German LGBT : Gay and Lesbian movies from Germany Switzerland and Austria (Deutschland, Österreich Schweiz)

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A Cinematographic Anthology 1919-2024

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1. Different from the Others (1919)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History

Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.

Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh

Votes: 1,488

2. Michael (1924)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor, Alexander Murski

Votes: 2,045

3. The Violinist of Florence (1926)

68 min | Comedy

The young Renée is a bubbly, fun-loving, young woman. She has a very close relationship with her young father, the worse her relationship with her stepmother is.

Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt, Nora Gregor, Walter Rilla

Votes: 87

4. Sex in Chains (1928)

107 min | Drama

A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate and upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Dieterle, Gunnar Tolnæs, Mary Johnson, Paul Henckels

Votes: 316

5. Pandora's Box (1929)

Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz

Votes: 11,853 | Gross: $0.01M

6. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance

At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.

Directors: Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla

Votes: 3,737

7. Bewildered Youth (1957)

91 min | Drama

Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and ... See full summary »

Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Paula Wessely, Paul Dahlke, Hans Nielsen, Ingrid Stenn

Votes: 255

8. Mädchen in Uniform (1958)

91 min | Drama

In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.

Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Romy Schneider, Therese Giehse, Blandine Ebinger

Votes: 1,760

9. Young Törless (1966)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

In a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Fred Dietz

Votes: 2,664

10. Eika Katappa (1969)

144 min | Comedy, Drama

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music - with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.

Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Gisela Trowe, Carla Egerer, Rosemarie Heinikel, Magdalena Montezuma

Votes: 128

11. Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)

88 min | Drama, Horror

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

Director: Peter Fleischmann | Stars: Martin Sperr, Angela Winkler, Else Quecke, Michael Strixner

Votes: 754

12. Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli (1970)

95 min | Crime, Drama

A Hamburg police inspector investigates the crime of a homosexual in a love hotel, and although several guests are suspicious, his thoughts are elsewhere, as his own son lies on the operating table in a hospital, fighting for his life.

Director: Rolf Olsen | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Andrea Rau, Corny Collins, Rudolf Schündler

Votes: 51

13. Hard Women (1970)

R | 84 min | Thriller

Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak must follow 1000 leads during the investigation of a transvestite murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage parlor he meets industrialist wife Claire Imhoff.

Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Horst Tappert, Werner Peters, Hubert Suschka, Walter Richter

Votes: 118

14. I Love You, I Kill You (1971)

94 min | Drama

Set in the near future, Brandner's village is populated by emotionless citizens, kept in place with pills and pleasures. Once a year the wealthy people arrive to hunt in a nearby area, ... See full summary »

Director: Uwe Brandner | Stars: Rolf Becker, Hannes Fuchs, Helmut Brasch, Thomas Eckelmann

Votes: 98

15. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971)

67 min | Documentary, Drama

A harsh but deeply sympathetic sociological essay film about gay life in Berlin in a time of secrecy and oppression, with no diegetic sound and constant narration, following Daniel's unsatisfying immersion into gay society.

Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Bernd Feuerhelm, Berryt Bohlen, Ernst Kuchling, Volker Eschke

Votes: 573

16. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director ... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Marquard Bohm, Hanna Schygulla

Votes: 2,575

17. Whity (1971)

95 min | Drama, Western

Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a ... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Harry Baer

Votes: 1,193

18. The Sensuous Three (1972)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

While out on the town in Berlin, Raymond sees and falls for Harlis, a star of a troupe of lesbian cabaret strippers. Attracted to a man for the first time, Harlis leaves her long time ... See full summary »

Director: Robert van Ackeren | Stars: Mascha Rabben, Gabriele Lafari, Ulli Lommel, Rolf Zacher

Votes: 119

19. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Romance

73 Metascore

A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes

Votes: 11,040

20. Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972)

140 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of the legendary King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886), his opera interest and friendship with theatre personalities such as Richard Wagner and Joseph Kainz, and at the same time a reflection of the German 1800s.

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Harry Baer, Ingrid Caven, Hanna Köhler, Ursula Strätz

Votes: 336

22. 1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)

100 min | Drama

An African-American GI goes to Berlin and faces prejudice.

