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1. Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas
Votes: 153,499 | Gross: $4.06M
2. Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn
Votes: 25,739 | Gross: $0.35M
3. Faraway, So Close! (1993)
PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Horst Buchholz
Votes: 9,165 | Gross: $0.81M
4. Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Directors: Werner Herzog, André Singer | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, André Singer, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 2,747 | Gross: $0.25M
5. Crackerjack (1994)
R | 96 min | Action, Thriller
A cop on vacation at a mountain resort comes to the rescue when the resort is taken over by violent criminals.
Director: Michael Mazo | Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, Nastassja Kinski, Christopher Plummer, George Touliatos
Votes: 875
6. Divided We Stand (2022– )
49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
It follows a group of police officers who are sent to Berlin to form a special investigations unit: ZERV. As they dig deeper into the crimes in the East, they uncover that many of them originated in the West.
Stars: Nadja Uhl, Fabian Hinrichs, Thorsten Merten, Fritzi Haberlandt
Votes: 260
7. Berlin Blues (2003)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called "Herr Lehmann", is part of a lethargic West Berlin-microcosm. His lifestyle is disturbed when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with his girlfriend and his best friend acts strange.
Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski, Detlev Buck, Janek Rieke
Votes: 7,662
8. Two Lives (2012)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."
Directors: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Ken Duken
Votes: 3,273 | Gross: $0.00M
9. Freies Land (2019)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two cops investigate the disappearance of two teen sisters in a remote town, where it seems like everyone has something to hide - including the bodies.
Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Trystan Pütter, Nurit Hirschfeld, Felix Kramer, Oleksandr Pecherytsia
Votes: 1,419
10. Go Trabi Go (1991)
92 min | Comedy
Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Timm | Stars: Wolfgang Stumph, Claudia Schmutzler, Marie Gruber, Dieter Hildebrandt
Votes: 1,657
11. The Legend of Rita (2000)
103 min | Drama, History, Romance
The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bibiana Beglau, Richard Kropf, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl
Votes: 2,482 | Gross: $0.67M
12. Gaz Bar Blues (2003)
115 min | Drama, Comedy
The owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.
Director: Louis Bélanger | Stars: Serge Thériault, Gilles Renaud, Sébastien Delorme, Danny Gilmore
Votes: 1,159 | Gross: $0.88M
13. A Perfect Crime (2020)
40 min | Documentary, Crime
In April 1991, Detlev Rohwedder, the head of Treuhand, the East German Privatization and Restructuring Agency, was assassinated in Dusseldorf. This documentary details the strange evidence recovered.
Stars: Sam Booth, Theo Waigel, Rainer Hofmeyer, Klaus-Dieter Matschke
Votes: 1,705
14. Helden wie wir (1999)
93 min | Comedy
Heroes Like Us presents as heroes ordinary teenagers and young East German adults, who in Thomas Brussig's (the novel and screenplay author) story, caused the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Our ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastian Peterson | Stars: Daniel Borgwardt, Xenia Snagowski, Adrian Heidenreich, Luca Lenz
Votes: 360
15. Führer Ex (2002)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
Repentant ex neo-Nazi Ingo Hasselbach's autobiographical experiences are the basis for "Fuhrer Ex". Two friends dream of escaping the oppression of communist GDR in 1980s in Berlin. When ... See full summary »
Director: Winfried Bonengel | Stars: Aaron Hildebrand, Christian Blümel, Jule Flierl, Detlef Kapplusch
Votes: 1,550
16. Blackest Heart (1990)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Horror
In "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them ... See full summary »
Director: Christoph Schlingensief | Stars: Karina Fallenstein, Susanne Bredehöft, Artur Albrecht, Volker Spengler
Votes: 896
17. Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
62 min | Drama
Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanns Zischler, Claudia Michelsen, Nathalie Kadem
Votes: 779
18. Das Versprechen (1994)
R | 115 min | Drama, Romance
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, ... See full summary »
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Anian Zollner
Votes: 861 | Gross: $0.09M
19. The Architects (1990)
95 min | Drama
The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Kahane | Stars: Kurt Naumann, Rita Feldmeier, Judith Richter, Jürgen Watzke
Votes: 292
20. 1989 - A Spy Story (2019 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.
