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 .
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thriller | ||||
| Gerd Udo Heinemann, Thomas Davis | Music | |||
| Auf halbem Weg | Wolf Roth, | Drama | ||
| Der Aufstieg – Ein Mann geht verloren | Drama | |||
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Drama | TV miniseries | ||
| Hanns Zischler, | Drama | |||
| Berlin Mitte | Ute Christensen,,, | Drama | ||
| Big and Little | Drama | Big and Small | ||
| The Boxer | Drama | |||
| The Candidate | Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, Stefan Aust, | Documentary | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Car-napping | Crime comedy | |||
| Céleste | Biography | |||
| Daniel | ,, Ian Moorse | Drama | ||
| Death Watch | Science fiction | French-West German co-production | ||
| Horst Frank, Judy Winter, Leslie Malton, | Comedy | |||
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | Biography | Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment. Austrian-French-West German co-production | ||
| Enter Laughing | Comedy | Bühne frei für Kolowitz | ||
| Exit Sunset Boulevard | Drama | |||
| Fabian | Drama | |||
| Flitterwochen | , | Comedy | ||
| From the Life of the Marionettes | Drama | Swedish-West German co-production | ||
| Germany, Pale Mother | Drama, War | Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Girls | Just Jaeckin | Anne Parillaud,, | Drama | French-West German-Canadian co-production[1] [2] |
| Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung | Gertraud Jesserer, | Drama | Faith, Hope and Charity | |
| Grabbe's Last Summer | Wilfried Grimpe | Biography | ||
| The Green Bird | Drama | |||
| A Guru Comes | Comedy | Here Comes the Guru | ||
| Henry Angst | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| The Ideas of Saint Clara | Comedy | |||
| Intrigue and Love | Drama | |||
| Johann Sebastian Bach's Futile Journey to Fame | Biography | West German-East German co-production | ||
| Kaiserhofstraße 12 | War, Drama | |||
| Kolportage | Comedy | |||
| Drama, War | Austrian-West German co-production | |||
| Laufen lernen | , Rita Rischak | Drama | ||
| Lightning Over Water | Documentary | Nick's Film. West German-Swedish co-production | ||
| The Longest Second | Thriller | |||
| War | ||||
| Drama | French-West German-Italian co-production | |||
| The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | Crime | Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste. West German-Swedish-Hungarian co-production | ||
| Ein Mann fürs Leben | Drama | |||
| Ein Mann von gestern | Drama | |||
| Meister Timpe | Drama | |||
| Mona und Marilyn | Juliet Berto, Wolf Roth, | Drama | ||
| Drama | ||||
| On Southern Slopes | , | Drama | Am Südhang | |
| Drama | ||||
| Palermo or Wolfsburg | Drama | West German-Swiss co-production. Won the Golden Bear at Berlin | ||
| Panic Time | Musical comedy | |||
| Die Paulskirche | Drama | Trilogie 1848: Die Paulskirche | ||
| Der Preis fürs Überleben | Political thriller | The Price of Survival. Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Elisabeth Trissenaar, Matthias Habich, | Drama | |||
| Put on Ice | Political thriller | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Die Reventlow | Biography | Franziska Countess zu Reventlow | ||
| Schlagzeile | , | Drama | ||
| Burkhard Driest, Rolf Zacher, | Drama | Endstation Freiheit | ||
| Uwe Drißler, Andreas Hameder, Hieronymus Blößer, Martin Fuchs | Drama, War | |||
| Sunday Children | Drama | |||
| Frano Lasić, | Drama | Die Deutsche. Yugoslav-West German co-production | ||
| Marius Müller-Westernhagen,, | Road movie, Action comedy | |||
| Der Thronfolger | Biography | |||
| ... und raus bist du | Drama | |||
| Under Lock and Key | Drama | |||
| Dietlinde Turban, Walter Kohut, | Drama | |||
| Augustin Pereira | Drama | West German-Costa Rican co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| , | Drama | West German-Polish co-production | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| The Wonderful Years | Drama | |||
| The World That Summer | Drama | |||
| Das Ziel | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ach du lieber Harry | Comedy | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Angels of Iron | Crime drama | Entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Der Aufsteiger | Drama | |||
| Aus der Franzosenzeit | Drama | West German-East German co-production | ||
| Die Baronin | Biography | Elisabeth von Ardenne | ||
| Berlin Tunnel 21 | Drama | American-West German co-production | ||
| Birgitt Haas Must Be Killed | Thriller | French-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Bloody Moon | Horror | |||
| Das Boot | The Boat. Based on a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Columbia Pictures | |||
| Burning Rubber | Action | |||
| Das Casanova-Projekt | F. K. Waechter,, Robert Gernhardt, | Comedy | ||
| Charlotte | Biography, War | Dutch-West German co-production | ||
| Children | Drama | |||
| Christiane F. | Drama | |||
| Circle of Deceit | Drama, War | The Deception. West German-French co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Drama | Confusion. French-West German co-production | |||
| The Curse of the Tarniffs | Rüdiger Vogler,,, | Drama | Beate and Mareile | |
