# German New Wave — Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Schlöndorff

> The New German Cinema of the late 1960s and 1970s was a collective refusal. Fassbinder made melodramas that felt like autopsies — Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun. Herzog sent Kinski up rivers and mountains and into the desert and let the camera watch. Wenders stared at roads and rock music and Germany's unresolved past. Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta worked the political novel form. Kluge, Syberberg, Achternbusch at the margins. The list below filters for German-language films from the movement's core decade, scored 6.5 or above.

Source: <https://nextmovie4u.com/canon/german-new-wave/>

## 20 films in this list

- **[Das Boot](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/das-boot-1981/)** (1981) — ★ 8.1 · 2,500 votes
- **[Ali: Fear Eats the Soul](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/ali-fear-eats-the-soul-1974/)** (1974) — ★ 7.7 · 452 votes
- **[Alice in the Cities](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/alice-in-the-cities-1974/)** (1974) — ★ 7.7 · 337 votes
- **[Fitzcarraldo](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/fitzcarraldo-1982/)** (1982) — ★ 7.6 · 872 votes
- **[Aguirre, the Wrath of God](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god-1972/)** (1972) — ★ 7.4 · 1,240 votes
- **[The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-bitter-tears-of-petra-von-kant-1972/)** (1972) — ★ 7.4 · 235 votes
- **[Kings of the Road](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/kings-of-the-road-1976/)** (1976) — ★ 7.4 · 148 votes
- **[The Marriage of Maria Braun](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-marriage-of-maria-braun-1979/)** (1979) — ★ 7.4 · 298 votes
- **[The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-enigma-of-kaspar-hauser-1974/)** (1974) — ★ 7.3 · 372 votes
- **[Stroszek](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/stroszek-1977/)** (1977) — ★ 7.3 · 298 votes
- **[Christiane F.](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/christiane-f-1981/)** (1981) — ★ 7.3 · 1,430 votes
- **[Nosferatu the Vampyre](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/nosferatu-the-vampyre-1979/)** (1979) — ★ 7.3 · 1,076 votes
- **[From the Life of the Marionettes](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/from-the-life-of-the-marionettes-1980/)** (1980) — ★ 7.3 · 116 votes
- **[Veronika Voss](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/veronika-voss-1982/)** (1982) — ★ 7.2 · 154 votes
- **[Fox and His Friends](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/fox-and-his-friends-1975/)** (1975) — ★ 7.2 · 151 votes
- **[The American Friend](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-american-friend-1977/)** (1977) — ★ 7.1 · 437 votes
- **[Hitler: A Film from Germany](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/hitler-a-film-from-germany-1978/)** (1978) — ★ 7.1 · 26 votes
- **[The Tin Drum](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-tin-drum-1979/)** (1979) — ★ 7.0 · 531 votes
- **[Woyzeck](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/woyzeck-1979/)** (1979) — ★ 6.6 · 200 votes
- **[In a Year with 13 Moons](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/in-a-year-with-13-moons-1978/)** (1978) — ★ 6.6 · 89 votes

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