# List of German films of the 1970s

This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 1970s.
For an alphabetical list of articles on West German films see Category:West German films. For East German films made during the decade see List of East German films.

## 1970

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 11 Uhr 20 | Wolfgang Becker | Joachim Fuchsberger, Christiane Krüger, Gila von Weitershausen, Nadja Tiller, Götz George, Anthony Steel | Thriller | |
| Abseits | Lutz Büscher | Ernst Jacobi, Karin Anselm [de], Dirk Dautzenberg [de] | Drama | |
| All Backs Were Turned | Thomas Fantl | Heinz Bennent, Sonja Ziemann, Udo Vioff [de], Paul Smith | Drama | |
| The American Soldier | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Karl Scheydt [de], Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Elga Sorbas [de], Katrin Schaake [de], Margarethe von Trotta, Jan George, Ulli Lommel, Ingrid Caven | Drama | |
| And God Said to Cain | Antonio Margheriti | Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten, Marcella Michelangeli | Western | Italian-West German co-production |
| Angelika Urban, Verkäuferin, verlobt | Helma Sanders-Brahms | | Documentary | |
| Angels with Burnt Wings [de] | Zbyněk Brynych | Susanne Uhlen, Jan Koester [de], Nadja Tiller, Werner Kreindl, Siegfried Rauch | Drama | a.k.a. Angels Who Burn Their Wings |
| Baal | Volker Schlöndorff | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | |
| Bambule [de] | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Dagmar Biener [de], Antje Hagen [de], Barbara Schöne | Drama | |
| Before Sunset | Oswald Döpke [de] | Werner Hinz, Cordula Trantow, Herbert Fleischmann, Günter Strack | Drama | a.k.a. Before Sundown |
| Die Beichte | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Bruno Dallansky | Drama | a.k.a. The Confession |
| Bend Sinister | Herbert Vesely | Helmut Käutner, Heinrich Schweiger, Christine Kaufmann, Henry van Lyck, Herbert Fleischmann | Science fiction | |
| Berlin Affair [de] | David Lowell Rich | Darren McGavin, Fritz Weaver, Brian Kelly, Pascale Petit, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| A Big Grey-Blue Bird [de] | Thomas Schamoni [de] | Klaus Lemke [de], Umberto Orsini, Lukas Ammann, Sylvie Winter [de] | Mystery, Science fiction | West German-Italian co-production |
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | Tony Musante, Eva Renzi, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Werner Peters, Mario Adorf | Mystery, Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Blaues Wild | Peter Schulze-Rohr [de] | Walter Kohut, Bruno Dallansky, Alfred Böhm, Alexander Trojan, Guido Wieland, Bruno Hübner, Bibiana Zeller | Drama | |
| The Bloody Judge | Jesús Franco | Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Margaret Lee | Horror | Spanish-Italian-West German co-production |
| Der Bomberpilot | Werner Schroeter | Mascha Rabben [de], Magdalena Montezuma [de], Carla Egerer [de] | War, Experimental | |
| The Brutes [de] | Roger Fritz | Helga Anders, Klaus Löwitsch, Arthur Brauss | Thriller | |
| Butterflies Don't Cry [de] | Klaus Überall [de] | Gaby Fuchs [de], Siegfried Wischnewski, Klaus Grünberg, Fritz Wepper | Drama | West German-Italian co-production |
| Cancer Ward | Heinz Schirk [de] | Martin Benrath, Siegfried Lowitz, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | a.k.a. Krebsstation |
| The Cannibals | Reinhard Mieke | Wolfgang Kieling, Peter Vogel, Friedrich Joloff [de], Rudolf Wessely | War | |
| Chariots of the Gods | Harald Reinl | | Documentary | |
| Children of Mata Hari | Jean Delannoy | Stéphane Audran, Klaus Kinski, Lilli Palmer, Michel Constantin | Spy thriller | a.k.a. The Deathmakers. French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Christmas Not Just Once a Year [de] | Vojtěch Jasný | Edith Heerdegen, René Deltgen, Gerd Baltus, Peter Ehrlich, Rolf Becker | Comedy | |
| Claus Graf Stauffenberg | Rudolf Nussgruber | Horst Naumann | War | |
| Clavigo | Marcel Ophuls, Fritz Kortner | Thomas Holtzmann, Rolf Boysen [de] | Drama | |
| The Coffee Shop [fr] | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Kurt Raab, Peer Raben, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven | Comedy | a.k.a. The Coffee House |
| Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something! | Rolf Thiele | Tanja Gruber, Andrea Rau, Veit Relin [de], Tilo von Berlepsch | Sex comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Compañeros | Sergio Corbucci | Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben, Karin Schubert | Western | Italian-Spanish-West German co-production |
| The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda | Drama | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Count Dracula | Jesús Franco | Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski | Horror | Spanish-Italian-West German-British co-production |
| Dark Spring | Ingemo Engström [de] | Edda Köchl [de] | Drama | |
| Deadlock | Roland Klick | Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm, Mascha Rabben [de] | Crime | |
| Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski | Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler | Drama | West German-British-American co-production |
| The Delegation [de] | Rainer Erler | Walter Kohut | Science fiction | |
| Don't Fumble, Darling | May Spils [de] | Werner Enke, Gila von Weitershausen, Henry van Lyck, Otto Sander, Benno Hoffmann [de] | Comedy | |
| Dorian Gray | Massimo Dallamano | Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom | Drama | Italian-West German co-production |
| Drücker | Franz-Josef Spieker | Frithjof Vierock [de], Margarethe von Trotta, Renate Roland [de], Rosemarie Fendel, Traugott Buhre | Drama | |
| Emigration | Wilhelm Semmelroth [de] | Hans Jaray | Drama | |
| Emilia Galotti [de] | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Sabine Sinjen, Johanna von Koczian, Horst Frank | Drama | |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig | Drama | |
| Der Fall Sorge | Hermann Kugelstadt | Arno Assmann | Docudrama, Spy, War | |
| The Females [de] | Zbyněk Brynych | Uschi Glas, Irina Demick, Françoise Fabian, Pascale Petit, George Ardisson, Alain Noury | Drama | West German-French-Italian co-production |
| Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin – Stunde der Entscheidung [de] | Falk Harnack | Wolfgang Büttner, Gerd Baltus | Biography | |
| Die Feuerzangenbowle | Helmut Käutner | Walter Giller, Uschi Glas, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| First Love | Maximilian Schell | Dominique Sanda, John Moulder-Brown, Maximilian Schell, Valentina Cortese | Drama | Swiss-West German-Hungarian co-production |
| Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen! | Gerhard Klingenberg | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Siegfried Wischnewski | Biography | |
| Friedrich III – Gestorben als Kaiser | Rudolf Nussgruber | Heinz Weiss, Annemarie Düringer, Folker Bohnet, Ruth Maria Kubitschek | Biography | |
| Fröhliche Weihnachten | Wolf Dietrich [de] | Sonja Ziemann, Karl Michael Vogler | Comedy | |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi | Drama | Italian-West German co-production |
| Gefährliche Neugier [de] | Hans Dieter Schwarze [de] | Claus Biederstaedt, Angela Winkler, Günter Strack | Crime | |
| General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot? | Rudolf Nussgruber | Wolfgang Preiss, Dieter Borsche | War | |
| Gentlemen in White Vests | Wolfgang Staudte | Martin Held, Heinz Erhardt, Mario Adorf, Hannelore Elsner, Walter Giller, Rudolf Platte, Herbert Fux | Comedy | |
| The Girls from Atlantis [de] | Eckhart Schmidt | Isi ter Jung [de] | Comedy, Science fiction | a.k.a. Atlantis – Ein Sommermärchen a.k.a. Männer sind zum Lieben da |
| Gods of the Plague | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann | Drama | |
| Eine große Familie | Peter Beauvais | Bruno Ganz, Kurt Ehrhardt [de], Gunnar Möller | Drama | |
| Die Herberge | Jiří Weiss | Wolfgang Reichmann, Gustav Knuth, Hans Korte | Drama | |
| Hier bin ich, mein Vater | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Peter Vogel, Helmuth Lohner, Erika Pluhar | Drama | |
| Hotel by the Hour | Rolf Olsen | Curd Jürgens | Crime | |
| How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? | Will Tremper | Barbi Benton, Klaus Kinski, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Stander | Comedy | a.k.a. The Naughty Cheerleader. West German-Italian co-production |
| How to Get Rid of Your Husband | Jiří Weiss | Brigitte Grothum, Martin Hirthe [de], Günter Mack, Stefan Behrens [de] | Black comedy | |
| Ich heiße Erwin und bin 17 Jahre | Erika Runge [de] | Erwin Walther, Iris Hertisch, Theo Dahlke | Drama | |
| In the Name of Conscience | Rudolph Cartier | Heinrich Schweiger, Konrad Georg, Arthur Brauss | Cold War spy film | a.k.a. Recht auf Gewissen |
| Industrielandschaft mit Einzelhändlern | Egon Monk | Horst Tappert | Drama | |
| Invitation to the Castle | Helmut Käutner | Ilse Ritter [de], Heinz Ehrenfreund [de], Monika Peitsch [de], Karin Hübner | Comedy | a.k.a. Ring Round the Moon a.k.a. Die Kunst das Spiel zu spielen |
| Jill in the Box [de] | Willy Bogner Jr. | Iris Berben, Jochen Richter [de] | Comedy | a.k.a. Love 600 |
| Jonas or the Artist at Work | Stanislav Barabáš [de] | Walter Giller | Drama | |
| Jonathan | Hans W. Geissendorfer | Jürgen Jung [de], Oskar von Schab [de], Paul Albert Krumm [de], Ilona Grübel [de] | Horror | |
| Klassenphoto | Eberhard Fechner [de] | | Documentary | |
| Let's Make a Dream | Marcel Ophuls | Sabine Sinjen, Ulli Lommel, Ernst Stankovski, Rolf Zacher | Comedy | West German-French co-production |
| The Lickerish Quartet | Radley Metzger | Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Silvana Venturelli, Paolo Turco [it] | Adult, comedy-drama | Italian-American-West German co-production |
| Love, Vampire Style [de] | Helmut Förnbacher | Eva Renzi, Patrick Jordan, Amadeus August, Brigitte Skay, Herbert Fux, Barbara Valentin, Ralf Wolter | Comedy | a.k.a. The Amorous Adventures of a Young Postman |
| Malatesta | Peter Lilienthal | Eddie Constantine, Christine Noonan, Vladimír Pucholt, Heathcote Williams, Wallas Eaton | Drama | Entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower | Michael Braun [de] | Dietmar Schönherr, Monika Peitsch [de], Wolfgang Völz | Crime comedy | |
| Mark of the Devil | Michael Armstrong | Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Fux | Horror | |
| The Marquise de Brinvilliers | Franz Peter Wirth | Heidelinde Weis, Sami Frey, Peter Pasetti, Pierre Brice, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Jean Martin, Félix Marten | Crime, History | a.k.a. Die Marquise von B. West German-French co-production |
| Maximilian von Mexiko | Günter Gräwert [de] | Michael Heltau, Christine Wodetzky, Siegfried Wischnewski, Dieter Borsche | Biography | a.k.a. Maximilian of Mexico. West German-Austrian co-production |
| Mein schönes kurzes Leben | Klaus Lemke [de] | Michael Schwankhart, Claudia Littmann | Drama | |
| Millionen nach Maß | Erich Neureuther [de] | Curd Jürgens, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Werner Kreindl, Wolfgang Völz, Walter Rilla | Crime comedy | |
| Das Millionenspiel | Tom Toelle [de] | Jörg Pleva [de], Dieter Thomas Heck, Dieter Hallervorden | Science Fiction | |
| The Minister of Police: Joseph Fouché [de] | Günter Gräwert [de] | Ferdy Mayne, Franz Rudnick [de] | Biography | |
| Los Monstruos del Terror | Hugo Fregonese, Tulio Demicheli | Karin Dor, Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill | Horror | a.k.a. Dracula vs. Frankenstein a.k.a. Assignment Terror. Spanish-Italian-West German co-production |
| Moonlighting Mistress [de] | Wolfgang Becker | Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Harald Leipnitz | Thriller | |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Peter Beauvais | Andrea Jonasson [de], Karl Michael Vogler, Eva Katharina Schultz [de], Peter Pasetti, Joachim Ansorge [de] | Drama | |
| Nachbarn sind zum Ärgern da [de] | Peter Weck | Georg Thomalla, Uschi Glas, Fritz Wepper, Hans Korte, Eddi Arent | Comedy | |
| The Niklashausen Journey | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Michael König [de], Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Margit Carstensen, Kurt Raab | Drama | |
| o.k. | Michael Verhoeven | Eva Mattes, Hartmut Becker, Gustl Bayrhammer | War | Caused the cancellation of the 20th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Oppression of the Woman Is Especially Seen in the Attitude of the Women Themselves [de] | Hellmuth Costard [de] | Christoph Hemmerling | Drama | a.k.a. The Oppression of Woman Is Primarily Evident in the Behavior of Women Themselves |
| Pakbo | Volker Koch | Joachim Hansen, Werner Kreindl, Frederick Jaeger, Carla Egerer [de] | Spy, War | |
| Peenemünde [de] | Falk Harnack | Wolfgang Preiss, Dieter Kirchlechner [de], Karl John, Heinz Engelmann | War, Docudrama | |
| Perrak [de] | Alfred Vohrer | Horst Tappert, Werner Peters, Erika Pluhar, Judy Winter, Arthur Brauss | Crime | a.k.a. Hard Women a.k.a. The Blonde Connection |
| Piggies | Peter Zadek | Anton Diffring, Tankred Dorst, Gisela Fischer, Erich Fried, Dinah Hinz, Hannelore Hoger, Michael König [de], Robert Muller, Doris Schade | Comedy | |
| Pippi in the South Seas | Olle Hellbom | Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Martin Ljung, Jarl Borssén, Wolfgang Völz | Family | Swedish-West German co-production |
| The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising | Hans Lietzau | Rolf Henniger [de], Klaus Schwarzkopf, Ruth Hausmeister, Gisela Stein, Klaus Löwitsch | Drama | |
| The Portland Spy Ring | Helmut Ashley | Heinz Bennent, Siegfried Wischnewski, Barbara Schöne, Arnold Marquis, Karl-Heinz von Hassel | Docudrama, Cold War spy film | a.k.a. Der Portland-Ring |
| The Priest of St. Pauli | Rolf Olsen | Curd Jürgens, Heinz Reincke | Drama | |
| Red Sun | Rudolf Thome | Uschi Obermaier, Marquard Bohm, Diana Körner | Drama | |
| Eine Rose für Jane | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Heinz Bennent, Martine Brochard, Eddie Constantine | Crime | |
| San Domingo | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Michael König [de], Alice Ottawa | Drama | |
| Schlagzeilen über einen Mord | Heinz Schirk [de] | Volkert Kraeft, Holger Hagen [de], Götz Burger [de], Günter Meisner | Drama | |
| Schulmädchen-Report | Ernst Hofbauer | | Sex report film | First of a series of 13 films |
| Sessel zwischen den Stühlen | Fritz Umgelter | Günter Strack, Rolf Becker | Drama | |
| The Seven Year Itch | Franz Josef Wild [de] | Gertraud Jesserer, Alexander Kerst, Luitgard Im, Eric Pohlmann | Comedy | a.k.a. Meine Frau erfährt kein Wort |
| Seventeen and Anxious [de] | Zbyněk Brynych | Anne-Marie Kuster [de], Amadeus August, Nadja Tiller, Karl Michael Vogler, Siegfried Rauch | Drama | |
| Sex-Business: Made in Pasing | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | | Documentary | |
| The Sex Nest | Alfred Vohrer | Siegfried Schürenberg, Eddi Arent, Ann Smyrner, Mascha Gonska | Comedy | a.k.a. The Yellow House on Pinnasberg |
| Sir Henri Deterding | Jürgen Goslar | Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Kreindl, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Konrad Georg | Biography, Docudrama | |
| Slap in the Face | Rolf Thiele | Curd Jürgens, Gila von Weitershausen | Comedy | |
| Student of the Bedroom | Michael Verhoeven | Christof Wackernagel, Gila von Weitershausen, Hannelore Elsner | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Bettenstudent |
| Summer in the City | Wim Wenders | Hanns Zischler | Drama | |
| Tanker [de] | Volker Vogeler | Katrin Schaake [de], Karl-Georg Saebisch, Ulrich Matschoss, Ivan Desny, Hans-Michael Rehberg | Drama | |
| That Can't Shake Our Willi! | Rolf Olsen | Heinz Erhardt, Ruth Stephan, Günther Jerschke | Comedy | |
| Time Is Running Out | Robert Ménégoz [ca; de; fr] | | Documentary | |
| Der Tod des Deputierten Jean Jaurès | Frank Guthke [de] | Wolfgang Büttner, Ernst Jacobi | Docudrama | |
| Die U-2-Affäre | Rudolf Nussgruber | Michael Degen, Claudia Wedekind [de], Hellmut Lange | Docudrama | |
| Der Übergang über den Ebro | Armand Gatti | Hans Christian Blech, André Wilms | Drama | a.k.a. The Ebro Crossing |
| Under the Roofs of St. Pauli | Alfred Weidenmann | Jean-Claude Pascal, Werner Peters, Charles Régnier, Joseph Offenbach | Drama | |
| Unternehmer | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Jürgen Prochnow, Claudia Wedekind [de] | Drama | |
| La venganza del Doctor Mabuse | Jesús Franco | Jack Taylor, Fred Williams, Ewa Strömberg, Siegfried Lowitz | Horror | Spanish-West German co-production |
| We'll Take Care of the Teachers | Harald Reinl | Hansi Kraus, Theo Lingen, Rudolf Schündler, Uschi Glas, Fritz Wepper | Comedy | Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank film series |
| We Two [de] | Ulrich Schamoni | Sabine Sinjen, Christoph Bantzer | Drama | |
| Wer ist der nächste? | Arno Assmann | Helmuth Lohner, Albert Lieven, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Crime comedy | |
| What Is the Matter with Willi? | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt, Ralf Wolter, Ruth Stephan | Comedy | |
| When the Mad Aunts Arrive | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Ilja Richter | Comedy | |
| When You're With Me | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Roy Black, Lex Barker, Zienia Merton, Eddi Arent | Musical | |
| Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler | Kurt Raab, Lilith Ungerer [de], Irm Hermann, Peer Raben, Franz Maron | Drama | Entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Wie ein Blitz [de] | Rolf von Sydow | Paul Hubschmid, Ingmar Zeisberg, Horst Bollmann, Christine Kaufmann, Albert Lieven, Eva Pflug | Mystery thriller | a.k.a. Bat Out of Hell |