Directors: Lothar Lambert, Wolfram Zobus | Stars: Louis Antonius, Claudja Barry, Arnold Bauer, Ortrud Beginnen

Votes: 35

23. The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975)

54 min | Drama

The surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive.

Directors: Tabea Blumenschein, Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Tabea Blumenschein, Wally Busch, Valeska Gert, Rolf Gärtner

Votes: 30

24. Fox and His Friends (1975)

Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven

Votes: 6,747

25. Coup de Grâce (1976)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War

A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Rüdiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carrière

Votes: 1,395

26. Satan's Brew (1976)

112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita, Volker Spengler

Votes: 2,136

27. The Consequence (1977)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance

Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald, Werner Schwuchow, Hans-Michael Rehberg

Votes: 1,036

28. Nachtvorstellungen (1977)

89 min

A clerk ends up in a movie theatre after an evening fight with his girlfriend and his motherly, dominant sister, with whom he lives. A film is running there that describes a situation that ... See full summary »

Director: Lothar Lambert | Stars: Cihan Anasai, Dagmar Beiersdorf, Beate Hasenau, Lothar Lambert

29. The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

Three people rob a bank to help a daycare center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner is identified, and police suspect that Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, ... See full summary »

Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach, Marius Müller-Westernhagen

Votes: 350

30. In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama

A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar

Votes: 4,735

31. Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (1978)

137 min | Fantasy

Several women, all bored with their menial lives, join a lesbian pirate ship and set sail on a kooky adventure.

Directors: Tabea Blumenschein, Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Tabea Blumenschein, Monika von Cube, Roswitha Janz, Irene von Lichtenstein

Votes: 162

32. Ticket of No Return (1979)

108 min | Drama

A woman presented as a "trinkerin" is having a special tour in Berlin. She bought herself a single-way ticket and will drink everywhere she can.

Director: Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Tabea Blumenschein, Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma, Orpha Termin

Votes: 587

33. Das Ende des Regenbogens (1979)

107 min | Drama

A 17 year old Berlin boy turns prostitute and petty thief. Despite the attempts of a social worker to help, the boy runs into real trouble when a burglary goes awry.

Director: Uwe Frießner | Stars: Thomas Kufahl, Slavica Rankovic, Henry Lutze, Udo Samel

Votes: 117

34. Taxi to the Toilet (1980)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Frank Ripploh is a rascal: he is a shaggy-haired, bearded teacher who is gay and has a very active sex life plus an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life separate from his ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Ripploh | Stars: Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Orpha Termin, Peter Fahrni

Votes: 1,771

35. Fucking City (1982)

88 min

Four mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual satisfaction in the urban jungle of West Berlin.

Director: Lothar Lambert | Stars: Ulrike Schirm, Stefan Menche, Lothar Lambert, Dagmar Beiersdorf

36. Querelle (1982)

R | 108 min | Drama

A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet

Votes: 7,419

37. Weggehen um anzukommen (1982)

89 min | Drama

Anna hits the road after her lesbian affair with Regine ends.

Director: Alexandra von Grote | Stars: Gabriele Osburg, Ute Cremer, Barbara Stanek, Geneviève Martin

Votes: 14

38. A Woman in Flames (1983)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama

Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratingly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out ... See full summary »

Director: Robert van Ackeren | Stars: Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, Hanns Zischler, Gabriele Lafari

Votes: 639

39. Eine Liebe wie andere auch (1983)

104 min | Drama

In West Berlin, two men, a teacher and a bookseller, have a long standing gay relationship. While they are secure and sucessful their relationship is waning.

Directors: Martin Ripkens, Hans Stempel | Stars: Klaus Adler, Stuart Wolfe, Christa Maerker, Paul Lotter

Votes: 25

40. Sheer Madness (1983)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly ... See full summary »

Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen

Votes: 296

41. City of Lost Souls (1983)

94 min | Musical, Comedy

A film about the teeming flip side of life in Berlin centered on eccentric characters of almost every imaginable sexual orientation, or disorientation.

Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Angie Stardust, Jayne County, Judith Flex, Gary Miller

Votes: 120

42. The Sprinter (1984)

87 min | Drama, Sport

A homosexuell, crazy guy tries to be "normal." So he begins to search a girl. He first of all starts a membership in a sports club as a short disdance runner. But his results are very poor.... See full summary »

Director: Christoph Böll | Stars: Wieland Samolak, Gerhard Olschewski, Renate Muhri, Dieter Eppler

Votes: 34

43. Drama in blond (1984)

87 min | Comedy, Drama

A mousey, mild-mannered, mid-thirties bank clerk visits a cabaret and discovers his taste for drag and for the club's techie.

Director: Lothar Lambert | Stars: Lothar Lambert, Dagmar Beiersdorf, Hans Marquardt, Stefan Menche

44. Horror Vacui (1984)

85 min | Horror

Horror Vacui - The fear of the void.

Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Lotti Huber, Joaquin La Habana, Folkert Milster, Friedrich Steinhauer

Votes: 25

45. Im Himmel ist die Hölle los (1984)

82 min | Comedy

Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant

Director: Helmer von Lützelburg | Stars: Billie Zöckler, Dirk Bach, Barbara Valentin, Ralph Morgenstern

Votes: 193

46. Paso Doble (1984)

90 min

A West Berlin couple hopes to solve their marital problems while on vacation in Spain. Instead, the tensions between the neglected and misunderstood woman and her annoyed and otherwise ... See full summary »

Director: Lothar Lambert | Stars: Albert Heins, Ulrike Schirm, Susanne Stahl, Christoph Wellemeyer

Votes: 8

47. November Moon (1985)

108 min | Drama, Romance, War

Two women fall in love in nazi-occupied France, and must fight to survive the war. A task made more difficult as one is a jew on the run from Germany.

Director: Alexandra von Grote | Stars: Gabriele Osburg, Christiane Millet, Danièle Delorme, Bruno Pradal

Votes: 218

48. Colonel Redl (1985)

R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, History

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ... See full summary »

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

Votes: 3,341 | Gross: $0.00M

49. Tagediebe (1985)

100 min | Drama

About a trio who take shelter in a friend's apartment while he is away for awhile. One of the trio is Lola who teaches French on the side, maintains an out-of-sight hairstyle, and has a 10-... See full summary »

Director: Marcel Gisler | Stars: Rudolf Nadler, Dina Leipzig, Lutz Deisinger, Mateusz Hornung

Votes: 17

50. Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1985)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

Wanda ist von Berufs wegen grausam. Ihre Spezialitaet: das Erfinden von Fallen fuer ihre Liebhaber/innen. Gregor, der romantische Schwaermer, wird aus seinem Traum gerissen. Justine, die ... See full summary »

Directors: Elfi Mikesch, Monika Treut | Stars: Mechthild Großmann, Udo Kier, Sheila McLaughlin, Carola Regnier

Votes: 220

51. Westler (1985)

94 min | Drama

Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening.... See full summary »

Director: Wieland Speck | Stars: Sigurd Rachman, Rainer Strecker, Andy Lucas, Frank Rediess

Votes: 432

52. The Rose King (1986)

106 min | Drama, Musical

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Magdalena Montezuma, Mostefa Djadjam, Antonio Orlando, Karina Fallenstein

Votes: 289

54. Taxi nach Kairo (1987)

87 min | Comedy

Eight years after Taxi Zum Klo, Frank is still up his same old tricks. In fact, the hustler he brought home last night tied him up and robbed him. His mother is pressuring him to marry, and... See full summary »

Director: Frank Ripploh | Stars: Frank Ripploh, Christine Neubauer, Udo Schenk, Nina Schühly

Votes: 45

55. Wendel (1987)

60 min | Drama

David has got himself pretty well organized, he's got friends, jobs - not bad. Broods a little ,but who doesn't. Occasional political activity. He never really grasped why Wendel, his best ... See full summary »

Director: Christoph Schaub | Stars: Daniel Buser, Kriton Kalaitzides, Lilo Wicki, Andreas Löffel

56. Die Jungfrauenmaschine (1988)

R | 84 min | Drama, Romance

A reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair with a stripper from an all-women's club.

Director: Monika Treut | Stars: Ina Blum, Marcelo Uriona, Gad Klein, Peter Kern

Votes: 274

57. Coming Out (I) (1989)

Unrated | 113 min | Drama, Romance

A young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.

