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Despair (1978)

Summary: In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep...

Release Date: September 20, 1978

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Tom Stoppard

, Vladimir Nabokov

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

Production: Bavaria Atelier, Bavaria Film, Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: Olive Films, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Effi Briest (1974)

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...

Release Date: June 16, 1977

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Theodor Fontane

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

International: $ 4

Martha (1974)

Summary: After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman - Helmut. The cruel and torturous nature of their relationship leads Martha to believe Helmut might be trying to kill her.

Release Date: May 28, 1974

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Cornell Woolrich

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

Production: Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: Fantoma

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 500,000

Der Bomberpilot (1970)

Summary: A chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who had performed in Nazi revues during the war search for a career as singers and dancers.

Release Date: November 03, 1970

Genre: Drama

Director: Werner Schroeter

Writer: Werner Schroeter

Runtime: 1 h 05 min

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Gods of the Plague (1970)

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.

Release Date: July 24, 1970

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 180,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Veronika Voss (1982)

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...

Release Date: May 13, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Laura Film, Tango Film, Rialto Film, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,600,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)

Summary: An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.

Release Date: March 04, 1981

Genre: Drama

Director: Werner Schroeter

Writers: Werner Schroeter

, Giuseppe Fava

, Orazio Torrisi

Runtime: 2 h 53 min

Production: Thomas Mauch Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

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

Die Patriotin (1979)

Summary: A history teacher and a patriot goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel. She comes across a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad.

Release Date: December 07, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Alexander Kluge

Writers: Christel Buschmann

, Alexander Kluge

, Willi Segler

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

Production: Kairos-Film, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Edition Filmmuseum

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Deadlock (1970)

Summary: In a deserted mining town at the end of nowhere three desperate men fight over a suitcase full of cash.

Release Date: October 15, 1970

Genres: Thriller, Western

Director: Roland Klick

Writer: Roland Klick

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

Production: Roland Klick Production

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Red Sun (1970)

Summary: Thomas hitchhikes from Hamburg to Munich where he runs into his ex-girlfriend Peggy. As Thomas doesn't have a bed, he lets Peggy take him home, not knowing that she and her four roommates have all made a strange pact.

Release Date: September 01, 1970

Genre: Crime

Director: Rudolf Thome

Writer: Max Zihlmann

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

Production: Independent Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Bübchen (1968)

Summary: The life of a family living in a German suburb.

Release Date: February 21, 1969

Genre: Drama

Director: Roland Klick

Writer: Roland Klick

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Rob Houwer Productions

Country: West Germany

Language: German

The American Soldier (1970)

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...

Release Date: July 23, 1971

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 280,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

North Sea is Dead Sea (1976)

Summary: Two 14-year-old boys try to escape their oppressive home in a working-class suburb of Hamburg, first by taking a homemade raft and later a stolen sailboat down the Elbe towards the open sea.

Release Date: April 02, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Hark Bohm

Writer: Hark Bohm

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

Production: Hamburger Kino-Kompanie, Hark Bohm Film Productions

Country: West Germany

Language: German

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

Nel regno di Napoli (1978)

Summary: In a miserable neighbourhood of Napoli, two brothers make totally different choices for their lives. The boy joins the Communist Party, while his sister follows the way of the church.

Release Date: February 02, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Werner Schroeter

Writers: Werner Schroeter

, Wolf Wondratschek

, Gerardo D'Andrea

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: P.B.C. S.p.a., Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: Italian

The American Friend (1977)

Summary: Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Release Date: September 28, 1977

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Wim Wenders

Writers: Patricia Highsmith

, Wim Wenders

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bavaria Film, Filmverlag der Autoren, Les Films du Losange, Wim Wenders Productions, Wim Wenders Stiftung

Distributor: New Yorker Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, Facets Multimedia Distribution, German Language Video Center, Pacific Arts

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Heart of Glass (1976)

Summary: The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".

Release Date: December 17, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Werner Herzog

Writers: Herbert Achternbusch

, Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Not Rated

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

Distributor: Shout! Factory

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Women in New York (1977)

Summary: New York in the 1930's. A group of wealthy women meet in beauty and fashion salons, at parties and other social occasions. Their lives circle around their wealthy husbands or lovers.

Release Date: June 21, 1977

Genre: Comedy

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Nora Gray

, Clare Boothe Luce

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

Production: Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 320,000

Die Hamburger Krankheit (1979)

Summary: The BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue.

Release Date: March 12, 1980

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Peter Fleischmann