| Day of the Idiots | Psycho-fantasy drama | Entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Desperado City | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Gudrun Landgrebe, | Comedy | Dabbel Trabbel | ||
| Michael Fass | Drama | |||
| Es geht seinen Gang oder Mühen in unserer Ebene | Drama | |||
| Fantasma d'amore | Drama | Italian-French-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | Don't Be Afraid, Jacob | |||
| Fire and Sword | Fantasy | The Legend of Tristan and Isolde | ||
| Flächenbrand | Horst Frank, Manfred Krug, Curt Bois, | Drama | ||
| François Villon | , | Biography | ||
| Freak Orlando | Drama | |||
| Geld oder Leben | Crime | |||
| God's Angry Man | Documentary | |||
| Hot Bubblegum | Comedy | Lemon Popsicle III Israeli-West German co-production | ||
| Huie's Sermon | Documentary | |||
| Ich möchte fliehen | Armin Mueller-Stahl, | Drama | Ja und Nein | |
| In the Land of Cockaigne | Drama | Im Schlaraffenland | ||
| The Inventor | Comedy | Swiss-West German co-production | ||
| Jeans | Hans-Georg Panczak,, | Drama | ||
| Jetzt und alles | Drama | |||
| The Just Assassins | Drama | Die Gerechten | ||
| Komm doch mit nach Monte Carlo | Comedy | |||
| Biography | The King and His Fool The King and His Jester | |||
| Kudenow | Ulf Schweikhardt, Witta Pohl,, | Drama | ||
| Leiche auf Urlaub | Judy Winter, Jean-Marc Thibault, François-Éric Gendron,, | Thriller | Opération Primevère. West German-French co-production | |
| Lili Marleen | Drama, War | |||
| Lisa und Tshepo | , Dumisani Mabaso | Drama | ||
| Lola | Drama | 3rd part of BRD Trilogy | ||
| Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Drama | |||
| Comedy | A Lot of Coal | |||
| Drama | ||||
| The Man in Pyjamas | Hartmann Schmige, Christian Rateuke | Comedy | ||
| Marianne and Juliane | Drama | The German Sisters Die bleierne Zeit | ||
| Mephisto | Drama | Hungarian-West German-East German-Austrian co-production. Based on a story by Klaus Mann | ||
| Mit Gewissenhaftigkeit und Würde | Drama | |||
| Der Neger Erwin | Drama | Entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Nightfall | Thriller | |||
| No Mercy, No Future | Drama | Die Berührte | ||
| Edith Heerdegen,,, | Drama | |||
| Pommi Stern | Musical | |||
| Possession | Horror | French-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | A Quartet at Sheila's | |||
| Raid in Glasgow | Crime | Die for Big Betsy | ||
| Raindrops | , Michael Hoffmann | Drama | ||
| Der Richter | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Schattenlinien | Drama | |||
| Biography | Treasure of Priam | |||
| The Second Skin | Drama | |||
| Comedy | Thorn in the Flesh | |||
| Crime drama | Cold as Ice | |||
| The Subjective Factor | Angelika Rommel | Drama | ||
| Taxi zum Klo | Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup | Drama | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Der Traum vom Glück | ,, | Drama | ||
| Trokadero | Comedy | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne | Eva Mattes,, | Drama | ||
| Warnung aus dem Käfig | Der Fall Frucht | |||
| Wer den Schaden hat ... | Drama | |||
| , | Biography | West German-East German co-production | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Breloer, | Drama | |||
| Banana Joe | Comedy | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| The Beastmaster | Fantasy | American production with West German money | ||
| Brandmale | Gila von Weitershausen,, Hub Martin | Drama | ||
| Captain Berlin | Short | |||
| Comeback | Drama | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Danny's Dream | Drama | |||
| Deadly Game | Thriller | |||
| Dear Mr. Wonderful | Drama | Ruby's Dream | ||
| Depart to Arrive | Gabriele Osburg, | Drama | ||
| Eine deutsche Revolution | Franz Wittich, Gregor Hansen | Docudrama | A German Revolution. Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Doctor Faustus | Drama | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| Katharina Thalbach, Bernhard Wicki, Hanns Zischler, | Drama | |||
| Dr. Margarete Johnsohn | Drama | Frau Dr. Johnsohn | ||
| Egmont | Drama | West German-French co-production | ||
| Einer von uns | Drama, War | |||
| Drama | French-West German-Czechoslovak co-production | |||
| Eugenie Marlitt und "Die Gartenlaube" | Biography | |||
| Der Fan | Désirée Nosbusch, | Horror | The Fan | |
| Fitzcarraldo | Adventure | |||
| Fleeting Acquaintances | Drama | |||
| Flucht aus London | , | Crime | Two Men in Twenty | |
| Frau Jenny Treibel | Maria Schell, Dietlinde Turban, Hannes Messemer, Ernst Jacobi, | Drama | ||
| Fünf letzte Tage | Biography, War | Five Last Days Last Five Days | ||
| The Ghost | Drama | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Hambacher Frühling | , Gaby Dohm, | Docudrama | ||
| Heimkehr nach Deutschland | Drama | |||
| High Society Limited | Comedy | |||
| I'll Be Waiting | Crime | |||
| Im Morgenwind | Drama | |||
| Imperative | Drama | |||
| Jaipur Junction | Thriller | |||
| Kamikaze 1989 | Science Fiction | |||
| Die Klassefrau | , Detlef Kessler | Drama | ||
| Kraftprobe | Hannelore Hoger, Kirstin Genée | Drama | Test of Strength. Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival | |
| The Last Revenge | Rainer Kirberg | Erwin Leder, Der Plan | Musical, Fantasy | |
| Liebeskonzil | Drama | The Council of Love The Love Council | ||
| Armin Mueller-Stahl, | Drama | Der Westen leuchtet! | ||
