Films from Germany. Don't include German-language films from other countries here, unless they date from a time when that other country was part of Germany (namely, Austria from 1938-45).
For other German media, see here.
Tropes / Useful Notes
Films
- 7 Zwerge
- 8mm
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed
- Agnes And His Brothers (Agnes und seine Brüder)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- The American Friend — a German production, but dialogue mostly in English
- Anatomy
- Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos
- The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)
- Bang Boom Bang
- Bandits
- Before the Fall (original title Napola - Elite für den Führer)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
- BloodRayne
- Bloody Moon (Die Säge des Todes) — joint West German/Spanish production
- The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel)
- Das Boot
- The Bridge
- The Burning Moon
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Canaris
- Chinesisches Roulette
- La Colonia
- The Counterfeiters (joint German-Austrian production)
- Christiane F. (Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo)
- Das Experiment
- DEFA Westerns (Indianerfilme)
- Desert Flower
- Destiny
- Diary of a Lost Girl
- Different from the Others
- The Doll (Die Puppe)
- Downfall (Der Untergang)
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler)
- The Edgar Wallace Films
- The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (Der Würger von Schloss Blackmoor)
- The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei)
- Enemy Mine — joint US/West German production
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)
- Er Ist Wieder Da (Look who's back)
- Europa Europa (Hitlerjunge Salomon)
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen)
- Everything Will Be Okay
- Faust: A German Folk Tale (Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage)
- Die Feuerzangenbowle
- Das Finstere Tal
- The Fencer — joint Finnish/German/Estonian production
- Felidae
- First Spaceship on Venus (Der schweigende Stern) — joint East German/Polish production
- Fitzcarraldo
- Fleisch (Spare Parts)
- Frantz
- Friendship
- Forklift Driver Klaus (Staplerfahrer Klaus)
- Fox and His Friends
- From the Life of the Marionettes (Aus dem Leben der Marionetten)
- Ghosts (2005) (Gespenster)
- The Golem: How He Came Into the World
- Goodbye Lenin
- The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
- Heart of Glass
- Horrors of Spider Island (released as Ein Toter hing im Netz, "A Dead One Hung in the Web")
- House of the Dead
- House of Harmony (a co-production with Singapore)
- I Don't Want to Be a Man
- Im Juli
- Jew Süss (Jud Süß)
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Kolberg
- Krabat
- La Habanera
- The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann)
- Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen)
- The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
- Der letzte Zug (The Last Train)
- M
- Mädchen in Uniform
- Making Contact
- The Marriage of Maria Braun
- Metropolis
- Münchhausen
- The Nasty Girl
- Nekromantik
- The Never Ending Story and its sequels
- Die Nibelungen
- North Face (Nordwand)
- Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)
- Olympia
- The Otto films
- The Oyster Princess (Die Austernprinzessin)
- Pandora's Box
- Perfume
- The Pool (Swimming Pool - Der Tod feiert mit)
- The Red Baron
- Romeos
- Roses for the Prosecutor (Rosen für den Staatsanwalt)
- Run, Lola, Run (Lola rennt)
- Satansbraten
- Schtonk
- Der Schuh des Manitu
- Schwarzfahrer
- The Seventh Continent
- Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
- Siege of the Dead (Rammbock}
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage)
- Soul Kitchen
- Spies
- Stalingrad (1993)
- Stations of the Cross
- Sterne (Stars)
- Stroszek
- Super Comet After The Impact
- Titanic (1943 version)
- The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
- Toyland
- Triumph of the Will
- Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt) — joint German/French production
- Urban Explorer
- Vampyr
- Veronika Voss
- Victoria (2015)
- Vincent Wants To Sea
- Violent Shit
- We Are the Night
- Die Welle (remake of The Wave)
- Westfront 1918
- The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band - Eine Kindergeschichte)
- Who Am I
- The Wildcat
- Die wilden Kerle
- Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)
- The Winnetou films
- The Treasure of Silver Lake (Der Schatz im Silbersee)
- Winnetou I
- Winnetou II
- Winnetou III
- Der Wixxer
- Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond)
- The Woman of My Dreams (Die Frau meiner Träume)
- Woyzeck
- Zurich (Und morgen Mittag bin ich tot)
