fierek | Comedy | |
Lena Rais | Christian Rischert | Krista Stadler, Tilo Prückner, Kai Fischer | | |
The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny | Drama | First in the BRD Trilogy |
Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor | Horror | West German-French co-production |
She's 19 and Ready | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Sabine Wollin, Ekkehardt Belle | Sex comedy | |
Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness | Margarethe von Trotta | Jutta Lampe | Drama | |
The Tailor from Ulm | Edgar Reitz | Tilo Prückner, Vadim Glowna, Hannelore Elsner | | Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival |
The Third Generation | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen, Hark Bohm, Günther Kaufmann, Bulle Ogier, Udo Kier | Black comedy | |
The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | David Bennent, Charles Aznavour, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach | Drama | West German-French co-production. Based on the book by Günter Grass |
Woyzeck | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes | Classic literature | Based on the story by Georg Büchner |