| Little Zaches called Cinnabar | Fantasy | Little Zaches, Surnamed Zinnober Little Zack | ||
| The Logic of Emotion | Drama | |||
| The Magic Mountain | Drama | West German-French-Italian co-production | ||
| Les Maîtres du temps | René Laloux, Tibor Hernádi (technical director) | Independent animated science fiction | Time Masters. French-Swiss-West German-British-Hungarian co-production | |
| Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Julie Carmen, | Drama | |||
| Family | ||||
| Mira's House | Brigitte Fossey, Doris Kunstmann, Dieter Laser,, Tilo Prückner, | Drama | ||
| The Mysterious Stranger | Chris Makepeace, Bernhard Wicki, Fred Gwynne, Herbert Fux, Christoph Waltz, | Fantasy | American-West German co-production | |
| Dominik Graf, , | The City of Neon | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Parsifal | Musical | West German-French co-production. Screened at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| The Passerby | Drama | French-West German co-production[3] [4] | ||
| The Passionate | Drama, Biography | Die Leidenschaftlichen. West German-Swiss-Austrian co-production | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| Praying Mantis | Crime | British-West German co-production | ||
| Querelle | Drama | French-West German co-production | ||
| Red Love | Drama | |||
| Rendezvous in Paris | Thriller | Men Never Know. French-West German co-production | ||
| Room 666 | Documentary | French-West German co-production | ||
| Comedy | Private Popsicle. Israeli-West German co-production | |||
| Greta Scacchi, | Thriller | The Second Face | ||
| Single liebt Single | , | Comedy | ||
| Sleepless Days | Drama | |||
| The State of Things | Patrick Bauchau, Allen Garfield, | Drama | West German-American-Portuguese co-production | |
| Stella | Drama | |||
| Die Stunde des Löwen | Judy Winter, Dietmar Schönherr,, | Thriller | ||
| The Sunshine Boys | Johannes Heesters, Carl-Heinz Schroth, | Comedy | ||
| Tarabas | War | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Tscherwonez | Crime | Chervonets | ||
| Ungleicher Lohn | Drama | |||
| Veronika Voss | Drama | Second in the BRD Trilogy | ||
| The Visit | Drama | Der Besuch der alten Dame. West German-Swiss co-production. | ||
| War and Peace | Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, Stefan Aust, | |||
| Warum hast du so traurige Augen | Musical | Vorstadt-Tango Geschichten aus einem Tango-Lokal | ||
| We | Science fiction | |||
| Die Weiße Rose | Historical drama, War | The White Rose | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| Wings of Night | Science fiction | |||
| Drama | Japanese-West German co-production | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comedy | ||||
| Angst vor dem Leben | Drama | |||
| Comedy | Kassensturz | |||
| Die Beine des Elefanten | Drama | |||
| Bella Donna | Drama | Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Bolero | Drama | |||
| Comedy | West German-Portuguese co-production | |||
| Drama | Cat's Game Catsplay | |||
| Chained Heat | West German-American co-production | |||
| City of Lost Souls | Musical | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Crime drama | System Without Shadow | |||
| Danni | , | Thriller | ||
| Thriller | ||||
| Dies rigorose Leben | Drama | Nothing Left to Lose. Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Dingo | Drama | |||
| Disaster | In the Sign of the Cross | |||
| Edith's Diary | Drama | |||
| Embers | Drama | Glut. Swiss-West German co-production | ||
| Empfänger unbekannt | Drama | Addressee Unknown | ||
| Eréndira | Drama | Mexican-French-West German co-production | ||
| Für'n Groschen Brause | Bernd Benneck | Drama | ||
| The Garden | Drama | |||
| Gefährliches Spiel | , Simone Rethel, | Drama, Sport | ||
| Geheimsender 1212 | War, Docudrama | Radio 1212 | ||
| Gib Gas – Ich will Spass | Musical comedy | Hangin' Out | ||
| Die große Kapitulation | Drama | |||
| Hanna von acht bis acht | Drama | |||
| Musical | ||||
| Jutta Speidel, Robert Atzorn, Michaela May, Horst Janson,, | Comedy | |||
| Adventure, Drama, War | Escape from Blood Plantation Prison Camp Girls. West German-Filipino co-production | |||
| Joseph's Daughter | Drama | West German-Spanish co-production | ||
| Comedy | Bootleg Driver Midnight Blues Schwarzfahrer | |||
| Julie Darling | Thriller | Daughter of Death. West German-Canadian co-production | ||
| Kampftag | Drama | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | , | Drama | ||
| Kinder unseres Volkes | Drama | |||
| Leuchtturm des Chaos | Documentary | Pharos of Chaos | ||
| A Love in Germany | Drama, War | West German-French co-production | ||
| Biography | ||||
| History | The Sailors of Kronstadt | |||
| Mensch Berni | Drama | |||
| Nachruf auf Othello | Werner Hinz, Herbert Fleischmann, Barbara Rütting, Dietlinde Turban, | Crime | ||
| Drama | Oppermann Family | |||
| Pankow '95 | Gábor Altorjay | Science fiction | ||
| Peter Fonda,, Konstantin Wecker, Hans Brenner, Saskia Tyroller | Drama | Peppermint Freedom | ||
| Drama | The Power of Emotion Die Macht der Gefühle | |||
| Drama | Girls Riot | |||
| Red Lights | Thriller | The Hitchhiker Feux Rouges Reifenwechsel | ||
| The Road into the Open | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| The Roaring Fifties | Comedy | |||
