| Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen | drama film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, military science fiction |
| Battle of Moscow | Yuri Ozerov | drama film, historical film, war film, epic film |
| Retouche | Dieter Funk | drama film |
| King Kongs Faust | Heiner Stadler | road movie, comedy drama |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | romance film, drama film, war film |
| Never Say Never Again | Irvin Kershner | action film, spy film |
| The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Margarethe von Trotta | art film, drama film |
| Far from Home | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | drama film |
| Vanessa | Hubert Frank | drama film, sexploitation film |
| The Magician of Lublin | Menahem Golan | drama film |
| Cruising | William Friedkin | LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, detective film, crime film |
| Der Mörder | Ottokar Runze | drama film |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | art film, drama film |
| 21 Hours at Munich | William A. Graham | historical film |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film |
| The Day That Shook the World | Veljko Bulajić | drama film, historical film |
| John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | drama film |
| The Internecine Project | Ken Hughes | spy film, thriller film |
| Emil and the Piglet | Olle Hellbom | comedy film, children's film |
| Blue Blooms the Gentian | Franz Antel | comedy film, musical film |
| Willi Manages The Whole Thing | Werner Jacobs | comedy film, association football film |
| Pippi on the Run | Olle Hellbom | comedy film, children's film, adventure film |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film, horror film, comedy drama |
| Pippi in the South Seas | Olle Hellbom | comedy film, children's film, adventure film |
| Heiligabend auf St. Pauli | Klaus Wildenhahn | Christmas film, documentary film |
| The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | drama film, historical film, biographical film, musical film |
| The Face of Fu Manchu | Don Sharp | crime thriller film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Encounter in Salzburg | Max Friedmann | drama film |
| Redhead | Helmut Käutner | drama film |
| The Invisible Dr. Mabuse | Harald Reinl | science fiction film, crime film |
| Ramona | Paul Martin | comedy film |
| Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | drama film |
| La Paloma | Paul Martin | musical comedy |
| The Rest Is Silence | Helmut Käutner | drama film |
| Make Way for Lila | Rolf Husberg | romance film, drama film |
| As Long as You Live | Harald Reinl | drama film |
| The Happy Village | Rudolf Schündler | comedy film |
| Rose-Girl Resli | Harald Reinl | drama film |
| Nights on the Road | Rudolf Jugert | drama film |
| The Heath Is Green | Hans Deppe | drama film |
| Viennese Girls | Willi Forst | musical film |
| The Wedding Hotel | Carl Boese | comedy film |
| The Great Sacrifice | Veit Harlan | drama film, melodrama |
| Nora | Harald Braun | drama film |
| Back Then | Rolf Hansen | drama film |
| Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | biographical film |
| Woman in the River | Gerhard Lamprecht | drama film |
| Immortal Waltz | E. W. Emo | musical film |