Movies and TV shows set in west germany
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in west germany ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period piece, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful and bleak films and TV shows about / with female nudity, cold war, moral ambiguity, male nudity, urban, investigation, nude, friendship, german history and police plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in West Germany, Germany, Austria and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as west germany: Red Heat (1985), Great Freedom (2021), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Buffalo Soldiers (2001), Alice in the Cities (1974), Peaceful Times (2008), Deutschland 83 (2015), Fatal News (2015), Eight Hours are Not a Day (1972), Germany in Autumn (1978).
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Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).
Style:
sensual, erotic, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, rape, prison, lesbian rape, lesbianism, female pubic hair, lesbian, female nudity, coitus, voyeur, big breasts ...
Time:
80s
Place:
germany, east germany, west germany, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, touching, romantic, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
prison, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, homosexuality, prison sex, gay love, gay, prison life, gay cruising, gay bar, masturbation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1945, year 1969, year 1968, year 1957 ...
Place:
germany, west germany, australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic ...
Style:
art house, political, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot:
racism, culture clash, female nudity, relationships, older woman younger man relationship, loneliness, working class, old woman, impossible love, forbidden love, male nudity, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
west germany, munich germany, germany, europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Sgt. Ray Elwood is an American soldier stationed at a German army camp. A soldier because a judge gave him a choice between the army and jail, Ray spends much of his free time cooking cocaine for ...
Style:
cynical, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black comedy ...
Plot:
corruption, drug dealing, heroin, military, dark humor, u.s. military, soldier, profanity, arms dealing, satire, greed, american football ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
west germany, germany, europe, hawaii, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter ...
Style:
road movie, black and white, stylized, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
on the road, airport, journalist, single mother, photography, stranger, intimacy, road trip, rock concert, child abandonment, strong female character, travel ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
germany, west germany, amsterdam, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Summer 1968. It has been seven years since the Striesow family fled the GDR to a quiet suburb in West Germany. But Irene, the mother, does not support her situation as a housewife. Especially since Dieter, her husband, is absent more and more. Their ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, realistic, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold war, family drama, homesickness, nostalgia, housewife, paranoia, divorce, identity crisis, suburbs, assimilation, intimate, coming of age ...
Time:
60s
Place:
west germany, german democratic republic, east germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
cold war, espionage, stasi, spy, secret police, german soldier, double agent, working undercover, state affairs, rivalry, undercover, military ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
The Barschel case is one of the most important political scandals in recent German history. Not least because it has remained unsolved. Countless speculations and conspiracy theories have grown up to the present day to the dramatic death of the ...
Style:
feel good, suspense, disturbing, psychological, erotic ...
Plot:
politician, german politics, investigative reporter, mysterious death, investigative journalism, conspiracy, crooked politician, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, politics, husband wife relationship, female reporter ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1987
Place:
west germany, berlin germany, northern germany, geneva switzerland, zurich switzerland ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 476 min.
TV show
Story:
A sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic look at domestic relationships and labour relationships, with particular focus on skilled worker Jochen and his new girlfriend, Marion.
Style:
melancholic, art house, political drama
Plot:
working class, blue collar, solidarity, everyday life, factory worker, family drama, labor movement, social realism, class conflict, community, intimate, male protagonist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany
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Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman ...
Style:
semi documentary, postmodern, political, anthology, art house ...
Plot:
terrorism, raf, funeral, politics, society, german history, autumn, dispute, police, television, cemetery, years of lead ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, west germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west."
Style:
surreal, romantic, eurospy
Plot:
spy, private detective, german history, voice over narration, cold war, european history, morality, cinema, old man, memory, frustration, literature ...
Time:
year 1991, year 1990
Place:
west germany, germany, east germany
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with the code name "Heinz" who is suspected to be a double agent. A job that may change his ...
Style:
tension, historical drama, intense, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
double agent, stasi, cold war, espionage, covert operation, surveillance, secret mission, spy thriller, paranoia, betrayal, infiltration, mistrust ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, east germany
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 308 min.
TV show
Story:
Bonn depicts the rise of the young West Germany, a country struggling to break free from the terrors and legacies of World War II and longing for a 'normal' life. Into this heady and volatile mix steps Toni, a young woman determined to ...
Style:
period piece, exciting, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
secret service, post war, german woman, world war two, head of state, spying, state affairs, politics, country, young woman, espionage, german history ...
Time:
post world war two, 1950s
Place:
germany, west germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Its 1959. German Public Prosecutor Bauer is convinced he has found the long sought Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. This tense drama shows his struggle to have him brought to justice against the power jielded by old Nazi functionaries in ...
