SiggiGötz-Entertainment #12: Der Kanon des deutschen Films (2007)
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Missing: Der Mann aus dem Osten (Christoph Willems, 1990)
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1. Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari (1930)
78 min | Comedy
Friends Max, Paul and Carl, though totally broke, establish a film production company and proceed to make a talkie picture, experiment with ideas and settle on a family picture, with chaotic but funny results.
Director: Robert Wohlmuth | Stars: Gisela Werbisek, Alice Hechy, Else Reval, Ellen Plessow
Votes: 38
2. The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
89 min | Drama
A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Trude von Molo, Gustaf Gründgens, Max Gülstorff
Votes: 81
3. Nie wieder Liebe! (1931)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Musical
An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years travling around on his yacht, he rescues a ... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Harry Liedtke, Felix Bressart, Margo Lion
Votes: 45
4. The Upright Sinner (1931)
78 min | Comedy
A small town bank official, entrusted with taking money to Vienna, spends some of it.On his return to admit his guilt he learns that his boss,the director, has run off with even more.
Director: Fritz Kortner | Stars: Max Pallenberg, Heinz Rühmann, Dolly Haas, Josefine Dora
Votes: 64
5. F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)
114 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre
Votes: 307
6. Ich und die Kaiserin (1933)
82 min | Comedy
When the Marquis de Pontignac falls off his horse; he is seemingly brought back from death by the voice of a mysterious woman. He believes that his savior is the Empress of France when it is truly her hairdresser Juliette.
Director: Friedrich Hollaender | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Mady Christians, Conrad Veidt, Heinz Rühmann
Votes: 117
7. Peter (1934)
85 min | Comedy, Musical
A 17 year old girl, hustling money as a street musician after being evicted from her family home, is forced to disguise as a boy,is charged with a crime, and causes later confusion due to her double identity.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Franciska Gaal, Felix Bressart, Friedl Czepa, Richard Eybner
Votes: 62
8. April, April! (1935)
82 min | Comedy
Simultaneously filmed in German and Dutch versions, about a baker who is able to take over a company that manufactures products used in baking.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Erhard Siedel, Lina Carstens, Charlott Daudert, Werner Finck
Votes: 82
9. Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten (1935)
Paul loves actresses but avoids to get hitched. Businesswoman Katja manages to get a singing part on stage, this way attracting him to her. Deli employee Franz is mistaken for an actor and gets a leading part - with disastrous results.
Director: Kurt Gerron | Stars: S.Z. Sakall, Ernst Arndt, Mara Loseff, Hans Homma
10. Letzte Liebe (1935)
87 min | Drama
A shy, awkward Japanese girl taking singing lessons in Vienna is courted by both an elderly composer who finds her inspiring and the composer's young nephew who is the orchestra conductor.
Director: Fritz Schulz | Stars: Albert Bassermann, Michiko Tanaka, Elsa Bassermann, Hans Jaray
Votes: 11
11. Fährmann Maria (1936)
85 min | Thriller, Horror, Mystery
A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Aribert Mog, Carl de Vogt, Peter Voß
Votes: 323
12. Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben (1935)
84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two twin brothers working in a Vienna fair and who are both gifted for singing meet different luck both in love and their careers.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Joseph Schmidt, Felix Bressart, Otto Wallburg, Karl Forest
Votes: 17
13. Land der Liebe (1937)
91 min | Music, Romance
The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young woman tries to escape her fate.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Albert Matterstock, Gusti Huber, Valerie von Martens, Wilhelm Bendow
Votes: 17
14. Das Mädchen von Fanö (1941)
97 min
Director: Hans Schweikart | Stars: Gerhard Bienert, Paul Bildt, Helmut Brasch, Karl Dannemann
Votes: 14
15. Sommerliebe (1942)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Winnie Markus, O.W. Fischer, Siegfried Breuer, Auguste Pünkösdy
Votes: 17
16. Great Freedom No. 7 (1944)
111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The film tells the story of the blond "singing sailor" Hannes Kröger who works in a St. Pauli club on the Große Freiheit 7, and falls in love with a girl. But she prefers his rival Willem and Hannes returns to the sea.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hans Albers, Ilse Werner, Hans Söhnker, Hilde Hildebrand
Votes: 1,045
17. Die Nacht der Zwölf (1949)
92 min
A dozen ladies expect marriage impostor Lanski to keep his promises. But he needs more money and decides to kill Mrs. von Droste who has changed her will in his favor. He covers his tracks but is seen by a neighbor who soon blackmails him.
