Well.....marginally.
If you bring this topic up....especially around 60 year old Germans....most will cite five or six. It's not exactly a common thing.
The three that I would bring up (not to make a must-watch list), then I'd suggest:
1. Maneater of Hydra (otherwise known as La isla de la muerte).
The basic script to this is these German tourists have signed up for some exotic trip to a island (in the Pacific) where the friendly-but-mad professor of the island is growing weird plants.
This was made in the mid-1960s, and most people would say that it was cheaply made.
In the end....a number of the German guests are transformed into some plant-creatures.
2. Ein Toter hing im Netz is a early 1960s production.....which basically translates over to 'A Dead Person Hangs in the Web'.
This was a one-star script which revolves around this German guy who has several lusty and charming German ladies that he's invited to a nightclub in Singapore. While flying there....they crash near this island (again, the Pacific isle theme). There, they this big spider web. A bit leads the guy to be a mutant, and from there....the movie goes downhill.
3. Finally, I recommend Der Bunker, which is a pretty recent horror-comedy (2015).
This script is probably four-star in nature. There's this German university student who has signed up to a quiet apartment near a lake...without really seeing the place. Upon arrival....it's basically a WW II bunker.
The landlords? Nut-case couple.
About fifty percent of the movie revolves around tutoring the son of the landlords....one of which believes he'll be President of the United States one day, and he has some belief that mother has some kind of alien residing in her body.
Dark? Yeah, but it's basically a comedy along the way.
If you can find any of the three....it's worth a weekend viewing.
As for expecting monster flicks, science-fiction, or horror movies out of German film production? It's just awful rare.
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