| Die Roppenheimer Sau | Gérard Buhr, | War, Comedy | ||
| Ruhe sanft, Bruno | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Constanze Engelbrecht, | Comedy | ||
| The Sandman | Christoph Waltz, Rudolf Schündler,, | Mystery | ||
| Sheer Madness | Drama | West German-French co-production. Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Solo Run | Drama | Satan ist auf Gottes Seite | ||
| Spider Murphy Gang | Musical | |||
| Spring Symphony | Biography | |||
| Straight Through the Heart | Drama | |||
| Drama | Eisenhans | |||
| Sunshine Reggae in Ibiza | Comedy | |||
| Die Supernasen | Comedy | |||
| The Swing | Drama | |||
| Tage im Hotel | Drama | Cold Skin | ||
| Crime, Historical drama | Hungarian-West German-American co-production | |||
| Traumlage | Karin Baal,, | Drama | ||
| Utopia | Drama | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Variation | Hilmar Thate, | Drama | ||
| Drama | Let It Rock | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Why Am I So Happy? | War, Drama | Mich wundert, daß ich so fröhlich bin. Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Wie es geschah | Drama | |||
| A Winter in Majorca | Biography | |||
| A Woman in Flames | Drama | Die flambierte Frau | ||
| Zausel | Drama | |||
| Zuckerhut | Comedy | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abenteuer aus dem Englischen Garten | Werner Stocker, | Drama | ||
| Abwärts | Thriller | Out of Order | ||
| War | Ruth. Polish-West German co-production | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Auf einem langen Weg | Nils Viktor Sorge, Mark Heine | War | ||
| Der Ausflug | Drama | |||
| Das Autogramm | Drama | The Autograph. Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Udo Seidler, Volkmar Richter, Reinhard Seeger | Crime | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Ballad of the Little Soldier | Documentary | |||
| Beautiful Wilhelmine | Biography | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Chinese Boxes | Will Patton, Robbie Coltrane, Adelheid Arndt, Gottfried John, | Thriller | British-West German co-production | |
| Action | Italian-West German co-production | |||
| Cold Fever | Crime | |||
| Decoder | Drama | |||
| Deutschland-Tournee | , | Comedy | ||
| The Devil's Lieutenant | Drama | British-West German-Italian-French co-production | ||
| Don Carlos | Drama | |||
| Dorado – One Way | Uwe Schwalbe, Adriana Altaras,, | Comedy | ||
| Drama | The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press | |||
| Die ewigen Gefühle | Drama | |||
| Drama | Wenn ich mich fürchte | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Forbidden | Drama, War | West German-British co-production | ||
| The Future of Emily | Drama | Flügel und Fesseln. West German-French co-production | ||
| Gefühlssachen | Drama | |||
| Gnadenlos | Drama | |||
| Heimat | Drama | TV series | ||
| Horror Vacui | Drama | |||
| House Guest | Thriller | Der Besuch | ||
| , | Crime comedy | Jagger & Spaghetti | ||
| Julius geht nach Amerika | Hanno Pöschl, Gabi Marr, | Drama | ||
| Jungle Warriors | ||||
| Kerbel's Escape | Drama | |||
| A Kind of Anger | Thriller | |||
| Klassenverhältnisse | Straub-Huillet | Drama | Class Relations. West German-French co-production | |
| Comedy | Tapetenwechsel | |||
| Kolossale Liebe | Biography | |||
| Crime | ||||
| Ein Kriegsende | War | |||
| Lenin in Zürich | Biography | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Love Is the Beginning of All Terror | Helke Sander, Lou Castel, | Comedy | ||
| The Lufthansa Heist | , Christian Brückner,, | Crime | The Million Dollar Hijack | |
| Romantic comedy | ||||
| Biography | ||||
| Man Under Suspicion | Drama | Morgen in Alabama. Won the Silver Bear at Berlin | ||
| Ein Mann namens Parvus | Günter Lamprecht, Constanze Engelbrecht, Wolfgang Preiss, Iris Berben, | Biography | ||
| Marlene | Documentary | |||
| Mascha | Drama | |||
| Meeting Place at Infinity | Heinrich Breloer, | Biography | Meeting Point in Infinity Rendezvous in Infinity | |
| Moving Targets | Crime | |||
| Nebenwirkungen | Drama | |||
| The NeverEnding Story | Fantasy | West German-American co-production | ||
| Romance | West German-South African co-production | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Adventure | Hijacked to Hell | |||
| The Noah's Ark Principle | Richy Müller, | Science fiction | Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Comedy | Didi – Der Doppelgänger | |||
| The Other Side of the Moon | Crime | |||
| Overheard | Comedy | |||
| Paris, Texas | Drama | West German-French co-production. Won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Peaceful Days | Science fiction | |||
| Die Platzanweiserin | ,, | Drama | ||
| Pogo 1104 | Richy Müller, Ralf Richter, Anja Schüte, | Comedy | ||
| Rallye Paris – Dakar | Peter Welz | Adventure | Paris–Dakar Rally | |
| Rambo Zambo | Crime comedy | |||
| Science fiction | ||||
| Thriller | ||||
| Das schöne irre Judenmädchen | Drama | |||
| Silent Poison | Peter Sattmann,, Günter Lamprecht, | Drama | Slow Poison | |
| Sleep of Reason | Drama | |||
| Der Snob | Comedy | |||
| Der Sohn des Bullen | Crime | |||
| Christoph Böll | Comedy | |||
| Super | Science Fiction | |||
| The Story of the Dolls | Drama, Romance | Taifun der Zärtlichkeit. West German-Filipino co-production | ||
