List of German films of the 1970s
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 Category:West German films. For East German films made during the decade see List of East German films.
1970
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Uhr 20 | Wolfgang Becker | Joachim Fuchsberger, Christiane Krüger, Gila von Weitershausen, Nadja Tiller, Götz George, Anthony Steel | Thriller | |
| Abel, wo ist dein Bruder? | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Herbert Fleischmann, Max Eckard | Drama | |
| Abiturienten | Lutz Büscher | Rolf Becker, Tommi Piper, Wolfram Weniger, Christiane Hammacher, Dirk Dautzenberg, Gaby Dohm | Drama | |
| Abseits | Lutz Büscher | Ernst Jacobi, Karin Anselm, Dirk Dautzenberg | Drama | |
| Ach, so eine nette Person | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Elisabeth Schwarz, Sabine Eggerth, Brigitte Skay, Hellmut Lange, Gunnar Möller, Bruni Löbel | Drama | a.k.a. Girl with a Difference |
| All Backs Were Turned | Thomas Fantl | Heinz Bennent, Sonja Ziemann, Udo Vioff, Paul Smith | Drama | |
| Am Ziel aller Träume | Dietrich Haugk | Walter Giller, Joachim Teege, Gertraud Jesserer, Louise Martini | Comedy | |
| The American Soldier | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Karl Scheydt, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Elga Sorbas, Katrin Schaake, Margarethe von Trotta, Jan George, Ulli Lommel, Ingrid Caven | Crime 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 | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Documentary | ||
| Angels with Burnt Wings | Zbyněk Brynych | Susanne Uhlen, Jan Koester, Nadja Tiller, Werner Kreindl, Siegfried Rauch | Crime drama | a.k.a. Angels Who Burn Their Wings |
| The Arbor | Wolfgang Staudte | Walter Taub, Vadim Glowna, Ingrid van Bergen, Lieselotte Plauensteiner | Drama | a.k.a. Die Gartenlaube |
| Assignment: Terror | Hugo Fregonese, Tulio Demicheli | Karin Dor, Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill | Horror | a.k.a. Dracula vs. Frankenstein. Spanish-Italian-West German co-production |
| Auftrag: Mord! | Dieter Lemmel | Reinhard Kolldehoff, Walter Wilz, Hannelore Schroth, Friedrich G. Beckhaus | Crime | |
| August, August, August | Jiří Bělka | Peter Striebeck, Ulli Philipp, Gert Westphal, Hans Helmut Dickow, Walter Richter | Drama | |
| August der Starke | Korbinian Köberle | Martin Hirthe, Beate Hasenau, Christine Wodetzky, Eva Pflug, Alexander May, Horst Tappert | Biography, Comedy, History | a.k.a. August der Starke – Ein ganzes Volk nennt ihn Papa |
| Baal | Volker Schlöndorff | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | |
| Bakke's Night of Fame | Gedeon Kovács | Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun | Drama | a.k.a. Ende der Vorstellung 24 Uhr a.k.a. A Danish Gambit |
| Bambule | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Dagmar Biener, Antje Hagen, Barbara Schöne | Drama | |
| Before Sunset | Oswald Döpke | Werner Hinz, Cordula Trantow, Herbert Fleischmann, Günter Strack | Drama | a.k.a. Before Sundown |
| Die Beichte | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Bruno Dallansky | Drama | a.k.a. The Confession |
| Besuch gegen zehn | Ludwig Cremer | Peter Pasetti, Hans Korte | Thriller | a.k.a. Besuch gegen 10 |
| Bend Sinister | Herbert Vesely | Helmut Käutner, Heinrich Schweiger, Christine Kaufmann, Henry van Lyck, Herbert Fleischmann | Science fiction | |
| Berlin Affair | David Lowell Rich | Darren McGavin, Fritz Weaver, Brian Kelly, Pascale Petit, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| A Big Grey-Blue Bird | Thomas Schamoni | Klaus Lemke, Umberto Orsini, Lukas Ammann, Sylvie Winter | Mystery, Science fiction | West German-Italian co-production |
| Biography: A Game | Rolf Hädrich | Paul Hubschmid, Ingmar Zeisberg | Drama | |
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | Tony Musante, Eva Renzi, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Werner Peters, Mario Adorf | Mystery thriller | Italian-West German co-production[4][5] |
| Blaues Wild | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Walter Kohut, Bruno Dallansky, Alfred Böhm, Alexander Trojan, Guido Wieland, Bruno Hübner, Bibiana Zeller | Drama | |
| Die blinden Ameisen | Oswald Döpke | Radovan Lukavský, Edith Heerdegen, Günter Strack, Herbert Fleischmann, Volkert Kraeft, Hannelore Elsner | Drama | a.k.a. Las ciegas hormigas a.k.a. The Blind Ants |
| The Bloody Judge | Jesús Franco | Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Margaret Lee, Hans Hass Jr., Peter Martell | Horror | Spanish-Italian-West German co-production |
| Der Bomberpilot | Werner Schroeter | Mascha Rabben, Magdalena Montezuma, Carla Egerer | War, Experimental | |
| Ein Bräutigam für Marcella | Tom Toelle | Günter Mack, Gert Westphal | Black comedy | |
| The Brutes | Roger Fritz | Helga Anders, Klaus Löwitsch, Arthur Brauss | Thriller | |
| Butterflies Don't Cry | Klaus Überall | Gaby Fuchs, Siegfried Wischnewski, Klaus Grünberg, Fritz Wepper | Drama | West German-Italian co-production |
| Cancer Ward | Heinz Schirk | Martin Benrath, Siegfried Lowitz, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | a.k.a. Krebsstation |
| The Cannibals | Reinhard Mieke | Wolfgang Kieling, Peter Vogel, Friedrich Joloff, Rudolf Wessely | War, Drama | |
| Chariots of the Gods | Harald Reinl | Documentary | [6][7] | |
| Children of Mata Hari | Jean Delannoy | Stéphane Audran, Klaus Kinski, Lilli Palmer, Michel Constantin | Spy thriller | a.k.a. The Deathmakers. French-West German-Italian co-production[8] |
| Christmas Not Just Once a Year | Vojtěch Jasný | Edith Heerdegen, René Deltgen, Gerd Baltus, Peter Ehrlich, Rolf Becker | Comedy | |
| Claus Graf Stauffenberg | Rudolf Nussgruber | Horst Naumann | War | |
| Clavigo | Marcel Ophuls, Fritz Kortner | Thomas Holtzmann, Rolf Boysen, Krista Keller, Friedhelm Ptok | Drama | |
| The Coffee Shop | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Kurt Raab, Peer Raben, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven | Comedy | a.k.a. The Coffee House |
| Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something! | Rolf Thiele | Tanja Gruber, Andrea Rau, Veit Relin, Tilo von Berlepsch | Sex comedy | Austrian-West German co-production[9] |
| Compañeros | Sergio Corbucci | Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben, Karin Schubert | Western | Italian-Spanish-West German co-production[10][11] |
| The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda | 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] |
| The Dance of Death | Hans-Reinhard Müller | Will Quadflieg, Elfriede Kuzmany | Drama | a.k.a. Totentanz |
| Dark Spring | Ingemo Engström | Edda Köchl | Drama | |
| Deadlock | Roland Klick | Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm, Mascha Rabben | Crime | |
| Dear Friends | Karl Peter Biltz | Claus Biederstaedt, Ingeborg Schöner, Klaus Höhne, Wera Frydtberg, Xenia Pörtner, Ingrid Resch | Drama | a.k.a. Die lieben Freunde |
| Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski | Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler | Drama | West German-British-American co-production[15] |
| The Delegation | Rainer Erler | Walter Kohut | Science fiction | |
| Don't Fumble, Darling | May Spils | Werner Enke, Gila von Weitershausen, Henry van Lyck, Otto Sander, Benno Hoffmann | Comedy | |
| Dorian Gray | Massimo Dallamano | Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom | Drama | Italian-West German co-production[16] |
| Drei Tage bis Allerseelen | Herbert Ballmann | Siegfried Lowitz | Drama | a.k.a. 3 Tage bis Allerseelen |
| Drücker | Franz-Josef Spieker | Frithjof Vierock, Margarethe von Trotta, Renate Roland, Rosemarie Fendel, Traugott Buhre | Drama | |
| Emigration | Wilhelm Semmelroth | Hans Jaray | Drama | |
| Emilia Galotti | Ludwig Cremer | Sabine Sinjen, Johanna von Koczian, Horst Frank | Drama | |
| Erschwerte Möglichkeit der Konzentration | Michael Bünte | Martin Benrath, Louise Martini, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Luitgard Im | Comedy, Science fiction | a.k.a. The Increased Difficulty of Concentration |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig | Drama | [17] |
| Der Fall Sorge | Hermann Kugelstadt | Arno Assmann, Franz Rudnick, Heinz Engelmann | Docudrama, Spy, War | |
| The Females | Zbyněk Brynych | Uschi Glas, Irina Demick, Françoise Fabian, Pascale Petit, George Ardisson, Alain Noury | Drama, Thriller | West German-French-Italian co-production |
| Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin | Falk Harnack | Wolfgang Büttner, Gerd Baltus | Biography | a.k.a. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin – Stunde der Entscheidung |
| Die Feuerzangenbowle | Helmut Käutner | Walter Giller, Uschi Glas, Theo Lingen | Comedy | [18] |
| First Love | Maximilian Schell | Dominique Sanda, John Moulder-Brown, Maximilian Schell, Valentina Cortese | Drama | Swiss-West German-Hungarian co-production |
| Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen! | Gerhard Klingenberg | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Siegfried Wischnewski | Biography, History | |
| Friedrich III | Rudolf Nussgruber | Heinz Weiss, Annemarie Düringer, Folker Bohnet, Ruth Maria Kubitschek | Biography, History | a.k.a. Friedrich III – Gestorben als Kaiser |
| Fröhliche Weihnachten | Wolf Dietrich | Sonja Ziemann, Karl Michael Vogler | Comedy | |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi | Drama, War | Italian-West German co-production[19] |
| Gedenktag | Dieter Wedel | Franz Rudnick, Claus Eberth, Gernot Endemann, Uwe Dallmeier, Evelyn Meyka, Franz Josef Steffens, Gottfried Kramer | Docudrama | |
| Gefährliche Neugier | Hans Dieter Schwarze | Claus Biederstaedt, Angela Winkler, Günter Strack | Crime | |
| General Oster | Rudolf Nussgruber | Wolfgang Preiss, Dieter Borsche | War | a.k.a. General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot? |
| Gentlemen in White Vests | Wolfgang Staudte | Martin Held, Heinz Erhardt, Mario Adorf, Hannelore Elsner, Walter Giller, Rudolf Platte, Herbert Fux | Crime comedy | |
| The Girls from Atlantis | Eckhart Schmidt | Isi ter Jung | Comedy, Science fiction | a.k.a. Atlantis – Ein Sommermärchen a.k.a. Männer sind zum Lieben da |
| Gneisenau | Werner Schlechte | Ullrich Haupt, Thomas Holtzmann, Hans Paetsch, Rudolf Fernau | History | a.k.a. Gneisenau – Die politische Auflehnung eines Soldaten |
| Gods of the Plague | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann, Carla Egerer | Drama | |
| Grandstand for General Staff | Georg Wildhagen | Heinz Reincke, Attila Hörbiger, Karl Schönböck | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Feldherrnhügel |
| Eine große Familie | Peter Beauvais | Bruno Ganz, Kurt Ehrhardt, Gunnar Möller | Drama | |
| Die Hand im Mund | Joachim Roering | Alexander Hegarth | Comedy, Science fiction | |
| Hanna Lessing | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Barbara Klein, Lambert Hamel | Drama | |
| Das Haus Lunjowo | Franz Peter Wirth | Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Kreindl | Docudrama, War | a.k.a. The House Lunjowo |
| Harvey | Kurt Wilhelm | Heinz Rühmann, Charles Régnier, Susi Nicoletti, Barbara Schöne, Gerlinde Locker, Herbert Bötticher | Comedy | a.k.a. Mein Freund Harvey |
| Die Herberge | Jiří Weiss | Wolfgang Reichmann, Gustav Knuth, Hans Korte | Drama | |
| Hier bin ich, mein Vater | Ludwig Cremer | Peter Vogel, Helmuth Lohner, Erika Pluhar | Drama | |
| Hotel by the Hour | Rolf Olsen | Curd Jürgens | Crime | |
| How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? | Will Tremper | Barbi Benton, Klaus Kinski, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Stander | Comedy | a.k.a. The Naughty Cheerleader. West German-Italian co-production |
| How to Get Rid of Your Husband | Jiří Weiss | Brigitte Grothum, Martin Hirthe, Günter Mack, Stefan Behrens | Black comedy | |
| Ich heiße Erwin und bin 17 Jahre | Erika Runge | Erwin Walther, Iris Hertisch, Theo Dahlke | Drama | |
| Ich töte | Tom Toelle | Volker Eckstein, Marianne Kehlau, Claus Hofer | Thriller | |
| In the Name of Conscience | Rudolph Cartier | Heinrich Schweiger, Konrad Georg, Arthur Brauss | Cold War spy film | a.k.a. Recht auf Gewissen |
| Industrielandschaft mit Einzelhändlern | Egon Monk | Horst Tappert | Drama | |
| Invitation to the Castle | Helmut Käutner | Ilse Ritter, Heinz Ehrenfreund, Monika Peitsch, Karin Hübner | Comedy | a.k.a. Ring Round the Moon a.k.a. Die Kunst das Spiel zu spielen |
| Jana | Rolf Hädrich | Hermina Pipinić, Josif Tatić, Sven Lasta, Pero Kvrgić, Zvonimir Rogoz, Boris Buzančić, Vida Jerman | Drama | West German-Yugoslav co-production |
| Jill in the Box | Willy Bogner Jr. | Iris Berben, Jochen Richter | Comedy | a.k.a. Love 600 |
| Jonas or the Artist at Work | Stanislav Barabáš | Walter Giller | Drama | |
| Jonathan | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Jürgen Jung, Oskar von Schab, Paul Albert Krumm, Ilona Grübel | Horror | [20][21] |
| Klassenphoto | Eberhard Fechner | Documentary | a.k.a. Klassenfoto | |
| Königin Christine | Ludwig Cremer | Elfriede Kuzmany, Kurt Ehrhardt, Volkert Kraeft, Sebastian Fischer, Kurt Meisel, Günter Strack | Drama, Biography | a.k.a. Kristina |
| Kudammgeschichten | Wolfgang Spier | Walter Bluhm, Rudolf Schündler, Henning Schlüter, Friedrich W. Bauschulte, Ilse Pagé | Comedy | a.k.a. Ku'damm-Geschichten |
| Let's Make a Dream | Marcel Ophuls | Sabine Sinjen, Ulli Lommel, Ernst Stankovski, Rolf Zacher | Comedy | West German-French co-production |
| The Lickerish Quartet | Radley Metzger | Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Silvana Venturelli, Paolo Turco | Softcore, Drama | Italian-American-West German co-production[22] |
| Love, Vampire Style | Helmut Förnbacher | Eva Renzi, Patrick Jordan, Amadeus August, Brigitte Skay, Herbert Fux, Barbara Valentin, Ralf Wolter | Comedy | a.k.a. The Amorous Adventures of a Young Postman |
| Ludwig van Beethoven – "In allem streng die Wahrheit" | Thomas Fantl | Karl Walter Diess, Carl Lange, Barbara Rütting, Konrad Georg, Christiane Krüger | Biography, Music | |
| Ein Mädchen für alles | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Dagmar Biener, Peter Vogel, Diana Körner, Louise Martini, Benno Kusche, Catana Cayetano, Hildegard Krekel | Comedy | a.k.a. Monsieur Blaise |
| Das Mädchen meiner Träume | Rolf von Sydow | Christian Wolff, Franziska Oehme, Rolf Becker | Drama | a.k.a. Girl of My Dreams |
| Malatesta | Peter Lilienthal | Eddie Constantine, Christine Noonan, Vladimír Pucholt, Heathcote Williams, Wallas Eaton | Drama | [23] Entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower | Michael Braun | Dietmar Schönherr, Monika Peitsch, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Agnes Windeck, Dunja Rajter, Wolfgang Völz | Crime comedy | |
| Mark of the Devil | Michael Armstrong | Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Fux | Horror | [24] |
| The Marquise de Brinvilliers | Franz Peter Wirth | Heidelinde Weis, Sami Frey, Peter Pasetti, Pierre Brice, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Jean Martin, Félix Marten | Crime, History | a.k.a. Die Marquise von B. West German-French co-production |
| Maximilian von Mexiko | Günter Gräwert | Michael Heltau, Christine Wodetzky, Siegfried Wischnewski, Dieter Borsche | History, Biography | a.k.a. Maximilian of Mexico. West German-Austrian co-production |
| Mein schönes kurzes Leben | Klaus Lemke | Michael Schwankhart, Claudia Littmann | Drama | |
| Menschen | Fritz Umgelter | Ullrich Haupt, Günter Strack, Günter Mack | Drama | a.k.a. Creatures That Once Were Men |
| Millionen nach Maß | Erich Neureuther | Curd Jürgens, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Werner Kreindl, Wolfgang Völz, Walter Rilla | Crime comedy | |
| Das Millionenspiel | Tom Toelle | Jörg Pleva, Dieter Thomas Heck, Dieter Hallervorden | Thriller, Science fiction | |
| The Minister of Police: Joseph Fouché | Günter Gräwert | Ferdy Mayne, Franz Rudnick | Biography, History | |
| Mit sich allein | Michael Kehlmann | Hannes Messemer, Erika Pluhar, Eric Pohlmann | Drama | a.k.a. End of Story |
| Moonlighting Mistress | Wolfgang Becker | Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Harald Leipnitz | Thriller | |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Peter Beauvais | Andrea Jonasson, Karl Michael Vogler, Eva Katharina Schultz, Peter Pasetti, Joachim Ansorge | Drama | |
| Murder at the Vicarage | Hans Quest | Inge Langen, Heinz Bennent, Helga Anders, Herbert Mensching, Paul Neuhaus, Willy Semmelrogge | Crime | a.k.a. Mord im Pfarrhaus |
| Nachbarn | Theo Mezger | Werner Schumacher, Irmgard Riessen, Katharina Brauren, Herbert Steinmetz, Wolf Ackva, Andreas von der Meden | Drama | |
| Nachbarn sind zum Ärgern da | Peter Weck | Georg Thomalla, Uschi Glas, Fritz Wepper, Hans Korte, Eddi Arent | Comedy | |
| The Nail | Oswald Döpke | Andrea Jonasson, Herbert Fleischmann | Drama | |
| The Niklashausen Journey | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Michael König, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Margit Carstensen, Kurt Raab | Drama | |
| o.k. | Michael Verhoeven | Eva Mattes, Hartmut Becker, Gustl Bayrhammer | War | [25] Caused the cancellation of the 20th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Oppression of the Woman Is Especially Seen in the Attitude of the Women Themselves | Hellmuth Costard | Christoph Hemmerling | Drama | a.k.a. The Oppression of Woman Is Primarily Evident in the Behavior of Women Themselves |
| Pakbo | Volker Koch | Joachim Hansen, Werner Kreindl, Frederick Jaeger, Carla Egerer | Spy, War | |
| Peenemünde | Falk Harnack | Wolfgang Preiss, Dieter Kirchlechner, Karl John, Heinz Engelmann | War, Docudrama | |
| Perrak | Alfred Vohrer | Horst Tappert, Werner Peters, Erika Pluhar, Judy Winter, Arthur Brauss | Crime | a.k.a. Hard Women a.k.a. The Blonde Connection |
| Die Person | Wolfgang Staudte | Walter Taub, Horst Niendorf, Gert Haucke, Heinz Meier, Rainer Basedow, Walter Bluhm | Drama | |
| Photo Finish | Harry Meyen | Heinz Rühmann, Erika Pluhar, Rosemarie Fendel, Dagmar Altrichter, Hans Söhnker, Harry Meyen | Drama | a.k.a. Endspurt |
| Piggies | Peter Zadek | Anton Diffring, Tankred Dorst, Gisela Fischer, Erich Fried, Dinah Hinz, Hannelore Hoger, Michael König, Robert Muller, Doris Schade | Comedy | |
| Pippi in the South Seas | Olle Hellbom | Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Martin Ljung, Jarl Borssén, Wolfgang Völz | Family | Swedish-West German co-production[26] |
| The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising | Hans Lietzau | Rolf Henniger, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Ruth Hausmeister, Gisela Stein, Klaus Löwitsch | Drama | |
| The Portland Spy Ring | Helmut Ashley | Heinz Bennent, Siegfried Wischnewski, Barbara Schöne, Arnold Marquis, Karl-Heinz von Hassel | Docudrama, Cold War spy film | a.k.a. Der Portland-Ring |
| Die Preußen kommen | Danielo Devaux | Chariklia Baxevanos, Thomas Fritsch, Hans Clarin | Musical comedy | a.k.a. The Prussians Are Coming |
| The Priest of St. Pauli | Rolf Olsen | Curd Jürgens, Heinz Reincke | Drama | |
| Red Sun | Rudolf Thome | Uschi Obermaier, Marquard Bohm, Diana Körner | Drama, Thriller | |
| Eine Rose für Jane | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Heinz Bennent, Martine Brochard, Eddie Constantine | Crime | |
| San Domingo | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Michael König, Alice Ottawa | Drama | |
| Scheidung auf englisch | Ottokar Runze | Horst Bollmann, Inken Sommer, Fred Haltiner, Ingrid van Bergen | Comedy | a.k.a. Infidelity Took Place |
| Schlagzeilen über einen Mord | Heinz Schirk | Volkert Kraeft, Holger Hagen, Götz Burger, Günter Meisner | Crime drama | |
| Schulmädchen-Report | Ernst Hofbauer | Sex report film | First of a series of 13 films | |
| Sessel zwischen den Stühlen | Fritz Umgelter | Günter Strack, Rolf Becker | Drama | |
| The Seven Year Itch | Franz Josef Wild | Gertraud Jesserer, Alexander Kerst, Luitgard Im, Eric Pohlmann | Comedy | a.k.a. Meine Frau erfährt kein Wort |
| Seventeen and Anxious | Zbyněk Brynych | Anne-Marie Kuster, Amadeus August, Nadja Tiller, Karl Michael Vogler, Siegfried Rauch | Drama | |
| Sex-Business: Made in Pasing | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Documentary | ||
| The Sex Nest | Alfred Vohrer | Siegfried Schürenberg, Eddi Arent, Ann Smyrner, Mascha Gonska | Comedy | a.k.a. The Yellow House on Pinnasberg |
| The Shrike | Ludwig Cremer | Horst Frank, Krista Keller | Drama | a.k.a. Unter Kuratel |
| Sir Henri Deterding | Jürgen Goslar | Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Kreindl, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Konrad Georg | Biography, Docudrama | |
| Slap in the Face | Rolf Thiele | Curd Jürgens, Gila von Weitershausen | Comedy | |
| Die Sprachlosen | Rainer Wolffhardt | Raimund Harmstorf, Wolf Roth, Elke Aberle | Drama | |
| Student of the Bedroom | Michael Verhoeven | Christof Wackernagel, Gila von Weitershausen, Hannelore Elsner | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Bettenstudent |
| Summer in the City | Wim Wenders | Hanns Zischler | Drama | |
| Der Tag des Krähenflügels | Claus Peter Witt | O. W. Fischer, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Leonard Steckel | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Tanker | Volker Vogeler | Katrin Schaake, Karl-Georg Saebisch, Ulrich Matschoss, Ivan Desny, Hans-Michael Rehberg | Drama | |
| Tartuffe | Otto Tausig | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Siegfried Lowitz, Ida Ehre, Karin Anselm, Michael Heltau | Comedy | |
| That Can't Shake Our Willi! | Rolf Olsen | Heinz Erhardt, Ruth Stephan, Günther Jerschke | Comedy | |
| Time Is Running Out | Robert Ménégoz | Documentary | ||
| Der Tod des Deputierten Jean Jaurès | Frank Guthke | Wolfgang Büttner, Ernst Jacobi | Docudrama | |
| Tod nach Mitternacht | Wilhelm Semmelroth | Martin Lüttge, Ruth Hausmeister, Horst Niendorf, Heinz Moog, Wolfgang Büttner, Ellen Schwiers | Crime | |
| Die U-2-Affäre | Rudolf Nussgruber | Michael Degen, Claudia Wedekind, Hellmut Lange | Docudrama | a.k.a. The U-2 Incident |
| Der Übergang über den Ebro | Armand Gatti | Hans Christian Blech, André Wilms | Drama | a.k.a. The Ebro Crossing |
| Under the Roofs of St. Pauli | Alfred Weidenmann | Jean-Claude Pascal, Werner Peters, Charles Régnier, Joseph Offenbach | Drama | |
| Unsere Pauker gehen in die Luft | Harald Vock | Wenche Myhre, Chris Roberts, Georg Thomalla | Musical comedy | |
| Unternehmer | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Jürgen Prochnow, Claudia Wedekind | Drama | |
| Unwichtiger Tag | Korbinian Köberle | Max Eckard, Ursula Burg, Ilona Grübel, Ilja Richter | Drama | |
| The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse | Jesús Franco | Jack Taylor, Fred Williams, Ewa Strömberg, Siegfried Lowitz | Horror | Spanish-West German co-production[27][28][29] |
| We'll Take Care of the Teachers | Harald Reinl | Hansi Kraus, Theo Lingen, Rudolf Schündler, Uschi Glas, Fritz Wepper | Comedy | Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank film series |
| We Two | Ulrich Schamoni | Sabine Sinjen, Christoph Bantzer | Drama | |
| Wer ist der nächste? | Arno Assmann | Helmuth Lohner, Albert Lieven, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Crime comedy | |
| Die Wesenacks | Werner Schlechte | Anita Kupsch, Peter Paul, Wolfgang Condrus, Ulrich Matthes | Drama | |
| What Is the Matter with Willi? | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt, Ralf Wolter, Ruth Stephan | Comedy | |
| When the Mad Aunts Arrive | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Ilja Richter | Comedy | |
| When You're With Me | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Roy Black, Lex Barker, Zienia Merton, Eddi Arent | Musical | |
| Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler | Kurt Raab, Lilith Ungerer, Irm Hermann, Peer Raben, Franz Maron | Drama | Entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival[30] |
| Wie ein Blitz | Rolf von Sydow | Paul Hubschmid, Ingmar Zeisberg, Horst Bollmann, Christine Kaufmann, Albert Lieven, Eva Pflug | Mystery thriller | a.k.a. Bat Out of Hell |
1971
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Die Ahnfrau | Peer Raben | Margit Carstensen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rudolf Lenz, Wolfgang Kieling | Musical | a.k.a. Die Ahnfrau – Oratorium nach Franz Grillparzer |
| Die Anarchisten | Oswald Döpke | Günther Ungeheuer, Gerd Baltus, Günther Neutze | Thriller | a.k.a. The Exploding Azalea |
| Angel in the Pawnshop | Ludwig Cremer | Heinz Rühmann, Sabine Sinjen | Drama | a.k.a. Der Pfandleiher |
| Annemarie Lesser: Legend of a Spy | Rudolf Jugert | Christine Wodetzky, Pinkas Braun, Heinz Weiss, Helmut Förnbacher | Spy, War | |
| Apokal | Paul Anczykowski | Inken Sommer, Heinrich Giskes, Tilo Prückner | Drama | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival[31] |
| Aufstiegschancen | Thomas Fantl | Christa Berndl, Herbert Stass | Drama | |
| Aunt Trude from Buxtehude | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Ilja Richter, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| Ball im Savoy | Eugen York | Klaus Löwitsch, Theo Lingen, Grit Boettcher, Wolfgang Völz, Lester Wilson, Charlie Rivel | Musical | a.k.a. Ball at the Savoy a.k.a. Ball at Savoy |