Director: Hans Schweikart | Stars: Rudolf Fernau, Ernst Karchow, Kurt Müller-Graf, Ferdinand Marian
Votes: 13
18. Via Mala (1945)
108 min | Crime, Drama
A hated and bully patriarch is murdered. The investigating judge falls in love and marries the daughter, and then she confesses to have killed. Did she? Or she was protecting some one?
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Karin Hardt, Carl Wery, Viktor Staal, Hilde Körber
Votes: 42
19. Geheimnisvolle Tiefe (1949)
94 min | Drama
Dr. Benn Wittich's obsession with his work pulls him apart from his girlfriend Cornelia who, resentful, marries industrialist Robert Roy. However, Benn cannot forget her.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Ilse Werner, Stefan Skodler, Elfe Gerhart
Votes: 34
20. Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)
110 min | Drama
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Erich Ponto, Heinz Klevenow, Marianne Hoppe, Wilhelm Borchert
Votes: 33
21. Keepers of the Night (1949)
109 min | Drama
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Luise Ullrich, Hans Nielsen, René Deltgen, Dieter Borsche
Votes: 45
22. Der Fall Rabanser (1950)
75 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Hans Söhnker, Richard Häussler, Carola Höhn, Inge Landgut
Votes: 45
23. Affairs of Dr. Holl (1951)
Approved | 99 min | Drama
A doctor marries, out of pity, the invalid daughter of a wealthy industrialist.Though the doctor has helped to cure her, he expects she will not live much longer.
Director: Rolf Hansen | Stars: Maria Schell, Dieter Borsche, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Carl Wery
Votes: 38
24. Die Martinsklause (1951)
96 min | Drama
Director: Richard Häussler | Stars: Willy Rösner, Gisela Fackeldey, Heinz Engelmann, Paul Richter
Votes: 20
25. Alraune (1952)
92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist creates a beautiful "perfect woman", but since she is artificial, she seems soul-less and with no sense of morality, she brings ruin to all around her.
Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim, Trude Hesterberg, Denise Vernac
Votes: 415
26. Rape on the Moor (1952)
90 min | Drama
In a small German village in the middle of large moors, there is an old legend of a young woman having sunk in the wetland after being raped by a Swedish intruder of the Thirty Years' war. ... See full summary »
Director: Hans H. König | Stars: Ruth Niehaus, Hermann Schomberg, Armin Dahlen, Gisela von Collande
Votes: 96
27. Adventure in Berlin (1952)
70 min | Crime, Thriller
Berlin shortly after World War II. An American lawyer is looking for the missing heir to a large fortune in the bombed-out city. He accidentally gets in the way of an unscrupulous counterfeiting gang and has to fear for his life.
Director: Frantisek Cáp | Stars: Gordon Howard, Irina Garden, Kurt Meisel, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 64
28. Viele kamen vorbei (1956)
85 min | Crime, Drama
A sex craved serial murderer prowls the German autobahn while an inspector hunts him down.
Director: Peter Pewas | Stars: Harald Maresch, Frances Martin, Christian Doermer, Heinz Schimmelpfennig
Votes: 83
29. Suchkind 312 (1955)
95 min | Drama
Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: Inge Egger, Paul Klinger, Ingrid Simon, Heli Finkenzeller
Votes: 32
30. Der Cornet - Die Weise von Liebe und Tod (1955)
109 min | History, Romance, War
Director: Walter Reisch | Stars: Götz von Langheim, Anita Björk, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 16
31. Sky Without Stars (1955)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Erik Schumann, Eva Kotthaus, Georg Thomalla, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 302
32. Mein Vater, der Schauspieler (1956)
105 min | Drama
An actress makes her actor husband aware, shortly before her death in a car accident, that he may not be the real father of her son.The actor, feeling guilty for her death, turns to drink and then tries to kill himself.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: O.W. Fischer, Hilde Krahl, Oliver Grimm, Susanne von Almassy
Votes: 36
33. The Day It Rained (1959)
88 min | Crime, Drama
A motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havoc on a town, until one of their members begins to have second thoughts after a run-in with the police.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Mario Adorf, Christian Wolff, Gert Fröbe, Corny Collins
Votes: 95
34. Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1958)
110 min | Drama, Romance, War
After the battle of Stalingrad, battalions of German prisoners were taken to concentration camps. To the 5110/47 comes the military medical Fritz Böhler. He tries to improve the prisoners' conditions, sometimes risking his life.
