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Summary: In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the press, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Domestic: $ 22,440
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Summary: Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports jo...
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: R

Country: West Germany
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,600,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
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Summary: In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 10,500,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
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Summary: In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
Release Date: August 10, 1983
Genres: Crime, Drama
Runtime: 15 h 31 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Italy, West Germany
Language: German
TV Series budget: $ 13,000,000
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Summary: Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 1,975,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 3,711
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Summary: A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 700,000
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Summary: Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by...
Runtime: 2 h 03 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
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Summary: When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually , on her command...
Release Date: March 15, 1977
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
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Summary: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a g...
Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Language: German
Movie budget: $ 600,000
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Summary: A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 450,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
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Summary: In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hi...
Runtime: 2 h 15 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film
Distributor: New Yorker Films
Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 750,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
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Summary: A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 260,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 8,099
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Summary: Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.
Runtime: 1 h 22 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film
Distributor: Arrow Films
Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 250,000
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Summary: A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind...
Runtime: 1 h 27 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 240,000
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Summary: Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 325,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
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Summary: A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.
Runtime: 1 h 15 min

Production: HJB Filmproduktion
Country: West Germany
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000
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Summary: On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and...
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Italy, West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 1,100,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 957
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Summary: Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and th...
Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 680,000
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Summary: Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
Runtime: 1 h 24 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 125,000
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Summary: In an attempt to escape poverty in the 1800s, eight German farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the Hessian Hinterland.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German