Best West Germany Movies – page 2
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, controversial, homoerotic, sexual ...
Plot:
serial killer, gay, undercover cop, murder, police investigation, gay sex, violence, brutality, pretending to be gay, gay club, working undercover, undercover ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, new york state, san francisco, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the ...
Style:
black and white, art house, stylized, neo noir, psychological ...
Plot:
addiction, existentialism, morphine, loneliness, reporter, intoxication, overdose, suicide, actress, psychic, frustration, blonde ...
Time:
1950s, year 1982, 80s, 70s, 50s ...
Place:
munich germany, germany, 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: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, art house, erotic, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, lesbian lover, lesbian relationship, mother daughter relationship, mannequin, servant, possessiveness, heartache, fashion, lesbian interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
west germany, australia, frankfurt germany, miami, zurich switzerland ...
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
Style:
period piece, psychological, absurd, dark comedy, art house ...
Plot:
world war two, loneliness, isolation, captivity, companionship, prisoners of war, delusion, satire, basement, claustrophobia, bomb shelter, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
Style:
witty, realistic, dark comedy, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, holocaust, small town, female nudity, perseverance, older man younger woman relationship, skinny dipping, alternate history, coming of age, whistleblower, german soldier ...
Time:
year 1990, 70s, 20th century, post world war two, 80s
Place:
germany, west germany, southern germany, bavaria, paris france ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds ...
Style:
futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
alien, stranded, evil alien, space exploration, space and aliens, friendship, space wars, space, extraterrestrial, alien life-form, space opera, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
space western
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, twists and turns, missing person, gas station, obsession, road trip, disappearance, murder, literary, police investigation, character study ...
Time:
20th century, near future, 80s, year 1988
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands, california
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, UK, Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional ...
Style:
art house, depressing, emotional, philosophical, intense ...
Plot:
marriage, autumn, dysfunctional family, mother daughter estrangement, child neglect, pianist, intimacy, reconciliation, classical music, family relations, musician, women ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, ...
Style:
road movie, art house, cult classic, manga, spiritual ...
Plot:
existential loneliness, cat, bicycle, train, on the road, girl man relationship, writers, voice over narration, blood, suicide by hanging, beach, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
investigation, world war two, war, nazi, mossad, espionage, war crime, war criminal, holocaust, israeli, nazi hunter, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, year 1964, post world war two, 60s ...
Place:
germany, hamburg germany, israel, west germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this unflinching German drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a group of young slackers, including the couple Erich and Marie, spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos, moves ...
Style:
art house, sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, migration, small town, inn, jealousy, boys and girls, male female relationship, passive aggression, refugee, racial discrimination, conversation, xenophobia ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
greece, germany, europe, munich germany
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, Peru
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Fitzcarraldo, a dreamer who plans to bring opera and Enrico Caruso to the South American jungles. With limited funding, he must figure out how to finance the opera house, and ultimately decides to capitalize on South America's rubber ...
Style:
cerebral, surreal, visually appealing, visual, tense ...
Plot:
jungle, steamship, boat, opera, obsession, river, ambition, colonialism, amazon river, surrealism, dream, forest ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, year 1982, 19th century, turn of the century
Place:
south america, peru, germany, latin america, andes mountains ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western ...
Style:
road movie, black and white, contemplative, art house, spiritual ...
Plot:
on the road, male pubic hair, male nudity, travel, cat, existential loneliness, cinema, bus, border, caught masturbating, loneliness, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, west germany, berlin germany, europe, german democratic republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic ...
Style:
political, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
terrorist, years of lead, feminist, terrorism, marxist, raf, politics, sister sister relationship, german politics, prison escape, woman peeing, prison ...
Time:
70s, year 1981
Place:
germany, west germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lili Marleen is the story of a German singer named Wilkie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert who’s family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Roberts family is skeptical of Walkie thinking she ...
Style:
stylized, clever, witty, art house, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nazi germany, nazi, wartime, women, world war, wartime life, world war two, dictatorship, nazism, dictator, forbidden love, love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, zurich switzerland, munich germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to ...
Style:
disturbing, philosophical, depressing, controversial, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, gender, lgbt, transgender, sex, gay, suicide, loser, identity, unrequited love, father daughter reunion, emotional breakdown ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
frankfurt germany
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks for a new place to live and ends up moving into his wife's lover's apartment as a roommate. ...
Style:
black comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Audience:
date night
Plot:
male bonding, unemployment, businessman, adultery, jealousy, artist, polyamory, love triangle, wedding, extramarital affair, celebrity culture, friendship ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
Style:
realistic, bleak, social, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot:
journalism, terrorism, investigation, politics, social commentary, reporter, police investigation, surveillance, obsession, police, communism, woman urinating ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, west germany, israel
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class ...
Style:
disturbing, sexual, serious, art house, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, infidelity, politics, subculture, working class, friends, money, betrayal, friendship, life is a bitch, rise to the top ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
munich germany, africa, germany, morocco, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent ...
Style:
sexual, psychosexual thriller, offbeat, controversial, realistic ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
coming of age, nude young male, male pubic hair, unrequited love, female pedophile, male nudity, public nudity, female orgasm, skinny dipping, swimming, sex with a minor, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1970, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, eastern europe, europe, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually ...
Style:
touching, sweet, anime, exciting, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot:
good versus evil, unicorn, horse, friendship, magic, rescue, heroic mission, wizard, unrequited love, quest, female protagonist, dragon ...
Time:
year 1982, 90s, 80s
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it about 100 meters from the floor. They have little ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
elevator, psychotic, trapped, jealousy, fear, money, abyss, gravity, sexual tension, falling down, malfunction, luck ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the ...
Style:
art house, psychological, neo noir, sad, depressing ...
Plot:
street vendor, heart attack, nervous breakdown, drinking, adultery, family relations, obsession, husband and wife, forbidden love, alcohol abuse, female nudity, depression ...
Time:
1950s, year 1972, year 1971, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
munich germany, germany, bavaria, morocco, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, psychiatry, losing-it hero, soldier, fortress, war, nazi, world war, german army, summer, mental illness ...
Time:
1940s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
greece, germany, italy, mediterranean sea, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Extraordinary images from Werner Herzog. Shot in the Australian Outback the Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us ...
Style:
bleak, contemplative, political, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
aborigine, australian aboriginal, desert, survival, environment, nature, blaxploitation, religious, international relations, labor, ecology, expedition ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Place:
germany, africa, australia, south australia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam ...
Style:
political thriller, political, neo noir, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear threat, vietnam war, cold war, president, u.s. president, danger, terrorism, conspiracy, nuclear missile, military, u.s. military, u.s. air force ...
Place:
montana, usa, vietnam, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. The film was written and ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, tense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, cheating wife, boy, youth, sex crime, bonding, spa, jealousy, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1919
Place:
austria, europe, vienna
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, ...
Style:
cult classic, scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, transformation, wax museum, museum, occult, evil dead, characters killed one by one, time travel, female vampire, portal, haunted house, deadly creature ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a large city lives a lonesome, 38-year old woman. Without friends, she has indulged in food and candy too much and has become a bit overweight. In short, she is disappointed of her life. One day she sees a young and handsome subway driver and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
subway, fat girl, overweight woman, food, doctor, socially awkward, socially awkward woman, loser, fall in love, love story, funeral home, couples ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
munich germany, europe, germany
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