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:1990s German films.
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:1990s German films.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom | Rolf Silber | Christoph Waltz, Anica Dobra | Comedy | |
| Abgetrieben | Norbert Kückelmann | Hanns Zischler | Drama | |
| The Absence | Peter Handke | Bruno Ganz, Jeanne Moreau | Drama | French-German-Spanish co-production |
| Andere Umstände | Bettina Woernle | Katja Riemann, Hannes Jaenicke, Rainer Grenkowitz, Alexander Hauff | Comedy | |
| Andy | Ralph Bohn | Oliver Masucci, Anna Thalbach | Drama | |
| Die Angst wird bleiben | Diethard Klante | Heinz Hoenig, Constanze Engelbrecht, Johanna Klante, Christoph Waltz | Drama | |
| Apple Trees | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Johanna Schall, Thomas Büchel, Udo Kroschwald | Drama | Screened at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival |
| Blame It on the Bossa Nova | Bernd Schadewald | Muriel Baumeister, Jürgen Vogel, Benno Fürmann | Drama | |
| The Blue Hour | Marcel Gisler | Andreas Herder, Dina Leipzig | Gay drama | |
| Border Frenzy | Niklaus Schilling | Tilo Prückner, Christiane Paul | Comedy | a.k.a. Deutschfieber |
| Child's Play | Wolfgang Becker | Jonas Kipp, Burghart Klaußner | Drama | |
| Dornberger | Franz Peter Wirth | Peter Bongartz, Iris Berben, Volkert Kraeft | Drama | |
| Gerichtstag | Eberhard Itzenplitz | Dieter Kirchlechner, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Donata Höffer | Drama | |
| Das große Fest | Frank Beyer | Hans Christian Blech, Rolf Hoppe, Iris Berben, Michael Gwisdek | Drama | |
| Gudrun | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Kerstin Gmelch | Drama | Won an Honourable Mention at Berlin |
| Guinevere | Ingemo Engström | Amanda Ooms | Drama | |
| Hamburger Gift | Horst Königstein | Al Corley, Rita Tushingham, Josef Bierbichler, Christoph Bantzer | Docudrama | |
| Happy Birthday, Turk! | Doris Dörrie | Hansa Czypionka, Özay Fecht, Meret Becker, Şiir Eloğlu | Crime | |
| The Hill of Lies | Rainer Wolffhardt | Susanne Lüning, Martina Gedeck, Silvan-Pierre Leirich, Frank Schröder | Drama | a.k.a. Endstation Harembar a.k.a. Ein ernstes Leben |
| I Am My Own Woman | Rosa von Praunheim | Charlotte von Mahlsdorf | Documentary | |
| Knight Moves | Carl Schenkel | Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane | Thriller | German-American co-production |
| La Paloma fliegt nicht mehr | Tom Toelle | Hans Christian Blech, Wolfgang Reichmann, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Hans Paetsch | Drama | |
| Landschaft mit Dornen | Bernd Böhlich | Ben Becker, Sven Martinek, Anja Kling | Drama | |
| The Last U-Boat | Frank Beyer | Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Matthias Habich, Kaoru Kobayashi, Goro Ohashi, Barry Bostwick | War | |
| Lessons of Darkness | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| The Little Punker | Michael Schaack | — | Animated | a.k.a. The Little Punk |
| Little Sharks | Sönke Wortmann | Jürgen Vogel, Kai Wiesinger, Meret Becker, Gedeon Burkhard, Armin Rohde | Comedy | |
| The Magic Voyage | Michael Schoemann | — | Animated | |
| Mau Mau | Uwe Schrader | Marlen Diekhoff, Catrin Striebeck, Myriam Mézières, Henryk Bista | Drama | |
| The Mistake | Heiner Carow | Angelica Domröse, Gottfried John | Drama | a.k.a. Die Verfehlung |
| The Mystery of the Amber Room | Roland Gräf | Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Kockisch, Ulrich Tukur, Kurt Böwe, Michael Gwisdek | Thriller | |
| New Year's Eve Concert 1992: Richard Strauss Gala | Barrie Gavin | Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic | Concert | |
| Night on Fire | Markus Fischer | Bruno Ganz, Barbara Auer, Rolf Hoppe, Dietmar Schönherr, Maren Kroymann | Crime | a.k.a. Brandnacht. German-Swiss co-production |
| North Curve | Adolf Winkelmann | Renate Krößner, Jochen Nickel, Walter Kreye | Comedy | a.k.a. Saturday Action |
| The Parrot | Ralf Huettner | Harald Juhnke | Comedy | |
| Ring of the Musketeers | John Paragon | David Hasselhoff, Thomas Gottschalk, Cheech Marin, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Corbin Bernsen | Action comedy | |
| Die Ringe des Saturn | Michael Kehlmann | Franz Morak, Hans Christian Blech, Riccardo Cucciolla, Paul Hubschmid, Gabriele Ferzetti, Mathieu Carrière | Thriller | |
| Rising to the Bait | Vadim Glowna | Elsa Grube-Deister, Rolf Zacher | Comedy | a.k.a. Der Brocken |
| Roses for Africa | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Silvan-Pierre Leirich | Drama | |
| Salt on Our Skin | Andrew Birkin | Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio | Drama | a.k.a. Desire. German-French-Canadian co-production |
| Schlafende Hunde | Max Färberböck | Sabine Postel, Peter Lohmeyer | Comedy | |
| 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 |
| The Serpentine Dancer | Helmut Herbst | Karina Fallenstein, Ben Becker, Eva Mattes, Otto Sander, Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger | Drama | German-Hungarian co-production |
| Shadow Boxer | Lars Becker | Diego Wallraff, Christian Redl | Crime | |
| Sie und Er | Frank Beyer | Senta Berger, Reimar Johannes Baur | Drama | |
| Silent Country | Andreas Dresen | Thorsten Merten, Jeannette Arndt, Kurt Böwe | Drama | |
| Tandem | Bernhard Stephan | Hannelore Hoger, Vadim Glowna, Winfried Glatzeder | Comedy | |
| Terror 2000: Germany Out of Control | Christoph Schlingensief | Udo Kier, Margit Carstensen, Peter Kern, Alfred Edel | Drama | |
| Terror Stalks the Class Reunion | Clive Donner | Kate Nelligan, Jennifer Beals, Geraint Wyn Davies, Werner Stocker, Madeleine Robinson | Thriller | Canadian-French-German co-production |
| The Terrorists! | Philip Gröning | Stephanie Philipp, Michael Schech, David Baalcke | Thriller | |
| The Tigress | Karin Howard | Valentina Vargas, James Remar, George Peppard, Hannes Jaenicke, Ferdy Mayne | Drama | |
| The True Story About Men and Women | Robert van Ackeren | Sonja Kirchberger, Andréa Ferréol, Thomas Heinze | Comedy | |
| With Murder in Mind | Rainer Bär | Flavio Bucci, Peter Sattmann, Ute Willing, Dieter Kirchlechner, Dirk Dautzenberg, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Ursula Karven | Thriller | a.k.a. Einer stirbt bestimmt |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter | Helge Schneider | Helge Schneider | Comedy | |
| Amok | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Helmut Zierl, Loni von Friedl, Nicolette Krebitz | Thriller | |
| Amoklauf | Uwe Boll | Michael Rasmussen, Birgit Stein, Christian Kahrmann | Horror | a.k.a. Run Amok |
| Angst | Bernd Schadewald | Christian Redl, Renate Krößner, Antje Westermann | Drama | |
| Asterix Conquers America | Gerhard Hahn | — | Animated | German-French co-production |
| Ausgerechnet Zoé | Markus Imboden | Nicolette Krebitz | Drama | |
| Back to Square One | Reinhard Münster | Udo Samel, Katharina Thalbach, Christiane Hörbiger, Harald Juhnke, Detlev Buck | Comedy | a.k.a. Alles auf Anfang. Entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Backbeat | Iain Softley | Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, Kai Wiesinger | Biography | British-German co-production |
| Der bewegte Mann | Sönke Wortmann | Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Król | Comedy | a.k.a. Maybe ... Maybe Not a.k.a. The Most Desired Man |
| The Blue One | Lienhard Wawrzyn | Manfred Krug | Drama | Entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Bosom Friends | Heiko Schier | Meret Becker, Nina Kronjäger, Sebastian Koch, Heino Ferch | Drama | a.k.a. Freundinnen |
| Burning Life | Peter Welz | Maria Schrader, Anna Thalbach | Crime | |
| Bye Bye America | Jan Schütte | Otto Tausig, Yaakov Bodo, Zofia Merle | Drama | German-Polish co-production |