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok, Hannes Messemer, Mario Adorf
Votes: 160
35. The Head (1959)
97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies.
Director: Victor Trivas | Stars: Horst Frank, Karin Kernke, Helmut Schmid, Paul Dahlke
Votes: 815
36. Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
Unrated | 77 min | Horror
Survivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders!
Director: Fritz Böttger | Stars: Harald Maresch, Helga Franck, Alexander D'Arcy, Helga Neuner
Votes: 4,235
37. She Walks by Night (1959)
101 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Inspired by the life and death of Rosemarie Nitribitt, a famous German call girl whose death caused a large scandal in the press.
Directors: Rudolf Jugert, Hugo Grimaldi | Stars: Belinda Lee, Walter Rilla, Karl Lieffen, Claus Wilcke
Votes: 72
38. Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte (1959)
97 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Nana Osten, Henry Vahl, Ullrich Haupt, Matthias Fuchs
Votes: 59
39. As the Sea Rages (1959)
74 min | Drama
After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, ... See full summary »
Director: Horst Hächler | Stars: Maria Schell, Cliff Robertson, Cameron Mitchell, Peter Carsten
Votes: 33
40. Town Without Pity (1961)
Approved | 105 min | Crime, Drama
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Barbara Rütting, Christine Kaufmann, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 1,985
41. Barbara - Wild wie das Meer (1961)
96 min | Drama
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Maria Sebaldt, Carl Lange, Helmut Griem
Votes: 40
42. The Parallel Street (1962)
86 min | Drama
Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".
Director: Ferdinand Khittl | Stars: Friedrich Joloff, Ernst Marbeck, Wilfried Schröpfer, Herbert Tiede
Votes: 226
43. Der rote Rausch (1962)
88 min | Thriller
A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her child, but the urge to strangle women with red necklaces still haunts him.
Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Brigitte Grothum, Marina Petrova, Sieghardt Rupp
Votes: 134
44. The Endless Night (1963)
85 min | Drama
A thick fog force the travelers to persevere on the ground for many hours at Berlin-Tempelhof airport. Among them is a businessman who is facing ruin and not shy away, throwing his girlfriend to another man's neck in order to save himself.
Director: Will Tremper | Stars: Karin Hübner, Louise Martini, Harald Leipnitz, Hannelore Elsner
Votes: 290
45. Stop Train 349 (1963)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
Director: Rolf Hädrich | Stars: José Ferrer, Sean Flynn, Nicole Courcel, Jess Hahn
Votes: 119
46. Old Shatterhand (1964)
89 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Daliah Lavi, Guy Madison
Votes: 1,805
47. Wälsungenblut (1965)
86 min | Drama
Lieutenant Beckerath is invited by Captain Kunz von Arnstatt to tea with his family. There, Count Sibling Siegmund and Sieglinde provoke him, but that does not stop him from holding Sieglinde's hand.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Michael Maien, Elena Nathanail, Gerd Baltus, Gunther Malzacher
Votes: 27
48. Verdammt zur Sünde (1964)
104 min | Drama
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Martin Held, Hildegard Knef, Heidelinde Weis, Tilla Durieux
Votes: 62
49. Just Don't Think I'll Cry (1990)
91 min | Drama
High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider... See full summary »
Director: Frank Vogel | Stars: Peter Reusse, Anne-Kathrein Kretzschmar, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Jutta Hoffmann
Votes: 61
50. Torment of the Flesh (1965)
83 min | Horror
A man kills women because he was not loved by his mother and in his puberty he was dismissed by girls as sexually unattractive. And whenever he meets women now, he just cannot control himself.
