German Films

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Films from Germany. Includes films from both West and East, but doesn't include German-language films from other countries, unless they date from a time when that other country was part of Germany (most notably, Austria between 1938 and 1945).

For other German media, see here.

Tropes / Useful Notes

• German Expressionism

Films (animated)

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon (co-produced with Peru and the Netherlands)
• Allegretto
• Anastasia (Dingo Pictures)
• Animal Soccer World
• Animals United
• Asterix and the Big Fight (Asterix – Operation Hinkelstein) — French-German co-production
• Asterix Conquers America (Asterix in Amerika) — French-German co-production
• Balto (Dingo Pictures)
• Boo, Zino & the Snurks
• The Countryside Bears
• The Dalmatians
• Dinosaur Adventure
• Empire of Atlantis
• The Fearless Four
• Felidae
• Felix the Cat: The Movie
• Der Glockner Von Notre Dame
• A Greyhound of a Girl (European co-production)
• Happily N'Ever After
• Janis The Little Pig
• Kommando Stortebeker
• Laura's Star
• Lion And The King
• The Little Polar Bear
• Lord Of The Rainforest
• The Magic Voyage
• Manou the Swift
• Millionaire Dogs
• Monster Family
  • Monster Family 2
• Moon Man (Irish-German co-production)
• Mouse Police
• Nice Cats
• The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (co-production with Russia)
• Peter in Magicland
• Pocahontas (Dingo Pictures)
• Rabbit Academy
  • Rabbit Academy Mission Eggpossible (Austrian-German co-production)
• Richard the Stork
• The Seventh Brother (Hungarian-German co-production)
• Snotty Boy (Austrian-German co-production)
• Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (co-production with Denmark)
• Tarzan (2013)
• The Three Robbers
• Wabuu

Films (live-action)

