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  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Summary: Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been...
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 80,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
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
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
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
Summary: A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 180,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
Summary: Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood a...
Runtime: 1 h 20 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film
Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 280,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
Summary: Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the ...
Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 550,000
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
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
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
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
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
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