| Captive Love | Dagmar Damek | Senta Berger, Götz Behrendt | Drama | |
| Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen | Joseph Vilsmaier | Floriane Eichhorn, Fritzi Eichhorn, Corinna Harfouch, Heiner Lauterbach | Family | |
| Dangerous Games | Adolf Winkelmann | Nathaniel Parker, Gudrun Landgrebe | Thriller | |
| Deadly Obsession | Peter Patzak | Nicole Heesters, Thomas Kretschmann, Eberhard Feik | Drama | |
| Death in Miami | Carlo Rola | Iris Berben, Rüdiger Vogler, Suzanne von Borsody, Peter Sattmann | Drama | |
| Farewell to Agnes | Michael Gwisdek | Michael Gwisdek, Sylvester Groth | Drama | |
| Felidae | Michael Schaack | — | Animated, Mystery | |
| Geschäfte | Michael Schottenberg | Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe | Thriller | Austrian-German co-production |
| Das gläserne Haus | Rainer Bär | Katja Riemann, Hansa Czypionka, Vadim Glowna | Drama | |
| Hate in the Head | Uwe Frießner | Markus Johannsen, Gerhard Olschewski | Drama | a.k.a. Hatred in the Head |
| Heaven and Hell | Hans-Christian Schmid | Aline Metzner, Katja Riemann, Hannelore Hoger | Drama | |
| The High Crusade | Klaus Knoesel, Holger Neuhäuser | John Rhys-Davies, Rick Overton, Michael Des Barres, Ray Cokes | Comedy, Science fiction | |
| Ich klage an | Frank Guthke | Thekla Carola Wied, Peter Sattmann, Heinz Hoenig | Drama | |
| The Invincibles | Dominik Graf | Herbert Knaup, Katja Flint, Heinz Hoenig, Hannes Jaenicke, Meret Becker | Action thriller | a.k.a. Die Sieger |
| Judgment Day | Peter Keglevic | Christoph Waltz | Drama | |
| Karakum | Arend Agthe, Uzmaan Saparov | Max Kullmann, Murad Orazov | Adventure | German-Turkmenistan co-production |
| The Last Cosmonaut | Nico Hofmann | Dominique Horwitz, Barbara Auer, Günter Lamprecht | Comedy | |
| Lauras Entscheidung | Uwe Janson | Suzanne von Borsody, Matthias Habich, Peter Sattmann, Heino Ferch | Thriller | |
| Lemgo | Jörg Grünler | Til Schweiger, Heinz Hoenig, Jasmin Tabatabai | Thriller | |
| Leni | Leo Hiemer | Hannes Thanheiser, Christa Berndl, Johanna Thanheiser, Natalia Wörner | Drama, War | |
| Lisbon Story | Wim Wenders | Rüdiger Vogler | Drama | Screened at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Little Innocent | Rainer Kaufmann | Christian Näthe, Jürgen Vogel, Nicolette Krebitz, Richy Müller, Herbert Knaup, Moritz Bleibtreu | Thriller | a.k.a. Unschuldsengel |
| Living Buddha | Clemens Kuby | Documentary | ||
| Man in Search of Woman | Vivian Naefe | Christoph Waltz, Maja Maranow, Bettina Kupfer | Comedy | |
| The Man in the Black Coat | Horst Königstein | Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger | Biography | |
| Der Mann mit der Maske | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Sebastian Koch, Jürgen Hentsch, Nicolette Krebitz | Thriller | |
| Marie's Song | Niko von Glasow | Sylvie Testud, Bastian Trost, Martin Feifel | Drama | |
| Mario and the Magician | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Julian Sands | Drama | Entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Mesmer | Roger Spottiswoode | Alan Rickman | Biography | Austrian-Canadian-British-German co-production |
| Natalie – Teenage Hooker | Herrmann Zschoche | Anne-Sophie Briest | Drama | a.k.a. Natalie – Endstation Babystrich |
| Nobody Loves Me | Doris Dörrie | Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Michael von Au | Comedy | |
| Nostradamus | Roger Christian | Tchéky Karyo, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond, Assumpta Serna, Rutger Hauer, F. Murray Abraham | Biography | British-German-French-Romanian co-production |
| Das Phantom – Die Jagd nach Dagobert | Roland Suso Richter | Dieter Pfaff | Comedy | |
| Pumuckl und der blaue Klabauter | Horst Schier, Alfred Deutsch | Gustl Bayrhammer, Towje Kleiner, Wolfgang Völz | Live-action/animated, Family | |
| La Reine Margot | Patrice Chéreau | Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Virna Lisi | Historic drama | a.k.a. Queen Margot. French-German-Italian co-production |
| Rotwang Must Go! | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Udo Kier, Sybill Norvak, Heikko Deutschmann, Beate Finckh, Klaus Bueb, Horst Tomayer | Black comedy | a.k.a. To Hell with Rotwang! |
| Shameless | Horst Johann Sczerba | Meret Becker, Jürgen Vogel, Adolph Spalinger | Drama | a.k.a. Die Schamlosen |
| Simply Love | Peter Timm | Benno Fürmann, Regula Grauwiller, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Steffen Wink, Moritz Bleibtreu | Drama | |
| Sommerliebe | Iris Gusner | Iris Berben, Gedeon Burkhard | Drama | |
| Turn Down the Music | Thomas Arslan | Andreas Böhmer, Marco Germund, Andy Lehmann, Laura Tonke | Drama | |
| Voll normaaal | Ralf Huettner | Tom Gerhardt | Comedy | |
| Women Are Simply Wonderful | Sherry Hormann | Barbara Auer, Thomas Heinze, Kai Wiesinger, Anica Dobra | Comedy |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Stunden Angst – Geiselnahme im Kindergarten | Peter Keglevic | Anica Dobra, Hannes Jaenicke, Corinna Harfouch | Thriller | |
| Abgefahren | Uwe Frießner | Susanne Bormann | Crime | |
| After Five in the Forest Primeval | Hans-Christian Schmid | Franka Potente | Romantic comedy | a.k.a. It's a Jungle Out There. 2 Bavarian Film Awards |
| Angst hat eine kalte Hand | Matti Geschonneck | Katja Riemann, Cornelia Froboess, Udo Samel | Thriller | |
| The Black Curse | Otto Retzer | James Brolin, Deborah Shelton, Brent Huff | Drama | |
| Blind Witness | Mario Azzopardi | Nina Kronjäger, Heio von Stetten | Thriller | a.k.a. Die einzige Zeugin |
| Blutige Spur | Carlo Rola | Jan Niklas, Hannelore Elsner, Sebastian Koch | Thriller | |
| Brother of Sleep | Joseph Vilsmaier | André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker | Drama | Official Submission for the Academy Awards in 1995 |
| Bunte Hunde | Lars Becker | Til Schweiger, Peter Lohmeyer, Christian Redl | Crime | a.k.a. The Break a.k.a. Mad Dogs |
| Catherine the Great | Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif | Biography | American-German-Austrian co-production |
| The City of Lost Children | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Geneviève Brunet, Odile Mallet, Mireille Mossé, Serge Merlin, François Hadji-Lazaro, Rufus, Ticky Holgado, Jean-Louis Trintignant | Science fantasy | French-German-Spanish-Belgian-British co-production |
| Club Las Piranjas | Ulli Baumann | Hape Kerkeling, Angelika Milster, Judy Winter, Horst Krause | Comedy | |
| Deathmaker | Romuald Karmakar | Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch | Drama | Official Submission for the Academy Awards in 1996; Based on the interrogation of murderer Fritz Haarmann |
| Dicke Freunde | Horst Königstein | Josef Bierbichler, Horst Krause | Biography, Comedy | |
| A Dream, What Else? | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Edith Clever | Drama | |
| The Drinker | Tom Toelle | Harald Juhnke | Drama | a.k.a. The Drunkard |
| Die Eroberung der Mitte | Robert Bramkamp | Peter Lohmeyer, Karina Fallenstein | Drama | |
| Ex | Mark Schlichter | Robert Viktor Minich, Christiane Paul, Florian Lukas, Heinz Hoenig | Crime | |
| Family of Lies | Detlef Rönfeldt | Michel Piccoli, Marthe Keller, Christian Kohlund, Peter Simonischek, Friedrich von Thun, Suzanne von Borsody | Drama | a.k.a. Tödliches Geld – Das Gesetz der Belmonts |
| Forgiveness | Andreas Höntsch | Lena Stolze, Sylvester Groth | Drama | |
| Gentleman | Oskar Roehler | Kurt Leiner | Thriller | |
| Der große Abgang | Nico Hofmann | Barbara Auer, Jörg Schüttauf, Birgit Doll | Thriller | |
| Hades | Herbert Achternbusch | Herbert Achternbusch | Drama | Entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Heaven or Bust | Peter F. Bringmann | Götz George, Ingo Naujoks, Anja Kling | Science fiction, Comedy | a.k.a. Die Sturzflieger |