Director: Eddy Saller | Stars: Herbert Fux, Hermann Laforet, Hanns Obonya, Peter Janisch
Votes: 117
51. Der Weibsteufel (1966)
91 min | Drama
A woman (Maria Emo) cares for her older husband (Hugo Gottschlich) who makes his living smuggling things across the Tyrolian Mountains. The police know the husband is up to no good but have... See full summary »
Director: Georg Tressler | Stars: Maria Emo, Sieghardt Rupp, Hugo Gottschlich, Vera Complojer
Votes: 30
52. Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967)
107 min | Comedy
Georg, the head of an advertising company, finds Kim living in a wooden house surrounded by bogs and woods. Kim is hired to ride through Munich on his horse, poses with models outside the ... See full summary »
Director: Franz-Josef Spieker | Stars: Herbert Fux, Chantal Cachin, Bernd Herzsprung, Rainer Basedow
Votes: 54
53. Succubus (1968)
X | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A performer at an S&M nightclub begins to lose her grip on reality, and is plunged into a nightmarish mental landscape.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Janine Reynaud, Jack Taylor, Adrian Hoven, Howard Vernon
Votes: 1,244
54. Heißer Sommer (1968)
91 min | Comedy, Musical
In this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast. When a loud and obnoxious group of boys intrudes on their holiday... See full summary »
Director: Joachim Hasler | Stars: Chris Doerk, Frank Schöbel, Regine Albrecht, Hanns-Michael Schmidt
Votes: 331
55. Bübchen (1968)
86 min | Drama
The life of a family living in a German suburb.
Director: Roland Klick | Stars: Alexander Kekulé, Sieghardt Rupp, Edith Volkmann, Renate Roland
Votes: 267
56. Immer bei Vollmond (1970)
87 min | Crime
The mysterious murders of women keeps a city in fear.
Director: Rudolf Lubowski | Stars: Alois Maria Giani, Kai Fischer, Konrad Dank, Sophia Donner
57. 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: 162
58. Mark of the Devil (1970)
R | 90 min | Drama, History, Horror
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
Directors: Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven | Stars: Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder
Votes: 3,916
59. The Brutes (1970)
R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
Best pals Werner and Mike meet lovely young Alice and take her to a gravel pit for a nightly swim. But fun turns into gravity, friends into rivals and adventure into brutal violence.
Director: Roger Fritz | Stars: Helga Anders, Klaus Löwitsch, Arthur Brauss, Monika Zinnenberg
Votes: 212
60. The Oppression of the Woman Is Especially Seen in the Attitude of the Women Themselves (1970)
64 min
The daily routine of a housewife is described in detail.
Director: Hellmuth Costard | Star: Christoph Hemmerling
Votes: 10
61. Nicht fummeln, Liebling! (1970)
87 min | Comedy
Charly flew home and now lives with his buddy Harry, who lives in a sort of commune of potential department store founders.
Director: May Spils | Stars: Werner Enke, Gila von Weitershausen, Henry van Lyck, Benno Hoffmann
Votes: 80
62. Higher and Higher (1970)
X | 103 min | Drama, Music
A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe ... See full summary »
Directors: Erwin C. Dietrich, Peter Baumgartner, Jack Hill | Stars: Ingrid Steeger, Rolf Eden, Vivian Weiss, Li Paelz
Votes: 567
63. Blue Velvet (1970)
57 min | Documentary, Drama
Thomas, Wolfgang and others are "dealers" and work in West Germany. They drive to their customers. In between they smoke and take trips.
Director: Matthias Weiss | Star: Thomas Wolfgang
Votes: 30
64. Engel, die ihre Flügel verbrennen (1970)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the ... See full summary »
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Susanne Uhlen, Jan Koester, Ellen Umlauf, Harald Baerow
Votes: 87
65. O Happy Day (1970)
R | 90 min | Drama
Zbynek Brynych's forgotten masterpiece "Oh Happy Day" is best described as coming-of-age-psychedelia.
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Anne-Marie Kuster, Amadeus August, Hanne Wieder, Eckart Dux
Votes: 76
66. San Domingo (1970)
138 min | Drama
This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in shaking down the young man's parents for money.
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Alice Ottawa, Michael König, Carla Egerer, Peter Moland
Votes: 35
67. Rocker (1972 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama, Action, Crime
In Hamburg, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a rival gang, a mortal enemy of rocker gangs.
Director: Klaus Lemke | Stars: Hans-Jürgen Modschiedler, Gerd Kruskopf, Michael-Thomas Krannich, Paul Lys
Votes: 438
68. Zoff (1972)
92 min | Romance
Director: Eberhard Pieper | Stars: Giulia Follina, Hildegard Krekel, Jürgen Prochnow, Claus Theo Gärtner
Votes: 22
69. The Miner' Wife ... Takes Her Pick (1972)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Heiner works in a mine, drinks beer, and goes to bed with other women, except from his wife, because of his baby son and the neighbours downstairs. But she does not feel like giving up all the fun for so long.