| The Bed Sausage | Rosa von Praunheim | Luzi Kryn, Dietmar Kracht | Comedy | |
| Besuch der Tochter | Claus Peter Witt | Susanne Beck, Dieter Borsche, Matthias Ponnier | Drama | |
| Beware of a Holy Whore | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Marquard Bohm, Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Comedy-drama | [32] |
| The Big Deal | Günter Gräwert | Siegfried Wischnewski, Heidy Bohlen, Walter Buschhoff, Benno Hoffmann, Dirk Dautzenberg | Drama | a.k.a. Das große Projekt |
| Blondie's Number One | Robert van Ackeren | Gabriele Lafari | Drama | |
| The Body in the Thames | Harald Philipp | Hansjörg Felmy, Uschi Glas, Werner Peters, Ivan Desny, Vadim Glowna, Petra Schürmann, Siegfried Schürenberg | Mystery thriller | a.k.a. Angels of Terror. Based on Edgar Wallace |
| The Bordello | Alfred Weidenmann | Karin Jacobsen, Herbert Fleischmann | Drama | [33] |
| The Captain | Kurt Hoffmann | Heinz Rühmann, Horst Tappert, Günter Pfitzmann, Ernst Stankovski, Teri Tordai, Joseph Offenbach, Horst Janson, Hans Korte, Johanna Matz | Comedy | |
| Captain Typhoon | Rolf Olsen | Curd Jürgens, Johanna von Koczian, Heinz Reincke, Sieghardt Rupp, Herbert Fleischmann | Adventure | a.k.a. Nurses for Sale a.k.a. Captain Roughneck from St. Pauli |
| Carlos | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Bernhard Wicki, Gottfried John, Anna Karina, Geraldine Chaplin, Horst Frank, Thomas Hunter | Drama | |
| The Cat o' Nine Tails | Dario Argento | Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, James Franciscus, Rada Rassimov, Horst Frank | Thriller | Italian-French-West German co-production[34] |
| The Cell | Horst Bienek | Robert Naegele | Drama | |
| Change | Franz Peter Wirth | Hans Brenner, Monica Bleibtreu, Heinrich Schweiger, Rainer von Artenfels | Drama | |
| Chopin-Express | Michael Kehlmann | Hermann Treusch, Günter Mack, Gisela Stein, Otto Tausig, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Drama | |
| Chronicle of Current Events | Peter Handke | Rüdiger Vogler, Ulrich Gressieker | Drama | |
| The Constant Wife | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Anaid Iplicjian, Werner Bruhns, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Diana Körner | Comedy | a.k.a. Eine konsequente Frau |
| Daughters of Darkness | Harry Kümel | Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen, Andrea Rau | Horror | Belgian-French-West German co-production[35] |
| Davor | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Rolf Henniger, Henning Schlüter, Gerhard Dressel, Anita Lochner, Helga Roloff | Drama | Based on Local Anaesthetic |
| The Deep Blue Sea | Hans-Reinhard Müller | Elfriede Kuzmany, Günther Ungeheuer, Albert Lieven | Drama | a.k.a. Tiefe blaue See |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Gérard Oury | Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Karin Schubert | Comedy | French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production[36] |
| Desire Caught by the Tail | Veit Relin | Rolf Schult, Beatrice Richter, Ilse Pagé | Drama | a.k.a. Wie man Wünsche am Schwanz packt |
| The Devil Came from Akasava | Jesús Franco | Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Siegfried Schürenberg | Thriller | Spanish-West German co-production |
| The Devil in Love | Rainer Wolffhardt | Wolf Roth, Christiane Schröder, Birke Bruck | Fantasy | a.k.a. Der verliebte Teufel |
| Das Ding an sich – und wie man es dreht | Falk Harnack | Horst Bollmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus | Crime comedy | |
| Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum | Peter Beauvais | Martin Benrath, Hannelore Elsner, Katrin Schaake, Francesca Tu, Christoph Bantzer, Werner Finck | Science fiction | |
| Dreißig Silberlinge | Ilo von Jankó | Agnes Fink | Drama | a.k.a. 30 Silberlinge a.k.a. Thirty Pieces of Silver a.k.a. 30 Pieces of Silver |
| Dying | Peter Beauvais | Heinz Ehrenfreund, Loni von Friedl | Drama | |
| The Eddie Chapman Story | Wolfgang Becker | Peter Vogel, Anita Höfer, Joseph Offenbach, Charles Régnier, Rainer Basedow, Friedrich Joloff | Biography, War, Spy | a.k.a. Kein Geldschrank geht von selber auf |
| Einer spinnt immer | Franz Antel | Georg Thomalla, Teri Tordai, Brigitte Grothum, Gunther Philipp, Herbert Fux | Comedy | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Einfach sterben... | Stanislav Barabáš | Hans Schweikart, Ernst Jacobi, Petra Peters, Gert Westphal | Biography | |
| Elsa Brändström | Fritz Umgelter | Renate Zillessen | Biography, War | |
| The End of a Mission | Hans Dieter Schwarze | Alois Maria Giani, Günter Strack, Wolfgang Büttner, Hanns Ernst Jäger, Angela Winkler | Comedy | a.k.a. Ende einer Dienstfahrt |
| Der Fall Eleni Voulgari | Nathan Jariv | Christine Buchegger, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Heinz Weiss, Iris Berben, Walter Kohut | Docudrama | |
| Ein Fall für Herrn Schmidt | Falk Harnack | Klaus Schwarzkopf | Crime | |
| Der Fall Jägerstätter | Axel Corti | Kurt Weinzierl, Guido Wieland, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama, War | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Das falsche Gewicht | Bernhard Wicki | Helmut Qualtinger, Evelyn Opela, Agnes Fink | Drama | a.k.a. False Weights a.k.a. The False Weight a.k.a. Weights and Measures |
| Fata Morgana | Werner Herzog | Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, James William Gledhill, Eugen des Montagnes | Drama | [37] |
| Das Feuerwerk | Kurt Wilhelm | Karin Anselm, Hanne Wieder, Paul Dahlke, Gerhard Riedmann, Bruno Dietrich, Beppo Brem | Musical comedy | a.k.a. Fireworks |
| Final Demand | Rolf von Sydow | Klaus Höhne, Heinz Baumann, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau | Drama | a.k.a. Letzte Mahnung |
| Flucht – Der Fall Münzenberg | Dieter Lemmel | Kurt Jaggberg, Günter Mack, Willy Semmelrogge | Biography, War | a.k.a. Willi Münzenberg |
| F.M.D. – Psychogramm eines Spielers | Georg Tressler | Paul Albert Krumm, Andrea Jonasson, Heidi Stroh, Ruth Maria Kubitschek | Biography | a.k.a. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: Psychogram of a Gambler |
| Forget What You Saw | Michael Kehlmann | Volkert Kraeft, Dirk Dautzenberg, Benno Sterzenbach, Hans Korte | Crime | a.k.a. Augenzeugen müssen blind sein |
| Fräulein von Stradonitz in memoriam | Wolfgang Urchs | Giulia Follina, Herbert Herrmann | Mystery | |
| Furchtlose Flieger | Veith von Fürstenberg, Martin Müller, Max Zihlmann | Ferdinand Attems, Eike Gallwitz, Peter Berling, Barbara Valentin | Drama | |
| Die gefälschte Göttin | Helmut Käutner | Gracia-Maria Kaus, Joachim Ansorge, Jörg Pleva, Heinz Moog | Crime comedy | |
| The German Lesson | Peter Beauvais | Wolfgang Büttner, Arno Assmann, Jens Weisser, Andreas Poliza | Drama, War | |
| Geschäfte mit Plückhahn | Claus Peter Witt | Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | |
| Gestrickte Spuren | Georg Marischka | Christine Kaufmann, Kurt Nachmann, Alfred Böhm, Olga Chekhova, Petra Schürmann, Rudolf Prack, Hans Holt, Anaid Iplicjian | Mystery | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Der große Verhau | Alexander Kluge | Vinzenz Sterr, Maria Sterr, Hark Bohm, Hannelore Hoger | Science fiction | |
| Großstadtprärie | Claus Tinney | Harald Leipnitz, Günther Ungeheuer | Drama | a.k.a. Prairie in the City |
| Haie an Bord | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Freddy Quinn, Karin Dor, Werner Pochath | Adventure | |
| Die Halsbandaffäre | Hermann Kugelstadt | Karin Hübner, Günther Neutze, Erich Auer | History | a.k.a. The Affair of the Diamond Necklace |
| Handicapped Future | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| Haytabo | Ulli Lommel | Eddie Constantine, Katrin Schaake, Rainer Langhans, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Uschi Obermaier | Science fiction | |
| He Who Loves in a Glass House | Michael Verhoeven | Senta Berger, Hartmut Becker, Marianne Blomquist | Drama | [38] Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Heart of the Matter | Oswald Döpke | Hans Christian Blech, Cordula Trantow, Inge Langen, Gerd Baltus, Herbert Fleischmann, Carl Lange | Drama | |
| Heißer Sand | Günter Gräwert | Joachim Fuchsberger, Sieghardt Rupp, Andrea Jonasson | Adventure | |
| Hilfe, die Verwandten kommen | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Uschi Glas, Horst Janson, Ilja Richter Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| The Hitler/Ludendorff Trial | Paul Verhoeven | Klaus Höhne, Alf Marholm, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Konrad Georg, Ulrich Beiger, Alexander Kerst | Docudrama | a.k.a. The Hitler/Ludendorff Trial: Scenes From a High Treason Trial in a Republic Without Republicans |
| Holidays in Tyrol | Harald Reinl | Uschi Glas, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Georg Thomalla | Comedy | |
| Hook, Line and Sinker | Rolf von Sydow | Klaus Höhne, Karin Eickelbaum, Gisela Trowe, Hans Jürgen Diedrich, Marius Müller-Westernhagen | Black comedy | a.k.a. La Femme, le Mari et la Mort oder Über die Schwierigkeiten, seinen Mann umzubringen |
| I Love You, I Kill You | Uwe Brandner | Rolf Becker, Hannes Fuchs, Marianne Blomquist, Monika Hansen | Science fiction | |
| Ich werde dich töten, Wolf | Wolfgang Petersen | Ursula Sieg, Wolf Roth | Drama | a.k.a. I Will Kill You, Wolf |
| Intermezzo | Gedeon Kovács | Erika Pluhar, Peter Weck | Drama | a.k.a. Zwischenspiel |
| Interview mit Herbert K. | Herbert Ballmann | Herbert Stass | Drama, Crime | |
| It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives | Rosa von Praunheim | Bernd Feuerhelm, Berryt Bohlen, Ernst Kuchling | Drama | |
| Ivanov | Oswald Döpke | Herbert Fleischmann, Andrea Jonasson, Hannelore Elsner | Drama | a.k.a. Iwanow |
| Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Volker Vogeler | Gottfried John, Rolf Zacher, Arthur Brauss, Fred Stillkrauth, Louis Waldon | Crime | a.k.a. Jaider, the Lonely Hunter. Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| Jailbreak in Hamburg | Wolfgang Staudte | Horst Frank, Christiane Krüger, Heinz Reincke, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Crime thriller | a.k.a. Fluchtweg St. Pauli – Großalarm für die Davidswache |
| Jakob von Gunten | Peter Lilienthal | Sebastian Bleisch, Hanna Schygulla, Alexander May, Peter Kern | Drama | |
| Karpfs Karriere | Bernhard Wicki | Martin Benrath, Agnes Fink | Drama | |
| Kassensturz | Korbinian Köberle | Karin Hübner | Crime | a.k.a. The Banklady |
| Kolibri | Nathan Jariv | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Lil Dagover, Ingeborg Schöner | Crime | |
| Ladies in Retirement | Karlheinz Bieber | Lil Dagover, Brigitte Horney | Black comedy | |
| Land of Silence and Darkness | Werner Herzog | Documentary | [39] | |
| Lenz | George Moorse | Michael König, Louis Waldon | Biography | |
| Liliom | Otto Schenk | Helmuth Lohner, Gertraud Jesserer | Drama | |
| The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried | Adrian Hoven | Raimund Harmstorf, Sybil Danning, Heidy Bohlen | Comedy, Fantasy | |
| Love Is Only a Word | Alfred Vohrer | Judy Winter, Malte Thorsten, Herbert Fleischmann | Drama | a.k.a. Love Is Just a Word |
| The Love Keys | Rolf Thiele | Horst Tappert, Heidi Hansen, Uwe Friedrichsen, Siegfried Schürenberg | Comedy | a.k.a. Rosy und der Herr aus Bonn a.k.a. Bleib sauber, Liebling! |
| The Mad Aunts Strike Out | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Ilja Richter, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| Maestro der Revolution? | Ulrich Erfurth | Karl Michael Vogler, Gerlinde Locker, Arno Assmann, Uta Sax, Siegfried Wischnewski, Ulrich Matschoss, Martin Hirthe | Biography, Music | a.k.a. Giuseppe Verdi – Maestro der Revolution? |
| Magic Afternoon | Wolfgang Bauer | Elga Sorbas, Rainer von Artenfels | Drama | |
| Making of a Prostitute | Gustav Ehmck | Gerhild Berktold | Drama | a.k.a. Die Spalte |
| The Man from London | Heinz Schirk | Jean Servais | Thriller | |
| Männer aus zweiter Hand | Karlheinz Bieber | Louise Martini, Horst Tappert, Erik Schumann | Comedy | |
| Mathias Kneissl | Reinhard Hauff | Hans Brenner, Eva Mattes, Ruth Drexel, Hanna Schygulla | Crime, Biography | [40] |
| The Mayfly and the Frog | Wolf Dietrich | O. W. Fischer, Renate Roland | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Fliege und der Frosch |
| The Merchant of Four Seasons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Ingrid Caven, Klaus Löwitsch, Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab | Drama | [41] |
| Die Messe der erfüllten Wünsche | Franz Peter Wirth | Reiner Schöne, Nicole Heesters, Anne-Marie Kuster | Drama | a.k.a. Fair of Fulfilled Wishes |
| Das Messer | Rolf von Sydow | Hardy Krüger, Eva Renzi, Charles Régnier, Klaus Löwitsch, Sonja Ziemann | Mystery thriller | |
| Middle of the Night | Werner Schlechte | Karin Anselm, Arno Assmann | Drama | a.k.a. Mitten in der Nacht |
| Miks Bumbullis | Günter Gräwert | Siegfried Wischnewski | Crime drama | |
| The Mirror of Fools | Hans Quest | Martin Hirthe, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Hans Clarin, Martin Benrath, Anita Lochner, Sieghardt Rupp, Carl Lange | Adventure | a.k.a. Narrenspiegel |
| Ein Mordanschlag | Karl Peter Biltz | Kurt Ehrhardt | Thriller | |
| Morgen fällt die Schule aus | Werner Jacobs | Hansi Kraus, Theo Lingen, Rudolf Schündler, Heintje | Comedy | Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank film series |
| Die Münchner Räterepublik | Helmut Ashley | Charles Régnier, Peter Pasetti, Carl Lange, Christoph Bantzer, Herbert Fleischmann, Günther Ungeheuer, Werner Kreindl | Docudrama | a.k.a. The Munich Soviet Republic |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | Gordon Hessler | Jason Robards, Christine Kaufmann, Lilli Palmer, Herbert Lom, Adolfo Celi, Maria Perschy | Horror, Mystery thriller | American-Spanish-West German co-production |
| Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Benoît Ferreux, Michel Lonsdale, Gila von Weitershausen | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production[42] |
| My Father, the Ape and I | Franz Antel | Mascha Gonska, Gunther Philipp, Heinz Reincke, Teri Tordai | Comedy | West German-Austrian co-production |
| The Night in Lisbon | Zbyněk Brynych | Martin Benrath, Erika Pluhar, Vadim Glowna, Horst Frank, Charles Régnier | Drama, War | |
| No, No, Nanette | Alfred Kirchner | Karin Anselm, Peter Kraus, Walter Giller, Dagmar Altrichter | Musical | |
| Oliver | Ludwig Cremer | Andreas Seyferth, Klausjürgen Wussow, Werner Kreindl, Charles Régnier, Ingmar Zeisberg, Alexander May, Krista Keller, Gert Westphal | Crime | |
| One | Ulrich Schamoni | Andrea Rau, Ulrich Schamoni | Comedy | |
| Operation Walküre | Franz Peter Wirth | Joachim Hansen, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel | War, Docudrama | |
| Our Willi Is the Best | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt | Comedy | [43] |
| Paul Esbeck | Erich Neureuther | Henning Gissel, Gert Haucke, Heinz Meier, Arnold Marquis, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Margarethe von Trotta, Volkert Kraeft, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Drama | |
| Der Pedell | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Manfred Seipold, Heinz Schacht | Drama, War | a.k.a. The Janitor |
| Pioneers in Ingolstadt | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Harry Baer, Klaus Löwitsch, Walter Sedlmayr, Irm Hermann | Drama | |
| Der Pott | Peter Zadek | Curt Bois, Wolfgang Schneider, Günter Lamprecht, Helga Anders, Hannelore Hoger, Rosel Zech, Heinz Bennent | Drama | a.k.a. The Silver Tassie |
| Preußen über alles... | Rudolf Jugert | Heinz Klevenow, Dieter Borsche, Heinz Weiss, Heinz Engelmann, Paul Verhoeven, Wolfgang Büttner, Konrad Georg, Charles Régnier, Siegfried Wischnewski | Docudrama, History | a.k.a. Preußen über alles... – Bismarcks deutsche Einigung |
| Der Prokurator oder Die Liebe der schönen Bianca | Jörg A. Eggers | Johanna Matz, Matthias Fuchs, Sebastian Fischer | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Das provisorische Leben | Rainer Wolffhardt | Donata Höffer, Michael Ande, Anaid Iplicjian | Crime drama | |
| Purgatory | Haro Senft | Jost Vobeck, Ingeborg Schöner, Paul Albert Krumm, Valeria Ciangottini | Crime | |
| Return of Sabata | Gianfranco Parolini | Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Annabella Incontrera | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production[44] |
| The Reverend Turns a Blind Eye | Harald Vock | Roy Black, Uschi Glas, Georg Thomalla | Comedy | |
| Rio das Mortes | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Michael König, Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla | Comedy | |
| Rote Fahnen sieht man besser | Rolf Schübel, Theo Gallehr | Documentary | ||
| Rudi, Behave! | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Chris Roberts | Comedy | |
| Saint Joan | Franz Josef Wild | Maresa Hörbiger, Peter Vogel, Albert Lieven, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Gustav Knuth, Peter Fricke, Walther Reyer, Heinrich Schweiger, Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | |
| Salome | Werner Schroeter | Mascha Rabben, Magdalena Montezuma, Ellen Umlauf | Drama | |
| Sand | Peter Palitzsch | Valentin Jeker, Malte Jaeger | Drama | |
| Der scharfe Heinrich | Rolf Thiele | Horst Frank, Grit Boettcher | Sex comedy | |
| Der Schlafwagenkontrolleur | Heinz Schirk | Alfred Böhm, Christiane Hörbiger, Franziska Oehme, Klaus Havenstein | Drama | a.k.a. Le Contrôleur des wagons-lits |
| Die Schrott-Story | Paul May | Eric Pohlmann, Dagmar Koller, Hans von Borsody | Docudrama | a.k.a. The Scrap Story. West German-Austrian co-production |
| Seine Majestät Gustav Krause | Günter Gräwert | Siegfried Wischnewski | Comedy | |
| She Killed in Ecstasy | Jesús Franco | Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Horst Tappert | Horror | West German-Spanish co-production[45] |
| Slime | Heinz von Cramer | Eugène Ionesco | Drama | a.k.a. Schlamm a.k.a. La Vase. Swiss-West German co-production |
| Die Sonne angreifen | Peter Lilienthal | Simonetta Stefanelli, Jess Hahn, Willy Semmelrogge | Drama | |
| Sparks in Neu-Grönland | Joachim Hess | Robert Meyn, Heidi Stroh, Susanne Beck | Comedy | |
| The Story of a Humble Christian | Fritz Umgelter | Guido Wieland, Werner Kreindl | Biography | a.k.a. Das Abenteuer eines armen Christenmenschen |
| The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Volker Schlöndorff | Reinhard Hauff, Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer, Margarethe von Trotta | Crime drama | |
| Supergirl | Rudolf Thome | Iris Berben, Marquard Bohm, Jess Hahn | Drama | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Otto Schenk | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christine Ostermayer | Comedy | |
| The Three Faces of Tamara Bunke | Helmut Ashley | Andrea Jonasson, Peter Ehrlich | History, Biography | a.k.a. The 3 Faces of Tamara Bunke |
| Tiger Gang | Harald Reinl | Tony Kendall, Brad Harris | Thriller | a.k.a. FBI Operation Pakistan. Kommissar X film. West German-Italian-Pakistani co-production |
| Ein toller Dreh | Kurt Wilhelm | Gerlinde Locker, Günther Ungeheuer, Friedrich Schoenfelder, Kathrin Ackermann, Klaus Havenstein | Comedy | a.k.a. Uproar in the House |
| To-morrow | Diethard Klante | Friedrich Maurer, Hilde Lermann, Rüdiger Bahr, Alfred Balthoff | Drama | a.k.a. Nachricht aus Colebrook |
| Der trojanische Sessel | Günter Gräwert | Helmut Käutner, Curt Bois, Käthe Haack, Erika von Thellmann | Black comedy | |
| Trotta | Johannes Schaaf | András Bálint, Doris Kunstmann, Rosemarie Fendel | Drama | [46] |
| Twenty Girls and the Teachers | Werner Jacobs | Mascha Gonska, Heidi Kabel, Rudolf Schündler, Ralf Wolter | Comedy | a.k.a. 20 Girls and the Teachers |
| Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen | Alfred Vohrer | Ruth Leuwerik, Horst Frank, Horst Tappert, Judy Winter, Alain Noury, Doris Kunstmann | Thriller | a.k.a. The Caesar Code. Based on the book by Johannes Mario Simmel |
| Die Untaten des Fräulein Miková | Thomas Fantl | Karin Anselm, Peter Schiff, Günter Pfitzmann | Comedy | |
| Vampira | George Moorse | Grischa Huber, Louis Waldon, Del Negro | Fantasy | |
| The Vampire Happening | Freddie Francis | Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Ferdy Mayne, Ingrid van Bergen | Comedy, Horror | [47] |
| Vampyros Lesbos | Jesús Franco | Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller | Horror | Spanish-West German co-production[48] |
| Verschwörung in Ulm | Frank Guthke | Jochen Busse, Willi Kowalj, Ulli Kinalzik, Alexander May, Peter Pasetti, Bruno Dallansky | Docudrama | a.k.a. Verschwörung in Ulm – Der Reichswehrprozeß 1930 |
| Die Versöhnung | Horst Flick | Tilli Breidenbach, Wolfgang Büttner | Drama | |
| Vier Tage unentschuldigt | Rolf Busch | Rolf Becker | Drama | a.k.a. 4 Tage unentschuldigt |
| Viola and Sebastian | Ottokar Runze | Karin Hübner, Frank Glaubrecht, Inken Sommer, Uwe Dallmeier | Comedy | a.k.a. Twelfth Night |
| Violence | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Angelika Bender, Werner Umberg | Crime drama | |
| Visit to a Small Planet | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Peter Fricke, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Hildegard Krekel, Peter Pasetti, Michael Hinz, Dieter Borsche | Science fiction, Comedy | |
| Ein Vogel bin ich nicht | Tom Toelle | Jörg Pleva, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Heinz Meier, Claus Eberth, Tommi Piper | Drama | |
| Wanted: One Body | Ottokar Runze | Gisela Uhlen, Henning Schlüter, Wolf Roth, Inken Sommer, Renate Roland, Franz Muxeneder | Crime | a.k.a. Leiche gesucht |
| The Weavers | Günter Gräwert | Siegfried Lowitz, Uwe Friedrichsen, Heinz Meier, Fritz Rasp | Drama | |
| Web of the Spider | Antonio Margheriti | Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten | Horror, Mystery | Italian-French-West German co-production[49][50] |
| Wenn mein Schätzchen auf die Pauke haut | Peter Weck | Uschi Glas, Roy Black, Theo Lingen, Peter Weck, Ilja Richter, Gunther Philipp | Comedy | |
| What the Peeper Saw | James Kelley, Andrea Bianchi | Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger, Lilli Palmer, Harry Andrews | Thriller | a.k.a. Night Hair Child. British-Spanish-Italian-West German co-production |
| Whity | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla, Ron Randell, Ulli Lommel, Katrin Schaake, Harry Baer | Drama | [51] |
| Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best | Harald Reinl | Roy Black, Uschi Glas, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| Willy und Lilly | Franz Peter Wirth | Maria Schell, Heinz Baumann | Drama | a.k.a. Willy & Lilly |
| Wolves and Sheep | Wilm ten Haaf | Hilde Hildebrand, Martin Lüttge, Alexander Hegarth, Walter Jokisch, Rudolf Schündler, Manfred Inger, Hannelore Elsner | Comedy | |
| Das Wunder | Rolf Busch | Lutz Mackensy, Henning Gissel, Lilith Ungerer, Gustl Bayrhammer, Günter Lamprecht | Crime | |
| X312 - Flight to Hell | Jesús Franco | Thomas Hunter, Gila von Weitershausen, Fernando Sancho, Siegfried Schürenberg, Hans Hass Jr. | Disaster | Spanish-West German co-production |
| Yester – Der Name stimmt doch? | Karlheinz Bieber | Horst Tappert, Doris Kunstmann | Thriller | |
| Der Zeuge | Reinhard Mieke | Rolf Boysen, Charles Régnier, Pinkas Braun, Ferdy Mayne | Crime | |
| Zum kleinen Glück | Werner Schlechte | Karin Anselm, Günther Ungeheuer, Joachim Ansorge, Ulli Philipp | Comedy | a.k.a. Au petit bonheur a.k.a. Happy Go Lucky |
| Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel | Roland Gall | Eberhard Fechner | Drama | a.k.a. Two Letters to Pospischiel |
1972
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Der 21. Juli | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Hannes Messemer, Bruno Dallansky, Wolfgang Wahl | War, Alternate history | |
| 8051 Grinning | Peter Beauvais | Maria Singer, Veronika Fitz | Drama | |
| Adele Spitzeder | Peer Raben | Ruth Drexel, Peter Kern, Monica Bleibtreu | Biography, Crime | |
| Agent aus der Retorte | Wolfgang Glück | Rüdiger Vogler, Udo Vioff, Knut Hinz, Lutz Mackensy, Christiane Schröder | Docudrama, Spy, War | |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Peter Berling | Adventure, Historical film | West German-Peruvian-Mexican co-production[52] |
| Alleluja & Sartana are Sons... Sons of God | Mario Siciliano | Ron Ely, Uschi Glas, Alberto Dell'Acqua | Western, Comedy | a.k.a. Halleluja and Sartana Strike Again a.k.a. 100 Fäuste und ein Vaterunser. Italian-West German co-production |
| Always Trouble with the Reverend | Harald Vock | Georg Thomalla, Peter Weck, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| Der Amateur | Rainer Erler | Klaus Herm, Evelyn Opela, Will Danin | Thriller | a.k.a. Think of a Number |
| The Andersonville Trial | Michael Kehlmann | Günter Mack, Hans Korte, Walter Kohut | Drama | a.k.a. Der Andersonville-Prozess |
| Der Angestellte | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Ernst Jacobi, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama | |
| Anna und Totò | Wolfgang Petersen | Franco Lantieri, Renate Heilmeyer | Drama | |
| Arbeitskampf | Rolf Schübel, Theo Gallehr | Documentary | ||
| Assignment: Munich | David Lowell Rich | Richard Basehart, Roy Scheider, Lesley Ann Warren, Werner Klemperer, Karl-Otto Alberty | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Auf den Spuren der Anarchisten | Oswald Döpke | Herbert Fleischmann, Gertrud Kückelmann, Hans Korte, Bernhard Minetti, Hannelore Elsner | Crime | a.k.a. Auf den Spuren der Anarchisten – Der Fall Ravachol |
| Baron Blood | Mario Bava | Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer | Horror | Italian-West German co-production[53] |
| The Baroness | Oswald Döpke | Hannelore Elsner, Wolfgang Reichmann | Drama | a.k.a. Deutsche Novelle |
| Betreten verboten | Hans Dieter Schwarze | Martin Lüttge, Hans Caninenberg | Comedy | |
| The Big Bust Out | Ernst R. von Theumer | Vonetta McGee, Monica Teuber, Tony Kendall, William Berger, Gordon Mitchell | Exploitation | Italian-West German co-production |
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla | Drama | [54] |
| Bluebeard | Edward Dmytryk | Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon, Marilù Tolo, Agostina Belli, Karin Schubert | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Bloody Friday | Rolf Olsen | Raimund Harmstorf, Gila von Weitershausen, Amadeus August | Crime thriller | West German-Italian co-production |
| Blüten der Gesellschaft | Werner Schlechte | Margot Trooger, Horst Tappert | Crime comedy | |
| Bremen Freedom | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Kieling, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab | Crime drama | |
| Cabaret | Bob Fosse | Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson, Ralf Wolter, Helen Vita, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel | Musical, Drama | American-West German co-production |
| The Call of the Wild | Ken Annakin | Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf | Adventure | British-French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production |
| Cause of Divorce | Marcello Fondato | Senta Berger, Catherine Spaak | 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[55] |
| The Count of Luxemburg | Wolfgang Glück | Eberhard Wächter, Lilian Sukis | Musical | |
| Cry of the Black Wolves | Harald Reinl | Ron Ely, Raimund Harmstorf, Gila von Weitershausen, Arthur Brauss | Adventure | |
| Das bin ich | Rudolf Nussgruber | Attila Hörbiger, Werner Pochath, Fritz Muliar, Alma Seidler, Marianne Schönauer, Lotte Ledl, Leopold Rudolf, Peter Matic, Guido Wieland, Erich Auer | Drama | a.k.a. Das bin ich – Wiener Schicksale aus den 30er Jahren: Österreich zwischen Demokratie und Diktatur. Austrian-West German co-production |
| The Dead Are Alive | Armando Crispino | Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Horst Frank, Nadja Tiller | Thriller | Italian-West German-Yugoslav co-production |
| Dear Mother, I'm All Right | Christian Ziewer | Claus Eberth | Drama | |
| Dear Murderer | Heinz Schirk | Werner Bruhns, Nicole Heesters, Udo Vioff, Herbert Fleischmann | Thriller | a.k.a. Geliebter Mörder |
| The Death Avenger of Soho | Jesús Franco | Horst Tappert, Fred Williams, Barbara Rütting, Wolfgang Kieling, Siegfried Schürenberg | Thriller | Spanish-West German co-production |
| The Death of Maria Malibran | Werner Schroeter | Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann, Candy Darling, Ingrid Caven | Drama, Music | |
| Defraudanten | Helmut Pfandler | Karl Paryla, Rainer von Artenfels | Comedy | a.k.a. The Embezzlers. Austrian-West German co-production |
| The Disciplined Woman | Ernst Hofbauer | Astrid Frank, Margot Mahler | Exploitation | |
| Don't Get Angry | Peter Weck | Georg Thomalla, Uschi Glas, Christiane Hörbiger | Comedy | |
| Doppelspiel in Paris | Wolfgang Glück | Luitgard Im, Harald Leipnitz, Barbara Lass, Hartmut Reck, Udo Vioff, Ferdy Mayne | War, Docudrama | |
| Einfach davonsegeln! | Korbinian Köberle | Siegfried Lowitz, Wolfgang Büttner, Margot Trooger, Karin Anselm | Comedy | a.k.a. The Escape Club |
| Einmal im Leben | Dieter Wedel | Antje Hagen, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Günter Strack, Hans Korte, Uwe Dallmeier | Comedy | a.k.a. Einmal im Leben – Geschichte eines Eigenheims |
| Der Eisberg der Vorsehung | Thomas Schamoni | Wolfgang Kieling, Friedrich G. Beckhaus | Docudrama | |
| Elisabeth, Kaiserin von Österreich | Theodor Grädler, Jörg A. Eggers | Marisa Mell | Biography | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die Erbschaft | Stanislav Barabáš | Anne-Marie Kuster, Peter Striebeck, Siegfried Rauch | Comedy | a.k.a. L'Héritage |
| Eye in the Labyrinth | Mario Caiano | Rosemary Dexter, Adolfo Celi, Horst Frank, Alida Valli, Sybil Danning | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Der Fall Opa | Harald Philipp | Rudolf Platte, Siegfried Lowitz, Herbert Fleischmann | Crime comedy | |
| Federlesen | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Wolfgang Wahl, Ilse Pagé, Hans Schweikart | Drama | |
| Ferdinand Lassalle | Helmut Ashley | Hans Peter Hallwachs, Andrea Jonasson, Gisela Uhlen, Werner Kreindl | Biography, History | |
| Fettaugen | Werner Schlechte | Gustl Bayrhammer, Franz Muxeneder | Comedy | a.k.a. Fettaugen – Eine Idylle aus der deutschen Provinz |
| Finito l'amor | Peter Beauvais | Camilla Spira, Wolfgang Büttner, Paul Verhoeven, Wolfgang Lukschy, Ruth Hellberg | Drama | |
| Fish for Four | Ulrich Lauterbach | Horst Bollmann, Bruni Löbel, Dagmar Altrichter, Käthe Lindenberg | Black comedy | a.k.a. Fisch zu viert. Remake of Fish for Four (1970) |
| Flint | Hans Lietzau | Martin Held, Bernhard Minetti, Rolf Henniger | Comedy | |
| Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau | Alfred Weidenmann | Lilli Palmer, Paul Hubschmid, Karl Michael Vogler, Horst Tappert, Alexander Kerst, Horst Janson, Sabine Sinjen, Vera Tschechowa | Anthology, Comedy | a.k.a. Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau – Zehn Geschichten mit Lilli Palmer |
| A Free Woman | Volker Schlöndorff | Margarethe von Trotta, Martin Lüttge, Ruth Hellberg, Georg Marischka, Walter Sedlmayr | Drama | |
| Freizeitraum, Bau 2 | Diethard Klante | Friedhelm Ptok | Drama | |
| Die Fremde | Carlheinz Caspari | Elisabeth Ackermann, István Bury, Enrico Ostermann, Jan Groth | War | a.k.a. The Foreigner |
| Frohe Ostern | Oswald Döpke | Martin Held, Inge Langen, Gertrud Kückelmann, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer | Crime | a.k.a. Die Erlebnisse des Amateur-Kriminalisten Beno von Stürler |
| Galgentoni | Michael Kehlmann | Jitka Frantová Pelikánová | Drama | |
| Geheimagenten | Eberhard Fechner | Klaus Herm, Hans Christian Blech, Cordula Trantow, Helga Feddersen, Uwe Dallmeier | Comedy | |
| Das Geheimnis der Mary Celeste | Hans Stumpf | Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Wera Frydtberg, Herbert Fleischmann | Mystery, Adventure | |
| Geliebtes Scheusal | Jürgen Goslar | Peter Pasetti, Ernst Stankovski, Gundy Grand, Detlev Eckstein, Eva Ingeborg Scholz | Comedy | a.k.a. The Man Most Likely to ... |
| Geradeaus bis zum Morgen | Peter Adam | Arthur Brauss, Klaus Grünberg | Crime | |
| Gewissensentscheidung | Nathan Jariv | Tebbe Harms Kleen, Ulrich Matschoss, Ulli Kinalzik, Andrea Jonasson | Docudrama | |
| Gladiatoren | Herbert Ballmann | Jo Bolling, Jörg Cossardt, Donata Höffer, Hildegard Krekel, Günter Lamprecht, Jürgen Schmidt, Matthias Ponnier | Drama | |
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Wim Wenders | Arthur Brauss, Erika Pluhar, Kai Fischer | Crime drama | a.k.a. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. West German-Austrian co-production[56] |
| The Golden Thing | Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl, Alf Brustellin, Nicos Perakis | Christian Reitz, Oliver Jovine | Fantasy | |
| The Good God of Manhattan | Klaus Kirschner | Mathieu Carrière, Verena Buss | Drama | |
| Gran Canaria | Jörg-Michael Baldenius | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Herbert Mensching, Anita Lochner | Crime comedy | |
| The Grand Duel | Giancarlo Santi | Lee Van Cleef, Horst Frank, Jess Hahn, Klaus Grünberg | Western | a.k.a. The Big Showdown. Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Gun Before Butter | Peter Zadek | Frank Finlay, Françoise Prévost, Cyd Hayman, Oscar Homolka, Françoise Arnoul, Pierre Vaneck, Werner Finck, Hans Jaray | Crime | a.k.a. Van der Valk und das Mädchen. West German-French co-production |
| Happy End | Heinz Schirk | Margot Rothweiler, Siegfried Rauch, Barbara Valentin | Musical | |
| Havoc | Peter Fleischmann | Reinhard Kolldehoff, Vitus Zeplichal, Ingmar Zeisberg | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| The Heath Is Green | Harald Reinl | Roy Black, Monika Lundi, Heidi Kabel, Henry Vahl, Jutta Speidel | Musical | |
| Heiß und kalt | Gustav Ehmck | Gerhild Berktold, Christian Marquard | Drama | a.k.a. Heiss und kalt a.k.a. Kalt und heiß a.k.a. Kalt und heiss |
| Der Held | Hagen Mueller-Stahl | Rolf Becker, Gerd Baltus, Elisabeth Schwarz, Heinz Schubert | Crime | a.k.a. Der Held – Roman eines politischen Mordes |
| Herlemanns Traum | Tom Toelle | Vadim Glowna | Drama | a.k.a. Herlemanns Traum oder Das andere Leben |
| Herr Soldan hat keine Vergangenheit | Joachim Hess | Dieter Weiler, Siegfried Lowitz, Ruth Maria Kubitschek | Thriller | |
| History Lessons | Straub–Huillet | Gottfried Bold | Drama | Italian-West German co-production |
| Hochzeit | Horst Flick | Susi Nicoletti, Heinz Moog, Louise Martini, Karl Walter Diess, Eva Mattes, Adrienne Gessner, Hans Brenner | Drama | |
| Hundertwasser's Rainy Day | Peter Schamoni | Friedensreich Hundertwasser | Documentary | |
| The Italian | Ferry Radax | Fabrizio Jovine, Rosemarie Fendel | Drama | a.k.a. Der Italiener. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Jail Bait | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Eva Mattes, Harry Baer, Jörg von Liebenfelß, Ruth Drexel | Drama | a.k.a. Wild Game |
| La Jalousie | Klaus Kirschner | Michael Degen, Ingrid Resch | Drama | |
| Jörn Drescher, 19 Jahre | Udo Langhoff | Volker Eckstein, Konrad Georg, Christine Golling, Giulia Follina, Susanne Beck | Drama | |
| Jugend einer Studienrätin | Rainer Wolffhardt | Regine Lamster, Heinz Weiss, Eva Kotthaus | Drama, War | |
| Die keusche Susanne | Thomas Engel | Maria Schell, Harald Juhnke, Barbara Schöne, Peer Schmidt, Amadeus August, Fritz Tillmann | Musical comedy | a.k.a. Chaste Susanne |
| King, Queen, Knave | Jerzy Skolimowski | David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf | Comedy | American-West German co-production[57] |
| Das Klavier | Fritz Umgelter | Anneliese Uhlig, Günter Strack, Maria Körber, Andrea Dahmen, Helmut Wildt, Günter Mack, Guido Wieland, Willi Rose, Karl John, Matthias Habich | Drama, War | |
| Land | Roland Gall | Karl John | Drama | |
| Laß jucken, Kumpel | Franz Marischka | Anne Graf, Michel Jacot, Rinaldo Talamonti | Softcore | a.k.a. Lass jucken, Kumpel a.k.a. The Miner's Wife ... Takes Her Pick |
| Der letzte Werkelmann | Jörg A. Eggers | Hans Putz, Kurt Sowinetz, Hugo Gottschlich, Bruno Hübner, Erni Mangold, Heinz Marecek, Michael Janisch, Grete Zimmer, Kurt Jaggberg, Peter Fricke | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Der Leuchtturm | Vojtěch Jasný | Hans Christian Blech | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Liebe so schön wie Liebe | Klaus Lemke | Sylvie Winter, Rolf Zacher, Marquard Bohm | Comedy | |
| Der Lift | Georg Tressler | Eduard Wegrostek, Marie Versini, Walter Buschhoff | Drama | |
| Ludwig | Luchino Visconti | Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe, Romy Schneider, Helmut Griem | Biography | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Harry Baer, Peter Kern, Günther Kaufmann, Ingrid Caven, Gert Haucke | Drama | |
| A Man to Respect | Michele Lupo | Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan, Wolfgang Preiss, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Crime thriller | a.k.a. The Master Touch. Italian-West German co-production |
| Mandala | Rainer Wolffhardt | Heinz Bennent | Thriller | |
| Manolescu | Hans Quest | Michael Heltau, Diana Körner, Anaid Iplicjian, Maria Sebaldt, Anita Lochner, Hans Söhnker, Rudolf Schündler, Dieter Borsche, Günter Strack | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Manolescu – Die fast wahre Biographie eines Gauners |
| Marie | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Anna Martins, Maria Schell, Heinz Bennent | Drama | |
| The Marquis of Keith | Hans Lietzau | Martin Benrath, Hannelore Hoger | Drama | |
| Marya Sklodowska-Curie – Ein Mädchen, das die Welt veränderte | Wolfgang Staudte | Christine Wodetzky | Biography | a.k.a. Maria Skłodowska-Curie |
| Max Hoelz | Rudolf Nussgruber | Günter Mack, Udo Vioff, Heinz Weiss, Dieter Borsche, Ferdy Mayne | Docudrama | |
| Memories of a Summer in Berlin | Rolf Hädrich | Burt Nelson, Franziska Bronnen | Drama | a.k.a. You Can't Go Home Again |
| Mit dem Strom | Wolfgang Schleif | Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Büttner, Carl Lange, Claus Wilcke, Günter Strack, Uwe Friedrichsen, Claus Holm, Michael Hinz | Drama | |
| Mitteilungen über eine Schuld | Frank Guthke | Doris Kunstmann, Ida Ehre | Drama | |
| Monsieur Chasse | Rolf von Sydow | Karl Michael Vogler, Erika Pluhar | Comedy | |
| The Morals of Ruth Halbfass | Volker Schlöndorff | Senta Berger, Helmut Griem, Margarethe von Trotta, Peter Ehrlich | Crime drama | |
| My Daughter, Your Daughter | Werner Jacobs | Georg Thomalla, Peter Weck, Heinz Reincke, Silvia Reize | Comedy | |
| Nasrin, or The Art of Dreaming | Vojtěch Jasný | Erika Pluhar, Evelyn Opela, Heinz Bennent | Fantasy | |
| Nicht Lob, noch Furcht: Graf Galen, Bischof von Münster | Paul May | Wolfgang Büttner | War, Biography | a.k.a. Nec Laudibus, Nec Timore: Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster |
| Nightshade | Niklaus Schilling | Elke Haltaufderheide, John van Dreelen | Drama | |
| Nocturno | Hajo Gies | Rakhchandeh Ettehad | Drama | |
| Nurse Report | Walter Boos | Elisabeth Volkmann, Ingrid Steeger | Sex report film | a.k.a. Nurses Report |
| Ohne Nachsicht | Theodor Kotulla | Henry van Lyck, Joachim Regelien, Heidi Stroh, Eva Christian | Drama | |
| Old Mamsell's Secret | Herbert Ballmann | Brigitte Horney, Giulia Follina, Volkert Kraeft, Dieter Borsche | Drama | |
| One for the Pot | Stefan Wigger | Herbert Mensching, Horst Bollmann, Robert Meyn, Gisela Mattishent, Rakhchandeh Ettehad, Dagmar Biener, Klaus Herm | Comedy | a.k.a. Viel, viel Geld |
| Ornifle oder Der erzürnte Himmel | Helmut Käutner | Peter Pasetti, Sky du Mont, Gerlinde Döberl | Comedy | a.k.a. Ornifle ou le Courant d'air a.k.a. It's Later Than You Think |
| Oscar Wilde | Hansgünther Heyme | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Drama, Biography | |
| Das Paradies auf der anderen Seite | Karl Fruchtmann | Peter Striebeck, Alexander May, Günter Mack, Walter Kohut | Crime | |
| Present Laughter | Korbinian Köberle | O. W. Fischer, Johanna Matz | Comedy | a.k.a. Amouren |
| Die Pueblo-Affäre | Rudolf Nussgruber | Hellmut Lange | Docudrama | a.k.a. The Pueblo Affair a.k.a. The Pueblo Incident |
| Rechtsprechung | Karlheinz Bieber | Wolfgang Kieling, Rudolf Schündler, Jürgen Goslar, Hans Paetsch | Docudrama | a.k.a. Rechtsprechung – Szenische Rekonstruktion des Prozesses gegen Dr. John Bodkin Adams |
| The Red Queen Kills Seven Times | Emilio Miraglia | Barbara Bouchet, Rudolf Schündler, Sybil Danning | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Rocker | Klaus Lemke | Gerd Kruskopf, Hans-Jürgen Modschiedler | Drama | |
| Seek Her Out | Oswald Döpke | Margot Leonard, Horst Frank, Günther Neutze, Günter Strack | Thriller | a.k.a. Im Namen der Freiheit |
| Der Seitensprung des Genossen Barkassow | Hans-Peter Kaufmann | Hans Korte, Günter Strack, Dagmar Mettler, Ralf Wolter | Comedy | |
| Die seltsamen Abenteuer des geheimen Kanzleisekretärs Tusmann | Helmut Käutner | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Peter Vogel, Ilse Pagé | Comedy, Fantasy | a.k.a. The Choosing of the Bride a.k.a. Albertine's Wooers |
| The Sensuous Three | Robert van Ackeren | Mascha Rabben, Gabriele Lafari, Ulli Lommel, Rolf Zacher, Heidy Bohlen | Drama | a.k.a. Harlis[58] |
| Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Umberto Lenzi | Uschi Glas, Antonio Sabàto, Marisa Mell, Petra Schürmann | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Shot on Command | Rainer Wolffhardt | Jürgen Prochnow, Christoph Felsenstein | Crime | a.k.a. Shot on Command – The Sass Brothers, Once Berlin's Big Crooks |
| Sie hätten im Sommer kommen sollen | Hans Bachmüller | Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Christian Quadflieg, Walter Taub | Drama | |
| Sie liebten sich einen Sommer | Harald Reinl | Amadeus August, Gundy Grand | Drama | |
| The Silent Revolution | Eckehard Munck | Documentary | ||
| Soft Shoulders, Sharp Curves | Gabriel Axel | Doris Arden, Franz Schafheitlin | Sex comedy | |
| State of Siege | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, O. E. Hasse, Renato Salvatori, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production[59] |
| Sternschnuppe | Herbert Vesely | Monika Lundi | Drama, Music | |
| Strange City | Rudolf Thome | Roger Fritz, Karin Thome, Georg Marischka | Crime | |
| The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | Alfred Vohrer | Paul Neuhaus, Hannelore Elsner, Herbert Fleischmann, Edith Heerdegen, Anton Diffring | Thriller | |
| Das System Fabrizzi | Imo Moszkowicz | Harald Leipnitz, Karin Baal, Friedrich Schoenfelder | Comedy | |
| Szenen aus dem Eheleben | Karl Peter Biltz | Heinz Bennent, Karin Eickelbaum | Drama | a.k.a. Scenes from Family Life |
| Tears of Blood | Alfred Vohrer | Alain Noury, Anita Lochner, Malte Thorsten, Wolfgang Reichmann | Drama | a.k.a. The Rain Erases Everything. West German-French co-production[60] |
| Temptation in the Summer Wind | Rolf Thiele | Yvonne Furneaux, Paul Hubschmid, Peter Vogel, Helmut Käutner, Christiane Hörbiger | Comedy | |
| Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Walter Sedlmayr | Docudrama | |
| Der Tod des Ministers | Walter Davy | Erika Pluhar, Sieghardt Rupp, Ernst Meister, Rudolf Wessely, Alfred Balthoff, Fritz Muliar, Kurt Sowinetz, Kurt Jaggberg | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Tod im Studio | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Gert Günther Hoffmann, Günter Gräwert, Manfred Sexauer, Karl Walter Diess, Kurd Pieritz | Thriller | |
| Eine Tote soll ermordet werden | Wilhelm Semmelroth | Siegfried Lowitz, Günter Mack, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Anaid Iplicjian | Crime | |
| Ein Toter stoppt den 8 Uhr 10 | Michael Braun | Franz Rudnick, Inge Solbrig, Claudia Wedekind, Wolf Richards, Werner Bruhns, Irene Marhold, Joachim Wichmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus | Crime | |
| Trouble with Trixie | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Uschi Glas, Peter Weck | Comedy | |
| Verdacht gegen Barry Croft | Paul Verhoeven | Karlheinz Böhm, Karin Hübner, Herbert Fleischmann | Thriller | a.k.a. Suspicion Against Barry Croft |
| Verrat ist kein Gesellschaftsspiel | Wolfgang Staudte | Herbert Fleischmann, Arthur Brauss, Franz Rudnick, Willi Kowalj, Susanne Schaefer | Thriller | |
| Vier gegen das britische Pfund | Hans Stumpf | Gerd Baltus, Helmut Förnbacher, Rainer Basedow, Fred Haltiner, Renate Roland | Crime | a.k.a. 4 gegen das britische Pfund |
| Die Vitrine | Karlheinz Bieber | Ernst Stankovski, Brigitte Horney, Claudia Wedekind, Eva Maria Meineke, Ursula Herking | Comedy | |
| What? | Roman Polanski | Sydne Rome, Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production[61] |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger | Mystery thriller | Italian-West German co-production[62] |
| Willi Manages The Whole Thing | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt | Comedy | [63] |
| Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte | Alexander Kluge | Alfred Edel, Hark Bohm, Hannelore Hoger | Science fiction | |
| Die Witwen oder Eine vollkommene Lösung | Tom Toelle | Heinz Bennent, Miriam Spoerri, Ulli Philipp, Luminița Iacobescu | Black comedy | |
| Ein Wochenende des Alfred Berger | Rainer Wolffhardt | Gunnar Möller, Dinah Hinz, Werner Kreindl | Drama | |
| Die Wollands | Marianne Lüdcke, Ingo Kratisch | Nicolas Brieger, Elfriede Irrall | Drama | |
| Zeitaufnahme | Rolf Busch | Franz Rudnick, Alexander May | Drama | |
| Zoff | Eberhard Pieper | Giulia Follina, Jürgen Prochnow, Hildegard Krekel, Claus Theo Gärtner | Drama | |
| Zur schönen Aussicht | Hans Hollmann | Reinhild Solf | Drama |
1973
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ...aber Jonny! | Alfred Weidenmann | Horst Buchholz, Hannelore Elsner, Judy Winter, Herbert Fleischmann, Monika Lundi | Comedy | |
| Alfie | Karl Fruchtmann | Peter Striebeck, Anita Kupsch, Rosemarie Fendel, Brigitte Swoboda, Elisabeth Wiedemann | Comedy | |
| All People Will Be Brothers | Alfred Vohrer | Harald Leipnitz, Doris Kunstmann, Rainer von Artenfels | Drama | a.k.a. The Cain Conspiracy |
| Alle lieben Célimare | Thomas Engel | Heinz Bennent, Simone Rethel, Hannes Messemer, Gustl Bayrhammer | Comedy | a.k.a. Célimare le bien-aimé |
| Ausbruch | Harald Philipp | Pablo Kamolz, Hugo Panczak, Thomas Rau, Frank Rheinboldt, Lutz Riedel, Wolfgang Wiehe | Crime drama | |
| Battle of Berlin | Franz Baake, Jost von Morr | Documentary, War | ||
| Bed Hostesses | Erwin C. Dietrich | Ingrid Steeger | Sex comedy | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Die Biedermänner | Wolf Dietrich | Josef Meinrad, Peter Vogel, Otto Tausig | Comedy | |
| Black Coffee | Claus Peter Witt | Horst Bollmann, Ulli Philipp, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Friedrich von Thun, Anita Lochner, Gert Haucke | Mystery | |
| Blitzlicht | Diethard Klante | Hans Korte, Louise Martini, Peter Vogel | Science fiction | |
| The Bloody Vultures of Alaska | Harald Reinl | Doug McClure, Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Löwitsch, Heinz Reincke | Adventure | |
| Blue Blooms the Gentian | Franz Antel | Ilja Richter, Eddi Arent, Hansi Kraus | Musical comedy | |
| The Blue Hotel | Stanislav Barabáš | Per Oscarsson, Hans Christian Blech, Arthur Brauss, Martin Lüttge, Tord Peterson, Konrad Georg, Gun Robertson, Tommy Johnson, Anne-Marie Machnow | Drama | West German-Swedish co-production |
| The Caretaker | August Everding | Heinz Rühmann, Gerd Baltus, Michael Schwarzmaier | Drama | a.k.a. Der Hausmeister |
| Crazy – Completely Mad | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Georg Thomalla, Cornelia Froboess | Comedy | |
| Daniel | Pete Ariel | Hans Günter Michelsen | Drama | |
| Death Under Sail | Oswald Döpke | Charles Régnier, Hannelore Elsner, Axel von Ambesser, Giulia Follina, Gerd Baltus, Volkert Kraeft, Jochen Busse | Mystery | a.k.a. Death on the River Thames |
| Desaster | Reinhard Hauff | Klaus Löwitsch, Dieter Laser | Crime drama | |
| The Devil's Disciple | Ludwig Cremer | Heinz Bennent, Werner Kreindl, Charles Régnier | Drama | |
| Diamantenparty | Joachim Hess | Barbara Rütting, Heidelinde Weis, John van Dreelen, Wolfgang Preiss, Maria Sebaldt, Ralf Wolter, Fritz Muliar | Crime comedy | |
| Dream City | Johannes Schaaf | Per Oscarsson, Olimpia, Rosemarie Fendel, Louis Waldon, Ron Williams | Drama | |
| Du stirbst nicht allein – Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris | Jürgen Goslar | Udo Vioff, Harald Leipnitz, Wolfgang Preiss | War | |
| The East Frisian Report | Walter Boos | Josef Moosholzer, Margot Mahler | Sex comedy | |
| Eigentlich hatte ich Angst ... | Nathan Jariv | Wolfgang Hübsch | War, Drama | a.k.a. Eigentlich hatte ich Angst – Die Geschichte eines ungewöhnlichen Helden |
| Ein für allemal | Peter Adam | Karin Baal, Georges Claisse, Relja Bašić | Crime | |
| End of the Line | Ludwig Cremer | Hans Schweikart, Peter Striebeck | Mystery | a.k.a. Endstation |
| Entziehung – Ein Tagebuch | Ludwig Cremer | Gabriele Wohmann, Heinz Bennent, Herbert Fleischmann | Drama | |
| The Experts | Norbert Kückelmann | Mathias Eysen, Gisela Fischer, Hans Brenner, Walter Sedlmayr | Drama | Won a Silver Bear at Berlin |
| Ein Fall für Goron | Oswald Döpke | Hannes Messemer, Hannelore Elsner, Herbert Fleischmann, Diana Körner | Mystery | |
| Fall nicht in den Schwanensee | Arno Assmann | Helga Anders, Horst Tappert, Gunnar Möller, Dagmar Mettler | Comedy | a.k.a. Chase me, Comrade! |
| The Fat Woman's Tale | Heinz Schirk | Karin Schlemmer, Alexander May, Luitgard Im | Drama | a.k.a. The Fat Woman's Joke |
| The First Circle | Aleksander Ford | Gunther Malzacher, Elżbieta Czyżewska, Peter Steen, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | Danish-West German co-production |
| The Fish Can Sing | Rolf Hädrich | Árni Árnason, Jón Laxdal | Drama | a.k.a. Fischkonzert. Icelandic-West German co-production |
| Florian | Klaus Emmerich | Jörg Pleva, Elke Aberle | Drama | |
| The Flying Classroom | Werner Jacobs | Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Reincke | Comedy | |
| Das gefährliche Leben | Thomas Land | Ilse Ritter, Günter Strack, Eva Brumby | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Frøken J. oder Das gefährliche Leben |
