Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "stasi"

1. Killing Eve (2018– )

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After a series of events, the lives of a security operative and an assassin become inextricably linked.

Stars: Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia

Votes: 136,887

2. The Lives of Others (2006)

R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 411,703 | Gross: $11.29M

3. Atomic Blonde (2017)

R | 115 min | Action, Thriller

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

Director: David Leitch | Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 207,268 | Gross: $51.69M

4. Spy/Master (2023)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Victor Godeanu, Ceausescu's right-hand man, has a secret. He is also a KGB agent and must escape before he is discovered, so he will seize a valuable diplomatic opportunity.

Stars: Alec Secareanu, Parker Sawyers, Ana Ularu, Svenja Jung

Votes: 3,963

5. 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: 153,004 | Gross: $4.06M

6. Kleo (2022– )

TV-MA | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former spy killer is set free and embarks on a revenge spree against the people who conspired to betray her.

Stars: Jella Haase, Dimitrij Schaad, Vincent Redetzki, Vladimir Burlakov

Votes: 13,383

7. The Venetian Affair (1966)

Approved | 89 min | Action, Thriller

Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.

Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr, Karlheinz Böhm

Votes: 572

8. Torn Curtain (1966)

PG | 128 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy

Votes: 29,324

9. Deutschland 83 (2015)

TV-MA | 42 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Martin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.

Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth

Votes: 15,069

10. Barbara (I) (2012)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke

Votes: 16,039

11. Carlos (2010)

Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.

Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Fadi Abi Samra, Karam Ghossein

Votes: 14,438 | Gross: $0.15M

12. Deutschland 89 (2020)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Thriller

Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.

Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Sylvester Groth, Corinna Harfouch

Votes: 3,373

13. Totems (2021– )

52 min | Drama, Thriller

In 1965, in the midst of the Cold War, a French rocket scientist is thrown in the field for a nearly impossible spy mission and falls for a Soviet woman secretly working for the KGB.

Stars: Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson

Votes: 974

14. Deutschland 86 (2018)

TV-MA | 472 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Abandoned by Moscow and desperate for cash, the East German leadership pushes their secret operatives to experiment with global capitalism and save their sinking socialist ship. Long ... See full summary »

Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Florence Kasumba, Sylvester Groth

Votes: 5,313

15. Balloon (2018)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, History, Thriller

East Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.

Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Alicia von Rittberg

Votes: 13,382 | Gross: $0.01M

16. The Same Sky (2017)

120 min | Drama, Thriller

Lars is a "Romeo agent" from East Germany in the 1970s. His task is to go West, first to seduce and then to spy on Western women who worked in government or defense institutions.

Stars: Tom Schilling, Sofia Helin, Friederike Becht, Ben Becker

Votes: 2,546

17. The Last Execution (2021)

116 min | Biography, Drama

Life of Werner Teske, the last man to be executed in former East Germany in 1981 before the death penalty was finally abolished in 1987.

Director: Franziska Stünkel | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Devid Striesow, Luise Heyer, Paula Kalenberg

Votes: 1,210

18. Sun Alley (1999)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A group of kids grows up on the east side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West Germany. The antics of the people on Sonnenallee all show the absurdity of their everyday life.

Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Robert Stadlober, Teresa Weißbach

Votes: 7,270

19. Gundermann (2018)

128 min | Biography, Drama, History

The movie deals with the real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Alexander Scheer, Anna Unterberger, Axel Prahl, Thorsten Merten

Votes: 2,128

20. The Naked Runner (1967)

101 min | Drama, Thriller

During the Cold War, an American industrial-designer living in London is used by the MI-6 as an unwilling pawn in the spy game during a trip to a trade show in East Germany.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Nadia Gray

Votes: 557

21. 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

22. 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: 3,259 | Gross: $0.00M

23. The Defector (1966)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.

Director: Raoul Lévy | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Macha Méril, David Opatoshu

Votes: 814

24. 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: 1,418

25. A Stasi Comedy (2022)

116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After falling in love with the Nathalie and sleeping with his first target, Corinna, Ludger ends up living two lives - one as an underground poet and one as a Stasi agent - both of which eventually come back to haunt him 30 years later.

Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: David Kross, Jörg Schüttauf, Antonia Bill, Margarita Broich

Votes: 458

26. Hidden Agenda (1999)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.

Director: Iain Paterson | Stars: Kevin Dillon, Andrea Roth, J.T. Walsh, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 428

27. Besuch aus der Zone (1958 TV Movie)

75 min | Drama

Herr Reichert and Herr Kleinschmidt were business partners and jointly owned a company in what became East Germany after the war. Kleinschmidt fled to West Germany with his family while he ... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Wolffhardt | Stars: Paula Denk, Olga von Togni, Werner Peters, Siegfried Lowitz

Votes: 38

28. Kruso (2018 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

The young student Ed (Jonathan Berlin) wants to get out, leave everything behind. He finds refuge on the Baltic Island of Hiddensee, at a time when the GDR is in its last legs. Many have ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Stuber | Stars: Albrecht Schuch, Jonathan Berlin, Andreas Leupold, Peter Schneider

Votes: 139

29. Shores of Hope (2012)

116 min | Drama

The dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.

Director: Toke Constantin Hebbeln | Stars: Alexander Fehling, August Diehl, Ronald Zehrfeld, Thao Vu

Votes: 563

30. Terror's Advocate (2007)

Unrated | 135 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Jacques Vergès, Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder, Bassam Abu Sharif

Votes: 1,702 | Gross: $0.04M

31. Stasi: A State Against Its People (2022)

52 min | Documentary, History

After the Berlin Wall fell, records of East Germany's secret police were uncovered. A documentary explores the Stasi archives, revealing surveillance methods and victims through interviews, documents and reconstructed files.

