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1. Lili Marleen (1981)
R | 120 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel
Votes: 4,295
2. The Serpent's Egg (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent
Votes: 6,359
3. The New Adventures of Snow White (1969)
R | 76 min | Comedy, Horror
The characters from the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales (Mother Goose, etc.) engaged in activities the Grimm Brothers probably wouldn't approve of.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Norbert Gastell, Wolfgang Hess, Thomas Piper, Mogens von Gadow
Votes: 214
4. Young Törless (1966)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
In a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Fred Dietz
Votes: 2,666
5. Chariots of the Gods (1970)
G | 92 min | Documentary
Based on Erich Von Daniken's book purporting to prove that throughout history aliens have visited earth.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Heinz-Detlev Bock, Klaus Kindler, Christian Marschall, Aleksandr Kazantsev
Votes: 1,744 | Gross: $25.95M
6. From the Life of the Marionettes (1980 TV Movie)
R | 104 min | Drama
An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Rita Russek
Votes: 4,753
7. Der Kurpfuscher und seine fixen Töchter (1980)
85 min | Comedy
A smooth-talking rogue assumes the identity of the new village doctor, and soon has a thriving practice with the help of three quick-witted "daughters".
Director: Franz Marischka | Stars: Peter Steiner, Fred Stillkrauth, Ursula Buchfellner, Alena Penz
Votes: 117
8. Frau Wirtin treibt es jetzt noch toller (1970)
84 min | Comedy
A Hungarian estate heiress is to be deprived of her property through a forced marriage. Disguised as a man she flees to her sister in Vienna.
Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Teri Tordai, Glenn Saxson, Gunther Philipp, Paul Löwinger
Votes: 52
9. One or the Other (1974)
105 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
What started as a simple blackmail, quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Jürgen Prochnow, Ulla Jacobsson
Votes: 284
10. Venusberg (1963)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Seven completely different women accept an invitation from Doctor Alphonse to his villa located on a mountain top.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Marisa Mell, Nicole Badal, Monica Ekman, Christina Granberg
Votes: 56
11. Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (1971)
133 min | Drama, Mystery
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna to solve the murder of his father. Step by step he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in Secret-Service machinations ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Alain Noury, Horst Tappert, Konrad Georg, Horst Frank
Votes: 127
12. The Valley of Death (1968)
89 min | Western, Adventure
An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia, Karin Dor
Votes: 1,627
13. Doktor Faustus (1982)
179 min | Drama
A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan.
Director: Franz Seitz | Stars: Jon Finch, André Heller, Hanns Zischler, Margot Hielscher
Votes: 143
14. Liebe ist nur ein Wort (1971)
111 min | Drama, Romance
Verena Angenford, the beautiful and sensible wife of a powerful banker falls in love with the 21 year old school-boy Oliver Mansfeld. They start a love affair, believing that Verna's ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Judy Winter, Herbert Fleischmann, Malte Thorsten, Donata Höffer
Votes: 109
15. Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank - 1. Trimester: Zur Hölle mit den Paukern (1968)
85 min | Comedy
Collectable stamps trader Kurt Nietnagel's son Pepe recently transferred from a private boarding school to Mommsen gymnasium (classical high school), but is also already its king of ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Jacobs | Stars: Hans Kraus, Gila von Weitershausen, Günther Schramm, Hannelore Elsner
Votes: 788
16. Herzblatt oder Wie sag' ich's meiner Tochter? (1969)
79 min | Comedy
Widower Paul always delayed talking to his daughter about sex. But when workers on a nearby construction site are falling down their scaffold because 16 years old "Herzblatt" is tanning ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Georg Thomalla, Mascha Gonska, Siegfried Schürenberg, Günther Lüders
Votes: 75
17. Car-Napping - Bestellt, geklaut, geliefert (1980)
89 min | Comedy, Crime
An ordinary law-abiding man finds himself in straitened circumstances, and decides to pass himself off as a Baron, adopting the life-style of the rich. He is very successful at dealing in stolen luxury cars.
