List of German films of the 1990s
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This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 1990s.
For an alphabetical list of articles on German films see Category:German films.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1990 | ||||||
| Abraham's Gold | Jörg Graser | Hanna Schygulla, | Screened at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Reinhard Münster | Katharina Thalbach, Hans Christian Blech, Hannelore Elsner | Thriller | ||||
| Affengeil | Rosa von Praunheim | Lotti Huber | Documentary | |||
| The African Woman | Margarethe von Trotta | Stefania Sandrelli, Barbara Sukowa, Sami Frey | Drama | Italian-French-German co-production | ||
| Buster's Bedroom | Rebecca Horn | Amanda Ooms, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin, Valentina Cortese | German-Canadian-Portuguese co-production | |||
| Butterbrot | Gabriel Barylli | Gabriel Barylli, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Heinz Hoenig | Comedy | |||
| Dr. M | Claude Chabrol | Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Andrew McCarthy, Wolfgang Preiss | Thriller | French-German-Italian co-production | ||
| Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy | World War II Drama | German-French-Polish co-production. 1991 Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign Film; 1991 Academy Award Nominee for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay | ||
| Fire, Ice and Dynamite | Willy Bogner | Roger Moore, Shari Belafonte, Uwe Ochsenknecht | Action comedy | |||
| The German Chainsaw Massacre | Christoph Schlingensief | , Udo Kier, Volker Spengler, Irm Hermann | ||||
| Herzlich willkommen | Hark Bohm | Uwe Bohm, Barbara Auer | Entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Kill Cruise | Peter Keglevic | Elizabeth Hurley, Patsy Kensit, Jürgen Prochnow | Thriller | |||
| The Nasty Girl | Michael Verhoeven | Lena Stolze | Verhoeven won the Silver Bear at Berlin; 1990 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film | |||
| Manfred Krug, Klaus Wennemann | Drama | |||||
| Quiet Days in Clichy | Claude Chabrol | Andrew McCarthy, Nigel Havers, Barbara De Rossi, Mario Adorf, Stéphane Audran | Drama | French-German-Italian co-production | ||
| Egon Günther | Anica Dobra, Jürgen Vogel, Richy Müller, Mario Adorf, Manfred Krug, Mathieu Carrière | Crime | ||||
| Werner – Beinhart! | , |
Rötger Feldmann, Meret Becker, Ludger Pistor | Animated / live-action comedy | |||
| Zander – Der Film | Stephan Lenzen, | [1] | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1991 | ||||||
| Sönke Wortmann | Thomas Heinze, Jennifer Nitsch, , Meret Becker | Comedy | ||||
| Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Rolf Hoppe, Angela Winkler, Matthias Paul | Drama | ||||
| Anthony Perkins, Uwe Bohm, Sophie Ward | Thriller | |||||
| Europa | Lars von Trier | Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Eddie Constantine | Drama | Danish-Swedish-German-French-Swiss co-production | ||
| Rainer Simon | Matthias Habich, Jan Josef Liefers | Drama | ||||
| Go Trabi Go | Wolfgang Stumph | Comedy | ||||
| Lebewohl, Fremde | Tevfik Başer | Grażyna Szapołowska | Drama | Screened at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Herrmann Zschoche | Barbara Sommer, Rolf Lukoschek | Drama | ||||
| Malina | Werner Schroeter | Isabelle Huppert, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | German-Austrian co-production. Entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Manta, Manta | Til Schweiger | Action comedy | ||||
| Pappa Ante Portas | Loriot | Loriot, Evelyn Hamann | Comedy | |||
| Scream of Stone | Werner Herzog | Donald Sutherland, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Brad Dourif | Drama | German-French-Canadian co-production | ||
| Egon Günther | Rolf Ludwig | Drama | ||||
| Success | Franz Seitz | Bruno Ganz, Bernhard Wicki, Martin Benrath, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | Entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Ottfried Fischer, Ralf Richter, Jan Fedder | Comedy | |||||