| Die geheimen Papiere des Pentagon | Carlheinz Caspari | Gunther Malzacher, Hans Peter Korff, Claus Eberth | Docudrama | |
| The Girl from Hong Kong | Jürgen Roland | Joachim Fuchsberger, Li Paelz, Grégoire Aslan, Arthur Brauss, Véronique Vendell | Thriller | |
| Die Gräfin von Rathenow | Peter Beauvais | Doris Kunstmann, Götz George, Hermann Treusch, Helga Anders | Drama | |
| Hau drauf, Kleiner | May Spils | Werner Enke, Mascha Gonska, Henry van Lyck | Comedy | |
| Haus am Meer | Reinhard Hauff | Hanna Schygulla, Rolf Becker | Drama | |
| Housewives on the Job | Ernst Hofbauer | Marie-Georges Pascal, Elisabeth Volkmann, Ingrid Steeger | Sex report film | [64] |
| Hubertus Castle | Harald Reinl | Robert Hoffmann, Karlheinz Böhm, Carl Lange, Klaus Löwitsch, Gerhard Riedmann, Ute Kittelberger, Gerlinde Döberl, Evelyn Opela | Drama | |
| I Thought I Was Dead | Wolf Gremm | Y Sa Lo | Drama | a.k.a. I Had a Feeling I Was Dead |
| Im Angesicht des Todes | Walter Davy | Walter Kohut | War, Biography | a.k.a. Alfred Delp: In the Face of Death. West German-Austrian co-production |
| Im Reservat | Peter Beauvais | Wolfgang Kieling, Johanna Hofer, Rosemarie Fendel | Drama | |
| Im Schillingshof | Herbert Ballmann | Evelyn Opela, Joachim Ansorge, Rolf Henniger, Ursela Monn, Dirk Dautzenberg, Folker Bohnet, Hermann Schomberg | Drama | |
| Im Zeichen der Kälte | Uwe Brandner | Harry Baer, Hans Christian Blech, Judy Winter | Crime | |
| Immobilien | Otto Jägersberg | Maria Schell, Christine Kaufmann, Karlheinz Böhm, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Kieling, Siegfried Wischnewski | Drama | |
| Inferno | Stanislav Barabáš | Per Oscarsson, Christine Buchegger, Marie Versini, Ulla Sjöblom, Georgette Anys, Diana Kjaer, Tommy Johnson, Georg Årlin, Toivo Pawlo, Henry Gilbert | Biography | Swedish-West German-French-Danish-Finnish-Austrian-Norwegian co-production |
| Invitation to a Beheading | Horst Flick | Wolf Roth, Horst Bollmann, Wolfgang Kieling | Science fiction | |
| Josef Lang, k. u. k. Scharfrichter | Heinz Schirk | Georg Corten | Biography | |
| Ein junger Mann aus dem Innviertel – Adolf Hitler | Axel Corti | Franz Trager | Biography, History | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Karussells werden im Himmel gemacht | Chuck Kerremans | Christian Wolff, Katrin Schaake, Alexander May, Shmuel Rodensky | Comedy | |
| Kopf oder Zahl | Uwe Brandner | Wolf Martienzen, Ingeborg Schöner, Henry van Lyck | Crime | |
| Krieg im dritten Stock | Karl Peter Biltz | Paul Edwin Roth | Comedy | a.k.a. Krieg im 3. Stock |
| Der lange Jammer | Max Willutzki | Heinz Giese, Günther Kieslich, Peter Schlesinger | Docudrama | |
| A Life | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Matthias Ponnier | Drama | a.k.a. Ein Leben a.k.a. Una Vita |
| Little Mother | Radley Metzger | Christiane Krüger, Siegfried Rauch, Mark Damon, Ivan Desny, Elga Sorbas, Anton Diffring | Drama | American-West German-Yugoslav co-production |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Peter Beauvais | Martin Held, Eva Katharina Schultz, András Fricsay, Gerd Böckmann | Drama | |
| Love in 3-D | Walter Boos | Ingrid Steeger, Elisabeth Volkmann | Sex comedy | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | Oswald Döpke | Volkert Kraeft, Christine Merthan, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Eva Mattes, Gerd Baltus, Günter Mack | Comedy | a.k.a. Liebe leidet mit Lust |
| Mark of the Devil Part II | Adrian Hoven | Anton Diffring, Reggie Nalder | Horror | [65] |
| Mein Onkel Benjamin | Thomas Engel | Peter Vogel, Inken Sommer, Reinhard Kolldehoff, René Deltgen | Comedy | a.k.a. My Uncle Benjamin |
| Merry-Go-Round | Otto Schenk | Maria Schneider, Helmut Berger, Senta Berger, Sydne Rome, Erika Pluhar, Helmuth Lohner | Comedy | a.k.a. Dance of Love: La Ronde |
| My Name is Nobody | Tonino Valerii | Terence Hill, Henry Fonda | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production[66][67] |
| Nerze nachts am Straßenrand | Wolfgang Staudte | Peter Eschberg, Witta Pohl, Ruth Hausmeister, Jochen Busse | Crime | |
| Nestwärme | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Susanne Schaefer, Volkert Kraeft, Matthias Ponnier, Xenia Pörtner, Ulrich Matschoss | Drama | |
| Nichts als Erinnerung | Michael Kehlmann | Attila Hörbiger, Paula Wessely, Peter Weck, Dagmar Mettler, Kurt Sowinetz | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Night Flight from Moscow | Henri Verneuil | Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet, Martin Held, Virna Lisi, Elga Andersen | Cold War spy film | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Nullpunkt | Rolf Busch | Angelika Bender | Drama | |
| Old Barge, Young Love | Werner Jacobs | Roy Black, Barbara Nielsen | Musical | [68] |
| Olifant | Horst Dallmayr | Udo Kier, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | |
| Once Upon a Time | Rolf Kauka, Roberto Gavioli | — | Animated | West German-Italian co-production |
| Pan | George Moorse | Louis Waldon, Udo Kier, Evelyn Opela, Gordon Mitchell, Elga Sorbas, Del Negro, Helga Anders, Herbert Fux, Dieter Schidor | Fantasy | |
| Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave | Alexander Kluge | Alexandra Kluge | Drama | |
| The Pedestrian | Maximilian Schell | Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Peter Hall, Gila von Weitershausen, Christian Kohlund | Drama | West German-Swiss-Israeli co-production |
| The Philanthropist | Erich Neureuther | Peter Vogel, Martin Lüttge, Sabine Sinjen, Verena Buss, Peter Fricke, Hans-Georg Panczak | Drama | |
| Prozess: Die Meuterei auf der Bounty | Imo Moszkowicz | Wolfgang Wahl, Heinz Baumann, Günter Mack, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Friedrich Joloff | History, Docudrama | |
| Die Reise nach Mallorca | Kurt Wilhelm | Johanna von Koczian, Peter Arens, Evelyn Opela, Susi Nicoletti, Gerhard Riedmann | Comedy | |
| The Scarlet Letter | Wim Wenders | Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Lou Castel | Drama | West German-Spanish co-production[69] |
| Scheibenschießen | Erich Neureuther | Erika von Thellmann, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Edith Heerdegen, Rose Renée Roth, Heinz Meier | Crime comedy | |
| Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye | Antonio Margheriti | Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller, Doris Kunstmann, Anton Diffring, Konrad Georg, Serge Gainsbourg | Thriller | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| The Sibyl Cipher | Alfred Vohrer | Harald Leipnitz, Gila von Weitershausen, Nino Castelnuovo, Andrea Jonasson | Thriller | a.k.a. Gott schützt die Liebenden |
| Sieben Tage | Rainer Erler | Wilfried Klaus, Christel Bodenstein, Günter Strack | Drama | a.k.a. Sieben Tage – Modell einer Krise? a.k.a. 7 Tage |
| Der Sieger von Tambo | Dietrich Haugk | Joachim Bißmeier, Will Quadflieg, Christine Ostermayer, Hans Brenner, Jürgen Goslar, Walter Kohut, Klaus Höhne, Hartmut Becker | Drama | a.k.a. El día señalado |
| Sittengemälde | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Hans Brenner, Vérénice Rudolph | Drama | |
| Smog | Wolfgang Petersen | Marie-Luise Marjan | Disaster | |
| So'n Theater | Thomas Engel | Theo Lingen, Chariklia Baxevanos, Harald Juhnke | Comedy | |
| Die Sonne über dem Meer | Werner Schlechte | Arno Assmann, Volker Eckstein, Benno Sterzenbach, Monica Bleibtreu | Drama | a.k.a. Le Soleil sur la mer |
| Sons and Lovers | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Wolfram Weniger, Christiane Hörbiger, Anita Lochner, Irmgard Först, Klaus Löwitsch, Heinz Baumann | Drama | a.k.a. Eine egoistische Liebe |
| Steal the Old Man's Bundle | Oswald Döpke | Shmuel Rodensky, Dieter Schidor | Drama | a.k.a. Rückstände |
| Steig ein und stirb | Günter Gräwert | Walter Sedlmayr, Peter Drescher, Dagmar Biener | Crime | |
| Sylvie | Klaus Lemke | Sylvie Winter, Paul Lyss, Del Negro, Ivan Desny | Drama | |
| The Tenderness of Wolves | Ulli Lommel | Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Brigitte Mira, Wolfgang Schenck | Crime drama, Horror | [70] |
| Der Tote vom Pont Neuf | Falk Harnack | Heinrich Schweiger, Siegfried Wischnewski | Drama | |
| Traumtänzer | Vojtěch Jasný | Edith Heerdegen | Drama | |
| Trip to Vienna | Edgar Reitz | Elke Sommer, Hannelore Elsner, Mario Adorf, Heinz Reincke, Ferdy Mayne | Comedy-drama, War | [71] |
| Twelfth Night | Otto Schenk | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Helmuth Lohner, Josef Meinrad, Sabine Sinjen, Christiane Hörbiger | Comedy | |
| The Twins from Immenhof | Wolfgang Schleif | Heidi Brühl, Horst Janson, Olga Chekhova | Comedy | |
| Über Nacht | Karin Thome | Karin Thome, Werner Penzel, Rudolf Thome | Drama | |
| Ein unheimlich starker Abgang | Michael Verhoeven | Katja Rupé, Elmar Wepper, Irm Hermann, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | Drama | a.k.a. Sonja schafft die Wirklichkeit ab oder ... ein unheimlich starker Abgang |
| Van der Valk und die Reichen | Wolfgang Petersen | Frank Finlay, Françoise Prévost, Judy Winter, Helmut Käutner | Crime | a.k.a. The King of the Rainy Country. West German-French co-production |
| The Venice Train | Tom Toelle | Herbert Mensching, Ivan Desny | Thriller | a.k.a. Rückfahrt von Venedig |
| Verwandte sind auch Menschen | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Claus Biederstaedt, Karin Hübner | Comedy | |
| Victor, or Power to the Children | Tom Toelle | Vadim Glowna, Ulli Philipp, Hans Caninenberg, Günter Mack, Miriam Spoerri, Carl Lange, Dagmar Altrichter | Comedy | |
| La Victoria | Peter Lilienthal | Paula Moya | Drama | |
| Vom Hackepeter und der kalten Mamsell | Ilo von Jankó | Herbert Bötticher, Ilse Pagé, Heinz Moog | Crime comedy | |
| Der Vorgang | Fritz Umgelter | Horst Frank, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Ivan Desny, Rolf Becker, Andrea Dahmen | Thriller | |
| Wenn alle anderen fehlen | Fritz Umgelter | Maria Körber | Drama | |
| Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen | Imo Moszkowicz | Pinkas Braun | Biography, History | a.k.a. Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen – Theodor Herzl, der Vater des Staates Israel |
| Wenn jeder Tag ein Sonntag wär | Harald Vock | Ireen Sheer, Chris Roberts, Georg Thomalla | Musical comedy | |
| Wienerinnen | Dietrich Haugk | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Helma Gautier, Nina Sandt | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Willow Springs | Werner Schroeter | Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann | Drama | |
| Die Wohngenossin | Nikos Perakis | Giulia Follina, Martin Lüttge | Drama | |
| World on a Wire | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Barbara Valentin, Ivan Desny, Günter Lamprecht, Gottfried John, Heinz Meier | Thriller, Science fiction | TV film |
| Yankee Dudler | Volker Vogeler | Arthur Brauss, Geraldine Chaplin, William Berger, Eduardo Fajardo, Fred Stillkrauth | Western | a.k.a. Jaider's Gang. West German-Spanish co-production |
| Zahltag | Hans Noever | André Rouyer | Crime | |
| Zinksärge für die Goldjungen | Jürgen Roland | Henry Silva, Herbert Fleischmann, Horst Janson, Véronique Vendell, Raf Baldassarre | Crime | West German-Italian co-production |
| Zu einem Mord gehören zwei | Rainer Wolffhardt | Dieter Kirchlechner, Maria Sebaldt, Günter Mack | Crime | |
| Der Zweck heiligt die Mittel | Fritz Umgelter | Jörg Pleva, Joachim Kerzel | Thriller |
1974
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Die 7-Tage-Woche des Drahtwebers Rolf Piechotta | Rainer Boldt | Karl-Heinz Walther, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Diether Krebs | Drama | |
| Ein Abend, eine Nacht, ein Morgen | Ludwig Cremer | Doris Kunstmann, Peter Mosbacher, Anne-Marie Blanc | Drama | |
| Abschied vom Abschied | Frank Guthke | Iris Berben | Drama | |
| The Affair of the Poisons | Imo Moszkowicz | Ursula Lingen, Louise Martini, Michael Degen, Romuald Pekny, Richard Lauffen | History | a.k.a. Gift-Affäre |
| After Liverpool | Michael Haneke | Dieter Kirchlechner, Hildegard Schmahl | Drama | a.k.a. ... und was kommt danach? |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin | Drama | [72] |
| Alice in the Cities | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | [73] |
| Alpha und Asphalt | Frank Guthke | Christiane Krüger | Science fiction | |
| Alpine Glow in Dirndlrock | Sigi Rothemund | Elisabeth Volkmann, Rinaldo Talamonti | Sex comedy | a.k.a. Alpine Passion a.k.a. Stop It – I Like It |
| Am Morgen meines Todes | Oswald Döpke | Werner Kreindl, Heinz Meier, Rosemarie Fendel | Drama | |
| Die Ameisen kommen | Jochen Richter | Marc Porel, Ferdy Mayne, Belinda Mayne | Crime | |
| 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 |
| Anna | Uschi Reich | Helga Anders, Nicolas Brieger, Hans Peter Cloos | Drama | |
| Arme klauen nicht | Claus Peter Witt | Gerd Baltus | Drama | |
| Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler | Werner Jacobs | Georg Thomalla, Horst Tappert, Detlev Eckstein, Bernd Herberger, Jutta Speidel, Christiane Krüger | Comedy | |
| Aufs Kreuz gelegt | Wolfgang Petersen | Olga Karlatos, Reiner Schöne, Dieter Kirchlechner, Grégoire Aslan | Adventure | |
| Auguste Bolte | Gerd Winkler | Cornelia Froboess | Comedy | |
| Bismarck von hinten oder Wir schließen nie | Joachim Hess | Hans Jürgen Diedrich, Uwe Dallmeier, Jón Laxdal | Comedy | |
| Ein bißchen Liebe | Veith von Fürstenberg | Burghard Schlicht, Brigitte Berger, Gregor von Rezzori | Comedy | |
| The Broken Jug | Franz Peter Wirth | Wolfgang Reichmann | Comedy | a.k.a. Der zerbrochene Krug |
| The Catamount Killing | Krzysztof Zanussi | Horst Buchholz, Ann Wedgeworth | Crime | a.k.a. Lohngelder für Pittsville |
| Cautio Criminalis | Hagen Mueller-Stahl | Gerd Böckmann, Horst Frank, Doris Schade, Gaby Dohm, Kurt Meisel, Walter Buschhoff, Paul Verhoeven | History | a.k.a. Cautio Criminalis oder Der Hexenanwalt |
| Chapeau Claque | Ulrich Schamoni | Ulrich Schamoni, Anna Henkel | Comedy | |
| Charley's Nieces | Walter Boos | Josef Moosholzer, Elisabeth Volkmann | Comedy | |
| Charlotte | Roger Vadim | Sirpa Lane, Roger Vadim, Mathieu Carrière | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production[74] |
| Class Reunion | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Hans Jaray, Heinz Moog, Bruno Dallansky, Peter Faerber, Jan Christian | Drama | a.k.a. Der Abituriententag |
| Dandelions | Adrian Hoven | Rutger Hauer, Dagmar Lassander | Drama | a.k.a. Hard to Remember a.k.a. Diary of a Lover |
| Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Samuel Fuller | Glenn Corbett, Anton Diffring, Christa Lang, Stéphane Audran, Sieghardt Rupp | Crime | Produced as a Tatort episode |
| Death in Astapovo | Günter Gräwert | Hans Christian Blech, Gisela Stein, Wolfgang Wahl, Mathieu Carrière | Biography | a.k.a. Tod in Astapowo – Die Ehe von Leo und Sophia Tolstoi |
| The Difficult Man | Stanislav Barabáš | Wolfgang Gasser, Erika Pluhar, Doris Kunstmann | Comedy | a.k.a. An Impossible Man a.k.a. Der Schwierige |
| Diplomatic Baggage | Arno Assmann | Gunnar Möller, Wolfgang Kieling, Wolfgang Preiss, Elke Aberle, Heidi Stroh, Karin Eickelbaum | Comedy | |
| Don't Start Without Me | Wolfgang Spier | Horst Janson, Monika Lundi, Simone Rethel, Stefan Behrens | Comedy | a.k.a. Früher oder später |
| Dorothea's Revenge | Peter Fleischmann | Anna Henkel | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Dschungelmädchen für zwei Halunken | Ernst Hofbauer | Alberto Dell'Acqua, Wolf Goldan | Adventure, Comedy | West German-Italian co-production |
| Du Land der Liebe | Rolf von Sydow | Rudolf Fernau, Herbert Fleischmann | Drama | |
| Effi Briest | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel | Drama | [75] |
| Eiger | Dieter Wedel | Hans Brenner, Herbert Stass, Werner Asam, Jörg Pleva, Martin Sperr, Claus Eberth | Drama | |
| Das einsame Haus | Thomas Fantl | Hans Christian Blech, Jörg Pleva | Thriller | |
| Eintausend Milliarden | Dieter Wedel | Martin Benrath, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Peter Ehrlich, Gisela Stein, Herbert Bötticher, Katrin Schaake, Günter Strack | Docudrama | a.k.a. 1000 Milliarden |
| Elfmeter! Elfmeter! | Theo Mezger | Manfred Guthke, Elke Aberle, Harry Wüstenhagen | Comedy, Sport | |
| Die Eltern | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Anne Bennent, Barbara Rütting, Henri Serre, Heinz Bennent | Drama | |
| The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Werner Herzog | Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge, Alfred Edel | Historical drama | [76] a.k.a. Every Man for Himself and God Against All |
| Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt | Roland Gall | Vadim Glowna, Dieter Laser | Drama | |
| Eskalation | Claus Peter Witt | Jan Groth | Crime | |
| Fliegen und Stürzen | Eberhard Pieper | Cordula Trantow, Hans-Michael Rehberg | War, Biography | a.k.a. Fliegen und Stürzen – Porträt der Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg |
| Ein fröhliches Dasein | Wolfgang Staudte | Robert Wolfgang Schnell, Lotti Krekel, Ian MacNaughton | Comedy | |
| Fusion | Nathan Jariv | Nicole Heesters, Ulrich Matschoss | Comedy | |
| Ein ganz perfektes Ehepaar | Ula Stöckl | Doris Kunstmann, Gerd Baltus, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Drama | |
| Goodbye with Mums | Florian Furtwängler | Christine Kaufmann, Liesbeth List, Klaus Grünberg | Drama | a.k.a. Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen |
| Goldfüchse | Kurt Wilhelm | Henner Quest, Felix von Manteuffel, Lisa Fitz | Crime comedy | |
| Griseldis | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Klaus Barner | Drama | |
| Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies | Thomas Engel | Johannes Heesters, Karin Dor, Theo Lingen, Uwe Friedrichsen, Marlène Charell, Barbara Schöne, Gunther Philipp | Musical | a.k.a. Wedding Night in Paradise |
| The Hunter of Fall | Harald Reinl | Siegfried Rauch, Alexander Stephan, Gerlinde Döberl, Klaus Löwitsch, Beppo Brem, Rudolf Prack | Drama | |
| Ich gehe nach München | Oswald Döpke | Sabine von Maydell, Dieter Borsche | Drama | |
| Im Schatten | Diethard Klante | Edith Heerdegen, Dieter Kirchlechner, Witta Pohl | Drama | |
| Im Vorhof der Wahrheit | Fritz Umgelter | Matthias Habich, Gerhard Acktun | Crime | |
| In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death | Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz | Jutta Winkelmann, Dagmar Bödderich | Drama | |
| In the Name of the People | Ottokar Runze | Documentary | [77] | |
| The Infernal Trio | Francis Girod | Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Mascha Gonska, Andréa Ferréol | Black comedy | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Julia | Sigi Rothemund | Sylvia Kristel, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Teri Tordai, Ekkehardt Belle | Sex comedy | |
| Der junge Roth | Rainer Wolffhardt | Gerhard Dressel | Drama | |
| Karl May | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold, Lil Dagover | Biography | |
| Kein Grund zur Unruhe | Peter F. Bringmann | Heinrich Giskes, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Charles Brauer | Drama | |
| Die Kriegsbraut | Tom Toelle | Donata Höffer, Volkert Kraeft, Eva Christian, Wolfgang Preiss | Drama, War | |
| Die Kugel war Zeuge | Rainer Söhnlein | Werner Kreindl, Heinz Meier, Hans Putz, Karl-Heinz Hess, Martin Lüttge, Gert Haucke | Crime, Docudrama | |
| Der Kulterer | Vojtěch Jasný | Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Die Kurpfuscherin | Ludwig Cremer | Maria Schell | Crime | |
| Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Therese Giehse, Holger Löwenadler | Drama, War | French-Italian-West German co-production[78] |
| The Last Days of Gomorrah | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Mascha Rabben, Matthias Fuchs, Ernst Jacobi | Science fiction | |
| Lisa | Rolf Busch | Eva Pflug | Drama | a.k.a. Lisa – Aus dem Leben einer Unentbehrlichen |
| The Little Black Book | Dietrich Haugk | Heinz Bennent, Silvia Lukan | Comedy | a.k.a. Ich suche Herrn Obolsky |
| Der Lord von Barmbeck | Ottokar Runze | Martin Lüttge, Judy Winter, Inken Sommer | Crime | |
| Made in Germany and USA | Rudolf Thome | Karin Thome, Eberhard Klasse | Drama | |
| The Man Who Conquered Death | Hans Hollmann | Bruno Hübner | Drama | a.k.a. Der Tod des Kleinbürgers. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Mari | George Moorse | Y Sa Lo, Werner Hinz | Drama | |
| Maria Magdalena | Franz Xaver Kroetz | Gisela Schneeberger, Hans Brenner, Ruth Drexel | Drama | |
| Martha | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm | Drama | TV film |
| The Martyr | Aleksander Ford | Leo Genn | Drama, War | a.k.a. You Are Free, Dr. Korczak. West German-Israeli co-production |
| Mary, Mary | Ludwig Cremer | Heidelinde Weis, Martin Benrath, Karin Anselm, Heinz Baumann | Comedy | a.k.a. Nie wieder Mary |
| Der Mensch Adam Deigl und die Obrigkeit | Rainer Wolffhardt | Willy Harlander, Gustl Bayrhammer | Crime drama | |
| The Moonstone | Wilhelm Semmelroth | Anita Lochner, Stefan Behrens, Theo Lingen, Werner Kreindl, Ulli Philipp, Paul Dahlke, Anneliese Uhlig, Helmut Förnbacher | Mystery | a.k.a. Der Monddiamant |
| Nebel | Korbinian Köberle | Wolfgang Engels, Günter Mack | Comedy | |
| Neugierig wie ein Kind | Oswald Döpke | Sabine von Maydell, Matthias Habich, Rosemarie Fendel, Günter Strack | Drama | |
| No Gold for a Dead Diver | Harald Reinl | Horst Janson, Monika Lundi, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Hans Hass Jr. | Adventure | a.k.a. Deadly Jaws |
| No Sin on the Alpine Pastures | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Alena Penz, Alexander Grill, Rinaldo Talamonti | Sex comedy | |
| Nora Helmer | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Joachim Hansen, Ulli Lommel, Barbara Valentin, Klaus Löwitsch | Drama | |
| Nur eine Affäre | Ludwig Cremer | Karl Michael Vogler, Anita Lochner | Drama | a.k.a. The Better It Looks, the Worse It Is |
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Klaus Löwitsch, Günter Strack, Hannes Messemer | Thriller | British-West German co-production[79][80] |
| One or the Other of Us | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer | Thriller | [81] |
| Only the Wind Knows the Answer | Alfred Vohrer | Maurice Ronet, Marthe Keller, Raymond Pellegrin, Karin Dor, Anton Diffring | Thriller | West German-French co-production . Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Output | Michael Fengler | Lou Castel, Katja Rupé, Bernd Herberger, Claus Eberth, Marquard Bohm | Crime | a.k.a. A Dead One In Berlin |
| Der Pendler | Hartmut Griesmayr | Nicolas Brieger | Drama | a.k.a. The Commuter |
| Perahim – die zweite Chance | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Heinz Bennent, Leon Askin, Richard Münch | Crime | |
| Plus minus null | Franz Peter Wirth | Horst Tappert, Anaid Iplicjian, Rolf Becker | Drama | |
| Die preußische Heirat | Helmut Käutner | Claudia Butenuth, Carl Raddatz, Gerd Böckmann | Comedy, Biography | a.k.a. Zopf und Schwert |
| Die Rache | Heinz Schirk | Peter Mosbacher, Arno Assmann | Crime drama | |
| Revenge of the East Frisians | Walter Boos | Alexandra Bogojevic, Josef Moosholzer, Helga Feddersen | Sex comedy | |
| The Robber Hotzenplotz | Gustav Ehmck | Gert Fröbe, Lina Carstens, Rainer Basedow, Josef Meinrad | Family | |
| Rosenmontag | Peter Beauvais | Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Schattenreiter | George Moorse | Angelika Bender, Dieter Schidor, Alexander May | Drama | |
| Der Scheck heiligt die Mittel | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Richard Suskind, Horst Frank, Judy Winter | Docudrama, Crime comedy | |
| Schwarzwaldfahrt aus Liebeskummer | Werner Jacobs | Roy Black, Barbara Nielsen, Heidi Hansen, Elke Aberle | Musical | |
| Sechs Wochen im Leben der Brüder G. | Peter Beauvais | Hans-Georg Panczak, Jan Kollwitz, Renate Küster | Drama | a.k.a. 6 Wochen im Leben der Brüder G. |
| Selbstbildnis Béatrice S. | Rainer Wolffhardt | Béatrice Schweizer, Werner Kreindl, Dieter Kirchlechner | Docudrama | |
| Silverson | Falk Harnack | Herbert Bötticher, Ernst Schröder, Gracia-Maria Kaus, Johanna Elbauer, Godfrey Quigley, Agnes Bernelle | Crime | |
| Snowdrops Bloom in September | Christian Ziewer | Claus Eberth | Drama | |
| Der Springteufel | Heinz Schirk | Dieter Hallervorden, Arno Assmann | Thriller | TV film based on story by Derrick Sherwin (Doctor Who) |
| Spring in Immenhof | Wolfgang Schleif | Heidi Brühl, Horst Janson, Olga Chekhova | Comedy | |
| Stayover in Tyrol | Volker Schlöndorff | Margarethe von Trotta, Heinrich Schweiger, Reinhard Hauff, Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | |
| Stolen Heaven | Theo Maria Werner | Siegfried Rauch, Hans Holt, Christine Böhm | Drama | |
| Stress | Rolf Busch | Günter Mack | Drama | |
| Supermarket | Roland Klick | Charly Wierczejewski, Eva Mattes, Michael Degen, Walter Kohut, Hans-Michael Rehberg | Crime drama | |
| Tausend Francs Belohnung | Günter Gräwert | Horst Bollmann, Horst Frank, Mathieu Carrière, Simone Rethel, Fritz Rasp, Ferdy Mayne, Claus Biederstaedt | Drama | a.k.a. 1000 Francs Belohnung a.k.a. Reward: 1000 Francs |