## 1971

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Annemarie Lesser: Legend of a Spy | Rudolf Jugert | Christine Wodetzky, Pinkas Braun, Heinz Weiss, Helmut Förnbacher | Spy, War | |
| Apokal | Paul Anczykowski | Inken Sommer [de], Heinrich Giskes [de], Tilo Prückner | Drama | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival |
| Aufstiegschancen | Thomas Fantl | Christa Berndl [de], Herbert Stass | Drama | |
| Aunt Trude from Buxtehude | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Ilja Richter, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| The Bed Sausage | Rosa von Praunheim | Luzi Kryn, Dietmar Kracht | Comedy | |
| Beware of a Holy Whore | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Marquard Bohm, Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Comedy-drama | |
| Blondie's Number One | Robert van Ackeren | Gabriele Lafari | Drama | |
| The Body in the Thames | Harald Philipp | Hansjörg Felmy, Uschi Glas, Werner Peters, Ivan Desny, Vadim Glowna, Petra Schürmann, Siegfried Schürenberg | Mystery thriller | a.k.a. Angels of Terror. Based on Edgar Wallace |
| The Bordello | Alfred Weidenmann | Karin Jacobsen, Herbert Fleischmann | Drama | |
| The Captain | Kurt Hoffmann | Heinz Rühmann, Horst Tappert, Günter Pfitzmann, Ernst Stankovski, Teri Tordai, Joseph Offenbach, Horst Janson, Hans Korte, Johanna Matz | Comedy | |
| Captain Typhoon [de] | Rolf Olsen | Curd Jürgens, Johanna von Koczian, Heinz Reincke, Sieghardt Rupp, Herbert Fleischmann | Adventure | a.k.a. Nurses for Sale a.k.a. Captain Roughneck from St. Pauli |
| Carlos | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Bernhard Wicki, Gottfried John, Anna Karina, Geraldine Chaplin, Horst Frank, Thomas Hunter | Drama | |
| The Cat o' Nine Tails | Dario Argento | Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, James Franciscus, Rada Rassimov, Horst Frank | Thriller | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| The Cell | Horst Bienek | Robert Naegele | Drama | |
| Chopin-Express [de] | Michael Kehlmann | Hermann Treusch [de], Günter Mack, Gisela Stein, Otto Tausig, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Drama | |
| Chronicle of Current Events | Peter Handke | Rüdiger Vogler, Ulrich Gressieker [de] | Drama | |
| Daughters of Darkness | Harry Kümel | Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet [fr], John Karlen, Andrea Rau | Horror | Belgian-French-West German co-production |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Gérard Oury | Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Karin Schubert | Comedy | French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production |
| The Devil Came from Akasava | Jesús Franco | Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Siegfried Schürenberg | Thriller | Spanish-West German co-production |
| The Devil in Love | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Wolf Roth, Christiane Schröder [de], Birke Bruck | Fantasy | a.k.a. Der verliebte Teufel |
| Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum [de] | Peter Beauvais | Martin Benrath, Hannelore Elsner, Katrin Schaake [de], Francesca Tu, Christoph Bantzer, Werner Finck | Science fiction | |
| Dying | Peter Beauvais | Heinz Ehrenfreund [de], Loni von Friedl | Drama | |
| The Eddie Chapman Story | Wolfgang Becker | Peter Vogel, Anita Höfer, Joseph Offenbach, Charles Régnier, Rainer Basedow, Friedrich Joloff [de] | Biography, War, Spy | a.k.a. Kein Geldschrank geht von selber auf |
| Einer spinnt immer | Franz Antel | Georg Thomalla, Teri Tordai, Brigitte Grothum, Gunther Philipp, Herbert Fux | Comedy | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Einfach sterben... | Stanislav Barabáš [de] | Hans Schweikart, Ernst Jacobi, Petra Peters, Gert Westphal | Biography | |
| The End Of A Mission | Hans Dieter Schwarze [de] | Alois Maria Giani [de], Günter Strack, Wolfgang Büttner, Hanns Ernst Jäger, Angela Winkler | Comedy | |
| Ein Fall für Herrn Schmidt | Falk Harnack | Klaus Schwarzkopf | Crime | |
| Der Fall Jägerstätter [de] | Axel Corti | Kurt Weinzierl, Guido Wieland, Wolfgang Kieling | War | Austrian-West German co-production |
| The False Weight [de] | Bernhard Wicki | Helmut Qualtinger, Evelyn Opela, Agnes Fink [de] | Drama | a.k.a. False Weights a.k.a. Weights and Measures |
| Fata Morgana | Werner Herzog | Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, James William Gledhill, Eugen des Montagnes | Drama | |
| Forget What You Saw | Michael Kehlmann | Volkert Kraeft, Dirk Dautzenberg [de], Benno Sterzenbach, Hans Korte | Crime | a.k.a. Augenzeugen müssen blind sein |
| Fräulein von Stradonitz in memoriam | Wolfgang Urchs [de] | Giulia Follina [de], Herbert Herrmann [de] | Mystery | |
| Furchtlose Flieger | Veith von Fürstenberg [de], Martin Müller, Max Zihlmann [de] | Ferdinand Attems, Eike Gallwitz [de], Peter Berling, Barbara Valentin | Drama | |
| Die gefälschte Göttin | Helmut Käutner | Gracia-Maria Kaus [de], Joachim Ansorge [de], Jörg Pleva [de], Heinz Moog | Crime comedy | |
| The German Lesson [de] | Peter Beauvais | Wolfgang Büttner, Arno Assmann, Jens Weisser [de], Andreas Poliza | Drama, War | |
| Geschäfte mit Plückhahn | Claus Peter Witt [de] | Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | |
| Gestrickte Spuren | Georg Marischka | Christine Kaufmann, Kurt Nachmann, Alfred Böhm, Olga Chekhova, Petra Schürmann, Rudolf Prack, Hans Holt, Anaid Iplicjian | Mystery | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Der große Verhau [fr] | Alexander Kluge | Vinzenz Sterr, Maria Sterr, Hark Bohm, Hannelore Hoger | Science fiction | |
| Haie an Bord [de] | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Freddy Quinn, Karin Dor, Werner Pochath | Adventure | |
| Handicapped Future | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
| He Who Loves in a Glass House | Michael Verhoeven | Senta Berger, Hartmut Becker, Marianne Blomquist | Drama | Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Heart of the Matter | Oswald Döpke [de] | Hans Christian Blech, Cordula Trantow, Inge Langen [de], Gerd Baltus, Herbert Fleischmann, Carl Lange | Drama | |
| Heißer Sand | Günter Gräwert [de] | Joachim Fuchsberger, Sieghardt Rupp, Andrea Jonasson [de] | Adventure | |
| Hilfe, die Verwandten kommen [de] | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Uschi Glas, Horst Janson, Ilja Richter Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| The Hitler/Ludendorff Trial: Scenes From a High Treason Trial in a Republic Without Republicans | Paul Verhoeven | Klaus Höhne, Alf Marholm, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Konrad Georg, Ulrich Beiger, Alexander Kerst | Docudrama | |
| Holidays in Tyrol | Harald Reinl | Uschi Glas, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Georg Thomalla | Comedy | |
| I Love You, I Kill You [fr] | Uwe Brandner [de] | Rolf Becker, Hannes Fuchs, Marianne Blomquist, Monika Hansen [de] | Science fiction | |
| Ich werde dich töten, Wolf | Wolfgang Petersen | Ursula Sieg [de], Wolf Roth | Drama | a.k.a. I Will Kill You, Wolf |
| Intermezzo | Gedeon Kovács [de] | Erika Pluhar, Peter Weck | Drama | a.k.a. Zwischenspiel |
| Interview mit Herbert K. | Herbert Ballmann [de] | Herbert Stass | Drama, Crime | |
| It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives | Rosa von Praunheim | Bernd Feuerhelm, Berryt Bohlen, Ernst Kuchling | Drama | |
| Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Volker Vogeler | Gottfried John, Rolf Zacher, Arthur Brauss, Fred Stillkrauth, Louis Waldon | Drama | a.k.a. Jaider, the Lonely Hunter. Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| Jailbreak in Hamburg | Wolfgang Staudte | Horst Frank, Christiane Krüger, Heinz Reincke, Klaus Schwarzkopf | Crime thriller | |
| Jakob von Gunten | Peter Lilienthal | Sebastian Bleisch, Hanna Schygulla, Alexander May [de], Peter Kern | Drama | |
| Karpfs Karriere | Bernhard Wicki | Martin Benrath, Agnes Fink [de] | Drama | |
| Kassensturz | Korbinian Köberle [de] | Karin Hübner | Crime | a.k.a. The Banklady |
| Ladies in Retirement | Karlheinz Bieber [de] | Lil Dagover, Brigitte Horney | Black comedy | |
| Land of Silence and Darkness | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
| Lenz [de] | George Moorse | Michael König [de], Louis Waldon | Biography | |
| The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried [de] | Adrian Hoven | Raimund Harmstorf, Sybil Danning, Heidy Bohlen | Comedy, Fantasy | |
| Love Is Only a Word | Alfred Vohrer | Judy Winter, Malte Thorsten [de], Herbert Fleischmann | Drama | a.k.a. Love Is Just a Word |
| The Love Keys [de] | Rolf Thiele | Horst Tappert, Heidi Hansen [de], Uwe Friedrichsen, Siegfried Schürenberg | Comedy | |
| The Mad Aunts Strike Out | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Ilja Richter, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| The Man from London | Heinz Schirk [de] | Jean Servais | Thriller | |
| Mathias Kneissl | Reinhard Hauff | Hans Brenner, Eva Mattes, Ruth Drexel, Hanna Schygulla | Drama | |
| The Mayfly and the Frog [de] | Wolf Dietrich [de] | O. W. Fischer, Renate Roland [de] | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Fliege und der Frosch |
| The Merchant of Four Seasons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hans Hirschmüller [de], Irm Hermann, Ingrid Caven, Klaus Löwitsch, Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab | Drama | |
| Das Messer [de] | Rolf von Sydow | Hardy Krüger, Eva Renzi, Charles Régnier, Klaus Löwitsch, Sonja Ziemann | Mystery thriller | |
| Miks Bumbullis | Günter Gräwert [de] | Siegfried Wischnewski | Crime drama | |
| The Mirror of Fools | Hans Quest | Martin Hirthe [de], Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Hans Clarin, Martin Benrath, Anita Lochner, Sieghardt Rupp, Carl Lange | Adventure | a.k.a. Narrenspiegel |
| Morgen fällt die Schule aus | Werner Jacobs | Hansi Kraus, Theo Lingen, Rudolf Schündler, Heintje | Comedy | Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank film series |
| Die Münchner Räterepublik [de] | Helmut Ashley | Charles Régnier, Peter Pasetti, Carl Lange, Christoph Bantzer, Herbert Fleischmann, Günther Ungeheuer [de], Werner Kreindl | Docudrama | a.k.a. The Munich Soviet Republic |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | Gordon Hessler | Jason Robards, Christine Kaufmann, Lilli Palmer, Herbert Lom, Adolfo Celi, Maria Perschy | Horror | American-Spanish-West German co-production |
| Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Benoît Ferreux, Michel Lonsdale, Gila von Weitershausen | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| My Father, the Ape and I | Franz Antel | Mascha Gonska, Gunther Philipp, Heinz Reincke, Teri Tordai | Comedy | West German-Austrian co-production |
| The Night in Lisbon | Zbyněk Brynych | Martin Benrath, Erika Pluhar, Vadim Glowna, Horst Frank, Charles Régnier | Drama | |
| One | Ulrich Schamoni | Andrea Rau, Ulrich Schamoni | Comedy | |
| Operation Walküre [de] | Franz Peter Wirth | Joachim Hansen, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel | War, Docudrama | |
| Our Willi Is the Best | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt | Comedy | |
| Paul Esbeck | Erich Neureuther [de] | Henning Gissel [de], Gert Haucke, Heinz Meier, Arnold Marquis, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Margarethe von Trotta, Volkert Kraeft, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Drama | |
| Der Pedell [de] | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Manfred Seipold [de], Heinz Schacht [de] | Drama, War | a.k.a. The Janitor |
| Pioneers in Ingolstadt [de] | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Harry Baer, Klaus Löwitsch, Walter Sedlmayr, Irm Hermann | Drama | |
| Der Pott | Peter Zadek | Curt Bois, Wolfgang Schneider [de], Günter Lamprecht, Helga Anders, Hannelore Hoger, Rosel Zech, Heinz Bennent | Drama | a.k.a. The Silver Tassie |
| Preußen über alles... – Bismarcks deutsche Einigung | Rudolf Jugert | Heinz Klevenow, Dieter Borsche, Heinz Weiss, Heinz Engelmann, Paul Verhoeven, Wolfgang Büttner, Konrad Georg, Charles Régnier, Siegfried Wischnewski | Docudrama | |
| Purgatory [de] | Haro Senft | Jost Vobeck, Ingeborg Schöner, Paul Albert Krumm [de], Valeria Ciangottini | Crime | |
| Return of Sabata | Frank Kramer | Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Annabella Incontrera | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| The Reverend Turns a Blind Eye | Harald Vock | Roy Black, Uschi Glas, Georg Thomalla | Comedy | |
| Rio das Mortes | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Michael König [de], Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla | Comedy | |
| Rote Fahnen sieht man besser | Rolf Schübel, Theo Gallehr [de] | | Documentary | |
| Rudi, Behave! | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Chris Roberts | Comedy | |
| Saint Joan | Franz Josef Wild [de] | Maresa Hörbiger [de], Peter Vogel, Albert Lieven, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Gustav Knuth, Peter Fricke, Walther Reyer, Heinrich Schweiger, Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | |
| Salome [fr] | Werner Schroeter | Mascha Rabben [de], Magdalena Montezuma [de], Ellen Umlauf [de] | Drama | |
| Der scharfe Heinrich [de] | Rolf Thiele | Horst Frank, Grit Boettcher | Comedy | |
| Die Schrott-Story | Paul May | Eric Pohlmann, Dagmar Koller, Hans von Borsody | Docudrama | a.k.a. The Scrap Story. West German-Austrian co-production |
| She Killed in Ecstasy | Jesús Franco | Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Horst Tappert | Horror | West German-Spanish co-production |
| Slime | Heinz von Cramer [de] | Eugène Ionesco | Drama | a.k.a. Schlamm a.k.a. La Vase. Swiss-West German co-production |
| Die Sonne angreifen | Peter Lilienthal | Simonetta Stefanelli, Jess Hahn, Willy Semmelrogge | Drama | |
| Sparks in Neu-Grönland [de] | Joachim Hess [de] | Robert Meyn, Heidi Stroh, Susanne Beck [de] | Comedy | |
| The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Volker Schlöndorff | Reinhard Hauff, Georg Lehn [de], Karl-Josef Cramer [de], Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | |
| Supergirl | Rudolf Thome | Iris Berben, Marquard Bohm, Jess Hahn | Drama | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Otto Schenk | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christine Ostermayer | Comedy | |
| The Three Faces of Tamara Bunke [de] | Helmut Ashley | Andrea Jonasson [de], Peter Ehrlich | Biography | a.k.a. The 3 Faces of Tamara Bunke |
| Tiger Gang | Harald Reinl | Tony Kendall, Brad Harris | Thriller | a.k.a. FBI Operation Pakistan. Kommissar X film. West German-Italian-Pakistani co-production |
| Trotta | Johannes Schaaf | András Bálint, Doris Kunstmann, Rosemarie Fendel | Drama | |
| Twenty Girls and the Teachers | Werner Jacobs | Mascha Gonska, Heidi Kabel, Rudolf Schündler, Ralf Wolter | Comedy | a.k.a. 20 Girls and the Teachers |
| Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen | Alfred Vohrer | Ruth Leuwerik, Horst Frank, Horst Tappert, Judy Winter, Alain Noury, Doris Kunstmann | Thriller | a.k.a. The Caesar Code. Based on the book by Johannes Mario Simmel, German Film Award |
| The Vampire Happening | Freddie Francis | Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Ferdy Mayne, Ingrid van Bergen | Comedy, Horror | |
| Vampyros Lesbos | Jesús Franco | Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller | Horror | Spanish-West German co-production |
| Viola and Sebastian [de] | Ottokar Runze | Karin Hübner, Inken Sommer [de], Uwe Dallmeier [de] | Comedy | a.k.a. Twelfth Night |
| Ein Vogel bin ich nicht | Tom Toelle [de] | Jörg Pleva [de], Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Heinz Meier, Claus Eberth [de], Tommi Piper [de] | Drama | |
| The Weavers | Günter Gräwert [de] | Siegfried Lowitz, Uwe Friedrichsen, Heinz Meier, Fritz Rasp | Drama | |
| Web of the Spider | Antonio Margheriti | Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten | Horror, Mystery | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| What the Peeper Saw | James Kelley, Andrea Bianchi | Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger, Lilli Palmer, Harry Andrews | Thriller | a.k.a. Night Hair Child. British-Spanish-Italian-West German co-production |
| Whity | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla, Ron Randell, Ulli Lommel, Katrin Schaake [de], Harry Baer | Drama | |
| Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best | Harald Reinl | Roy Black, Uschi Glas, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| X312 - Flight to Hell [de] | Jesús Franco | Thomas Hunter, Gila von Weitershausen, Fernando Sancho, Siegfried Schürenberg | Disaster | Spanish-West German co-production |
| Der Zeuge | Reinhard Mieke | Rolf Boysen [de], Charles Régnier, Pinkas Braun, Ferdy Mayne | Crime | |

