This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 1970s.
For an alphabetical list of articles on West German films see . For East German films made during the decade see List of East German films.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Uhr 20 | Wolfgang Becker | Joachim Fuchsberger, Christiane Krüger, Gila von Weitershausen, Nadja Tiller, Götz George, Anthony Steel | Thriller | ||
| Abseits | Ernst Jacobi,, | Drama | |||
| All Backs Were Turned | Drama | ||||
| The American Soldier | Drama | [1] [2] | |||
| And God Said to Cain | Antonio Margheriti | Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten, Marcella Michelangeli | Western | Italian-West German co-production[3] | |
| Angelika Urban, Verkäuferin, verlobt | Documentary | ||||
| Drama | Angels Who Burn Their Wings | ||||
| Baal | Volker Schlöndorff | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | ||
| Drama | |||||
| Before Sunset | Drama | Before Sundown | |||
| Die Beichte | Drama | The Confession | |||
| Bend Sinister | Science fiction | ||||
| Thriller | American-West German co-production | ||||
| , Umberto Orsini, Lukas Ammann, | Mystery, Science fiction | West German-Italian co-production | |||
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | Mystery, Thriller | Italian-West German co-production[4] [5] | ||
| Blaues Wild | Drama | ||||
| The Bloody Judge | Horror | Spanish-Italian-West German co-production | |||
| Der Bomberpilot | ,, | ||||
| Thriller | |||||
| Drama | West German-Italian co-production | ||||
| Cancer Ward | Drama | Krebsstation | |||
| The Cannibals | War | ||||
| Chariots of the Gods | Documentary | [6] [7] | |||
| Children of Mata Hari | Spy thriller | The Deathmakers. French-West German-Italian co-production[8] | |||
| Comedy | |||||
| Claus Graf Stauffenberg | War | ||||
| Clavigo | Thomas Holtzmann, | Drama | |||
| Comedy | The Coffee House | ||||
| Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something! | Sex comedy | Austrian-West German co-production[9] | |||
| Compañeros | Sergio Corbucci | Western | Italian-Spanish-West German co-production[10] [11] | ||
| The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | Drama | Italian-French-West German co-production[12] [13] | ||
| Count Dracula | Jesús Franco | Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski | Horror | Spanish-Italian-West German-British co-production[14] | |
| Dark Spring | Drama | ||||
| Deadlock | Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm, | Crime | |||
| Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski | Drama | West German-British-American co-production[15] | ||
| Science fiction | |||||
| Don't Fumble, Darling | Werner Enke, Gila von Weitershausen, Henry van Lyck, Otto Sander, | Comedy | |||
| Dorian Gray | Massimo Dallamano | Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom | Drama | Italian-West German co-production[16] | |
| Drücker | Drama | ||||
| Emigration | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig | Drama | [17] | ||
| Der Fall Sorge | Docudrama, Spy, War | ||||
| Drama | West German-French-Italian co-production | ||||
| Biography | |||||
| Die Feuerzangenbowle | Helmut Käutner | Comedy | [18] | ||
| First Love | Drama | Swiss-West German-Hungarian co-production | |||
| Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen | Biography | ||||
| Friedrich III – Gestorben als Kaiser | Biography | ||||
| Fröhliche Weihnachten | Comedy | ||||
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | Drama | Italian-West German co-production[19] | ||
| Crime | |||||
| General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot? | War | ||||
| Gentlemen in White Vests | Comedy | ||||
| Gods of the Plague | Drama | ||||
| Eine große Familie | Drama | ||||
| Die Herberge | Drama | ||||
| Hier bin ich, mein Vater | Drama | ||||
| Hotel by the Hour | Crime | ||||
| How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? | Comedy | The Naughty Cheerleader. West German-Italian co-production | |||
| How to Get Rid of Your Husband | Brigitte Grothum,, Günter Mack, | ||||
| Ich heiße Erwin und bin 17 Jahre | Erwin Walther, Iris Hertisch, Theo Dahlke | Drama | |||
| In the Name of Conscience | Recht auf Gewissen | ||||
| Industrielandschaft mit Einzelhändlern | Drama | ||||
| Iris Berben, | Comedy | Love 600 | |||
| Jonathan | ,,, | Horror | [20] | ||
| Klassenphoto | Documentary | ||||
| Let's Make a Dream | Comedy | West German-French co-production | |||
| The Lickerish Quartet | Radley Metzger | Adult, comedy-drama | Italian-American-West German co-production[21] | ||
| Comedy | The Amorous Adventures of a Young Postman | ||||
| Malatesta | Drama | [22] Entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower | Crime comedy | ||||
| Mark of the Devil | Michael Armstrong | Horror | [23] | ||
| The Marquise de Brinvilliers | Crime, History | Die Marquise von B. West German-French co-production | |||
| Maximilian von Mexiko | Biography | Maximilian of Mexico. West German-Austrian co-production | |||
| Mein schönes kurzes Leben | Michael Schwankhart, Claudia Littmann | Drama | |||
| Millionen nach Maß | Crime comedy | ||||
| Das Millionenspiel | Science Fiction | ||||
| Ferdy Mayne, | Biography | ||||
| Los Monstruos del Terror | Horror | Dracula vs. Frankenstein Assignment Terror. Spanish-Italian-West German co-production | |||
| Thriller | |||||
| Comedy | |||||
| The Niklashausen Journey | Drama | ||||
| o.k. | War | [24] Caused the cancellation of the 20th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Christoph Hemmerling | Drama | The Oppression of Woman Is Primarily Evident in the Behavior of Women Themselves | |||
| War, Docudrama | |||||
| Crime | Hard Women The Blonde Connection | ||||
| Piggies | Comedy | ||||
| Pippi in the South Seas | Olle Hellbom | Family | Swedish-West German co-production[25] | ||
| The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising | Drama | ||||
| The Portland Spy Ring | Der Portland-Ring | ||||
| The Priest of St. Pauli | Drama | ||||
| Red Sun | Drama | ||||
| Eine Rose für Jane | Crime | ||||
| San Domingo | , Alice Ottawa | Drama | |||
| Schlagzeilen über einen Mord | Drama | ||||
| Schulmädchen-Report | Ernst Hofbauer | First of a series of 13 films | |||
