| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| 1980 |
| The Candidate | Volker Schlöndorff | | | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| Exit Sunset Boulevard | Bastian Clevé | Elke Sommer, Büdiger Kuhlbrodt | Drama | |
| Germany, Pale Mother | Helma Sanders-Brahms | | | Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Girls | Just Jaeckin | Anne Parillaud, Zoé Chauveau, Charlotte Walior | | French-West German-Canadian co-production[1][2] |
| Glaube und Währung | Werner Herzog | | | |
| God's Angry Man | Werner Herzog | | | |
| Huie's Sermon | Werner Herzog | | | |
| Palermo or Wolfsburg | Werner Schroeter | | | Won the Golden Bear at Berlin |
| Der Preis fürs Überleben | Hans Noever | | | Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Put on Ice | Bernhard Sinkel | | | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Willi Busch Report | Niklaus Schilling | | | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| 1981 |
| Angels of Iron | Thomas Brasch | | | Entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival |
| Die Berührte | Helma Sanders-Brahms | |
| Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer | War | Based on a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Columbia Pictures |
| Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo | Uli Edel | Natja Brunckhorst | | |
| Day of the Idiots | Werner Schroeter | | Psycho-fantasy drama | Entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival |
| Die Fälschung | Volker Schlöndorff | Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski | Drama | |
| The German Sisters | Margarethe von Trotta | Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa | Drama | |
| The Inventor | Kurt Gloor | Bruno Ganz, Walo Lüönd | Comedy | |
| Lili Marleen | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini | Drama | |
| Lola | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl | | 3rd part of BRD Trilogy |
| Marianne and Juliane | Margarethe von Trotta | Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa | | |
| Mephisto | István Szabó | Klaus Maria Brandauer | | Co-production with Hungary and Austria based on a story by Klaus Mann |
| Der Neger Erwin | Herbert Achternbusch | | | Entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival |
| Possession | Andrzej Żuławski | Isabelle Adjani | Horror | |
| Taxi zum Klo | Frank Ripploh | Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup | Drama | |
| Trokadero | Klaus Emmerich | | | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival |
| 1982 |
| The Beastmaster | Don Coscarelli | | | |
| Comeback | Christel Buschmann | Eric Burdon, Julie Carmen | Drama | |
| Doctor Faustus | Franz Seitz, Jr. | | | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Eine deutsche Revolution | Helmut Herbst | | | Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | | | |
| The Ghost | Herbert Achternbusch | | | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Kraftprobe | Heidi Genée | | | Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Parsifal | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | | Musical | Screened at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival |
| Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brad Davis, Franco Nero | Drama | |
| Rendezvous in Paris | Gabi Kubach | Claude Jade, Harald Kuhlmann, Barry Stokes | Thriller | Franco-German co-production |
| The State of Things | Wim Wenders | Patrick Bauchau, Allen Garfield | Drama | |
| Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | | | Second in the BRD Trilogy |
| Die Weiße Rose | Michael Verhoeven | Lena Stolze, Wulf Kessler | | |
| 1983 |
| Bella Donna | Peter Keglevic | | | Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival |
| Dies rigorose Leben | Vadim Glowna | | | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Sheer Madness | Margarethe von Trotta | | | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| Die Supernasen | Dieter Pröttel | Thomas Gottschalk | comedy | |
| Utopia | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | | | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
| 1984 |
| Das Autogramm | Peter Lilienthal | | | Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Ballad of the Little Soldier | Werner Herzog | | | |
| The Dark Glow of the Mountains | Werner Herzog | | | |
| Flügel und Fesseln | Helma Sanders-Brahms | |
| Klassenverhältnisse | Straub-Huillet | Christian Heinisch, Mario Adorf, Nazzareno Bianconi | Drama | West German-French co-production |
| Man Under Suspicion | Norbert Kückelmann | | | Won the Silver Bear at Berlin |
| The NeverEnding Story | Wolfgang Petersen | Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach | Fantasy | |
| The Noah's Ark Principle | Roland Emmerich | | | Entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Where the Green Ants Dream | Werner Herzog | | | 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 | | |
| Colonel Redl | István Szabó | Klaus Maria Brandauer | | |
| The Death of the White Stallion | Christian Ziewer | | | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Morenga | Egon Günther | | | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Woman and the Stranger | Rainer Simon | Kathrin Waligura, Siegfried Höchst | | East German |
| Wodzek | Oliver Herbrich | | | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival |
| 1986 |
| Flight North | Ingemo Engström | | | Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Laputa | Helma Sanders-Brahms | | | Screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Margarethe von Trotta | Barbara Sukowa | | Sukowa won Best Actress at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival |
| Stammheim | Reinhard Hauff | | | Won the Golden Bear at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Tarot | Rudolf Thome | | | Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Wahnfried | Peter Patzak | | | 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 | | | Entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Nekromantik | Jörg Buttgereit | Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski | | |
| Der Stein des Todes | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Heather Thomas, Elke Sommer | Action | |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | | | Won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival |
| 1988 |
| The French as seen by... | Werner Herzog | | | |
| Love and Fear | Margarethe von Trotta | | | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Passenger - Welcome to Germany | Thomas Brasch | | | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| 1989 |
| Black Sin | Straub-Huillet | | Short | Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Follow Me | Maria Knilli | | | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Fool's Mate | Mathieu Carrière | | | Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Hard Days, Hard Nights | Horst Königstein | | | |
| Himmelsheim | Manfred Stelzer | Elke Sommer, Sigi Zimmerschied | Comedy | |
| Joan of Arc of Mongolia | Ulrike Ottinger | | | Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Rosalie Goes Shopping | Percy Adlon | | | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Spider's Web | Bernhard Wicki | | | Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival |
| Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun | Werner Herzog | | | |