| Heimliche Zeugen | Oley Sassone | Constanze Engelbrecht, Rufus Beck, Vadim Glowna | Thriller | a.k.a. Heimliche Zeugin |
| Ein Herz für Laura | Hartmut Griesmayr | Robert Atzorn, Gerit Kling | Drama | |
| Hölleisengretl | Jo Baier | Martina Gedeck | Drama | |
| I Love My Daughter's Husband | Vivian Naefe | Gudrun Landgrebe, Thomas Kretschmann, Muriel Baumeister, Friedrich von Thun | Drama | |
| Institute Benjamenta | Brothers Quay | Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John | Drama | a.k.a. Jakob von Gunten. British-German-Japanese co-production |
| In the Flesh | Nikolai Müllerschön | Nicolette Krebitz, Matt McCoy, Marita Geraghty, Marco Leonardi, Paul Winfield, Carroll Baker | Thriller | a.k.a. Desperate Measures a.k.a. Nanny's Nightmare |
| Is Mausi Coming Out? | Angelina Maccarone | Julia Richter | Drama | |
| Der Leihmann | Claus-Michael Rohne | Kai Wiesinger, Chantal de Freitas, Ulrike Folkerts | Comedy | |
| Looosers! | Christopher Roth | Bernd Michael Lade, Oliver Korittke | Comedy | |
| Luise and the Jackpot | Menahem Golan | Marianne Sägebrecht, Oliver Reed, David Warner | Comedy | |
| Magic Girl | Vivian Naefe | Herbert Knaup, Sandra Speichert | Drama | |
| Der Mann auf der Bettkante | Christoph Eichhorn | Götz George, Constanze Engelbrecht, Michael Gwisdek | Comedy | |
| The Meds | Matthias Glasner | Jürgen Vogel, Jasmin Tabatabai, Dani Levy | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Mediocren |
| Moondance | Dagmar Hirtz | Rúaidhrí Conroy, Ian Shaw, Julia Brendler, Marianne Faithfull | Drama | Irish-German co-production |
| Der Mörder des Babysitters | Kaspar Heidelbach | Nicolette Krebitz, Jürgen Vogel, Armin Rohde, Suzanne von Borsody | Thriller | a.k.a. Babyfon – Mörder im Kinderzimmer |
| Eine mörderische Liebe | Friedemann Fromm | Hannes Jaenicke, Stefania Orsola Garello, Ralf Richter | Thriller | |
| Mörderische Zwillinge | Dominique Othenin-Girard | Claudia Michelsen | Thriller | |
| The Morning After | Gabriela Zerhau | Jürgen Vogel, Julia Stemberger | Drama | a.k.a. Magnus |
| My Mother's Courage | Michael Verhoeven | Pauline Collins, Ulrich Tukur | World War II drama | German-Austrian-British co-production |
| My Sister's Good Fortune | Angela Schanelec | Wolfgang Michael, Angela Schanelec, Anna Bolk | Drama | |
| … nächste Woche ist Frieden | Peter Schulze-Rohr | Ulrich Mühe | War, Drama | |
| Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity | Rosa von Praunheim | Désirée Nick, Rosa von Praunheim, Evelyn Künneke, Lotti Huber | Comedy | |
| Nikolaikirche | Frank Beyer | Barbara Auer, Ulrich Matthes, Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Otto Sander | Drama | a.k.a. Nikolai Church |
| One More Kiss and He's Dead! | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Peter Fitz | Biography | a.k.a. Beim nächsten Kuß knall’ ich ihn nieder |
| One of My Oldest Friends | Rainer Kaufmann | Richy Müller, Maria Schrader, Peter Lohmeyer | Comedy | |
| Operation Medusa | Thorsten Näter | Franziska Petri, Uwe Kockisch | Thriller | |
| Over My Dead Body | Rainer Matsutani | Katja Riemann, Christoph M. Ohrt, Ulrike Folkerts, Udo Kier | Comedy | |
| Pilots | Christian Petzold | Eleonore Weisgerber, Nadeshda Brennicke | Drama | a.k.a. Pilotinnen |
| Prinz zu entsorgen | Dietmar Klein | Christoph Waltz, Maren Schumacher | Comedy | |
| The Promise | Margarethe von Trotta | Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Anian Zollner | Drama | Official Submission for the Academy Awards in 1994; Romantic Drama beginning during the rise and ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall |
| The Real Shlemiel | Albert Hanan Kaminski | — | Animated | Israeli-German-Hungarian-French co-production |
| Rohe Ostern | Michael Gutmann | Oliver Korittke, Anian Zollner, Julia Jäger, Axel Milberg, Karl Lieffen | Comedy | |
| Rudy, the Racing Pig | Peter Timm | Ulrich Mühe, Iris Berben, Karl Lieffen | Family | a.k.a. Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel |
| Russian Roulette: Moscow 95 | Menahem Golan | Barbara Carrera, Oliver Reed, Jan-Michael Vincent | Thriller | |
| The Sandman | Nico Hofmann | Götz George, Karoline Eichhorn, Barbara Rudnik | Thriller | |
| Satan's Children | Bernd Schadewald | Nicolette Krebitz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Redl | Thriller | |
| Schrecklicher Verdacht | Jeannot Szwarc | Sebastian Koch, Susanne Schäfer | Thriller | a.k.a. Crossfire |
| Silent Night | Dani Levy | Maria Schrader, Jürgen Vogel, Ingrid Caven | Drama | German-Swiss co-production |
| Spur eines Zweifels | Hartmut Griesmayr | Uwe Ochsenknecht, Jennifer Nitsch | Thriller | |
| Talk of the Town | Rainer Kaufmann | Katja Riemann, August Zirner, Kai Wiesinger, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu | Comedy | |
| Three Days in April | Oliver Storz | Karoline Eichhorn | Drama | |
| Till Death Do Us Part | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Jürgen Prochnow, Katharina Böhm, Cornelia Froboess | Thriller | a.k.a. Fesseln |
| Tödliches Erbe | Sigi Rothemund | Hildegard Knef, Horst Buchholz, Ulrich Wildgruber | Thriller | |
| Transatlantis | Christian Wagner | Daniel Olbrychski | Drama | Entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival |
| A Trick of Light | Wim Wenders | Udo Kier | Biography | a.k.a. Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky |
| Under the Milky Way | Matthias X. Oberg | Fabian Busch, Sophie Rois, Christiane Paul, Detlev Buck | Comedy | |
| Verbotene Zone | Markus Fischer | Barbara Auer | Thriller | |
| Wer Kollegen hat, braucht keine Feinde | Martin Enlen | Heino Ferch, Martina Gedeck, Hans Werner Meyer | Drama | |
| While All Germans Sleep | Frank Beyer | Benjamin Kaatz, Ilja Smoljanski, Robin Timptner | Drama, War | |
| A Woman at the Top | Bodo Fürneisen | Thekla Carola Wied, Peter Sattmann, Anja Kling | Drama | a.k.a. Eine Frau will nach oben |
| Zu treuen Händen | Konrad Sabrautzky | Sophie von Kessel, Rolf Hoppe | Comedy |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbuzze! Der Badesalz-Film | Roland Willaert | Badesalz | Comedy | |
| Adrenalin | Dominique Othenin-Girard | Til Schweiger | Action | |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Steve Barron | Martin Landau, Udo Kier, Rob Schneider, Geneviève Bujold | Fantasy | American-Czech-German-British-French co-production |
| Die Aktion | Thomas Bohn | Désirée Nosbusch, Hannes Jaenicke, Ingo Naujoks | Comedy | |
| And Nobody Weeps for Me | Joseph Vilsmaier | Peter Ketnath, Nina Hoss | Drama | a.k.a. Und keiner weint mir nach |
| Beyond Silence | Caroline Link | Sylvie Testud, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit | Drama | 1997 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film |
| Black Jack | Ulli Baumann | Martin Semmelrogge, Oliver Böttcher, Katharina Schubert | Comedy | |
| Brennendes Herz | Peter Patzak | Helmut Griem, Thomas Kretschmann, Dominique Sanda, Claudia Michelsen, Dieter Laser, John Phillip Law | Biography | a.k.a. The Owl of Minerva a.k.a. Das Ohr des Malchus. German-Austrian co-production |
| Brothers on Life and Death | Friedemann Fromm | Gottfried John, Ralph Herforth, Felix Eitner | Crime | |
| Charley's Aunt | Sönke Wortmann | Thomas Heinze, Horst Krause | Comedy | |
| The Cleaning Ladies Island | Peter Timm | Jasmin Tabatabai | Comedy | a.k.a. The Clean-Up |
| Conversation with the Beast | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Bob Balaban, Katharina Böhm, Harald Juhnke, Dieter Laser, Hark Bohm, Otto Sander | Drama | |
| Crash Kids | Petra Haffter | Isabell Gerschke, Marek Harloff, Barbara Rudnik | Crime | |
| Cuba Libre | Christian Petzold | Richy Müller, Catherine Flemming | Comedy | |
