Best West Germany Movies – page 4
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older ...
Style:
art house, costume drama, black and white, postmodern, serious ...
Plot:
crazy love, literary, marriage of convenience, young wife, duel, age difference, adultery, countryside, german history, women, summer, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, year 1974, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
berlin germany, northern germany, germany, europe, prussia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An idyllic valley in the Allgaeu (South-Germany). A railway line will be shot down. WALLER, an old track inspector whose life has been part of its history, will be forced out of work. Waller sets out on his final inspection. His journey becomes a ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
railway, flashback, memory, loss, aging, grief, retirement, bittersweet, family conflict, regret, small town, illegitimacy ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
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: Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Musical set in the 'future', e.g. 1994. A young couple enters the world of the music industry, but also the world of drugs.
Style:
horror musical, grindhouse, surreal, psychotronic, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
disco, drug, rock and roll, dancing, vegetable, post-apocalyptic future, food, distopia, art, hallucination, eurovision, brainwashing ...
Time:
future, year 1980, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
Style:
spaghetti western, stylized, atmospheric, harsh, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
old west, bounty hunter, wild west, cowboy, small town, violence, robbery, revenge, gunfight, storytelling, heroes, gang ...
Time:
19th century, year 1965, 1890s, 1870s
Place:
new mexico, texas, usa, north america, mexico ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style:
political, insightful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, forbidden love, captivity, female nudity, nazi, older man younger woman relationship, desire, ghetto, holocaust survivor, nude girl, israeli ...
Time:
1940s, year 1985
Place:
eastern europe, israel, europe, poland, holland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable ...
Style:
black and white, cult classic, black comedy, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
surrealism, rebellion, sadism, art, revolution, fighting the system, misfit, vengeance, absurdism, handicapped, chaos, dwarf ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
Style:
sexy, scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
occult, ritual, satanism, deal with the devil, satanic cult, ghost, satanist, curses spells and rituals, demon, evil priest, folk horror, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place:
big ben london, bavaria, tower bridge london, london
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, wartime life, forbidden love, premarital sex, american abroad, prejudice, racism, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
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555
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
“Driver’s first feature – a luminous, oddball comic fantasy about ancient Chinese curses and Xerox machines, set in Manhattan’s Chinatown and its immediate environs – may well be the most visually ravishing American independent film of its ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological thriller, suspenseful, surreal, indie film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, supernatural, macabre, haunting, loss of control, paranormal, identity crisis, symbolism, claustrophobia, nightmare, slow burn, occult ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives ...
Style:
art house, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
couples, family relations, alienation, male nudity, dysfunctional family, family problems, injustice, estrangement, society, unlikely criminals, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
germany, europe, munich germany
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the ...
Style:
spaghetti western, stylized, epic, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
old west, violence, gunfight, wild west, gang war, small town, greed, vengeance, tough heroes, drifter, cowboy, death ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
mexico, latin america, new mexico, mexico city, arizona ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story:
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar ...
Style:
f word
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, revolution, world war two, german history, totalitarian state, decadence, homosexual, male objectification, shooting, wound, businessman ...
Time:
post world war one, 1920s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young ...
Style:
fairy tale, sweet, cute, mysterious, christmas special ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, child, christmas eve, christmas season, christmas spirit, youth, heroes, danger, rescue, kidnapping, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
ohio
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Yesterday Girl is an acerbic, deliriously fractured, incisive, and darkly comic satire on a young German woman (and archetypal embodiment of the postwar generation), Anita G.'s (Alexandra Kluge) search for happiness, liberation, and ...
Style:
art house, political, experimental
Plot:
swing, melancholy, traumatic childhood, migrant, pregnant woman, male female relationship, sociology, alienation, police, female protagonist, on the road, love ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italians.
Plot:
dream, holiday, beach, family holiday, vacation, one day, couples, family relations, restaurant, father son relationship, tourist, arrogance ...
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The ...
Style:
heartbreaking, dark, bleak, emotional, gothic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, father daughter relationship, seduction, dancing, tragedy, italian opera, revenge, fatalism, moral ambiguity, forbidden love, palace intrigue, betrayal ...
Time:
19th century, medieval times
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Style:
art house, dread, philosophical, depressing, realistic ...
Plot:
pharmacist, dysfunctional couple, depression, pregnancy, psychic, pharmacy, husband wife relationship, anxiety, mental breakdown, mental disorder, drunk, mental health ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
germany, west germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with ...
Style:
contemplative, thought provoking, mind bending, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, hospital, memory loss, infidelity, politics, terrorism, law enforcement, dishonesty, self discovery, life is a bitch, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives ...
Style:
art house, realistic, serious, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, post war germany, german history, nazi germany, german woman, drunkenness, motherhood, lonely, world war, art, woman, anti war ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, west germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff’s controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against ...
Style:
controversial, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
terrorism, prison, raf, courtroom, spy, law, politics, german politics, jail cell, prisoner, justice, prison escape ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
germany, west germany, europe
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Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 18 min.
Story:
A very old woman wants to have dinner with her friends. As they are all dead, the butler has to play the role of every guest.
Style:
slapstick comedy, sketch comedy
Audience:
kids
Plot:
christmas, butler, new year's eve, drinking alcohol, sketch, christmas spirit, birthday party, dinner party, joke, drunkenness, wealth, disguise ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
prison, reformatory, gay, homosexual, age difference, father son conflict, gay interest, lgbt, bullying, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay bar ...
Time:
70s
Place:
germany, munich germany
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia (Suzanna Love), a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike (Easy Rider's Robert Walker, Jr.). Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, suspenseful, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, female killer, female serial killer, serial murder, erotica, obsession, manipulation, hearing voices, revenge, husband wife relationship, sadism, violence ...
Place:
arizona, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. This is the story, with many erotic asides, of her struggle to regain her pride in herself ...
Style:
sexual, sex comedy, manga, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
prostitution, sexual relations, social differences, male nudity, strong sexual content, voyeur, voyeurism, sex, older man younger woman sex, first lesbian experience, lesbian cunnilingus, public nudity ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
europe, england, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Here is the story of a beautiful, proud and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drugs-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, controversial, art house, erotic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, lgbtq, surrealism, gays and lesbians, lgbt, murder, male male relationship, male homosexuality, glbt, sexuality, psychology ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released ...
Style:
political, black comedy, cult classic, postmodern, art house ...
Plot:
transvestism, businessman, junkie, terrorism, politics, satire, raf, gender bending, anarchist, female nudity, elimination, kidnapped man ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, europe, west germany, germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Music, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her. In ...
Style:
slasher, mondo, crime drama, deep, controversial ...
Plot:
obsession, pop singer, teenage girl, obsessed fan, fan, celebrity, coming of age, singer, unrequited love, female protagonist, jealousy, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
germany, west germany, europe, central europe, munich germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A gay man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night. A respectable geography teacher by day; by night, hanging out in London's gay bars, looking for a long-term relationship, but usually encountering only ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, gay teacher, lgbt, gay bar, homosexuality, disco, gay interest, gay stereotype, gay lead character, gay slur, school teacher, glbt ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join.
Style:
art house, neo noir, political, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
hitman, gangster, fall in love, man killed, dying young, street walker, ruthlessness, beaten up, nihilism, serial killer, killer, syndicate ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
munich germany, central europe, europe
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