| Sessel zwischen den Stühlen | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Documentary | |||||
| The Sex Nest | Comedy | The Yellow House on Pinnasberg | |||
| Sir Henri Deterding | Biography, Docudrama | ||||
| Slap in the Face | Curd Jürgens, Gila von Weitershausen | Comedy | |||
| Student of the Bedroom | Comedy | ||||
| Summer in the City | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| That Can't Shake Our Willi! | Comedy | ||||
| Time Is Running Out | Documentary | ||||
| Der Tod des Deputierten Jean Jaurès | Docudrama | ||||
| Die U-2-Affäre | Docudrama | ||||
| Under the Roofs of St. Pauli | Drama | ||||
| Unternehmer | Jürgen Prochnow, | Drama | |||
| Jesus Franco | Horror | Spanish-West German co-production[26] [27] | |||
| We'll Take Care of the Teachers | Comedy | Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank film series | |||
| Drama | |||||
| What Is the Matter with Willi? | Comedy | ||||
| When the Mad Aunts Arrive | Comedy | ||||
| When You're With Me | Musical | ||||
| Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | Drama | Entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival[28] | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annemarie Lesser: Legend of a Spy | Spy, War | |||
| Apokal | Drama | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival[29] | ||
| Aufstiegschancen | Drama | |||
| Aunt Trude from Buxtehude | Comedy | |||
| The Bed Sausage | Luzi Kryn, Dietmar Kracht | Comedy | ||
| Beware of a Holy Whore | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Comedy-drama | [30] | |
| Blondie's Number One | Drama | |||
| The Body in the Thames | Mystery thriller | Angels of Terror. Based on Edgar Wallace | ||
| Drama | [31] | |||
| The Captain | Comedy | |||
| Adventure | Nurses for Sale Captain Roughneck from St. Pauli | |||
| Carlos | Drama | |||
| The Cat o' Nine Tails | Dario Argento | Thriller | Italian-French-West German co-production[32] | |
| The Cell | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Chronicle of Current Events | Rüdiger Vogler, | Drama | ||
| Daughters of Darkness | Harry Kümel | Horror | Belgian-French-West German co-production[33] | |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Comedy | French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production[34] | ||
| The Devil Came from Akasava | Thriller | Spanish-West German co-production | ||
| The Devil in Love | Wolf Roth, | Fantasy | Der verliebte Teufel | |
| Science fiction | ||||
| The Eddie Chapman Story | Biography, War | Kein Geldschrank geht von selber auf | ||
| Einer spinnt immer | Comedy | West German-Austrian co-production | ||
| The End Of A Mission | Comedy | |||
| Ein Fall für Herrn Schmidt | Crime | |||
| War | Austrian-West German co-production | |||
| Helmut Qualtinger, Evelyn Opela, | Drama | False Weights Weights and Measures | ||
| Fata Morgana | Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, James William Gledhill, Eugen des Montagnes | Drama | [35] | |
| Fräulein von Stradonitz in memoriam | , | Mystery | ||
| Furchtlose Flieger | , Martin Müller, | Drama | ||
| Drama, War | ||||
| Geschäfte mit Plückhahn | Drama | |||
| Gestrickte Spuren | Mystery | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Science fiction | ||||
| Adventure | ||||
| Handicapped Future | Documentary | |||
| He Who Loves in a Glass House | Senta Berger, Hartmut Becker, Marianne Blomquist | Drama | [36] Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival | |
| The Heart of the Matter | Drama | |||
| Heißer Sand | Joachim Fuchsberger, Sieghardt Rupp, | Adventure | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| The Hitler/Ludendorff Trial: Scenes From a High Treason Trial in a Republic Without Republicans | Docudrama | |||
| Holidays in Tyrol | Comedy | |||
| Rolf Becker, Hannes Fuchs, Marianne Blomquist, | Science fiction | |||
| Ich werde dich töten, Wolf | Drama | |||
| Intermezzo | Drama | Zwischenspiel | ||
| Interview mit Herbert K. | Drama, Crime | |||
| It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives | Bernd Feuerhelm, Berryt Bohlen, Ernst Kuchling | Drama | ||
| Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Drama | Jaider, the Lonely Hunter. Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Jailbreak in Hamburg | Crime thriller | |||
| Jakob von Gunten | Drama | |||
| Karpfs Karriere | Martin Benrath, | Drama | ||
| Kassensturz | Crime | The Banklady | ||
| Ladies in Retirement | ||||
| Land of Silence and Darkness | Documentary | [37] | ||
| Biography | ||||
| Comedy, Fantasy | ||||
| Love Is Only a Word | Drama | Love Is Just a Word | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| The Mad Aunts Strike Out | Comedy | |||
| The Man from London | Thriller | |||
| Mathias Kneissl | Drama | [38] | ||
| O. W. Fischer, | Comedy | Die Fliege und der Frosch | ||
| The Merchant of Four Seasons | , Irm Hermann, Ingrid Caven, Klaus Löwitsch, Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab | Drama | [39] | |
| Mystery thriller | ||||
| Miks Bumbullis | Crime drama | |||
| The Mirror of Fools | Adventure | Narrenspiegel | ||
| Morgen fällt die Schule aus | Comedy | Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank film series | ||
| Docudrama | The Munich Soviet Republic | |||
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | Horror | American-Spanish-West German co-production | ||
| Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production[40] | |
| My Father, the Ape and I | Comedy | West German-Austrian co-production | ||
| The Night in Lisbon | Drama | |||
| One | Comedy | |||
| War, Docudrama | ||||
| Our Willi Is the Best | Werner Jacobs | Comedy | [41] | |
| Paul Esbeck | Drama | |||
| , | Drama, War | The Janitor | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Der Pott | Drama | The Silver Tassie | ||
| Preußen über alles... – Bismarcks deutsche Einigung | Docudrama | |||
| Crime | ||||
| Return of Sabata | Frank Kramer | Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Annabella Incontrera | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production[42] |
| The Reverend Turns a Blind Eye | Comedy | |||
| Rio das Mortes | Comedy | |||
| Rote Fahnen sieht man besser | Rolf Schübel, | Documentary | ||
| Rudi, Behave! | Comedy | |||
| Saint Joan | Drama | |||