| Three Men in the Snow | Alfred Vohrer | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Roberto Blanco, Thomas Fritsch, Susanne Beck, Grit Boettcher, Herbert Fleischmann | Comedy | |
| Der Tod der Schneevögel | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Wolfgang Wahl, Nicolas Brieger, William Ray, Olivia Molina, Facio Santillan, Günther Kaufmann, Robertson White, Peter Schiff, Hansi Jochmann | Thriller | |
| Torrents of Spring | Vojtěch Jasný | Senta Berger, Dan Mastacan, Claude Dauphin | Drama | |
| Ulla oder Die Flucht in die schwarzen Wälder | Herbert Vesely | Jörg Pleva, Iris Berben | Fantasy | |
| Eine ungeliebte Frau | Tom Toelle | Ulli Philipp, Christian Wolff, Wolfgang Preiss, Edda Seippel, Diana Körner, Helmut Förnbacher | Drama | |
| Unser Werk | Hans Rolf Strobel | Hanna Schygulla, Mathias Eysen, Henning Gissel | Drama | |
| Der Verfolger | Falk Harnack | Gerd Böckmann | Drama | a.k.a. The Pursuer |
| Der Verrat | Lutz Büscher | Andrea L'Arronge, Kai Fischer, Hans Helmut Dickow, Herbert Bötticher, Irene Marhold, Horst Michael Neutze | Cold War spy film | a.k.a. Pack of Lies a.k.a. Act of Betrayal |
| Die Verrohung des Franz Blum | Reinhard Hauff | Jürgen Prochnow, Burkhard Driest, Eike Gallwitz, Tilo Prückner | Crime drama | |
| The Villa of Madame Vidac | Karlheinz Bieber | Wolfgang Kieling, Claudia Wedekind, Inken Sommer | Black comedy | |
| Vreemde Wêreld | Jürgen Goslar | Sandra Prinsloo, Wolfgang Kieling, Marius Weyers | Thriller | a.k.a. Listen to My Story a.k.a. Und die Nacht kennt kein Erbarmen. South African-West German co-production |
| Wages and Love | Marianne Lüdcke, Ingo Kratisch | Erika Skrotzki, Evelyn Meyka, Dagmar Biener, Elfriede Irrall, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Nicolas Brieger | Drama | |
| Wandas Paradies | Christa Maar | Katja Rupé | Drama | |
| Ward No. 6 | Karl Fruchtmann | Helmut Qualtinger, Stefan Wigger, Karl-Georg Saebisch, Gert Haucke | Drama | a.k.a. Krankensaal 6 |
| The Wayward Saint | Korbinian Köberle | Heinz Schacht, Jutta Speidel, Peter Mosbacher, Karl Walter Diess | Comedy | a.k.a. Der widerspenstige Heilige |
| Wecken Sie Madame nicht auf | Willi Schmidt | Peter Mosbacher, Loni von Friedl, Krista Keller, Elisabeth Flickenschildt | Comedy | a.k.a. Don t Awaken Madame |
| Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen | Alfred Vohrer | Maria Gudy, Thomas Hunter, Hannes Messemer, Glauco Onorato, Sieghardt Rupp | Drama | a.k.a. Death Among the Palmtrees |
| When Mother Went on Strike | Eberhard Schröder | Peter Hall, Gila von Weitershausen, Johanna Matz | Comedy | |
| Zerfall einer Großfamilie | Rainer Wolffhardt | Donata Höffer, Katrin Schaake, Christoph Felsenstein, Henning Gissel, Joachim Kerzel | Drama | |
| Zinngeschrei | Ludwig Cremer | Fritz Wepper, Wolf Roth, Peter Mosbacher, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Judy Winter, Gert Haucke | Drama | |
| Zündschnüre | Reinhard Hauff | Michael Bröhland-Olbrich, Kurt Funk, Bettina Porsch, Thomas Visser, Tilli Breidenbach, Christine Wodetzky, Heinz Meier | War | |
| Zwei himmlische Dickschädel | Werner Jacobs | Reiner Schöne, Klaus Löwitsch | Comedy | |
| Zwei Tage fürs Leben | Rainer Boldt | Wolfgang Wiehe, Andrea Klinge | Drama | a.k.a. Two Days for Life |
1975
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Zimmer Sonnenseite | Rolf von Sydow | Christine Wodetzky, Udo Vioff | Comedy | a.k.a. 6 Rms Riv Vu |
| Abschiedsparty | Nathan Jariv | Gracia-Maria Kaus, Bruno Dietrich, Konrad Georg, Karl Walter Diess, Wolfgang Condrus | Drama | a.k.a. Office Party |
| Alexander März | Vojtěch Jasný | Ernst Jacobi, Michael Hinz, Susanne Schaefer | Drama | a.k.a. Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März |
| Der Alte | Rainer Wolffhardt | Herbert Stass, Claus Theo Gärtner | Drama | |
| Das Andechser Gefühl | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch, Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | a.k.a. The Andechs Feeling |
| Das Anhängsel | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Marianne Nentwich, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Christian Quadflieg | Drama | a.k.a. The Compliment |
| Anna and Edith | Gerrit Neuhaus | Barbara Stanek, Karin Siefarth | Drama | |
| The Beaver Coat | Franz Peter Wirth | Doris Schade, Wolfgang Reichmann, Paul Dahlke, Gerd Böckmann | Comedy | |
| Berlinger | Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel | Martin Benrath, Hannelore Elsner, Peter Ehrlich, Tilo Prückner | Drama, War | a.k.a. The Outsider |
| Black Moon | Louis Malle | Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro | Science fiction | French-West German co-production |
| Die Brücke von Zupanja | Harald Philipp | Heinz Weiss, Christian Kohlund, Sascha Hehn | War | |
| By Hook or by Crook | Hartmut Bitomsky | Jo Bolling, Christine Kaufmann, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | a.k.a. Auf Biegen oder Brechen |
| Calm Prevails Over the Country | Peter Lilienthal | Charles Vanel, Mario Pardo, Zita Duarte, Henriqueta Maya | Drama | |
| The Cats' Bridge | Peter Meincke | Jan Niklas, Hanna Schygulla, Paul Dahlke, Charles Régnier | Drama | a.k.a. Der Katzensteg |
| La Chair de l'orchidée | Patrice Chéreau | Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Hans Christian Blech, Simone Signoret | Thriller | a.k.a. The Flesh of the Orchid. French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Change | Bernd Fischerauer | Reiner Schöne, Sylvia Manas, Raymond Pellegrin, Maria Schell, Alexander Wagner | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Cold Blood | Ralf Gregan, Günter Vaessen | Rutger Hauer, Vera Tschechowa, Horst Frank, Walter Richter | Crime | |
| Comenius | Stanislav Barabáš | Thomas Holtzmann, Traugott Buhre, Evelyn Opela, Charles Régnier, Günter Strack, Friedrich von Ledebur, Paul Verhoeven | Drama | |
| The Concert | Dietrich Haugk | Maria Schell, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Walther Reyer | Comedy | |
| The Condemned | Axel Corti | Klaus Rott, Sylvia Haider | Drama | a.k.a. Der Sohn eines Landarbeiters wird Bauarbeiter und baut sich ein Haus a.k.a. Totstellen. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Countess Mizzi | Otto Schenk | Christine Ostermayer, Romuald Pekny, Karl Schönböck | Comedy | a.k.a. Komtesse Mizzi. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Crabs on the Island | Gerhard Schmidt | Gerd Baltus, Margot Werner, Hans Korte, Wolfgang Preiss | Science fiction | a.k.a. The Island of the Crabs |
| Crime After School | Alfred Vohrer | Herbert Fleischmann, Teri Tordai, Evelyne Kraft, Sascha Hehn | Crime drama, Anthology | |
| Crime and Passion | Ivan Passer | Omar Sharif, Karen Black, Bernhard Wicki, Joseph Bottoms | Thriller | West German-American co-production |
| Damals wie heute | Wolfgang Spier | Gustav Knuth, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Ulli Philipp, Walter Richter, Barbara Schöne, Theo Lingen | Musical | |
| The Day That Shook the World | Veljko Bulajić | Christopher Plummer, Florinda Bolkan, Maximilian Schell | History | Yugoslav-Czechoslovak-Hungarian-West German co-production |
| Depression | Herbert Vesely | Doris Kunstmann, Herbert Bötticher | Drama | |
| Ein deutsches Attentat | Günter Gräwert | Vadim Glowna, Hans Helmut Dickow, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Wolfgang Büttner | Historical drama | |
| Diary | Rudolf Thome | Cynthia Beatt, Rudolf Thome, Angelika Kettelhack, Holger Henze | Drama | |
| Ein Dienstverhältnis | Hartmut Kunz | Hans Brenner, Ruth Drexel | Drama | a.k.a. The Maid's Shoes |
| Don Juan in Hell | Ludwig Cremer | Martin Benrath, Hans Christian Blech, Johanna von Koczian, Paul Hoffmann | Comedy | |
| Double-Barrel | Marcel Cravenne | Frank Finlay, Françoise Prévost, Hans Christian Blech, Odile Versois | Crime | a.k.a. Le Bouc émissaire a.k.a. Van der Valk und die Toten. French-West German co-production |
| Earthquake in Chile | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Julia Peña, Víctor Alcázar | Drama | |
| Der Edelweißkönig | Alfred Vohrer | Robert Hoffmann, Adrian Hoven, Ute Kittelberger, Alexander Stephan, Gisela Uhlen | Drama | |
| End of the Game | Maximilian Schell | Martin Ritt, Jon Voight, Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti | Mystery | a.k.a. The Judge and His Hangman. West German-Italian co-production |
| Erziehung durch Dienstmädchen | Klaus Emmerich | Claudius Kracht, Vera Borek, Rolf Becker, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Franz Rudnick, Harald Kuhlmann, Günter Strack | Drama | a.k.a. Education by Maids |
| Es fängt ganz harmlos an | Eberhard Pieper | Helmut Griem, Wolfgang Kieling, Cordula Trantow, Rudolf Schündler | Docudrama, Anthology | |
| Euridice BA 2037 | Nikos Nikolaidis | Vera Tschechowa, John Moore, Niki Triantafillidi | Drama | Greek-West German co-production[82] |
| Evas Rippe | Peter Beauvais | Renate Küster, Gisela Trowe, Witta Pohl | Science fiction | |
| Fear Is a Second Shadow | Norbert Kückelmann | Astrid Fournell, Günther Maria Halmer, Gertrud Kückelmann | Drama | |
| Fear of Fear | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen | Drama | |
| Die Fernsehliga | Peter Behle | Hanns Joachim Friedrichs | Science fiction, Sport | |
| Fiesco; or The Genoese Conspiracy | Franz Peter Wirth | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Senta Berger, Christine Buchegger, Rudolf Fernau | Drama | a.k.a. Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa |
| Flirt von gestern | Oswald Döpke | Heinz Drache, Hanne Wieder, Gertrud Kückelmann, Margot Hielscher, Siegfried Wischnewski, Robert Owens, Hilde Weissner | Comedy | a.k.a. The One and Only |
| Fox and His Friends | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven | Drama | |
| Frag nach bei Casanova | Peter Eschberg | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Romuald Pekny, Christine Wodetzky, Herlinde Latzko | Comedy | |
| Frau von Bebenburg | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Judy Winter, Matthias Ponnier | Drama | a.k.a. The Second |
| The Garbage Dump | Rainer Erler | Ekkehardt Belle, Angelika Bender, Cordula Trantow, Bruni Löbel, Hans Hermann Schaufuß, Willy Semmelrogge | Science fiction, Disaster | a.k.a. The Rubbish Tip a.k.a. Die Halde |
| A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe | Damiano Damiani | Terence Hill, Patrick McGoohan, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Klaus Kinski, Raimund Harmstorf | Western, Comedy | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Georgina's Reasons | Volker Schlöndorff | Edith Clever, Joachim Bißmeier, Margarethe von Trotta, Eva Maria Meineke | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar | Egon Monk | Hanne Hiob, Gottfried Kramer, Ernst Jacobi, Therese Giehse | Drama | a.k.a. Señora Carrar's Rifles |
| Glückliche Reise | Eugen York | Heidi Brühl, Cornelia Froboess, Reiner Schöne, Marlène Charell, Barbara Schöne | Musical | a.k.a. Bon Voyage |
| Gnadenbrot | Diethard Klante | Donata Höffer, Hans Quest, Udo Vioff, Walter Kohut | Drama | a.k.a. Fortune's Fool |
| The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner | Werner Herzog | Documentary, Sport | ||
| Hahnenkampf | Lutz Büscher | Walter Sedlmayr, Hans Brenner, Vérénice Rudolph | Comedy | |
| A Happy Family Life | Marianne Lüdcke, Ingo Kratisch | Tilo Prückner, Dagmar Biener | Drama | a.k.a. Familienglück |
| Heiratskandidaten | Klaus Emmerich | Kyra Mladeck, Klaus Herm, Marianne Hoppe, Wilhelm Borchert | Drama | |
| Die Herausforderung | Michael Verhoeven | Heidemarie Hatheyer, René Deltgen | Drama | |
| Herbstzeitlosen | Dagmar Damek | Doris Kunstmann, Horst Frank, Nicolas Brieger | Drama | |
| Henry IV | Werner Schlechte | Wolfgang Reichmann, Michael Hinz, Peter Mosbacher, Walter Rilla | Drama | a.k.a. König Heinrich IV. |
| Hilde Breitner | Peter Beauvais | Margret Homeyer | Drama | |
| Hugs and Other Things | Jochen Richter | Sydne Rome, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anny Duperey, Alfred Edel, Marquard Bohm | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Embraces |
| I'd Like to Have My Troubles | Wolf Gremm | Y Sa Lo, Otto Sander, Evelyn Künneke, Angelika Milster | Musical | a.k.a. I Want My Troubles |
| Ice Age | Peter Zadek | O. E. Hasse, Ulrich Wildgruber, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger, Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Ich denk' mich tritt ein Pferd | Theo Maria Werner | Uschi Glas | Comedy | |
| Im Hause des Kommerzienrates | Herbert Ballmann | Gisela Schneeberger, Judy Winter, Karlheinz Böhm, Marianne Hoppe, Theo Lingen | Drama | |
| Im Zweifel gegen den Angeklagten? – Der Fall Dietrich Derz | Georg Althammer | Claus Theo Gärtner, Alf Marholm | Crime, Docudrama | a.k.a. Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten – Der Fall Dietrich Derz |
| In the Best of Families | Franz Peter Wirth | Wolfgang Kieling | Comedy | a.k.a. Baby Hamilton oder Das kommt in den besten Familien vor |
| Innocents with Dirty Hands | Claude Chabrol | Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Jean Rochefort, Hans Christian Blech | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Inside Out | Peter Duffell | Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray, Doris Kunstmann | Thriller | British-American-West German co-production |
| Jedermanns Weihnachtsbaum | Theodor Grädler | Horst Bollmann, Uschi Glas, Lina Carstens, Rudolf Schündler | Comedy | |
| John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | Dieter Laser, Marie-Christine Barrault | Crime drama | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Kampf um ein Kind | Ingemo Engström | Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | |
| Katinka | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Klausjürgen Wussow | Drama | a.k.a. Am Wege a.k.a. Ved Vejen |
| Keine Spürhunde für den Fiskus | Thomas Fantl | Herbert Fleischmann, Antje Hagen, Liane Hielscher, Klaus Höhne, Ferdy Mayne | Drama | |
| Kennwort: Fasanenjagd München 1945 | Karlheinz Bieber | Karl Michael Vogler, Werner Kreindl, Gustl Bayrhammer, Eva Maria Meineke, Hans Paetsch, Richard Lauffen | War, Docudrama | a.k.a. Hunt for the Golden Pheasants |
| Das Kind | Heinz Schirk | Maud Ackermann, Anfried Krämer | Thriller | a.k.a. Hush, It's a Game |
| Kleine Bank mit schlechten Noten | Eberhard Pieper | Walter Kohut, Roger Fritz, Werner Kreindl, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Angelika Bender | Crime | |
| Knife in the Back | Ottokar Runze | Hans Brenner, Hellmut Lange, Barbara Valentin, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Gert Haucke, Günter Lamprecht | Crime | |
| Die kurze lehrreiche Geschichte der Helga N. | Rolf Busch | Hilde Lermann | Drama | |
| LH 615 – Operation München | Theo Mezger | Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Michael Hinz | Docudrama | |
| The Last Holidays | Rainer Erler | Jutta Speidel, Dieter Laser, Udo Vioff | Thriller | a.k.a. The Last Vacation |
| The Last Word | Robert van Ackeren | Delphine Seyrig, Barry Foster, Peter Hall, Udo Kier | Drama | |
| Lehmanns Erzählungen | Wolfgang Staudte | Otto Sander, Anton Diffring | Comedy | |
| Lehmanns letzter Lenz | Eberhard Pieper | Horst Bollmann, Peter Schiff | Drama | |
| Lenau | Roland Gall | Tilo Prückner | Drama | |
| Lina Braake | Bernhard Sinkel | Lina Carstens, Fritz Rasp, Herbert Bötticher | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Lina Braake oder Die Interessen der Bank können nicht die Interessen sein, die Lina Braake hat. German Film Award for Best Feature Film 1975 |
| Literature | Wolfgang Glück | Helmuth Lohner, Christine Ostermayer, Otto Schenk | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Little Boy | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Herbert Stass, Siegfried Wischnewski, Elfriede Irrall | War | |
| The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum | Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger | Drama, Thriller | |
| The Maddest Car in the World | Rudolf Zehetgruber | Rudolf Zehetgruber, Sal Borgese, Walter Giller | Comedy | |
| Memento Mori | Ludwig Cremer | Lil Dagover, Paul Hoffmann, Wolfgang Büttner, Johanna Hofer, Edith Heerdegen, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Paul Edwin Roth | Thriller | |
| Metamorphosis | Jan Němec | Heinz Bennent, Zdenka Procházková, Achim Strietzel | Drama | |
| Michael oder Die Schwierigkeiten mit dem Glück | Erika Runge | Patrick Kreuzer, Ingrid Zener, Ernst Spaeth | Drama | |
| Millions of Years Ahead of Man | Manfred Baier | Documentary | ||
| Monika and the Sixteen Year Olds | Charly Steinberger | Maria Zürer, Oliver Collignon, Liselotte Pulver, Klausjürgen Wussow, Teri Tordai | Comedy | a.k.a. Sweet Sixteen |
| Moses und Aron | Straub–Huillet | Günter Reich | Music | West German-Austrian-French-Italian co-production |
| Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen | Drama | a.k.a. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven |
| Münchnerinnen | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Hilde Lermann, Erich Hallhuber | Drama | |
| My Sister and I | Fred Kraus | Heidi Brühl, Bela Ernyey, Willy Millowitsch, Peter Kraus, Ralf Wolter | Musical comedy | |
| Nach der Scheidung | Peter Beauvais | Marlies Engel | Drama | |
| Nachtdienst | Krzysztof Zanussi, Edward Żebrowski | Elisabeth Bergner, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak | Drama | |
| The Net | Manfred Purzer | Mel Ferrer, Elke Sommer, Klaus Kinski, Heinz Bennent, Susanne Uhlen, Andrea Rau | Thriller | a.k.a. The Poisoned Stream |
| Das ohnmächtige Pferd | Rolf von Sydow | Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi, Christian Wolff, Jan Niklas | Comedy | a.k.a. Le Cheval évanoui |
| Olaf und Albert | Karl Fruchtmann | Hannes Messemer, Karl-Georg Saebisch | Drama | |
| Parapsycho – Spectrum of Fear | Peter Patzak | Mathieu Carrière, Mascha Gonska, Marisa Mell, William Berger, Leon Askin | Horror, Anthology | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Polly oder Die Bataille am Bluewater Creek | Jürgen Flimm | Cornelia Froboess, Vera Tschechowa, Vadim Glowna, Heinz Baumann, Romuald Pekny | Musical | |
| Poor Richard | Lutz Büscher | Wolf Roth, Anita Lochner, Martin Lüttge, Kai Fischer | Comedy | |
| Der Prototyp | Sven Severin | Matthias Habich | Drama | |
| Des Pudels Kern | Vojtěch Jasný | Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Die Rakete | Dieter Wedel | Joachim Bißmeier, Gerhard Olschewski, Hans Helmut Dickow, Evelyn Opela | Spy, Comedy | a.k.a. The Missile |
| Revolt in the Reformatory | Hans Quest | Günter Strack, Hans Caninenberg, Christian Kohlund, Hans-Georg Panczak | Drama | |
| Salome | Götz Friedrich | Teresa Stratas | Opera | |
| Die Schießübung | Norbert Kückelmann | Walter Sedlmayr | Black comedy | |
| Schließfach 763 | Wolfgang Staudte | Horst Frank, Judy Winter, Harry Meyen, Walter Kohut, Walter Jokisch | Crime | |
| Ein schönes Paar | Franz Peter Wirth | Harald Leipnitz, Gila von Weitershausen | Thriller | a.k.a. Double Cross a.k.a. The Gentle Trap a.k.a. Husband, Dear Husband |
| Schoolmaster Hofer | Peter Lilienthal | André Watt | Drama | a.k.a. Headmaster Hofer a.k.a. Hauptlehrer Hofer |
| A Second Spring | Ulli Lommel | Curd Jürgens, Irmgard Schönberg, Eddie Constantine | Drama | |
| The Secret Carrier | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Willy Millowitsch, Sybil Danning, Gunther Philipp, Brigitte Mira, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| The Shadow Out of Time | George Moorse | Anton Diffring | Science fiction | a.k.a. Schatten aus der Zeit |
| Special Section | Costa-Gavras | Michael Lonsdale, Heinz Bennent, Bruno Cremer, Michel Galabru, Hans Richter | War, Drama | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Die Stadt im Tal | Wolfgang Petersen | Paul Dahlke, Siegfried Wischnewski, Susanne Uhlen, Hans Peter Korff, Dieter Kirchlechner, Karl Walter Diess | Drama | |
| Stellenweise Glatteis | Wolfgang Petersen | Günter Lamprecht, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Léonie Thelen, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Claus Theo Gärtner | Drama | |
| Streng geheim | Thomas Engel | Hans Jürgen Diedrich, Karin Anselm, Ivan Desny, Hans Richter | Crime comedy | Remake of A Mission for Mr. Dodd (1964) |
| Stumme Zeugen | Peter Beauvais | Renate Küster, Witta Pohl | Crime | |
| Tadellöser & Wolff | Eberhard Fechner | Karl Lieffen, Edda Seippel, Michael Poliza, Martin Semmelrogge | Drama, War | a.k.a. Tadellöser und Wolff |
| That Most Important Thing: Love | Andrzej Żuławski | Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| To the Bitter End | Gerd Oswald | Maurice Ronet, Suzy Kendall, Christine Wodetzky, Susanne Uhlen, Rudolf Fernau, Ferdy Mayne | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Der Tod vor dem Sterben | Rainer Wolffhardt | Herbert Stass, Maria Körber, Dieter Kirchlechner, Jürgen Thormann, Manfred Günther, Peter Schiff | Drama | |
| Der tödliche Schlag | Franz Josef Wild | Siegfried Wischnewski, Hannes Messemer | Drama | |
| Tristan | Herbert Ballmann | Gerd Baltus, Herlinde Latzko, Günter Strack, Theo Lingen | Drama | |
| Trotzki in Coyoacan | Rolf Busch | René Deltgen, Edith Heerdegen | Biography | a.k.a. Trotsky in Coyoacán |
| Two for the Seesaw | Ludwig Cremer | Horst Frank, Donata Höffer | Drama | a.k.a. Spiel zu zweit |
| Under the Pavement Lies the Strand | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Grischa Huber, Heinrich Giskes | Drama | |
| The Unguarded House | Rainer Wolffhardt | Karin Baal, Günter Lamprecht, Lina Carstens, Renate Schroeter, Traugott Buhre, Werner Kreindl | Drama | a.k.a. Tomorrow and Yesterday a.k.a. Haus ohne Hüter |
| Unter Denkmalschutz | Eberhard Fechner | Documentary | ||
| Valley of the Dancing Widows | Volker Vogeler | Judy Stephen, Montserrat Julió, Lone Fleming, Jeannine Mestre, Ágata Lys, Léonie Thelen, Tilo Prückner, Harry Baer, Eduardo Fajardo, Hugo Blanco Galiasso, George Rigaud, Daniel Martín, Cris Huerta, Luis Induni | Western | West German-Spanish co-production |
| Le vieux fusil | Robert Enrico | Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Joachim Hansen, Robert Hoffmann, Karl Michael Vogler | War | French-West German co-production |
| Wanted: Babysitter | René Clément | Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Vic Morrow, Robert Vaughn, Nadja Tiller, Carl Möhner, Georg Marischka | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Weak Spot | Peter Fleischmann | Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Die weiße Stadt | Michael Kehlmann | Peter Weck, Sonja Sutter | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Weitere Aussichten | Franz Xaver Kroetz | Therese Giehse | Drama | |
| Wie starb Dag Hammarskjöld? | Oswald Döpke | Cordula Trantow, Robert Owens, Alexander Kerst, Horst Naumann, Peter Mosbacher | Docudrama | |
| Winterreise | Ilse Hofmann | Sabine von Maydell | Drama | |
| Der Wohltäter | Wolf Dietrich | Gustl Bayrhammer, Carolin Ohrner, Andrea L'Arronge | Drama | |
| The Wrong Move | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny, Hans Christian Blech, Nastassja Kinski, Marianne Hoppe, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | |
| Zahnschmerzen | Michael Kehlmann | Manfred Seipold, Franziska Oehme, Eckart Dux, Gernot Endemann, Alexander Kerst | Alternate history | |
| Zwangspause | Konrad Sabrautzky | Angelika Bender | Drama | |
| Zwei Finger einer Hand | Georg Marischka | Ferdy Mayne, George Pravda, Carl Duering, Victor Beaumont, Gordon Sterne, Milo Sperber | Crime |
1976
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 geile Hirsche auf der Flucht | Alois Brummer | Sepp Gneißl | Adult | |
| 1900 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Anna Henkel, Ellen Schwiers, Werner Bruhns | Romantic drama, War | Italian-American-French-West German co-production. 1 win & 1 nom. |
| Die Affäre Lerouge | Wilhelm Semmelroth | René Deltgen, Günter Strack, Peter Pasetti, Volkert Kraeft, Herlinde Latzko | Mystery | a.k.a. The Widow Lerouge a.k.a. The Lerouge Case |
| Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr | Alfred Vohrer | Monique van de Ven, Harald Leipnitz, Helga Anders, Reiner Schöne, Brigitte Mira | Drama | |
| Anschi und Michael | Rüdiger Nüchtern | Gaby Rubner, Michael Bentele | Drama | |
| Die Ansiedlung | Otto Jägersberg | Mathias Eysen, Dietmar Schönherr, Barbara Lass, Gerd Baltus, Gert Haucke | Drama | |
| As of Tomorrow | Franz Antel | Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Curd Jürgens, Vittorio Caprioli, Angelo Infanti, Werner Pochath | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Blackmail Chase. West German-Austrian-Italian co-production |
| The Atlantic Swimmers | Herbert Achternbusch | Heinz Braun, Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | |
| Attempted Flight | Vojtěch Jasný | Tomislav Savić, Hansjörg Felmy, Ilija Ivezić, Hermina Pipinić, Klaus Löwitsch | Drama | |
| Auf ewig Dein | Werner Schlechte | Angelika Bender, Ralf Schermuly | Thriller | a.k.a. Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? |
| Der aufregende Fall des Studienrats Adam Juracek | Tom Toelle | Siegfried W. Kernen, Klaus Löwitsch, Angelika Bender, Günter Mack, Walter Rilla, Alexander May | Science fiction, Comedy | a.k.a. White Book: Adam Juráček Vs. Sir Isaac Newton |