## 1972

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 100 Fäuste und ein Vaterunser | Mario Siciliano | Ron Ely, Uschi Glas, Alberto Dell'Acqua | Western | a.k.a. Halleluja and Sartana Strike Again. Italian-West German co-production |
| Adele Spitzeder [de] | Peer Raben | Ruth Drexel, Peter Kern, Monica Bleibtreu | Biography | |
| Agent aus der Retorte | Wolfgang Glück | Rüdiger Vogler, Udo Vioff [de], Knut Hinz [de], Lutz Mackensy, Christiane Schröder [de] | Docudrama, Spy, War | |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Peter Berling | Adventure, historical film | West German-Peruvian-Mexican co-production |
| Always Trouble with the Reverend | Harald Vock | Georg Thomalla, Peter Weck, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| Der Angestellte | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Ernst Jacobi, Wolfgang Kieling | Drama | |
| Anna und Totò | Wolfgang Petersen | Franco Lantieri [it], Renate Heilmeyer | Drama | |
| Arbeitskampf | Rolf Schübel, Theo Gallehr [de] | | Documentary | |
| Assignment: Munich | David Lowell Rich | Richard Basehart, Roy Scheider, Lesley Ann Warren, Werner Klemperer, Karl-Otto Alberty | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Baron Blood | Mario Bava | Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer | Horror | Italian-West German co-production |
| The Baroness | Oswald Döpke [de] | Hannelore Elsner, Wolfgang Reichmann | Drama | a.k.a. Deutsche Novelle |
| The Big Bust Out | Ernst R. von Theumer [de] | Vonetta McGee, Monica Teuber [de], Tony Kendall, William Berger, Gordon Mitchell | Exploitation | Italian-West German co-production |
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla | Drama | |
| Bluebeard | Edward Dmytryk | Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon, Marilù Tolo, Agostina Belli, Karin Schubert | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Bloody Friday | Rolf Olsen | Raimund Harmstorf, Gila von Weitershausen, Amadeus August | Crime thriller | West German-Italian co-production |
| Blüten der Gesellschaft | Werner Schlechte | Margot Trooger, Horst Tappert | Crime comedy | |
| Bremen Freedom [de] | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Kieling, Wolfgang Schenck [de], Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab | Drama | |
| The Call of the Wild | Ken Annakin | Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf | Adventure | British-French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production |
| Cause of Divorce | Marcello Fondato | Senta Berger, Catherine Spaak | Comedy | Italian-West German co-production |
| César and Rosalie | Claude Sautet | Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey | Comedy-drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| The Count of Luxemburg | Wolfgang Glück | Eberhard Wächter, Lilian Sukis | Musical | |
| Cry of the Black Wolves | Harald Reinl | Ron Ely, Raimund Harmstorf, Gila von Weitershausen, Arthur Brauss | Adventure | |
| The Dead Are Alive | Armando Crispino | Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Horst Frank, Nadja Tiller | Thriller | Italian-West German-Yugoslav co-production |
| Dear Mother, I'm All Right [de] | Christian Ziewer [de] | Claus Eberth [de] | Drama | |
| The Death Avenger of Soho [de] | Jesús Franco | Horst Tappert, Fred Williams, Barbara Rütting, Wolfgang Kieling, Siegfried Schürenberg | Thriller | Spanish-West German co-production |
| The Death of Maria Malibran [fr] | Werner Schroeter | Magdalena Montezuma [de], Christine Kaufmann, Candy Darling, Ingrid Caven | Drama, Music | |
| The Disciplined Woman | Ernst Hofbauer | Astrid Frank, Margot Mahler | Exploitation | |
| Don't Get Angry | Peter Weck | Georg Thomalla, Uschi Glas, Christiane Hörbiger | Comedy | |
| Doppelspiel in Paris | Wolfgang Glück | Luitgard Im, Harald Leipnitz, Barbara Lass, Hartmut Reck, Udo Vioff [de], Ferdy Mayne | War, Docudrama | |
| Einmal im Leben – Geschichte eines Eigenheims [de] | Dieter Wedel | Antje Hagen [de], Fritz Lichtenhahn [de], Günter Strack, Hans Korte, Uwe Dallmeier [de] | Comedy | |
| Der Eisberg der Vorsehung | Thomas Schamoni [de] | Wolfgang Kieling, Friedrich G. Beckhaus [de] | Docudrama | |
| Elisabeth, Kaiserin von Österreich | Theodor Grädler [de], Jörg A. Eggers | Marisa Mell | Biography | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Die Erbschaft | Stanislav Barabáš [de] | Anne-Marie Kuster [de], Peter Striebeck [de], Siegfried Rauch | Comedy | a.k.a. L'Héritage |
| Eye in the Labyrinth | Mario Caiano | Rosemary Dexter, Adolfo Celi, Horst Frank, Alida Valli, Sybil Danning | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Federlesen | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Wolfgang Wahl, Ilse Pagé, Hans Schweikart | Drama | |
| Ferdinand Lassalle | Helmut Ashley | Hans Peter Hallwachs, Andrea Jonasson [de], Gisela Uhlen, Werner Kreindl | Biography | |
| A Free Woman [it] | Volker Schlöndorff | Margarethe von Trotta, Martin Lüttge [de], Ruth Hellberg, Georg Marischka, Walter Sedlmayr | Drama | |
| Galgentoni [de] | Michael Kehlmann | Jitka Frantová Pelikánová [de] | Drama | |
| Geheimagenten | Eberhard Fechner [de] | Klaus Herm, Hans Christian Blech, Cordula Trantow, Helga Feddersen, Uwe Dallmeier [de] | Comedy | |
| Geradeaus bis zum Morgen | Peter Adam | Arthur Brauss, Klaus Grünberg | Crime | |
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Wim Wenders | Arthur Brauss, Erika Pluhar, Kai Fischer | Drama | a.k.a. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. West German-Austrian co-production |
| The Golden Thing [it] | Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl, Alf Brustellin, Nicos Perakis | Christian Reitz, Oliver Jovine | Fantasy | |
| The Good God of Manhattan | Klaus Kirschner [de] | Mathieu Carrière, Verena Buss [de] | Drama | |
| The Grand Duel | Giancarlo Santi | Lee Van Cleef, Horst Frank, Jess Hahn, Klaus Grünberg | Western | a.k.a. The Big Showdown. Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Happy End | Heinz Schirk [de] | Margot Rothweiler [de], Siegfried Rauch, Barbara Valentin | Musical | |
| Havoc | Peter Fleischmann | Reinhard Kolldehoff, Vitus Zeplichal [de], Ingmar Zeisberg | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| The Heath Is Green | Harald Reinl | Roy Black, Monika Lundi, Heidi Kabel, Henry Vahl, Jutta Speidel | Musical | |
| History Lessons | Straub–Huillet | Gottfried Bold | Drama | Italian-West German co-production |
| Hundertwasser's Rainy Day | Peter Schamoni | Friedensreich Hundertwasser | Documentary | |
| The Italian [de] | Ferry Radax | Fabrizio Jovine [it], Rosemarie Fendel | Drama | a.k.a. Der Italiener |
| Jail Bait [de] | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Eva Mattes, Harry Baer, Jörg von Liebenfelß [de], Ruth Drexel | Drama | a.k.a. Wild Game |
| Jugend einer Studienrätin | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Regine Lamster [de], Heinz Weiss, Eva Kotthaus | Drama, War | |
| King, Queen, Knave | Jerzy Skolimowski | David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf | Comedy | American-West German co-production |
| Das Klavier [de] | Fritz Umgelter | Anneliese Uhlig, Günter Strack, Maria Körber [de], Andrea Dahmen, Helmut Wildt, Günter Mack, Guido Wieland, Willi Rose, Karl John, Matthias Habich | Drama, War | |
| Land | Roland Gall [de] | Karl John | Drama | |
| Liebe so schön wie Liebe | Klaus Lemke [de] | Sylvie Winter [de], Rolf Zacher, Marquard Bohm | Comedy | |
| Ludwig | Luchino Visconti | Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe, Romy Schneider, Helmut Griem | Biography | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Harry Baer, Peter Kern, Günther Kaufmann, Ingrid Caven, Gert Haucke | Drama | |
| Mandala | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Heinz Bennent | Thriller | |
| Manolescu | Hans Quest | Michael Heltau, Diana Körner, Anaid Iplicjian, Maria Sebaldt, Anita Lochner, Hans Söhnker, Rudolf Schündler, Dieter Borsche, Günter Strack | Crime comedy | |
| The Marquis of Keith | Hans Lietzau | Martin Benrath, Hannelore Hoger | Drama | |
| The Master Touch | Michele Lupo | Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan, Wolfgang Preiss, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Crime thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Max Hoelz [de] | Rudolf Nussgruber | Günter Mack, Udo Vioff [de], Heinz Weiss, Dieter Borsche, Ferdy Mayne | Docudrama | |
| Memories of a Summer in Berlin | Rolf Hädrich | Burt Nelson, Franziska Bronnen [de] | Drama | a.k.a. You Can't Go Home Again |
| Monsieur Chasse | Rolf von Sydow | Karl Michael Vogler, Erika Pluhar | Comedy | |
| The Morals of Ruth Halbfass | Volker Schlöndorff | Senta Berger, Helmut Griem, Margarethe von Trotta, Peter Ehrlich | Drama | |
| My Daughter, Your Daughter | Werner Jacobs | Georg Thomalla, Peter Weck, Heinz Reincke, Silvia Reize | Comedy | |
| Nasrin, or The Art of Dreaming | Vojtěch Jasný | Erika Pluhar, Evelyn Opela, Heinz Bennent | Fantasy | |
| Nicht Lob, noch Furcht: Graf Galen, Bischof von Münster | Paul May | Wolfgang Büttner | War, Biography | a.k.a. Nec Laudibus, Nec Timore: Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster |
| Nightshade [de] | Niklaus Schilling | Elke Haltaufderheide [de], John van Dreelen | Drama | |
| Nurse Report | Walter Boos | Elisabeth Volkmann, Ingrid Steeger | Sex report film | |
| Ohne Nachsicht | Theodor Kotulla [de] | Henry van Lyck, Joachim Regelien [de], Heidi Stroh, Eva Christian | Drama | |
| Old Mamsell's Secret [de] | Herbert Ballmann [de] | Brigitte Horney, Giulia Follina [de], Volkert Kraeft | Drama | |
| Ornifle oder Der erzürnte Himmel | Helmut Käutner | Peter Pasetti, Sky du Mont, Gerlinde Döberl [de] | Comedy | a.k.a. Ornifle ou le Courant d'air a.k.a. It's Later Than You Think |
| Oscar Wilde | Hansgünther Heyme | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Drama, Biography | |
| Present Laughter | Korbinian Köberle [de] | O. W. Fischer, Johanna Matz | Comedy | a.k.a. Amouren |
| Rechtsprechung | Karlheinz Bieber [de] | Wolfgang Kieling, Rudolf Schündler, Jürgen Goslar, Hans Paetsch | Docudrama | |
| The Red Queen Kills Seven Times | Emilio Miraglia | Barbara Bouchet, Rudolf Schündler, Sybil Danning | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Rocker | Klaus Lemke [de] | Gerd Kruskopf, Hans-Jürgen Modschiedler | Drama | |
| Die seltsamen Abenteuer des geheimen Kanzleisekretärs Tusmann | Helmut Käutner | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Peter Vogel, Ilse Pagé | Comedy, Fantasy | a.k.a. The Choosing of the Bride a.k.a. Albertine's Wooers |
| The Sensuous Three | Robert van Ackeren | Mascha Rabben [de], Gabriele Lafari, Ulli Lommel, Rolf Zacher, Heidy Bohlen | Drama | a.k.a. Harlis |
| Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Umberto Lenzi | Uschi Glas, Antonio Sabàto, Marisa Mell, Petra Schürmann | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Shot on Command – The Sass Brothers, Once Berlin's Big Crooks | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Jürgen Prochnow, Christoph Felsenstein [de] | Crime | |
| The Silent Revolution | Eckehard Munck [de] | | Documentary | |
| Soft Shoulders, Sharp Curves | Gabriel Axel | Doris Arden, Franz Schafheitlin | Sex comedy | |
| State of Siege | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, O. E. Hasse | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Strange City [de] | Rudolf Thome | Roger Fritz, Karin Thome, Georg Marischka | Crime | |
| The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | Alfred Vohrer | Paul Neuhaus [de], Hannelore Elsner, Herbert Fleischmann, Edith Heerdegen, Anton Diffring | Thriller | |
| Das System Fabrizzi | Imo Moszkowicz [de] | Harald Leipnitz, Karin Baal, Friedrich Schoenfelder | Comedy | |
| Szenen aus dem Eheleben | Karl Peter Biltz [de] | Heinz Bennent, Karin Eickelbaum [de] | Drama | a.k.a. Scenes from Family Life |
| Tears of Blood | Alfred Vohrer | Alain Noury, Anita Lochner, Malte Thorsten [de], Wolfgang Reichmann | Drama | a.k.a. The Rain Erases Everything. West German-French co-production |
| Temptation in the Summer Wind | Rolf Thiele | Yvonne Furneaux, Paul Hubschmid, Peter Vogel, Helmut Käutner, Christiane Hörbiger | Comedy | |
| Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Walter Sedlmayr | Docudrama | |
| Tod im Studio | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Gert Günther Hoffmann, Günter Gräwert [de], Manfred Sexauer, Karl Walter Diess [de], Kurd Pieritz [de] | Thriller | |
| Ein Toter stoppt den 8 Uhr 10 | Michael Braun [de] | Franz Rudnick [de], Claudia Wedekind [de], Inge Solbrig, Werner Bruhns [de], Friedrich G. Beckhaus [de] | Crime | |
| Trouble with Trixie | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Uschi Glas, Peter Weck | Comedy | |
| The Venice Train | Tom Toelle [de] | Herbert Mensching [de], Ivan Desny | Thriller | a.k.a. Rückfahrt von Venedig |
| Verdacht gegen Barry Croft | Paul Verhoeven | Karlheinz Böhm, Karin Hübner, Herbert Fleischmann | Thriller | |
| What? | Roman Polanski | Sydne Rome, Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger | Mystery thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Willi Manages The Whole Thing | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt | Comedy | |
| Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte [de] | Alexander Kluge | Alfred Edel [de], Hark Bohm, Hannelore Hoger | Science fiction | |
| Die Witwen oder Eine vollkommene Lösung | Tom Toelle [de] | Heinz Bennent, Miriam Spoerri [de], Ulli Philipp [de], Luminița Iacobescu [ro] | Drama | |
| Ein Wochenende des Alfred Berger | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Gunnar Möller, Dinah Hinz, Werner Kreindl | Drama | |
| Die Wollands | Marianne Lüdcke [de], Ingo Kratisch [de] | Nicolas Brieger [de], Elfriede Irrall [de] | Drama | |
| Zeitaufnahme | Rolf Busch [de] | Franz Rudnick [de], Alexander May [de] | Drama | |
| Zoff | Eberhard Pieper | Giulia Follina [de], Jürgen Prochnow, Hildegard Krekel, Claus Theo Gärtner | Drama | |
| Zur schönen Aussicht | Hans Hollmann | Reinhild Solf | Drama | |