| ,, | Drama | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Die Schrott-Story | Docudrama | The Scrap Story. West German-Austrian co-production | ||
| She Killed in Ecstasy | Jesús Franco | Horror | West German-Spanish co-production[43] | |
| Slime | Drama | Schlamm La Vase. Swiss-West German co-production | ||
| Die Sonne angreifen | Drama | |||
| Robert Meyn, Heidi Stroh, | Comedy | |||
| The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Drama | |||
| Supergirl | Drama | |||
| The Taming of the Shrew | Comedy | |||
| Biography | ||||
| Tiger Gang | Harald Reinl | Thriller | FBI Operation Pakistan. Kommissar X film. West German-Italian-Pakistani co-production | |
| Trotta | Drama | [44] | ||
| Twenty Girls and the Teachers | Comedy | |||
| Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen | Thriller | The Caesar Code And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot. Based on the book by Johannes Mario Simmel, German Film Award | ||
| The Vampire Happening | Comedy, Horror | [45] | ||
| Vampyros Lesbos | Horror | Spanish-West German co-production | ||
| Karin Hübner,, | Comedy | Twelfth Night | ||
| Ein Vogel bin ich nicht | , Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Heinz Meier,, | Drama | ||
| The Weavers | Drama | |||
| Web of the Spider | Antonio Margheriti | Horror, Mystery | Italian-French-West German co-production[46] [47] | |
| What the Peeper Saw | Thriller | Night Hair Child. British-Spanish-Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Whity | Drama | [48] | ||
| Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best | Comedy | |||
| Disaster | Spanish-West German co-production | |||
| Der Zeuge | Crime | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Fäuste und ein Vaterunser | Western | Halleluja and Sartana Strike Again. Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Biography | ||||
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | West German-Peruvian-Mexican co-production[49] | |||
| Always Trouble with the Reverend | Comedy | |||
| Der Angestellte | Drama | |||
| Anna und Totò | Drama | |||
| Arbeitskampf | Rolf Schübel, | Documentary | ||
| Assignment: Munich | Thriller | American-West German co-production | ||
| Baron Blood | Mario Bava | Horror | Italian-West German co-production[50] | |
| The Big Bust Out | Italian-West German co-production | |||
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Drama | [51] | ||
| Bluebeard | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Bloody Friday | Crime thriller | West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Blüten der Gesellschaft | Crime comedy | |||
| Drama | ||||
| The Call of the Wild | Adventure | British-French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production | ||
| Cause of Divorce | Comedy | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| César and Rosalie | Claude Sautet | Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey | Comedy-drama | French-Italian-West German co-production[52] |
| The Count of Luxemburg | Musical | |||
| Cry of the Black Wolves | Adventure | |||
| The Dead Are Alive | Thriller | Italian-West German-Yugoslav co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Thriller | Spanish-West German co-production | |||
| Drama, Music | ||||
| Deutsche Novelle | Drama | |||
| The Disciplined Woman | ||||
| Don't Get Angry | Comedy | |||
| Der Eisberg der Vorsehung | Wolfgang Kieling, | Docudrama | ||
| Elisabeth, Kaiserin von Österreich | Biography | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Eye in the Labyrinth | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Federlesen | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Geheimagenten | Klaus Herm, Hans Christian Blech, Cordula Trantow, Helga Feddersen, | Comedy | ||
| Geradeaus bis zum Morgen | Crime | |||
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Drama | The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. West German-Austrian co-production[53] | ||
| Christian Reitz, Oliver Jovine | Fantasy | |||
| The Grand Duel | Western | The Big Showdown. Italian-French-West German co-production | ||
| Happy End | Musical | |||
| Havoc | Drama | West German-French co-production | ||
| The Heath Is Green | Musical | |||
| History Lessons | Gottfried Bold | Drama | Italian-West German co-production | |
| Hundertwasser's Rainy Day | Documentary | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Drama | Wild Game | |||
| Jugend einer Studienrätin | Drama, War | |||
| King, Queen, Knave | Comedy | American-West German co-production[54] | ||
| Land | Drama | |||
| Liebe so schön wie Liebe | Comedy | |||
| Ludwig | Biography | Italian-French-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Mandala | Thriller | |||
| Manolescu | Crime comedy | |||
| The Marquis of Keith | Drama | |||
| The Master Touch | Crime thriller | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Docudrama | ||||
| Memories of a Summer in Berlin | Burt Nelson, | Drama | You Can't Go Home Again | |
| Monsieur Chasse | Comedy | |||
| The Morals of Ruth Halbfass | Drama | |||
| My Daughter, Your Daughter | Comedy | |||
| Nasrin, or The Art of Dreaming | Fantasy | |||
| Nicht Lob, noch Furcht: Graf Galen, Bischof von Münster | War, Biography | Nec Laudibus, Nec Timore: Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Nurse Report | ||||
| Ohne Nachsicht | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Oscar Wilde | Drama, Biography | |||
| The Red Queen Kills Seven Times | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Rocker | Gerd Kruskopf, Hans-Jürgen Modschiedler | Drama | ||
| Die seltsamen Abenteuer des geheimen Kanzleisekretärs Tusmann | Comedy, Fantasy | The Choosing of the Bride Albertine's Wooers | ||
| The Sensuous Three | Drama | [55] | ||
| Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Shot on Command – The Sass Brothers, Once Berlin's Big Crooks | Jürgen Prochnow, | Crime | ||
| The Silent Revolution | Documentary | |||
| Soft Shoulders, Sharp Curves | Sex comedy | |||
| State of Siege | Costa-Gavras | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production[56] | |
| Crime | ||||
| The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | Thriller | |||
| Das System Fabrizzi | Comedy | |||
| Tears of Blood | Drama | West German-French co-production[57] | ||
