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German-language independent films

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1975 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2007 animated film by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud

1991 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Edge of Heaven

2007 film by Fatih Akın

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).

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

1968 film by Alexander Kluge

2019 fiction film by Nora Fingscheidt

Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970 film by Werner Herzog

Afire () is a 2023 German drama film directed by Christian Petzold, starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel and Enno Trebs. The relationship drama focuses on four people sharing a holiday home on the Baltic Sea.

I Was at Home, But

2019 film by Angela Schanelec

Germany, Pale Mother

1980 film by Helma Sanders-Brahms

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives

1970 film by Rosa von Praunheim

1980 East German drama film directed by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase

2008 film by Christian Petzold

Anthropophagous 2000

1999 film by Andreas Schnaas

1984 West German film directed by Muscha

2001 film by Jessica Hausner

Amoklauf () is a 1994 German horror film written and directed by Uwe Boll. Boll's third feature, it established a number of directorial trademarks that would recur throughout the filmmaker's career, such as a scene involving a mass shooting and a premise revolving around "psychologically disturbed men and intersecting systems of oppression conspiring to unleash the violent potential within them."

Premutos: The Fallen Angel

1997 film by Olaf Ittenbach