| Frank Beyer | Christiane Heinrich, Nikolaus Gröbe, Michael Gwisdek, Christine Schorn | Drama | ||||
| The Tango Player | Roland Gräf | Michael Gwisdek, Corinna Harfouch | Drama | Entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Until the End of the World | Wim Wenders | Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Jeanne Moreau | Drama | German-French-Australian co-production | ||
| Voyager | Volker Schlöndorff | Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa | Drama | German-French-Greece co-production | ||
| Walerjan Wrobel's Homesickness | Rolf Schübel | Artur Pontek | Drama | Entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| Horst Seemann | Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke | Drama | ||||
| 1992 | ||||||
| Apple Trees | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Johanna Schall, , | Drama | Screened at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Marcel Gisler | Andreas Herder, Dina Leipzig | Gay drama | ||||
| Niklaus Schilling | Tilo Prückner, Christiane Paul | Comedy | ||||
| Gudrun | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Kerstin Gmelch | Drama | Won an Honourable Mention at Berlin | ||
| Knight Moves | Carl Schenkel | Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane | Thriller | German-American co-production | ||
| Little Sharks | Sönke Wortmann | Jürgen Vogel, Kai Wiesinger, Meret Becker, Gedeon Burkhard, Armin Rohde | Comedy | |||
| Heiner Carow | Angelica Domröse, Gottfried John | Drama | ||||
| Salt on Our Skin | Andrew Birkin | Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio | Erotic | German-French-Canadian co-production | ||
| Schtonk! | Helmut Dietl | Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Harald Juhnke, Christiane Hörbiger, Veronica Ferres, Martin Benrath | Comedy | 1992 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film; Satire about the Hitler Diaries hoax | ||
| Roland Gräf | Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Kockisch, Ulrich Tukur | Thriller | ||||
| The Tigress | Karin Howard | Valentina Vargas, James Remar, George Peppard, Hannes Jaenicke, Ferdy Mayne | ||||
| 1993 | ||||||
| Abgeschminkt! | Katja von Garnier | Katja Riemann | Comedy | |||
| Benefit of the Doubt | Jonathan Heap | Donald Sutherland, Amy Irving | Thriller | American-German co-production | ||
| Body of Evidence | Uli Edel | Madonna, Willem Dafoe | Erotic | German-American co-production | ||
| Deadly Maria | Tom Tykwer | Nina Petri, Joachim Król, Josef Bierbichler | Thriller | |||
| Faraway, So Close! | Wim Wenders | Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Nastassja Kinski, Horst Buchholz, Heinz Rühmann, Peter Falk | Fantasy drama | 1993 Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Film; 1993 Grand Prix Winner at Cannes | ||
| The House of the Spirits | Bille August | Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas | Drama | German-Danish-Portuguese co-production | ||
| The Innocent | John Schlesinger | Anthony Hopkins, Isabella Rossellini, Campbell Scott | Drama | American-German co-production | ||
| Just a Matter of Duty | Thomas Mitscherlich | Katharina Thalbach | Drama | Entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Justice | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Maximilian Schell, Thomas Heinze | Drama | German-Swiss co-production | ||
| , Uwe Ochsenknecht, Katharina Thalbach | Drama | |||||
| Hape Kerkeling, |
Hape Kerkeling, Heinz Schenk, Elisabeth Volkmann | Comedy | ||||
| The Long Silence | Margarethe von Trotta | Carla Gravina, Jacques Perrin, Alida Valli | Drama | Italian-French-German co-production | ||
| Katja Riemann, Henry Hübchen, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Gudrun Landgrebe | Comedy | |||||
| Night Train to Venice | Carlo U. Quinterio | Hugh Grant, Malcolm McDowell, Tahnee Welch, Kristina Söderbaum | Thriller | |||
