| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| 1981 |
| Angels of Iron | Thomas Brasch | Hilmar Thate, Katharina Thalbach | | Entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival |
| Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer | War | Based on a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Columbia Pictures |
| Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo | Uli Edel | Natja Brunckhorst | | |
| Day of the Idiots | Werner Schroeter | Carole Bouquet, Ingrid Caven, Christine Kaufmann | Psycho-fantasy drama | Entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival |
| Desperado City | Vadim Glowna | Siemen Rühaak, Beate Finckh, Vera Tschechowa, Karin Baal | Drama | |
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | Herbert Vesely | Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann | Biographical film | Austrian-French-West German co-production |
| Die Fälschung | Volker Schlöndorff | Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Gila von Weitershausen | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Freak Orlando | Ulrike Ottinger | Delphine Seyrig, Magdalena Montezuma, Eddie Constantine | | |
| The Inventor | Kurt Gloor | Bruno Ganz, Walo Lüönd | Comedy | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Lili Marleen | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer | Drama | |
| Lola | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf | | 3rd part of BRD Trilogy |
| Looping | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | Shelley Winters, Hans Christian Blech, Sydne Rome | | |
| Marianne and Juliane | Margarethe von Trotta | Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa | Drama | The German Sisters |
| Mephisto | István Szabó | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rolf Hoppe, Krystyna Janda, Karin Boyd | | Hungarian-West German-East German-Austrian co-production.
Based on a story by Klaus Mann |
| Der Neger Erwin | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch | | Entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival |
| No Mercy, No Future | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Elisabeth Stepanek | Drama | |
| Possession | Andrzej Żuławski | Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen | Horror | |
| Die Reise nach Lyon | Claudia von Alemann | Rebecca Pauly | | |
| Der subjektive Faktor | Helke Sander | Angelika Rommel | Drama | |
| Taxi zum Klo | Frank Ripploh | Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup | Drama | |
| Trokadero | Klaus Emmerich | Ludwig Hirsch, Franz Xaver Kroetz | Comedy | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival |
| 1982 |
| The Beastmaster | Don Coscarelli | Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn | | American production with West German money |
| Comeback | Christel Buschmann | Eric Burdon, Julie Carmen | Drama | |
| Dear Mr. Wonderful | Peter Lilienthal | Joe Pesci | | |
| Doctor Faustus | Franz Seitz | Jon Finch, André Heller, Hanns Zischler | | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Eine deutsche Revolution | Helmut Herbst | | | Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale | | |
| The Ghost | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch | | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Kraftprobe | Heidi Genée | Hannelore Hoger, Kirstin Genée | | Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Magic Mountain | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Christoph Eichhorn, Rod Steiger, Charles Aznavour, Marie-France Pisier, Hans Christian Blech | | West German-French-Italian co-production |
| Parsifal | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Edith Clever | Musical | Screened at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Passerby | Jacques Rouffio | Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Mathieu Carrière, Maria Schell | | French-West German co-production[3][4] |
| Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau | Drama | |
| Rendezvous in Paris | Gabi Kubach | Claude Jade, Harald Kuhlmann, Barry Stokes | Thriller | French-West German co-production |
| The State of Things | Wim Wenders | Patrick Bauchau, Allen Garfield, Rebecca Pauly | Drama | West German-American-Portuguese co-production |
| Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess | Drama | Second in the BRD Trilogy |
| Die Weiße Rose | Michael Verhoeven | Lena Stolze, Wulf Kessler, Werner Stocker, Ulrich Tukur, Martin Benrath | | |
| 1983 |
| Bella Donna | Peter Keglevic | Erland Josephson, Krystyna Janda | | Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival |
| Dies rigorose Leben | Vadim Glowna | Ángela Molina, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Viveca Lindfors, Vera Tschechowa | Drama | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Frühlingssinfonie | Peter Schamoni | Nastassja Kinski, Herbert Grönemeyer, Rolf Hoppe, Bernhard Wicki, André Heller | Biographical film | |
| Gib Gas – Ich will Spass | Wolfgang Büld | Nena, Markus, Karl Dall | Musical comedy | |
| Glut | Thomas Koerfer | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katharina Thalbach, Krystyna Janda, Matthias Habich | Drama | Swiss-West German co-production |
| Kehraus | Hanns Christian Müller | Gerhard Polt | Comedy | |
| Peppermint Frieden | Marianne Rosenbaum | Peter Fonda, Cleo Kretschmer | | |
| Schwarzfahrer | Manfred Stelzer | Rolf Zacher, Iris Berben | Comedy | |
| Sheer Madness | Margarethe von Trotta | Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler | Drama | West German-French co-production.
Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Die Supernasen | Dieter Pröttel | Thomas Gottschalk, Mike Krüger | Comedy | |
| System ohne Schatten | Rudolf Thome | Bruno Ganz, Hanns Zischler, Dominique Laffin | Crime drama | |
| Utopia | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | | Drama | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| White Star | Roland Klick | Dennis Hopper | Drama | |
| A Woman in Flames | Robert van Ackeren | Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, Hanns Zischler | | |
| 1984 |
| 1000 Augen | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Barbara Rudnik, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe, Karin Baal, Peter Kraus, Vera Tschechowa, Hannelore Hoger | | |
| Abwärts | Carl Schenkel | Götz George, Renée Soutendijk, Wolfgang Kieling, Hannes Jaenicke | Thriller | |
| Das Autogramm | Peter Lilienthal | Juan José Mosalini | Drama | Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Ballad of the Little Soldier | Werner Herzog | | Documentary film | |
| Code Name: Wild Geese | Antonio Margheriti | Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Klaus Kinski, Mimsy Farmer | Action | Italian-West German co-production |
| The Dark Glow of the Mountains | Werner Herzog | | Documentary film | |
| Didi – Der Doppelgänger | Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Dieter Hallervorden | Comedy | |
| Erst die Arbeit und dann! | Detlev Buck | Detlev Buck | Comedy | |
| Forbidden | Anthony Page | Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow | | West German-British co-production |
| The Future of Emily | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Brigitte Fossey, Hildegard Knef | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Heimat | Edgar Reitz | Marita Breuer | | TV series |
| Klassenverhältnisse | Straub-Huillet | Christian Heinisch, Mario Adorf, Laura Betti | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| A Love in Germany | Andrzej Wajda | Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Łysak, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Daniel Olbrychski, Bernhard Wicki | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Man Under Suspicion | Norbert Kückelmann | Maximilian Schell, Lena Stolze, Wolfgang Kieling | | Won the Silver Bear at Berlin |
| The NeverEnding Story | Wolfgang Petersen | Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach | Fantasy | West German-American co-production |
| The Noah's Ark Principle | Roland Emmerich | Richy Müller | Science fiction | Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski | Drama | West German-French co-production.
Won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival |
| Der Schlaf der Vernunft | Ula Stöckl | Ida Di Benedetto | Drama | |
| Treffer | Dominik Graf | Dietmar Bär, Barbara Rudnik, Beate Finckh, Tayfun Bademsoy, Maximilian Wigger | | |
| Where the Green Ants Dream | Werner Herzog | Bruce Spence | | West German-Australian co-production.
Entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival |
| 1985 |
| Angry Harvest | Agnieszka Holland | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar | Drama | |
| The Berlin Affair | Liliana Cavani | Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki | | West German-Italian co-production |
| Colonel Redl | István Szabó | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe, Hans Christian Blech | | |
| The Death of the White Stallion | Christian Ziewer | Thomas Anzenhofer, Dietmar Schönherr | | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Didi und die Rache der Enterbten | Dieter Hallervorden,
Christian Rateuke | Dieter Hallervorden | Comedy | |
| Einmal Ku’damm und zurück | Herbert Ballmann | Ursela Monn, Christian Kohlund | Comedy | |
| Men... | Doris Dörrie | Heiner Lauterbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Ulrike Kriener | Comedy | |
| Morenga | Egon Günther | Jacques Breuer, Ken Gampu | | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Otto – Der Film | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Otto Waalkes | Comedy | |
| Red Heat | Robert Collector | Linda Blair, Sylvia Kristel, Elisabeth Volkmann | | West German-American co-production |
| Tagediebe | Marcel Gisler | | | |
| Wodzek | Oliver Herbrich | | Drama | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival |
| 1986 |
| 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland | Tevfik Başer | Özay Fecht, Yaman Okay, Demir Gökgöl | Drama | |
| Fatherland | Ken Loach | Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Cristine Rose | | British-West German-French co-production |
| Fire and Ice | Willy Bogner | Suzy Chaffee | Sport / Romantic comedy | |
| Flight North | Ingemo Engström | Katharina Thalbach, Jukka-Pekka Palo, Lena Olin | | Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Journey | Markus Imhoof | Markus Boysen, Corinna Kirchhoff, Will Quadflieg, Claude-Oliver Rudolph | Drama | West German-Swiss co-production |
