mjf314's favorite German movies

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

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

The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.

A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".

Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.

An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.

A serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.

In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times.

After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.

A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

A cat must investigate brutal murders of other cats in a neighborhood he has moved into with his owner.

An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.

Isolated in the Swiss Alps, a young woman who would have liked to become a teacher teaches her deaf brother arithmetic and writing. An incestuous relationship develops between them.

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and unsophisticated, and he falls in love with the beautiful Eva, who comes to bathe with her father. When Eva and her father lose their home, they come to the bathhouse to stay, but bits of the ceiling fall on the old man and he dies. Eva blames Anton, and she seems to seek the arms of the brute Gregor. Can Anton win back her heart, get the bathhouse through a rigorous government inspection, and help keep his parents employed? Waiting out there somewhere is the paradise isle of Tuvalu.

Two terminally ill patients escape from a hospital, steal a car and rush towards the sea.