| Aus nichtigem Anlaß | Eberhard Fechner | Helmuth Lohner, Susanne Beck | Crime | |
| Die Babenberger in Österreich | Fritz Umgelter | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hannelore Elsner | History, Docudrama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Ein Badeunfall | Fritz Umgelter | Christian Quadflieg, Christine Merthan | Thriller | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Bait | Peter Patzak | Yves Beneyton, Carroll Baker, Raymond Pellegrin, Mathieu Carrière, Karl Michael Vogler, Hans Christian Blech | Crime | a.k.a. Shattered Dreams. West German-Austrian-French co-production |
| Baker's Bread | Erwin Keusch | Günter Lamprecht, Bernd Tauber, Silvia Reize | Drama | |
| Barbara | Hans-Werner Schmidt | Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | |
| Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuß | Sepp Strubel | Wolfgang Kieling, Siegfried Wischnewski | Crime | a.k.a. Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuss |
| The Belkin Tales | Uli Edel, Klaus Emmerich, Hajo Gies |
Siegfried Wischnewski, Gisela Trowe, Herlinde Latzko, Peter Chatel, Bernd Herberger, Peter Lühr | Anthology | a.k.a. Die Erzählungen Bjelkins |
| Bomber & Paganini | Nikos Perakis | Mario Adorf, Tilo Prückner, Barbara Valentin, Margot Werner | Comedy | a.k.a. Bomber and Paganini a.k.a. Bomber und Paganini |
| Born for Hell | Denis Héroux | Mathieu Carrière, Christine Boisson, Eva Mattes, Carole Laure | Horror | a.k.a. Naked Massacre. Canadian-French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Candida | Werner Schlechte | Cordula Trantow, Wolfgang Reichmann | Drama | |
| Carnival Confession | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Hannes Messemer, Klaus Hoffmann, Despina Pajanou | Drama | |
| Chain of Darkness | Karl Fruchtmann | Vadim Glowna, Rolf Becker, Wolfgang Kieling, Gert Haucke | Crime | a.k.a. Ketten |
| 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 |
| The Clown | Vojtěch Jasný | Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech | Drama | |
| Comedian Harmonists | Eberhard Fechner | Documentary, Music | ||
| The Country of the Blind | Pete Ariel | Fred Stillkrauth, Rainer Langhans, Jutta Winkelmann | Fantasy | a.k.a. Das Land der Blinden oder Von einem der auszog |
| Coup de Grâce | Volker Schlöndorff | Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Mathieu Carrière | War, Drama | West German-French co-production. Set in the Russian Civil War |
| Darf ich mitspielen? | Walter Davy | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Gertraud Jesserer, Otto Schenk | Comedy | a.k.a. Will You Play with Me? Austrian-West German co-production |
| Dear Fatherland Be at Peace | Roland Klick | Heinz Domez, Catherine Allégret, Günter Pfitzmann, Rolf Zacher, Margot Werner, Georg Marischka | Thriller | a.k.a. The Berlin Connection a.k.a. Double Agent – Triple Cross |
| Death Rite | Claude Chabrol | Gert Fröbe, Franco Nero, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean Rochefort, Gila von Weitershausen | Thriller | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| The Desert of the Tartars | Valerio Zurlini | Max von Sydow, Fernando Rey, Helmut Griem, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Giuliano Gemma, Philippe Noiret, Francisco Rabal | War | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Dorothea Merz | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Dieter Wernecke, Fritz Rasp, Dieter Kirchlechner, Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | |
| Einöd | Günter Gräwert | Horst Frank, Wilfried Klaus, Wega Jahnke | Thriller | a.k.a. Ein bißchen Föhn, und du bist tot |
| The Elixirs of the Devil | Manfred Purzer | Dieter Laser, Horst Frank, Peter Brogle, Sylvia Manas, Christine Buchegger, Heinrich Schweiger, Rudolf Fernau | Drama | a.k.a. The Devil's Elixirs |
| Emigranten | Franz Peter Wirth | Ernst Jacobi, Peter Kuiper | Drama | |
| Enemies | Frank Guthke | Rolf Henniger, Margot Trooger, Pinkas Braun, Helmut Käutner, Werner Kreindl, Gert Haucke, Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | a.k.a. Feinde |
| Erika | Falk Harnack | Silvia Reize | Drama | |
| Erika's Passions | Ula Stöckl | Vera Tschechowa, Karin Baal | Drama | |
| Erinnerung an die Leidenschaft | Martin Hennig | Jürgen Prochnow, Udo Kier, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler | Drama | a.k.a. Erinnerungen an die Leidenschaft |
| Everyone Dies Alone | Alfred Vohrer | Hildegard Knef, Carl Raddatz | Drama, War | a.k.a. Every Man Dies Alone |
| Der Fall Bundhund | Eberhard Hauff | Jörg Hube | Drama | |
| Fallmerayer the Stationmaster | Walter Davy | Odile Versois, Wolfgang Hübsch | Drama | a.k.a. Stationschef Fallmerayer. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Fehlschuss | Rainer Boldt | Wolfgang Ambros, Franz Buchrieser, Pola Kinski | Drama | a.k.a. Missed Goal. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Feuerwerk | Franz Josef Wild | Erika Pluhar, Cornelia Köndgen, Harald Serafin, Susi Nicoletti, Erik Frey, Marianne Mendt | Musical comedy | a.k.a. Fireworks. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Frauensiedlung | Wolfgang Storch | Monica Bleibtreu, Jürgen Prochnow | Drama | a.k.a. A Woman's Estate |
| Fünf Prüfungen des Oberbürgermeisters | Claus Peter Witt | Hannes Messemer | Biography, History | a.k.a. Konrad Adenauer – Studie in Szenen |
| Games | Sigi Rothemund | Uwe Friedrichsen, Cordula Trantow, Hans Caninenberg, Pinkas Braun, Silvia Reize, Wolfgang Wahl | Black comedy | a.k.a. Gesellschaftsspiele |
| Goldflocken | Werner Schroeter | Andréa Ferréol, Bulle Ogier, Udo Kier, Magdalena Montezuma, Ingrid Caven, Christine Kaufmann | Experimental | West German-French co-production |
| Golden Night | Serge Moati | Klaus Kinski, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Bernard Blier, Maurice Ronet, Charles Vanel, Anny Duperey | Thriller | French-West German co-production |
| Hans im Glück | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Ingmar Zeisberg | Drama | |
| Hans und Heinz Kirch | Günter Gräwert | Martin Lüttge, Gottfried Kramer | Drama | |
| Heart of Glass | Werner Herzog | Josef Bierbichler | Drama | |
| Die Heiratsvermittlerin | Hellmuth Matiasek | Maria Schell, Fritz Tillmann, Peter Striebeck, Jacques Breuer | Comedy | a.k.a. The Matchmaker |
| Der Herr der Schöpfung | Korbinian Köberle | Uta Hallant, Michael Degen, Peter Arens, Wolfgang Condrus | Anthology | |
| Ein herrlicher Tag | Diethard Klante | Violetta Ferrari, Witta Pohl, Fritz Lichtenhahn | Comedy | |
| Himmel und Erde | Karl Fruchtmann | Christa Berndl | Drama | |
| Der Hofmeister | Harry Buckwitz | Ernst Jacobi, Anita Lochner, Hans Helmut Dickow | Drama | a.k.a. The Tutor |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| The Hypochondriac | Wilm ten Haaf | Wolfgang Kieling, Violetta Ferrari, Claudia Wedekind, Werner Kreindl | Comedy | a.k.a. The Imaginary Invalid |
| I Only Want You to Love Me | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Vitus Zeplichal, Alexander Allerson, Elke Aberle | Drama | |
| Idole | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer | Comedy | |
| Die Illusion der Möglichkeit | Claudia Holldack | Tilly Lauenstein, Käthe Haack | Drama | |
| Die Ilse ist weg | Ilse Hofmann | Susanne Werner, Marion Heister, Lina Carstens, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Intermezzo für fünf Hände | Ludwig Cremer | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Hanna Schygulla, Susanne Uhlen, Cordula Trantow, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Ellen Schwiers | Comedy | |
| Jack the Ripper | Jesús Franco | Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Herbert Fux | Horror | West German-Swiss co-production |
| Jakob der Letzte | Axel Corti | Bruno Dallansky | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Julia und Romeo | Franz Peter Wirth | Harald Leipnitz, Xenia Pörtner, Rudolf Fernau, Udo Vioff, Petra Schürmann, Peter Sattmann, Franziska Walser | Comedy | a.k.a. Juliet and Romeo a.k.a. Romeo und Julia |
| Kann ich noch ein bisschen bleiben? | Imo Moszkowicz | Ellen Schwiers, Alexander Kerst, Gila von Weitershausen, Klaus Wildbolz, Alexander May | Comedy | |
| Kein Abend wie jeder andere | Hermann Leitner | Heinz Rühmann, Peter Ustinov | Comedy | |
| Kings of the Road | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler | Drama, Road movie | Won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival |
| Eine kleine Liebe | Hans-Peter Meier | Martin Semmelrogge, Maria Machado | Drama | |
| Ein Klotz am Bein | Stanislav Barabáš | Loni von Friedl, Walter Kohut, Hans Korte, Joachim Ansorge, Sabine von Maydell, Eva Maria Meineke | Comedy | a.k.a. Un fil à la patte |
| Krawatten für Olympia | Hartmann Schmige, Stefan Lukschy |
Ulrich Gressieker, Eric Vaessen, Inge Sievers, Evelyn Meyka, Hansi Jochmann | Comedy | |
| Lebensdaten | Eberhard Fechner | Documentary | ||
| Liebe mit 50 | Günter Gräwert | Peter Schiff, Louise Martini, Renate Grosser, Cornelia Froboess, Lina Carstens | Drama | |
| A Lost Life | Ottokar Runze | Gerhard Olschewski, Gert Haucke, Marius Müller-Westernhagen | Crime drama | Olschewski won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin |
| Mademoiselle de Scuderi | Lutz Büscher | Angela Salloker, Hannes Messemer, Iris Berben, Richard Lauffen | Mystery | |
| Männergeschichten – Frauengeschichten | Peter Beauvais | Helmut Griem, Renate Küster, Marlies Engel, Matthias Fuchs | Drama | |
| Margarete in Aix | Helmut Käutner | Erika Pluhar | Comedy | |
| Maria Morzeck | Horst Flick | Nora von Collande, Charles Brauer | Drama | Remake of The Rabbit Is Me (1965) |
| The Marquise of O | Éric Rohmer | Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz | Drama | French-West German co-production[83] |
| The Mimosa Wants to Blossom Too | Helmut Meewes | Curd Jürgens, Eric Pohlmann, Horst Frank | Spy comedy | |
| Minna von Barnhelm | Franz Peter Wirth | Reinhild Solf, Frank Hoffmann, Wega Jahnke, Werner Kreindl, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Helmuth Lohner | Comedy | |
| MitGift | Michael Verhoeven | Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Ron Ely, Helmut Qualtinger, Elisabeth Flickenschildt | Black comedy | |
| Montana Trap | Peter Schamoni | Hardy Krüger, Stephen Boyd, Arthur Brauss, Diana Körner, Paul Breitner | Western | a.k.a. Potato Fritz |
| Mozart: A Childhood Chronicle | Klaus Kirschner | Santiago Ziesmer, Karl-Maria Schley | Biography, Music | a.k.a. Mozart: Recordings of a Youth |
| Der Nerz | Frank Guthke | Louise Martini, Hans Quest, Jörg Pleva, Peter Schiff, Erik Schumann, Marion Martienzen | Comedy | a.k.a. The Good Soup |
| The New Sorrows of Young W. | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Klaus Hoffmann | Drama | a.k.a. The New Sufferings of Young W. |
| No One Will Play with Me | Werner Herzog | Short | ||
| North Sea Is Dead Sea | Hark Bohm | Uwe Bohm, Dschingis Bowakow, Marquard Bohm | Drama | a.k.a. Nordsee ist Mordsee |
| Nur bitte nicht heut' nacht | Gig Malzacher | Claudia Wedekind, Udo Vioff, Paul Dahlke, Jan Niklas | Comedy | |
| Old Acquaintance | Arno Assmann | Ruth Leuwerik, Rosemarie Fendel | Drama | a.k.a. Meine beste Freundin |
| Opa Schulz | Erika Runge | Erhard Dhein | Drama | |
| Der Opportunist | Karl Fruchtmann | Arno Assmann, Gisela Trowe, Volkert Kraeft, Walter Kohut, Ulrich Matschoss | War, Biography | a.k.a. Der Opportunist oder Vom Umgang mit Besatzern – Der Fall Pierre Laval |
| A Part of Myself | August Everding | Herbert Mensching, Christine Ostermayer, Peter Fricke, Will Quadflieg, Karl Paryla, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Richard Münch, Günter Strack | Biography | a.k.a. Als wär's ein Stück von mir |
| Paule Pauländer | Reinhard Hauff | Manfred Reiss, Manfred Gnoth | Drama | |
| Proud Destiny | Heinz Schirk | Hans-Michael Rehberg, Arno Assmann, Walter Rilla, Rolf Becker, Mogens von Gadow, Christine Böhm, Sky du Mont | History | a.k.a. Waffen für Amerika a.k.a. Die Füchse im Weinberg |
| Prozeß Medusa | Wolfgang Staudte | Siegfried Wischnewski, Ferdy Mayne, Arthur Brauss | History, Disaster | a.k.a. Prozess Medusa |
| Regina | Gedeon Kovács | Kornelia Boje, Manfred Seipold, Werner Hinz | Drama | |
| Rosemary's Daughter | Rolf Thiele | Lillian Müller, Horst Frank, Bela Ernyey, Werner Pochath, Hanne Wieder, Herbert Fux | Exploitation | |
| Rosaura at Ten O'Clock | Günter Gräwert | Herlinde Latzko, Lutz Mackensy, Anaid Iplicjian, Cornelia Meinhardt, Marius Müller-Westernhagen | Mystery | a.k.a. Rosaura at 10 O'Clock |
| Salon Kitty | Tinto Brass | Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin | Exploitation, War | Italian-West German-French co-production |
| Satan's Brew | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Brigitte Mira, Y Sa Lo, Christiane Maybach, Kitty Buchhammer | Drama | |
| Der schwarze Storch | Herbert Ballmann | Friederike Schneider, Małgorzata Potocka, Hartmut Reck, Dinah Hinz, Henryk Bista, Rudolf Schündler | Drama | |
| Seniorenschweiz | Otto Jägersberg | Karlheinz Böhm, Johanna Hofer, Wolfgang Büttner, Alexander May | Science fiction | |
| Sensational Janine | Hans Billian | Patricia Rhomberg | Adult | |
| Shadow of Angels | Daniel Schmid | Klaus Löwitsch, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Boy Gobert, Ulli Lommel | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Shirin's Wedding | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Ayten Erten, Jürgen Prochnow, Aliki Georgouli, Aras Ören | Drama | |
| Silence in the Forest | Alfred Vohrer | Belinda Mayne, Alexander Stephan, Evelyn Opela, Ferdy Mayne | Drama | |
| Sladek | Oswald Döpke | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Vadim Glowna, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Günter Pfitzmann, Louise Martini | Drama | a.k.a. Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee |
| So oder so ist das Leben | Veit Relin | Margot Werner, Maria Schell, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Christine Schuberth | Drama | |
| Sperrmüll | Michael Haneke | Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Tilli Breidenbach | Drama | |
| The Sternstein Manor | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Katja Rupé, Tilo Prückner, Peter Kern, Gustl Bayrhammer, Agnes Fink | Drama | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Strongman Ferdinand | Alexander Kluge | Heinz Schubert, Vérénice Rudolph, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Siegfried Wischnewski | Comedy | |
| Die Story | Dieter Lemmel | Cornelia Froboess, Hans Peter Korff | Drama | |
| Summerfolk | Peter Stein | Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Jutta Lampe, Otto Sander, Michael König | Drama | a.k.a. Summer Guests |
| The Swiss Conspiracy | Jack Arnold | David Janssen, Senta Berger, Elke Sommer, John Ireland, John Saxon, Ray Milland, Anton Diffring | Thriller | American-West German-Swiss co-production |
| Die Tannerhütte | Marianne Lüdcke, Ingo Kratisch | Christoph Felsenstein, Grischa Huber, Paul Dahlke, Karlheinz Böhm, Hans-Georg Panczak, Willy Semmelrogge | Drama | |
| Taxi 4012 | Theodor Grädler | Harald Leipnitz, Werner Kreindl, Horst Janson, Thekla Carola Wied, Gerd Baltus, Karl-Otto Alberty | Crime | |
| A Thousand Clowns | Ludwig Cremer | Peer Schmidt | Comedy | |
| Three Bavarians in Bangkok | Sigi Rothemund | Franz Muxeneder, Willy Harlander, Marie Ekorre, Gina Janssen | Sex comedy | a.k.a. Bath-House Girls a.k.a. Bathtime in Bangkok |
| Three Paths to the Lake | Michael Haneke | Ursula Schult, Guido Wieland, Walter Schmidinger, Bernhard Wicki, Yves Beneyton | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Time of Maturity | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Mike Henning, Eva Manhardt | Drama | a.k.a. Coming of Age a.k.a. Reifezeit |
| Timon of Athens | Oswald Döpke | Wolfgang Reichmann, Günter Strack, Siegfried Wischnewski | Drama | |
| Der Umsetzer | Benno Trautmann, Antonia Lerch | Klaus Jepsen, Charles Hans Vogt | Drama | a.k.a. The Evacuator |
| Vera Romeyke Is Not Acceptable | Max Willutzki | Rita Engelmann | Drama | |
| Verdunkelung | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Joachim Kemmer, Rolf Moebius, Rudolf Brand, Dagmar Biener, Erika Skrotzki, Klaus Jepsen, Karl-Josef Cramer | Crime, War | |
| Vier gegen die Bank | Wolfgang Petersen | Harald Leipnitz, Walter Kohut, Herbert Bötticher, Günther Neutze, Karin Eickelbaum, Ingrid van Bergen, Gitty Djamal, Christine Schuberth, Otto Sander, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Uwe Dallmeier | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Four Against the Bank a.k.a. 4 Against the Bank a.k.a. 4 gegen die Bank |
| Die vollkommene Liebe | Heinz Schirk | Christine Ostermayer, Walther Reyer, Wolfgang Reichmann | Comedy | a.k.a. Un amour qui ne finit pas |
| Die Wahl | Rainer Boldt | Klaus Löwitsch | Drama | |
| Walking Upright | Christian Ziewer | Claus Eberth, Antje Hagen | Drama | |
| Weder Tag noch Stunde | Bruno Jantoss | Günter Lamprecht, Monika Lundi, Sabine von Maydell, Günther Maria Halmer | Drama | |
| Whispering Death | Jürgen Goslar | James Faulkner, Christopher Lee, Horst Frank, Sybil Danning, Trevor Howard | Action | a.k.a. Albino. West German-South African co-production |
| Die Wildente | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Jean Seberg, Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, Anne Bennent, Heinz Bennent, Heinz Moog | Drama | a.k.a. The Wild Duck. West German-Austrian co-production |
| Willy and the Chinese Cat | Karin Thome | Anna Karina, Ulli Lommel, Giovanni Widmann | Family | a.k.a. Also es war so.... West German-Austrian co-production |
| Wo liegt Arkadien? | Dieter Lemmel | Renate Schroeter, Hans Peter Korff, Judy Winter | Drama | |
| A Woman at Her Window | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini, Joachim Hansen, Carl Möhner | Drama | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Young Dr. Freud | Axel Corti | Karlheinz Hackl | Biography | Austrian-West German co-production |
1977
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abelard | Franz Seitz | Anita Mally, Susanne Uhlen, Christian Kohlund, Christine Buchegger | Drama | |
| Achsensprung | Rolf von Sydow | Herbert Fleischmann, Rosemarie Fendel, Christof Wackernagel, Rudolf Schündler | Drama | |
| The American Friend | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller | Thriller | West German-French co-production. Entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival |
| Anpassung an eine zerstörte Illusion | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Claudia Rieschel, Christian Kohlund | Drama | |
| Audienz | Frank Guthke | Hartmut Becker, Karl Friedrich | Comedy | a.k.a. Audience |
| Auf der Insel | Wolfram Zobus | Erika Skrotzki, Peter Schiff | Drama | a.k.a. On the Island |
| Die Aula | Horst Flick | Wolf Roth, Peter Seum | Drama | |
| Die Befragung des Machiavelli | Franz Josef Wild | Hannes Messemer, Siegfried Wischnewski | Drama | a.k.a. The Interrogation of Machiavelli |
| Belcanto | Robert van Ackeren | Kurt Raab, Udo Kier, Y Sa Lo, Romy Haag, Gabriele Lafari | Drama | a.k.a. Belcanto oder Darf eine Nutte schluchzen? |
| Bezauberndes Fräulein | Erich Neureuther | Béla Ernyey, Klaus Wildbolz, Barbara Schöne, Marlène Charell, Eric Pohlmann | Musical | |
| Born Yesterday | Ludwig Cremer | Elke Sommer, Heinz Baumann, Manfred Seipold, Walter Giller, Ralf Wolter | Comedy | a.k.a. Nicht von gestern |
| Britta | Berengar Pfahl | Verena Plangger | Drama | |
| The Brothers | Wolf Gremm | Klaus Löwitsch, Erika Pluhar, Doris Kunstmann | Drama | |
| The Burning Secret | Wilm ten Haaf | Christiane Hörbiger, Heinz Ehrenfreund, Thomas Ohrner, Walther Reyer | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Cécile | Dagmar Damek | Doris Kunstmann, Matthias Ponnier, Günther Ungeheuer | Drama | |
| The Chinese Miracle | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Christian Kohlund, Heinz Rühmann, Senta Berger, Peter Pasetti, Harald Leipnitz | Drama | |
| The Confidential Clerk | Thomas Land | Alexander Kerst, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Knut Koch, Irmgard Först, Tilli Breidenbach | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Privatsekretär |
| The Conquest of the Citadel | Bernhard Wicki | András Fricsay, Ivan Desny, Armando Brancia, Vittoria Di Silverio, Dieter Kirchlechner | Drama | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Senta Berger, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna, Arthur Brauss, Fred Stillkrauth | War | a.k.a. Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz. West German-British co-production |
| Damen haben Vortritt | Maria Neocleous | Louise Martini, Liane Hielscher, Alexander Radszun, Ursela Monn | Comedy | |
| Death Is My Trade | Theodor Kotulla | Götz George, Hans Korte | War, Biography | |
| Death or Freedom | Wolf Gremm | Peter Sattmann, Gert Fröbe, Mario Adorf, Erika Pluhar, Harald Leipnitz | Adventure | |
| 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") |
| Diary of a Lover | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Klaus Salge | Drama | |
| Disorder and Early Torment | Franz Seitz | Martin Held, Ruth Leuwerik, Sabine von Maydell, Christian Kohlund | Drama | a.k.a. Disorder and Early Sorrow |
| The Doctor's Dilemma | Rolf von Sydow | Karl Michael Vogler, Andrea Jonasson, Klaus Hoffmann, Paul Dahlke | Drama | |
| Eden End | Oswald Döpke | Sigfrit Steiner, Elfriede Irrall, Hans Georg Panczak, Ulrike Bliefert | Drama | |
| Der Einstand | Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Christoph Waltz, Erwin Leder | Drama | West German-Austrian-Swiss co-production |
| Das Ende der Beherrschung | Gabi Kubach | Gila von Weitershausen, Pola Kinski, Manfred Zapatka | Drama | |
| Endstation Paradies | Thomas Engel | Inge Meysel, Maria Sebaldt, Erna Sellmer | Drama | |
| An Enemy of the People | Georg Marischka | Peter Ehrlich, Arno Assmann, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Christian Doermer | Drama | |
| Escape Route to Marseille | Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring | Katharina Thalbach, Rüdiger Vogler | Docudrama, War | |
| The Expulsion from Paradise | Niklaus Schilling | Herb Andress, Elke Haltaufderheide, Jochen Busse, Andrea Rau | Drama | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Fairy | Vojtěch Jasný | Herlinde Latzko, Felix von Manteuffel, Louise Martini, Lina Carstens, Rudolf Schündler, Gert Haucke, Barbara Valentin | Fantasy | |
| Fathers and Sons | Claus Peter Witt | Dieter Laser, Christine Wodetzky, Karl Michael Vogler, Sigmar Solbach, Paul Edwin Roth | Drama | |
| Flucht | Thomas Fantl | Herbert Fleischmann, Hannelore Elsner | Crime thriller | |
| Die Freiheiten der Langeweile | Vojtěch Jasný | Lutz Reichert, Dieter Kaffka, Siegfried Reiter | Crime | |
| Fuhrmann Henschel | Werner Schlechte | Wolfgang Reichmann | Drama | a.k.a. Drayman Henschel |
| Ein ganz und gar verwahrlostes Mädchen | Jutta Brückner | Rita Rischak | Documentary | |
| The Fruit is Ripe | Sigi Rothemund | Betty Vergès | Sex comedy | |
| Gaslight | Ludwig Cremer | Erika Pluhar, Josef Meinrad, Gustav Knuth | Thriller | |
| Geistertrio | Samuel Beckett | Klaus Herm, Irmgard Först | Short | a.k.a. Ghost Trio |
| Generale – Anatomie der Marneschlacht | Franz Peter Wirth | Hannes Messemer, Karl Michael Vogler, Siegfried Wischnewski, Ferdy Mayne | War, Docudrama | |
| Die Geschichte der Susanna Margaretha Brandt | Hartmut Griesmayr | Erika Skrotzki | History, Crime | |
| Das Gesetz des Clans | Eugen York | Horst Frank, Gert Fröbe, Heidi Brühl, Hellmut Lange | Crime | |
| The Glass of Water | Wolfgang Glück | O. W. Fischer, Susanne Uhlen, Maria Becker, Oliver Tobias | Comedy | a.k.a. A Glass of Water |
| Glücksucher | Peter Beauvais | Martin Benrath, Judy Winter, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | |
| 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 |
| Group Portrait with a Lady | Aleksandar Petrović | Romy Schneider, Brad Dourif, Michel Galabru, Vadim Glowna | Drama, War | West German-French co-production |
| Haben Sie nichts zu verzollen? | Michael Günther | Claus Biederstaedt, Simone Rethel, Alexander May, Edda Seippel | Comedy | a.k.a. Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? |
| Halbe-Halbe | Uwe Brandner | Hans Peter Hallwachs, Bernd Tauber, Agnes Dünneisen, Mascha Gonska, Ivan Desny, Kai Fischer | Comedy | a.k.a. 50/50 |
| Der Haupttreffer | Thomas Fantl | Klaus Höhne, Maria Körber | Comedy | |
| Haus der Frauen | Krzysztof Zanussi | Lina Carstens, Brigitte Horney, Karin Baal, Cordula Trantow | Drama | |
| Der Heiligenschein | Heinz Schirk | Horst Frank, Brigitte Grothum | Comedy, Fantasy | |
| Heinrich | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Heinrich Giskes, Grischa Huber, Hannelore Hoger, Lina Carstens, Sigfrit Steiner, Heinz Hoenig | Biography | |
| Heinrich Zille | Rainer Wolffhardt | Martin Held | Biography | |
| Hier kein Ausgang – nur Übergang | Rainer Wolffhardt | Ernst Jacobi, Regine Lamster | Drama | |
| Hitler: A Career | Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | War, Documentary | a.k.a. Hitler: The Whole Story | |
| Hitler: A Film from Germany | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Peter Kern, Heinz Schubert, Hellmut Lange, André Heller | War, Experimental | West German-French-British co-production |
