Best West Germany Movies
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Best West Germany Movies
TOP Movies: Fedora (1978), Being There (1979), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Das Boot - The Director's Cut (1981), Star 80 (1983), Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Hair (1979), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The NeverEnding Story (1984), Cross of Iron (1977), Paris, Texas (1984), Bagdad Cafe (1987), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Christiane F. (1981), Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Possession (1981), Lola (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986).
List of Best Movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
Style:
romantic drama, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
mother daughter estrangement, bare breasts, filmmaking, hollywood, gay slur, mother daughter conflict, guard dog, actor, girl, twists and turns, love, couples ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1947, year 1962
Place:
america, usa, california, santa monica california, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Style:
political, clever, witty, black comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
politics, satire, comedy of errors, lawyer, secret service, impotence, mansion, funeral, eviction, country estate, wealth, garden ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., north carolina, usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime ...
Style:
neo noir, feel good, detective, surreal, parody ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot:
private detective, rabbit, false accusation, falsely accused, satire, femme fatale, sexy woman, childhood, chase, looney tunes, singer, frame up ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1947, year 1988 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, america, seattle
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style:
epic, suspense, atmospheric, realistic, factual ...
Plot:
submarine, world war two, naval battle, navy, military, ocean, war, nazi, survival, sea, courage, ship captain ...
Time:
year 1941, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942, year 1981
Place:
germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
Style:
disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
playboy, female nudity, murder, obsession, nude model, true crime, photograph, fame, rise and fall, movie business, jealous husband, couple relations ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 1978, 70s
Place:
vancouver, canada, california, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
Style:
independent film, road movie, black and white, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
minimalism, immigrant, road trip, on the road, hipster, immigration, slacker, dialogue, existentialism, coming of age, melancholy, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
florida, new york, ohio, manhattan new york city, cleveland ohio ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style:
independent film, road movie, black and white, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, swamp, pimp, escape, prison life, on the road, serendipity, prostitute, fight, misfit, partner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, southern usa, usa
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44K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on ...
Style:
stylized, thought provoking, psychedelic, cult classic, feel good ...
Plot:
hippie, nudity, counterculture, vietnam war, broadway, anti war, music, rock and roll, dancing, male nudity, commune, lsd ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma, vietnam, new york, manchester, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job...
Style:
sexy, sensual, offbeat, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, nightclub, music, hotel, piano, dog, audition, brother brother relationship, musician, drinking, art, rock and roll ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1989
Place:
seattle, washington state, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, light, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, kids, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dragon, magic, fantasy world, imagination, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, book, child protagonist, evil force, child hero, boy, medieval ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, future, 90s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style:
freeze frame, political, cult classic, brutal, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, eastern front, military, soldier, war, battlefield, german army, anti war, wehrmacht, nazi, blood ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
bolivia, germany, siberia, france, russia ...
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139K
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style:
road movie, touching, surreal, atmospheric, lyrical ...
Plot:
amnesia, father son relationship, desert, redemption, on the road, road trip, relationships, memory, melancholy, motel, reconciliation, drifter ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, houston texas, california, america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A surreal comedy depicting a diverse cast of characters and the changes they undergo as the German tourist Jasmin interacts with each of them at a remote truck stop in the middle of the Mojave desert.
Style:
touching, surreal, meditative, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
desert, friendship, restaurant, character study, motel, food, transformation, magic realism, life philosophy, female friendship, starting over, wilderness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
utah, california, las vegas, nevada, germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thought provoking, touching, surreal ...
Plot:
marriage, world war two, female nudity, wartime life, lovers reunited, infidelity, rise to the top, couples, life is a bitch, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 1950s, year 1979, 20th century ...
Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany, west germany, canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, heroin, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, junkie, drug overdose, teenage girl, friendship, teenage life, teenage prostitution ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, europe, west germany, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (along with "Trilogy" and "The Long Day Closes") is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own ...
Style:
anthology, historical drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
biopic, wife abuse, abusive father, wedding, domestic abuse, psychology, bad father, nazi, holocaust, singer, world war two, hypocrisy ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s, year 1988
Place:
liverpool, england, europe
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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: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
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7K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow ...
Style:
art house, realistic, tense, stylized, sexual ...
Plot:
nymph, prostitution, brothel, prostitute, sex, cabaret singer, crazy love, capitalism, cabaret, femme fatale, small town, bourgeoisie ...
Time:
year 1981, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 1930s ...
Place:
germany, west germany, bavaria, europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Style:
cult classic, fairy tale, visually stunning, visual, visually appealing ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
surrealism, steampunk, rejuvenation, satire, fantasy world, childhood, magic, renaissance, mental disorder, eccentricity, sword and sorcery, siege ...
Time:
18th century, year 1988
Place:
ancient greece, europe, egypt, austria, constantinople ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's ...
Style:
intellectual, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot:
clergy, medieval, investigation, monastery, monk, whodunit, uncover truth, murder mystery, murder, ancient, religion, riddles and clues ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century, ancient times, year 1986
Place:
europe, france, south of france, italy, canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, harsh ...
Plot:
existentialism, tragedy, biopic, crime gone awry, mentor, human nature, youth, misfit, isolation, logic, village, philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, year 1974, 1800s ...
Place:
germany, europe, bavaria, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, cult classic, political ...
Plot:
distopia, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, dystopian future, brainwashing, technology, fascism, totalitarian state, satire, surveillance, political corruption ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1984, near future, 20th century ...
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.
Style:
neo noir, sexy, erotic, independent film, suspense ...
Plot:
infidelity, sex scene, unfaithful wife, illicit love, femme fatale, murder, nudity, tragic romance, female orgasm, adultery, love affair, sexual content ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
california, usa, san diego california, los angeles
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11K
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, bleak, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot:
insanity, military, loser, brutality, murder, soldier, infidelity, obsession, adultery, jealousy, humiliation, hearing voices ...
Time:
year 1979, turn of the century, 19th century, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany, USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Style:
spaghetti western, epic, breathtaking, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, manly, date night, kids ...
Plot:
old west, civil war, treasure hunt, gunfight, greed, american civil war, moral ambiguity, desert, anti hero, shootout, hitman, cowboy ...
Time:
19th century, year 1966, 20th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
texas, arizona, austin texas, usa, north america ...
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16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, dark, dark comedy, depressing ...
Plot:
surrealism, immigrant, on the road, loser, mental disorder, road trip, pimp, bittersweet, culture clash, american dream, misfit, self discovery ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
wisconsin, germany, new york, west germany, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, which ...
Style:
sexy, exciting, entertaining, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
sword and sorcery, barbarian, murder, happy ending, medieval, beast, sorcery, animal human communication, sword fight, vengeance, sword, wizard ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, future
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, sincere, art house, visual ...
Plot:
christmas, childhood, ghost, coming of age, children, boy, child abuse, grief, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, extramarital affair, marriage as hell ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, year 1982, 20th century, victorian era ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, tokyo
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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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