Bernhard Sinkel (born 19 January 1940) is a German film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1993. He co-shared the Special Recognition award at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival for the film Germany in Autumn.^[1] His film Put on Ice was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] Bernhard Sinkel worked together with Alf Brustellin as a director and screenwriter team until Brustellin's death 1981.

• Lina Braake (1975)
• Berlinger [de] (1975) (co-director: Alf Brustellin)
• Maiden's War [de] (1977) (co-director: Alf Brustellin) — (based on a novel by Manfred Bieler [de])
• Good-for-Nothing [de] (1978) — (based on Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing)
• Germany in Autumn (1978)
• Put on Ice (1980)
• The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982, TV miniseries) — (based on Confessions of Felix Krull)
• Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie (1986, TV miniseries)
• Hemingway (1988, TV miniseries) — (biographical miniseries about Ernest Hemingway)
• The Movie Teller (1993) — (based on a novel by Gert Hofmann)