| Temptation in the Summer Wind | Comedy | |||
| Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird | Docudrama | |||
| Tod im Studio | Gert Günther Hoffmann,, Manfred Sexauer,, | Thriller | ||
| Trouble with Trixie | Comedy | |||
| The Venice Train | Thriller | Rückfahrt von Venedig | ||
| Verdacht gegen Barry Croft | Thriller | |||
| What? | Roman Polanski | Sydne Rome, Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production[58] |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Mystery thriller | Italian-West German co-production[59] | |
| Willi Manages The Whole Thing | Werner Jacobs | Comedy | [60] | |
| Science fiction | ||||
| Die Witwen oder Eine vollkommene Lösung | Heinz Bennent,,, | Drama | ||
| Die Wollands | , | , | Drama | |
| Zeitaufnahme | , | Drama | ||
| Zoff | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comedy | ||||
| All People Will Be Brothers | Drama | The Cain Conspiracy | ||
| Battle of Berlin | Documentary, War | |||
| Bed Hostesses | Sex comedy | Swiss-West German co-production | ||
| The Bloody Vultures of Alaska | Adventure | |||
| Blue Blooms the Gentian | Musical | |||
| The Blue Hotel | Per Oscarsson, Hans Christian Blech, Arthur Brauss,, Tord Peterson, Konrad Georg,, Tommy Johnson, | Drama | West German-Swedish co-production | |
| Crazy – Completely Mad | Comedy | |||
| Mystery | Death on the River Thames | |||
| Desaster | Crime | |||
| Diamantenparty | Crime comedy | |||
| Per Oscarsson, Olimpia, Rosemarie Fendel, Louis Waldon, | Drama | |||
| The East Frisian Report | Sex comedy | |||
| Ein für allemal | Crime | |||
| Hans Schweikart, | Mystery | Endstation | ||
| Entziehung – Ein Tagebuch | Drama | |||
| The Experts | Drama | Won a Silver Bear at Berlin | ||
| Ein Fall für Goron | Mystery | |||
| The First Circle | Drama | Danish-West German co-production | ||
| Florian | Drama | |||
| The Flying Classroom | Comedy | |||
| Die geheimen Papiere des Pentagon | , Hans Peter Korff, | Docudrama | ||
| The Girl from Hong Kong | Action | |||
| Die Gräfin von Rathenow | Drama | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Haus am Meer | Drama | |||
| Housewives on the Job | Ernst Hofbauer | Sex report film | [61] | |
| Hubertus Castle | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Immobilien | Drama | |||
| Josef Lang, k. u. k. Scharfrichter | Biography | |||
| Kopf oder Zahl | Crime | |||
| Der lange Jammer | Documentary | |||
| Little Mother | Radley Metzger | Drama | American-West German-Yugoslav co-production | |
| Love in 3-D | Sex comedy | |||
| Mark of the Devil Part II | Adrian Hoven | Anton Diffring, Reggie Nalder | Horror | [62] |
| Comedy | Dance of Love: La Ronde | |||
| My Name is Nobody | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production[63] [64] | ||
| Night Flight from Moscow | French-West German-Italian co-production | |||
| Old Barge, Young Love | Werner Jacobs | Roy Black, Barbara Nielsen | Comedy | [65] |
| Once Upon a Time | Rolf Kauka, | Animated film | West German-Italian co-production | |
| Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave | Drama | |||
| The Pedestrian | Drama | West German-Swiss-Israeli co-production | ||
| The Philanthropist | Drama | |||
| The Scarlet Letter | Wim Wenders | Senta Berger, Hans-Christian Blech, Lou Castel | Drama | West German-Spanish co-production[66] |
| Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye | Thriller | Italian-French-West German co-production | ||
| Harald Leipnitz, Gila von Weitershausen, Nino Castelnuovo, | Thriller | Gott schützt die Liebenden | ||
| Disaster | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| The Tenderness of Wolves | Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Brigitte Mira, | Drama | [67] | |
| Trip to Vienna | Comedy-drama, War | [68] | ||
| The Twins from Immenhof | Drama | |||
| Über Nacht | Drama | |||
| Ein unheimlich starker Abgang | Drama | Sonja schafft die Wirklichkeit ab oder ... ein unheimlich starker Abgang | ||
| La Victoria | Documentary | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Die Wohngenossin | , | Drama | ||
| World on a Wire | Science Fiction | TV film | ||
| Yankee Dudler | Western | Jaider's Gang. West German-Spanish co-production | ||
| Zahltag | Crime | |||
| Crime | West German-Italian co-production | |||
| Zu einem Mord gehören zwei | Crime | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Die 7-Tage-Woche des Drahtwebers Rolf Piechotta | Drama | |||
| Ein Abend, eine Nacht, ein Morgen | Drama | |||
| Abschied vom Abschied | Drama | |||
| After Liverpool | , | Drama | ||
| Drama | [69] | |||
| Alice in the Cities | Drama | [70] | ||
| Alpha und Asphalt | Science fiction | |||
| Alpine Glow in Dirndlrock | Elisabeth Volkmann, | Sex comedy | ||
| Crime | ||||
| And Then There Were None | Mystery thriller | British-Spanish-French-Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Anna | Helga Anders,, | Drama | ||
| Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler | Comedy | |||
| Aufs Kreuz gelegt | Adventure | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Ein bißchen Liebe | Comedy | |||
| Crime | ||||
| Cautio Criminalis | Drama | |||
| Ulrich Schamoni, | Comedy | |||
| Charley's Nieces | Comedy | |||
| Charlotte | Roger Vadim | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production[71] | |
| Class Reunion | Hans Jaray,, Jan Christian | Drama | Der Abituriententag | |
| Drama | Diary of a Lover | |||
| Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Crime | Produced as a Tatort episode | ||
| Death in Astapovo | Biography | Tod in Astapowo | ||
| Drama | West German-French co-production | |||
| Alberto Dell'Acqua, | Adventure, Comedy | West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Effi Briest | Drama | [72] | ||
| Eiger | Hans Brenner, Herbert Stass, Werner Asam,, Martin Sperr, | Drama | ||
| Eintausend Milliarden | Docudrama | |||
| Die Eltern | Drama | |||
| The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge, | Historical drama | [73] Every Man for Himself and God Against All | |
| Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt | Drama | |||
| Fliegen und Stürzen – Porträt der Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg | War, Biography | |||
| Ein ganz perfektes Ehepaar | Drama | |||
