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Summary: Lackluster, plodding stationmaster Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
Runtime: 3 h 21 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 1,800,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 4
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 brass.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 10,500,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 4
Summary: The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Runtime: 2 h 38 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: Peru, West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 14,000,000
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
International: $ 4
Summary: A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R

Countries: France, West Germany
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 4,400,000
Summary: Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. Syberber...
Runtime: 7 h 22 min

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000
Summary: A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 600,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 4
Summary: Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min

Countries: Sweden, West Germany
Language: English
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 04 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 450,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 4
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.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min

Country: West Germany
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 500,000
Summary: In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Runtime: 2 h 22 min
MPAA: R

Language: German
Summary: A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 325,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 1,838
Summary: In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Summary: In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: Mexico, West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 370,000
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 33 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 260,000
Domestic: $ 8,144
International: $ 8,103
Summary: A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 500,000
Summary: A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a house. Instead of offering their flat t...
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: West Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 800,000