## 1973

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| ...aber Jonny! [fr] | Alfred Weidenmann | Horst Buchholz, Hannelore Elsner, Judy Winter, Herbert Fleischmann, Monika Lundi | Comedy | |
| All People Will Be Brothers | Alfred Vohrer | Harald Leipnitz, Doris Kunstmann | Drama | a.k.a. The Cain Conspiracy |
| Battle of Berlin | Franz Baake [de], Jost von Morr | | Documentary, War | |
| Bed Hostesses | Erwin C. Dietrich | Ingrid Steeger | Sex comedy | Swiss-West German co-production |
| The Bloody Vultures of Alaska | Harald Reinl | Doug McClure, Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Löwitsch, Heinz Reincke | Adventure | |
| Blue Blooms the Gentian | Franz Antel | Ilja Richter, Eddi Arent, Hansi Kraus | Musical | |
| The Blue Hotel | Stanislav Barabáš [de] | Per Oscarsson, Hans Christian Blech, Arthur Brauss, Martin Lüttge [de], Tord Peterson, Konrad Georg, Gun Robertson [sv], Tommy Johnson, Anne-Marie Machnow [sv] | Drama | West German-Swedish co-production |
| Crazy – Completely Mad | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Rudi Carrell, Georg Thomalla, Cornelia Froboess | Comedy | |
| Death Under Sail [de] | Oswald Döpke [de] | Charles Régnier, Hannelore Elsner, Axel von Ambesser, Giulia Follina [de], Gerd Baltus, Volkert Kraeft, Jochen Busse | Mystery | a.k.a. Death on the River Thames |
| Desaster | Reinhard Hauff | Klaus Löwitsch, Dieter Laser | Crime | |
| The Devil's Disciple | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Heinz Bennent, Werner Kreindl, Charles Régnier | Drama | |
| Diamantenparty | Joachim Hess [de] | Barbara Rütting, Heidelinde Weis, John van Dreelen, Wolfgang Preiss, Maria Sebaldt, Ralf Wolter, Fritz Muliar | Crime comedy | |
| Dream City [de] | Johannes Schaaf | Per Oscarsson, Olimpia, Rosemarie Fendel, Louis Waldon, Ron Williams [de] | Drama | |
| Du stirbst nicht allein – Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris | Jürgen Goslar | Udo Vioff [de], Harald Leipnitz, Wolfgang Preiss | War | |
| The East Frisian Report | Walter Boos | Josef Moosholzer, Margot Mahler | Sex comedy | |
| Ein für allemal | Peter Adam | Karin Baal, Georges Claisse [fr], Relja Bašić | Crime | |
| End of the Line [de] | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Hans Schweikart, Peter Striebeck [de] | Mystery | a.k.a. Endstation |
| Entziehung – Ein Tagebuch | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Gabriele Wohmann, Heinz Bennent, Herbert Fleischmann | Drama | |
| The Experts | Norbert Kückelmann | Mathias Eysen [de], Gisela Fischer, Hans Brenner, Walter Sedlmayr | Drama | Won a Silver Bear at Berlin |
| Ein Fall für Goron | Oswald Döpke [de] | Hannes Messemer, Hannelore Elsner, Herbert Fleischmann, Diana Körner | Mystery | |
| Fall nicht in den Schwanensee | Arno Assmann | Helga Anders, Horst Tappert, Gunnar Möller, Dagmar Mettler [de] | Comedy | a.k.a. Chase me, Comrade! |
| The First Circle | Aleksander Ford | Gunther Malzacher [de], Elżbieta Czyżewska, Peter Steen, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | Danish-West German co-production |
| Florian | Klaus Emmerich | Jörg Pleva [de], Elke Aberle | Drama | |
| The Flying Classroom | Werner Jacobs | Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Reincke | Comedy | |
| Die geheimen Papiere des Pentagon | Carlheinz Caspari | Gunther Malzacher [de], Hans Peter Korff, Claus Eberth [de] | Docudrama | |
| The Girl from Hong Kong | Jürgen Roland | Joachim Fuchsberger, Li Paelz, Grégoire Aslan, Arthur Brauss, Véronique Vendell | Action | |
| Die Gräfin von Rathenow | Peter Beauvais | Doris Kunstmann, Götz George, Helga Anders | Drama | |
| Hau drauf, Kleiner [de] | May Spils [de] | Werner Enke, Mascha Gonska, Henry van Lyck | Comedy | |
| Haus am Meer | Reinhard Hauff | Hanna Schygulla, Rolf Becker | Drama | |
| Housewives on the Job | Ernst Hofbauer | Marie-Georges Pascal, Elisabeth Volkmann, Ingrid Steeger | Sex report film | |
| Hubertus Castle | Harald Reinl | Robert Hoffmann, Karlheinz Böhm, Carl Lange, Klaus Löwitsch, Gerhard Riedmann, Ute Kittelberger [de], Gerlinde Döberl [de], Evelyn Opela | Drama | |
| Im Reservat [de] | Peter Beauvais | Wolfgang Kieling, Johanna Hofer | Drama | |
| Immobilien | Otto Jägersberg [de] | Maria Schell, Christine Kaufmann, Karlheinz Böhm, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Kieling, Siegfried Wischnewski | Drama | |
| Inferno [sv] | Stanislav Barabáš [de] | Per Oscarsson, Christine Buchegger, Marie Versini, Ulla Sjöblom, Georgette Anys, Diana Kjaer [sv], Tommy Johnson, Georg Årlin, Toivo Pawlo, Henry Gilbert | Biography | Swedish-West German-French-Danish-Finnish-Austrian-Norwegian co-production |
| Invitation to a Beheading | Horst Flick [de] | Wolf Roth, Horst Bollmann, Wolfgang Kieling | Science fiction | |
| Josef Lang, k. u. k. Scharfrichter | Heinz Schirk [de] | Georg Corten | Biography | |
| Karussells werden im Himmel gemacht | Chuck Kerremans | Christian Wolff, Katrin Schaake [de], Alexander May [de] | Comedy | |
| Kopf oder Zahl | Uwe Brandner [de] | Wolf Martienzen [de], Ingeborg Schöner, Henry van Lyck | Crime | |
| Der lange Jammer | Max Willutzki [de] | | Documentary | |
| Little Mother | Radley Metzger | Christiane Krüger, Siegfried Rauch, Mark Damon, Ivan Desny, Elga Sorbas [de], Anton Diffring | Drama | American-West German-Yugoslav co-production |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Peter Beauvais | Martin Held, Eva Katharina Schultz [de], András Fricsay, Gerd Böckmann | Drama | |
| Love in 3-D | Walter Boos | Ingrid Steeger, Elisabeth Volkmann | Sex comedy | |
| Mark of the Devil Part II | Adrian Hoven | Anton Diffring, Reggie Nalder | Horror | |
| Merry-Go-Round [de] | Otto Schenk | Maria Schneider, Helmut Berger, Senta Berger, Sydne Rome, Erika Pluhar, Helmuth Lohner | Comedy | a.k.a. Dance of Love: La Ronde |
| My Name is Nobody | Tonino Valerii | Terence Hill, Henry Fonda | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Night Flight from Moscow | Henri Verneuil | Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet, Martin Held, Virna Lisi, Elga Andersen | Cold War spy film | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Old Barge, Young Love | Werner Jacobs | Roy Black, Barbara Nielsen | Comedy | |
| Once Upon a Time | Rolf Kauka, Roberto Gavioli [it] | — | Animated film | West German-Italian co-production |
| Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave | Alexander Kluge | Alexandra Kluge | Drama | |
| The Pedestrian | Maximilian Schell | Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Peter Hall, Gila von Weitershausen, Christian Kohlund | Drama | West German-Swiss-Israeli co-production |
| The Philanthropist | Erich Neureuther [de] | Peter Vogel, Martin Lüttge [de], Sabine Sinjen, Verena Buss [de], Peter Fricke, Hans-Georg Panczak | Drama | |
| The Scarlet Letter | Wim Wenders | Senta Berger, Hans-Christian Blech, Lou Castel | Drama | West German-Spanish co-production |
| Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye | Antonio Margheriti | Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller, Doris Kunstmann, Anton Diffring, Konrad Georg, Serge Gainsbourg | Thriller | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| The Sibyl Cipher [de] | Alfred Vohrer | Harald Leipnitz, Gila von Weitershausen, Nino Castelnuovo, Andrea Jonasson [de] | Thriller | a.k.a. Gott schützt die Liebenden |
| Smog [de] | Wolfgang Petersen | Marie-Luise Marjan | Disaster | |
| Sylvie [de] | Klaus Lemke [de] | Sylvie Winter [de], Paul Lyss, Del Negro, Ivan Desny | Drama | |
| The Tenderness of Wolves | Ulli Lommel | Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Brigitte Mira, Wolfgang Schenck [de] | Drama | |
| Trip to Vienna | Edgar Reitz | Elke Sommer, Hannelore Elsner, Mario Adorf, Heinz Reincke, Ferdy Mayne | Comedy-drama, War | |
| Twelfth Night | Otto Schenk | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Helmuth Lohner, Josef Meinrad, Sabine Sinjen, Christiane Hörbiger | Comedy | |
| The Twins from Immenhof | Wolfgang Schleif | Heidi Brühl, Horst Janson, Olga Chekhova | Drama | |
| Über Nacht | Karin Thome | Karin Thome, Werner Penzel, Rudolf Thome | Drama | |
| Ein unheimlich starker Abgang | Michael Verhoeven | Katja Rupé [de], Elmar Wepper, Irm Hermann, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | Drama | a.k.a. Sonja schafft die Wirklichkeit ab oder ... ein unheimlich starker Abgang |
| La Victoria | Peter Lilienthal | | Documentary | |
| Der Vorgang | Fritz Umgelter | Horst Frank, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Ivan Desny, Rolf Becker, Andrea Dahmen | Thriller | |
| Willow Springs [fr] | Werner Schroeter | Magdalena Montezuma [de], Christine Kaufmann | Drama | |
| Die Wohngenossin | Nikos Perakis | Giulia Follina [de], Martin Lüttge [de] | Drama | |
| World on a Wire | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben [de], Barbara Valentin, Ivan Desny, Günter Lamprecht, Gottfried John, Heinz Meier | Science Fiction | TV film |
| Yankee Dudler | Volker Vogeler | Arthur Brauss, Geraldine Chaplin, William Berger, Eduardo Fajardo, Fred Stillkrauth | Western | a.k.a. Jaider's Gang. West German-Spanish co-production |
| Zahltag | Hans Noever | André Rouyer | Crime | |
| Zinksärge für die Goldjungen [de] | Jürgen Roland | Henry Silva, Herbert Fleischmann, Horst Janson, Véronique Vendell, Raf Baldassarre | Crime | West German-Italian co-production |
| Zu einem Mord gehören zwei | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Dieter Kirchlechner [de], Maria Sebaldt, Günter Mack | Crime | |

## 1974

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Die 7-Tage-Woche des Drahtwebers Rolf Piechotta | Rainer Boldt [de] | Karl-Heinz Walther [de], Gert Günther Hoffmann, Diether Krebs | Drama | |
| Ein Abend, eine Nacht, ein Morgen | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Doris Kunstmann, Peter Mosbacher, Anne-Marie Blanc | Drama | |
| Abschied vom Abschied | Frank Guthke [de] | Iris Berben | Drama | |
| After Liverpool | Michael Haneke | Dieter Kirchlechner [de], Hildegard Schmahl [de] | Drama | |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin | Drama | |
| Alice in the Cities | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | |
| Alpha und Asphalt | Frank Guthke [de] | Christiane Krüger | Science fiction | |
| Alpine Glow in Dirndlrock | Sigi Rothemund | Elisabeth Volkmann, Rinaldo Talamonti [de] | Sex comedy | |
| Die Ameisen kommen [de] | Jochen Richter [de] | Marc Porel, Ferdy Mayne, Belinda Mayne | Crime | |
| And Then There Were None | Peter Collinson | Charles Aznavour, Stéphane Audran, Elke Sommer, Gert Fröbe, Herbert Lom, Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough, Adolfo Celi | Mystery thriller | British-Spanish-French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Anna | Uschi Reich [de] | Helga Anders, Nicolas Brieger [de], Hans Peter Cloos [de] | Drama | |
| Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler | Werner Jacobs | Georg Thomalla, Horst Tappert, Detlev Eckstein [de], Bernd Herberger [de], Jutta Speidel, Christiane Krüger | Comedy | |
| Aufs Kreuz gelegt | Wolfgang Petersen | Olga Karlatos, Dieter Kirchlechner [de], Reiner Schöne, Grégoire Aslan | Adventure | |
| Bismarck von hinten oder Wir schließen nie [de] | Joachim Hess [de] | Hans Jürgen Diedrich [de], Uwe Dallmeier [de], Jón Laxdal | Comedy | |
| Ein bißchen Liebe | Veith von Fürstenberg [de] | Burghard Schlicht [de], Brigitte Berger, Gregor von Rezzori | Comedy | |
| The Catamount Killing [fr] | Krzysztof Zanussi | Horst Buchholz, Ann Wedgeworth | Crime | |
| Cautio Criminalis | Hagen Mueller-Stahl [de] | Gerd Böckmann, Horst Frank, Doris Schade, Gaby Dohm, Kurt Meisel, Walter Buschhoff, Paul Verhoeven | Drama | |
| Chapeau Claque [de] | Ulrich Schamoni | Ulrich Schamoni, Anna Henkel [de] | Comedy | |
| Charley's Nieces | Walter Boos | Josef Moosholzer, Elisabeth Volkmann | Comedy | |
| Charlotte | Roger Vadim | Sirpa Lane, Roger Vadim, Mathieu Carrière | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Class Reunion | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Hans Jaray, Peter Faerber [de], Jan Christian | Drama | a.k.a. Der Abituriententag |
| Dandelions [fr] | Adrian Hoven | Rutger Hauer, Dagmar Lassander | Drama | a.k.a. Diary of a Lover |
| Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Samuel Fuller | Glenn Corbett, Anton Diffring, Christa Lang, Stéphane Audran, Sieghardt Rupp | Crime | Produced as a Tatort episode |
| Death in Astapovo | Günter Gräwert [de] | Hans Christian Blech, Gisela Stein, Wolfgang Wahl, Mathieu Carrière | Biography | a.k.a. Tod in Astapowo |
| The Difficult Man | Stanislav Barabáš [de] | Wolfgang Gasser [de], Erika Pluhar, Doris Kunstmann | Comedy | a.k.a. An Impossible Man a.k.a. Der Schwierige |
| Diplomatic Baggage | Arno Assmann | Gunnar Möller, Wolfgang Kieling, Wolfgang Preiss, Elke Aberle, Heidi Stroh, Karin Eickelbaum [de] | Comedy | |
| Dorothea's Revenge [de] | Peter Fleischmann | Anna Henkel [de] | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Dschungelmädchen für zwei Halunken [de] | Ernst Hofbauer | Alberto Dell'Acqua, Wolf Goldan [de] | Adventure, Comedy | West German-Italian co-production |
| Effi Briest | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck [de], Ulli Lommel | Drama | |
| Eiger | Dieter Wedel | Hans Brenner, Herbert Stass, Werner Asam, Jörg Pleva [de], Martin Sperr, Claus Eberth [de] | Drama | |
| Eintausend Milliarden | Dieter Wedel | Martin Benrath, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Peter Ehrlich, Gisela Stein, Herbert Bötticher [de], Katrin Schaake [de], Günter Strack | Docudrama | |
| Die Eltern | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Anne Bennent [de], Barbara Rütting, Henri Serre, Heinz Bennent | Drama | |
| The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Werner Herzog | Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge, Alfred Edel [de] | Historical drama | a.k.a. Every Man for Himself and God Against All |
| Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt | Roland Gall [de] | Vadim Glowna, Dieter Laser | Drama | |
| Eskalation | Claus Peter Witt [de] | Jan Groth [de] | Crime | |
| Fliegen und Stürzen – Porträt der Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg | Eberhard Pieper | Cordula Trantow, Hans-Michael Rehberg | War, Biography | |
| Ein ganz perfektes Ehepaar | Ula Stöckl | Doris Kunstmann, Gerd Baltus, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Drama | |
| Goodbye with Mums | Florian Furtwängler [de] | Christine Kaufmann, Liesbeth List, Klaus Grünberg | Drama | a.k.a. Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen |
| Griseldis [de] | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Klaus Barner [de] | Drama | |
| The Hunter of Fall | Harald Reinl | Siegfried Rauch, Alexander Stephan [de], Gerlinde Döberl [de], Klaus Löwitsch, Beppo Brem, Rudolf Prack | Drama | |
| Ich gehe nach München | Oswald Döpke [de] | Sabine von Maydell, Dieter Borsche | Drama | |
| Im Vorhof der Wahrheit [de] | Fritz Umgelter | Matthias Habich, Gerhard Acktun [de] | Crime | |
| In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death | Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz | Jutta Winkelmann [de], Dagmar Bödderich | Drama | |
| In the Name of the People | Ottokar Runze | | Documentary | |
| The Infernal Trio | Francis Girod | Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Mascha Gonska, Andréa Ferréol | Black comedy | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Julia | Sigi Rothemund | Sylvia Kristel, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Teri Tordai, Ekkehardt Belle | Drama | |
| Karl May | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold, Lil Dagover | Biography | |
| Der Kulterer [de] | Vojtěch Jasný | Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Die Kurpfuscherin | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Maria Schell | Comedy | |
| Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Therese Giehse, Holger Löwenadler | Drama, War | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| The Last Days of Gomorrah | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Mascha Rabben [de], Matthias Fuchs, Ernst Jacobi | Science fiction | |
| Lisa – Aus dem Leben einer Unentbehrlichen | Rolf Busch [de] | Eva Pflug | Drama | |
| The Little Black Book | Dietrich Haugk | Heinz Bennent, Silvia Lukan [de] | Comedy | a.k.a. Ich suche Herrn Obolsky |
| Der Lord von Barmbeck [de] | Ottokar Runze | Martin Lüttge [de], Judy Winter, Inken Sommer [de] | Crime | |
| Made in Germany and USA [de] | Rudolf Thome | Karin Thome, Eberhard Klasse | Drama | |
| Martha | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm | Drama | TV film |
| The Martyr [de] | Aleksander Ford | Leo Genn | Drama, War | a.k.a. You Are Free, Dr. Korczak. West German-Israeli co-production |
| The Moonstone [de] | Wilhelm Semmelroth [de] | Anita Lochner, Stefan Behrens [de], Theo Lingen, Werner Kreindl, Ulli Philipp [de], Paul Dahlke, Anneliese Uhlig, Helmut Förnbacher | Mystery | a.k.a. Der Monddiamant |
| Neugierig wie ein Kind | Oswald Döpke [de] | Sabine von Maydell, Matthias Habich, Rosemarie Fendel, Günter Strack | Drama | |
| No Gold for a Dead Diver | Harald Reinl | Horst Janson, Monika Lundi, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo | Adventure | |
| No Sin on the Alpine Pastures | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Alena Penz, Alexander Grill, Rinaldo Talamonti | Comedy | |
| Nora Helmer [de] | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Joachim Hansen, Ulli Lommel, Barbara Valentin, Klaus Löwitsch | Drama | |
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Klaus Löwitsch, Günter Strack, Hannes Messemer | Thriller | British-West German co-production |
| One or the Other of Us | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer | Thriller | |
| Only the Wind Knows the Answer | Alfred Vohrer | Maurice Ronet, Marthe Keller, Raymond Pellegrin, Karin Dor, Anton Diffring | Thriller | West German-French co-production . Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Output [de] | Michael Fengler | Lou Castel, Katja Rupé [de], Bernd Herberger [de], Claus Eberth [de], Marquard Bohm | Crime | a.k.a. A Dead One In Berlin |
| Perahim – die zweite Chance | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Heinz Bennent, Leon Askin, Richard Münch | Crime | |
| Plus minus null | Franz Peter Wirth | Horst Tappert, Anaid Iplicjian, Rolf Becker | Drama | |
| Die preußische Heirat | Helmut Käutner | Claudia Butenuth, Carl Raddatz, Gerd Böckmann | Comedy, Biography | a.k.a. Zopf und Schwert |
| Revenge of the East Frisians | Walter Boos | Alexandra Bogojevic, Josef Moosholzer, Helga Feddersen | Sex comedy | |
| The Robber Hotzenplotz [de] | Gustav Ehmck [de] | Gert Fröbe, Lina Carstens, Rainer Basedow, Josef Meinrad | Family | |
| Rosenmontag | Peter Beauvais | Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Der Scheck heiligt die Mittel | Peter Schulze-Rohr [de] | Richard Suskind, Horst Frank, Judy Winter | Docudrama | |
| Sechs Wochen im Leben der Brüder G. | Peter Beauvais | Hans-Georg Panczak, Jan Kollwitz, Renate Küster [de] | Drama | |
| Silverson | Falk Harnack | Ernst Schröder, Herbert Bötticher [de], Godfrey Quigley | Crime | |
| Snowdrops Bloom in September | Christian Ziewer [de] | Claus Eberth [de] | Drama | |
| Der Springteufel | Heinz Schirk [de] | Dieter Hallervorden, Arno Assmann | Thriller | TV film based on story by Derrick Sherwin (Doctor Who) |
| Spring in Immenhof | Wolfgang Schleif | Heidi Brühl, Horst Janson, Olga Chekhova | Drama | |
| Stayover in Tyrol [it] | Volker Schlöndorff | Margarethe von Trotta, Heinrich Schweiger, Reinhard Hauff, Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | |
| Stolen Heaven | Theo Maria Werner [de] | Siegfried Rauch, Hans Holt, Christine Böhm | Drama | |
| Supermarket | Roland Klick | Charly Wierczejewski, Eva Mattes, Michael Degen, Walter Kohut, Hans-Michael Rehberg | Crime drama | |
| Three Men in the Snow | Alfred Vohrer | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Roberto Blanco, Thomas Fritsch, Susanne Beck [de], Grit Boettcher, Herbert Fleischmann | Comedy | |
| Torrents of Spring | Vojtěch Jasný | Senta Berger, Dan Mastacan, Claude Dauphin | Drama | |
| Ulla oder Die Flucht in die schwarzen Wälder | Herbert Vesely | Jörg Pleva [de], Iris Berben | Fantasy | |
| Unser Werk | Hans Rolf Strobel | Hanna Schygulla, Mathias Eysen [de], Henning Gissel [de] | Drama | |
| Die Verrohung des Franz Blum [de] | Reinhard Hauff | Jürgen Prochnow, Burkhard Driest, Eike Gallwitz [de], Tilo Prückner | Drama | |
| Vreemde Wêreld | Jürgen Goslar | Sandra Prinsloo, Wolfgang Kieling, Marius Weyers | Thriller | a.k.a. Listen to My Story. South African-West German co-production |
| Wages and Love | Marianne Lüdcke [de], Ingo Kratisch [de] | Erika Skrotzki [de], Evelyn Meyka [de], Dagmar Biener [de], Elfriede Irrall [de], Hans Peter Hallwachs, Nicolas Brieger [de] | Drama | |
| Wandas Paradies | Christa Maar [de] | Katja Rupé [de] | Drama | |
| Ward No. 6 | Karl Fruchtmann [de] | Helmut Qualtinger, Stefan Wigger, Karl-Georg Saebisch, Gert Haucke | Drama | a.k.a. Krankensaal 6 |
| Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen [de] | Alfred Vohrer | Maria Gudy, Thomas Hunter, Hannes Messemer, Glauco Onorato, Sieghardt Rupp | Drama | |
| When Mother Went on Strike | Eberhard Schröder [de] | Peter Hall, Gila von Weitershausen, Johanna Matz | Comedy | |
| Wienerinnen | Dietrich Haugk | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Helma Gautier [de], Nina Sandt | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Zerfall einer Großfamilie | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Donata Höffer [de], Katrin Schaake [de], Christoph Felsenstein [de], Henning Gissel [de], Joachim Kerzel | Drama | |
| Zinngeschrei | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Fritz Wepper, Wolf Roth, Peter Mosbacher, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Judy Winter, Gert Haucke | Drama | |
| Zündschnüre [de] | Reinhard Hauff | Michael Bröhland-Olbrich, Kurt Funk, Bettina Porsch, Thomas Visser, Tilli Breidenbach, Christine Wodetzky, Heinz Meier | War | |
| Zwei himmlische Dickschädel | Werner Jacobs | Reiner Schöne, Klaus Löwitsch | Comedy | |