| Dangerous Dowry | Dennis Satin | Katja Riemann, Hannes Jaenicke, Heinz Hoenig | Crime | a.k.a. Nur aus Liebe |
| Deadly Silence | Bernd Böhlich | Bruno Ganz, Ulrich Mühe | Drama | |
| Deathline | Ralf Huettner | Gruschenka Stevens, Sophie Rois, Dominic Raacke | Thriller | a.k.a. Der kalte Finger |
| Ehebruch – Eine teuflische Falle | Sigi Rothemund | Leslie Malton, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Judy Winter, Hanns Zischler | Thriller | |
| Eine fast perfekte Liebe | Lutz Konermann | Inga Busch, Andreas Herder, Natja Brunckhorst | Comedy | |
| Father's Day | Sherry Hormann | Corinna Harfouch, Herbert Knaup | Comedy | a.k.a. Irren ist männlich |
| The First Time | Connie Walther | Lavinia Wilson, Benno Fürmann, Hannes Jaenicke | Comedy | |
| Gates of Fire | Kaspar Heidelbach | Götz George, Klaus J. Behrendt, Corinna Harfouch | Thriller | |
| Gefährliche Freundin | Hermine Huntgeburth | Katharina Thalbach, Corinna Harfouch | Drama | |
| A Girl Called Rosemary | Bernd Eichinger | Nina Hoss, Heiner Lauterbach, Mathieu Carrière, Horst Krause, Hannelore Elsner, Katja Flint, Til Schweiger | Drama | a.k.a. The Girl Rosemarie |
| Greenhorn | Rainer Kaufmann | Nicolette Krebitz, Kai Wiesinger | Comedy | |
| Honigmond | Gabriel Barylli | Veronica Ferres, Anica Dobra, Julia Stemberger, Kai Wiesinger, Uwe Ochsenknecht | Comedy | |
| The Ice Princess | Danny Huston | Katarina Witt | Musical | |
| Im Rausch der Liebe | Markus Fischer | Nina Bagusat, Philipp Stengele, Rolf Hoppe | Road movie, Drama | |
| Jackpot | Hartmut Griesmayr | Claudia Michelsen, Dieter Landuris, Bernd Michael Lade, Moritz Bleibtreu | Crime comedy | |
| Jailbirds | Detlev Buck | Til Schweiger, Heike Makatsch, Marie Bäumer, Detlev Buck | Comedy | a.k.a. Männerpension |
| Killer Condom | Martin Walz | Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben | Horror comedy | a.k.a. Kondom des Grauens |
| The Killer's Mother | Volker Einrauch | Dieter Landuris, Peter Lohmeyer | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Mutter des Killers |
| Kinder der Nacht | Nina Grosse | Natalia Wörner, Herbert Knaup, Matthias Paul | Drama | |
| Kinder ohne Gnade | Claudia Prietzel | Fabian Busch, Marek Harloff | Drama | |
| Kreis der Angst | Thomas Jauch | Katja Flint, Sandra Speichert | Thriller | |
| The Last Courier | Adolf Winkelmann | Sergei Garmash, Sissi Perlinger, Hanns Zischler | Thriller | |
| Life Is a Bluff | Peter Zingler | Mario Adorf, Ben Becker, Elke Sommer, Heinz Hoenig, Martin Semmelrogge | Crime comedy | a.k.a. Alles nur Tarnung |
| Little Angel | Helke Misselwitz | Susanne Lothar, Cezary Pazura | Drama | |
| Loose Ends | Sandra Nettelbeck | Regula Grauwiller, Jasmin Tabatabai, Natascha Bub | Comedy | a.k.a. Unbeständig und kühl |
| Maja | Volker Maria Arend | Annett Renneberg, Steffen Wink | Drama | |
| Nach uns die Sintflut | Sigi Rothemund | Leslie Malton, Nina Petri, Hanns Zischler, Robert Stadlober | Disaster | |
| The Ogre | Volker Schlöndorff | John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht | Drama | French-German-British co-production |
| Peanuts – The Bank Pays Everything | Carlo Rola | Ulrich Mühe, Iris Berben | Comedy | |
| Reise nach Weimar | Dominik Graf | Barbara Auer, Sylvester Groth, Rosemarie Fendel | Comedy | |
| Regular Guys | Rolf Silber | Christoph M. Ohrt, Carin C. Tietze, Tim Bergmann, Oliver Stokowski | Comedy | a.k.a. Echte Kerle |
| September | Colin Bucksey | Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Edward Fox, Jenny Agutter, Mariel Hemingway | Drama | British-American-German co-production |
| Seven Servants | Daryush Shokof | Anthony Quinn | Drama | German-American co-production |
| Sexy Sadie | Matthias Glasner | Jürgen Vogel, Corinna Harfouch | Crime | |
| Sünde einer Nacht | Michael Keusch | Claudia Michelsen, Johannes Brandrup, Désirée Nosbusch, Francis Fulton-Smith | Thriller | |
| Superbrain | Menahem Golan | Oliver Reed, Tina Ruland, Hanns Zischler | Crime | a.k.a. Die Tunnelgangster von Berlin |
| The Superwife | Sönke Wortmann | Veronica Ferres, Joachim Król, Thomas Heinze, Til Schweiger | Comedy | |
| Teenage Wolfpack | Urs Egger | Til Schweiger, Sandra Speichert, Roman Knižka, Frank Giering | Crime | a.k.a. Die Halbstarken |
| Ein tödliches Vergehen | Tony Randel | Marijam Agischewa, Jan Niklas, Birgit Doll, Diana Körner | Thriller | |
| Tote sterben niemals aus | Jürgen Goslar | Götz George | Comedy | |
| The Tourist | Urs Egger | Christoph Waltz, Dominic Raacke, Leslie Malton | Thriller | |
| The Venus Killer | Dominique Othenin-Girard | Katja Flint, Hannes Jaenicke | Thriller | |
| Walking and Talking | Nicole Holofcener | Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber, Kevin Corrigan, Vincent Pastore, Randall Batinkoff, Joseph Siravo, Allison Janney | Comedy | French-German-British-American co-production |
| Werner: Eat My Dust!!! | Gerhard Hahn | — | Animated | a.k.a. Werner – Das muß kesseln!!! Most popular German film of the year (and second overall) with 4.9 million admissions[1] |
| Willi und die Windzors | Hape Kerkeling | Hape Kerkeling, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Ludger Pistor | Comedy | |
| Workaholic | Sharon von Wietersheim | Christiane Paul, Tobias Moretti, Ralf Bauer | Comedy | |
| You Are Not Alone: The Roy Black Story | Peter Keglevic | Christoph Waltz | Biography |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Days to Life | Roland Suso Richter | Kai Wiesinger, Michael Mendl | Thriller | a.k.a. 14 Tage lebenslänglich |
| The 120 Days of Bottrop | Christoph Schlingensief | Helmut Berger, Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Udo Kier, Volker Spengler | Comedy | |
| Appartement für einen Selbstmörder | Kaspar Heidelbach | Christoph M. Ohrt, Katja Flint | Thriller | |
| Der Ausbruch | Mark Schlichter | Corinna Harfouch, Peter Lohmeyer, Ulrich Noethen, Heinz Hoenig, Burkhard Driest | Crime | |
| Bandits | Katja von Garnier | Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Nicolette Krebitz | Action | |
| Ballermann 6 | Tom Gerhardt, Gernot Roll | Tom Gerhardt, Hilmi Sözer | Comedy | |
| Berlin – Moskau | Wolfgang F. Henschel | Muriel Baumeister, Michael Roll, Günter Lamprecht, Hilmar Thate, Uwe Kockisch | Thriller | |
| Broken Peace | Jörg Grünler | Uwe Bohm, Felix Eitner, Herbert Knaup | Thriller, War | a.k.a. Die Friedensmission – 10 Stunden Angst |
| Brothers and Sisters | Thomas Arslan | Tamer Yiğit, Kool Savas, Serpil Turhan | Drama | a.k.a. Kardeşler a.k.a. Geschwister |
| Buddies | Roland Suso Richter | Jürgen Vogel, Gregor Törzs, Pierre Besson | Crime | |
| Bus 152 | Richard Huber | Hannes Jaenicke, Stefan Jürgens, Doris Kunstmann | Disaster | a.k.a. The Death Bus |
| Busenfreunde | Thomas Berger | Jan Josef Liefers, Ulrich Noethen, Stefan Reck, Jennifer Nitsch, Hans Werner Meyer | Comedy | |
| Calculated Risk | Michael Kennedy | Hannes Jaenicke, Karoline Eichhorn | Thriller | |
| Champagne and Chamomile Tea | Marijan David Vajda | Andrea Sawatzki, Nadja Tiller, Herbert Herrmann, Oliver Stritzel, Claudine Wilde | Comedy | a.k.a. Champagner und Kamillentee |
| Changing Skins | Andreas Dresen | Susanne Bormann, Fabian Busch, Otto Mellies | Drama | a.k.a. Raus aus der Haut |
| Code Red | Carlo Rola | Hannes Jaenicke, Iris Berben, Blixa Bargeld, Ben Becker, Michael Mendl | Thriller | a.k.a. Die sieben Feuer des Todes |
| Cologne's Finest | Ralf Huettner | Jürgen Tarrach, Oliver Korittke | Comedy | a.k.a. Die Musterknaben |
| Comedian Harmonists | Joseph Vilsmaier | Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Kai Wiesinger, Ben Becker | Biography | a.k.a. The Harmonists |
| The Cry of Love | Matti Geschonneck | Jürgen Prochnow, Matthias Schloo | Drama | |
| Daily Chicken | Lilly Grote | Ida von Recklinghausen, Luise von Recklinghausen, Angela Schanelec | Drama | |