| Goodbye with Mums | Drama | Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen | ||
| Sabine Sinjen, | Drama | |||
| The Hunter of Fall | Drama | |||
| Ich gehe nach München | Drama | |||
| Matthias Habich, | Crime | |||
| In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death | , Dagmar Bödderich | Drama | ||
| In the Name of the People | Documentary | [74] | ||
| The Infernal Trio | French-West German-Italian co-production | |||
| Julia | Sigi Rothemund | Drama | ||
| Karl May | Biography | |||
| Drama | West German-Austrian co-production | |||
| Die Kurpfuscherin | Comedy | |||
| Lacombe, Lucien | Drama, War | French-Italian-West German co-production[75] | ||
| The Last Days of Gomorrah | Science fiction | |||
| The Little Black Book | Heinz Bennent, | Comedy | Ich suche Herrn Obolsky | |
| , Judy Winter, | Crime | |||
| Karin Thome, Eberhard Klasse | Drama | |||
| Martha | Drama | TV film | ||
| Drama, War | You Are Free, Dr. Korczak. West German-Israeli co-production | |||
| Neugierig wie ein Kind | Drama | |||
| No Gold for a Dead Diver | Adventure | |||
| No Sin on the Alpine Pastures | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Comedy | ||
| Drama | ||||
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Thriller | British-West German co-production[76] [77] | |
| One or the Other of Us | Thriller | [78] | ||
| Only the Wind Knows the Answer | Thriller | West German-French co-production . Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| Output | Crime | A Dead One In Berlin | ||
| Perahim – die zweite Chance | Crime | |||
| Revenge of the East Frisians | Sex comedy | |||
| Family | ||||
| Der Scheck heiligt die Mittel | Docudrama | |||
| Sechs Wochen im Leben der Brüder G. | Hans-Georg Panczak, Jan Kollwitz, | Drama | ||
| Silverson | Crime | |||
| Snowdrops Bloom in September | Drama | |||
| Der Springteufel | Thriller | TV film based on story by Derrick Sherwin (Doctor Who) | ||
| Spring in Immenhof | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Stolen Heaven | Drama | |||
| Supermarket | Crime drama | |||
| Three Men in the Snow | Comedy | |||
| Torrents of Spring | Drama | |||
| Ulla oder Die Flucht in die schwarzen Wälder | Fantasy | |||
| Unser Werk | Hanna Schygulla,, | Drama | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Vreemde Wêreld | Thriller | Listen to My Story. South African-West German co-production | ||
| Wages and Love | , | , | Drama | |
| Drama | ||||
| When Mother Went on Strike | Comedy | |||
| Wienerinnen | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Zerfall einer Großfamilie | Drama | |||
| Zinngeschrei | Drama | |||
| War | ||||
| Zwei himmlische Dickschädel | Comedy | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander März | Drama | |||
| , Karin Siefarth | Drama | |||
| Drama, War | The Outsider | |||
| Black Moon | Science fiction | French-West German co-production | ||
| War | ||||
| By Hook or by Crook | Drama | |||
| Charles Vanel, Mario Pardo,, | Drama | |||
| The Cats' Bridge | Peter Meincke | Drama | ||
| La Chair de l'orchidée | Thriller | The Flesh of the Orchid. French-Italian-West German co-production | ||
| , Günter Vaessen | Crime | |||
| The Concert | Comedy | |||
| Science fiction | The Island of the Crabs | |||
| Crime After School | ||||
| Crime and Passion | Thriller | West German-American co-production | ||
| The Day That Shook the World | Historical drama | Yugoslav-Czechoslovak-Hungarian-West German co-production | ||
| Depression | Doris Kunstmann, | Drama | ||
| Ein deutsches Attentat | Historical drama | |||
| Earthquake in Chile | Julia Peña, Víctor Alcázar | Drama | ||
| Drama | ||||
| End of the Game | Mystery | The Judge and His Hangman. West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Es fängt ganz harmlos an | ||||
| Euridice BA 2037 | Vera Tschechowa, John Moore, Niki Triantafillidi | Drama | Greek-West German co-production[79] | |
| Fear Is a Second Shadow | Drama | |||
| Fear of Fear | Drama | |||
| Fiesco; or The Genoese Conspiracy | Drama | Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa | ||
| Fox and His Friends | Drama | |||
| Frau von Bebenburg | Judy Winter, | Drama | The Second | |
| Fantasy, Disaster | The Rubbish Tip | |||
| A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe | Comedy, Western | Italian-French-West German co-production | ||
| Georgina's Reasons | Drama | French-West German co-production | ||
| The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner | Documentary | |||
| A Happy Family Life | , | Tilo Prückner, | Drama | |
| Herbstzeitlosen | Doris Kunstmann, Horst Frank, | Drama | ||
| Crime comedy | Embraces | |||
| I'd Like to Have My Troubles | , Otto Sander, Evelyn Künneke, | Musical | I Want My Troubles | |
| Ice Age | Drama | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| Innocents with Dirty Hands | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Inside Out | Thriller | British-American-West German co-production | ||
| John Glückstadt | Drama | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Kampf um ein Kind | Drama | |||
| Katinka | Drama | Am Wege Ved Vejen | ||
| Kleine Bank mit schlechten Noten | Walter Kohut, Roger Fritz, Werner Kreindl, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, | Crime | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Docudrama | ||||
| Jutta Speidel, Dieter Laser, | Thriller | |||
| The Last Word | Drama | |||
| Lehmanns Erzählungen | Comedy | |||
| Lenau | Drama | |||
| Lina Braake | Lina Carstens, Fritz Rasp, | Comedy | German Film Award for Best Feature Film 1975 | |
| The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum | Drama | |||
| The Maddest Car in the World | Comedy | |||
| Heinz Bennent, Zdenka Procházková, | Drama | |||
| Millions of Years Ahead of Man | Documentary | |||
| Monika and the Sixteen Year Olds | Charly Steinberger | Comedy | Sweet Sixteen | |
| Moses und Aron | Music | West German-Austrian-French-Italian co-production | ||
| Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven | Drama | Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven | ||
| The Net | Thriller | The Poisoned Stream | ||
| Das ohnmächtige Pferd | Comedy | |||
| Parapsycho – Spectrum of Fear | West German-Austrian co-production | |||
| Der Prototyp | Drama | |||
