| A Thousand Oceans | Luki Frieden | drama film | Luxembourg, Switzerland |
| Max Minsky and Me | Anna Justice | comedy film, children's film | Germany |
| To Live | Angelina Maccarone | drama film, road movie | Germany |
| Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe | Julian Benedikt | musical film, documentary film | Germany |
| Summer in Berlin | Andreas Dresen | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama | Germany |
| Wanted! | Francis Meletzky | drama film | Germany |
| Alles auf Zucker! | Dani Levy | comedy film | Germany |
| Mädchen, Mädchen 2 – Loft oder Liebe | Peter Gersina | comedy film | Germany |
| The Truth in Acting | Klaus Maria Brandauer | documentary film | Germany |
| Volkspolizei / 1985 | Thomas Heise | documentary film | East Germany |
| Fassbinder's Women | Rosa von Praunheim | LGBTQ-related film, documentary film | Germany |
| Anna Wunder | Ulla Wagner | drama film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Bloody Weekend | Thomas Roth | thriller film, crime film | Germany, Austria |
| Nightshapes | Andreas Dresen | drama film | Germany |
| Women Don't Lie | Michael Juncker | comedy film | Germany, Austria |
| Widows | Sherry Hormann | comedy film | Germany |
| Kummeli Goldrush | Matti Grönberg | comedy film | Finland |
| The Minister of State | Paul-Anders Simma | comedy film | Norway, Finland, Sweden |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Dwarfs | Günter Meyer | children's film | Germany |
| Red Cherry | Ye Daying | war drama | People's Republic of China |
| Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen | Joseph Vilsmaier | drama film, comedy film, children's film | Germany |
| Zabou | Hajo Gies | crime film | Germany |
| Pereprava | Viktor Turov, Marek Brodzki | drama film, war film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Retouche | Dieter Funk | drama film | Germany |
| King Kongs Faust | Heiner Stadler | road movie, comedy drama | Germany |
| What we remember | Roland Steiner | documentary film | East Germany |
| Kalabaliken i Bender | Mats Arehn | comedy film | Sweden |
| The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Margarethe von Trotta | art film, drama film | Germany |
| St. Tropez | Gérard Kikoïne | pornographic film | France |
| Until Death Do Us Part | Heiner Carow | romance film, drama film | East Germany |
| Seven Freckles | Herrmann Zschoche | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film | East Germany |
| Far from Home | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | drama film | Germany, Iran |
| Vanessa | Hubert Frank | drama film, sexploitation film | Germany |
| The Inventor | Kurt Gloor | drama film, comedy drama | Switzerland |
| The Magician of Lublin | Menahem Golan | drama film | Germany, Israel |
| Solo Sunny | Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf | drama film, slice of life, musical film | East Germany |
| Der Mörder | Ottokar Runze | drama film | Germany |
| The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | art film, drama film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | drama film, biographical film | Norway, Poland |
| The Day That Shook the World | Veljko Bulajić | drama film, historical film | Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia |
| John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | drama film | Germany |
| Blue Blooms the Gentian | Franz Antel | comedy film, musical film | Germany |
| The Legend of Paul and Paula | Heiner Carow | drama film, comedy film | East Germany |
| Willi Manages The Whole Thing | Werner Jacobs | comedy film, association football film | Germany |
| Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | action film, war film, heist film | United States, Yugoslavia |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film, horror film, comedy drama | Germany |
| Heiligabend auf St. Pauli | Klaus Wildenhahn | Christmas film, documentary film | Germany |
| War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk | romance film, drama film, historical film, war film, epic film | Soviet Union |