I don't know if you're into Silent / Black&White-Movies but some early German movies which wrote film history are:
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"
"Nosferatu"
"Metropolis"
"M"
Plus, Fritz Lang's Films about Dr. Mabuse are also well worth seeing, although they are quite long.
Some more "recent" films that I can recommend are
- "Die Brücke" / "The Bridge" from the 1950s - an extremely gritty film about a group of naive schoolboys who are ordered to defend an allegedly unimportant bridge during the last days of WWII
- "Hunde Wollt Ihr Ewig Leben" (Imdb gives "Battle Inferno" as the English title): also from the 1950s and also a WWII movie, a very well crafted and surprisingly realistic account of the Battle of Stalingrad; definitely superior to the remake ("Stalingrad") from the early 90s, which, I think, was much more successful in the US
- Apart from that, the aforementioned "Lives of Others" is definitely a must-see, although you should perhaps read about the German Democratic Republic and the "Stasi" (East German Communist Secret Police) beforehand. Wikipedia should be sufficient.
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