German horror films

1979 film directed by Werner Herzog

2018 film directed by Lars von Trier

2005 film by Rob Zombie

2010 film directed by Christopher Smith

2005 film by Stephen Kay

2005 film directed by Uwe Boll

2019 film directed by Fatih Akin

2008 film directed by Éric Valette

2019 film directed by John R. Leonetti

2006 film by Hans Horn

2006 film by Nicholas Mastandrea

2000 film by Chuck Russell

2003 film by Brian Helgeland

2000 film by Stefan Ruzowitzky

Nekromantik (stylized as NEKRomantik) is a 1987 West German erotic exploitation horror film co-written and directed by Jörg Buttgereit. It is known to be frequently controversial, banned in a number of countries, and has become a cult film over the years due to its transgressive subject matter (including necrophilia) and audacious imagery.

2007 film by Katja von Garnier

1969 film by Jesús Franco

1994 film by Michael Schaack

1976 film directed by Jesús Franco

2005 film by John Fawcett

2010 film directed by Bruce LaBruce

1989 film by Jörg Buttgereit

2000 film by Uwe Boll

1991 film directed by Jörg Buttgereit

1974 film by Francis Girod

Sadomania (El infierno de la pasión) is a 1981 West German-Spanish women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco, starring Ajita Wilson. It was also released as Hellhole Women, Prisoners of the Flesh and Sadomania: The Hell of Passion. The German version (Sadomania – Hölle der Lust) was cut and features a completely different soundtrack

1996 German Gothic-horror film

1974 film by Mario Bava

1970 film

1968 film by Jesús Franco

1970 film by Jesús Franco

1935 film by Arthur Robison

1985 German fantasy film directed by Roland Emmerich

1977 film by Jesús Franco

2010 film by Marvin Kren

1993 film by Jörg Buttgereit

1959 film by Victor Trivas

1999 film by Andreas Schnaas

1980 film by Jesús Franco

1981 film by Walerian Borowczyk

1972 film by Adonis Kyrou

2008 film by Bruce LaBruce

Frauengefängnis (lit. Women's prison; released in the US as Barbed Wire Dolls and in the UK as Caged Women) is a 1975 Swiss-West German horror film directed by Jesús Franco. It is part of the women in prison cycle of violent sexploitation films that flourished in the 1970s and early 1980s. A women's prison tale, it stars Lina Romay as Maria, who has been jailed after killing her father, played by director Jesús Franco himself.

1972 film by Armando Crispino

2014 film directed by Kim Blanc and Marcel Walz

2026 film directed by Ulrike Ottinger

1971 film by Antonio Margheriti

1969 film by Antonio Margheriti

1973 film by Adrian Hoven