| Das höfliche Alptraumkrokodil | Frank Strecker | Jörg Pleva, Günter Mack, Volker Lechtenbrink, Heinz Meier, Wolfgang Wahl | Family | |
| The Hot Tiara | Imo Moszkowicz | Gerlinde Locker, Klaus Wildbolz, Ferdy Mayne, Walter Giller | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Heiße Ware |
| Im Nest | Michael Lähn | Judy Winter, Claus Eicheler, Edith Heerdegen, Günter Mack, Kai Fischer, Nastassja Kinski | Drama | |
| In freier Landschaft | Michael Kehlmann | Günther Schramm, Alexander Kerst, Heinrich Schweiger, Klausjürgen Wussow, George Pravda, Diana Körner | Drama | |
| Indiscreet | Wolfgang Glück | Andrea Jonasson, Harry Meyen | Comedy | |
| Invitation to the Dance | Peter F. Bringmann | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Guido Gagliardi | Comedy | a.k.a. Invitation to Dance |
| Jane Is Jane Forever | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Johanna König | Comedy | |
| Johnny West | Roald Koller | Rio Reiser, Kristina van Eyck, Jess Hahn | Drama, Music | |
| Eine Jugendliebe | Rainer Wolffhardt | Christian Berkel, Cornelia Köndgen, Petra Maria Grühn, Alexander Radszun, Dominique Horwitz | Drama, War | |
| Die Jugendstreiche des Knaben Karl | Franz Seitz | Robert Seidl, Walter Sedlmayr, Gustl Bayrhammer, Hans Clarin, Beppo Brem | Comedy | |
| Kante | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Peter Seum, Cornelia Meinhardt | Crime drama | |
| Die Katze und der Hahn | Günter Giesenfeld | Christiane Reiff | Drama | |
| Die Kette | Rolf von Sydow | Uschi Glas, Harald Leipnitz, Wolfgang Kieling, Herbert Fleischmann, Walter Kohut, Rosemarie Fendel | Mystery thriller | |
| Kinderseele | Guy Kubli | Gerd Böckmann | Short | |
| Kleinhoff Hotel | Carlo Lizzani | Corinne Cléry, Bruce Robinson, Katja Rupé, Werner Pochath, Peter Kern, Michele Placido | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Die Konsequenz | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald | Drama | a.k.a. The Consequence. Petersen won the 1978 Adolf Grimme Awards |
| Kreutzer | Klaus Emmerich | Rüdiger Vogler, Axel Wagner | Crime | a.k.a. Hauptmann Kreutzer |
| Lady Dracula | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Evelyne Kraft, Theo Lingen, Stephen Boyd, Brad Harris, Eddi Arent, Walter Giller | Comedy, Horror | |
| 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 |
| Liebe das Leben, lebe das Lieben | Lutz Eisholz | Brigitte Mira, Bruno S., Peter Heinrich | Drama | a.k.a. Love Life, Live Loving |
| Maiden's War | Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel | Kaki Hunter, Adelheid Arndt, Matthias Habich, Hans Christian Blech, Walter Taub, Svatopluk Beneš, Jan Tříska | Drama, War | a.k.a. The Three Daughters |
| The Main Actor | Reinhard Hauff | Michael Schweiger, Mario Adorf, Vadim Glowna | Drama | a.k.a. The Leading Man |
| Der Mann mit dem Zylinder | Georg Ruest | Wolfgang Kieling, Uwe Friedrichsen, Claudia Wedekind | Musical | |
| Mathilde Möhring | Wolfgang Schleif | Sabina Trooger | Drama | |
| Mensch Mutter | Peter Wehage | Hannelore Hoger, Anita Kupsch | Drama | a.k.a. Mother Is a Human Being |
| Menschenfresser | Rainer Boldt | Hans Peter Korff, Hans Helmut Dickow, Monica Bleibtreu | Thriller | |
| Möwengeschrei | Heinz Schirk | Gracia-Maria Kaus, Helmut Wildt, Ronald Nitschke | Drama | |
| Nachkommenschaften | Ludwig Cremer | Ralf Schermuly, Renate Küster, Irene Marhold, Anita Lochner, Uta Hallant, Barbara Morawiecz, Helga Feddersen | Drama | |
| Notwehr | Hartmut Griesmayr | Günter Lamprecht, Erik Schumann, Friedrich von Thun, Diether Krebs, Monika Lundi, Katrin Schaake, Marie-Luise Marjan, Bernd Tauber, Rolf Zacher, Guru Guru | Crime | |
| Oblomows Liebe | Claus Peter Witt | Wolfgang Reichmann, Johanna Elbauer, Herbert Bötticher, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Comedy | a.k.a. Oblomov |
| On Mount Chimborazo | Peter Beauvais | Heidemarie Hatheyer, Heinrich Giskes, Joachim Bißmeier | Drama | a.k.a. Auf dem Chimborazo |
| Operation Ganymed | Rainer Erler | Horst Frank, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Uwe Friedrichsen, Claus Theo Gärtner | Science fiction | |
| Der Operndirektor | Werner Schlechte | Peter Pasetti, Jan Niklas, Eva Maria Meineke, Ilse Pagé, Kathrin Ackermann | Comedy | a.k.a. The Director of the Opera |
| Petty Thieves | Michael Fengler | Marquard Bohm, Charly Wierczejewski, Rolf Zacher, Gerhard Olschewski | Crime | |
| Planübung | Wolfgang Petersen | Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Claudia Butenuth, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| The Price | Thomas Fantl | Wolfgang Kieling, Rolf Henniger, Werner Hinz, Xenia Pörtner | Drama | |
| Das Projekt Honnef | Rudolf Nussgruber | Hans Helmut Dickow, Xenia Pörtner, Konrad Georg, Carl Lange | Biography | |
| Prosperos Traum | George Moorse | Peter Lühr, Vadim Glowna | Fantasy | a.k.a. Prospero's Dream a.k.a. The Tempest |
| Räuber und Gendarm | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Eddi Arent, Hans Putz, Corny Collins | Crime comedy | |
| Reifezeugnis | Wolfgang Petersen | Nastassja Kinski, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Christian Quadflieg, Judy Winter | Crime drama | a.k.a. For Your Love Only. Tatort episode |
| Reinhard Heydrich – Manager des Terrors | Heinz Schirk | Dietrich Mattausch | War, Biography | |
| Das Rentenspiel | Dieter Wedel | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Klaus Löwitsch, Curt Bois, Monika Peitsch, Christian Quadflieg, Günter Strack | Docudrama | |
| A Rose: That's What Life Is All About | Hans-Christof Stenzel | Y Sa Lo | Road movie | |
| Roulette | Franz Peter Wirth | Gerd Böckmann, Werner Kreindl, Karl Michael Vogler, Eleonore Weisgerber | Drama | |
| Rückfälle | Peter Beauvais | Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Rules for a Film About Anabaptists | Georg Brintrup | Documentary | West German-Italian co-production | |
| Schulzeit | Rainer Wolffhardt | Hermann Treusch | Drama | |
| Schwindelig vor Geld und Liebe | Herbert Ballmann | Gustav Knuth, Eva Pflug, Dieter Thomas Heck, Wolfgang Völz | Comedy | |
| Scrounged Meals | Michael Verhoeven | Heinz Rühmann, Mario Adorf, Elisabeth Volkmann, René Deltgen, Karin Baal | Comedy | |
| The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent | Drama | American-West German co-production |
| The Soldiers | Peter Beauvais | Anita Lochner, Siemen Rühaak, Klaus Hoffmann, Arno Assmann | Drama | |
| Sorgen ohne Noth | Michael Günther | Klaus Höhne, Barbara Freier, Simone Rethel, Ralf Schermuly, Giovanni Früh, Alexander May, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Comedy | a.k.a. Sorgen ohne Not |
| La Soufrière | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| The Standard | Ottokar Runze | Simon Ward, Peter Cushing, Jon Finch, Wolfgang Preiss, Lil Dagover, Siegfried Rauch, Maria Perschy, Robert Hoffmann, Rudolf Prack, Friedrich von Ledebur | War | a.k.a. Battle Flag. West German-Austrian-Spanish co-production |
| The Stationmaster's Wife | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Kurt Raab, Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | a.k.a. Bolwieser |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg, Burkhard Driest | Drama | |
| Sweethearts | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer, Fatima Igramhan, Renate Zimmermann, Sabine Gurn | Comedy, Music | |
| Tausend Lieder ohne Ton | Claudia Holldack | Eva Mattes, Michael Tregor | Drama | a.k.a. 1000 Lieder ohne Ton |
| Teerosen | Rolf von Sydow | Maria Schell, O. W. Fischer, Ulli Philipp, Jan Niklas | Comedy | |
| Three Swedes in Upper Bavaria | Sigi Rothemund | Ann Lündell, Inge Fock, Anika Egger, Gianni Garko | Sex comedy | a.k.a. 3 Sexy Girls in Tyrol |
| Ein Tisch zu viert | Michael Günther | René Deltgen, Camilla Spira, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Rose Renée Roth | Comedy | |
| Der Tod des Camilo Torres | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Gerd Böckmann, Wolfgang Wahl | Drama | a.k.a. Der Tod des Camilo Torres, oder: Die Wirklichkeit hält viel aus |
| Twilight's Last Gleaming | Robert Aldrich | Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Joseph Cotten, Melvyn Douglas | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Der Überläufer – Der Fall Wlassow | Hans Quest | Walther Reyer, Peter Fricke, Alexander Kerst | War, Docudrama | a.k.a. The Defector: Andrey Vlasov |
| Überlebenstraining | Frank Guthke | Manfred Reddemann, Horst Schick, Krista Keller, Franziska Bronnen | Drama | |
| Uncle Silas | Wilhelm Semmelroth | Hannes Messemer, Cornelia Köndgen, Ellen Schwiers, Hans Jaray | Crime drama | |
| Und Rosa und Marilyn und ... | Hans Neuenfels | Elisabeth Trissenaar, Christiane Bruhn, Gottfried John | Drama | a.k.a. Two Kinds of Angel |
| Unendlich tief unten | Pete Ariel | Hans Peter Korff, Donata Höffer, Walter Kohut | Thriller | |
| Vanessa | Hubert Frank | Olivia Pascal | Softcore | |
| Das Verhör des Ernst Niekisch | Oswald Döpke | Hans Christian Blech | Docudrama | |
| Verkaufte Träume | Gabi Kubach | Barbara Sukowa, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Drama | |
| Die Vorstadtkrokodile | Wolfgang Becker | Wolfgang Sieling, Birgit Komanns, Heiner Beeker, Rita Ramachers, Martin Semmelrogge | Family | a.k.a. The Crocodiles |
| Waldrausch | Horst Hächler | Uschi Glas, Alexander Stephan, Siegfried Rauch, Sigfrit Steiner, Ralf Wolter, Anton Diffring | Drama | |
| Walter Hasenclever | Rolf Busch | Peter Lieck, Helmut Stauss, Angelika Bender, Christian Brückner, Heinz Giese, Werner Kreindl | Biography, War | a.k.a. Walter Hasenclever – Tod und Leben eines deutschen Dichters |
| The Wedding Feast | Karl Fruchtmann | Bruno Dallansky, Wolf Roth, Veronika Nowag-Jones, Uwe Dallmeier | Comedy | a.k.a. Das Hochzeitsfest a.k.a. Ein Hochzeitsfest |
| Der Weilburger Kadettenmord | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Claus Theo Gärtner, Stephan Schwartz, Klaus Hoffmann | History, Crime | |
| Who Saw Him Die? | Theodor Grädler | Thekla Carola Wied, Harald Leipnitz, Hans Caninenberg, Karl-Otto Alberty | Crime | |
| The Winslow Boy | Michael Kehlmann | Peter Weck, Marlies Engel, Karl-Maria Schley, Edda Seippel, Jan Niklas | Drama | a.k.a. Der Fall Winslow |
| Women in Hospital | Rolf Thiele | Horst Buchholz, Stephen Boyd, Karin Dor | Drama | |
| Zeit der Empfindsamkeit | Wilma Kottusch | Vera Tschechowa, Vadim Glowna | Drama | |
| Zero Hour | Edgar Reitz | Kai Taschner | War |
1978
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982: Gutenbach | Michael Verhoeven | Gottfried John, Katja Rupé, Hartmut Becker | Science fiction | |
| Achtung, Chance! | Kurt Ulrich | Tommi Piper, Horst Niendorf, Horst Naumann, Ursula Dirichs, Monika John, Friedrich von Thun | Drama | |
| Adoptionen | Hartmut Griesmayr | Monika Lundi, Liane Hielscher, Manfred Seipold, Gitty Djamal, Helga Anders | Drama, Anthology | |
| Albert – Why? | Josef Rödl | Fritz Binner | Drama | |
| The All-Around Reduced Personality – Outtakes | Helke Sander | Helke Sander | Drama | a.k.a. The All-Round Reduced Personality – Redupers |
| Alzire, or The New Continent | Thomas Koerfer | Monica Bleibtreu, Hans Peter Korff, Rüdiger Vogler, Wolfram Berger, Verena Buss, Joaquín Hinojosa, François Simon, Roger Jendly | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Amanda | Klaus Überall | Herlinde Latzko, Eckart Dux, Monika Peitsch, Michael Hinz, Barbara Schöne, Bela Ernyey | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Traumfrau |
| Amor | Sławomir Mrożek, Jerzy Lipman | Andy Pap, Ingeborg Lapsien, Martin Lüttge, Regine Vergeen | Drama | |
| Amore | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer, Pietro Giardini | Comedy | |
| Die Anstalt | Hans-Rüdiger Minow | Susanne Valerie Granzer, Wolfgang Preiss, Gerd Baltus | Drama | |
| The Assistant | Ludwig Cremer | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Shmuel Rodensky, Doris Buchrucker, Ruth Hausmeister | Drama | a.k.a. Der Gehilfe |
| Auf den Hund gekommen | Rosemarie Fendel | Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Klaus Löwitsch | Crime comedy | |
| Auf freiem Fuss | Peter Keglevic | Manfred Lindlbauer, Erwin Leder, Hans Georg Nenning, Christine Csar | Crime drama | a.k.a. Auf freiem Fuß. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die beiden Freundinnen | Axel Corti | Ulrike Bliefert, Erika Skrotzki, Stefan Wigger, Brigitte Mira | Crime | a.k.a. Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord |
| Between Two Wars | Harun Farocki | Jeff Layton, Stefan Matousch | Drama | |
| The Birthday Party | Jürgen Flimm | Hans Christian Rudolph, Dieter Laser, Brigitte Mira, Ernst Jacobi | Drama | a.k.a. Die Geburtstagsfeier |
| Boeing Boeing | Dietrich Haugk | Sigmar Solbach, Frithjof Vierock | Comedy | |
| Brass Target | John Hough | Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Max von Sydow, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan, Heinz Bennent, Sigfrit Steiner | Crime, War | American-West German-Swiss co-production |
| Die Bräute des Kurt Roidl | Gernot Friedel | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Buckel | Thomas Fantl | Gerd Baltus, Fritz Nydegger, Angelika Bender | Drama | |
| Cella | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Christine Csar, Bruno Dallansky, Lotte Ledl, Walther Reyer | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Children's Day | Erich Neureuther | Walter Giller, Loni von Friedl, Gerd Baltus, Witta Pohl, Klaus Höhne | Drama | a.k.a. Kinderparty |
| The Condemned of Altona | Pinkas Braun | Doris Kunstmann, Judy Winter, Uwe Friedrichsen, Ernst Schröder | Drama | a.k.a. Die Eingeschlossenen |
| Despair | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Diary of a Seducer | Michael Hild | Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Kirschstein | Drama | |
| Das Doppelleben des Wilfried E. | Wolfgang Storch | Siegfried Wischnewski, Elga Sorbas, Matthias Ponnier, Rüdiger Kirschstein | Drama | a.k.a. You've Made Your Bed: Now Lie in It |
| Dr. Katzenbergers Badereise | Gerd Winkler | Alwin Michael Rueffer, Jutta Speidel, Jörg Pleva | Comedy | |
| Ehrlich währt am längsten | Arno Assmann | Reiner Schöne, Anita Lochner, Edith Heerdegen, Frithjof Vierock | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Plunder |
| Eifersucht | Georg Wildhagen | Heidelinde Weis, Günther Ungeheuer | Comedy | a.k.a. Jealousy. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Eisbären | Wilm ten Haaf | Hannelore Elsner, Joachim Bißmeier | Drama | a.k.a. Polar Bears |
| Elfriede | Wolfgang Panzer | Vérénice Rudolph, Nikol Voigtländer, Kai Fischer | Drama | |
| Das Ende einer Karriere | Christa Maar | Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | |
| Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Martin Lüttge, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Gerd Baltus, Gisela Trowe, Bettina Kenter, Volkert Kraeft | Comedy | a.k.a. Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste |
| Die Farbe des Himmels | Thomas Hartwig | Hans Brenner, Rudolf Lenz | Drama | |
| Fear | Dagmar Damek | Judy Winter, Matthias Habich, Manfred Zapatka | Drama | a.k.a. Angst |
| Fedora | Billy Wilder | William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, Mario Adorf, Gottfried John, José Ferrer, Michael York, Henry Fonda | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Feuerwasser | Wolfgang Staudte | Hans Helmut Dickow, Helmut Qualtinger, Thomas Holtzmann, Kornelia Boje | Drama | |
| The Fifth Commandment | Duccio Tessari | Helmut Berger, Peter Hooten, Evelyne Kraft, Umberto Orsini, Lorella De Luca, Udo Kier | Crime | a.k.a. The 5th Commandment. Italian-West German co-production |
| Fist in the Pocket | Max Willutzki | Ernst Hannawald, Manfred Krug, Ursela Monn, Tommi Piper | Drama | |
| Fixer | Klaus-Peter Krippendorff | Gerhard Theisen, Ronald Nitschke | Drama | |
| Flaming Hearts | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Peter Kern, Barbara Valentin | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Ein freier Tag | Hermann Treusch | Erika Skrotzki, Jochen Striebeck | Drama | |
| Der Friede von Locarno | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Hans Korte | Docudrama | a.k.a. The Locarno Treaties |
| Ein Frieden für die armen Seelen | Walter Davy | Gerd Böckmann, Andrea Jonasson, Christian Quadflieg, Marianne Nentwich, Kurt Nachmann, Bruno Dallansky | History | a.k.a. Ein Frieden für die armen Seelen – Der Wiener Kongress. West German-Austrian-Swiss co-production |
| Friedrich Schachmann wird verwaltet | Eberhard Pieper | Wolfgang Kieling, Gerhard Olschewski, Lina Carstens, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Hans Peter Korff | Drama | |
| Der Führerschein | Thomas Engel | Witta Pohl, Klaus Herm, Dieter Kirchlechner, Ingeborg Schöner, Jochen Busse | Drama | |
| 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 | Anthology | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Gesche Gottfried | Karl Fruchtmann | Sabine Sinjen, Tilo Prückner, Wolf Roth, Rolf Becker | History, Crime | |
| Geschichte einer Liebe | Dagmar Damek | Bruno Ganz, Rosemarie Filser, Cornelia Froboess | Drama | a.k.a. April: The Story of a Love Affair |
| The Girl from Nowhere | Jochen Richter | Zeli Barbier, Heinz Trixner, Lina Carstens, Wolfgang Büttner | Science fiction | a.k.a. Eurydike |
| The Glass Cell | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Helmut Griem, Brigitte Fossey, Dieter Laser, Walter Kohut, Günter Strack, Bernhard Wicki | Crime drama | |
| Good-for-Nothing | Bernhard Sinkel | Jacques Breuer, Eva Maria Meineke, Wolfgang Reichmann, Matthias Habich, Mareike Carrière | Comedy | |
| Grüß Gott, ich komm von drüben | Tom Toelle | Hans Christian Blech | Comedy | |
| The Guardian and His Poet | Percy Adlon | Rolf Illig, Horst Raspe | Biography | a.k.a. Der Vormund und sein Dichter |
| Der harte Handel | Uli Edel | Tilo Prückner | Drama | |
| Heinrich Heine | Klaus Emmerich | Christoph Bantzer, Barbara Sukowa, Walter Rilla, Ivan Desny, Rosemarie Fendel | Biography | |
| Heroin 4 | Michael Günther | Claus Theo Gärtner, Matthias Ponnier, Bernd Herberger, Christoph Felsenstein, Léonie Thelen, Martin Semmelrogge | Drama | |
| Ein Hut von ganz spezieller Art | Hans Dieter Schwarze | Hannes Messemer, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Susanne Beck, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Käthe Haack, Herbert Bötticher | Comedy, Anthology | |
| I See This Land from Afar | Christian Ziewer | Aníbal Reyna, Pablo Lira, Angela Krain | Drama | a.k.a. Aus der Ferne sehe ich dieses Land |
| In a Year of 13 Moons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Eva Mattes, Isolde Barth, Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | |
| Inn of the Sinful Daughters | Walter Boos | Gina Janssen | Sex comedy | |
| Jugend, Liebe und die Wacht am Rhein | Oswald Döpke | Stephan Schwartz, Werner Hinz, Angelika Bender, Sabine von Maydell, Alexander Radszun, Günter Strack, Constanze Engelbrecht | Biography | a.k.a. Young Count Kessler a.k.a. Count Harry Kessler |
| Just a Gigolo | David Hemmings | David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell | Drama | |
| Karneval | Werner Schlechte | Michael Degen, Elfriede Irrall | Drama | |
| Keiner kann was dafür | Uschi Reich | Michael Fitz, Christine Kammerer, Agnes Neuwirth | Drama | West German-Austrian-Swiss co-production |
| Der keusche Lebemann | Alfred Weidenmann | Harald Juhnke, Barbara Schöne, Grit Boettcher, Amadeus August, Herbert Herrmann | Drama | a.k.a. The Chaste Libertine |
| Klaras Mutter | Tankred Dorst | Katharina Tüschen, Elisabeth Schwarz, Marius Müller-Westernhagen | Drama | a.k.a. Klara's Mother |
| Kleine bunte Freudenspender | Eberhard Pieper | Brigitte Horney, Wolfgang Wahl, Marlies Engel, Karl-Heinz von Hassel | Drama, Anthology | |
| Der kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film | Hellmuth Costard | Hellmuth Costard, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hark Bohm | Documentary | |
| Knife in the Head | Reinhard Hauff | Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Heinz Hoenig | Drama | |
| Krabat – The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Karel Zeman | — | Animated | Czechoslovak-West German co-production |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Wilhelm Semmelroth | Susanne Uhlen, Christian Wolff, Hans Caninenberg, Katerina Jacob, Siegfried Wischnewski, Helga Anders | Crime drama | |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Tom Toelle | Erika Pluhar, Klaus Hoffmann, Gert Westphal, Friedrich von Thun, Sky du Mont | Drama | |
| Das Lamm des Armen | Oswald Döpke | Horst Frank, Wolf Roth, Angelika Bender, Günter Strack, Rolf Becker, Günther Ungeheuer | Historical drama | a.k.a. Un caprice de Bonaparte |
| Liebe und Abenteuer | Gisela Stelly | Birgit Hoffmeister | Drama | |
| Love Hotel in Tyrol | Franz Antel | Fritz Muliar, Heinz Reincke | Sex comedy | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Mach's gut, Florian | Rolf Hädrich | Klaus-Peter Grap | Drama | |
| Madame X: An Absolute Ruler | Ulrike Ottinger | Tabea Blumenschein | Fantasy | |
| The Man in the Rushes | Manfred Purzer | Jean Sorel, Erika Pluhar, Nathalie Delon, Bernhard Wicki, Heinz Bennent, Tilo Prückner | Drama | |
| Marija | Horst Flick | Wolfgang Büttner, Anita Lochner, Christine Wodetzky, Günter Lamprecht, Gottfried John, Wolf Roth, Bernd Tauber, Heinrich Giskes, Rüdiger Kirschstein | Drama | a.k.a. Maria |
| Martha und Laura auf See | Hanna Laura Klar | Adelheid Arndt, Christiane Lemm, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Melody in Love | Hubert Frank | Sascha Hehn, Melody O'Bryan | Softcore | |
| Mittags auf dem Roten Platz | Dieter Wedel | Monica Bleibtreu, Michael Degen, Claus Theo Gärtner | Drama | |
| Ein Mord am Lietzensee | Lutz Büscher | Renate Küster, Heinz Hoenig, Heinz Engelmann | Crime | |
| Moritz, Dear Moritz | Hark Bohm | Michael Kebschull, Kerstin Wehlmann, Grete Mosheim | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Mulligans Rückkehr | Helmut Käutner | Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | |
| My Fat Friend | Gig Malzacher | Johanna Liebeneiner, Wolfgang Kieling | Comedy | a.k.a. Meine dicke Freundin |
| Das Nebelloch | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Veronika Fitz, Udo Thomer, Toni Berger, Ulrich Faulhaber, Martin Sperr, Werner Asam, Wilfried Klaus | Drama | a.k.a. Das Nebelloch – Eine Geschichte aus Bayern |
| Oh, diese Männer | Franz Josef Wild | Barbara Rütting, Violetta Ferrari, Michael Hinz | Comedy | a.k.a. Les Bonshommes |
| On the Move | Adolf Winkelmann | Detlev Quandt, Ludger Schnieder, Anastasios Avgeris | Road movie | a.k.a. Die Abfahrer |
| The Other Smile | Robert van Ackeren | Katja Rupé, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Heinz Ehrenfreund | Drama | |
| Passion Flower Hotel | André Farwagi | Nastassja Kinski, Gerry Sundquist | Comedy | a.k.a. Boarding School |
| Paul kommt zurück | Peter F. Bringmann | Manfred Krug, Tilo Prückner, Heinz Hoenig, Günther Ungeheuer | Crime | |
| The Pentecost Outing | Michael Günther | Elisabeth Bergner, Martin Held | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Pfingstausflug |
| Platzangst | Thomas Schamoni | Christine Wodetzky | Drama | |
| Plutonium | Rainer Erler | Charlotte Kerr, Wolf Roth, Anton Diffring | Thriller | |
| Popcorn and Ice Cream | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Olivia Pascal, Benny, Zachi Noy | Comedy | |
| The Power of Darkness | Oswald Döpke | Peter Seum, Barbara Morawiecz, Sigfrit Steiner, Werner Hinz | Drama | |
| The Power of Men is the Patience of Women | Cristina Perincioli | Elisabeth Walinski, Eberhard Feik, Barbara Stanek | Drama | |
| Probezeit | Peter Voiss | Mariele Millowitsch | Drama | |
| Red Rings of Fear | Alberto Negrin | Fabio Testi, Christine Kaufmann, Ivan Desny | Thriller | Italian-Spanish-West German co-production |
| The Reign of Naples | Werner Schroeter | Ida Di Benedetto | Drama | a.k.a. The Kingdom of Naples. Italian-West German co-production |
| Les Rendez-vous d'Anna | Chantal Akerman | Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Magali Noël, Helmut Griem, Hanns Zischler, Lea Massari | Drama | Belgian-French-West German co-production |
| Rhinegold | Niklaus Schilling | Elke Haltaufderheide, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Gunther Malzacher | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Rick und Ritschi | Wolfgang Mühlbauer | Uwe Ochsenknecht, Rüdiger Friedrichs | Comedy | |
| The Rider on the White Horse | Alfred Weidenmann | John Phillip Law, Gert Fröbe, Anita Ekström, Lina Carstens, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | a.k.a. The Ghostly Rider a.k.a. The Dykemaster |
| Die Rose und die Nachtigall | Frank Guthke | Cihan Ünal, Petra Verena Milchert | Drama | a.k.a. Gül ve Bülbül |
| Rosi | Helmut Meewes | Anita Kupsch | Comedy | a.k.a. Rosi – Eine Geschichte aus Berlin |
| Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte | Wolfgang Petersen | Bruno Ganz, René Deltgen, Gila von Weitershausen | Drama | a.k.a. 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 | Crime | |
| Die seltsamen Begegnungen des Prof. Tarantoga | Chuck Kerremans | Richard Münch, Peter Striebeck | Science fiction | |