| Swann in Love | Drama | French-West German co-production | ||
| Crime | 1000 Eyes | |||
| Titanic – Nachspiel einer Katastrophe | Hans Korte, Volkert Kraeft, Arthur Brauss, | Docudrama | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Dietmar Bär, Barbara Rudnik, Beate Finckh, Tayfun Bademsoy,, | Drama | |||
| Unerreichbare Nähe | Drama | |||
| Unser Mann vom Südpol | Comedy | |||
| The Wannsee Conference | Docudrama, War | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Where the Green Ants Dream | Drama | West German-Australian co-production. Entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Mystery | Austrian-West German co-production | |||
| The Willow Tree | Josef A. Stehlík | Drama | West German-Czechoslovak co-production | |
| Drama | West German-Luxembourgian co-production | |||
| Comedy | First the Work – And Then? | |||
| Wundkanal | Alfred Filbert | Drama | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 250.000 Mücken im Pappkarton | Crime comedy | |||
| Die Abschiebung | Drama | The Deportation | ||
| Abschied in Berlin | Bernhard Veith, Käte Jaenicke, Gabriel Skármeta, | Comedy | West German-Portuguese co-production | |
| Ain't Nothin' Without You | Comedy | Noisy Martha | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Thriller | ||||
| Andre Handles Them All | Comedy | |||
| Angry Harvest | Drama, War | |||
| The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jutta Hoffmann, Rosel Zech, | Drama | ||
| Backfischliebe | Comedy | |||
| Bartolomé oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter | Gottfried John, Elpidia Carrillo, Carmen Bunster, | Biography | West German-Mexican-Costa Rican co-production | |
| Beethoven's Nephew | Drama | French-West German co-production | ||
| Beinah Trinidad | Iris Berben, Elmar Wepper, | Crime comedy | ||
| The Berlin Affair | Drama | West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Black and Without Sugar | Edda Heiðrún Backman, | Drama | ||
| Close-Up | Thriller | Hautnah | ||
| Colonel Redl | Drama | West German-Hungarian co-production | ||
| Commando Leopard | Action | Italian-West German co-production | ||
| Concert for Alice | , | Musical | Swiss-West German- Austrian co-production | |
| Jürgen Prochnow, | Action, Drama | |||
| A Crime of Honour | Drama | A Song for Europe Streng vertraulich. British-West German-Austrian-Swiss co-production | ||
| Crooks in Paradise | Crime comedy | |||
| , | Walter Nuber, Heribert Weber, Norbert Hauber, Anni Rapps | Comedy | ||
| The Dark Glow of the Mountains | Documentary | |||
| Day Thieves | Dina Leipzig,, Lutz Deisinger | Drama | Tagediebe | |
| Deadly Twins | Joe Oaks | Thriller | Deadly Trigger | |
| The Death of the White Stallion | Drama | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Dormire | Sunnyi Melles, | Drama | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| The Father of a Murderer | Drama | |||
| Music | Der Formel Eins Film | |||
| Feuerwanzen küss ich nicht | Comedy | |||
| Forget Mozart | Biography | |||
| German Dreams | Ilona Lewanowski, Angela Leiberg | Drama | ||
| Das Gespinst | Science fiction | |||
| Comedy | A Berlin Love Story | |||
| Drama | West German-East German co-production | |||
| Hans: A Young Man in Germany | Martin Pasko | Drama | Hans: A Boy in Germany | |
| Hart an der Grenze | Thriller | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Die Hose | Hilmar Thate, Angelica Domröse, Sabine Sinjen, | Comedy | ||
| Der Hund im Computer | Comedy | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Joey | Joshua Morrell, Tammy Shields, | Horror | Making Contact. West German-American co-production | |
| Kaminsky | Drama | |||
| Käthe Kollwitz | Biography, Docudrama | |||
| Der Krieg meines Vaters | Hans-Joachim Grau | War | ||
| Die Liebesforscherin | Drama | |||
| Lindhoops Frau | Drama | |||
| Mamas Geburtstag | Drama | |||
| Ein Mann ist soeben erschossen worden | Thriller | |||
| Angelika Weber | Biography | |||
| Men... | Heiner Lauterbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht, | Comedy | ||
| Mit Axel auf Achse | Comedy | |||
| Mord im Spiel | Crime | |||
| Morenga | Drama | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Die Nacht | Drama | The Night | ||
| The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl | Comedy | Die Geschichte vom guten alten Herrn und dem schönen Mädchen | ||
| Dieter Hallervorden, Christian Rateuke | Comedy | Didi und die Rache der Enterbten | ||
| Drama, War | West German-French co-production | |||
| Götz George, Renan Demirkan,, Rufus, | Action, Drama | A Tooth for a Tooth. Film with TV hero Schimanski (Tatort) | ||
| Otto – Der Film | Comedy | Otto: The Movie | ||
| The Play at the Castle | Comedy | |||
| Red Heat | Robert Collector | West German-American co-production | ||
| Retouche | Drama | |||
| Die Ärzte | Coming of Age, Music | |||
| Die Sache ist gelaufen | Uwe Ochsenknecht, | Comedy | ||
| Der Schiedsrichter | Drama | |||
| Schwarzer Lohn und weiße Weste | Crime | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Sie rüsten zur Reise ins Dritte Reich | Docudrama | Kurt Tucholsky und der Prozeß Harden | ||
| Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Polly Eltes, | Action thriller | |||
| Die Spur der anderen | Drama | |||
| Der Stadtbrand | Drama | |||
| Sterne fallen nicht vom Himmel | Comedy | |||