Director: Sven Bohse | Stars: Michael Baral, Lilly Barshy, Oskar Belton, Alexander Beyer
Votes: 413
21. Life is All You Get (1997)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Christiane Paul, Ricky Tomlinson, Hristina Papamihou
Votes: 1,978
22. Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings (2004– )
689 min | Drama, History
The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000.
Stars: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Peter Schneider, Uwe Steimle
Votes: 665
23. Liegen lernen (2003)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Helmut, living in West Germany in the early 1980s, has a big crush on a fellow student, Britta. He does everything to get to know her, but, when she suddenly moves away to San Francisco, he's devastated.
Director: Henk Handloegten | Stars: Fabian Busch, Susanne Bormann, Fritzi Haberlandt, Sophie Rois
Votes: 1,381
24. Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland (1992)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Horror
Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish ... See full summary »
Director: Christoph Schlingensief | Stars: Margit Carstensen, Peter Kern, Susanne Bredehöft, Alfred Edel
Votes: 521
25. No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993)
92 min | Comedy
Two brothers both of which can neither read nor write making their way across Germany in order to claim to their inheritance. On their way they meet Viktor, a deserted soldier of the sowjet... See full summary »
Director: Detlev Buck | Stars: Joachim Król, Horst Krause, Konstantin Kotljarov, Sophie Rois
Votes: 1,340
26. Die Unberührbare (2000)
110 min | Drama
Flanders, a famous female author, travels 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed of the events because she saw the communistic states as a ... See full summary »
Director: Oskar Roehler | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Vadim Glowna, Tonio Arango, Michael Gwisdek
Votes: 897
27. Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993)
83 min | Comedy
A major of Red Army is late for the train that takes Soviet's forces from Berlin. He telephones to Moscow and finds out that his wife has left him and that someone has moved in his ... See full summary »
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Svetozar Cvetkovic, Anita Mancic, Alexandra Rohmig, Petar Bozovic
Votes: 243
28. Romeo (2001 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Great and important movie about the German-German Cold War history. Or did you know that East-German spies never were prosecuted in the re-united Germany (they never broke laws of their ... See full synopsis »
Director: Hermine Huntgeburth | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Sylvester Groth, Katrin Bühring, Martin Glade
Votes: 49
29. The Miracle of Berlin (2008 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, War
A TV movie that follows an East Berlin family torn by political strife and the fast-changing events that led to the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Kostja Ullmann, Karoline Herfurth, Veronica Ferres, Heino Ferch
Votes: 500
30. The Blue Hour (1992)
87 min | Drama
Theo, an attractive German call boy, markets himself to other men in the personal ads of Berlin papers and leads an otherwise quiet life across the hall from Marie. Marie and Paul share an ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Gisler | Stars: Andreas Herder, Dina Leipzig, Cyrille Rey-Coquais, Christoph Krix
Votes: 348
31. Deutschlandspiel (2000 TV Movie)
178 min | Drama
Das Deutschlandspiel is a 2-part German TV movie produced 2000. It tells the story of German reunification. In addition to scenes the protagonists of the unification were interviewed. The game scenes are supported by original documents.
Director: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Rudolf Wessely, Udo Samel, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Votes: 120
32. Berlin Is in Germany (2001)
99 min | Drama
When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.
Director: Hannes Stöhr | Stars: Jörg Schüttauf, Julia Jäger, Robin Becker, Robert Lohr
Votes: 1,182
33. The Diplomat (2013)
50 min | Documentary, Sport
At the height of the Cold War, Katarina Witt became one of East Germany's most famous athletes. Trained in an ice rink that gave rise to socialist heroes, Witt dominated her field by ... See full summary »
Directors: Jennifer Arnold, Senain Kheshgi | Stars: Brian Boitano, Egon Krenz, Jutta Müller, Lothar Raschker
Votes: 44
34. The Meds (1995)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
A film about life's problems and the love affairs of two men and women in their twenties. They pretend to suffer from the mediocrity of their lives but in fact try to cover their own lack ... See full summary »
Director: Matthias Glasner | Stars: Dani Levy, Jasmin Tabatabai, Jürgen Vogel, Andreja Schneider
Votes: 97
35. Alles Lüge (1992)
86 min | Comedy
Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann both are highly decorated east German comedians. When the Berlin wall falls they are suddenly and like so many others without employment. Erich tries his ... See full summary »
Director: Heiko Schier | Stars: Dieter Hallervorden, Petra Hinze, Angelika Unterlauf, Erik Veldre
Votes: 77
36. Motzki (1993– )
25 min
Motzki is one of Wolfgang Menge conceived 13-part television series from 1993, in which the German-German sensitivities were commented shortly after the reunification satirical.
