41. Winter Sleepers ( Winterschläfer )
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch, Josef Bierbichler, Laura Tonke
42. Heart of Glass ( Herz aus Glas )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba
43. Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Actors: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard
44. White Ribbon, The ( weiße Band, Das )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Burghart Klaußner, Marisa Growaldt, Christian Friedel, Mercedes Jadea Diaz
Plot: On the cusp on World War I, a small German village is transformed by fear and suspicion as ominous events, centered around the children of the village, take place.
45. Goodbye, Lenin!
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Actors: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer
46. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? ( Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Actors: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Franz Maron, Harry Baer, Peter Moland
Plot: A man is happy living a normal life - a dependable job as a technical draftsman, a loving marriage and caring father. But people push him - his colleges, his socially-mobile wife, parents, friends and neighbors alike - in many directions. A promotion is coming up - but as the pressure continues to build for Herr R. it may ultimately break him.
47. Destiny, The ( müde Tod, Der )
Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Hans Sternberg, Karl Rückert, Wilhelm Diegelmann
48. Beyond Silence ( Jenseits der Stille )
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Caroline Link
Actors: Sylvie Testud, Tatjana Trieb, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit, Sibylle Canonica, Matthias Habich
49. Benny's Video
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner, Stephanie Brehme, Stefan Polasek
Plot: With little contact from his parent, Benny is left alone and quietly loses himself in his film fantasy world - so much so that he finds it hard to even relate to real life. It leads up to inviting a girl over and almost casually murdering her - and leaving behind a filmed confession for his absent parents.
50. Counterfeiters, The ( Fälscher, Die )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Actors: August Diehl, Karl Markovics, Martin Brambach, Devid Striesow, Veit Stübner, Lenn Kudrjawizki
Plot: In a Nazi concentration camp, several criminals and Jews are mixed together to create numerous foreign currencies in order to fund Germany's war effort. Eventually the moral dilemma of helping the Nazis versus saving themselves begins to take its toll on the prisoners.
