A already criticised this list a bit but I have to go one step further: I absolutely dislike this list. It's useless and ignorant. What is it made of? Silents, commercial Post-WWII-Films from the 40ies and Films from the New German Cinema (Fassbinder, Kluge, Schlöndorff, Herzog, Wenders, etc.). There aren't much more films in it, almost no commercial German films from the period 1950 - present, almost no important Underground-Films, almost no Documentaries (we have a small, but significant canon of them), no animation films (yes, there are some!), almost no children films, to put it simple: Almost no Non-Consensus-Critic-Films. I've totally been into German Cinema for many years (I still am, after all, my cinematic obsession started with it!) and to see such an uninspired, pretentious and elitistic list representing the "Coronation" of Germany's film history makes me really ill. 

Maybe I'm not the right person to backbite about it because I've only seen 52 of those films but I just wanted to put it right: Germany has many more interesting departments and movements to offer than those which appear in this poor list (and poor not because of the films - though I find it odd to honour lukewarm men like Volker Schlöndorff or Wim Wenders that much)