Director: Franz Marischka | Stars: Michel Jacot, Anne Graf, Gunter Wallace, Willy Krause
Votes: 267
70. Fremde Stadt (1972)
106 min | Drama
A former bank clerk conceived a one-man robbery at the bank he worked. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. further complications ensues when he rejoins his estranged wife.
Director: Rudolf Thome | Stars: Roger Fritz, Karin Thome, Peter Moland, Christian Friedel
Votes: 19
71. Ein unheimlich starker Abgang (1973 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Maria Singer, Ingold Platzer, Peter Steiner, Katja Rupé
Votes: 8
72. Chapeau claque (1974)
95 min | Romance
After his top hats family business went bankrupt, Hanno Giessen (Ulrich Schamoni), now a former industrialist, lives the life of a privateer in his little villa in Berlin. In order to ... See full summary »
Director: Ulrich Schamoni | Stars: Ulrich Schamoni, Anna Henkel-Grönemeyer, Jürgen Barz, Alix Buchen
Votes: 88
73. Jodeln is ka Sünd (1974)
73 min | Comedy
Two prostitutes cause unrest in a small Bavarian town. Ulli Lommel's ultimate sex comedy.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Katharina Herberg, Marianne Sock, Josef Moosholzer, Klaus Kühn
Votes: 30
74. 1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)
100 min | Drama
An African-American GI goes to Berlin and faces prejudice.
Directors: Lothar Lambert, Wolfram Zobus | Stars: Louis Antonius, Claudja Barry, Arnold Bauer, Ortrud Beginnen
Votes: 35
75. The Night of the Askari (1976)
R | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancée.
Director: Jürgen Goslar | Stars: Christopher Lee, James Faulkner, Horst Frank, Sybil Danning
Votes: 326
76. 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: 52
77. Tagebuch eines Liebenden (1977)
92 min | Drama
A lonely 30 year old man works as a butcher at a supermarket. His ability to communicate is limited. His girlfriend has left him after a fight. From time to time his mother visits him.
Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless | Stars: Klaus Salge, Ingeborg Ziemendorf, Robert Dietl, Eva Manhardt
Votes: 88
78. Kings of the Road (1976)
Not Rated | 175 min | Drama
A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler
Votes: 6,461
79. Johnny West (1978)
129 min | Drama
About a 19-year-old fellow named Hans Michael Westerfeld, self-styled Johnny West, who wants to become an American-style rock star. To this end, he works as a roadie, one of the crew that ... See full summary »
Director: Roald Koller | Stars: Rio Reiser, Kristina van Eyck, Melwin 'Candy' Canady, Jess Hahn
Votes: 17
80. Amore (1978 TV Movie)
73 min | Comedy, Romance
Maria is in her mid 20s and lives with her father, a widowed little greengrocer, in Haidhausen.
Director: Klaus Lemke | Stars: Cleo Kretschmer, Pietro Giardini, Peter Kienberger, Wolfgang Fierek
Votes: 65
81. Summer Night Fever (1978)
R | 103 min | Comedy
Two buddies head off for a summer holiday, but one of them has to take his sister along. She cramps their style when it comes to picking up chicks. However, they manage to have some fun.
Director: Sigi Rothemund | Stars: Stéphane Hillel, Olivia Pascal, Claus Obalski, Betty Vergès
Votes: 254
82. Monarch (1979)
84 min | Documentary
The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.
Directors: Johannes Flütsch, Manfred Stelzer | Stars: Diethard Wendtland, Ilse Bahrs, Paul Gauselmann, Ekkehard Hoffmann
Votes: 97
83. Talentprobe (1980)
115 min | Documentary
Director: Peter Goedel | Stars: Hans Barani, Karl Heinz Frerichs, Wilfried Henne, Karin Langel
Votes: 16
84. Divine Emanuelle (1981)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime
The daughter of a US Senator is drawn into a hippie called The Children of Light by the boyfriend of the cult's leader, a mysterious and beautiful Asian woman. The cult turns out to not be the free love community it presents itself as.