| Spy, Comedy | The Missile | |||
| Die Schießübung | ||||
| Schoolmaster Hofer | André Watt | Drama | ||
| Drama | ||||
| The Secret Carrier | Comedy | |||
| Paul Dahlke, Siegfried Wischnewski, Susanne Uhlen, Hans Peter Korff,, | Drama | |||
| Stellenweise Glatteis | Drama | |||
| Tadellöser & Wolff | Drama, War | |||
| Andrzej Żuławski | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production | ||
| To the Bitter End | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production | ||
| Trotzki in Coyoacan | Biography | Trotsky in Coyoacán | ||
| Under the Pavement Lies the Strand | Grischa Huber, | Drama | ||
| The Unguarded House | Drama | Tomorrow and Yesterday Haus ohne Hüter | ||
| Unter Denkmalschutz | Documentary | |||
| Western | West German-Spanish co-production | |||
| Le vieux fusil | War | French-West German co-production | ||
| Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production | |||
| Weak Spot | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Die weiße Stadt | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Wie starb Dag Hammarskjöld? | Docudrama | |||
| Gustl Bayrhammer, | Drama | |||
| The Wrong Move | Drama | |||
| Zahnschmerzen | Alternate history | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 geile Hirsche auf der Flucht | Adult | |||
| 1900 | Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden,, Ellen Schwiers, | Romantic drama, War | Italian-American-French-West German co-production. 1 win & 1 nom. | |
| Mystery | The Widow Lerouge The Lerouge Case | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Die Ansiedlung | Drama | |||
| As of Tomorrow | Comedy | Blackmail Chase. West German-Austrian-Italian co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Der aufregende Fall des Studienrats Adam Juracek | , Klaus Löwitsch,, Günter Mack, Walter Rilla, | Science fiction, Comedy | White Book: Adam Juráček Vs. Sir Isaac Newton | |
| Aus nichtigem Anlaß | Helmuth Lohner, | Crime | ||
| Die Babenberger in Österreich | History, Docudrama | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Crime | Shattered Dreams. West German-Austrian-French co-production | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Crime | ||||
| Comedy | ||||
| Born for Hell | Horror | Naked Massacre. Canadian-French-West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Carnival Confession | Hannes Messemer, Klaus Hoffmann, | Drama | ||
| Chinese Roulette | Drama | West German-French co-production | ||
| The Clown | Drama | |||
| Comedian Harmonists | Documentary | |||
| Coup de Grâce | Drama, War | West German-French co-production. Set in the Russian Civil War | ||
| Thriller | The Berlin Connection Double Agent – Triple Cross | |||
| Death Rite | Thriller | French-West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Dorothea Merz | Drama | |||
| Drama | The Devil's Elixirs | |||
| Erika | Drama | |||
| Erika's Passions | Drama | |||
| Everyone Dies Alone | Drama, War | Every Man Dies Alone | ||
| Fünf Prüfungen des Oberbürgermeisters | Biography | Konrad Adenauer – Studie in Szenen | ||
| West German-French co-production | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Hans und Heinz Kirch | , | Drama | ||
| Heart of Glass | Drama | |||
| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | Documentary | |||
| The Hypochondriac | Comedy | The Imaginary Invalid | ||
| I Only Want You to Love Me | Drama | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Intermezzo für fünf Hände | Comedy | |||
| Jack the Ripper | Horror | West German-Swiss co-production | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| Kings of the Road | Drama, Road movie | Won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Krawatten für Olympia | Hartmann Schmige, | Comedy | ||
| Lebensdaten | Documentary | |||
| Liebe mit 50 | Drama | |||
| A Lost Life | Drama | Olschewski won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin | ||
| Mademoiselle de Scuderi | Mystery | |||
| Männergeschichten – Frauengeschichten | Drama | |||
| The Marquise of O | Drama | French-West German co-production[80] | ||
| The Mimosa Wants to Blossom Too | Spy comedy | |||
| Crime comedy | ||||
| Western | Potato Fritz | |||
| Santiago Ziesmer, | Biography | Mozart: Recordings of a Youth | ||
| The New Sorrows of Young W. | Drama | The New Sufferings of Young W. | ||
| No One Will Play with Me | Short | |||
| Hark Bohm | Uwe Bohm, Dschingis Bowakow, Marquard Bohm | Drama | ||
| A Part of Myself | Biography | Als wär's ein Stück von mir | ||
| Manfred Reiss, Manfred Gnoth | Drama | |||
| Proud Destiny | History | Waffen für Amerika Die Füchse im Weinberg | ||
| Regina | Drama | |||
| Rosemary's Daughter | ||||
| Salon Kitty | Exploitation, War | Italian-West German-French co-production | ||
| Satan's Brew | Drama | |||
| Sensational Janine | ||||
| Shadow of Angels | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production | ||
| Silence in the Forest | Historical drama | |||
| Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee | Drama | |||
| Sperrmüll | Drama | |||
| The Sternstein Manor | , Tilo Prückner, Peter Kern, Gustl Bayrhammer, | Drama | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival | |
| Comedy | ||||
| Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Jutta Lampe, Otto Sander, | Drama | Summer Guests | ||
| The Swiss Conspiracy | Thriller | American-West German co-production | ||
| Die Tannerhütte | , | , Grischa Huber, Paul Dahlke, Karlheinz Böhm, Hans-Georg Panczak | Drama | |
| Taxi 4012 | Crime | |||
| Three Bavarians in Bangkok | Sex comedy | |||
| Three Paths to the Lake | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Time of Maturity | Drama | Coming of Age | ||
| Der Umsetzer | Benno Trautmann, | , | Drama | |
| Drama | ||||
| Verdunkelung | Joachim Kemmer, Rolf Moebius, Rudolf Brand,,,, | Crime, War | ||
| Vier gegen die Bank | Harald Leipnitz, Walter Kohut,, | Crime comedy | Four Against the Bank | |
| Die Wahl | Drama | |||
| Walking Upright | , | Drama | ||
| Whispering Death | Action | Albino. West German-South African co-production | ||
| Die Wildente | Drama | The Wild Duck. West German-Austrian co-production | ||
| A Woman at Her Window | Drama | French-West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | ||||