| No More Mr. Nice Guy | Detlev Buck | Joachim Król, Horst Krause, Sophie Rois | Entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Herwig Kipping | Christoph Schiller, Gottfried John, Eva-Maria Hagen | Drama | ||||
| Radu Gabrea | Werner Stocker, Dana Vávrová, Dominique Sanda, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Serge Reggiani | Drama | German-French-Romanian co-production | |||
| Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | Thomas Kretschmann, Dominique Horwitz, Martin Benrath | War drama | Entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| Helge Schneider, |
Helge Schneider | Comedy | ||||
| Two Small Bodies | Beth B | Suzy Amis, Fred Ward | Thriller | |||
| 1994 | ||||||
| 00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter | Helge Schneider | Helge Schneider | Comedy | |||
| Amoklauf | Uwe Boll | Michael Rasmussen, Birgit Stein, Christian Kahrmann | Horror | |||
| Asterix Conquers America | Animated | German-French co-production | ||||
| Back to Square One | Reinhard Münster | Katharina Thalbach, Harald Juhnke, Detlev Buck | Entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Der bewegte Mann | Sönke Wortmann | Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Król | Comedy | |||
| The Blue One | Manfred Krug | Entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen | Joseph Vilsmaier | Corinna Harfouch, Heiner Lauterbach | Family | |||
| Felidae | Animated, mystery | |||||
| Sherry Hormann | Thomas Heinze, Barbara Auer, Kai Wiesinger | Comedy | ||||
| Lisbon Story | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler | Screened at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Living Buddha | Clemens Kuby | Documentary | ||||
| Mario and the Magician | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Julian Sands | Entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival | |||
| Mesmer | Roger Spottiswoode | Alan Rickman | Biographical film | Austrian-Canadian-British-German co-production | ||
| Nostradamus | Roger Christian | Tchéky Karyo, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond, Assumpta Serna, Rutger Hauer, F. Murray Abraham | Biographical film | British-German-French-Romanian co-production | ||
| Horst Schier, Alfred Deutsch | Gustl Bayrhammer, , Wolfgang Völz | Family (Live-action / animated) | ||||
| La Reine Margot | Patrice Chéreau | Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Virna Lisi | Historic drama | French-German-Italian co-production | ||
| Die Sieger | Dominik Graf | Herbert Knaup, Katja Flint, Heinz Hoenig, Hannes Jaenicke, Meret Becker | Action thriller | |||
| Tom Gerhardt | Comedy | |||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| After Five in the Forest Primeval | Hans-Christian Schmid | Franka Potente | Romantic comedy | 2 Bavarian Film Awards | ||
| Brother of Sleep | Joseph Vilsmaier | , Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker | Drama | Official Submission for the Academy Awards in 1995 | ||
| Deathmaker | Romuald Karmakar | Götz George | Drama | Official Submission for the Academy Awards in 1996; Based on the interrogation of murderer Fritz Haarmann | ||
| Hades | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch | Entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Doris Dörrie | Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss | Comedy | ||||
| Moondance | Rúaidhrí Conroy, Ian Shaw, Julia Brendler, Marianne Faithfull | Drama | Irish-German co-production | |||
| Michael Verhoeven | Pauline Collins, Ulrich Tukur | World War II drama | German-Austrian-British co-production | |||
| The Promise | Margarethe von Trotta | Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner | Drama | Official Submission for the Academy Awards in 1994; Romantic Drama beginning during the rise and ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall | ||
| Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel | Ulrich Mühe, Iris Berben | Family | ||||