Director: Heiner Carow | Stars: Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, Michael Gwisdek

Votes: 1,838

58. Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989)

165 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

Director: Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann, Gillian Scalici, Peter Kern

Votes: 251

59. Via Appia (1989)

Unrated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Frank, a (HIV infected) former Lufthansa steward, goes back to Rio from Germany with a film crew to look for Mario, a young man with whom he had a one night stand. Before Mario departed the... See full summary »

Director: Jochen Hick | Stars: Peter Senner, Guilherme de Pádua, Yves Jansen, Margarita Schmidt

Votes: 105

61. Europa Europa (1990)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, War

75 Metascore

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms

Votes: 17,475 | Gross: $5.58M

62. Mondo Weirdo (1990)

55 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Young girl becomes Alice in dreamland during menstruation. Wild dreams and nightmares about sexuality, vampirism, death, obsessions and other bizarre things.

Director: Carl Andersen | Stars: Soledad Marceignac, Frank Khunne, David Hollman, Jessica F. Manera

Votes: 244

63. The Blue Hour (1992)

87 min | Drama

Theo, an attractive German call boy, markets himself to other men in the personal ads of Berlin papers and leads an otherwise quiet life across the hall from Marie. Marie and Paul share an ... See full summary »

Director: Marcel Gisler | Stars: Andreas Herder, Dina Leipzig, Cyrille Rey-Coquais, Christoph Krix

Votes: 346

64. Eine Tunte zum Dessert (1992)

85 min | Drama

Julchen is the "feminine" (transvestite) and definitely motherly half of a couple of homosexual men, the "co-fathers" of a pleasant part-Moroccan girl. The girl has been told that her mother is dead, but Julchen knows this is not true.

Director: Dagmar Beiersdorf | Stars: Baduri, Imke Barnstedt, Renate Berthold, Robert Cutts

65. Flaming Ears (1992)

Unrated | 89 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Flaming Ears is a pop sci-fi lesbian fantasy feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive burned-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled lives of three women - Volley, Nun and Spy.

Directors: Ursula Puerrer, A. Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek | Stars: Susana Helmayr, Ursula Puerrer, A. Hans Scheirl, Margarete Neumann

Votes: 140

66. Your Heart Is All Mine (1992)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Hilde lives with her mother. The two are on their own. So that living together doesn't get too boring, they have come up with a game: Hilde is the king and her mother is what the king needs... See full summary »

Director: Elke Götz | Stars: Karla Schlender, Zimbo Zimmermann

67. Schatten der Liebe (1992)

96 min | Drama

Tom, married, 35, lives in Los Angeles where he runs a successful software company. The reason for his trip to Switzerland is the death of his younger brother, Philipp, whom he has not seen... See full summary »

Director: Christof Vorster | Stars: Werner Stocker, Leslie Malton, Helmut Vogel, Barbara Lotzmann

68. Außerirdische (1993 TV Movie)

78 min | Drama

Max ist vor zwei Jahren nach Berlin gezogen. Noch immer hat er sich in der neuen Heimat nicht einleben können; Einsamkeit, Unzufriedenheit mit seinem Studium, verdrängtes Heimweh und das ... See full summary »

Director: Florian Gärtner | Stars: Jasper Brandis, Florian Gärtner, Peter A. Werner, Christiane Schlote

Votes: 40

69. Prinz in Hölleland (1993)

Unrated | 96 min | Drama

The story is set soon after the reunification of West and East Germany, and is about the disintegrating relationship between Jockel a political activist and Stefan a heroin junkie, and ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Stock | Stars: Wolfram Haack, Stefan Laarmann, Michael Stock, Andreas Stadler

Votes: 147

70. Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)

R | 93 min | Comedy

Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.

Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Król, Rufus Beck

Votes: 6,414 | Gross: $0.37M

71. Nobody Loves Me (1994)

104 min | Comedy, Drama

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening classes on dying, so it seems fitting that ... See full summary »

Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Michael von Au, Elisabeth Trissenaar

Votes: 1,245

72. Kommt Mausi raus?! (1995 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance

Young Mausi (a nickname) leaves her hometown - a very small provincetown in northwestern Germany - to live in the city of Hamburg. Being about 18 years old she has just finished school and ... See full summary »

Directors: Alexander Scherer, Angelina Maccarone | Stars: Julia Richter, Nina Weniger, Alexandra Wilcke, Gisela Keiner

Votes: 167

73. Brother of Sleep (1995)

R | 127 min | Drama, Music, Romance

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Jochen Nickel

Votes: 1,678

74. Regular Guys (1996)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more ... See full summary »

Director: Rolf Silber | Stars: Christoph M. Ohrt, Carin C. Tietze, Tim Bergmann, Oliver Stokowski

Votes: 1,497

75. Killer Condom (1996)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

The plot takes place in New York, and in the present. In a Hotel called "Quicky" a professor blackmails a student of his into having sex with him. But when the professor puts on a condom, ... See full summary »

Director: Martin Walz | Stars: Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben, Leonard Lansink

Votes: 3,387

76. Unbeständig und kühl (1996 TV Movie)

88 min | Drama

The entangled love affairs between a group of Germans in their twenties provides the basis for this sudsy drama. During the course of the story, the friends attempt to cope with their ... See full summary »

Director: Sandra Nettelbeck | Stars: Regula Grauwiller, Jasmin Tabatabai, Natascha Bub, Andreas Herder

Votes: 15

77. Die Konkurrentin (1997 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Successful management consultant Catherine must face Maren as her new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Catherine's career. ... See full summary »

Director: Dagmar Hirtz | Stars: Charlotte Schwab, Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Peter Lerchbaumer, Ezard Haußmann

Votes: 217

78. Alles wird gut (1998)

88 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama

Nabou, an Afro-German slacker, desperatly wants to win back her club kid ex-girlfriend Katja. Nabou becomes a housekeeper for Katja's neighbor, Kim, who is a workaholic that is striving to ... See full summary »

Director: Angelina Maccarone | Stars: Kati Stüdemann, Chantal De Freitas, Isabella Parkinson, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss

Votes: 174

79. Dandy Dust (1998)

94 min | Sci-Fi

Dust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of his/her own memories and a sense of understanding. S/he travels from the Planet of White Dust ... See full summary »

Director: A. Hans Scheirl | Stars: Suzie Krüger, Leonora Rogers-Wright, A. Hans Scheirl, Tre Temperilli

Votes: 135

80. Love Scenes from Planet Earth (1998)

89 min | Comedy, Romance

Follows a divorced couple and their separate, cyclonic sexual escapades, and all of the spin offs.

Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Christoph Waltz, Heio von Stetten, Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Oliver Korittke

Votes: 937

81. The Trio (1998)

93 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Zobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of ... See full summary »

Director: Hermine Huntgeburth | Stars: Götz George, Christian Redl, Jeanette Hain, Felix Eitner

Votes: 386

82. Und Gott erschuf das Makeup (1998)

70 min

Sort-of remake of "Was Sie nie über Frauen wissen wollten/Wilde Weiber GmbH"), with crazy transvestites instead of crazy women.

Director: Lothar Lambert | Stars: Heiko Behrens, Michael Sittner, Anatoli Jalnin, Hans Marquardt

83. Aimee & Jaguar (1999)

Not Rated | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

72 Metascore

In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.

Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch

Votes: 6,996 | Gross: $0.93M

84. The Einstein of Sex (1999)

Unrated | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. ... See full summary »

Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Kai Schumann, Friedel von Wangenheim, Ben Becker, Wolfgang Völz

Votes: 729

86. Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)

Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

17-year old Murat from Turkey, living in Berlin, Germany, slowly discovers his homosexuality. His older brother Osman, head of the family since the father's death, wants him to finally lose... See full summary »

Director: Kutlug Ataman | Stars: Gandi Mukli, Baki Davrak, Erdal Yildiz, Inge Keller

Votes: 1,380

87. Oi! Warning (1999)

90 min | Drama

The film (the third of the Reding brothers) is about a German teenager following his identity crisis. The boy, transformed by the usual down-trodden socio-economic conditions of ... See full summary »

Directors: Ben Reding, Dominik Reding | Stars: Sascha Backhaus, Simon Goerts, Sandra Borgmann, Jens Veith

Votes: 793

88. Auslandstournee (2000)

91 min | Drama

Senay (Blume) is a willful eleven year old girl in Hamburg who's Turkish father has just died. The only friend responding to the news about her father is a gay Turkish cabaret singer, Zeki ... See full summary »