| The American Friend | Thriller | West German-French co-production. Entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Anpassung an eine zerstörte Illusion | Drama | |||
| Die Befragung des Machiavelli | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Cécile | Doris Kunstmann,, | Drama | ||
| Drama | ||||
| The Conquest of the Citadel | András Fricsay, Ivan Desny, Armando Brancia, Vittoria Di Silverio, | Drama | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Cross of Iron | West German-British co-production | |||
| Death Is My Trade | War, Biography | |||
| Adventure | ||||
| The Devil's Advocate | Drama | Film production with money from West German private tax-shelter film funds ("Geria") | ||
| Diary of a Lover | Klaus Salge | Drama | ||
| Drama | Disorder and Early Sorrow | |||
| The Doctor's Dilemma | Drama | |||
| Drama | West German-Austrian-Swiss co-production | |||
| Das Ende der Beherrschung | Drama | |||
| Docudrama, War | ||||
| The Expulsion from Paradise | Drama | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Fathers and Sons | Drama | |||
| Ein ganz und gar verwahrlostes Mädchen | Rita Rischak | Documentary | ||
| The Fruit is Ripe | Sex comedy | |||
| War, Docudrama | ||||
| Crime | ||||
| Glücksucher | Drama | |||
| Drama | West German-Austrian co-production. Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Group Portrait with a Lady | Drama, War | West German-French co-production | ||
| Comedy | 50/50 | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Der Heiligenschein | Comedy, Fantasy | |||
| Biography | ||||
| Heinrich Zille | Biography | |||
| Hier kein Ausgang – nur Übergang | Ernst Jacobi, | Drama | ||
| Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | War, Documentary | Hitler: The Whole Story | ||
| West German-French-British co-production | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Marius Müller-Westernhagen, | Comedy | Invitation to Dance | ||
| Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Comedy | |||
| Roald Koller | Drama, Music | |||
| Eine Jugendliebe | Drama, War | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Mystery thriller | ||||
| Kleinhoff Hotel | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Die Konsequenz | Drama | The Consequence. Petersen won the 1978 Adolf Grimme Awards | ||
| Kreutzer | Crime | |||
| Lady Dracula | Comedy | |||
| Drama, War | The Three Daughters | |||
| Drama | The Leading Man | |||
| On Mount Chimborazo | Drama | Auf dem Chimborazo | ||
| Science fiction | ||||
| Petty Thieves | Crime | |||
| Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Claudia Butenuth, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |||
| Räuber und Gendarm | Crime comedy | |||
| Reifezeugnis | Drama | For Your Love Only. Tatort episode | ||
| Reinhard Heydrich – Manager des Terrors | War, Biography | |||
| Das Rentenspiel | Docudrama | |||
| A Rose: That's What Life Is All About | Road Movie | |||
| Rückfälle | Drama | |||
| Rules For a Film about Anabaptists | Documentary | West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| The Serpent's Egg | Drama | American-West German co-production | ||
| La Soufrière | Documentary | |||
| The Standard | War | Battle Flag. West German-Austrian-Spanish co-production | ||
| The Stationmaster's Wife | Drama | TV film | ||
| Stroszek | Drama | |||
| Sweethearts | , Fatima Igramhan, Renate Zimmermann, Sabine Gurn | Comedy, Music | ||
| Teerosen | Comedy | |||
| Three Swedes in Upper Bavaria | Sex comedy | |||
| Twilight's Last Gleaming | Thriller | American-West German co-production | ||
| Der Überläufer – Der Fall Wlassow | War, Docudrama | The Defector: Andrey Vlasov | ||
| Uncle Silas | Drama | |||
| Vanessa | ||||
| Verkaufte Träume | Drama | |||
| Family | The Crocodiles | |||
| Waldrausch | Drama | |||
| Walter Hasenclever | Biography | |||
| History, Crime | ||||
| Women in Hospital | Drama | |||
| Zero Hour | War | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fritz Binner | Drama | |||
| Drama | The All-Round Reduced Personality – Redupers | |||
| , Pietro Giardini | Comedy | |||
| Die Anstalt | Drama | |||
| Jeff Layton, | Drama | |||
| Cella | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production | ||
| The Condemned of Altona | Drama | Die Eingeschlossenen | ||
| Despair | Drama | West German-French co-production | ||
| Diary of a Seducer | Adelheid Arndt, | Drama | ||
| Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man | Comedy | Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste | ||
| Fear | Drama | Angst | ||
| Fedora | Drama | West German-French co-production | ||
| The Fifth Commandment | Duccio Tessari | Helmut Berger, Peter Hooten | Crime | Italian-West German co-production |
| Ernst Hannawald, Manfred Krug, Ursela Monn, | Drama | |||
| Flaming Hearts | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Der Friede von Locarno | Docudrama | The Locarno Treaties | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Germany in Autumn | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| The Glass Cell | Thriller | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Grüß Gott, ich komm von drüben | Comedy | |||
| The Guardian and His Poet | , | Biography | ||
| Der harte Handel | Drama | |||
| Biography | ||||
| Heroin 4 | Drama | |||
| I See This Land from Afar | , Pablo Lira, Angela Krain | Drama | ||
| In a Year of 13 Moons | Drama | |||
| Inn of the Sinful Daughters | Sex comedy | |||
| Jugend, Liebe und die Wacht am Rhein | Biography | Count Harry Kessler | ||
| Just a Gigolo | Drama | |||
| Kleine bunte Freudenspender | Drama | |||
| Knife in the Head | Drama | |||
| Krabat – The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Animated film | Czechoslovak-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| The Lady of the Camellias | Drama | |||
| The Left-Handed Woman | Drama | Entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Love Hotel in Tyrol | Sex comedy | West German-Austrian co-production | ||
| Fantasy | ||||
| The Man in the Rushes | Drama | |||
| Sascha Hehn, Melody O'Bryan | ||||
| Mittags auf dem Roten Platz | Drama | |||
| Moritz, Dear Moritz | Michael Kebschull, Kerstin Wehlmann, Grete Mosheim | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Mulligans Rückkehr | Drama | |||
| No Sin on the Alpine Pastures | Sex comedy | |||
