German independent films

Amélie (, , ) is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of Amélie Poulain, played by Audrey Tautou, a shy and quirky waitress who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while dealing with her own isolation. The film features an ensemble cast of supporting roles, including Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Clotilde Mollet, Isabelle Nanty

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.

2003 film directed by Wolfgang Becker

1972 film by Werner Herzog

1998 film by Tom Tykwer

1987 film by Wim Wenders

2009 film directed by Michael Haneke

1995 film directed by Emir Kusturica

1984 film directed by Wim Wenders

Fitzcarraldo () is a 1982 epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irish would-be rubber baron known in Peru as "Fitzcarraldo", who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin, with the ultimate goal of using the wealth to build an opera house in the area. The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once had a disassembled steamboat transported over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald by natives.

1979 film directed by Volker Schlöndorff

2005 film directed by Michael Haneke

2007 film by Stefan Ruzowitzky

2002 film by Gurinder Chadha

2011 film by Roman Polanski

2016 film directed by Pablo Larraín

2017 film directed by Sebastián Lelio

2004 film directed by Fatih Akın

1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

2013 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

2013 film directed by Sofia Coppola

2002 documentary film directed by Michael Moore

2016 film by Maren Ade

2004 film directed by Wong Kar-Wai

2001 film by Terry Zwigoff

2007 film by Todd Haynes

2005 film by Marc Rothemund

1991 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

Pandorum is a 2009 science fiction horror film directed by Christian Alvart, produced by Robert Kulzer, Jeremy Bolt and Paul W. S. Anderson (the latter two through their Impact Pictures banner), and starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Travis Milloy wrote the screenplay from a story by Milloy and Alvart. The film's title is a fictional slang term for a form of psychosis caused by deep space and triggered by emotional stress, leading to severe paranoia, delirium, and nosebleeds. Pandorum was released on 25 September 2009 in the United States, and on 2 October 2009 in the UK. The film was poorl

2013 film by Ritesh Batra

1974 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2023 film by Wim Wenders

2001 film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel

2002 drama film directed by Niki Caro

2002 film by Roger Avary

1973 film by Wim Wenders

2024 film directed by Mohammad Rasoulof

2014 film by Olivier Assayas

1977 film by Wim Wenders

1981 film by Uli Edel

2007 film by Fatih Akın

1962 film by Orson Welles

2023 film directed by Aki Kaurismäki

1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2005 film by Rob Zombie

2016 film by Olivier Assayas

2001 film by Patrice Chéreau

2006 film directed by William Friedkin

2005 film directed by Anders Thomas Jensen

2019 film by Nadav Lapid

2019 film by Terrence Malick

2004 film by Dennis Gansel

2012 film by Leos Carax

1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

2014 film directed by David Cronenberg

2015 film directed by Sebastian Schipper

1981 film directed by Andrzej Żuławski

2018 film by Alice Rohrwacher

1933 film by Fritz Lang

2000 film by Michael Haneke