German drama films

2003 film by Peter Jackson

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.

Dogville is a 2003 experimental arthouse drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan, with John Hurt as the narrator. The film employs an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman on the run from mobsters who finds refuge in the tiny mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, in exchange for physical labor.

1982 film by Ingmar Bergman

2006 film by Kevin Macdonald

2009 film directed by Michael Haneke

2014 film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Sentimental Value is a 2025 drama film directed by Joachim Trier, who co-wrote it with Eskil Vogt. It follows sisters Nora and Agnes in their reunion with their estranged father Gustav. It also stars Elle Fanning.

2017 film directed by Sebastián Lelio

1969 film by Luchino Visconti

2017 film by Andrey Zvyagintsev

2017 film directed by Fatih Akın

1993 film directed by Bille August

2001 film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel

2010 film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu

1974 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Manderlay is a 2005 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, the second and most recent part of von Trier's projected USA – Land of Opportunities trilogy. Unlike von Trier's other trilogies, the films' stories are connected and it is a direct sequel to Dogville. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan. The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan. Lauren Bacall, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Davies, and Chloë Sevigny return portraying different characters from those in Dogville. Only John Hurt, Udo Kier, and Jean-Marc Barr re

2023 film by Wim Wenders

2013 film by Ritesh Batra

1979 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2011 film by Roland Emmerich

2016 film by Jim Jarmusch

2014 film by Olivier Assayas

2013 film by Bille August

1982 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Querelle is a 1982 English-language erotic art film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Brad Davis and was adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle of Brest. The plot centers on the Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is both a thief and murderer. It was Fassbinder's last film, released shortly after his death at the age of 37.

1962 film by Orson Welles

2007 film by Fatih Akın

2005 film by Michael Caton-Jones

2019 film by Nadav Lapid

1991 film directed by Lars von Trier

2019 film by Terrence Malick

2016 film directed by François Ozon

2012 film by Christian Petzold

1998 film directed by Bille August

2019 film directed by James Kent

2014 film directed by Kornél Mundruczó

2018 film by Alice Rohrwacher

2018 drama film by Adina Pintilie

2000 film by Michael Haneke

film by Wim Wenders (2000)

2021 film directed by Nora Fingscheidt

2018 film by Claire Denis

2008 film by Guillaume Ivernel, Arthur Qwak

2003 film directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni

2013 film directed by Sherry Hormann

1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Yeelen (Bambara for "brightness"/"light") is a 1987 Malian film written, directed and produced by Souleymane Cissé. It is filmed in the Bambara and Fula languages, and is based on a legend told by the Bambara people. Though the era is undefined, it is presumably set in the 13th century in the Mali Empire and is a heroic quest narrative featuring magic and precognition.

2023 film directed by İlker Çatak

2021 film directed by Maria Schrader

2020 film by Mohammad Rasulof

2016 film by Andrei Konchalovsky

2014 film by Kaan Müjdeci

2009 film directed by Florian Gallenberger

2018 film directed by Marcelo Martinessi

2006 film by Hans Horn

1980 film by Jean-Luc Godard

1977 film by Ingmar Bergman

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).

2016 film by Mia Hansen-Løve