| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| 1970 |
| The American Soldier | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George | Drama | [1][2] |
| And God Said to Cain | Antonio Margheriti | Peter Carsten, Klaus Kinski, Marcella Michelangeli | | Italian-West German co-production[3] |
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | Tony Musante, Eva Renzi, Enrico Maria Salerno | Mystery, thriller | Italian-West German co-production[4][5] |
| Compañeros | Sergio Corbucci | Jack Palance, Gerard Tichy, Jesús Fernández | Western | Italian-Spanish-West German co-production[6] |
| Chariots of the Gods | Harald Reinl | | Documentary | [7] |
| The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clémenti | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production[8] |
| Count Dracula | Jesús Franco | Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski | | Spanish-Italian-West German-British co-production[9] |
| Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski | Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler | Drama | West German-British-American co-production[10] |
| Dorian Gray | Massimo Dallamano | Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom | | Italian-West German co-production[11] |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | | Drama | [12] |
| Die Feuerzangenbowle | Helmut Käutner | | | [13] |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger | Drama | Italian-West German co-production[14] |
| Gods of the Plague | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | | | Drama |
| Jonathan | Hans W. Geissendorfer | Jürgen Jung, Ise Kundele, Oskar von Schab | Horror | [15] |
| The Lickerish Quartet | Radley Metzger | Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Paolo Turco | Adult, comedy-drama | Italian-American-West German co-production[17] |
| Malatesta | Peter Lilienthal | | | [18] Entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival |
| Mark of the Devil | Michael Armstrong | Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Vuco | | [19] |
| o.k. | Michael Verhoeven | | | [20] Caused the cancellation of the 20th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Pippi in the South Seas | Olle Hellbom | Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg | | Swedish-West German co-production[21] |
| Schulmädchen-Report | Ernst Hofbauer | | Sex report film | First of a series of 13 films |
| The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse | Jesus Franco | Jack Taylor, Fred Williams, Ewa Strömberg | | Spanish-West German co-production[22][23] |
| Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler | | Drama | Entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival[24] |
| 1971 |
| Apokal | Paul Anczykowski | Inken Sommer, Heinrich Giskes, Tilo Prückner | Drama | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival[25] |
| Beware of a Holy Whore | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Harry Baer, Marquard Bohm, Karl Scheydt | Comedy-drama | [26] |
| The Cat o' Nine Tails | Dario Argento | Catherine Spaak, Rada Rassimov, Vittorio Congia | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production[27] |
| Daughters of Darkness | Harry Kümel | Delphine Seyrig, Daniele Ouimet, John Karlen | Horror | Belgian-French-West German co-production[28] |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Gérard Oury | Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch | Comedy | French-Italian-Spanish-West German co-production[29] |
| Fata Morgana | Werner Herzog | Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, James William Gledhill, Eugen des Montagnes | | [30] |
| Handicapped Future | Werner Herzog | | | |
| He Who Loves in a Glass House | Michael Verhoeven | Senta Berger, Hartmut Becker, Marianne Blomquist | Drama | [31] Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Volker Vogeler | | | Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| Kommissar X jagt die roten Tiger | Harald Reinl | Tony Kendall, Brad Harris | Thriller | Italian/Pakistani co-production |
| Land of Silence and Darkness | Werner Herzog | | Documentary | [32] |
| Mathias Kneissl | Reinhard Hauff | Eva Mattes, Hans Brenner, Ruth Drexel | | [33] |
| The Merchant of Four Seasons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Lilo Pempeit, Peter Chatel, Hans Hirschmuller | Drama | [34] |
| Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production[35] |
| Our Willi Is the Best | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt, Ruth Stephan | Comedy | [36] |
| Return of Sabata | Frank Kramer | Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Annabella Incontrera | Western | French-Italian-West German co-production[37] |
| She Killed in Ecstasy | Jesus Franco | Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams | Horror | West German-Spanish co-production[38] |
