Best German movies of 1980s

Actors : Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Jürgen Prochnow, Hubertus Bengsch,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

Actors : José Lewgoy, King Ampaw, Klaus Kinski, Salvatore Basile,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.

Actors : Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Actors : Harald Lundt, Colloseo Schulzendorf, Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski,
Directors : Jörg Buttgereit,

A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.

Actors : Armin Mueller-Stahl, Matthias Fuchs, Mario Adorf, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city's new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.

Actors : Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Karin Springer, Silvia Ryder,
Directors : Gerald Kargl,

A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Mel Ferrer, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi ...

Actors : Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Frank Ripploh, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Adelheid Arndt, Otto Sander, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Actors : Dirk Kummer, Dagmar Manzel, Michael Gwisdek, Matthias Freihof,
Directors : Heiner Carow,

A young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.

Actors : Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer, Désirée Nosbusch,
Directors : Eckhart Schmidt,

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later...

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Ena Begovic,
Directors : Zdravko Sotra,

WW2 is coming to an end and a young Partisan must face new challenges as a schoolteacher in small Serbian town.

Actors : Nikolaus Paryla, Gerhard Polt, Gisela Schneeberger, Dieter Hildebrandt,
Directors : Hanns Christian Müller,

Fork-lift truck driver Ferdinand Weitel is desperate: he earns just a few deutschmarks a month, and now an unsavoury insurance agent has talked him into signing over expensive contracts. ...

Actors : Christiane Felscherinow, FM Einheit, William Rice, Britzhold Baron De Belle,
Directors : Muscha,

A burger shop employee discovers that by changing the background music from pleasantly calming to industrial "noise" music, he can incite riots and a revolution against the looming power of the government.

Actors : Rod Steiger, Lou Jacobi, Brett Marx, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Max Fischer,

In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.

Actors : Imke Barnstedt, Gundula Petrovska, Gabriele Fischer, Manfred Zapatka,
Directors : Sohrab Shahid Saless,

A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them ...

Actors : Agnès Soral, Daniel Gélin, Senta Berger, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the ...