| On the Move | Detlev Quandt, Ludger Schnieder, Anastasios Avgeris | Road movie | ||
| , Elisabeth Trissenaar, | Drama | |||
| Passion Flower Hotel | Comedy | Boarding School | ||
| Paul kommt zurück | Manfred Krug, Tilo Prückner, Heinz Hoenig, | Crime | ||
| Comedy | Der Pfingstausflug | |||
| Thriller | ||||
| Popcorn and Ice Cream | Comedy | |||
| Red Rings of Fear | Thriller | Italian-Spanish-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | The Kingdom of Naples. Italian-West German co-production | |||
| Les Rendez-vous d'Anna | Drama | Belgian-French-West German co-production | ||
| Rhinegold | ,, | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| The Rider on the White Horse | Drama | The Ghostly Rider | ||
| Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte | Wolfgang Petersen | Bruno Ganz, René Deltgen, Gila von Weitershausen | Drama | Black and White Like Day and Night |
| The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Margarethe von Trotta | Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach, Marius Müller-Westernhagen | Drama | |
| Short Letter to the Long Goodbye | Drama | Short Letter, Long Farewell | ||
| Action | ||||
| Thriller | The Bat | |||
| The Spirit of the Yellow Plum | Comedy | Der Geist der Mirabelle | ||
| Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act | Drama | |||
| Sultry Days | Drama | |||
| The Tailor from Ulm | Biography | Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| The Unicorn | Drama | |||
| When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Drama | |||
| Winterspelt | Hans Christian Blech, Katharina Thalbach,, | War | ||
| Wo geht's lang, Kutti? | Drama | |||
| Thriller | ||||
| A Woman with Responsibilities | Drama | A Woman with Responsibility | ||
| Wunnigel | Comedy | |||
| Mel Ferrer, Pola Kinski, Hannelore Schroth, | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelheid Arndt, Dominik Graf, | Comedy | One Plus One Equals Three | |||
| Americathon | Comedy | American production with West German money | |||
| , | Comedy | ||||
| Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts | Documentary | ||||
| Belle | Thriller | Bellas Tod La Mort de Belle | |||
| Werner Enke, Sabine von Maydell, | Comedy | ||||
| Blauer Himmel, den ich nur ahne | Biography | ||||
| Bloodline | Thriller | American-West German co-production | |||
| Ian Moorse, Monika Greser, Steve "Roadent" Connolly, The Adverts | Music | ||||
| Breakthrough | War | ||||
| Cola, Candy, Chocolate | Sex comedy | ||||
| W. Werner Schaefer, | Drama | ||||
| David | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin | |||
| The Day Elvis Came to Bremerhaven | Wolfgang Drygalla, Petra Bigaj, Michael Shelley | Drama | |||
| Crime | |||||
| Drei Freundinnen | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Crime comedy | |||||
| Esch: The Anarchist | Drama | The Sleepwalkers: The Anarchist | |||
| Drama | |||||
| The First Polka | Drama, War | Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Fleisch | Thriller | Spare Parts | |||
| Die Fluchtlinie | Michaela May,, | Drama | |||
| Flugversuche | Adelheid Arndt, Ulrich Pfeffer | Drama | |||
| Frontiers of Darkness | Günter Lamprecht, | Drama | Die Schattengrenze | ||
| Gefangen in Frankreich: Theodor Fontane im Krieg 1870/71 | War | ||||
| Die Geisterbehörde | Comedy | ||||
| Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand | Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Harald Reinl | Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, Klausjürgen Wussow | Historical | ||
| Achim Kurz | Drama | West German-French co-production | |||
| The Hamburg Syndrome | Disaster | West German-French co-production[81] [82] | |||
| It Can Only Get Worse | Comedy | Short edited version of the TV series Der ganz normale Wahnsinn | |||
| Jenseits von Schweden | Drama | ||||
| Kotte | Drama | ||||
| Last Love | Drama | ||||
| Gerhard Gundel | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Family | |||||
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Drama | First in the BRD Trilogy | |||
| Mihail, câine de circ | Adventure | Michael, Brother of Jerry. Romanian-West German co-production | |||
| Comedy | West German-Greek co-production | ||||
| Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe | Spy thriller | Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident The Tehran Incident. American-Italian-Spanish-West German-Iranian co-production | |||
| Diethard Wendtland | Documentary | ||||
| Die Münze | Crime comedy | The Mint | |||
| Drama | |||||
| Das Nest | Franz Xaver Kroetz, | Drama | |||
| The Night with Chandler | Rio Reiser,, | Crime | |||
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Horror | West German-French co-production | |||
| Drama | The Female Patriot The Patriot | ||||
| Phantasten | Drama | ||||
| Putting Things Straight | Biography | ||||
| History | |||||
| Drama | |||||
| Der Schuft, der den Münchhausen schrieb | Biography | ||||
| She's 19 and Ready | Sabine Wollin, Ekkehardt Belle, | Sex comedy | |||
| Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness | Jutta Lampe,,, Heinz Bennent, Konstantin Wecker, | Drama | |||
| Some Kind of Saint | , | Comedy | |||
| A Sunday in October | Klaus Maria Brandauer,, Marianna Moór, Lajos Őze, | War | Hungarian-West German co-production | ||
| Tally Brown, New York | Documentary | ||||
| Das tausendunderste Jahr | War | ||||
| Horror | |||||
| The Third Generation | Black comedy | ||||
| Ticket of No Return | Tabea Blumenschein, Christine Lutze, | Drama | Bildnis einer Trinkerin | ||
| The Tin Drum | Drama, War | West German-French co-production. Based on the book by Günter Grass | |||
| Tödlicher Ausgang | Thriller | Nur über Meiners Leiche | |||
| Marius Müller-Westernhagen, | Mystery | ||||
| Trennung – Die Geschichte der Anna Wildermuth | Drama | ||||
| Union der festen Hand | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Victoria | Drama | Swedish-West German co-production | |||
| Drama, War | |||||
| The Willi Busch Report | Drama | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Womanlight | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production | |||
| Woyzeck | Classic literature | Based on the story by Georg Büchner | |||
| Herbert Grönemeyer, | Drama |