| Davids Rache | Hartmut Griesmayr | Matthias Habich, Wolf Roth | Drama | |
| Death Game | Heinrich Breloer | Hans Brenner, Manfred Zapatka, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Matthes | Docudrama | a.k.a. Dead Pool |
| The Deep End | Sigi Rothemund | Claudia Michelsen, Miroslav Nemec, Gruschenka Stevens | Thriller | a.k.a. A Murderous Summer |
| Dei Mudder sei Gesicht | Simon Mora, Hardy Strohn | Simon Mora, Jörg Öchsle, Tiho Slišković, Hardy Strohn | Crime comedy | |
| Diamanten küßt man nicht | Ulrich Stark | Meret Becker | Crime comedy | |
| The Fearless Four | Eberhard Junkersdorf, Jürgen Richter, Michael Coldewey | — | Animated | a.k.a. The Town Musicians of Bremen |
| Gegen den Strom | Thorsten Näter | Ben Becker | Crime | |
| Geisterstunde – Fahrstuhl ins Jenseits | Rainer Matsutani, Sebastian Niemann | Horst Buchholz, Corinna Harfouch, Rolf Hoppe, Jan Niklas, Thomas Heinze, Christoph M. Ohrt, Anica Dobra, Eva Habermann | Horror, Anthology | |
| Gone Wrong | Peter Timm | Christiane Paul, Bernd Michael Lade | Comedy | a.k.a. Dumm gelaufen |
| Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | Frank Beyer | Harald Juhnke | Comedy | a.k.a. The Captain of Köpenick a.k.a. The Captain from Köpenick |
| Herz über Kopf | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Carin C. Tietze, Miroslav Nemec, Rita Russek, Maria Furtwängler | Comedy | |
| The Hours before Dawn | Wolf Gremm | Gudrun Landgrebe, Susanne Lothar | Thriller | |
| In the Name of Innocence | Andreas Kleinert | Barbara Sukowa, Matthias Habich, Udo Samel | Drama | |
| It Happened in Broad Daylight | Nico Hofmann | Joachim Król, Axel Milberg | Thriller | a.k.a. The Pledge |
| John Sinclair: Brides of the Devil | Klaus Knoesel | Florian Fitz | Horror | |
| Kalte Küsse | Carl Schenkel | Marie Bäumer, Jochen Nickel, Thomas Heinze, Karoline Eichhorn, Natja Brunckhorst, Angelica Domröse | Crime | |
| Kleines Arschloch | Michael Schaack, 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 |
| Die Konkurrentin | Dagmar Hirtz | Charlotte Schwab, Ann-Kathrin Kramer | Drama | |
| Lamorte | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Senta Berger, Christiane Hörbiger, Nicole Heesters | Drama | German-Austrian co-production |
| Lea | Ivan Fíla | Lenka Vlasakova, Christian Redl, Hanna Schygulla, Udo Kier | Drama | Czech-German-French co-production |
| Life Is All You Get | Wolfgang Becker | Jürgen Vogel, Christiane Paul | Drama | a.k.a. Life Is a Construction Site. Entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Life Penalty | Sigi Rothemund | Jennifer Nitsch, Walter Sittler | Thriller | a.k.a. Life Imprisonment Is Not Enough |
| Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Werner Herzog | Documentary | German-British-French co-production | |
| Living in Fear | Dagmar Damek | Ulrich Pleitgen, Eleonore Weisgerber, Hans Peter Hallwachs | Drama | |
| The Lost Daughter | Roger Cardinal | Richard Chamberlain, Helmut Griem, Susanna Simon, Michael Mendl, Suzanne von Borsody, Charles Edwin Powell, C. David Johnson, Patricia Drake, Julika Jenkins, Christiane Krüger, Sarah Lind | Thriller | Canadian-German-Swiss co-production |
| Mein ist die Rache | Thomas Jauch | Nadja Uhl, Ulrich Noethen, Lambert Hamel | Drama | |
| My Heart Is Mine Alone | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Lena Stolze | Biography | |
| Nackt im Cabrio | Sven Severin | Anica Dobra, Benjamin Sadler, Anna Thalbach, Detlev Buck, Oliver Korittke, Nadeshda Brennicke | Comedy | |
| Napoleon Fritz | Thorsten Näter | Klaus Löwitsch, Michael Gwisdek | Crime | |
| The Nephew | Gabriela Zerhau | Martina Gedeck | Comedy | |
| Nights, Gambled Away | Angeliki Antoniou | Jasmin Tabatabai, Vicky Volioti | Drama | |
| Obsession | Peter Sehr | Daniel Craig, Heike Makatsch, Charles Berling | Drama | French-German co-production |
| The Pharmacist | Rainer Kaufmann | Katja Riemann, Jürgen Vogel | Drama | |
| Prince Valiant | Anthony Hickox | Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Thomas Kretschmann, Edward Fox, Udo Kier, Joanna Lumley, Ron Perlman | Adventure | Irish-British-German co-production |
| Quiet Days in Hollywood | Josef Rusnak | Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe, Jake Busey, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Daryl Mitchell, Meta Golding | Drama | German-American co-production |
| The Rat | Martin Buchhorn | Matthias Habich, Sunnyi Melles, Dieter Laser | Drama | a.k.a. Die Rättin |
| Das Recht auf meiner Seite | Hartmut Griesmayr | Friedrich von Thun, Simone Thomalla, Ursela Monn | Drama | |
| Refuge | Christoph Schrewe | Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Lohmeyer, Bojana Golenac | Thriller | a.k.a. Unter die Haut |
| Rossini | Helmut Dietl | Götz George, Mario Adorf, Heiner Lauterbach, Veronica Ferres, Gudrun Landgrebe | Comedy | |
| Der rote Schakal | Hajo Gies | August Zirner | Drama | |
| Schlank bis in den Tod | Peter Wekwerth | Nina Kronjäger, Thomas Heinze | Drama | |
| Ein Schloß für Rita | Susanne Zanke | Jörg Schüttauf, Nina Kronjäger, Silvan-Pierre Leirich, Esther Schweins | Comedy | |
| The Scorpion | Dominik Graf | Heiner Lauterbach, Marek Harloff, Ulrich Noethen | Crime | |
| Die Sexfalle | Michael Keusch | Jennifer Nitsch, Ina Weisse, Jochen Horst, Ralph Herforth, Sylvia Kristel | Thriller | a.k.a. Die Lüge in deinen Augen |
| Shanghai 1937 | Peter Patzak | Annie Girardot, Agnieszka Wagner, Nicholas Clay, Elliott Gould, Nigel Davenport | Drama | a.k.a. Hotel Shanghai a.k.a. Nanking Road. German-Austrian-Chinese co-production |
| Silent Night | Franz Xaver Bogner | Tobias Moretti, Heio von Stetten, Jörg Hube | Biography | a.k.a. Das ewige Lied. German-Austrian co-production |
| Silvester Countdown | Oskar Roehler | Marie Zielcke, RP Kahl | Drama | |
| Single Bells | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Martina Gedeck, Johanna von Koczian | Comedy | German-Austrian co-production |
| Sisters from Hell | Leon Boden | Esther Schweins, Stefanie Stappenbeck, Judy Winter | Horror | a.k.a. Rosenkavalier |
| Smilla's Sense of Snow | Bille August | Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Mario Adorf, Jürgen Vogel | Thriller | Danish-Swedish-German co-production |
| Spiel um dein Leben | Friedemann Fromm | Ben Becker, Natalia Wörner, Heino Ferch | Thriller | |
| Tiny Heroes | József Gémes, Jenő Koltai | — | Animated comedy drama | German-Hungarian-American co-production |
| Trickser | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Dominique Horwitz, Jochen Nickel | Crime | |
| Das Urteil | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Klaus Löwitsch, Matthias Habich | Drama | |
| Virus X | Lutz Konermann | Leslie Malton, Peter Sattmann | Thriller | |
| Der Wald | Hartmut Griesmayr | August Zirner | Crime | |
| Winter Sleepers | Tom Tykwer | Ulrich Matthes, Heino Ferch, Floriane Daniel, Marie-Lou Sellem, Josef Bierbichler | Drama |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 Hours | Jörg Grünler | Johannes Brandrup, Uwe Bohm, Ulrich Mühe | Crime | a.k.a. 36 Stunden Angst |
| Abgehauen | Frank Beyer | Peter Lohmeyer, Karoline Eichhorn | Biography | |
| Am I Beautiful? | Doris Dörrie | Franka Potente, Senta Berger, Heike Makatsch, Iris Berben | Comedy | |
| Andrea und Marie | Martin Enlen | Iris Berben, Hannelore Elsner, Michael Mendl | Drama | |
| Angel Express | RP Kahl | Eva Habermann, Laura Tonke, Arno Frisch | Drama | |
| April Children | Yüksel Yavuz | Erdal Yıldız, Şerif Sezer | Drama | a.k.a. Children of April |
| Assignment Berlin | Tony Randel | Sammi Davis, Cliff Robertson, Paul Winfield, Dominic Raacke, Jan Niklas | Thriller | American-German co-production |
| Bertolt Brecht – Liebe, Revolution und andere gefährliche Sachen | Jutta Brückner | Peter Buchholz | Biography | |
| The Big Mambo | Michael Gwisdek | Corinna Harfouch, Michael Gwisdek, Jürgen Vogel | Comedy | a.k.a. Das Mambospiel. Entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Black Ice | Michael Gutmann | Günter Lamprecht, Gottfried John | Crime | a.k.a. Glatteis |
| Blutiger Ernst | Bernd Böhlich | Daniel Brühl, Nadja Uhl, Ken Duken, Walter Kreye, Joachim Kemmer | Crime | |
| Break Even | Eoin Moore | Andreas Schmidt, Tamara Simunovic, Kathleen Gallego Zapata | Drama | a.k.a. Plus Minus Null |
| The Bubi Scholz Story | Roland Suso Richter | Götz George, Benno Fürmann, Nicolette Krebitz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Angela Winkler, Elisabeth Trissenaar | Biography | |
| Caipiranha | Felix Dünnemann | Christine Kaufmann, Rainer Basedow, Katharina Thalbach, Thierry Van Werveke, Jasmin Gerat | Comedy | |
| Der Campus | Sönke Wortmann | Heiner Lauterbach, Sandra Speichert, Martin Benrath | Comedy | |
| Candy | Christopher Roth | Nicolette Krebitz, Benno Fürmann, Marek Harloff, Roman Knižka, Vadim Glowna | Crime | |
| Cascadeur: The Amber Chamber | Hardy Martins | Hardy Martins, Regula Grauwiller, Heiner Lauterbach, Charles Régnier | Action | |
| Die Cellistin | Sherry Hormann | Jeanette Hain, Richy Müller, Martin Feifel | Drama | |
| China Dream | Otto Alexander Jahrreiss | Jürgen Prochnow, Sarah Lam, Burt Kwouk | Drama | a.k.a. From China with Love |
| Clarissa | Jacques Deray | Maruschka Detmers, Tobias Moretti, Stéphane Freiss, Claude Rich | Drama | French-German co-production |
| Daybreak | Oliver Storz | Karoline Eichhorn, Stefan Kurt, Bruno Ganz | Drama | a.k.a. Gegen Ende der Nacht. German-Austrian-Swiss co-production |
| Die Healthy | Gert Steinheimer | Ulrich Mühe, Rolf Hoppe | Black comedy | a.k.a. Sterben ist gesünder |
| Dunckel | Lars Kraume | Oliver Korittke, Sebastian Blomberg, Florian Lukas, Horst Buchholz | Crime | |
| Everything Will Be Fine | Angelina Maccarone | Kati Luzie Stüdemann, Chantal de Freitas | Comedy | |
| Fat World | Jan Schütte | Jürgen Vogel | Drama | |
| The Final Game | Sigi Rothemund | Francis Fulton-Smith, Christoph Waltz | Action | a.k.a. Das Finale |
| Four for Venice | Vivian Naefe | Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Heino Ferch, Gedeon Burkhard | Comedy | a.k.a. Two Women, Two Men |
| Frankfurt Millennium | Romuald Karmakar | Michael Degen, Manfred Zapatka, Jochen Nickel | Drama | a.k.a. Das Frankfurter Kreuz |
| Frau zu sein bedarf es wenig | Sigi Rothemund | Anica Dobra, Dieter Landuris, Jophi Ries | Comedy | |
| Gehetzt – Der Tod im Sucher | Joe Coppoletta | Hannes Jaenicke, Minh-Khai Phan-Thi, Francis Fulton-Smith | Thriller | a.k.a. Live Shot |
| Gigolo – Bei Anruf Liebe | Michael Rowitz | Johannes Brandrup, Sonja Kirchberger, Katharina Böhm | Thriller | |
| Der Handymörder | Hans Werner | Natalia Wörner, Jochen Horst, Rolf Hoppe, Hanns Zischler | Thriller | |
| Hard Rain | Mikael Salomon | Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner | Action | International co-production |
| Heroes and Other Cowards | Dennis Satin | Carin C. Tietze, Ralf Bauer, Andreas Wisniewski | Comedy | |
| Ich liebe eine Hure | Ernst Josef Lauscher | Alexandra Kamp, Uwe Bohm | Drama | |
| Ich schneide schneller | René Pollesch | Thomas Heinze, Nina Kronjäger | Drama | |
| Kai Rabe vs. the Vatican Killers | Thomas Jahn | Steffen Wink, Sandra Speichert, Klaus J. Behrendt | Comedy | |
| Der kleine Unterschied | Thomas Bohn | Horst Buchholz, Floriane Daniel, Gila von Weitershausen | Drama | |
| Der Kuss des Killers | Michael Rowitz | Sandra Speichert, Oliver Korittke, Henry Hübchen | Crime | |
| The Little Girl Who Fell from the Tree | Michael Bartlett | Dominique Horwitz, Floriane Daniel, Julia Jäger | Thriller | a.k.a. Ein tödliches Verhältnis |
| Lonny, der Aufsteiger | Tom Toelle | Roman Knižka, Anna Thalbach | Comedy | |
| Love Your Neighbour! | Detlev Buck | Moritz Bleibtreu, Heike Makatsch, Lea Mornar | Comedy | a.k.a. Love Your Female Neighbor! |
| Mammamia | Sandra Nettelbeck | Senta Berger, Christiane Paul, Peter Lohmeyer, Michael Mendl | Comedy | |
| Me Boss, You Sneakers! | Hussi Kutlucan | Hussi Kutlucan, Özay Fecht | Comedy | |
| Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit | Marc Rothemund | Cosma Shiva Hagen, Christoph Waltz, Gudrun Landgrebe, Michaela May | Comedy | a.k.a. Love Scenes from Planet Earth a.k.a. Strange Behavior of Sexually Mature Urbanites at Mating Season |
| Meschugge | Dani Levy | Maria Schrader, Dani Levy, David Strathairn, Lynn Cohen, Nicole Heesters, Lukas Ammann | Thriller | a.k.a. The Giraffe. German-Swiss-American co-production |
| Mortal Friends | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Heino Ferch, Tobias Moretti | Crime | a.k.a. Todfeinde |
| Mrs. Rettich, Czerni and I | Markus Imboden | Iris Berben, Martina Gedeck, Jeanette Hain, Olli Dittrich, Thomas Heinze, Dirk Bach | Comedy | a.k.a. Mrs. Rettich, Czerni and Me |
| Ms. Diamond | Michael Karen | Sandra Speichert, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Mendl, Udo Kier | Crime | a.k.a. Die Diebin |
| Murderous Legacy | Peter Patzak | Christoph Waltz, Nadja Uhl, Rolf Hoppe, Ulrich Wildgruber | Crime | |
| Night Time | Peter Fratzscher | Jan Josef Liefers, Marie Bäumer, Ulrich Mühe, Christoph Waltz, Peter Lohmeyer, Horst Krause | Thriller | a.k.a. Sieben Monde a.k.a. 7 Monde |
| One Step Too Far | Udo Witte | Gudrun Landgrebe, Heiner Lauterbach, Rolf Hoppe | Thriller | a.k.a. Eine Sünde zuviel |
| Operation Noah | Achim Bornhak | Stephanie Philipp, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Hanns Zischler | Thriller | |
| Opernball | Urs Egger | Heiner Lauterbach, Franka Potente, Gudrun Landgrebe, Désirée Nosbusch, Richard Bohringer, Frank Giering, Caroline Goodall | Thriller | a.k.a. Opera Ball. Austrian-German co-production |
| Palmetto | Volker Schlöndorff | Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon | Crime | German-American co-production |
| Places in Cities | Angela Schanelec | Sophie Aigner | Drama | Screened at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Polar Bear | Til Schweiger | Til Schweiger, Karina Krawczyk, Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Heiner Lauterbach | Crime | |
| Rache für mein totes Kind | Vivian Naefe | Susanna Simon, Hansa Czypionka, Christoph Waltz | Thriller | |
| Red as Blood | Markus Fischer | André Eisermann, Stefanie Stappenbeck, Rolf Hoppe, Ivan Desny | Crime | |
| Rhapsody in Blood | Uwe Janson | Katja Flint, Steffen Wink, Franziska Petri, Pinkas Braun, Manfred Zapatka | Thriller | a.k.a. Annas Fluch – Tödliche Gedanken |
| Rider of the Flames | Nina Grosse | Martin Feifel, Marianne Denicourt, Ulrich Matthes | Biography | a.k.a. Fire Rider |
| Der Rosenmörder | Matti Geschonneck | Natalia Wörner, Sebastian Koch, Christian Redl | Thriller | |
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Joachim Król, Heino Ferch | Thriller | Official Submission for the 1998 Academy Awards; 1998 BAFTA Nominee; 1999 Independent Spirit Award Winner |
| Scent of Seduction | Bodo Fürneisen | Gedeon Burkhard, Nadja Uhl, Denise Virieux | Thriller | a.k.a. Gefährliche Lust – Ein Mann in Versuchung |
| The Sex Thief | Christian Petzold | Constanze Engelbrecht | Crime | a.k.a. Die Beischlafdiebin |
| Short Sharp Shock | Fatih Akin | Mehmet Kurtuluş, Regula Grauwiller | Crime | a.k.a. Kurz und schmerzlos |
| Solo for Clarinet | Nico Hofmann | Götz George, Corinna Harfouch, Barbara Auer, Barbara Rudnik, Katharina Thalbach | Thriller | |
| Something to Believe In | John Hough | William McNamara, Tom Conti, Maria Pitillo | Drama | British-German co-production |
| Sommergewitter | Dagmar Damek | Maruschka Detmers, Michael von Au | Drama | |
| Sugar for the Beast | Markus Fischer | Matthias Habich, Christiane Paul, Rolf Hoppe, Gudrun Landgrebe | Thriller | |
| Supersingle | Sharon von Wietersheim | Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Regula Grauwiller, Heio von Stetten | Comedy | |
| Tarzan and the Lost City | Carl Schenkel | Casper Van Dien, Jane March | Adventure | German-American-Australian co-production |
| Terror in the Mall | Norberto Barba | Rob Estes, David Soul, Kai Wiesinger | Thriller | American-German co-production |
| Tödliche Diamanten | Celino Bleiweiß | Heiner Lauterbach, Jan Niklas, Miroslav Nemec, Erwin Steinhauer | Crime | German-Austrian co-production |
| Tödliches Alibi | Hartmut Griesmayr | Uwe Ochsenknecht, Leslie Malton, Alexander Radszun | Thriller | |
| Trains'n'Roses | Peter Lichtefeld | Joachim Król, Peter Lohmeyer, Outi Mäenpää | Comedy | a.k.a. Train Birds. German-Finnish co-production |
| Trial by Fire | Janek Rieke | Lisa Martinek, Janek Rieke | Comedy | a.k.a. The Hardship Test |
| The Trio | Hermine Huntgeburth | Götz George, Christian Redl, Jeanette Hain, Felix Eitner | Crime | |
| Trouville Beach | Michael Hofmann | Boris Aljinovic, Antje Westermann | Comedy | |
| Ultimate Trespass | Martin Enlen | Iris Berben, Katja Studt, Antje Schmidt | Drama | |
| Eine ungehorsame Frau | Vivian Naefe | Veronica Ferres, Michael Degen, Katharina Müller-Elmau | Drama | |
| Die Unschuld der Krähen | Horst Johann Sczerba | Joachim Król | Thriller | a.k.a. Murder Always Gathers Momentum |
| Vicky's Nightmare | Peter Keglevic | Katja Flint, Christoph Waltz, Nina Kronjäger | Thriller | |
| Visioner | Elodie Keene | Jeffrey Meek, Nina Franoszek, Matthias Habich, Patricia Millardet | Science Fiction | a.k.a. Babyraub – Kinder fremder Mächte. American-German co-production |
| Vital Signs | Dieter Kehler | Maria Furtwängler, Carol Campbell, Ursula Buschhorn | Drama | a.k.a. Herzflimmern |
| Widows | Sherry Hormann | Ornella Muti, Katja Flint, Eva Mattes, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Martin Benrath, Heino Ferch | Comedy | |
| Wie eine Spinne im Netz | Heidi Kranz | Simone Thomalla, Dieter Kirchlechner, Mathieu Carrière, Udo Wachtveitl | Drama | |
| Wings of Hope | Werner Herzog | Documentary | ||
| Women Don't Lie | Michael Juncker | Jennifer Nitsch, Martina Gedeck, Dominique Horwitz, Peter Sattmann | Comedy | a.k.a. Good Girls Don't Lie |
| The Wound | Yılmaz Arslan | Yelda Reynaud | Drama | a.k.a. Yara a.k.a. Seelenschmerz. German-Turkish-Swiss-Austrian co-production |
| Wrongfully Accused | Pat Proft | Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Kelly Le Brock, Michael York | Comedy | American-German co-production |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Hans-Christian Schmid | August Diehl | Drama | |
| Absolute Giganten | Sebastian Schipper | Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot, Jr., Julia Hummer | Comedy | a.k.a. Gigantic |
| After the Truth | Roland Suso Richter | Kai Wiesinger, Götz George | Drama | a.k.a. Nichts als die Wahrheit |
| 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 |
| Alles Bob! | Otto Alexander Jahrreiss | Martina Gedeck, Gregor Törzs, Miriam Lahnstein, Christiane Krüger | Comedy | a.k.a. It's All Bob a.k.a. All About Bob |
| Am Anfang war der Seitensprung | Hartmut Griesmayr | Simone Thomalla, Heidelinde Weis, Stephan Schwartz | Comedy | |
| Angels' Sin | Wolf Gremm | Gudrun Landgrebe, Jens Eulenberger | Thriller | a.k.a. The Sin of the Angels |
| Annaluise & Anton | Caroline Link | Elea Geissler, Max Felder, Meret Becker, Juliane Köhler, August Zirner, Sylvie Testud, Benno Fürmann | Family | a.k.a. Pünktchen und Anton |
| Anthropophagous 2000 | Andreas Schnaas | Andreas Schnaas | Horror | |
| Apokalypso | Martin Walz | Armin Rohde, Andrea Sawatzki | Thriller | |
| At Fifty Men Kiss Differently | Margarethe von Trotta | Senta Berger, Ulrich Pleitgen, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Konstantin Wecker, Martin Feifel | Comedy | |
| Die Bademeister | Martin Walz | Michael "Bully" Herbig, Hilmi Sözer | Comedy | |
| Bang Boom Bang | Peter Thorwarth | Oliver Korittke, Markus Knüfken, Ralf Richter, Diether Krebs, Martin Semmelrogge | Comedy | |
| The Beast in the Lake | Richard Huber | Barbara Rudnik | Horror | a.k.a. Das Biest im Bodensee |
| A Big Job | Bernd Schadewald | Jürgen Vogel, Richy Müller, Katja Flint | Crime | a.k.a. Ein großes Ding |
| Biikenbrennen – Der Fluch des Meeres | Sebastian Niemann | Christoph M. Ohrt, Anja Kling | Horror | |
| Bill Diamond | Wolfgang Panzer | Kati Tastet, Marek Kondrat, Ettore Cella | Drama | Swiss-German-French co-production |
| The Blond Baboon | Thomas Jauch | Jürgen Prochnow, Karoline Eichhorn, Michael Mendl, Götz Otto | Crime | |
| Bombs Under Berlin | Joe Coppoletta | Christiane Paul, Tim Bergmann, Christian Oliver, Rüdiger Vogler, Reiner Schöne | Thriller | a.k.a. Götterdämmerung – Morgen stirbt Berlin |
| Die Braut | Egon Günther | Veronica Ferres, Herbert Knaup, Christoph Waltz | Biography | a.k.a. The Mask of Desire |
| Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders | Documentary, Musical | Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary | |
| The Call Girl | Peter Keglevic | Floriane Daniel, André Hennicke | Thriller | |
| Captive in Yemen | Peter Patzak | Peter Maffay, Roman Knižka, Claudine Wilde | Drama | |
| Castor | Jörg Lühdorff | Jörg Schüttauf, Claudia Michelsen | Thriller | a.k.a. Der Todeszug |
| Chain of Evidence | Michael Rowitz | Klaus Löwitsch, Jennifer Nitsch | Thriller | a.k.a. Ein Mann wie eine Waffe |
| Countdown at Sea | Mark von Seydlitz | Ralf Bauer | Thriller | a.k.a. Die Todesfahrt der MS SeaStar |
| Cross-Eyed | Rudolf Steiner | Scott Cohen, Kristen Wilson | Drama, Thriller | American-German co-production |
| The Cry of the Butterfly | Frank Strecker | Tito Larriva, Marek Harloff, Marie Zielcke, Hannelore Elsner, Dietmar Schönherr, Ralf Richter | Drama | |
| Curiosity & the Cat | Christian Alvart | Konstantin Graudus, Nadeshda Brennicke | Thriller | |
| Days of Darkness | Margarethe von Trotta | Suzanne von Borsody, Stefanie Stappenbeck | Drama | a.k.a. Dark Days |
| Dealer | Thomas Arslan | Tamer Yiğit, İdil Üner | Drama | |
| Death Run | Curt Faudon | Thomas Heinze, Rupert Frazer, Carin C. Tietze, Heio von Stetten | Thriller | a.k.a. Mörderische Abfahrt – Skitour in den Tod |
| The Devil and Ms. D | Bernd Eichinger | Til Schweiger, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Christine Neubauer | Drama | a.k.a. The Great Bagarozy |
| Dragonland | Florian Gärtner | Marek Harloff | Drama | |
| Einfach raus | Peter Vogel | Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Fabian Busch, Inga Busch | Drama | |
| The Einstein of Sex | Rosa von Praunheim | Kai Schumann, Friedel von Wangenheim, Ben Becker, Otto Sander, Wolfgang Völz, Meret Becker | Biography | |
| Else: A Passionate Woman | Egon Günther | Katja Riemann | Drama | a.k.a. Else: Story of a Passionate Woman a.k.a. You Are Not Like Other Mothers |
| Die Entführung | Peter Patzak | Götz George, Muriel Baumeister, Birgit Doll | Thriller | |
| Fake – Die Fälschung | Jörg Schlasius | Heribert Czerniak, Martin Umbach, Christian Pätzold, Herbert Feuerstein | Crime | |
| Fatal Online Affair | Michael Karen | Katja Woywood, Peter Sattmann, Katja Riemann | Thriller | a.k.a. Verführt – Eine gefährliche Affäre |
| Fight Club | David Fincher | Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto | Drama | American-German co-production |
| Flames of Death | Curt Faudon | Heino Ferch, Natalia Wörner, Axel Milberg | Thriller | a.k.a. Der Feuerteufel. Austrian-German co-production |
| Frische Ware | Paul Harather | Christine Neubauer, Christine Buchegger, Max von Thun, Heio von Stetten | Drama | |
| From the Depths to the Heights | Matti Geschonneck | Marianne Sägebrecht | Drama | a.k.a. Ganz unten, ganz oben |
| Gangster | Volker Einrauch | Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Christian Redl, Stefan Kurt | Crime | |
| Gefährliche Wahrheit | Bodo Fürneisen | Barbara Rudnik, Michael Mendl, Hans Werner Meyer | Crime | |
| Das Gelbe vom Ei | Lars Becker | Moritz Bleibtreu, Meret Becker, Heike Makatsch | Comedy | |
| Gierig | Oskar Roehler | Jasmin Tabatabai, Richy Müller, Gregor Törzs | Drama | a.k.a. Lust for Life a.k.a. Greedy |
| Gloomy Sunday | Rolf Schübel | Joachim Król, Erika Marozsán, Stefano Dionisi, Ben Becker | World War II drama | a.k.a. Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod. German-Hungarian co-production |
| Hans Warns: My 20th Century | Gordian Maugg | Shenja Lacher | Adventure | |
| The Harpist | Hansjörg Thurn | Geraldine O'Rawe, Christien Anholt, Stephen McGann, Colin Baker | Drama | a.k.a. Die Harfenspielerin. British-German co-production |
| Heroes Like Us | Sebastian Peterson | Daniel Borgwardt, Gojko Mitić, Achim Mentzel | Comedy | |
| Der Hochstapler | Martin Buchhorn | Jan Fedder, Ulrike Folkerts, Gerd Baltus | Comedy | |
| Holstein Lovers | Uwe Janson | Nadja Tiller, Günther Schramm | Comedy | |
| In Heaven | Michael Bindlechner | Sylvie Testud, Xaver Hutter, Merab Ninidze | Drama | German-Austrian co-production |
| Jew-boy Levi | Didi Danquart | Bruno Cathomas, Caroline Ebner, Ulrich Noethen, Martina Gedeck | Drama | a.k.a. Viehjud Levi. German-Swiss-Austrian co-production |
| Kein Mann für eine Nacht | Thomas Bohn | Floriane Daniel, Max Tidof, Sky du Mont, Ingolf Lück | Comedy | |
| Das komabrutale Duell | Heiko Fipper | Heiko Fipper, Mike Hoffman, Stefan Hoft | Horror | |
| The Last Bomb | Hans Horn | Jens Neuhaus, Regula Grauwiller, Horst Janson, Hans Korte | Thriller | a.k.a. Der Bunker – Eine todsichere Falle |
| Late Show | Helmut Dietl | Thomas Gottschalk, Harald Schmidt, Veronica Ferres, Jasmin Tabatabai | Comedy | |
| Latin Lover | Oskar Roehler | Marie Bäumer, Thomas Heinze, Leon Boden | Drama | |
| Die letzte Chance | Erwin Keusch | Michael Mendl, Jennifer Nitsch, Karl Michael Vogler | Drama | |
| Lieber böser Weihnachtsmann | Ben Verbong | Rufus Beck, Miroslav Nemec, Jennifer Nitsch | Thriller | |
| Lola and Billy the Kid | Kutluğ Ataman | Gandi Mukli, Baki Davrak, Erdal Yıldız | Drama | a.k.a. Lola und Bilidikid |
| Long Hello and Short Goodbye | Rainer Kaufmann | Nicolette Krebitz, Marc Hosemann, Katja Riemann | Crime | |
| Majestät brauchen Sonne | Peter Schamoni | Documentary | ||
| Ein Mann steht auf | Michael Lähn | Robert Atzorn, Tina Ruland, Michael Mendl, Tilo Prückner, Michael von Au, Roman Knižka | Thriller | |
| Men and Other Catastrophes | Ulli Baumann | Heike Makatsch, Dominic Raacke, Ulrike Folkerts, Irm Hermann, Steffen Wink, Walter Kreye | Comedy | |
| Men Are Like Chocolate | Uwe Wilhelm | Jennifer Nitsch, Max Tidof, Otto Sander | Comedy | |
| The Millennium Disaster: Computer Crash 2000 | Anders Engström | Jürgen Prochnow, Steffen Wink, Gudrun Landgrebe, Götz Otto, Desmond Llewelyn | Thriller | German-Australian co-production |
| Millennium Love | Peter Timm | Floriane Daniel, Roman Knižka | Drama | |
| Move On Up | Alex Ross | Neil Edmond, Regine Zimmermann | Comedy | |
| My Best Fiend | Werner Herzog | Documentary | a.k.a. Mein liebster Feind. Documentary film about Klaus Kinski | |
| My Wife Loves Two | Michael Keusch | Christoph M. Ohrt, Tina Ruland, Ingolf Lück, Gesche Tebbenhoff | Comedy | a.k.a. Zärtliche Begierde |
| Nancherrow | Simon Langton | Joanna Lumley, Patrick Macnee, Senta Berger | Drama | British-German co-production |
| Nightfall | Fred Kelemen | Verena Jasch, Wolfgang Michael | Drama | a.k.a. Abendland. German-Portuguese co-production |
| Nightshapes | Andreas Dresen | Michael Gwisdek | Drama | a.k.a. Nachtgestalten. Entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Only a Dead Man Is a Good Man | Wolf Gremm | Thekla Carola Wied | Black comedy | |
| Operation Pandora | Diethard Küster | Mark Keller, Isabella Parkinson, Marie-Lou Sellem | Thriller | a.k.a. Ein Vater im Alleingang |
| Oskar and Leni | Petra Katharina Wagner | Christian Redl, Anna Thalbach | Drama | |
| Otomo | Frieder Schlaich | Isaach de Bankolé | Drama | |
| Our Island in the South Pacific | Thomas Bahmann | Herbert Knaup, Andrea Sawatzki, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ben Becker | Comedy | a.k.a. Südsee, eigene Insel |
| Paradise Mall | Friedemann Fromm | Franka Potente, Heiner Lauterbach, Daniel Brühl, Roman Knižka, Ken Duken, Tom Schilling | Thriller | a.k.a. Schlaraffenland |
| Paths in the Night | Andreas Kleinert | Hilmar Thate | Drama | |
| Prototype | Nikolai Müllerschön | Tim Bergmann, Edgar Selge | Thriller | a.k.a. Der Erlkönig |
| Requiem for a Romantic Woman | Dagmar Knöpfel | Janina Sachau, Sylvester Groth, Jeanette Hain | Biography | |
| Sara Amerika | Roland Suso Richter | Dennenesch Zoudé, Thomas Heinze, Oliver Korittke, Gregor Törzs | Drama | |
| School's Out | Robert Sigl | Katharina Wackernagel | Horror | a.k.a. Schrei – denn ich werde dich töten! |
| Seven Days Left to Chance | Peter Ily Huemer | Sophie Schütt, Gregor Törzs, Anna Loos, Mirco Nontschew, Anja Kruse | Comedy | a.k.a. Sieben Tage bis zum Glück a.k.a. 7 Tage bis zum Glück |
| Die Singlefalle – Liebesspiele bis zum Tod | Michael Keusch | Sandra Speichert, Doreen Jacobi | Thriller | a.k.a. Die Singlefalle – Liebesspiele bis in den Tod |
| Sleepy Hollow | Tim Burton | Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones | Gothic supernatural horror | American-German-British co-production |
| Sonnenallee | Leander Haußmann | Alexander Scheer, Robert Stadlober, Detlev Buck | Comedy | a.k.a. Sun Alley |
| Split Second | Thomas Berger | Jasmin Tabatabai, Heinz Hoenig | Thriller | a.k.a. Rendezvous mit dem Teufel |
| St. Pauli Night | Sönke Wortmann | Benno Fürmann, Maruschka Detmers, Armin Rohde, Florian Lukas | Drama | |
| Straight Shooter | Thomas Bohn | Dennis Hopper, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint | Action thriller | |
| Tails You Win, Heads You Lose | Hans-Günther Bücking | Heike Makatsch, Christiane Paul | Drama | a.k.a. The Heads of My Loved Ones |
| The Thirteenth Floor | Josef Rusnak | Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D'Onofrio | Science Fiction | a.k.a. The 13th Floor. German-American co-production |
| The Trucker and the Thief | Raoul Heimrich | Sven Martinek, Yvonne de Bark | Action | a.k.a. Der Träumer und das wilde Mädchen |
| Tuvalu | Veit Helmer | Denis Lavant, Chulpan Khamatova | Drama | |
| The Ultimate Fight | Rainer Matsutani | Christian Oliver, Thure Riefenstein, Chiara Schoras | Action | a.k.a. Romantic Fighter |
| Under the Palms | Miriam Kruishoop | Helmut Berger, Udo Kier, Sheri Hagen, Thom Hoffman | Drama | Dutch-German co-production |
| Valley of the Shadows | Nathaniel Gutman | Carin C. Tietze, Natalia Wörner, Sebastian Koch, Hansa Czypionka, Loni von Friedl | Horror | |
| Verratene Freundschaft – Ein Mann wird zur Gefahr | Kaspar Heidelbach | Tim Bergmann, Klaus J. Behrendt, Isabella Parkinson, Regula Grauwiller | Thriller | |
| The Volcano | Ottokar Runze | Nina Hoss, Meret Becker, Katharina Thalbach | Drama | |
| Waiting Means Death | Hartmut Schoen | Ulrich Tukur, Barbara Auer, Jörg Schüttauf, Henry Hübchen, Anja Kling | Crime | a.k.a. Warten ist der Tod |
| You're Dead | Andy Hurst | John Hurt, Rhys Ifans, Claire Skinner | Crime comedy | British-German co-production |
| Your Best Years | Dominik Graf | Martina Gedeck, Tobias Moretti, Tim Bergmann | Drama | |
| Die Zauberfrau | Ilse Hofmann | Iris Berben, Martin Benrath, Rüdiger Vogler, Rosemarie Fendel | Comedy | |
| Zoe | Maren-Kea Freese | Kirsten Hartung, Wotan Wilke Möhring | Drama |