Stars: Jürgen Holtz, Jutta Hoffmann, Albert Kitzl, Eva Mattes
Votes: 44
37. The Final Days (2008 TV Movie)
186 min | Drama
The Berlin Wall separated families and friends for 28 years. Some accepted it, and some worked hard to make it fall.
Director: Thomas Berger | Stars: Anja Kling, Madeleine Lierck, Matthias Koeberlin, Lino Sliskovic
Votes: 239
38. Berlin Break (1993– )
45 min | Action, Thriller, Adventure
The Berlin Wall is gone, so for all intents and purposes the Cold War is over. In Berlin, former spy Mac Mackenzie, currently the proprietor of Mac's, a bar in Berlin which is considered to... See full summary »
Stars: George Beach, Peter Scollin, Werner Daehn, Jason Riddington
Votes: 25
39. Begründung eines Urteils (1966 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz | Stars: Edgar Hoppe, Gerd Baltus, Günter Mack, Christa Berndl
Votes: 15
40. Der Mann ohne Gesicht (1998 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary
Markus Wolf was head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi). He was the ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Hohmann | Stars: Egon Bahr, Valentin Falin, Erich Honecker, Sergej Kondraschov
Votes: 17
41. Die Mauer (1991)
99 min | Documentary
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, ... See full summary »
Director: Jürgen Böttcher
Votes: 80
42. Nikolaikirche (1995 TV Movie)
138 min | Drama
A prehistory of the former GDR. Towards the end, the Monday demonstrations of 1989 develop.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Barbara Auer, Ulrich Matthes, Daniel Minetti, Annemone Haase
Votes: 112
43. Berlin Report (1991)
100 min | Drama, Mystery
A reporter investigates a case in which a Korean woman, who has been living in Europe since she was 3 years old, is accused of murdering her adopted father. This is complicated by the fact that she is suffering from traumatic memory loss.
Director: Park Kwang-su | Stars: Ahn Sung-ki, Kang Soo-youn, Moon Sung-Keun, Jean-Marie Fonbonne
Votes: 49
44. Die Bombe tickt (1993 TV Movie)
175 min | Drama
Director: Thorsten Näter | Stars: Wilfried Dziallas, Peter Ebert, Julia Grimpe, Maiko Kemper
Votes: 17
45. Rotwang muß weg! (1994)
82 min | Comedy
Mr. Rotwang, an industrialist who also worked for the government, is murdered. Who is behind the murder? Different groups seem to have a motive: the RAF, the Stasi and his wife.
Director: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | Stars: Udo Kier, Sybill Norvak, Heikko Deutschmann, Beate Finckh
Votes: 67
46. Berlin East Side Gallery (2015)
126 min | Documentary, History
Film is produced on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the East Side Gallery in 2015. The entire story of the longest surviving part of the Berlin Wall! The longest remaining stretch ... See full summary »
Directors: Karin Kaper, Dirk Szuszies
47. American Passport (1999)
82 min | Documentary, War
A riveting travel odyssey of a 23 year old Seattle native Reed Paget who set out to visit the Seven Wonders of the World, but instead found himself capturing the images of 12 war zones.
Director: Reed Paget
Votes: 102
48. Dornberger (1992 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Stars: Peter Bongartz, Iris Berben, Volkert Kraeft, Andreas Schmidt-Schaller
Votes: 7
49. Karambolage (1989 TV Movie)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Stars: Iris Berben, Constanze Engelbrecht, Volkert Kraeft, Peter Sattmann
Votes: 28
50. Joschka und Herr Fischer (2011)
138 min | Documentary, Biography, History
He was a student activist, an urban guerrilla, a taxi driver; Joseph "Joschka" Fischer emerged from the Extra-parliamentary Opposition (APO) to become Hessen's trainer-clad environment ... See full summary »
Director: Pepe Danquart | Stars: Joschka Fischer, Hans Koschnick, Katharina Thalbach, Peter Grohmann
Votes: 203