1. Die Bettwurst (Die Bettwurst)
It is love at first sight: elderly secretary Luzi and young, unemployed Dietmar find each other by accident in Rosa von Praunheim’s outrageous genre, social satire.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
2. My Queen Karo (My Queen Karo)
Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused because of the internal conflicts that start to divide the group. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
3. Krauses Glück (Krauses Glück)
Police chief Horst Krause is retired. Together with his sister Elsa, he takes care of the inn in Schönhorst. But none of that makes him happy.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
4. Madness (Follia)
Following an accident on a set, a director tries to pick up the pieces of reality.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
5. All My Puny Sorrows
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
6. Gwen
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
7. Phoenix (Phoenix)
German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelganger.
It has an average vote of 6.828 on TMDB.
8. Amour Fou (Amour fou)
Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
9. Nothing Bad Can Happen (Tore tanzt)
Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement, falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
10. Yella (Yella)
A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
11. Kung-Fu Master! (Kung-Fu Master!)
A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
12. Revanche (Revanche)
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
It has an average vote of 7.193 on TMDB.
13. Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
14. Godless Youth (Jugend ohne Gott)
German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.
It has an average vote of 6.182 on TMDB.
15. Transit (Transit)
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
It has an average vote of 6.695 on TMDB.
16. Benny's Video (Benny's Video)
A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
It has an average vote of 6.952 on TMDB.
17. So Long, My Son (地久天长)
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
It has an average vote of 7.821 on TMDB.
18. Undine (Undine)
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.
It has an average vote of 6.475 on TMDB.
19. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
It has an average vote of 6.955 on TMDB.
20. A Pure Formality (Una pura formalità)
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
It has an average vote of 7.473 on TMDB.