| Trotta | Johannes Schaaf | | Drama | [39] |
| Twenty Girls and the Teachers | Werner Jacobs | Mascha Gonska, Heidi Kabel, Rudolf Schündler | Comedy | |
| The Vampire Happening | Freddie Francis | Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Yvor Murillo | Comedy, Horror | [40] |
| Vampyros Lesbos | Jesus Franco | Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Andrés Monales | Horror | Spanish-West German co-production |
| Web of the Spider | Antonio Margheriti | Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski | Horror, Mystery | Italian-French-West German co-production[42][43] |
| Whity | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | | Drama | [44] |
| 1972 |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo | Adventure, historical film | [45] |
| Baron Blood | Mario Bava | Nicoletta Elmi, Elke Sommer, Allan Collins | Horror | Italian-West German co-production[46] |
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Irm Hermann, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes | Drama | [47] |
| César and Rosalie | Claude Sautet | Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey | Comedy-drama | French-Italian-West German co-production[48] |
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Wim Wenders | Arthur Brauss | | West German-Austrian co-production[49] |
| Harlis | Robert van Ackerman | Rolf Zacher, Ulli Lommel, Gaby Larifari | Drama | [50] |
| Havoc | Peter Fleischmann | | | |
| Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen | Alfred Vohrer | Ruth Leuwerik, Horst Tappert, Alain Noury, Doris Kunstmann | Thriller | Based on the book by Johannes Mario Simmel, German Film Award |
| King, Queen, Knave | Jerzy Skolimowski | David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown | Comedy | American-West German co-production[51] |
| Ludwig II. | Luchino Visconti | Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trewor Howard Helmuth Griem | | |
| State of Siege | Costa-Gavras | O. E. Hasse, Yves Montand | | French-Italian-West German co-production[52] |
| Tears of Blood | Alfred Vohrer | Alain Noury, Anita Lochner, Wolfgang Reichmann | | West German-French co-production[53] |
| What? | Roman Polanski | Cicely Browne, Roman Polanski, Hugh Griffith | Comedy | French-Italian-West German co-production[54] |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Claudia Butenuth, Joachim Fuchsberger, Kaarin Baal | Mystery, thriller | Italian-West German co-production[55] |
| Willi Manages The Whole Thing | Werner Jacobs | Heinz Erhardt, Erika von Thellmann | Comedy | [56] |
| 1973 |
| Alter Kahn und junge Liebe | Werner Jacobs | Roy Black, Barbara Nielsen | | [57] |
| The Experts | Norbert Kückelmann | | | Won a Silver Bear at Berlin |
| Housewives on the Job | Ernst Hofbauer | Marie-Georges Pascal, Elisabeth Volkmann, Ingrid Steeger | | [58] |
| Little Mother | Radley Metzger | Christiane Krüger, Siegfried Rauch | Drama | |
| Mark of the Devil Part II | Adrian Hoven | Adrian Hoven, Reggie Nalder | | [59] |
| My Name is Nobody | Tonino Valerii | Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Geoffrey Lewis | Western | Italian-French-West German co-production[60][61] |
| The Scarlet Letter | Wim Wenders | Senta Berger, Hans-Christian Blech, Lou Castel | | West German-Spanish co-production[62] |
| The Tenderness of Wolves | Ulli Lommel | Margit Carstensen, Peer Raben, Jürgen Prochnow | Drama | [63] |
| Trip to Vienna | Edgar Reitz | Elke Sommer, Hannelore Elsner | Comedy-drama | [64] |
| 1974 |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin | Drama | [65] |
| Alice in the Cities | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Edda Kochi, Yella Rottländer | Drama | [66] |
| Der Lieberschuler | Sigi Rothemund | Sylvia Kristel, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Terry Torday | Comedy-drama | [67] |
| Der Springteufel | | Dieter Hallervorden | Thriller | TV film based on story by Derrick Sherwin (Doctor Who) |
| Effi Briest | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Karl Scheydt, Irm Hermann, Andrea Schober | Drama | [68] |
| The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Werner Herzog | Bruno Schleinstein, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira | | [69] |
| In the Name of the People | Ottokar Runze | | Drama | [70] |
| La jeune fille assassinée | Roger Vadim | Roger Vadim, Sirpa Lane, Mathieu Carrière | Thriller | French-Italian-West German co-production[71] |
| Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Loewenadler | Drama | French-Italian-West German co-production[72] |
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell | Drama | British-West German co-production[73][74] |