## 1975

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Das Andechser Gefühl | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch, Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | a.k.a. The Andechs Feeling |
| Alexander März | Vojtěch Jasný | Ernst Jacobi | Drama | |
| Anna and Edith [de] | Gerrit Neuhaus | Barbara Stanek [de], Karin Siefarth | Drama | |
| Berlinger [de] | Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel | Martin Benrath, Hannelore Elsner, Peter Ehrlich, Tilo Prückner | Drama, War | a.k.a. The Outsider |
| Black Moon | Louis Malle | Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro | Science fiction | French-West German co-production |
| Die Brücke von Zupanja [de] | Harald Philipp | Heinz Weiss, Christian Kohlund, Sascha Hehn | War | |
| By Hook or by Crook | Hartmut Bitomsky [de] | Jo Bolling [de], Christine Kaufmann, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | |
| Calm Prevails Over the Country [de] | Peter Lilienthal | Charles Vanel, Mario Pardo, Zita Duarte [pt], Henriqueta Maya [pt] | Drama | |
| The Cats' Bridge | Peter Meincke | Jan Niklas, Hanna Schygulla, Paul Dahlke, Charles Régnier | Drama | |
| La Chair de l'orchidée | Patrice Chéreau | Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Hans Christian Blech, Simone Signoret | Thriller | a.k.a. The Flesh of the Orchid. French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Cold Blood [de] | Ralf Gregan [de], Günter Vaessen | Rutger Hauer, Vera Tschechowa, Horst Frank, Walter Richter | Crime | |
| Comenius | Stanislav Barabáš [de] | Thomas Holtzmann, Traugott Buhre, Evelyn Opela, Charles Régnier, Günter Strack, Friedrich von Ledebur, Paul Verhoeven | Drama | |
| The Concert | Dietrich Haugk | Maria Schell, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Walther Reyer | Comedy | |
| Crabs on the Island [de] | Gerhard Schmidt [de] | Gerd Baltus, Margot Werner, Hans Korte, Wolfgang Preiss | Science fiction | a.k.a. The Island of the Crabs |
| Crime After School | Alfred Vohrer | Herbert Fleischmann, Teri Tordai, Evelyne Kraft, Sascha Hehn | Drama, Anthology | |
| Crime and Passion | Ivan Passer | Omar Sharif, Karen Black, Bernhard Wicki, Joseph Bottoms | Thriller | West German-American co-production |
| The Day That Shook the World | Veljko Bulajić | Christopher Plummer, Florinda Bolkan, Maximilian Schell | Historical drama | Yugoslav-Czechoslovak-Hungarian-West German co-production |
| Depression | Herbert Vesely | Doris Kunstmann, Herbert Bötticher [de] | Drama | |
| Ein deutsches Attentat | Günter Gräwert [de] | Vadim Glowna, Hans Helmut Dickow [de], Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Wolfgang Büttner | Historical drama | |
| Diary [de] | Rudolf Thome | Cynthia Beatt [de], Rudolf Thome, Angelika Kettelhack, Holger Henze | Comedy | |
| Earthquake in Chile | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Julia Peña, Víctor Alcázar | Drama | |
| Der Edelweißkönig [de] | Alfred Vohrer | Robert Hoffmann, Adrian Hoven, Ute Kittelberger [de], Alexander Stephan [de], Gisela Uhlen | Drama | |
| End of the Game | Maximilian Schell | Martin Ritt, Jon Voight, Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti | Mystery | a.k.a. The Judge and His Hangman. West German-Italian co-production |
| Es fängt ganz harmlos an | Eberhard Pieper | Helmut Griem, Wolfgang Kieling, Cordula Trantow, Rudolf Schündler | Docudrama, Anthology | |
| Euridice BA 2037 | Nikos Nikolaidis | Vera Tschechowa, John Moore, Niki Triantafillidi | Drama | Greek-West German co-production |
| Fear Is a Second Shadow | Norbert Kückelmann | Astrid Fournell [de], Günther Maria Halmer [de], Gertrud Kückelmann | Drama | |
| Fear of Fear | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen | Drama | |
| Fiesco; or The Genoese Conspiracy | Franz Peter Wirth | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Senta Berger, Christine Buchegger, Rudolf Fernau | Drama | a.k.a. Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa |
| Fox and His Friends | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel [de], Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven | Drama | |
| Frau von Bebenburg | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Judy Winter, Matthias Ponnier [de] | Drama | a.k.a. The Second |
| The Garbage Dump [de] | Rainer Erler | Ekkehardt Belle, Angelika Bender [de], Cordula Trantow, Bruni Löbel, Hans Hermann Schaufuß, Willy Semmelrogge | Fantasy, Disaster | a.k.a. The Rubbish Tip a.k.a. Die Halde |
| A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe | Damiano Damiani | Terence Hill, Patrick McGoohan, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Klaus Kinski, Raimund Harmstorf | Comedy, Western | Italian-French-West German co-production |
| Georgina's Reasons | Volker Schlöndorff | Edith Clever, Joachim Bißmeier, Margarethe von Trotta, Eva Maria Meineke | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
| A Happy Family Life | Marianne Lüdcke [de], Ingo Kratisch [de] | Tilo Prückner, Dagmar Biener [de] | Drama | |
| Die Herausforderung | Michael Verhoeven | Heidemarie Hatheyer, René Deltgen | Drama | |
| Herbstzeitlosen | Dagmar Damek [de] | Doris Kunstmann, Horst Frank, Nicolas Brieger [de] | Drama | |
| Hilde Breitner | Peter Beauvais | Margret Homeyer [de] | Drama | |
| Hugs and Other Things [de] | Jochen Richter [de] | Sydne Rome, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anny Duperey, Alfred Edel [de], Marquard Bohm | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Embraces |
| I'd Like to Have My Troubles | Wolf Gremm | Y Sa Lo [de], Otto Sander, Evelyn Künneke, Angelika Milster [de] | Musical | a.k.a. I Want My Troubles |
| Ice Age | Peter Zadek | O. E. Hasse, Ulrich Wildgruber, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger, Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Ich denk' mich tritt ein Pferd [de] | Theo Maria Werner [de] | Uschi Glas | Comedy | |
| Innocents with Dirty Hands | Claude Chabrol | Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Jean Rochefort, Hans Christian Blech | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Inside Out | Peter Duffell | Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray, Doris Kunstmann | Thriller | British-American-West German co-production |
| John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | Dieter Laser, Marie-Christine Barrault | Drama | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Kampf um ein Kind | Ingemo Engström [de] | Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | |
| Katinka | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Klausjürgen Wussow | Drama | a.k.a. Am Wege a.k.a. Ved Vejen |
| Kleine Bank mit schlechten Noten | Eberhard Pieper | Walter Kohut, Roger Fritz, Werner Kreindl, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Angelika Bender [de] | Crime | |
| Knife in the Back [de] | Ottokar Runze | Hans Brenner, Hellmut Lange, Barbara Valentin, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Gert Haucke, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| LH 615 – Operation München [de] | Theo Mezger [de] | Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Michael Hinz | Docudrama | |
| The Last Holidays [de] | Rainer Erler | Jutta Speidel, Dieter Laser, Udo Vioff [de] | Thriller | |
| The Last Word | Robert van Ackeren | Delphine Seyrig, Barry Foster, Peter Hall, Udo Kier | Drama | |
| Lehmanns Erzählungen | Wolfgang Staudte | Otto Sander, Anton Diffring | Comedy | |
| Lehmanns letzter Lenz | Eberhard Pieper | Horst Bollmann, Peter Schiff [de] | Drama | |
| Lenau | Roland Gall [de] | Tilo Prückner | Drama | |
| Lina Braake | Bernhard Sinkel | Lina Carstens, Fritz Rasp, Herbert Bötticher [de] | Comedy | German Film Award for Best Feature Film 1975 |
| The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum | Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger | Drama | |
| The Maddest Car in the World | Rudolf Zehetgruber | Rudolf Zehetgruber, Sal Borgese, Walter Giller | Comedy | |
| Metamorphosis [de] | Jan Němec | Heinz Bennent, Zdenka Procházková, Achim Strietzel [de] | Drama | |
| Millions of Years Ahead of Man | Manfred Baier [de] | | Documentary | |
| Monika and the Sixteen Year Olds | Charly Steinberger | Maria Zürer, Oliver Collignon, Liselotte Pulver, Klausjürgen Wussow, Teri Tordai | Comedy | a.k.a. Sweet Sixteen |
| Moses und Aron | Straub–Huillet | Günter Reich | Music | West German-Austrian-French-Italian co-production |
| Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen | Drama | a.k.a. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven |
| Nach der Scheidung | Peter Beauvais | Marlies Engel [de] | Drama | |
| The Net | Manfred Purzer | Mel Ferrer, Elke Sommer, Klaus Kinski, Heinz Bennent, Susanne Uhlen, Andrea Rau | Thriller | a.k.a. The Poisoned Stream |
| Das ohnmächtige Pferd | Rolf von Sydow | Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi, Christian Wolff, Jan Niklas | Comedy | |
| Parapsycho – Spectrum of Fear | Peter Patzak | Mathieu Carrière, Mascha Gonska, Marisa Mell, William Berger, Leon Askin | Horror, Anthology | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Der Prototyp | Sven Severin | Matthias Habich | Drama | |
| Die Rakete [de] | Dieter Wedel | Joachim Bißmeier, Gerhard Olschewski, Hans Helmut Dickow [de], Evelyn Opela | Spy, Comedy | a.k.a. The Missile |
| Revolt in the Reformatory | Hans Quest | Günter Strack, Hans Caninenberg, Christian Kohlund, Hans-Georg Panczak | Drama | |
| Die Schießübung | Norbert Kückelmann | Walter Sedlmayr | Black comedy | |
| Schoolmaster Hofer | Peter Lilienthal | André Watt | Drama | |
| A Second Spring [de] | Ulli Lommel | Curd Jürgens, Irmgard Schönberg, Eddie Constantine | Drama | |
| The Secret Carrier | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Willy Millowitsch, Sybil Danning, Gunther Philipp, Brigitte Mira, Theo Lingen | Comedy | |
| Die Stadt im Tal [de] | Wolfgang Petersen | Paul Dahlke, Siegfried Wischnewski, Susanne Uhlen, Hans Peter Korff, Dieter Kirchlechner [de], Karl Walter Diess [de] | Drama | |
| Stellenweise Glatteis | Wolfgang Petersen | Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Tadellöser & Wolff | Eberhard Fechner [de] | Karl Lieffen, Edda Seippel, Michael Poliza, Martin Semmelrogge | Drama, War | a.k.a. Tadellöser und Wolff |
| That Most Important Thing: Love | Andrzej Żuławski | Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| To the Bitter End | Gerd Oswald | Maurice Ronet, Suzy Kendall, Christine Wodetzky, Susanne Uhlen, Rudolf Fernau, Ferdy Mayne | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Tristan | Herbert Ballmann [de] | Gerd Baltus, Herlinde Latzko [de], Günter Strack, Theo Lingen | Drama | |
| Trotzki in Coyoacan | Rolf Busch [de] | René Deltgen, Edith Heerdegen | Biography | a.k.a. Trotsky in Coyoacán |
| Two for the Seesaw | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Horst Frank, Donata Höffer [de] | Drama | a.k.a. Spiel zu zweit |
| Under the Pavement Lies the Strand | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Grischa Huber, Heinrich Giskes [de] | Drama | |
| The Unguarded House | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Karin Baal, Günter Lamprecht, Lina Carstens, Renate Schroeter [de], Traugott Buhre | Drama | a.k.a. Tomorrow and Yesterday a.k.a. Haus ohne Hüter |
| Unter Denkmalschutz | Eberhard Fechner [de] | | Documentary | |
| Valley of the Dancing Widows [de] | Volker Vogeler | Judy Stephen [es], Montserrat Julió, Lone Fleming, Jeannine Mestre [es], Ágata Lys [es], Léonie Thelen [de], Tilo Prückner, Harry Baer, Eduardo Fajardo, Hugo Blanco Galiasso [es], George Rigaud, Daniel Martín, Cris Huerta, Luis Induni | Western | West German-Spanish co-production |
| Le vieux fusil | Robert Enrico | Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Joachim Hansen, Robert Hoffmann, Karl Michael Vogler | War | French-West German co-production |
| Wanted: Babysitter | René Clément | Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Vic Morrow, Robert Vaughn, Nadja Tiller, Carl Möhner, Georg Marischka | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Weak Spot | Peter Fleischmann | Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Die weiße Stadt | Michael Kehlmann | Peter Weck, Sonja Sutter | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Wie starb Dag Hammarskjöld? | Oswald Döpke [de] | Cordula Trantow, Robert Owens, Alexander Kerst, Horst Naumann, Peter Mosbacher | Docudrama | |
| Der Wohltäter [de] | Wolf Dietrich [de] | Gustl Bayrhammer, Carolin Ohrner [de], Andrea L'Arronge [de] | Drama | |
| The Wrong Move | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny, Hans Christian Blech, Nastassja Kinski, Marianne Hoppe, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | |
| Zahnschmerzen | Michael Kehlmann | Manfred Seipold [de], Franziska Oehme, Eckart Dux, Gernot Endemann, Alexander Kerst | Alternate history | |

## 1976

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 2 geile Hirsche auf der Flucht | Alois Brummer [de] | Sepp Gneißl [de] | Adult | |
| 1900 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Anna Henkel [de], Ellen Schwiers, Werner Bruhns [de] | Romantic drama, War | Italian-American-French-West German co-production. 1 win & 1 nom. |
| Die Affäre Lerouge [de] | Wilhelm Semmelroth [de] | René Deltgen, Günter Strack, Peter Pasetti, Volkert Kraeft, Herlinde Latzko [de] | Mystery | a.k.a. The Widow Lerouge a.k.a. The Lerouge Case |
| Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr [de] | Alfred Vohrer | Monique van de Ven, Harald Leipnitz, Helga Anders, Reiner Schöne, Brigitte Mira | Drama | |
| Anschi und Michael [de] | Rüdiger Nüchtern [de] | Gaby Rubner, Michael Bentele | Drama | |
| Die Ansiedlung | Otto Jägersberg [de] | Mathias Eysen [de], Dietmar Schönherr, Barbara Lass, Gerd Baltus, Gert Haucke | Drama | |
| As of Tomorrow | Franz Antel | Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Curd Jürgens, Vittorio Caprioli, Angelo Infanti, Werner Pochath | Comedy | a.k.a. Blackmail Chase. West German-Austrian-Italian co-production |
| The Atlantic Swimmers | Herbert Achternbusch | Heinz Braun, Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | |
| Attempted Flight [de] | Vojtěch Jasný | Tomislav Savić, Hansjörg Felmy, Ilija Ivezić, Hermina Pipinić, Klaus Löwitsch | Drama | |
| Der aufregende Fall des Studienrats Adam Juracek | Tom Toelle [de] | Siegfried W. Kernen [de], Klaus Löwitsch, Angelika Bender [de], Günter Mack, Walter Rilla, Alexander May [de] | Science fiction, Comedy | a.k.a. White Book: Adam Juráček Vs. Sir Isaac Newton |
| Aus nichtigem Anlaß | Eberhard Fechner [de] | Helmuth Lohner, Susanne Beck [de] | Crime | |
| Die Babenberger in Österreich | Fritz Umgelter | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hannelore Elsner | History, Docudrama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Ein Badeunfall | Fritz Umgelter | Christian Quadflieg, Christine Merthan [de] | Thriller | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Bait [de] | Peter Patzak | Yves Beneyton, Carroll Baker, Raymond Pellegrin, Mathieu Carrière, Karl Michael Vogler, Hans Christian Blech | Crime | a.k.a. Shattered Dreams. West German-Austrian-French co-production |
| Baker's Bread [de] | Erwin Keusch [de] | Günter Lamprecht, Bernd Tauber, Silvia Reize | Drama | |
| Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuß [de] | Sepp Strubel [de] | Wolfgang Kieling, Siegfried Wischnewski | Crime | |
| Bomber & Paganini [de] | Nikos Perakis | Mario Adorf, Tilo Prückner, Barbara Valentin, Margot Werner | Comedy | a.k.a. Bomber and Paganini a.k.a. Bomber und Paganini |
| Born for Hell | Denis Héroux | Mathieu Carrière, Christine Boisson, Eva Mattes, Carole Laure | Horror | a.k.a. Naked Massacre. Canadian-French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Carnival Confession | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Hannes Messemer, Klaus Hoffmann, Despina Pajanou [de] | Drama | |
| Chain of Darkness | Karl Fruchtmann [de] | Vadim Glowna, Rolf Becker, Wolfgang Kieling | Crime | a.k.a. Ketten |
| Chinese Roulette | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina, Ulli Lommel, Macha Méril, Alexander Allerson, Brigitte Mira, Volker Spengler, Andrea Schober | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| The Clown | Vojtěch Jasný | Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech | Drama | |
| Comedian Harmonists | Eberhard Fechner [de] | | Documentary | |
| Coup de Grâce | Volker Schlöndorff | Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Mathieu Carrière | Drama, War | West German-French co-production. Set in the Russian Civil War |
| Dear Fatherland Be at Peace [de] | Roland Klick | Heinz Domez, Catherine Allégret, Günter Pfitzmann, Rolf Zacher, Margot Werner, Georg Marischka | Thriller | a.k.a. The Berlin Connection a.k.a. Double Agent – Triple Cross |
| Death Rite | Claude Chabrol | Gert Fröbe, Franco Nero, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean Rochefort, Gila von Weitershausen | Thriller | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Dorothea Merz | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Dieter Wernecke [de], Fritz Rasp, Dieter Kirchlechner [de], Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | |
| The Elixirs of the Devil [de] | Manfred Purzer | Dieter Laser, Christine Buchegger, Horst Frank | Drama | a.k.a. The Devil's Elixirs |
| Erika | Falk Harnack | Silvia Reize | Drama | |
| Erika's Passions | Ula Stöckl | Vera Tschechowa, Karin Baal | Drama | |
| Everyone Dies Alone | Alfred Vohrer | Hildegard Knef, Carl Raddatz | Drama, War | a.k.a. Every Man Dies Alone |
| Der Fall Bundhund | Eberhard Hauff [de] | Jörg Hube | Drama | |
| Fallmerayer the Stationmaster | Walter Davy [de] | Odile Versois, Wolfgang Hübsch [de] | Drama | a.k.a. Stationschef Fallmerayer. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Fehlschuss | Rainer Boldt [de] | Wolfgang Ambros, Franz Buchrieser [de], Pola Kinski | Drama | a.k.a. Missed Goal. Austrian-West German co-production |
| Fünf Prüfungen des Oberbürgermeisters | Claus Peter Witt [de] | Hannes Messemer | Biography | a.k.a. Konrad Adenauer – Studie in Szenen |
| Goldflocken [fr] | Werner Schroeter | Andréa Ferréol, Bulle Ogier, Udo Kier, Magdalena Montezuma [de], Ingrid Caven, Christine Kaufmann | Experimental | West German-French co-production |
| Hans im Glück [de] | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Ingmar Zeisberg | Drama | |
| Hans und Heinz Kirch | Günter Gräwert [de] | Martin Lüttge [de], Gottfried Kramer [de] | Drama | |
| Heart of Glass | Werner Herzog | Josef Bierbichler | Drama | |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
| The Hypochondriac | Wilm ten Haaf [de] | Wolfgang Kieling, Violetta Ferrari, Claudia Wedekind [de], Werner Kreindl | Comedy | a.k.a. The Imaginary Invalid |
| I Only Want You to Love Me | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Vitus Zeplichal [de], Alexander Allerson, Elke Aberle | Drama | |
| Idole [de] | Klaus Lemke [de] | Cleo Kretschmer [de] | Comedy | |
| Die Ilse ist weg [de] | Ilse Hofmann [de] | Susanne Werner, Marion Heister, Lina Carstens, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Intermezzo für fünf Hände | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Hanna Schygulla, Susanne Uhlen, Cordula Trantow, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Ellen Schwiers | Comedy | |
| Jack the Ripper | Jesús Franco | Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Herbert Fux | Horror | West German-Swiss co-production |
| Kein Abend wie jeder andere [de] | Hermann Leitner | Heinz Rühmann, Peter Ustinov | Comedy | |
| Kings of the Road | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler | Drama, Road movie | Won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival |
| Eine kleine Liebe | Hans-Peter Meier | Martin Semmelrogge, Maria Machado | Drama | |
| Krawatten für Olympia | Hartmann Schmige, Stefan Lukschy [de] | Ulrich Gressieker [de], Eric Vaessen [de], Inge Sievers [de], Evelyn Meyka [de], Hansi Jochmann | Comedy | |
| Lebensdaten | Eberhard Fechner [de] | | Documentary | |
| Liebe mit 50 | Günter Gräwert [de] | Peter Schiff [de], Louise Martini [de], Renate Grosser [de], Cornelia Froboess, Lina Carstens | Drama | |
| A Lost Life | Ottokar Runze | Gerhard Olschewski, Gert Haucke, Marius Müller-Westernhagen | Drama | Olschewski won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin |
| Mademoiselle de Scuderi | Lutz Büscher | Angela Salloker, Hannes Messemer, Iris Berben | Mystery | |
| Männergeschichten – Frauengeschichten | Peter Beauvais | Helmut Griem, Renate Küster [de], Marlies Engel [de], Matthias Fuchs | Drama | |
| Margarete in Aix | Helmut Käutner | Erika Pluhar | Comedy | |
| The Marquise of O | Éric Rohmer | Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz | Drama | French-West German co-production |
| The Mimosa Wants to Blossom Too | Helmut Meewes [de] | Curd Jürgens, Eric Pohlmann, Horst Frank | Spy comedy | |
| MitGift [de] | Michael Verhoeven | Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Ron Ely, Helmut Qualtinger, Elisabeth Flickenschildt | Crime comedy | |
| Montana Trap [de] | Peter Schamoni | Hardy Krüger, Stephen Boyd, Arthur Brauss, Diana Körner, Paul Breitner | Western | a.k.a. Potato Fritz |
| Mozart: A Childhood Chronicle [fr] | Klaus Kirschner [de] | Santiago Ziesmer, Karl-Maria Schley [de] | Biography | a.k.a. Mozart: Recordings of a Youth |
| The New Sorrows of Young W. | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Klaus Hoffmann | Drama | a.k.a. The New Sufferings of Young W. |
| No One Will Play with Me | Werner Herzog | | Short | |
| North Sea Is Dead Sea [de] | Hark Bohm | Uwe Bohm, Dschingis Bowakow, Marquard Bohm | Drama | |
| A Part of Myself | August Everding | Herbert Mensching [de], Christine Ostermayer, Peter Fricke, Will Quadflieg, Karl Paryla, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Richard Münch, Günter Strack | Biography | a.k.a. Als wär's ein Stück von mir |
| Paule Pauländer [de] | Reinhard Hauff | Manfred Reiss, Manfred Gnoth | Drama | |
| Proud Destiny | Heinz Schirk [de] | Hans-Michael Rehberg, Arno Assmann, Walter Rilla, Rolf Becker, Mogens von Gadow [de], Christine Böhm, Sky du Mont | History | a.k.a. Waffen für Amerika a.k.a. Die Füchse im Weinberg |
| Regina | Gedeon Kovács [de] | Kornelia Boje [de] | Drama | |
| Rosemary's Daughter | Rolf Thiele | Lillian Müller, Horst Frank, Werner Pochath, Herbert Fux, Hans Clarin | Exploitation | |
| Salon Kitty | Tinto Brass | Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin | Exploitation, War | Italian-West German-French co-production |
| Satan's Brew | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Brigitte Mira, Y Sa Lo [de], Christiane Maybach, Kitty Buchhammer [de] | Drama | |
| Sensational Janine | Hans Billian | Patricia Rhomberg | Adult | |
| Shadow of Angels | Daniel Schmid | Klaus Löwitsch, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Boy Gobert, Ulli Lommel | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Silence in the Forest | Alfred Vohrer | Belinda Mayne, Alexander Stephan [de], Evelyn Opela, Ferdy Mayne | Historical drama | |
| Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee | Oswald Döpke [de] | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Vadim Glowna, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Günter Pfitzmann | Drama | |
| Sperrmüll | Michael Haneke | Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Tilli Breidenbach | Drama | |
| The Sternstein Manor | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Katja Rupé [de], Tilo Prückner, Peter Kern, Gustl Bayrhammer, Agnes Fink [de] | Drama | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Strongman Ferdinand [de; fr; it] | Alexander Kluge | Heinz Schubert, Vérénice Rudolph [de], Gert Günther Hoffmann, Siegfried Wischnewski | Comedy | |
| Summerfolk [de] | Peter Stein | Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Jutta Lampe, Otto Sander, Michael König [de] | Drama | a.k.a. Summer Guests |
| The Swiss Conspiracy | Jack Arnold | David Janssen, Senta Berger, Elke Sommer, John Ireland, John Saxon, Ray Milland | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Die Tannerhütte | Marianne Lüdcke [de], Ingo Kratisch [de] | Christoph Felsenstein [de], Grischa Huber, Paul Dahlke, Karlheinz Böhm, Hans-Georg Panczak, Willy Semmelrogge | Drama | |
| Taxi 4012 | Theodor Grädler [de] | Harald Leipnitz, Werner Kreindl, Horst Janson, Thekla Carola Wied, Gerd Baltus, Karl-Otto Alberty | Crime | |
| Three Bavarians in Bangkok | Sigi Rothemund | Franz Muxeneder, Willy Harlander, Marie Ekorre, Gina Janssen | Sex comedy | |
| Three Paths to the Lake | Michael Haneke | Ursula Schult, Guido Wieland, Walter Schmidinger, Bernhard Wicki, Yves Beneyton | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Time of Maturity | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Mike Henning, Eva Manhardt | Drama | a.k.a. Coming of Age a.k.a. Reifezeit |
| Der Umsetzer | Benno Trautmann, Antonia Lerch [de] | Klaus Jepsen [de], Charles Hans Vogt [de] | Drama | |
| Vera Romeyke Is Not Acceptable [de] | Max Willutzki [de] | Rita Engelmann [de] | Drama | |
| Verdunkelung | Peter Schulze-Rohr [de] | Joachim Kemmer, Rolf Moebius, Rudolf Brand, Dagmar Biener [de], Erika Skrotzki [de], Klaus Jepsen [de], Karl-Josef Cramer [de] | Crime, War | |
| Vier gegen die Bank | Wolfgang Petersen | Harald Leipnitz, Walter Kohut, Herbert Bötticher [de], Günther Neutze [de], Ingrid van Bergen, Karin Eickelbaum [de], Gitty Djamal, Christine Schuberth, Otto Sander, Uwe Dallmeier [de], Karl-Heinz von Hassel | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Four Against the Bank a.k.a. 4 Against the Bank a.k.a. 4 gegen die Bank |
| Die Wahl | Rainer Boldt [de] | Klaus Löwitsch | Drama | |
| Walking Upright | Christian Ziewer [de] | Claus Eberth [de], Antje Hagen [de] | Drama | |
| Whispering Death | Jürgen Goslar | James Faulkner, Christopher Lee, Horst Frank, Sybil Danning, Trevor Howard | Action | a.k.a. Albino. West German-South African co-production |
| Die Wildente | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Jean Seberg, Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, Anne Bennent [de], Heinz Bennent, Heinz Moog | Drama | a.k.a. The Wild Duck. West German-Austrian co-production |
| Willy and the Chinese Cat | Karin Thome | Anna Karina, Ulli Lommel, Giovanni Widmann | Family | a.k.a. Also es war so.... West German-Austrian co-production |
| A Woman at Her Window | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini, Joachim Hansen, Carl Möhner | Drama | French-West German-Italian co-production |
| Young Dr. Freud | Axel Corti | Karlheinz Hackl | Biography | Austrian-West German co-production |

