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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Summary: Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

Release Date: January 17, 1979

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Werner Herzog

Writers: Werner Herzog

, Tom Shachtman

, Martje Grohmann

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Gaumont, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Twentieth Century Fox, 518 Media, Bleeding Light Film Group, Hemispheric Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Crown Video, Jef Films International, Scream Factory, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: German

F for Fake (1973)

Summary: A documentary about fraud and fakery.

Release Date: March 12, 1975

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Orson Welles

, Gary Graver

, Oja Kodar

Writers: Orson Welles

, Oja Kodar

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: G

Production: Les Films de l'Astrophore, SACI, Janus Film und Fernsehen

Distributor: HBO Max

Countries: France, Iran, West Germany

Language: French

Parsifal (1982)

Summary: Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one of the medieval epic romances of King Art...

Release Date: May 19, 1982

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Writer: Richard Wagner

Runtime: 4 h 15 min

MPAA: PG

Production: TMS Film GmbH, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Gaumont

Distributor: Image Entertainment

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Alice in the Cities (1974)

Summary: A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

Release Date: May 17, 1974

Genre: Drama

Director: Wim Wenders

Writers: Wim Wenders

, Veith von Fürstenberg

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Filmverlag der Autoren, Produktion 1 im Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: Bauer International, Pacific Arts

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 500,000

Der fliegende Holländer (1975)

Summary: the story of a sinner who is condemned to sail the seas until the day of judgment, to die of thirst until his sin is redeemed by the selfless love of a woman.

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Music

Director: Václav Kaslík

Writers: Richard Wagner

, Václav Kaslík

, Heinrich Heine

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Summary: Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.

Release Date: December 17, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Writer: Ingmar Bergman

Runtime: 3 h 08 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinematograph AB, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Gaumont, Persona Film, Sveriges Television (SVT), Tobis

Distributor: Embassy Pictures, Nelson Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, MGM Home Entertainment, New Line Home Video

Countries: Sweden, France, West Germany

Language: Swedish

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,783,304

International: $ 15,813

Waxwork (1988)

Summary: A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.

Release Date: June 17, 1988

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Director: Anthony Hickox

Writer: Anthony Hickox

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Vestron Pictures, HB Filmrullen, Contemporary Films

Distributor: Artisan Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), Kinnevik Media Properties, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Lionsgate, Sci-Fi Channel, USA Network, Vestron Television, Vestron Video

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 808,114

Woyzeck (1979)

Summary: Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

Release Date: August 24, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Werner Herzog

Writers: Georg Büchner

, Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Shout! Factory

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 900,000

La Soufrière (1977)

Summary: Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city,...

Release Date: December 03, 2014

Genres: Documentary, Short, Biography

Director: Werner Herzog

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR), Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Possession (1981)

Summary: A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Release Date: October 28, 1983

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Andrzej Zulawski

Writers: Andrzej Zulawski

, Frederic Tuten

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: Gaumont, Oliane Productions, Marianne Productions, Soma Film Produktion

Distributor: Limelight International, Rugged Films, Vestron Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Bleeding Light Film Group, Metrograph Pictures, Mondo Vision

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: French

Domestic: $ 1,158,473

Sukkubus (1989)

Summary: After a delirious night of drinking, two herdsmen and a boy who are all alone in the alps with their cattle, create a primitive female doll. When their creation comes to life as a beautiful succubus, they have to fear for their li...

Release Date: August 10, 1989

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Georg Tressler

Writer: Franz Seitz

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

Production: Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Roxy Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

The Masters of Time (1982)

Summary: Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.

Release Date: July 20, 1984

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: René Laloux

Writers: Stefan Wul

, René Laloux

, Jean 'Moebius' Giraud

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

Production: Télécip, TF1 Films Production, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Pannónia Filmstúdió, Hungarofilm

Countries: France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Hungary, West Germany

Language: French

Alfred J. Kwak (1989)

Summary: After a horrific car accident takes the lives of his parents and siblings, a young duckling is raised by his considerate uncle to be good and responsible; meanwhile, his schoolmate Dolf slowly becomes seduced by fascism.

Release Date: April 03, 1989

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Drama

Runtime: 0 h 25 min

Production: Telecable Benelux B.V., Verenigde Arbeiders Radio Amateurs (VARA), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Countries: Netherlands, Japan, Spain, West Germany

Language: Dutch

The Trapp Family (1956)

Summary: A novice nun, Maria, is sent to care for the unruly children of a weathy Baron. The Baron and Maria fall in love, Maria leaves the convent and they marry. Under Maria's guidance the family becomes a nationally-acclaimed singing gr...

Release Date: April 19, 1961

Genres: Family, Romance, Comedy

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Writers: Georg Hurdalek

, Herbert Reinecker

, Maria von Trapp

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: West Germany

Language: German