Style:
serious, historical drama, bleak, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
mossad, post war germany, investigation, justice, cold war, realism, legal battle, biopic, nazi, courtroom, conspiracy, investigative journalism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
west germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
lighthearted, romantic comedy, slapstick, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
songwriter, youth culture, music industry, male friendship, urban, escapades, misunderstanding, record producer, police chase, satire, anti authority, infatuation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
munich germany, west germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
German sex comedy
Style:
erotic, mockumentary, sensual, sex comedy, period piece ...
Plot:
sexploitation, mature, sexual exploration, female sexuality, sexually liberated, voyeur, tickling, exploitation, gender roles, taboo, interview, social commentary ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The owner of a failing Munich strip club sends his manager to an area of the country considered backwards to recruit new talent for his club.
Style:
sex comedy, retro, slapstick, period piece, lighthearted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nudity, seductive, sexuality, strip club, sexploitation, fish out of water, scandal, cabaret, exploitation, recruitment, sleazy, nightclub ...
Place:
west germany, munich germany, bavaria
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
jealousy, murder, frame up, wrongful imprisonment, false accusation, obsession, betrayal, blackmail, moral ambiguity, corruption, infidelity, conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
west germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.
Style:
controversial, realistic, tense, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
abortion, social work, social commentary, female protagonist, illegal abortion, arrest, poverty, working mom, social justice, activism, social realism, character study ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany
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Genre: History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Film is set in 1980s in Germany and Russia. A major gas pipeline is to be built from Siberia to Europe. German banks are open for discussions about the credit contract for the project. The Russian delegation comes to Germany for business meetings ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, suspenseful, tension, tense ...
Plot:
geopolitics, espionage, cold war, diplomacy, spy thriller, suspicion, kgb, industrial espionage, european, conspiracy, cold, banking ...
Time:
80s
Place:
siberia, soviet union, west germany, europe, germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A crime-drama directed by Rolf Olsen.
Style:
dark, detective, tense, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot:
prostitution, investigation, murder investigation, nightlife, police procedural, urban, organized crime, violence, corruption, sexploitation, underworld, promiscuity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
west germany, frankfurt germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
West Germany, 1982: Hubertus and Sebastian are fighting for their Future against their fathers. Their unconditional love for Punk Princess Debbie and the raw power of Alternative Rockabilly Music are the only statements of Freedom in this little ...
Style:
dramatic, indie film, tension, retro, period drama
Plot:
music band, freedom, coming of age, youth, rebellion, family conflict, punk, father son conflict, friendship, passion, small town, teen angst ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Biopic charting the career of legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer who won the World Cup as a player in 1974, and then as the West German team's coach in 1990. Taking place against the backdrop of the stunning global tournaments, the ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational, historical drama ...
Plot:
soccer, football, ambition, football team, triumph, biopic, football player, soccer coach, historical figure, life, athlete's life, sport team ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
germany, west germany
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Banklady tells the true story of Gisela Werler, a law-abiding factory worker from Hamburg, who falls in love with a thief and becomes a media darling as Germany’s first and most notorious female bank robber. Cunning, sexy, and exciting, Gisela and ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female empowerment, bank robbery, criminal heroes, fall in love, love and romance, biopic, gender roles, bonnie and clyde, love story, outlaw, factory worker, media sensation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
hamburg germany, west germany, germany
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style:
atmospheric, lyrical, meditative, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
philosophy, love, angel, circus, dream, immortality, mortality, surrealism, existentialism, suicide, actor, love story ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place:
berlin germany, germany, west germany, east germany, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Essay film by Alexander Kluge.
Style:
experimental, art house, thought provoking, anthology, intellectual ...
Plot:
social commentary, college, humanist, everyday life, social realism, cold war, moral ambiguity, identity, realism, immigration, marriage of convenience, satire ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
east germany, west germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Village elders attempting to upgrade their village status to 'Marktgemeinde' - which for some unexplained reason would resolve their financial difficulties. To achieve this they need to increase the number of village inhabitants...
Style:
sex comedy, light hearted, period piece, romantic comedy, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mountain village, impregnation, village, small town, satire, bureaucracy, unhappiness, village people, pregnancy, nudity, sex, female nudity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
alps, west germany, central europe, europe
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Genre: Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.
Style:
crime drama, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
police station, law enforcement, investigation, crime investigation, police procedural, urban, murder mystery, social issues, bureaucracy, moral ambiguity, cop, police ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany, munich germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fall in love with each other, but the regime "takes care" of their relationship, ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, historical drama, poignant, melancholic ...
Plot:
stasi, berlin wall, punk rock, punk, forbidden love, communism, subculture, separation, loss, political oppression, longing, cold war ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
east germany, west germany, berlin germany, german democratic republic, west berlin west germany
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
historical drama, inspirational, emotional, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
heroism, survival, hopes, rescue attempt, courage, underground, coal mine, teamwork, working class, grief, tragedy, loss ...
Time:
60s
Place:
west germany
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