Franz-Josef Spieker (24 November 1933, Paderborn – 18 March 1978, near Bali) was a German filmmaker.
Spieker studied theater and literary sciences at the DIFF (German Institute for Film and Television) in Munich.
[de] (Look After Your Daughters), a predecessor to the sex report film, with the producer Walter Koppel wanting to win over the signatories of the Manifesto.
Spieker became famous in 1967 with his first full-length feature film Wilder Reiter GmbH [de], a satire on stubbornness, which made him a hope-bearer of New German Cinema.
Spieker still made numerous short films and received the silver Deutscher Filmpreis in 1977 for Persönlichkeitstest on behalf of his production company, Cinema 80.