| One or the Other of Us | Wolfgang Petersen | Elke Sommer, Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Schwarzkopf | | [75] |
| Only the Wind Knows the Answer | Alfred Vohrer | | | Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival |
| 1975 |
| Das Erdbeben in Chili | Helma Sanders-Brahms | | Drama | |
| Evrydiki BA 2O37 | Nikos Nikolaidis | Vera Tschechowa, John Moore, Niki Triantafillidi | Drama | Greek-West German co-production[76] |
| Fox | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | |
| The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner | Werner Herzog | | | |
| Ice Age | Peter Zadek | | | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival |
| John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | | | Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum | Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | Angela Winkler, Jürgen Prochnow | Drama | |
| Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven | | | | |
| The Net (1975 film) | | | | |
| Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand | Helma Sanders-Brahms | | | |
| The Wrong Move | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla | Drama | |
| 1976 |
| 2 geile Hirsche auf der Flucht | Alois Brummer | | Comedy | |
| 1900 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu | Romantic drama/ War | IT/ FR/ W.GER/ USA, 1 win & 1 nom. |
| Chinese Roulette | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Margit Carstensen, Ulli Lommel, Anna Karina | Drama | |
| Coup de Grâce | Volker Schlöndorff | | | Set in the Russian Civil War |
| Der starke Ferdinand | Alexander Kluge | | Drama | |
| Heart of Glass | Werner Herzog | | | |
| I Only Want You To Love Me | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | | Drama | |
| Kings of the Road | Wim Wenders | | Drama | Won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival |
| A Lost Life | Ottokar Runze | Gerhard Olschewski | | Olschewski won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin |
| No One Will Play with Me | Werner Herzog | | | |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | Werner Herzog | | | |
| The Sternstein Manor | Hans W. Geißendörfer | | | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival |
| 1977 |
| Der Amerikanische Freund | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper | | Entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Conquest of the Citadel | Bernhard Wicki | | | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason | War | German/British co-production |
| The Expulsion from Paradise | Niklaus Schilling | | | Entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Hitler: A Film from Germany | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg |
| Die Konsequenz | Wolfgang Petersen | | | Petersen won the 1978 Adolf Grimme Awards |
| La Soufrière | Werner Herzog | | | |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | | | |
| 1978 |
| Flaming Hearts | Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann | | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Germany in Autumn | Various | | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| In a Year of 13 Moons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven | Drama | |
| The Left-Handed Woman | Peter Handke | | | Entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival |
| Missile X – Geheimauftrag Neutronenbombe | Leslie H. Martinson | | | Italian/Spanish international co-production |
| Moritz, Dear Moritz | Hark Bohm | | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Passion Flower Hotel | André Farwagi | Nastassja Kinski, Gerry Sundquist | Comedy | |
| The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Margarethe von Trotta | |
| Rhinegold | Niklaus Schilling | | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| 1979 |
| Americathon | | John Ritter | Comedy | |
| David | Peter Lilienthal | | Drama | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin |
| The First Polka | Klaus Emmerich | | | Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla | | First in the BRD Trilogy |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz | Horror | |
| She's 19 and Ready | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Sabine Wollin, Ekkehardt Belle | Sex comedy | |
| Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness | Margarethe von Trotta | | Drama | |
| The Tailor from Ulm | Edgar Reitz | | | Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival |
| The Third Generation | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen | Black comedy | |
| The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | David Bennent, Charles Aznavour, Mario Adorf | Drama | Based on the book by Günter Grass |
| Woyzeck | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski | Classic literature | Based on the story by Georg Büchner |