| Sugarbaby | Marianne Sägebrecht, | Comedy | ||
| Tango im Bauch | Drama | |||
| Tokyo-Ga | Documentary | |||
| Stegers letzte Chance. French-West German co-production | ||||
| Verworrene Bilanzen | Gottfried John,, Michael Hampe, | Crime | ||
| Walkman Blues | Drama | |||
| Westler | Rainer Strecker, Sigurd Rachman | Drama | ||
| Wodzeck | Detlev Kügow | Drama | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | |
| Drama | ||||
| Die Wupper | Drama | |||
| Zwischen den Zeiten | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland | Drama | Forty Square Meters of Germany 40 m2 Deutschland | ||
| Abschiede | Karlheinz Hackl, | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | |
| Am Morgen meines Todes | Biography | |||
| Die Andere | Heiner Lauterbach, | Thriller | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Auf den Tag genau | Thriller | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Blinding Moment: Anton Webern's Death | War | Geblendeter Augenblick – Anton Weberns Tod | ||
| Biography, Docudrama | ||||
| Die Brücke am schwarzen Fluß | Drama | |||
| Comedy | Didi auf vollen Touren | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Du mich auch | Comedy | Same to You | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Fatal Love | Thriller | Possession | ||
| Fatherland | Drama | Singing the Blues in Red. British-West German-French co-production | ||
| Fire and Ice | Suzy Chaffee, | Sport, Romantic comedy | ||
| Martin May, | Drama | |||
| Flight North | Drama | Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Flucht nach vorn | , | Drama | Flucht nach vorne | |
| Franza | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | ||
| Die Frau des Reporters | Marthe Keller,, | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production | |
| Fraulein | Drama | |||
| Die Fräulein von damals | Drama | |||
| Das Go! Projekt | Science fiction | |||
| Herschel und die Musik der Sterne | Josef Meinrad,, | Drama | Herschel and the Music of the Stars | |
| Jimmy Allegretto | Musical | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| The Journey | Drama | West German-Swiss co-production | ||
| Kennwort Möwe | Hans Christian Blech, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau,, | Thriller | ||
| Action thriller | ||||
| Laputa | Drama | Screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Die letzte Rolle | Drama | |||
| Das Mädchen und die Tauben | Ilse Matheis, | Fantasy | ||
| Mademoiselle Fifi | Drama, War | |||
| , | Comedy | |||
| Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars | Music, Comedy | |||
| Momo | Fantasy | West German-Italian co-production | ||
| Murder with Love | Crime | Kein Alibi für eine Leiche | ||
| Mystery | West German-Italian-French co-production[5] [6] [7] | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Drama | Auf immer und ewig | |||
| Nuclear Conspiracy | Birgit Doll, | Thriller | ||
| One Glance and Love Breaks Out | Rosario Bléfari, | |||
| Thriller | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Drama | ||||
| Der Polenweiher | Crime, War | |||
| Der Prinz | Robert Düssler, Marcus Sauk | Drama | ||
| Rosa Luxemburg | Biography | Sukowa won Best Actress at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| ,, | Drama | French-West German-Portuguese-Dutch co-production | ||
| Rückfahrt in den Tod | Thriller | Terminus | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Seine letzte Chance | Crime | |||
| Stammheim | Ulrich Tukur,, | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Storm, der Schimmelreiter | Erland Josephson, | Biography | Theodor Storm | |
| Klaus Schwarzkopf, | Drama | |||
| Süchtig | Drama | |||
| Crime | ||||
| Tarot | Drama | Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| Ticket to Rome | Leslie Malton, Hanno Pöschl, | Drama | ||
| Time Of Silence | Irina Hoppe, Pavel Sacher | Drama | ||
| Drama | West German-Italian co-production | |||
| Das Totenreich | Drama | |||
| The Two Faces of January | ,, | Thriller | ||
| Transitträume | Comedy | Dream On | ||
| Der Unfried | Drama | |||
| Va banque | Crime | |||
| A Virus Knows No Morals | Comedy | |||
| Wahnfried | Biography | Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| , Lino Capolicchio, Remo Remotti, | Drama | West German-Italian-Austrian-Swiss co-production | ||
| Der wilde Clown | Drama | |||
| Wilhelm Busch | Biography | Wer einsam ist, der hat es gut, weil keiner da, der ihm was tut | ||
| Zerbrochene Brücken | Monika Woytowicz, Christian Wolff,, Rolf Becker, Maria Sebaldt, Alice Treff, Dietrich Mattausch,, Eleonore Weisgerber,, | Biography | Lily Braun – Memoiren einer Sozialistin | |
| Zischke | David Strempel | Drama | ||
| Ulrich Krenkler | Crime | |||
| Zweikampf | , | Crime | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Aggression | Pascale Petit, | Drama | ||
| Das andere Leben | Drama | |||
| Ina Blum | Biography | |||
| Aquaplaning | Drama | |||
| Bagdad Café | Comedy | Out of Rosenheim | ||
| Spy comedy | ||||
| Cargo | Drama | |||
| Changeling | Friederike Brüheim, Katharina Bacarelli, | Drama | Wechselbalg | |
| Die Chinesen kommen | Comedy | |||
| Cobra Verde | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| The Cry of the Owl | Thriller | |||
| Days to Remember | Barbara Sukowa, | Drama | Die Verliebten. Entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| The Death of Empedocles | Andreas von Rauch | Drama | ||
| Death Stone | Action, Drama | |||
| Deshima | Drama | Swiss-Japanese-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | Victory | |||
| The Distant Land | Drama | West German-French-Austrian co-production | ||
| Dolly, Lotte and Maria | Documentary | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Empty World | Tilman Schaich | Science fiction | ||
| Die Erbschaft | Inge Meysel, Günter Lamprecht, Hans Peter Korff,,, | Comedy | ||
| Flohr und die Traumfrau | Comedy | |||
| Francesca | Mockumentary | |||
| Friedenspolka | Drama | |||
| Thriller | ||||
| Gegen die Regel | Günter Lamprecht, | Drama | ||
| Thriller | Dies Bildnis ist zum Morden schön | |||
| , Stefan Wood, Enrico Boetcher, Arnold Frühwald | Comedy | Cripples Go Christmas | ||
| The Glass Sky | , | Drama | ||
| Helsinki Napoli All Night Long | Comedy thriller | Finnish-West German-Swiss co-production | ||
| Hollywood-Monster | Comedy | Ghost Chase. West German-American co-production | ||
| The Hothouse | Drama | Das Treibhaus | ||
| Claudio Caceres Molina, Mustafa Saygili | Drama | |||
| Komplizinnen | Drama | |||
| Action | ||||
| Lethal Obsession | Action, Drama | Der Joker | ||
| Hark Bohm, | Drama | |||
| Lockwood Desert, Nevada | Crime | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Thriller | Operation Madonna | |||
| Music | ||||
| Maschenka | Drama | British-West German-French-Finnish co-production | ||
| Nebel im Fjord | Drama, War | Nebel im Fjord der Lachse | ||
| Nichts ist, wie es ist | , Christiane-Bettina Pfannkuch, | Drama | ||
| Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel | Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hark Bohm, | Comedy | ||
| Comedy | Most popular film of the year with 6.4 million admissions[8] | |||
| Rudolf Steiner, | Armin Mueller-Stahl, | Adventure | Amazonas Mission | |
| War, Docudrama | ||||
| Eine Reise nach Deutschland | Drama | |||
| Sansibar oder der letzte Grund | Drama | Flight to Afar. East German-West German co-production | ||
| Schlange, Herz und Pantherkopf | Drama | |||
| Sentimental Journey | Drama | |||
| Drama | ||||
| Storms in May | Gabriel Barylli, | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | |
| Sturmflut | Disaster, Docudrama | |||
| Taxi nach Kairo | Comedy | Taxi to Cairo | ||
| Comedy | Lovable Zanies | |||
| Der Unsichtbare | Comedy | The Invisible Man | ||
| Das Wahlergebnis | ||||
| Wann, wenn nicht jetzt | Comedy | |||
| Wer ist dran? | Drama | |||
| Der Werwolf von W. | Mystery | |||
| Wings of Desire | Drama | Der Himmel über Berlin. Won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| The Winner Takes All | Drama | Pattberg's Legacy | ||
| Wir sind Utopia | Drama | |||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Désirée Nosbusch, | Comedy | |||
| Adrian und die Römer | Comedy | |||
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Fantasy adventure | British-American-West German co-production | ||
| Musical | Sequel of the TV miniseries Anna | |||
| Autumn Milk | Drama | |||
| Ballhaus Barmbek: Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye | Nico, Ulrich Tukur,,, | Musical | ||
| Bei Thea | Drama | |||
| Beule | Comedy | |||
| The Black Obelisk | Drama | Der schwarze Obelisk | ||
| Thriller, Disaster | ||||
| The Boss from the West | Barbara Auer, Alexander Radszun, | Comedy | ||
| Ian Dury, | Comedy | |||
| Burning Secret | Drama | West German-British co-production | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| The Cat | Crime thriller | |||
| Chimeras | Science fiction | |||
| Action | Italian-West German co-production | |||
| Crash | Drama | |||
| The Curse | Dominic Raacke, | Horror | ||
| Cycling the Frame | Short | |||
| A Father's Revenge | Thriller | American-West German co-production | ||
| Drama | ||||
| Margarethe von Trotta, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Helke Sander, | Comedy | |||
| Comedy | ||||
| The French as Seen by... | Short film | |||
| Docudrama, War | ||||
| Hanussen | Drama | West German-Hungarian co-production | ||
| Hell Hunters | Rage to Kill. West German-American co-production | |||
| Incident at Twilight | Crime | One Autumn Evening | ||
| Judgment in Berlin | Drama | American-West German co-production | ||
| The Kiss of the Tiger | Thriller | West German-French co-production | ||
| Der Knick – Die Geschichte einer Wunderheilung | Comedy | |||
| War | ||||
| Land der Väter, Land der Söhne | Drama, War | |||
| , Rainer Strecker,, | Musical | |||
| Der Lockspitzel | Crime | |||
| Love and Fear | Drama | Three Sisters. French-Italian-West German co-production. Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| Manöver | , Adriana Altaras, | Comedy | ||
| Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | |||
| Martha Jellneck | Drama | |||
| Me and Him | Comedy | West German-American co-production | ||
| Michas Flucht | Drama | |||
| Midnight Cop | Thriller | Killing Blue | ||
| Mother's Mask | Drama | |||
| Die Nacht des Marders | ,, | Drama | ||
| Nekromantik | Daktari Lorenz, | Horror | ||
| Ödipussi | Comedy | |||
| Drama | Ein ungleiches Paar | |||
| The Passenger – Welcome to Germany | Drama | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Pizza Express | Crime comedy | |||
| Plaza Real | Drama | |||