## 1977

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Abelard [de] | Franz Seitz | Anita Mally [de], Susanne Uhlen, Christian Kohlund, Christine Buchegger | Drama | |
| The American Friend | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller | Thriller | West German-French co-production. Entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival |
| Anpassung an eine zerstörte Illusion | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Claudia Rieschel [de], Christian Kohlund | Drama | |
| Die Befragung des Machiavelli | Franz Josef Wild [de] | Hannes Messemer, Siegfried Wischnewski | Drama | |
| Born Yesterday | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Elke Sommer, Heinz Baumann, Manfred Seipold [de], Walter Giller, Ralf Wolter | Comedy | a.k.a. Nicht von gestern |
| Britta [de] | Berengar Pfahl [de] | Verena Plangger [de] | Drama | |
| The Brothers [de] | Wolf Gremm | Klaus Löwitsch, Erika Pluhar, Doris Kunstmann | Drama | |
| The Burning Secret | Wilm ten Haaf [de] | Christiane Hörbiger, Heinz Ehrenfreund [de], Thomas Ohrner, Walther Reyer | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Cécile | Dagmar Damek [de] | Doris Kunstmann, Matthias Ponnier [de], Günther Ungeheuer [de] | Drama | |
| The Chinese Miracle [de] | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Christian Kohlund, Heinz Rühmann, Senta Berger, Peter Pasetti, Harald Leipnitz | Drama | |
| The Conquest of the Citadel | Bernhard Wicki | András Fricsay, Ivan Desny, Armando Brancia, Vittoria Di Silverio, Dieter Kirchlechner [de] | Drama | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Senta Berger, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna, Arthur Brauss, Fred Stillkrauth | War | West German-British co-production |
| Death Is My Trade | Theodor Kotulla [de] | Götz George, Hans Korte | War, Biography | |
| Death or Freedom [de] | Wolf Gremm | Peter Sattmann, Gert Fröbe, Mario Adorf, Erika Pluhar, Harald Leipnitz | Adventure | |
| The Devil's Advocate | Guy Green | John Mills, Stéphane Audran, Jason Miller, Raf Vallone | Drama | Film production with money from West German private tax-shelter film funds ("Geria") |
| Diary of a Lover | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Klaus Salge | Drama | |
| Disorder and Early Torment [de] | Franz Seitz | Martin Held, Ruth Leuwerik, Sabine von Maydell, Christian Kohlund | Drama | a.k.a. Disorder and Early Sorrow |
| The Doctor's Dilemma | Rolf von Sydow | Karl Michael Vogler, Andrea Jonasson [de], Klaus Hoffmann, Paul Dahlke | Drama | |
| Der Einstand [de] | Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Christoph Waltz, Erwin Leder | Drama | West German-Austrian-Swiss co-production |
| Das Ende der Beherrschung | Gabi Kubach [de] | Gila von Weitershausen, Pola Kinski, Manfred Zapatka | Drama | |
| Endstation Paradies [de] | Thomas Engel | Inge Meysel, Maria Sebaldt, Erna Sellmer | Drama | |
| Escape Route to Marseille [de] | Ingemo Engström [de], Gerhard Theuring | Katharina Thalbach, Rüdiger Vogler | Docudrama, War | |
| The Expulsion from Paradise | Niklaus Schilling | Herb Andress, Elke Haltaufderheide [de], Jochen Busse, Andrea Rau | Drama | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Fathers and Sons | Claus Peter Witt [de] | Dieter Laser, Christine Wodetzky, Karl Michael Vogler, Sigmar Solbach [de], Paul Edwin Roth | Drama | |
| Ein ganz und gar verwahrlostes Mädchen | Jutta Brückner | Rita Rischak | Documentary | |
| The Fruit is Ripe | Sigi Rothemund | Betty Vergès [de] | Sex comedy | |
| Generale – Anatomie der Marneschlacht [de] | Franz Peter Wirth | Hannes Messemer, Karl Michael Vogler, Siegfried Wischnewski, Ferdy Mayne | War, Docudrama | |
| Das Gesetz des Clans [de] | Eugen York | Horst Frank, Gert Fröbe, Heidi Brühl, Hellmut Lange | Crime | |
| The Glass of Water [de] | Wolfgang Glück | O. W. Fischer, Susanne Uhlen, Maria Becker, Oliver Tobias | Comedy | |
| Glücksucher | Peter Beauvais | Martin Benrath, Judy Winter, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | |
| Grete Minde | Heidi Genée | Katerina Jacob, Siemen Rühaak [de], Hannelore Elsner, Tilo Prückner, Hans Christian Blech | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production. Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Group Portrait with a Lady | Aleksandar Petrović | Romy Schneider, Brad Dourif, Michel Galabru, Vadim Glowna | Drama, War | West German-French co-production |
| Halbe-Halbe [de] | Uwe Brandner [de] | Hans Peter Hallwachs, Bernd Tauber, Agnes Dünneisen [de], Mascha Gonska, Ivan Desny, Kai Fischer | Comedy | a.k.a. 50/50 |
| Haus der Frauen [pl] | Krzysztof Zanussi | Lina Carstens, Brigitte Horney, Karin Baal, Cordula Trantow | Drama | |
| Der Heiligenschein | Heinz Schirk [de] | Horst Frank, Brigitte Grothum | Comedy, Fantasy | |
| Heinrich [de] | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Heinrich Giskes [de], Grischa Huber, Hannelore Hoger, Lina Carstens, Sigfrit Steiner | Biography | |
| Heinrich Zille | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Martin Held | Biography | |
| Hier kein Ausgang – nur Übergang | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Ernst Jacobi, Regine Lamster [de] | Drama | |
| Hitler: A Career | Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | | War, Documentary | a.k.a. Hitler: The Whole Story |
| Hitler: A Film from Germany | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Peter Kern, Heinz Schubert, Hellmut Lange, André Heller | War, Experimental | West German-French-British co-production |
| In freier Landschaft [de] | Michael Kehlmann | Günther Schramm, Alexander Kerst, Heinrich Schweiger, Klausjürgen Wussow, George Pravda, Diana Körner | Drama | |
| Invitation to the Dance [de] | Peter F. Bringmann [de] | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Guido Gagliardi [de] | Comedy | a.k.a. Invitation to Dance |
| Jane Is Jane Forever [de] | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Johanna König | Comedy | |
| Johnny West [de] | Roald Koller | Rio Reiser, Kristina van Eyck [de], Jess Hahn | Drama, Music | |
| Eine Jugendliebe | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Christian Berkel, Cornelia Köndgen [de], Alexander Radszun, Dominique Horwitz | Drama, War | |
| Die Jugendstreiche des Knaben Karl [de] | Franz Seitz | Robert Seidl, Walter Sedlmayr, Gustl Bayrhammer, Hans Clarin, Beppo Brem | Comedy | |
| Die Kette [de] | Rolf von Sydow | Uschi Glas, Harald Leipnitz, Wolfgang Kieling, Herbert Fleischmann, Walter Kohut, Rosemarie Fendel | Mystery thriller | |
| Kleinhoff Hotel | Carlo Lizzani | Corinne Cléry, Bruce Robinson, Katja Rupé [de], Werner Pochath, Peter Kern, Michele Placido | Thriller | Italian-West German co-production |
| Die Konsequenz | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald | Drama | a.k.a. The Consequence. Petersen won the 1978 Adolf Grimme Awards |
| Kreutzer | Klaus Emmerich | Rüdiger Vogler | Crime | |
| Lady Dracula | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Evelyne Kraft, Theo Lingen, Stephen Boyd, Brad Harris, Eddi Arent, Walter Giller | Comedy | |
| The Left-Handed Woman | Peter Handke | Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Michael Lonsdale, Angela Winkler, Bernhard Wicki, Bernhard Minetti, Rüdiger Vogler, Gérard Depardieu | Drama | Entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival |
| Maiden's War [de] | Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel | Kaki Hunter, Adelheid Arndt, Matthias Habich, Hans-Christian Blech | Drama, War | a.k.a. The Three Daughters |
| The Main Actor [de] | Reinhard Hauff | Michael Schweiger, Mario Adorf, Vadim Glowna | Drama | a.k.a. The Leading Man |
| On Mount Chimborazo | Peter Beauvais | Heidemarie Hatheyer, Heinrich Giskes [de], Joachim Bißmeier | Drama | a.k.a. Auf dem Chimborazo |
| Operation Ganymed [de] | Rainer Erler | Horst Frank, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Uwe Friedrichsen, Claus Theo Gärtner | Science fiction | |
| Petty Thieves | Michael Fengler | Marquard Bohm, Charly Wierczejewski, Rolf Zacher, Gerhard Olschewski | Crime | |
| Planübung [de] | Wolfgang Petersen | Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Claudia Butenuth, Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Räuber und Gendarm | Hans-Jürgen Tögel [de] | Eddi Arent, Hans Putz, Corny Collins | Crime comedy | |
| Reifezeugnis | Wolfgang Petersen | Nastassja Kinski, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Christian Quadflieg, Judy Winter | Drama | a.k.a. For Your Love Only. Tatort episode |
| Reinhard Heydrich – Manager des Terrors | Heinz Schirk [de] | Dietrich Mattausch | War, Biography | |
| Das Rentenspiel | Dieter Wedel | Klaus Schwarzkopf, Klaus Löwitsch, Curt Bois, Monika Peitsch [de], Christian Quadflieg, Günter Strack | Docudrama | |
| A Rose: That's What Life Is All About | Hans-Christof Stenzel [de] | Y Sa Lo [de] | Road Movie | |
| Rückfälle | Peter Beauvais | Günter Lamprecht | Drama | |
| Rules For a Film about Anabaptists | Georg Brintrup | | Documentary | West German-Italian co-production |
| Scrounged Meals [de] | Michael Verhoeven | Heinz Rühmann, Mario Adorf, Elisabeth Volkmann, René Deltgen, Karin Baal | Comedy | |
| The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent | Drama | American-West German co-production |
| La Soufrière | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
| The Standard | Ottokar Runze | Simon Ward, Peter Cushing, Jon Finch, Wolfgang Preiss, Lil Dagover, Siegfried Rauch, Maria Perschy, Robert Hoffmann, Rudolf Prack, Friedrich von Ledebur | War | a.k.a. Battle Flag. West German-Austrian-Spanish co-production |
| The Stationmaster's Wife | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Kurt Raab, Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | TV film |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg, Burkhard Driest | Drama | |
| Sweethearts | Klaus Lemke [de] | Cleo Kretschmer [de], Fatima Igramhan, Renate Zimmermann, Sabine Gurn | Comedy, Music | |
| Teerosen | Rolf von Sydow | Maria Schell, O. W. Fischer, Ulli Philipp [de], Jan Niklas | Comedy | |
| Three Swedes in Upper Bavaria | Sigi Rothemund | Ann Lündell, Inge Fock, Anika Egger, Gianni Garko | Sex comedy | |
| Twilight's Last Gleaming | Robert Aldrich | Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Joseph Cotten, Melvyn Douglas | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Der Überläufer – Der Fall Wlassow | Hans Quest | Walther Reyer, Peter Fricke, Alexander Kerst | War, Docudrama | a.k.a. The Defector: Andrey Vlasov |
| Uncle Silas | Wilhelm Semmelroth [de] | Hannes Messemer, Cornelia Köndgen [de], Ellen Schwiers, Hans Jaray | Drama | |
| Unendlich tief unten [de] | Pete Ariel [de] | Hans Peter Korff, Donata Höffer [de], Walter Kohut | Thriller | |
| Vanessa | Hubert Frank [de] | Olivia Pascal | Softcore | |
| Verkaufte Träume | Gabi Kubach [de] | Barbara Sukowa, Reinhard Kolldehoff | Drama | |
| Die Vorstadtkrokodile [de] | Wolfgang Becker | Wolfgang Sieling, Birgit Komanns, Heiner Beeker, Rita Ramachers, Martin Semmelrogge | Family | a.k.a. The Crocodiles |
| Waldrausch | Horst Hächler | Uschi Glas, Alexander Stephan [de], Siegfried Rauch, Sigfrit Steiner, Ralf Wolter, Anton Diffring | Drama | |
| Walter Hasenclever | Rolf Busch [de] | Peter Lieck [de], Helmut Stauss [de], Angelika Bender [de], Christian Brückner, Heinz Giese, Werner Kreindl | Biography | |
| Der Weilburger Kadettenmord [de] | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Claus Theo Gärtner, Stephan Schwartz [de], Klaus Hoffmann | History, Crime | |
| Women in Hospital | Rolf Thiele | Horst Buchholz, Stephen Boyd, Karin Dor | Drama | |
| Zero Hour | Edgar Reitz | Kai Taschner [de] | War | |

## 1978

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1982: Gutenbach | Michael Verhoeven | Gottfried John, Katja Rupé [de], Hartmut Becker | Science fiction | |
| Albert – Why? [de] | Josef Rödl [de] | Fritz Binner | Drama | |
| The All-Around Reduced Personality – Outtakes [de] | Helke Sander | Helke Sander | Drama | a.k.a. The All-Round Reduced Personality – Redupers |
| Alzire, or The New Continent | Thomas Koerfer | Monica Bleibtreu, Hans Peter Korff, Rüdiger Vogler, Wolfram Berger, Verena Buss [de], Joaquín Hinojosa [es], François Simon, Roger Jendly | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Amore [de] | Klaus Lemke [de] | Cleo Kretschmer [de], Pietro Giardini | Comedy | |
| Die Anstalt | Hans-Rüdiger Minow [de] | Susanne Valerie Granzer [de], Wolfgang Preiss, Gerd Baltus | Drama | |
| Auf den Hund gekommen | Rosemarie Fendel | Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Klaus Löwitsch | Crime comedy | |
| Die beiden Freundinnen | Axel Corti | Ulrike Bliefert [de], Erika Skrotzki [de], Stefan Wigger, Brigitte Mira | Crime | a.k.a. Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord |
| Between Two Wars [de] | Harun Farocki | Jeff Layton, Stefan Matousch [de] | Drama | |
| Die Bräute des Kurt Roidl | Gernot Friedel [de] | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Comedy | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Cella | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Christine Csar [de], Bruno Dallansky, Lotte Ledl, Walther Reyer | Drama | West German-Austrian co-production |
| The Condemned of Altona | Pinkas Braun | Doris Kunstmann, Judy Winter, Uwe Friedrichsen, Ernst Schröder | Drama | a.k.a. Die Eingeschlossenen |
| Despair | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Diary of a Seducer | Michael Hild | Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Kirschstein [de] | Drama | |
| Das Ende einer Karriere | Christa Maar [de] | Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | |
| Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Martin Lüttge [de], Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Gerd Baltus, Gisela Trowe, Bettina Kenter [de], Volkert Kraeft | Comedy | a.k.a. Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste |
| Fear | Dagmar Damek [de] | Judy Winter, Matthias Habich, Manfred Zapatka | Drama | a.k.a. Angst |
| Fedora | Billy Wilder | William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, Mario Adorf, Gottfried John, José Ferrer, Michael York, Henry Fonda | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Feuerwasser | Wolfgang Staudte | Hans Helmut Dickow [de], Helmut Qualtinger, Thomas Holtzmann, Kornelia Boje [de] | Drama | |
| The Fifth Commandment | Duccio Tessari | Helmut Berger, Peter Hooten, Evelyne Kraft, Umberto Orsini, Lorella De Luca, Udo Kier | Crime | a.k.a. The 5th Commandment. Italian-West German co-production |
| Fist in the Pocket [de] | Max Willutzki [de] | Ernst Hannawald, Manfred Krug, Ursela Monn, Tommi Piper [de] | Drama | |
| Flaming Hearts | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Peter Kern, Barbara Valentin | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Der Friede von Locarno | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Hans Korte | Docudrama | a.k.a. The Locarno Treaties |
| Friedrich Schachmann wird verwaltet | Eberhard Pieper | Wolfgang Kieling, Gerhard Olschewski, Lina Carstens, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Hans-Peter Korff | Drama | |
| Der Führerschein [de] | Thomas Engel | Witta Pohl, Klaus Herm, Dieter Kirchlechner [de], Ingeborg Schöner, Jochen Busse | Drama | |
| Germany in Autumn | Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos [de], Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé [de], Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Helmut Griem, Heinz Bennent, Vadim Glowna, Hannelore Hoger, Wolf Biermann | Anthology | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Gesche Gottfried | Karl Fruchtmann [de] | Sabine Sinjen, Tilo Prückner, Wolf Roth, Rolf Becker | History, Crime | |
| Geschichte einer Liebe [de] | Dagmar Damek [de] | Bruno Ganz, Rosemarie Filser, Cornelia Froboess | Drama | a.k.a. April: The Story of a Love Affair |
| The Girl from Nowhere | Jochen Richter [de] | Zeli Barbier, Heinz Trixner [de], Lina Carstens, Wolfgang Büttner | Science fiction | a.k.a. Eurydike |
| The Glass Cell | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Helmut Griem, Brigitte Fossey, Dieter Laser, Walter Kohut, Günter Strack, Bernhard Wicki | Thriller | |
| Good-for-Nothing [de] | Bernhard Sinkel | Jacques Breuer, Eva Maria Meineke, Wolfgang Reichmann, Matthias Habich | Comedy | |
| Grüß Gott, ich komm von drüben | Tom Toelle [de] | Hans Christian Blech | Comedy | |
| The Guardian and His Poet | Percy Adlon | Rolf Illig [de], Horst Raspe [de] | Biography | |
| Der harte Handel | Uli Edel | Tilo Prückner | Drama | |
| Heinrich Heine [de] | Klaus Emmerich | Christoph Bantzer, Barbara Sukowa, Walter Rilla, Ivan Desny, Rosemarie Fendel | Biography | |
| Heroin 4 | Michael Günther [de] | Claus Theo Gärtner, Matthias Ponnier [de], Bernd Herberger [de], Christoph Felsenstein [de], Léonie Thelen [de], Martin Semmelrogge | Drama | |
| I See This Land from Afar | Christian Ziewer [de] | Aníbal Reyna [es], Pablo Lira, Angela Krain | Drama | |
| In a Year of 13 Moons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Eva Mattes, Isolde Barth, Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | |
| Inn of the Sinful Daughters | Walter Boos | Gina Janssen | Sex comedy | |
| Jugend, Liebe und die Wacht am Rhein | Oswald Döpke [de] | Stephan Schwartz [de], Werner Hinz, Angelika Bender [de], Sabine von Maydell, Alexander Radszun, Günter Strack, Constanze Engelbrecht | Biography | a.k.a. Count Harry Kessler |
| Just a Gigolo | David Hemmings | David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell | Drama | |
| Keiner kann was dafür | Uschi Reich [de] | Michael Fitz [de], Christine Kammerer, Agnes Neuwirth | Drama | West German-Austrian-Swiss co-production |
| Kleine bunte Freudenspender | Eberhard Pieper | Brigitte Horney, Wolfgang Wahl | Drama | |
| Knife in the Head | Reinhard Hauff | Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Heinz Hoenig | Drama | |
| Krabat – The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Karel Zeman | — | Animated film | Czechoslovak-West German co-production |
| Lady Audley's Secret [de] | Wilhelm Semmelroth [de] | Susanne Uhlen, Christian Wolff, Hans Caninenberg | Drama | |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Tom Toelle [de] | Erika Pluhar, Klaus Hoffmann, Gert Westphal, Friedrich von Thun, Sky du Mont | Drama | |
| Love Hotel in Tyrol | Franz Antel | Fritz Muliar, Heinz Reincke | Sex comedy | West German-Austrian co-production |
| Madame X: An Absolute Ruler [de] | Ulrike Ottinger | Tabea Blumenschein | Fantasy | |
| The Man in the Rushes | Manfred Purzer | Jean Sorel, Erika Pluhar, Nathalie Delon, Bernhard Wicki, Heinz Bennent, Tilo Prückner | Drama | |
| Melody in Love [de] | Hubert Frank [de] | Sascha Hehn, Melody O'Bryan | Softcore | |
| Mittags auf dem Roten Platz | Dieter Wedel | Monica Bleibtreu, Michael Degen, Claus Theo Gärtner | Drama | |
| Moritz, Dear Moritz | Hark Bohm | Michael Kebschull, Kerstin Wehlmann, Grete Mosheim | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Mulligans Rückkehr | Helmut Käutner | Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | |
| No Sin on the Alpine Pastures | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Alena Penz [de] | Sex comedy | |
| On the Move | Adolf Winkelmann | Detlev Quandt, Ludger Schnieder, Anastasios Avgeris | Road movie | |
| The Other Smile [de] | Robert van Ackeren | Katja Rupé [de], Elisabeth Trissenaar, Heinz Ehrenfreund [de] | Drama | |
| Passion Flower Hotel | André Farwagi [fr] | Nastassja Kinski, Gerry Sundquist | Comedy | a.k.a. Boarding School |
| Paul kommt zurück | Peter F. Bringmann [de] | Manfred Krug, Tilo Prückner, Heinz Hoenig, Günther Ungeheuer [de] | Crime | |
| The Pentecost Outing [de] | Michael Günther [de] | Elisabeth Bergner, Martin Held | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Pfingstausflug |
| Plutonium [de] | Rainer Erler | Charlotte Kerr, Wolf Roth, Anton Diffring | Thriller | |
| Popcorn and Ice Cream | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Olivia Pascal, Benny [de], Zachi Noy | Comedy | |
| The Power of Men is the Patience of Women [de] | Cristina Perincioli | Elisabeth Walinski, Eberhard Feik [de], Barbara Stanek [de] | Drama | |
| Red Rings of Fear | Alberto Negrin | Fabio Testi, Christine Kaufmann, Ivan Desny | Thriller | Italian-Spanish-West German co-production |
| The Reign of Naples [it] | Werner Schroeter | Ida Di Benedetto | Drama | a.k.a. The Kingdom of Naples. Italian-West German co-production |
| Les Rendez-vous d'Anna | Chantal Akerman | Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Magali Noël, Helmut Griem, Hanns Zischler, Lea Massari | Drama | Belgian-French-West German co-production |
| Rhinegold | Niklaus Schilling | Elke Haltaufderheide [de], Rüdiger Kirschstein [de], Gunther Malzacher [de] | Drama | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Rider on the White Horse | Alfred Weidenmann | John Phillip Law, Gert Fröbe, Anita Ekström, Lina Carstens, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | a.k.a. The Ghostly Rider |
| Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte | Wolfgang Petersen | Bruno Ganz, René Deltgen, Gila von Weitershausen | Drama | a.k.a. Black and White Like Day and Night |
| The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Margarethe von Trotta | Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach, Marius Müller-Westernhagen | Drama | |
| Short Letter to the Long Goodbye | Herbert Vesely | Geraldine Chaplin, Thomas Astan, Alexandra Hay | Drama | a.k.a. Short Letter, Long Farewell |
| The Singers | Michael Verhoeven | Katerina Jacob, Jan Niklas, Gerd Baltus, Peter Matić, Fred Stillkrauth, Christine Kaufmann, Alfred Edel [de] | Drama | a.k.a. Das Männerquartett a.k.a. Das Ochsenfurter Männerquartett |
| Slavers [de] | Jürgen Goslar | Trevor Howard, Ron Ely, Britt Ekland, Cameron Mitchell, Ray Milland, Ken Gampu | Action | |
| Der Spinnenmörder [de] | Gerhard Klingenberg | Dietmar Schönherr, Alma Seidler, Peter Arens | Thriller | a.k.a. The Bat |
| The Spirit of the Yellow Plum | Eberhard Pieper | Wolfgang Kieling, Gerhard Olschewski, Gert Haucke | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Geist der Mirabelle |
| Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act | George Moorse | Hanna Schygulla, Günther Kaufmann | Drama | |
| Strafsache gegen F. | Wolfgang Glück | Günter Lamprecht | Crime | |
| Die Straße | Volker Vogeler | Ossy Kolmann [de], Arthur Brauss, Franz Buchrieser [de], Georg Lehn [de] | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Sultry Days | Hajo Gies [de] | Daniel Gélin, Markus Klimmek, Katerina Jacob | Drama | |
| The Tailor from Ulm | Edgar Reitz | Tilo Prückner, Vadim Glowna, Hannelore Elsner | Biography | Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival |
| The Unicorn | Peter Patzak | Gila von Weitershausen, Peter Vogel, Miriam Spoerri [de], Christiane Rücker, Anton Diffring | Drama | |
| When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Ilse Hofmann [de] | Ariane Jeßulat, Martin Benrath, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Alexander Rosenberg, Sigfrit Steiner | Drama | |
| Winterspelt | Eberhard Fechner [de] | Hans Christian Blech, Katharina Thalbach, Ulrich von Dobschütz [de], Henning Schlüter [de] | War | |
| Wo geht's lang, Kutti? | Tom Toelle [de] | Elmar Nettekoven, Hans Beerhenke [de], Eva-Maria Hagen | Drama | |
| The Woman Across the Way [de] | Hans Noever | Franciszek Pieczka | Thriller | |
| A Woman with Responsibilities | Ula Stöckl | Christina Scholz [de] | Drama | a.k.a. A Woman with Responsibility |
| Wunnigel | Oswald Döpke [de] | Siegfried Wischnewski, Peter Fricke, Susanne Uhlen, Sigfrit Steiner, Thomas Holtzmann | Comedy | |
| Yesterday's Tomorrow [de] | Wolfgang Staudte | Mel Ferrer, Pola Kinski, Hannelore Schroth, Martin Lüttge [de] | Drama | |
| Zeit zum Aufstehn | Ludwig Cremer [de] | Franz Xaver Kroetz, Lisa Fitz [de], Arthur Brauss | Drama | |