Director: Barbara Necek | Stars: Véronique Augereau, Walter Ulbricht, Karl Alich, Günther Grässler

Votes: 52

32. Die unheimliche Leichtigkeit der Revolution (2021 TV Movie)

89 min | Biography, Drama, History

19-year-old Franka Blankenstein grew up as a child of systematic parents in Leipzig. By chance she met the geriatric nurse Stefan Clausnitz and thus found her way into an environmental ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Fetscher | Stars: Timur Bartels, Fred Costea, Janina Fautz, Inka Friedrich

Votes: 150

33. Beloved Berlin Wall (2009)

103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1989 Berlin, Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Timm | Stars: Felicitas Woll, Maxim Mehmet, Anna Fischer, Thomas Thieme

Votes: 479

34. One-way to Moscow (2020)

99 min | Comedy

Around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of people were spied on in Switzerland. Policeman Schuler goes undercover to reveal a possible political coup in the Zurich Schauspielhaus.

Director: Micha Lewinsky | Stars: Miriam Stein, Philippe Graber, Mike Müller, Michael Maertens

Votes: 258

35. The End of America (2008)

74 min | Documentary

"The End of America" details the ten steps a country takes when it slides toward fascism. It's not a "lefty" taught-to-me, but rather a historical look at trends in once-functioning ... See full summary »

Directors: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg | Stars: David Antoon, Vincent Cannistraro, James Cullen, Amy Goodman

Votes: 800

36. An die Grenze (2007 TV Movie)

106 min | Drama, Romance

1974. The world is divided into two rigid power blocs. A highly guarded and deadly armed border cuts across Germany. ALEXANDER KAROW, 19, son of a chemistry professor, chooses to serve in ... See full summary »

Director: Urs Egger | Stars: Jacob Matschenz, Bernadette Heerwagen, Max Riemelt, Florian Panzner

Votes: 264

37. 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: 50

38. Meier (1986)

99 min | Comedy

Satirical comedy about an East German citizen who manages to acquire a West Germany passport and go to live in the West, only to find that not all is gold that glitters.

Director: Peter Timm | Stars: Rainer Grenkowitz, Nadja Engelbrecht, Thomas Bestvater, Alexander Hauff

Votes: 101

39. 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: 45

40. The Red Cockatoo (2006)

128 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A coming-of-age story set in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.

Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Max Riemelt, Jessica Schwarz, Ronald Zehrfeld, Ingeborg Westphal

Votes: 878

41. From Us to Me (2016)

83 min | Documentary

For 45 years East Germany was ruled by a strict and secretive communist government, on the geographical edge but political heart of the Soviet bloc. In 1987, a British film crew gained ... See full summary »

Director: Ellin Hare | Stars: Karl-Heinz Ruschau, Erna Ruschau, Britta Kitzerow-Klakow, Anna Kitzerow-Klakow

Votes: 19

42. Honigfrauen (2017– )

260 min | Drama

Written by International Emmy winner Christoph Silber and Natalie Scharf, this three-part drama series tells Stasi spy stories centered around two young girls from East Germany on holiday at Lake Balaton.

Stars: Cornelia Gröschel, Sonja Gerhardt, Anja Kling, Götz Schubert

Votes: 336

43. One Night in Berlin (2011)

R | 76 min | Drama

A woman on the run has one night to find her estranged, homeless father on the streets of Berlin - under cover of darkness the secrets of their East German past come to light.

Director: Kivmars Bowling | Stars: Beate Malkus, Helmuth Meier-Lautenschläger, Michael Herrmann, Thea Schrader

Votes: 21

44. The Man on the Wall (1982)

105 min | Drama

An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.

Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Julie Carmen, Towje Kleiner, Patricia von Miseroni

Votes: 83

45. Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem (2006)

72 min | Documentary

This intense and very moving documentary features four - out of approximately 250,000 - former political prisoners in East Germany. Nearly twenty years after the fall of the Wall, it is ... See full summary »

Directors: Marc Bauder, Dörte Franke | Stars: Dagny Dewath, Anne Drewath, Anne Gollin, Elfriede Gollin

Votes: 59

46. Nothing to Hide (2017)

86 min | Documentary

An independent documentary dealing with surveillance and its acceptance by the general public through the "I have nothing to hide" argument.

Director: Marc Meillassoux | Stars: Max Thommes, Vera Lengsfeld, Thomas Drake, Joel Domenjoud

Votes: 136

47. Cyclist (2008)

30 min | Short, Biography, History

Being classified as subversive, GDR photographer Harald Hauswald was for many years observed by the STASI under the code name Radfahrer (Cyclist).

Director: Marc Thümmler

Votes: 15

48. Die Schönste aus Bitterfeld (2003 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Matthias Tiefenbacher | Stars: Astrid Meyerfeldt, Doreen Jacobi, Marie-Luise Schramm, Wolke Hegenbarth

Votes: 25

49. 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: 64

50. Gurken Sind Grüner Auf Der anderen Seite (2023)

10 min | Short, Comedy | Completed

Berlin, 1989. Helena and Louise are happy in their relationship if it wasn't for this huge wall separating them. The only solution is writing letters. But what the two of them don't know is... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Knoetig | Stars: Luke Lindemann, Kimberley Bernard, Laura Schengel, Frederick Brandes