| The Post Office Girl | Drama | French-West German co-production | ||
| Red Roses for a Call Girl | Maria Isabel Lopez, Robert Marius, Werner Pochath,, | Drama | Rose Tattoo Manila Tattoo. Philippine-West German co-production | |
| Rosinenbomber | Drama | |||
| War, Comedy | ||||
| Schmetterlinge | Drama | Butterflies | ||
| Schön war die Zeit | , | Drama | ||
| Singles | , | Comedy | ||
| Sleepless Nights | Drama | |||
| Starke Zeiten | Strong Times | |||
| Stowaways on the Ark | Animated | |||
| Family, Adventure | ||||
| Comedy | ||||
| Thriller | Tagebuch für einen Mörder | |||
| Das Traumauto | ,, Klaus Herm,, Elisabeth Volkmann, | Comedy | ||
| Ein Unding der Liebe | Drama | An Absurdity of Love | ||
| Sonja Kirchberger, Hanns Zischler, Myriem Roussel, | Comedy | |||
| Vergessen Sie's | Thriller | |||
| Das Viereck | Iris Berben,, Michael Roll, | Comedy | ||
| Virgin Machine | Ina Blum | Drama | ||
| Comedy | ||||
| Drama | Polish-British-West German-French co-production | |||
| Why Is There Salt in the Sea? | Nicolin Kunz, | Drama | ||
| The Winter Beach | Science fiction | Dem Tod auf der Spur | ||
| Das Winterhaus | Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Vogler, Werner Kreindl, | Drama | ||
| Wohin? | Drama | |||
| Yasemin | Drama | |||
| Year of the Turtle | Heinz Bennent, | Drama | ||
| Der Zauberbaum | Paulus Manker, Traugott Buhre, | Drama | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Years of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour in the Führerbunker | Drama, War | ||||
| Thriller | |||||
| Thriller | Killing Drugs | ||||
| Black Sin | Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Howard Vernon | Short | Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Drama | West German-Argentine co-production | ||||
| Eine Bonner Affäre | Drama | ||||
| Jürgen Vogel,, Lambert Hamel, | Crime | ||||
| Crime | |||||
| Armin Mueller-Stahl, Rolf Zacher, | Comedy | Schweinegeld | |||
| Come into My Parlor | Crime | Ich melde einen Selbstmord | |||
| Coming Out | 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 | Drama | The Dancer Maihime. Japanese-West German co-production | |||
| Farewell to False Paradise | Drama | ||||
| Follow Me | Drama | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival | |||
| Fool's Mate | Drama | Zugzwang. Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Francesco | Biography | Italian-West German co-production | |||
| Frei zum Abschuss | Thriller | ||||
| Ein gemachter Mann | Drama | ||||
| Das geregelte Leben der Gertie H. | Drama | ||||
| The Grass Is Greener Everywhere Else | Mirosław Baka, | Drama | |||
| Gummibärchen küßt man nicht | Comedy | Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears | |||
| Hard Days, Hard Nights | Comedy | ||||
| Herdsmen of the Sun | Documentary | ||||
| Die Hexe von Köln | Historical drama | ||||
| Himmelsheim | Comedy | ||||
| Joan of Arc of Mongolia | Drama | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Comedy | |||||
| Laser Mission | BJ Davis | Action | American-West German co-production | ||
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | Drama | West German-British co-production | |||
| Laurin | Dóra Szinetár | Mystery | West German-Hungarian co-production | ||
| Der Leibwächter | Thriller | ||||
| Lockvögel | Comedy | ||||
| Maria von den Sternen | Katja Junge, Robert Duessler,, | Drama | |||
| Der Mitwisser | Crime drama | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Noch ein Wunsch | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production | |||
| Otto Waalkes, | Otto Waalkes, Hans Peter Hallwachs, | Comedy | |||
| Comedy | |||||
| The Play with Billions | Drama | Das Milliardenspiel | |||
| Disaster | |||||
| Reunion | Drama | British-French-West German co-production | |||
| RobbyKallePaul | Dani Levy, Frank Beilicke, Josef Hofmann, Maria Schrader, | Comedy | West German-Swiss co-production | ||
| Rosalie Goes Shopping | Comedy | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| The Rose Garden | Drama | American-West German-Austrian co-production | |||
| Schulz & Schulz | Comedy | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Drama, War | Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland | ||||
| Comedy | |||||
| Silence Like Glass | Drama | Two Women. West German-American co-production | |||
| Ein Sohn aus gutem Hause | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production | |||
| The Sparrow Murderer | Paul Cabanis, Hans Clarin, Robert Atzorn,, | Thriller | |||
| Spider's Web | Drama | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| The State Chancellery | Docudrama | Die Staatskanzlei | |||
| Science fiction | Zucker – Eine wirklich süße Katastrophe | ||||
| Pamela Prati, Peter Simonischek, | Horror | Succubus | |||
| Tiger, Lion, Panther | Comedy | ||||
| Umwege nach Venedig | Comedy | ||||
| Ungewiss ist die Zukunft der Leibwächter | , | Crime | |||
| Comedy | |||||
| Verfolgte Wege | Drama | ||||
| The Voice | Thriller | ||||
| The Voice of the Turtle | Comedy | Das Lied der Taube | |||
| Waller's Last Trip | Drama | ||||
| Drama | |||||
| Die weißen Zwerge | Drama | ||||
| Wie du mir ... | Crime comedy | ||||
| Antje Schmidt, Dominic Raacke, Volkert Kraeft,, | Comedy | ||||
| Zwiebelmuster, oder Wenn einer keine Reise tut | Günter Mack, | Drama |