Director: Wigbert Wicker | Stars: Bernd Stephan, Anny Duperey, Hans Beerhenke, Ivan Desny
Votes: 241
18. Rosemaries Tochter (1976)
92 min | Comedy
Annemarie's mother, the well-known noble prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt, was found murdered nearly twenty years ago.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Lillian Müller, Bela Ernyey, Werner Pochath, Hanne Wieder
Votes: 20
19. Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand (1979)
102 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Sir Gotz von Berlichingen, a knight who fights for God and his Emperor, is the bitter enemy of the Bishop of Bamberg, who has managed to persuade Gotz's old friend Adalbert of Weislingen to... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Raimund Harmstorf, Ulli Bauer, Sky du Mont, Detlev Eckstein
Votes: 59
20. Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind (1974)
107 min | Crime, Drama
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Marthe Keller, Karin Dor, Raymond Pellegrin
Votes: 130
21. Der Stoff aus dem die Träume sind (1972)
142 min | Thriller
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Edith Heerdegen, Hannelore Elsner, Herbert Fleischmann, Paul Neuhaus
Votes: 92
22. Zu viele Köche (1961– )
Stars: Heinz Klevenow, Joachim Fuchsberger, Rose Schäfer, Gerlinde Locker
Votes: 46
23. Pepe, der Paukerschreck - Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank, III. Teil (1969)
95 min | Comedy
Giessen's gymnasium director Gottlieb Taft hopes a ploy will make the school's centennial a prank-free success: he enrolls his nerdy nephew Ewalt Kunst as spy in Pepe's dreaded class. Some ... See full summary »
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Hans Kraus, Uschi Glas, Hannelore Elsner, Theo Lingen
Votes: 570
24. Lausbubengeschichten (1964)
102 min | Comedy
At the end of the 19th century a Catholic pastor and religious teacher confiscated the book Lausbubengeschichten from Ludwig Thoma in his class from one of his students.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hans Kraus, Heidelinde Weis, Friedrich von Thun, Käthe Braun
Votes: 224
25. Grieche sucht Griechin (1966)
89 min | Comedy
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Irina Demick, Charles Regnier, Hannes Messemer
Votes: 85
26. Und der Regen verwischt jede Spur (1972)
94 min | Drama
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Alain Noury, Anita Lochner, Wolfgang Reichmann, Malte Thorsten
Votes: 123
27. Drei Männer im Schnee (1974)
92 min | Comedy
A millionaire wins a competition and spends a vacation in a ski resort. He poses as a man without means and is treated arrogantly be the staff who have been advised of his arrival but confuse him with another competition winner.
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Klaus Schwarzkopf, Roberto Blanco, Thomas Fritsch, Susanne Beck
Votes: 72
28. To the Bitter End (1975)
105 min | Crime, Drama
15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from show-biz, married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick... See full summary »
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Suzy Kendall, Susanne Uhlen, Christine Wodetzky
Votes: 54
29. Tonio Kröger (1964)
90 min | Drama
Tonio is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Nadja Tiller, Werner Hinz, Anaid Iplicjian
Votes: 50
30. Moral 63 (1963)
100 min | Drama, Comedy
The young Marion is arrested by the police for pimping, prostitution and indecent exposure. Reporter Axel Rottmann sense a lucrative story for his newspaper. He makes a deal with Marion, to tell her story.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Mario Adorf, Charles Regnier, Fritz Tillmann
Votes: 55
31. Die Fledermaus (1972 TV Movie)
137 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Otto Schenk | Stars: Gundula Janowitz, Eberhard Wächter, Renate Holm, Erich Kunz
Votes: 35
32. School of Fear (1969)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
At a boarding school for boys in Northern Germany, one student named Kurrat vanishes one night without informing anybody after having had a fight with one of the teachers. Soon, the Police ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Konrad Georg, Horst Tappert, Karin Hübner
Votes: 164
33. Randale (1983)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama
Girls in a reform school are tormented violently by the headmistress . . . until they can take no more
Director: Manfred Purzer | Stars: Angelica Domröse, Jocelyne Boisseau, Konrad Georg, Michaela Feldmeier
Votes: 28
34. Der Paukenspieler (1971)
87 min
Five film directors were given the task of making short films based on titles of drawings by Paul Klee.