• 13 Minutes
• 7 Zwerge
• Ace of Aces — French-German co-production
• Adrift (2006)
• Agnes and His Brothers (Agnes und seine Brüder)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
• Alice in the Cities
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Amen (international co-production)
• The American Friend (a German production, but dialogue mostly in English)
• Amrum
• Anatomy
• Angry Harvest
• The Apple (German-American co-production)
• Arms and the Man
• Army of Thieves (German-American co-production)
• Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos
• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)
• The Baby of Mâcon (International co-production)
• Bagdad Cafe (German-American co-production)
• Baghead (2023) (British-German co-production)
• Bandits
• Bang Boom Bang
• Battle In Seattle (international co-production)
• Before the Fall (Napola - Elite für den Führer)
• Beware of a Holy Whore
• Beyond Silence
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• Blood & Gold
• BloodRayne (2005)
  • BloodRayne II: Deliverance
  • BloodRayne: The Third Reich
  • Blubberella
• Blood Red Sky
• Bloody Moon (Die Säge des Todes) — joint West German/Spanish production
• The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel)
• Bluebeard (1972)
• Bonhoeffer
• Bonnie & Bonnie
• Das Boot
• Bornholmer Strasse
• The Bridge (1959)
• The Burning Moon
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Calling (2000) (German-American co-production)
• Canaris
• The Captain (2017)
• Captain Berlin
• The Captain from Kopenick
• The Captain From Nowhere
• Cave of the Living Dead
• The Centrifuge Brain Project
• Chinesisches Roulette
• The Chumscrubber (German-American production)
• Christiane F. (Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo)
• Clay Pigeons (American-German co-production)
• The Colony (2016)
• The Colony (2021)
• Comedian Harmonists
• The Conclave (co-production with Canada)
• The Counterfeiters (German-Austrian production)
• Count Dracula (1970)
• Cuckoo (2024) (German-American production)
• The Damned (1969)
• Daniel: Der Zauberer (Daniel: The Wizard)
• The Day of Glory (French-West German co-production)
• The Death King (Der Todesking)
• Death Watch
• DEFA Westerns (Indianerfilme)
• Desert Flower
• The Devil Strikes at Night
• Diary of a Lost Girl
• Different from the Others
• Diplomacy (2014)
• The Doll (1919)
• Don't Turn the Other Cheek!
• Downfall (2004) (Der Untergang)
• Dragonfly (American-German co-production)
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler)
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  • The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
• The Edgar Wallace Films
  • The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (Der Würger von Schloss Blackmoor)
• The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei)
• The End 2024 (international co-production)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)
• Escape from East Berlin (American-West German co-production)
• Europa Europa (Hitlerjunge Salomon)
• Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen)
• Everything Will Be Okay
• Das Experiment
• Fack Ju Goethe
• Far Cry
• Faust: A German Folk Tale (Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage)
• Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl)
• Das Finstere Tal
• First Spaceship on Venus (Der schweigende Stern) — joint East German/Polish production
• Fitzcarraldo
• Fleisch (Spare Parts)
• Forklift Driver Klaus (Staplerfahrer Klaus)
• Four Against the Bank (Vier gegen die Bank)
• The Four Companions
• Fox and His Friends
• Frantz
• Friendship
• From the Life of the Marionettes (Aus dem Leben der Marionetten)
• The Ghost (1982)
• Ghosts (2005) (Gespenster)
• Girl You Know It's True
• The Glass Cell
• Glückskinder
• Goebbels and the Führer
• Goebbels and Geduldig
• The Golem (1920)
• The Golden Goose (1964)
• Good Bye, Lenin!
• Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (German-American coproduction)
• Go Trabi Go
• The Grand Duel
• Grand Slam (Italian-Spanish-German co-production)
• The Great King
• The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino)
• La Habanera
• The Hamburg Syndrome
• Hanna (American-British-German coproduction)
• Head-On (German-Turkish coproduction)
• Heart of Glass
• Heart of Stone
• Heidi (2015) (Swiss-German co-production)
• Der Herrscher
• A Hidden Life (German-American co-production)
• Horrors of Spider Island (released as Ein Toter hing im Netz and A Dead One Hung in the Web)
• House of the Dead (2003)
• House of the Sleeping Beauties
• House of Harmony (co-production with Singapore)
• Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
• Iceman (2017) (German-Italian-Austrian co-production)
• I Don't Want to Be a Man
• Im Juli
• I'm Your Man (2021)
• Innocents with Dirty Hands
• In the Fade
• In the Name of the King (international co-production)
• Isi & Ossi
• Jack the Ripper (1976)
• Jacob the Liar
• Jew Süss (Jud Süß)
  • Jew Süss: Rise and Fall
• Jim Button (Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer)
• Joan of Arc of Mongolia
• Joyeux Noël (international co-production)
• The Joys of Fatherhood (Vaterfreuden)
• The Kaiser of California
• Kamikaze 1989
• Kartoffelsalat – Nicht fragen!
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• Kolberg
• Krabat
• Land of Mine (Danish-German co-production)
• Langue étrangère (French-German-Belgian co-production)
• The Last Laugh
• The Last Station (International co-production)
• Lessons Of Darkness
• Der letzte Zug
• Liane, Jungle Goddess
• Lisa and the Devil
• The Lives of Others
• Look Who's Back
• The Lost Future (South-African German co-production)
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
• Ludwig
• Lumumba (French-Belgian-German-Haitian coproduction)
• M
• Mädchen in Uniform
• Making Contact
• Mara and the Firebringer
• Mark of the Devil
• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• Martin Luther (German-American co-production)
• Metropolis
• Meyer From Berlin
• Michael
• The Million Dollar Hotel
• Das Millionenspiel
• Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (co-production with Italy and Spain)
• Moloch (co-production with Russia)
• Münchhausen
• The Murderers Are Among Us
• My Führer
• My Name Is Nobody
• The Nasty Girl
• Nekromantik
• The NeverEnding Story (1984)
  • The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
  • The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia
• Never Look Away
• Die Nibelungen
• Night of the Living Dorks
• No Name Restaurant
• North Face (Nordwand)
• Nowhere in Africa
• Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• Old People
• Old Shatterhand
• Olympia
• Die Oma Ist Tot
• Operation Valkyrie, aka Stauffenberg
• Opfergang
• Ordinary Decent Criminal (international co-production)
• Otto; or Up with Dead People (German-Canadian co-production)
• The Oyster Princess (Die Austernprinzessin)
• Pandora's Box (1929)
• Paris, je t'aime (international co-production)
• The Pedestrian
• People on Sunday
• Perfect Addiction (co-production with the US)
• Perfect Days (German-Japanese co-production)
• Perfume
• Der Philosoph
• Phoenix
• Pig Heart
• Pillars of Society
• Plan B: Scheiß auf Plan A
• The Pool
• Pope Joan
• Possession (co-production with France)
• Premutos: The Fallen Angel
• The Princess and the Warrior
• Querelle (co-production with France)
• The Red Baron
• Die Reise nach Tilsit
• Resistance (international co-production)
• Romeos
• Rommel
• Roses for the Prosecutor (Rosen für den Staatsanwalt)
• Rosenstrasse
• Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig
• Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)
• Satansbraten
• Schlussakkord
• Schtonk!
• Der Schuh des Manitu
• Schwarzfahrer
• Schwerkraft
• Secret Agent Super Dragon
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (German-French-Iranian co-production)
• The Serpent's Egg
• Shalako (coproduction with the United States and the United Kingdom)
• She Killed in Ecstasy — joint West German/Spanish production
• Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
• Shiverstone Castle
• Siege of the Dead (Rammbock)
• Sisi & I
• Skin Deep (2022)
• Sky Sharks
• Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage)
• The Sorrow and the Pity
• Soul Kitchen
• Spies
• Stalingrad (1993)
• Stations of the Cross
• Steel Trap
• Sterne (Stars)
• Stroszek
• Super Comet: After the Impact
• Sweet Movie
• System Crasher
• Tartuffe
• The Teachers' Lounge
• Three Wishes For Cinderella — East German/Czech co-production
• Der Tiger
• The Tin Drum
• Titanic (1943 version)
• To Kill a Dragon
• Toni Erdmann
• The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
• Town Without Pity (American/Swiss/West German co-production)
• Toyland
• Transfer
• The Trial
• Triumph of the Will
• Twilight's Last Gleaming
• Die Unbekannte
• Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt) — joint German/French production
• Urban Explorer
• Vampyr
• Variety
• Veronika Voss
• Venus In Furs (Italian-West German-British co-production)
• Victoria (2015)
• Vincent Wants to Sea
• Violent Shit
• Virgins of the Seven Seas — a kung-fu sexploitation film made in collaboration with Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers studios. Yes, this exists.
• Die Wannseekonferenz
• Warning Shadows
• Waxworks
• We Are the Night
• The Wave (2008) (remake of The Wave (1981))
• Western
• Westfront 1918
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
• When We Leave (Die Fremde) — a German/Turkish production
• The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band - Eine Kindergeschichte)
• Who Am I (2014)
• The Wildcat
• Die wilden Kerle
• Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)
• The Winnetou films
  • The Treasure of Silver Lake (Der Schatz im Silbersee)
• The Wild Blue Yonder
  • Winnetou I
  • Winnetou II
  • Winnetou III
• Der Wixxer
• Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond)
• The Woman of My Dreams (Die Frau meiner Träume)
• World on a Wire (Welt am Draht)
• World War III
• Woyzeck
• Wunschkonzert
• Zurich (Und morgen Mittag bin ich tot)