Since we had a little controversy surrounding the "100 most significant German films" list, how about making our own? 

I thought that 100 was probably too big a number for most of us, so I limited it down to 25. I think this way we can all endorse aour favorite masterpieces in an easier way. 

German here means all films produced on what was considered "German" soil throughout film history, including the GDR or the Third Reich. Hope this statement is clear enough. 

I'll try and list mine in order of preference (though it's really tough). 

1. Marseille (Angela Schanelec / 2004) 
2. Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler / 2002) 
3. Klassenverhältnisse "Class Relations" (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet / 1984) 
4. Verrückt bleiben, verliebt bleiben (Elfi Mikesch / 1997) 
5. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders / 1984) 
6. Heaven (Tom Tykwer / 2002) 
7. Zwischen zwei Kriegen "Between two Wars" (Harun Farocki / 1977) 
8. Unter der Milchstraße "Under the Milky Way" (Mathias X. Oberg / 1995) 
9. Der Felsen "A Map of the Heart" (Dominik Graf / 2001) 
10. Sophiiiie! (Michael Hofmann / 2002) 
11. Rosa Luxemburg (Margarethe von Trotta / 1986) 
12. Die Bergkatze "The Wildcat" (Ernst Lubitsch / 1921) 
13. Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey "Vampyr" (Carl Theodor Dreyer / 1931) 
14. L'amour, l'argent, l'amour "Love, Money, Love" (Philip Gröning / 2000) 
15. Der Aufenthalt "The Turning Point" (Frank Beyer / 1983) 
16. M (Fritz Lang / 1931) 
17. Verfehlung (Heiner Carow / 1991) 
18. Othon (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet / 1969) 
19. Metropolis (Fritz Lang / 1927) 
20. Händler der vier Jahreszeiten "The Merchant of Four Seasons" (R.W. Fassbinder / 1972) 
21. Frau fährt, Mann schläft (Rudolf Thome / 2004) 
22. Pünktchen und Anton "Punktchen and Anton" (Thomas Engel / 1953) 
23. Goff in der Wüste "Goff in the Desert" (Heinz Emigholz / 2003) 
24. Identity Kills (Sören Voigt / 2003) 
25. Gegen die Wand "Head-On" (Fatih Akin / 2004) 

Boy, this was much more difficult than I thought it would be. Maybe I should have settled for a Top 50... 
Let's see what you got. We can still expand our lists later on.