| Laputa | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Sami Frey, Krystyna Janda | | Screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival |
| Meier | Peter Timm | Rainer Grenkowitz, Nadja Engelbrecht | Comedy | |
| Momo | Johannes Schaaf | John Huston, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Radost Bokel | Fantasy film | West German-Italian co-production |
| Name of the Rose !The Name of the Rose | Annaud, Jean-JacquesJean-Jacques Annaud | Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Ron Perlman, Helmut Qualtinger, Michael Lonsdale | Mystery | West German-Italian-French co-production[5][6][7] |
| 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 | | 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 |
| 1987 |
| Bagdad Cafe | Percy Adlon | Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance | Comedy | |
| Cobra Verde | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski | | |
| Days to Remember | Jeanine Meerapfel | Barbara Sukowa, Horst-Günter Marx | | Entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Distant Land | Luc Bondy | Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier | | |
| Helsinki Napoli All Night Long | Mika Kaurismäki | Kari Väänänen, Roberta Manfredi, Eddie Constantine, Samuel Fuller | Comedy thriller | Finnish-West German-Swiss co-production |
| Nekromantik | Jörg Buttgereit | Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski | Horror | |
| Otto – Der neue Film | Xaver Schwarzenberger,
Otto Waalkes | Otto Waalkes | Comedy | |
| Der Stein des Todes | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Heather Thomas, Elke Sommer | Action | |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk | | Won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival |
| 1988 |
| Brennende Betten | Pia Frankenberg | Ian Dury, Pia Frankenberg | Comedy | |
| The Cat | Dominik Graf | Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Heinz Hoenig, Ralf Richter | Crime thriller | |
| Felix | Margarethe von Trotta, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Helke Sander, Christel Buschmann | Ulrich Tukur | Comedy | |
| The French as seen by... | Werner Herzog | | | |
| Herbstmilch | Joseph Vilsmaier | Dana Vávrová, Werner Stocker | | |
| Im Jahr der Schildkröte | Ute Wieland | Heinz Bennent, Karina Fallenstein | Drama | |
| Der Kuss des Tigers | Petra Haffter | Beate Jensen, Stéphane Ferrara | Thriller | West German-French co-production |
| Love and Fear | Margarethe von Trotta | Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino | | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Man spricht deutsh | Hanns Christian Müller | Gerhard Polt | Comedy | |
| Ödipussi | Loriot | Loriot, Evelyn Hamann | Comedy | |
| The Passenger – Welcome to Germany | Thomas Brasch | Tony Curtis, Katharina Thalbach, Matthias Habich | | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Die Venusfalle | Robert van Ackeren | Sonja Kirchberger, Hanns Zischler, Myriem Roussel, Horst-Günter Marx | Comedy | |
| Yasemin | Hark Bohm | Ayse Romey, Uwe Bohm | | |
| 1989 |
| Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Antje Schmidt, Dominic Raacke, Volkert Kraeft | Comedy | |
| Black Sin | Straub-Huillet | | Short | Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Burning Secret | Andrew Birkin | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Faye Dunaway | Drama | West German-British co-production |
| Follow Me | Maria Knilli | Pavel Landovský, Marina Vlady, Katharina Thalbach | Drama | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Fool's Mate | Mathieu Carrière | Michael Marwitz, Victoria Tennant | Drama | Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brian Dennehy | Drama | |
| Hard Days, Hard Nights | Horst Königstein | Wigald Boning, Rita Tushingham, Al Corley | Comedy | |
| Himmelsheim | Manfred Stelzer | Elke Sommer, Sigi Zimmerschied, Hanns Zischler | Comedy | |
| Joan of Arc of Mongolia | Ulrike Ottinger | Delphine Seyrig, Gillian Scalici, Irm Hermann, Peter Kern | Drama | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | Uli Edel | Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young | Drama | West German-British co-production |
| Rosalie Goes Shopping | Percy Adlon | Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold | Comedy | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Rose Garden | Fons Rademakers | Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda | Drama | American-West German-Austrian co-production |
| Silence Like Glass | Carl Schenkel | Jami Gertz, Martha Plimpton, George Peppard | Drama | |
| Spider's Web | Bernhard Wicki | Ulrich Mühe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl | Drama | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Waller's Last Trip | Christian Wagner | Herbert Knaup | Drama | |
| Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | |
