German black-and-white films

1927 German science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror () is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.

1931 film directed by Fritz Lang

1920 film by Robert Wiene

1935 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg

2009 film directed by Michael Haneke

1930 German film directed by Josef von Sternberg

1938 black-and-white Nazi propaganda documentary film, written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, about the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin

1940 film directed by Fritz Hippler

1924 film directed by F. W. Murnau

1940 Nazi German film

1920 film by Paul Wegener, Carl Boese

1926 film by F. W. Murnau

1959 film directed by Bernhard Wicki

1973 film by Wim Wenders

1982 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1922 film by Fritz Lang

1924 two-part film directed by Fritz Lang

1921 film by Fritz Lang

1929 film directed by Fritz Lang

1962 film by Orson Welles

1926 animated film directed by Lotte Reiniger

1933 propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl

1943 German propaganda film

2016 film directed by François Ozon

Vampyr () is a 1932 Gothic horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. It was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of supernatural stories In a Glass Darkly. The film was funded by Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, who (credited as Julian West) also played the starring role of Allan Gray, a student of the occult who wanders into the French village of Courtempierre, which is under the curse of a vampire. Most of the other members of the cast were also non-professional actors.

2025 film directed by Wes Anderson

1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1919 film by Richard Oswald

1933 film by Fritz Lang

1958 film by Jacques Becker, Max Ophüls

1976 film by Wim Wenders

Spione (; English title: Spies, under which title it was released in the United States) is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang and co-written with his wife, Thea von Harbou, who also wrote a novel of the same name, published a year later. The film was Lang's penultimate silent film and the first for his own production company, Fritz Lang-Film GmbH. As in Lang's Mabuse films, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays a master criminal aiming for world domination.

1927 film by Walter Ruttmann

1931 film by Leontine Sagan

German newsreel series

1913 film

1982 film by Wim Wenders

2016 film by Andrei Konchalovsky

1925 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1922 German film directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Katzelmacher is a 1969 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play. The film centers on an aimless group of friends whose lives are shaken up by the arrival of an immigrant Greek worker, Jorgos (played by Fassbinder himself).

1946 film by Wolfgang Staudte

1932 film by Slatan Dudow

1920 German film directed by F. W. Murnau

Kameradschaft (, known in France as La Tragédie de la mine) is a 1931 dramatic film directed by Austrian director G. W. Pabst. The French-German co-production drama is noted for combining expressionism and realism.

1935 Nazi propaganda documentary film by Leni Riefenstahl about the 7th Nuremberg Rally in 1935, focusing on the German army

1970 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1960 film by Denys de La Patellière

1932 film by Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs

1969 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1933 film by Hans Steinhoff

1957 film by Robert Siodmak

1895 film directed by Max Skladanowsky

1968 film by Alexander Kluge

1924 film by Paul Leni, Leo Birinski

2012 film directed by Jan-Ole Gerster

1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1921 film directed by F. W. Murnau