Director: Ayse Polat | Stars: Yekta Arman, Ercüment Balakoglu, Özlem Blume, Siir Eloglu

Votes: 80

89. Chill Out (2000 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama, Romance

In post-Cold War Berlin, a lonely security guard meets an pretty insurance clerk and they begin an affair that relieves their mundane lives while the reunification of Germany changes their ... See full summary »

Director: Andreas Struck | Stars: Tatjana Blacher, Sebastian Blomberg, Werner Heinrichmöller, Gerhard Hoffmann

Votes: 240

90. The Legend of Rita (2000)

103 min | Drama, History, Romance

The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bibiana Beglau, Richard Kropf, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl

Votes: 2,469 | Gross: $0.67M

91. Gripsholm (2000)

100 min | Drama, History, Romance

The summerly adventures of Kurt (Tucholsky) and girl friend staying in a Swedish castle whilst the political changes in Germany in the thirties.

Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Ulrich Noethen, Heike Makatsch, Jasmin Tabatabai, Marcus Thomas

Votes: 410

92. Lieb mich! (2000 TV Movie)

80 min | Drama

The life of the respectable career woman Kathrin is turned upside down when she falls in love with her son's teacher. The two start a relationship.

Director: Maris Pfeiffer | Stars: Julia Richter, Naomi Krauss, Oliver Stokowski, Yannick Dittmann

Votes: 75

93. Return to Go! (2000)

95 min | Drama

After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV-positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, then promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss | Stars: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Thilo Ackermann, Michael Ande, Dieter Bach

Votes: 192

94. Zwei Frauen, ein Mann und ein Baby (1999 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy

Sandra and Iris are experiencing a down point in their relationship and decide that having a baby is what's required. While Sandra in uncertain, Iris locates a potential father, Antonio, a workmate of Sandra's. What Iris doesn't know is that chemistry is developing between Sandra and Antonio.

Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Nicole Ansari-Cox, Eva Herzig, Ralf Bauer, Dieter Moor

Votes: 38

95. Manitou's Shoe (2001)

87 min | Comedy, Western

The hilarious adventures of two best friends, Apache chief Abahachi and cowboy Ranger, in the Wild West.

Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Michael Herbig, Christian Tramitz, Marie Bäumer, Sky du Mont

Votes: 20,273

96. Eine aussergewöhnliche Affäre (2002 TV Movie)

92 min | Drama

A straight teacher, married with two kids, falls head over heels for a new male colleague. They begin the titular unusual affair.

Director: Maris Pfeiffer | Stars: Hans Werner Meyer, Tatjana Blacher, Matthias Walter, August Schmölzer

Votes: 594

97. Tunten lügen nicht (2002)

92 min | Documentary

Bosom buddies BeV StroganoV, Ovo Maltine, Ichgola Androgyn and Tima die Göttliche are four Berlin drag queens who met in the mid 1980s. These four queens became Germany's most popular drag ... See full summary »

Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Bev Stroganov, Ichgola Androgyn, Ovo Maltine, Tima die Göttliche

Votes: 134

98. Wie die Karnickel (2002)

84 min | Comedy

A player in a famous orchestra finds sexual experiences with a Russian opera singer, which he enjoys much because his wife has just left due to the fact that he has purchased a porno movie.... See full summary »

Director: Sven Unterwaldt Jr. | Stars: Michael Lott, Sven Walser, Anna Böttcher, Heinrich Schmieder

Votes: 470

99. Die Ritterinnen (2003)

96 min | Drama

On Labour Day 1987, a riot broke out in Kreuzberg which gave this west-Berlin district its legendary reputation - a reputation which has prevailed right up to the present day. During the ... See full summary »

Director: Barbara Teufel | Stars: Jana Straulino, Ursula Renneke, Katja Danowski, Mieke Schymura

Votes: 56

100. Kleine Freiheit (2003)

102 min | Drama

Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt) is a young Kurd who was sent to Hamburg after his parents, who had helped Kurdish rebels, were betrayed and subsequently killed by the Turkish militia. Now that Baran... See full summary »

Director: Yüksel Yavuz | Stars: Cagdas Bozkurt, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Leroy Delmar, Sunay Girisken

Votes: 188



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