| Short Letter to the Long Goodbye | Herbert Vesely | Geraldine Chaplin, Thomas Astan, Alexandra Hay | Drama | a.k.a. Short Letter, Long Farewell |
| The Singers | Michael Verhoeven | Katerina Jacob, Jan Niklas, Gerd Baltus, Klaus Knuth, Peter Matić, Fred Stillkrauth, Michael Gahr, Christine Kaufmann, Alfred Edel | Drama | a.k.a. Das Männerquartett a.k.a. Das Ochsenfurter Männerquartett |
| Skyline | Volker Landsberg | Matthias Fuchs | Drama | |
| Slavers | Jürgen Goslar | Trevor Howard, Ron Ely, Britt Ekland, Cameron Mitchell, Ray Milland, Ken Gampu | Action | |
| Soul Sister | Dietmar Buchmann | Tatjana Blacher, Holmes McHenry | Drama | |
| Späte Liebe | Ilse Hofmann | Karl-Maria Schley, Ehmi Bessel | Drama | |
| Das Spiel | Peter Adam | Lutz Reichert, Monica Teuber | Drama | |
| Spiel der Verlierer | Christian Hohoff | Jörg von Liebenfelß, Maria Schell, Claus Holm, Martina Winkelbach, Margit Carstensen | Drama | |
| Der Spinnenmörder | Gerhard Klingenberg | Dietmar Schönherr, Alma Seidler, Peter Arens | Thriller | a.k.a. The Bat |
| The Spirit of the Yellow Plum | Eberhard Pieper | Wolfgang Kieling, Gert Haucke, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Hans Peter Korff, Witta Pohl, Gerhard Olschewski, Monica Bleibtreu, Heinz Baumann, Wolfgang Wahl | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Geist der Mirabelle |
| Spuk in Felixburg | Rudolf Nussgruber | Christine Böhm, Dirk Dautzenberg, Heinz Meier, Gerhart Lippert, Joost Siedhoff | Comedy | |
| Stalins letzter Bourgeois | Gerlach Fiedler | Friedhelm Ptok, Brigitte Grothum, Wolfgang Büttner, Martin Hirthe | Biography | a.k.a. Stalins letzter Bourgeois – Die allmähliche Vernichtung des Michail Bulgakow |
| Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act | George Moorse | Hanna Schygulla, Günther Kaufmann | Drama | |
| Strafsache gegen F. | Wolfgang Glück | Günter Lamprecht | Crime | |
| Die Straße | Volker Vogeler | Ossy Kolmann, Arthur Brauss, Franz Buchrieser, Georg Lehn | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Strauberg ist da | Mischa Gallé | Michel Piccoli, Bernadette Lafont, Theodor Kotulla | Drama | (Shot in 1975) |
| Stützen der Gesellschaft | Werner Schlechte | Werner Kreindl, Uwe Friedrichsen, Jörg Pleva, Anita Lochner, Dinah Hinz | Drama | a.k.a. Pillars of Society |
| Sultry Days | Hajo Gies | Daniel Gélin, Markus Klimmek, Katerina Jacob | Drama | |
| The Tailor from Ulm | Edgar Reitz | Tilo Prückner, Vadim Glowna, Hannelore Elsner | Biography | Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Three Men on a Horse | Imo Moszkowicz | Reiner Schöne | Comedy | a.k.a. 3 Men on a Horse |
| Der Tiefstapler | Karlheinz Bieber | Gert Fröbe, Georg Thomalla, Charo López, José Lifante | Comedy | |
| Tod eines Vaters | Thomas Mauch | Marianne Hoppe, Miguel Herz-Kestranek | Drama | |
| Ein typischer Fall | Fritz Umgelter | Hermann Treusch, Cordula Trantow, Maria Körber | Crime | |
| Der Unbekannte | Hartmut Griesmayr | Gerd Baltus, Monica Bleibtreu, Helga Anders | Drama | |
| The Unicorn | Peter Patzak | Gila von Weitershausen, Peter Vogel, Miriam Spoerri, Christiane Rücker, Anton Diffring | Drama | |
| Ein unruhiges Jahr | Kristian Kühn | Adelheid Arndt | Drama | |
| Vorhang auf, wir spielen Mord | Fritz Umgelter | Günter Strack, Sigmar Solbach, Mijou Kovacs, Anita Kupsch, Hans Söhnker | Crime | a.k.a. Enter Murderers |
| Wann heiraten Sie meine Frau? | Joachim Preen | Diether Krebs, Brigitte Mira, Agnes Dünneisen, Andrea L'Arronge | Comedy | |
| Weit weg von Hagedingen | Jan Kauenhowen | Ruth Hellberg, Willy Leyrer | Drama | |
| When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Ilse Hofmann | Ariane Jeßulat, Martin Benrath, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Alexander Rosenberg, Sigfrit Steiner | Drama | |
| Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Ted Kotcheff | Jacqueline Bisset, George Segal, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort | Black comedy | American-West German co-production |
| Who Killed Santa Claus? | Wilm ten Haaf | Irene Marhold, Christiane Krüger, Karl Lieffen, Martin Semmelrogge | Thriller | a.k.a. Eine seltsame Bescherung |
| Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Michael Mrakitsch | Hanns Zischler, Christine Buchegger, Gertraud Jesserer, Elfriede Irrall, Petra Maria Grühn | Drama | a.k.a. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre – Roman einer Karriere |
| Winterspelt | Eberhard Fechner | Hans Christian Blech, Katharina Thalbach, Claus Theo Gärtner, Henning Schlüter, Ulrich von Dobschütz, George Roubicek, Frederick Jaeger, George Sewell, David Healy, Garrick Hagon, James Bate, Jay Benedict | War | a.k.a. Winterspelt 1944 |
| Wo geht's lang, Kutti? | Tom Toelle | Elmar Nettekoven, Hans Beerhenke, Eva-Maria Hagen | Drama | |
| The Woman Across the Way | Hans Noever | Franciszek Pieczka, Petra Maria Grühn | Thriller | |
| A Woman with Responsibilities | Ula Stöckl | Christina Scholz | Drama | a.k.a. A Woman with Responsibility |
| Die Wunder der Erziehung | Gernot Eigler | Christoph Quest, Karl Lieffen | Drama | a.k.a. Das Wunder der Erziehung |
| Wunnigel | Oswald Döpke | Siegfried Wischnewski, Peter Fricke, Susanne Uhlen, Sigfrit Steiner, Thomas Holtzmann | Comedy | |
| Yesterday's Tomorrow | Wolfgang Staudte | Mel Ferrer, Pola Kinski, Hannelore Schroth, Martin Lüttge | Drama | a.k.a. Zwischengleis |
| Zeit zum Aufstehn | Ludwig Cremer | Franz Xaver Kroetz, Lisa Fitz, Arthur Brauss | Drama | |
| Zwei auf der Kippe | Thomas Fantl | Claus Theo Gärtner, Angelika Bender | Drama |
1979
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1+1=3 [de] | Heidi Genée | Adelheid Arndt, Dominik Graf, Christoph Quest | Comedy | a.k.a. One Plus One Equals Three |
| Der Abschusstag | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Frederick Jaeger, Witta Pohl, Johanna Liebeneiner, Jürgen Thormann | Comedy, War | a.k.a. Der Abschußtag |
| Accommodations | Georg Marischka | Uschi Glas, Ute Willing, Bernd Herzsprung | Comedy | a.k.a. Appartement für drei |
| Der Allerletzte | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer | Comedy | |
| Americathon | Neal Israel | John Ritter | Comedy | American production with West German money |
| Andreas Vöst | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Jörg Hube | Drama | |
| Anton Sittinger | Rainer Wolffhardt | Walter Sedlmayr, Veronika Fitz | Drama | |
| Arabian Nights | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer, Wolfgang Fierek, Christine Zierl | Comedy | |
| Der Architekt der Sonnenstadt | Renke Korn | Frank Glaubrecht, Nikol Voigtländer | Drama | |
| Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts | Rosa von Praunheim | Documentary | ||
| Belle | Wolfgang Storch | Udo Vioff | Thriller | a.k.a. Bellas Tod a.k.a. La Mort de Belle |
| Beware of Pity | Édouard Molinaro | Mathieu Carrière, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Jean Desailly, Silvia Reize | Drama | a.k.a. Ungeduld des Herzens. French-West German-Austrian co-production |
| Beware of Schwarzenbeck | May Spils | Werner Enke, Sabine von Maydell, Benno Hoffmann | Comedy | a.k.a. Wehe, wenn Schwarzenbeck kommt |
| Blauer Himmel, den ich nur ahne | Stephan Rinser | Jörg Hube | Biography | |
| Bloodline | Terence Young | Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Gert Fröbe, Irene Papas, Maurice Ronet, Wolfgang Preiss, Marcel Bozzuffi, Pinkas Braun, Ivan Desny, Vadim Glowna, Walter Kohut | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Bored Teenagers | Wolfgang Büld | Ian Moorse, Monika Greser, Steve "Roadent" Connolly, The Adverts | Music | a.k.a. Brennende Langeweile |
| Breakthrough | Andrew V. McLaglen | Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Curd Jürgens, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch | War | a.k.a. Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil |
| Burning Bright | Wilm ten Haaf | Peter Ehrlich, Giulia Follina, Herbert Fleischmann, Manfred Lehmann | Drama | a.k.a. Die wilde Flamme |
| Cola, Candy, Chocolate | Sigi Rothemund | Olivia Pascal, Ursula Buchfellner, Christine Zierl, Herbert Fux | Sex comedy | |
| Cold Homeland | W. Werner Schaefer, Peter F. Steinbach | Nikolaus Cohnen, Dietlinde Turban, Margit Carstensen, Rudolf Schündler | Drama | |
| David | Peter Lilienthal | Mario Fischel, Walter Taub, Irena Vrkljan, Eva Mattes | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin |
| The Day Elvis Came to Bremerhaven | Peter F. Bringmann | Wolfgang Drygalla, Petra Bigaj, Michael Shelley | Drama | |
| Denken heißt zum Teufel beten | Nathan Jariv | Ulrike Luderer | Drama | |
| Das Ding | Uli Edel | Wayne Laryea, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Stephan Schwartz, Steve "Roadent" Connolly, Caroline Chaniolleau, Ulla Jacobsson | Crime thriller | |
| Direktmandat | Daniel Christoff | Gudo Hoegel, Stefan Wigger, Karin Anselm, Diether Krebs | Drama | |
| Dracula Blows His Cool | Carl Schenkel | Gianni Garko, Betty Vergès, Ralf Wolter | Sex comedy | |
| Drei Bürger zum Geburtstag | Joachim Roering | Wolf Roth, Ulrich Matschoss, Klaus Höhne, Paul Edwin Roth | Comedy | a.k.a. 3 Bürger zum Geburtstag |
| Drei Freundinnen | Konrad Sabrautzky | Karin Baal, Brigitte Janner, Kyra Mladeck, Gerd Baltus, Arthur Brauss | Drama | |
| Einzelzimmer | Wolfgang Panzer | Brigitte Horney, Rudolf Platte, Tilli Breidenbach | Drama | |
| The End of the Rainbow | Uwe Frießner | Thomas Kufahl | Drama | |
| Es begann bei Tiffany | Wolfgang Becker | Rutger Hauer, Siegfried Wischnewski, Katerina Jacob, Hans Clarin, Heinz Schubert, Diether Krebs | Crime comedy | |
| Esch: The Anarchist | Rainer Boldt | Hans Peter Korff | Drama | a.k.a. The Sleepwalkers: The Anarchist |
| Every Man a Murderer | Claus Peter Witt | Joachim Dietmar Mues, Claudia Butenuth | Drama | a.k.a. Ein Mord, den jeder begeht |
| The Fall | Alf Brustellin | Franz Buchrieser, Hannelore Elsner, Wolfgang Kieling, Eva Maria Meineke, Carl Duering | Drama | a.k.a. Der Sturz |
| Fallstudien | Hartmut Griesmayr | Michaela May, Monica Bleibtreu, Monika Lundi, Nina Hoger, Vérénice Rudolph, Bernd Tauber, Diether Krebs | Drama, Anthology | |
| Feuerzeichen | Rainer Boldt | Adrian Mendoza, Vincent Thomas | Drama | a.k.a. Fire Signals |
| The First Polka | Klaus Emmerich | Maria Schell, Erland Josephson, Guido Wieland, Ernst Stankovski, Claus Theo Gärtner | Drama, War | Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Flamme empor | Eberhard Schubert | Mareike Carrière, Hans-Jürgen Schatz, Rudolf Schündler | Drama | |
| Fleisch | Rainer Erler | Jutta Speidel, Wolf Roth, Herbert Herrmann, Charlotte Kerr | Thriller | a.k.a. Spare Parts |
| Fluchthelfer gesucht | Gerd Oelschlegel | Sabine Buschmann, Hugo Egon Balder | Drama | |
| Die Fluchtlinie | Klaus Müller-Laue, Herbert Rimbach | Michaela May, Matthias Ponnier, Marina de Graaf | Drama | |
| Flugversuche | Rainer Wolffhardt | Adelheid Arndt, Ulrich Pfeffer | Drama | |
| Frontiers of Darkness | Wolf Gremm | Günter Lamprecht, Antje Hagen | Drama | a.k.a. Die Schattengrenze |
| Gedankenketten | Dieter Lemmel | Klaus Barner, Monika Gabriel, Silvia Reize, Rolf Becker, Peter Schiff | Drama | |
| Gefangen in Frankreich: Theodor Fontane im Krieg 1870/71 | Theo Mezger | Hans Caninenberg, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Werner Schumacher, Benno Sterzenbach | War | |
| Die Geisterbehörde | Wilm ten Haaf | Erik Ode, Herbert Fleischmann, Michael Hinz, Barbara Schöne | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Geisterbehörde – Eine Geschichte, die überall spielen könnte |
| Geldsorgen | Frank Guthke | Joost Siedhoff, Gert Haucke | Crime comedy | |
| Gesundheit | Peter Patzak | Ralf Schermuly | Drama | |
| Geteilte Freude | Gabi Kubach | Claudia Demarmels, Claudia Burckhardt, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Dominik Graf | Comedy | |
| Gitanes | Thees Klahn | Michael Lederer, Dieter Ziegler | Drama | |
| Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand | Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Harald Reinl | Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, Silvia Reize, Klausjürgen Wussow, Reiner Schöne, Joachim Hansen, Ernst Stankovski | Historical | |
| The Good Doctor | Ludwig Cremer | Boy Gobert | Comedy | a.k.a. Der gute Doktor |
| Grandison | Achim Kurz | Marlène Jobert, Jean Rochefort, Helmut Qualtinger | Crime | West German-French co-production |
| The Great Sebastians | Wolfgang Spier | Johanna von Koczian, Peter Pasetti, Werner Kreindl, Heinrich Schweiger, Barbara Schöne | Comedy | |
| Die gütigen Augen des Herrn L. | Thomas Fantl | Michael Hinz | Crime comedy | |
| The Hamburg Syndrome | Peter Fleischmann | Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Carline Seiser, Tilo Prückner, Ulrich Wildgruber | Disaster | West German-French co-production[84][85] |
| Hatschi! | Eugen York | Reiner Schöne, Karl Michael Vogler, Dirk Dautzenberg, Friedrich Schoenfelder | Comedy, Science fiction | |
| Hotel Paradies | Michael Günther | Heinz Schubert, Ilja Richter, Gaby Gasser, Evelyn Hamann | Comedy | a.k.a. L'Hôtel du libre échange |
| Ihr 106. Geburtstag | Thomas Engel | Inge Meysel, Dietmar Schönherr, Dietlinde Turban, Ernst Schröder | Comedy | a.k.a. Mamouret |
| In des Waldes tiefsten Gründen | Wolfgang F. Henschel | Wolfgang Kieling, Hannes Messemer, Siegfried Wischnewski, Lukas Ammann | Comedy | a.k.a. In des Waldes tiefsten Gründen – Eine heitere Weinreise nach Kurt Tucholsky |
| Is This Fate? | Helga Reidemeister | Documentary | a.k.a. Von wegen Schicksal | |
| It Can Only Get Worse | Helmut Dietl | Towje Kleiner | Comedy | Short edited version of the TV series Der ganz normale Wahnsinn |
| Jenseits von Schweden | Carlheinz Caspari | Karl Walter Diess, Christian Berkel, Franz Rudnick, Marianne Kehlau | Drama | |
| Knock | Fritz Umgelter | Helmuth Lohner | Comedy | a.k.a. Dr. Knock oder Der Triumph der Medizin |
| Das Komplott | Dieter Wedel | Andrea Jonasson, Wolfgang Wahl, Herbert Mensching, Monika Peitsch, Gerd Böckmann | Drama | |
| Der kostbare Gast | Dominik Graf | Donata Höffer, Dietrich Mattausch, Charles Brauer | Drama | |
| Kotte | Horst Flick | Jürgen Prochnow | Drama | |
| Kümmert euch nicht um Sokrates | Frank Guthke | Will Quadflieg, Christian Quadflieg, Willi Kowalj, Friedrich W. Bauschulte | Drama | |
| Kur in Travemünde | Peter Beauvais | Doris Schade, Karlheinz Böhm | Drama | |
| Der Landvogt von Greifensee | Wilfried Bolliger | Christian Quadflieg, Adelheid Arndt, Silvia Dionisio, Alida Valli, Christian Kohlund | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Last Love | Ingemo Engström | Angela Winkler, Rüdiger Vogler | Drama | |
| The Last Years of Childhood | Norbert Kückelmann | Gerhard Gundel | Drama | |
| Lauter anständige Menschen | Diethard Klante | Lukas Grohne, Katharina Tüschen, Hilde Lermann, Carline Seiser | Crime drama | |
| Der Lebemann | Axel Corti | Heinz Trixner, Ulli Maier | Crime | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die lebenslängliche Frau | Anne Voss | Margret Homeyer, Hannelore Hoger | Crime drama | |
| Lemminge | Michael Haneke | Paulus Manker, Bernhard Wicki, Elfriede Irrall, Monica Bleibtreu, Wolfgang Hübsch | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Lena Rais | Christian Rischert | Krista Stadler, Tilo Prückner, Kai Fischer | Drama | |
| Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen | Sven Severin | Curt Bois, Peter Pasetti, Monika Lundi, Hanne Wieder | Comedy | |
| Love Letters on Blue Paper | George Moorse | Hans Korte, Gustl Halenke, Robert Freitag | Drama | |
| Lucky Star | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Katharina Böhm, Günther Maria Halmer, Hannelore Schroth, Joachim Hansen, Jacques Herlin | Family | |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, George Byrd | Drama | First in the BRD Trilogy |
| Mihail, câine de circ | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Karl Michael Vogler | Adventure | a.k.a. Michael, Brother of Jerry. Romanian-West German co-production |
| Milo Milo | Nikos Perakis | Veruschka von Lehndorff, Mario Adorf, Andréa Ferréol, Andreas Katsulas, Julien Guiomar, Antonio Fargas, Joe Higgins | Comedy | West German-Greek co-production |
| Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe | Leslie H. Martinson | Peter Graves, Curd Jürgens, John Carradine, Karin Schubert | Spy thriller | a.k.a. Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident a.k.a. The Tehran Incident. American-Italian-Spanish-West German-Iranian co-production |
| Monarch | Manfred Stelzer | Diethard Wendtland | Documentary | |
| Moral | Kurt Wilhelm | Maria Schell, Toni Berger, Barbara Schöne | Comedy | |
| Mr. Szmil's Chairs | Vojtěch Jasný | Rudolf Wessely, Wolfgang Kieling | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil |
| Die Münze | Werner Schlechte | Gustl Bayrhammer | Crime comedy | a.k.a. The Mint |
| The Murderer | Ottokar Runze | Gerhard Olschewski | Crime drama | |
| Die Nacht, in der der Chef geschlachtet wurde | Vojtěch Jasný | Heinz Schubert, Gert Haucke, Rudolf Wessely | Comedy, Fantasy | |
| Nathan the Wise | Oswald Döpke | Werner Hinz, Katerina Jacob, Peter Fricke, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Wischnewski, Judy Winter | Drama | |
| Neon Shadow | Marco Serafini | Kristina van Eyck, Rainer Will, Christoph Eichhorn | Drama | a.k.a. Neonschatten |
| Nero | Wolfgang Reichmann, Werner Schlechte, Gerd Krauss | Wolfgang Reichmann, Günter Mack, Lola Müthel | Drama | |
| Das Nest | Gedeon Kovács | Franz Xaver Kroetz, Lisa Fitz | Drama | |
| The Night with Chandler | Hans Noever | Rio Reiser, Agnes Dünneisen, Thomas Schücke | Crime | |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor | Horror | West German-French co-production |
| Notenkonferenz | Karl Heinz Deickert | Hartmut Becker, Renate Küster | Drama | |
| Old-Fashioned Comedy | Franz Josef Wild | Agnes Fink, Arno Assmann | Drama | a.k.a. Altmodische Komödie |
| Olympia | Ludwig Cremer | Christiane Hörbiger, Klaus Maria Brandauer | Comedy | |
| The Patriotic Woman | Alexander Kluge | Hannelore Hoger | Drama | a.k.a. The Female Patriot a.k.a. The Patriot |
| Phantasten | Peter Beauvais | Manfred Krug, Michael Degen, Günter Strack, Sabine Sinjen | Drama | |
| Protokoll eines Verdachts | Daniel Christoff | Martin Lüttge, Claudia Butenuth, Rolf Becker | Drama | |
| Putting Things Straight | Georg Brintrup | Gisela Stein, Hanns Zischler | Biography | a.k.a. Ich räume auf |
| Die Quelle | Rainer Erler | Herbert Herrmann, Werner Kreindl, Siegfried Wischnewski | Thriller | a.k.a. The Source |
| Radieschen | Rolf Busch | Hansi Jochmann, Susanne Schaefer, Manfred Lehmann | Drama | |
| Radio On | Chris Petit | David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, Sue Jones-Davies, Sting | Drama | British-West German co-production |
| Revolution in Frankfurt | Fritz Umgelter | Günter Strack, Richard Münch | History | |
| Rollentausch | Peter Weck | Günther Maria Halmer, Claudia Rieschel, Evelyn Opela, Peer Augustinski | Drama | |
| Der Ruepp | Kurt Wilhelm | Karl Obermayr, Gertrud Kückelmann | Drama | |
| Schluchtenflitzer | Rüdiger Nüchtern | Hans Kollmannsberger, Hans Brenner, Ruth Drexel | Drama | |
| Der Schuft, der den Münchhausen schrieb | Rudolf Nussgruber | Lutz Hochstraate, Ferdy Mayne | Biography | |
| She's 19 and Ready | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Sabine Wollin, Ekkehardt Belle, Claus Obalski | Sex comedy | |
| Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness | Margarethe von Trotta | Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Früh, Heinz Bennent, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink | Drama | |
| Some Kind of Saint | Klaus Lemke | Cleo Kretschmer, Wolfgang Fierek | Comedy | |
| Song of the Grasshopper | Thomas Engel | Harald Leipnitz, Xenia Pörtner | Comedy | a.k.a. Grille und Ameise |
| Die Sonnenschein GmbH | Heinz Schirk | Herbert Herrmann | Crime comedy | |
| Spätsommertage | Erich Neureuther | Lisa Helwig, Rose Renée Roth, Eva Lissa, Erik Frey, Karl-Maria Schley | Comedy | |
| The Story of an Unknown Man | Peter Vogel | Günther Maria Halmer, Gila von Weitershausen | Drama | a.k.a. The Story of a Nobody a.k.a. An Anonymous Story |
| Strafe ohne Urteil | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Heidrun Polack | Crime drama | |
| A Sunday in October | András Kovács | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ferenc Bács, Marianna Moór, Lajos Őze, Martin Lüttge | War | Hungarian-West German co-production |
| Tally Brown, New York | Rosa von Praunheim | Tally Brown | Documentary, Music | |
| Das tausendunderste Jahr | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Alexander Gittinger, Harald Dewald, Cornelia Meinhardt, Regine Vergeen, Rainer Basedow | War | a.k.a. Das 1001. Jahr |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Karl Heinz Kramberg | Hans Clarin, Ferdy Mayne | Horror | |
| The Third Generation | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen, Hark Bohm, Günther Kaufmann, Bulle Ogier, Udo Kier, Y Sa Lo | Black comedy | |
| Ticket of No Return | Ulrike Ottinger | Tabea Blumenschein, Christine Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma | Drama | a.k.a. Bildnis einer Trinkerin |
| Tilt | Renke Korn | Lutz Reichert, Jan Fedder, Till Topf, Benjamin Völz | Crime drama | |
| The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | David Bennent, Charles Aznavour, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach | Drama, War | West German-French co-production. Based on the book by Günter Grass |
| Tödlicher Ausgang | Stanislav Barabáš | Rolf Becker, Günter Lamprecht, Gila von Weitershausen, Karin Anselm, Richard Münch, Paul Dahlke | Thriller | a.k.a. Nur über Meiners Leiche |
| Der Tote bin ich | Alexander von Eschwege | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Anne Bennent | Mystery | |
| Trennung – Die Geschichte der Anna Wildermuth | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Peter Seum, Pierre Franckh | Drama | |
| Die Überführung | Kurt Wilhelm | Toni Berger, Karl Obermayr | Drama | |
| Unabhängig und nur dem Gesetz unterworfen | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Hartmut Reck | Drama | |
| Union der festen Hand | Claus Peter Witt | Dieter Laser, Eva Mattes, Hannes Messemer, Edith Schultze-Westrum | Drama | |
| Uns reicht das nicht | Jürgen Flimm | Herbert Grönemeyer, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Anna Henkel, Marita Breuer | Drama | |
| Vater, mein Vater | Raimund Koplin | Friedrich-Karl Praetorius, Jessica Früh | Drama | a.k.a. Vater mein Vater oder Wunderbare Erfüllung eines Traums |
| Das verbotene Spiel | George Moorse | Dieter Schidor, Rudolf Schündler, Y Sa Lo, Robinson Reichel | Science fiction | |
| Verführungen | Michael Verhoeven | Peter Striebeck, Wolfgang Bahro, Sabrina Rentsch, Rosel Zech | Drama | |
| Victor | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Peter Kaghanovitch, Eddie Constantine, Barbara Valentin, Udo Kier | Musical, Drama | |
| Victoria | Bo Widerberg | Michaela Jolin, Stephan Schwartz, Hans Christian Blech, Christiane Hörbiger | Drama | Swedish-West German co-production |
| Vor Sonnenaufgang | Oswald Döpke | Ernst Jacobi, Ulrike Bliefert, Gerd Böckmann, Franciszek Pieczka | Drama | a.k.a. Before Sunrise a.k.a. Before Daybreak a.k.a. Before Dawn |
| Wahnsinn, das ganze Leben ist Wahnsinn | Petra Haffter | Germaine Radinger | Drama | |
| Ways in the Night | Krzysztof Zanussi | Mathieu Carrière, Maja Komorowska, Horst Frank | War, Drama | |
| The White Horse Inn | Eberhard Hauff | Helmuth Lohner, Margot Werner, Regine Lamster, Petra Maria Grühn, Claus Eberth, Henning Schlüter, Willy Semmelrogge, Erik Frey | Musical | |
| Wie Rauch und Staub | Wolfgang Schleif | Herlinde Latzko, Horst Frank, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Günter Meisner | Drama | |
| The Willi Busch Report | Niklaus Schilling | Tilo Prückner, Kornelia Boje | Comedy | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| Willi und die Kameraden | Helmut Kopetzky | Thomas Vahl, Heinz Hoenig, Arnfried Lerche | Drama | |
| Die Wohltäter | Jo Roszak | Werner Kreindl | Drama | |
| Womanlight | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Lila Kedrova, Heinz Bennent | Drama | a.k.a. Clair de femme. French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Woyzeck | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Josef Bierbichler, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge | Classic literature | Based on the story by Georg Büchner |
| Wunder einer Nacht | Konrad Sabrautzky | Arno Assmann, Ulrike Bliefert, Brigitte Horney, Josef Meinrad, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Barbara Rütting, Karin Baal | Family, Music | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Zuhaus unter Fremden | Peter Keglevic | Herbert Grönemeyer, Aysun Bademsoy | Drama | |
| Zwei Tore hat der Hof | Volker Vogeler | Rüdiger Kirschstein, Marlies Engel | Drama | a.k.a. 2 Tore hat der Hof |
Notes
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References
- Browning, John Edgar; Picart, Caroline Joan (2010). Dracula in Visual Media:Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786433650.
External links
- German film at the Internet Movie Database (maintains separate lists for West Germany and East Germany)