| Arabian Nights | Stan Hayden | pornographic film |
| Wackersdorf – Ein Mythos | — | documentary film |
| Madame Butterfly | Frédéric Mitterrand | drama film, musical film |
| Auf Wiedersehen Amerika | Jan Schütte | drama film |
| Josephine the Singer and the Mice People | Sergei Maslobojshchikov | drama film |
| The Promise | Margarethe von Trotta | drama film, comedy drama |
| Body of Evidence | Uli Edel | mystery film, erotic thriller, trial film, erotic film |
| The Innocent | John Schlesinger | drama film |
| Lessons of Darkness | Werner Herzog | documentary film |
| Salt on Our Skin | Andrew Birkin | romance film, drama film, melodrama, erotic film |
| Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | drama film, historical film, war film, biographical film |
| Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea | Karen Gevorkian | drama film |
| Step Across the Border | Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel | documentary film |
| Werner – Beinhart! | Niki List, Gerhard Hahn, Michael Schaack | comedy film, action film, live-action/animated film |
| Decalogue X | Krzysztof Kieślowski | drama film, comedy drama |
| Massacre Play | Damiano Damiani | drama film |
| Decalogue IV | Krzysztof Kieślowski | drama film |
| Jenatsch | Daniel Schmid | drama film, fantasy film |
| Strada Pia | Georg Brintrup | documentary film |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | drama film, crime film |
| Bolero | Rüdiger Nüchtern | melodrama |
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | Herbert Vesely | drama film, biographical film |
| Huie's Sermon | Werner Herzog | documentary film |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | drama film, vampire film |
| Red Rings of Fear | Alberto Negrin | mystery film, horror film, thriller film |
| Nelken in Aspik | Günter Reisch | comedy film |
| Between Day and Night | Horst E. Brandt, Nicolai Rohde | drama film |
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | political thriller film, drama film |
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Wim Wenders | drama film, association football film |
| Black Beauty | James Hill | drama film, family film, children's film |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Gérard Oury | comedy film, historical film |
| KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra | Horst E. Brandt | drama film |
| Rudi, Behave! | Franz Josef Gottlieb | comedy film, musical film |
| Josefine Mutzenbacher | Kurt Nachmann | comedy film, sex comedy |
| Musik, Musik - da wackelt die Penne | Franz Antel | comedy film |
| What Is the Matter with Willi? | Werner Jacobs | comedy film |
| De Sade | Roger Corman, Cy Endfield, Gordon Hessler | drama film, erotic thriller, erotic film, biographical film |
| More | Barbet Schroeder | drama film |
| 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman | Dominique Delouche | romance film, drama film, melodrama |
| Death and Diamonds | Harald Reinl | crime film |
| Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle | Werner W. Wallroth | adventure film |
| Kampf um Rom | Andrew Marton, Robert Siodmak, Sergiu Nicolaescu | medieval film, historical drama |
| The Hound of Blackwood Castle | Alfred Vohrer | crime film |
| The Valley of Death | Harald Reinl | Western film, adventure film |
| Frozen Flashes | János Veiczi | spy film, war film |
| Inn of the Gruesome Dolls | Rolf Olsen | thriller film |
| 3-2-1 Countdown for Manhattan | Harald Philipp | crime film |
| Don Camillo in Moscow | Luigi Comencini | comedy film |