| Oliver Korittke, , Julia Jäger, Axel Milberg, Karl Lieffen | Comedy | |||||
| Silent Night | Dani Levy | Maria Schrader, Jürgen Vogel | ||||
| Talk of the Town | Rainer Kaufmann | Katja Riemann, Kai Wiesinger, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu | Comedy | |||
| Transatlantis | Christian Wagner | Daniel Olbrychski | Entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| 1996 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Steve Barron | Martin Landau, Udo Kier, Rob Schneider, Geneviève Bujold | Fantasy | American-Czech-German-British-French co-production | ||
| Beyond Silence | Caroline Link | Sylvie Testud | 1997 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film | |||
| Father's Day | Sherry Hormann | Corinna Harfouch, Herbert Knaup | Comedy | |||
| Killer Condom | Martin Walz | Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben | Horror comedy | |||
| Männerpension | Detlev Buck | Til Schweiger, Heike Makatsch, Marie Bäumer, Detlev Buck | ||||
| The Ogre | Volker Schlöndorff | John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht | Drama | French-German-British co-production | ||
| Regular Guys | Christoph M. Ohrt, , Tim Bergmann, Oliver Stokowski | Gay comedy | ||||
| Seven Servants | Daryush Shokof | Anthony Quinn | Surreal comedy | - | ||
| The Superwife | Sönke Wortmann | Veronica Ferres, Joachim Król, Thomas Heinze, Til Schweiger | Comedy | |||
| Walking and Talking | Nicole Holofcener | Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber, Kevin Corrigan, Vincent Pastore, Randall Batinkoff, Joseph Siravo, Allison Janney | Independent film | French-German-British-American co-production | ||
| Werner – Das muß kesseln!!! | Animated | |||||
| Workaholic | Christiane Paul, Tobias Moretti, | Comedy | ||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| 14 Days to Life | Roland Suso Richter | Kai Wiesinger, Michael Mendl | Thriller | |||
| Bandits | Katja von Garnier | Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Nicolette Krebitz | Action | |||
| Comedian Harmonists | Joseph Vilsmaier | Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Kai Wiesinger, Ben Becker | Biographical film | |||
| Kleines Arschloch | , Veit Vollmer |
Animated | ||||
| Knockin' on Heaven's Door | Thomas Jahn | Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Moritz Bleibtreu | Action comedy | Entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| Lea | Ivan Fíla | Lenka Vlasakova, Christian Redl, Hanna Schygulla, Udo Kier | Czech-German co-production | |||
| Life is All You Get | Wolfgang Becker | Jürgen Vogel, Christiane Paul | Entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| My Heart Is Mine Alone | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Lena Stolze | Biographical film | |||
| Obsession | Daniel Craig, Heike Makatsch, Charles Berling | French-German co-production | ||||
| The Pharmacist | Rainer Kaufmann | Katja Riemann, Jürgen Vogel | ||||
| Helmut Dietl | Götz George, Mario Adorf, Heiner Lauterbach, Veronica Ferres, Gudrun Landgrebe | Comedy | ||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| Am I Beautiful? | Doris Dörrie | Franka Potente, Senta Berger, Heike Makatsch, Iris Berben | ||||
| The Big Mambo | Michael Gwisdek | Corinna Harfouch, Michael Gwisdek, Jürgen Vogel | Entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Der Campus | Sönke Wortmann | Heiner Lauterbach, Sandra Speichert, Martin Benrath | ||||
| Everything Will Be Fine (Alles wird gut) | Angelina Maccarone | Kati Studemann, Chantal de Freitas | Comedy | |||
| Four for Venice | Vivian Naefe | Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Heino Ferch, Gedeon Burkhard | Comedy | |||
| Iris Berben, Martina Gedeck, Jeanette Hain, Olli Dittrich, Thomas Heinze, Dirk Bach | Comedy | |||||
| The Little Girl Who Fell from the Tree | Michael Bartlett | Dominique Horwitz, Floriane Daniel, Julia Jäger | Thriller | |||
| Hard Rain | Mikael Salomon | Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner | Action | International co-production | ||
| Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit | Marc Rothemund | Cosma Shiva Hagen, Christoph Waltz, Gudrun Landgrebe, Michaela May | Comedy | |||
| Meschugge | Dani Levy | Maria Schrader | German-Swiss-American co-production | |||
| Palmetto | Volker Schlöndorff | Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon | Crime | German-American co-production | ||
| Places in Cities | Angela Schanelec | Sophie Aigner | Screened at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu | Thriller | Official Submission for the 1998 Academy Awards; 1998 BAFTA Nominee; 1999 Independent Spirit Award Winner | ||
| Short Sharp Shock | Fatih Akin | Mehmet Kurtuluş | ||||
| Peter Fratzscher | Jan Josef Liefers, Marie Bäumer, Ulrich Mühe, Christoph Waltz, Peter Lohmeyer, Horst Krause | Thriller | ||||
| Götz George, Corinna Harfouch, Barbara Auer, Barbara Rudnik, Katharina Thalbach | Thriller | |||||
| Tarzan and the Lost City | Carl Schenkel | Casper Van Dien, Jane March | Adventure | German-American-Australian co-production | ||
| Trains'n'Roses | Joachim Król, Peter Lohmeyer, Outi Mäenpää | German-Finnish co-production | ||||
| Sherry Hormann | Ornella Muti, Katja Flint, Eva Mattes | Comedy | ||||
| Wrongfully Accused | Pat Proft | Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Kelly Le Brock, Michael York | Comedy | American-German co-production | ||
| 1999 | ||||||
| 23 | Hans-Christian Schmid | August Diehl | ||||
| Absolute Giganten | Sebastian Schipper | Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot, Jr., Julia Hummer | ||||
| After the Truth | Roland Suso Richter | Kai Wiesinger, Götz George | ||||
| Aimée & Jaguar | Max Färberböck | Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler | Romantic drama | 1999 Golden Globe Nominee; Official Submission for the Academy Awards in 1999; Lesbian love story set in World War II | ||
| Annaluise & Anton | Caroline Link | Meret Becker, Juliane Köhler, August Zirner, Sylvie Testud, Benno Fürmann | Family | |||
| Bang Boom Bang | Oliver Korittke, Markus Knüfken, Ralf Richter, Diether Krebs, Martin Semmelrogge | Comedy | ||||
| Die Braut | Egon Günther | Veronica Ferres, Herbert Knaup | ||||
| Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders | Documentary / Musical | Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary | |||
| Gloomy Sunday – A Song of Love and Death | Rolf Schübel | Joachim Król, Erika Marozsán, Stefano Dionisi, Ben Becker | World War II drama | Co-production with Hungary | ||
| Bernd Eichinger | Til Schweiger, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Christine Neubauer | |||||
| Die Häupter meiner Lieben | Heike Makatsch, Christiane Paul | |||||
| Helmut Dietl | Thomas Gottschalk, Harald Schmidt, Veronica Ferres, Jasmin Tabatabai | Comedy | ||||
| Manila | Romuald Karmakar | Elizabeth McGovern, Jürgen Vogel, Martin Semmelrogge, Sky du Mont | ||||
| My Best Fiend | Werner Herzog | Documentary | Documentary film about Klaus Kinski | |||
| Nightshapes | Andreas Dresen | Michael Gwisdek | Entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Otomo | Isaach de Bankolé | Drama | ||||
| Franka Potente, Heiner Lauterbach, Daniel Brühl, Ken Duken, Tom Schilling | Thriller | |||||
| Sonnenallee | Leander Haußmann | Alexander Scheer, Robert Stadlober, Detlev Buck | Comedy | |||
| Sönke Wortmann | Benno Fürmann, Maruschka Detmers, Armin Rohde, Florian Lukas | |||||
| Straight Shooter | Thomas Bohn | Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint | Action thriller | |||
| The Thirteenth Floor | Josef Rusnak | Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D'Onofrio | Science Fiction | German-American co-production | ||
| Tuvalu | Veit Helmer | Denis Lavant, Chulpan Khamatova | ||||
References[]
External links[]
- German film at the Internet Movie Database (maintains separate lists for West Germany and East Germany)
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