Director: Christian Anders | Stars: Laura Gemser, Christian Anders, Gabriele Tinti, Maximilian Wolters
Votes: 721
85. E nachtlang Füürland (1981)
90 min
A Radio commentator in Zürich, Switzerland, breaks the bonds of his dreary existence for one night in the company of a young woman only to realise at daybreak that he lacks the courage to go through with it.
Directors: Clemens Klopfenstein, Remo Legnazzi | Stars: Max Rüdlinger, Christine Lauterburg, Adelheid Beyeler, Nick Campbell
Votes: 85
86. Frankfurt: The Face of a City (1981)
87 min | Action, Thriller
Girl goes to the bright lights of Frankfurt when her boyfriend goes into the army; the seamy side of life is not as attractive as she expected.
Director: Roger Fritz | Stars: Michaela Karger, Dave Balko, Hanno Pöschl, Ute Zielinski
Votes: 132
88. Hangin' Out (1983)
91 min | Music, Comedy
The girl Tina is sick of her Bavarian hometown. She wants to go with Tino who has to leave the village alone for dubious reasons. Tina follows him with her friend Robby on his scooter.
Director: Wolfgang Büld | Stars: Nena, Markus Mörl, Enny Gerber, Karl Dall
Votes: 425
89. Die Heartbreakers (1983)
114 min | Drama
Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.
Director: Peter F. Bringmann | Stars: Sascha Disselkamp, Maria Ketikidou, Michael Klein, Uwe Bohm
Votes: 131
90. The Gold of Love (1983)
86 min | Horror, Music, Mystery
Young Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence, gleaming frenzy and dark alleys.
Director: Eckhart Schmidt | Stars: Alexandra Curtis, Allegra Curtis, Marie Colbin, André Heller
Votes: 79
91. Betrogen (1985)
95 min | Drama
In this 'film-noir' on double identity and role reversal, a man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee, he ... See full summary »
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Roland Schäfer, Katja Rupé, Nina Hoger, Gerd David
Votes: 7
92. Die Katze (1988)
118 min | Crime, Thriller
Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Joachim Kemmer, Heinz Hoenig
Votes: 974
93. Sukkubus (1989)
80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a delirious night of drinking, two herdsmen and a boy who are all alone in the alps with their cattle, create a primitive female doll. When their creation comes to life as a beautiful succubus, they have to fear for their lives.
Director: Georg Tressler | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Giovanni Früh, Andy Voß, Pamela Prati
Votes: 390
94. The Kiss of the Tiger (1988)
105 min | Thriller
With the dangerous smoothness of a tiger stalking his prey, Peter (Stéphane Ferrara) has circled the au pair Michèle (Beate Jensen). She quickly succumbs to his fascinating charisma and ... See full summary »
Director: Petra Haffter | Stars: Stéphane Ferrara, Beate Jensen, Yves Beneyton, Kristina van Eyck
Votes: 54
95. Solinger Rudi (1991)
59 min | Comedy
Director: Dietmar Klein | Stars: Hans-Joachim Grubel, Ralf Holzhausen, Christel Harthaus, Peter Schlesinger
96. 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter (1994)
90 min | Comedy
Detective 00 Schneider has to return from retirement to catch a mad art collector.
Directors: Christoph Schlingensief, Helge Schneider | Stars: Helge Schneider, Helmut Körschgen, Andreas Kunze, Werner Abrolat
Votes: 2,703
97. Pilots (1995 TV Movie)
68 min | Drama
Karin's world is the suburbs. It sells low-cost cosmetics in the large area of Leverkusen. She lives in simple hotels - during the week, the company pays, on weekends she gets special ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Eleonore Weisgerber, Nadeshda Brennicke, Udo Schenk, Barbara Frey
Votes: 142
98. Der Eisbär (1998)
90 min | Action, Thriller
Four characters become involved in one dramatic story: Nico has a mission to drive a car containing a live bomb to a specified destination, park the car and escape as quickly as she can. ... See full summary »
Directors: Til Schweiger, Granz Henman | Stars: Til Schweiger, Karina Krawczyk, Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas
Votes: 3,021
99. Sulla (2003)
121 min
Director: Klaus Wyborny | Stars: Hanns Zischler, Corinna Belz, Raphael Lenné, Christopher Mondt
Votes: 11
100. Never Go to Goa (2002)
43 min | Documentary, Comedy, Short
Director: Klaus Lemke | Stars: Michael Diekmann, Annika Herr, Klaus Lemke, Rüdiger Meichsner
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