## 1979

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1+1=3 | Heidi Genée | Adelheid Arndt, Dominik Graf, Christoph Quest [de] | Comedy | a.k.a. One Plus One Equals Three |
| Americathon | Neal Israel | John Ritter | Comedy | American production with West German money |
| Arabian Nights [de] | Klaus Lemke [de] | Cleo Kretschmer [de], Wolfgang Fierek [de] | Comedy | |
| Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts | Rosa von Praunheim | | Documentary | |
| Belle | Wolfgang Storch [de] | Udo Vioff [de] | Thriller | a.k.a. Bellas Tod a.k.a. La Mort de Belle |
| Beware of Pity | Édouard Molinaro | Mathieu Carrière, Marie-Hélène Breillat [fr], Jean Desailly, Silvia Reize | Drama | French-West German-Austrian co-production |
| Beware of Schwarzenbeck [de] | May Spils [de] | Werner Enke, Sabine von Maydell, Benno Hoffmann [de] | Comedy | |
| Blauer Himmel, den ich nur ahne | Stephan Rinser | Jörg Hube | Biography | |
| Bloodline | Terence Young | Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Gert Fröbe, Irene Papas | Thriller | American-West German co-production |
| Bored Teenagers [de] | Wolfgang Büld [de] | Ian Moorse, Monika Greser, Steve "Roadent" Connolly, The Adverts | Music | |
| Breakthrough | Andrew V. McLaglen | Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Curd Jürgens, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch | War | |
| Cola, Candy, Chocolate | Sigi Rothemund | Olivia Pascal, Ursula Buchfellner | Sex comedy | |
| Cold Homeland [it] | W. Werner Schaefer, Peter F. Steinbach [de] | Nikolaus Cohnen, Dietlinde Turban, Margit Carstensen, Rudolf Schündler | Drama | |
| David | Peter Lilienthal | Mario Fischel, Valter Taub [de], Irena Vrkljan, Eva Mattes | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin |
| The Day Elvis Came to Bremerhaven | Peter F. Bringmann [de] | Wolfgang Drygalla, Petra Bigaj, Michael Shelley | Drama | |
| Das Ding [de] | Uli Edel | Wayne Laryea, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Stephan Schwartz [de], Steve "Roadent" Connolly, Caroline Chaniolleau, Ulla Jacobsson | Crime | |
| Drei Freundinnen | Konrad Sabrautzky [de] | Karin Baal, Brigitte Janner [de], Kyra Mladeck [de], Gerd Baltus, Arthur Brauss | Drama | |
| Einzelzimmer | Wolfgang Panzer [de] | Brigitte Horney, Rudolf Platte, Tilli Breidenbach | Drama | |
| The End of the Rainbow [de] | Uwe Frießner [de] | Thomas Kufahl | Drama | |
| Es begann bei Tiffany [de] | Wolfgang Becker | Rutger Hauer, Siegfried Wischnewski, Katerina Jacob, Hans Clarin, Heinz Schubert, Diether Krebs | Crime comedy | |
| Esch: The Anarchist | Rainer Boldt [de] | Hans Peter Korff | Drama | a.k.a. The Sleepwalkers: The Anarchist |
| The Fall [de] | Alf Brustellin | Franz Buchrieser [de], Hannelore Elsner, Wolfgang Kieling, Eva Maria Meineke, Carl Duering | Drama | |
| Fallstudien | Hartmut Griesmayr [de] | Michaela May, Monica Bleibtreu, Monika Lundi, Nina Hoger [de], Vérénice Rudolph [de], Bernd Tauber, Diether Krebs | Drama, Anthology | |
| The First Polka | Klaus Emmerich | Maria Schell, Erland Josephson | Drama, War | Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Fleisch | Rainer Erler | Jutta Speidel, Wolf Roth, Herbert Herrmann [de], Charlotte Kerr | Thriller | a.k.a. Spare Parts |
| Die Fluchtlinie | Klaus Müller-Laue, Herbert Rimbach | Michaela May, Matthias Ponnier [de], Marina de Graaf [nl] | Drama | |
| Flugversuche | Rainer Wolffhardt [de] | Adelheid Arndt, Ulrich Pfeffer | Drama | |
| Frontiers of Darkness | Wolf Gremm | Günter Lamprecht, Antje Hagen [de] | Drama | a.k.a. Die Schattengrenze |
| Gefangen in Frankreich: Theodor Fontane im Krieg 1870/71 | Theo Mezger [de] | Hans Caninenberg, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Werner Schumacher, Benno Sterzenbach | War | |
| Die Geisterbehörde | Wilm ten Haaf [de] | Erik Ode, Herbert Fleischmann, Michael Hinz, Barbara Schöne | Comedy | |
| Gesundheit | Peter Patzak | Ralf Schermuly [de] | Drama | |
| Geteilte Freude | Gabi Kubach [de] | Claudia Demarmels [de], Claudia Burckhardt [de], Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Dominik Graf | Comedy | |
| Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand | Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Harald Reinl | Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, Silvia Reize, Klausjürgen Wussow, Reiner Schöne, Joachim Hansen, Ernst Stankovski | Historical | |
| Grandison [fr] | Achim Kurz | Marlène Jobert, Jean Rochefort, Helmut Qualtinger | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| The Hamburg Syndrome | Peter Fleischmann | Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Carline Seiser, Tilo Prückner, Ulrich Wildgruber | Disaster | West German-French co-production |
| Hatschi! | Eugen York | Reiner Schöne, Karl Michael Vogler, Dirk Dautzenberg [de], Friedrich Schoenfelder | Comedy, Science fiction | |
| It Can Only Get Worse | Helmut Dietl | Towje Kleiner [de] | Comedy | Short edited version of the TV series Der ganz normale Wahnsinn |
| Jenseits von Schweden | Carlheinz Caspari | Karl Walter Diess [de], Christian Berkel | Drama | |
| Kotte | Horst Flick [de] | Jürgen Prochnow | Drama | |
| Last Love | Ingemo Engström [de] | Angela Winkler, Rüdiger Vogler | Drama | |
| The Last Years of Childhood [de] | Norbert Kückelmann | Gerhard Gundel | Drama | |
| Der Lebemann | Axel Corti | Heinz Trixner [de], Ulli Maier [de] | Crime | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Lemminge | Michael Haneke | Paulus Manker, Bernhard Wicki, Elfriede Irrall [de], Monica Bleibtreu, Wolfgang Hübsch [de] | Drama | Austrian-West German co-production |
| Lena Rais [de] | Christian Rischert [de] | Krista Stadler [de], Tilo Prückner, Kai Fischer | Drama | |
| Lucky Star [de] | Hans-Jürgen Tögel [de] | Katharina Böhm, Günther Maria Halmer [de], Hannelore Schroth, Joachim Hansen, Jacques Herlin | Family | |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, George Byrd | Drama | First in the BRD Trilogy |
| Mihail, câine de circ | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Karl Michael Vogler | Adventure | a.k.a. Michael, Brother of Jerry. Romanian-West German co-production |
| Milo Milo [de] | Nikos Perakis | Veruschka von Lehndorff, Mario Adorf, Andréa Ferréol, Andreas Katsulas, Julien Guiomar, Antonio Fargas, Joe Higgins | Comedy | West German-Greek co-production |
| Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe | Leslie H. Martinson | Peter Graves, Curd Jürgens, John Carradine, Karin Schubert | Spy thriller | a.k.a. Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident a.k.a. The Tehran Incident. American-Italian-Spanish-West German-Iranian co-production |
| Monarch [de] | Manfred Stelzer [de] | Diethard Wendtland | Documentary | |
| Die Münze | Werner Schlechte | Gustl Bayrhammer | Crime comedy | a.k.a. The Mint |
| The Murderer [de] | Ottokar Runze | Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | |
| Das Nest | Gedeon Kovács [de] | Franz Xaver Kroetz, Lisa Fitz [de] | Drama | |
| The Night with Chandler | Hans Noever | Rio Reiser, Agnes Dünneisen [de], Thomas Schücke [de] | Crime | |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor | Horror | West German-French co-production |
| The Patriotic Woman [fr] | Alexander Kluge | Hannelore Hoger | Drama | a.k.a. The Female Patriot a.k.a. The Patriot |
| Phantasten | Peter Beauvais | Manfred Krug, Michael Degen, Günter Strack, Sabine Sinjen | Drama | |
| Protokoll eines Verdachts | Daniel Christoff [de] | Martin Lüttge [de], Claudia Butenuth, Rolf Becker | Drama | |
| Putting Things Straight | Georg Brintrup | Gisela Stein, Hanns Zischler | Biography | a.k.a. Ich räume auf |
| Die Quelle | Rainer Erler | Herbert Herrmann [de], Werner Kreindl, Siegfried Wischnewski | Thriller | a.k.a. The Source |
| Radio On | Chris Petit | David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, Sue Jones-Davies, Sting | Drama | British-West German co-production |
| Revolution in Frankfurt [de] | Fritz Umgelter | Günter Strack, Richard Münch | History | |
| Schluchtenflitzer [de] | Rüdiger Nüchtern [de] | Hans Kollmannsberger, Hans Brenner, Ruth Drexel | Drama | |
| Der Schuft, der den Münchhausen schrieb | Rudolf Nussgruber | Lutz Hochstraate [de], Ferdy Mayne | Biography | |
| She's 19 and Ready | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Sabine Wollin, Ekkehardt Belle, Claus Obalski [de] | Sex comedy | |
| Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness | Margarethe von Trotta | Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel [de], Jessica Früh [de], Heinz Bennent, Konstantin Wecker, Agnes Fink [de] | Drama | |
| Some Kind of Saint | Klaus Lemke [de] | Cleo Kretschmer [de], Wolfgang Fierek [de] | Comedy | |
| The Story of an Unknown Man | Peter Vogel | Günther Maria Halmer [de], Gila von Weitershausen | Drama | a.k.a. The Story of a Nobody a.k.a. An Anonymous Story |
| A Sunday in October | András Kovács | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ferenc Bács [fr], Marianna Moór, Lajos Őze, Martin Lüttge [de] | War | Hungarian-West German co-production |
| Tally Brown, New York | Rosa von Praunheim | Tally Brown | Documentary | |
| Das tausendunderste Jahr | Eberhard Itzenplitz [de] | Alexander Gittinger, Harald Dewald, Cornelia Meinhardt [de], Regine Vergeen [de], Rainer Basedow | War | |
| The Tell-Tale Heart [de] | Karl Heinz Kramberg [de] | Hans Clarin, Ferdy Mayne | Horror | |
| The Third Generation | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen, Hark Bohm, Günther Kaufmann, Bulle Ogier, Udo Kier, Y Sa Lo [de] | Black comedy | |
| Ticket of No Return | Ulrike Ottinger | Tabea Blumenschein, Christine Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma [de] | Drama | a.k.a. Bildnis einer Trinkerin |
| The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | David Bennent, Charles Aznavour, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach | Drama, War | West German-French co-production. Based on the book by Günter Grass |
| Tödlicher Ausgang | Stanislav Barabáš [de] | Rolf Becker, Günter Lamprecht, Gila von Weitershausen, Karin Anselm [de], Richard Münch, Paul Dahlke | Thriller | a.k.a. Nur über Meiners Leiche |
| Der Tote bin ich [de] | Alexander von Eschwege [de] | Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Anne Bennent [de] | Mystery | |
| Trennung – Die Geschichte der Anna Wildermuth | Peter Beauvais | Sabine Sinjen, Peter Seum [de], Pierre Franckh | Drama | |
| Union der festen Hand | Claus Peter Witt [de] | Dieter Laser, Eva Mattes, Hannes Messemer, Edith Schultze-Westrum | Drama | |
| Uns reicht das nicht [de] | Jürgen Flimm | Herbert Grönemeyer, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Anna Henkel [de], Marita Breuer | Drama | |
| Victoria | Bo Widerberg | Michaela Jolin [sv], Stephan Schwartz [de], Hans Christian Blech, Christiane Hörbiger | Drama | Swedish-West German co-production |
| Ways in the Night [pl] | Krzysztof Zanussi | Mathieu Carrière, Maja Komorowska, Horst Frank | Drama, War | |
| The White Horse Inn | Eberhard Hauff [de] | Helmuth Lohner, Margot Werner, Regine Lamster [de], Claus Eberth [de], Henning Schlüter [de], Willy Semmelrogge, Erik Frey | Musical | |
| The Willi Busch Report | Niklaus Schilling | Tilo Prückner | Drama | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| Womanlight | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Lila Kedrova, Heinz Bennent | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production |
| Woyzeck | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Josef Bierbichler, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge | Classic literature | Based on the story by Georg Büchner |
| Zuhaus unter Fremden [de] | Peter Keglevic | Herbert Grönemeyer, Aysun Bademsoy [de] | Drama | |