List of German films of the 1980s
Title Director Cast Genre Notes
40 Quadratmeter Deutschland Tevfik Başer Özay Fecht , Yaman Okay , Demir Gökgöl Drama
Du mich auch Anja Franke [ de ] , Helmut Berger [ de ] , Dani Levy Anja Franke [ de ] , Dani Levy Comedy
Fatherland Ken Loach Gerulf Pannach [ de ] , Fabienne Babe [ fr ] , Cristine Rose British-West German-French co-production
Fire and Ice Willy Bogner Suzy Chaffee Sport / Romantic comedy
Flight North Ingemo Engström [ de ] Katharina Thalbach , Jukka-Pekka Palo [ fi ] , Lena Olin Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival
Johnny Flash [ de ] Werner Nekes Helge Schneider Comedy
The Journey Markus Imhoof Markus Boysen , Corinna Kirchhoff [ de ] , Will Quadflieg , Claude-Oliver Rudolph Drama West German-Swiss co-production
Killing Cars [ de ] Michael Verhoeven Jürgen Prochnow , Senta Berger , William Conrad , Agnès Soral , Bernhard Wicki , Daniel Gélin Action thriller
Laputa Helma Sanders-Brahms Sami Frey , Krystyna Janda Screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival
Meier Peter Timm [ de ] Rainer Grenkowitz [ de ] , Nadja Engelbrecht [ de ] Comedy
Momo Johannes Schaaf John Huston , Armin Mueller-Stahl , Mario Adorf , Radost Bokel Fantasy film West German-Italian co-production
The Name of the Rose Jean-Jacques Annaud Sean Connery , Christian Slater , F. Murray Abraham , Ron Perlman , Helmut Qualtinger , Michael Lonsdale Mystery West German-Italian-French co-production
Paradies Doris Dörrie Katharina Thalbach , Heiner Lauterbach , Sunnyi Melles , Hanne Wieder Drama
Rosa Luxemburg Margarethe von Trotta Barbara Sukowa , Daniel Olbrychski , Otto Sander Biographical film Sukowa won Best Actress at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival
Stammheim Reinhard Hauff Ulrich Tukur , Ulrich Pleitgen [ de ] Won the Golden Bear at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival
Tarot Rudolf Thome Hanns Zischler , Rüdiger Vogler , Katharina Böhm , Vera Tschechowa Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival
Wahnfried Peter Patzak Otto Sander , Christoph Waltz Biographical film Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival
1986
This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 1980s. For an alphabetical list of articles on West German films see .