Directors: Helmut Meewes, Herbert Rimbach, Volker Schlöndorff, Franz Seitz, Rolf Thiele, Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Eric P. Caspar, Hans Kraus, Helmuth Lohner, Helmut Qualtinger
Votes: 26
35. Carlos (1971 TV Movie)
107 min | Western
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countrymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poor people in his silver mines.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Bernhard Wicki, Gottfried John, Anna Karina, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 36
36. Der verkaufte Großvater (1962)
98 min | Comedy
Director: Hans Albin | Stars: Hans Moser, Vivi Bach, Hubert von Meyerinck, Beppo Brem
Votes: 63
37. Alle Menschen werden Brüder (1973)
109 min | Drama
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Harald Leipnitz, Doris Kunstmann, Rainer von Artenfels, Klaus Schwarzkopf
Votes: 63
38. Sternsteinhof (1976)
125 min | Drama
Daytaler Leni has the strong will to one day belong to the people "up there" on the Sternstein Manor. Thus she abandons her fiancé Muckerl and instead enmeshes Toni, the son of the ... See full summary »
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Katja Rupé, Tilo Prückner, Peter Kern, Agnes Fink
Votes: 74
39. Gott schützt die Liebenden (1973)
105 min | Crime, Thriller
The engineer Paul Holland proposes to his girlfriend Sybille shortly before a business trip, which she accepts. When Paul returns to Berlin, Sybille has disappeared without a trace.
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Harald Leipnitz, Gila von Weitershausen, Andrea Jonasson, Nino Castelnuovo
Votes: 42
40. Fast ein Held (1967)
94 min
Towards the end of World War II, the fictitious French mountain village of Molinette is occupied by German troops. Because of sleep aid, served by his French girlfriend Hélène, the German ... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Erler | Stars: Martin Held, Pascale Petit, Henny Alma, Vladimir Medar
Votes: 21
41. Die Ente klingelt um halb acht (1968)
88 min | Comedy
German Italian parody of spy comedies in American dress. Punctuality and roasting taps are the focal point of this fast-paced history with Heinz Rühmann.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Graziella Granata, Charles Regnier
Votes: 137
42. Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten (1966)
88 min | Comedy
Bavaria in 1886. The rascal Ludwig has to change again the high school. His uncle and company godfather, the member of parliament Josef Filser, is supposed to look after him this time and travels to Munich with his nephew.
Director: Werner Jacobs | Stars: Michl Lang, Hans Kraus, Fritz Tillmann, Monika Dahlberg
Votes: 96
43. Isola Bella (1961)
94 min | Comedy
Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and therefore slips in her father's villa in the role of a maid.
Director: Hans Grimm | Stars: Marianne Hold, Paul Hubschmid, Monika Dahlberg, Claus Biederstaedt
Votes: 38
44. Wenn Ludwig ins Manöver zieht (1967)
91 min | Comedy
The Prussian Army comes to Bavaria for a military exercise. They show off and try to demonstrate superiority. Yet they don't stand a chance because they are not prepared to tackle Ludwig's nifty pranks.
Director: Werner Jacobs | Stars: Hans Kraus, Heidelinde Weis, Rudolf Rhomberg, Hubert von Meyerinck
Votes: 170
45. Kennwort... Reiher (1964)
95 min | Drama, War
A story of the Resistance during the Second World War.
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Peter van Eyck, Marie Versini, Walter Rilla, Fritz Wepper
Votes: 47
46. Ferien vom Ich (1963)
90 min | Comedy, Musical
A businessman, traveling incognito to get away from the pressures of business, finds relief in a country sanitarium.
Director: Hans Grimm | Stars: Geneviève Cluny, Walther Reyer, Monika Dahlberg, Hans Holt
Votes: 38
47. Tante Frieda - Neue Lausbubengeschichten (1965)
87 min | Comedy
Ludwig becomes inventive when it comes to being sent home from boarding school as quickly as possible.
Director: Werner Jacobs | Stars: Heidelinde Weis, Friedrich von Thun, Gustav Knuth, Käthe Braun
Votes: 129
48. Eine Nacht in Venedig (1974)
96 min | Musical, Comedy, Romance
Director: Václav Kaslík | Stars: Anton De Ridder, Sylvia Geszty, Jon Piso, Julia Migenes
Votes: 15
49. Muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus (1962)
91 min | Romance
Director: Hans Deppe | Stars: Vico Torriani, Barbara Frey, Monika Dahlberg, Erik Schumann
Votes: 25
50. Die schwedische Jungfrau (1965)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Kurt Wilhelm | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Letícia Román, Thomas Fritsch, Gerlinde Locker
Votes: 14