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51. 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: 7,636
52. Coming Out (I) (1989)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.
Director: Heiner Carow | Stars: Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, Michael Gwisdek
Votes: 1,842
53. 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
54. Adam & Evelyn (2018)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for the holiday on her own.
Director: Andreas Goldstein | Stars: Florian Teichtmeister, Anne Kanis, Lena Lauzemis, Milian Zerzawy
Votes: 164
55. Murderers Among Us (1946)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi
Votes: 2,550
56. Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
88 min | Drama, Fantasy, Family
Life changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the family coachman gives her three magical hazelnuts.
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Libuse Safránková, Pavel Trávnícek, Carola Braunbock, Rolf Hoppe
Votes: 11,662
57. In a Land That No Longer Exists (2022)
100 min | Drama
The cover model of an East German fashion magazine is tempted by a photographer she falls in love with, to flee to to the West.
Director: Aelrun Goette | Stars: Marlene Burow, Sabin Tambrea, David Schütter, Claudia Michelsen
Votes: 512
58. 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
59. Judgment in Berlin (1988)
PG | 96 min | Drama
American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sam Wanamaker, Max Gail, Jürgen Heinrich
Votes: 885 | Gross: $0.23M
60. 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: 1,414
61. Friendship! (2010)
110 min | Adventure, Comedy
A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago.
Director: Markus Goller | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Friedrich Mücke, Alicja Bachleda, Todd Stashwick
Votes: 5,831
62. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
442 min | Biography, Drama
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels
Votes: 906
63. Jacob the Liar (1974)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell
Votes: 1,378
64. Pentathlon (1994)
R | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An Olympic gold medalist escapes to freedom in the US, only to be tracked down by his sadistic ex-coach.
Director: Bruce Malmuth | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, David Soul, Renée Coleman, Roger E. Mosley
Votes: 2,019
65. 23 (1998)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp
Votes: 7,295
66. 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: 2,471 | Gross: $0.67M
67. La Flor (2018)
808 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.
Director: Mariano Llinás | Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes
Votes: 820 | Gross: $0.00M
68. Die zweite Heimat: Chronik einer Jugend (1992)
1,416 min | Drama, History
Hermann Simon, an aspiring composer, comes of age in Munich during the troubled 1960s.
Stars: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Frank Röth, Armin Fuchs
Votes: 356
69. Inside Out (1975)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Thirty years after WW2, a team of former GIs and German soldiers plans to retrieve Nazi loot hidden in the Soviet occupied East Germany, its exact location only known to an imprisoned Nazi war criminal.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray
Votes: 655
70. Salmonberries (1991)
R | 95 min | Drama
A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a baby in a cardboard box with "Kotzebue" on it... See full summary »
Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Rosel Zech, k.d. lang, Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, Eugene Omiak
Votes: 758 | Gross: $0.10M
71. Paragraph 175 (2000)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel
Votes: 2,194 | Gross: $0.07M
72. Invisible Heroes (2019)
285 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two Finnish diplomats struggle to save thousands of lives during and following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
Stars: Pelle Heikkilä, Sophia Heikkilä, Ilkka Villi, Aksa Korttila
Votes: 672
73. Driving Me Crazy (1991)
PG | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy
An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables and produces no pollution, but he runs ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Dom DeLuise, Milton Berle
Votes: 766
74. Der nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz (1974)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
In this film, Wolf and scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase explore the role of art and the artist in socialist society. A sculptor questions the reception and value of his work, in a delicately... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Kurt Böwe, Ursula Karusseit, Andreas Schmid, Reimar J. Baur
Votes: 104
75. 3 1/2 Stunden (2021 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, History
Passengers on a train from Munich to East Berlin learn on the way that the GDR has just been closed off by the new Berlin Wall. They have 3 1/2 hours to decide whether to take the train all the way to East Berlin or to remain in the FRG.
Director: Ed Herzog | Stars: Jeff Wilbusch, Alli Neumann, Jan Krauter, Susanne Bormann
Votes: 468
76. The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968)
Unrated | 113 min | Comedy
A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, Joey Forman
Votes: 304
77. Dear Thomas (2021)
150 min | Biography, Drama
Rebel. Poet. Revolutionary: LIEBER THOMAS is a declaration of love to writer Thomas Brasch, congenially brought to life by exceptional actor Albrecht Schuch.
Director: Andreas Kleinert | Stars: Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Ioana Iacob, Jörg Schüttauf
Votes: 492
78. Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)
102 min | Comedy
She left the land of Marks and Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin. Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution is a feelgood comedy following one dysfunctional family's journey from 1968 West ... See full summary »
Director: Bille Eltringham | Stars: Jessica Barden, Catherine Tate, Susan Tordoff, Brittany Ashworth
Votes: 670
79. West (2013)
R | 102 min | Drama
She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Jacky Ido, Anja Antonowicz
Votes: 1,036
80. 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: 361
81. 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: 1,654
82. 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: 858 | Gross: $0.09M
83. 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
84. Unser Sandmännchen (1959– )
10 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The Sandman's everyday life, travels and fantastic adventures. The character often showcased socialist technological achievements, such as the use of awe-inspiring vehicles like futuristic cars and flying devices.
Stars: Sergey Obraztsov, Paul Robeson, Josef Skupa, German Titov
Votes: 179
85. 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: 555
86. 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: 1,695
87. 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: 51
88. Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
In the last weeks of World War II, inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp hide a Polish child from the SS guards, hoping that the advance of the American forces will set them free.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Krystyn Wójcik, Fred Delmare
Votes: 837
89. Solo Sunny (1980)
104 min | Drama, Music
Sunny is a singer in a band which is constantly on the road. She therefore leads a relatively restless life, which she cannot afford to give up, having to rely on the fee she gets paid..
Directors: Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Kohlhaase | Stars: Renate Krößner, Alexander Lang, Heide Kipp, Dieter Montag
Votes: 824
90. The Cold Room (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A girl who arrives in modern day East Germany begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl in 1936.
Director: James Dearden | Stars: George Segal, Amanda Pays, Renée Soutendijk, Warren Clarke
Votes: 260
91. The Enemy (2001)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A C.I.A. Agent and a geneticist battle to keep a deadly biological weapon from falling into the wrong hands, when the weapon's inventor is kidnapped.
Director: Tom Kinninmont | Stars: Luke Perry, Olivia d'Abo, Roger Moore, Horst Buchholz
Votes: 546
92. Das Mädchen und der Junge (1982 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin.
Director: Wolfgang Hübner | Stars: Birgit Käding, Sven Martinek, Reiner Heise, Katharina Körner
Votes: 24
93. The Devil's Agent (1962)
77 min | Drama, Mystery
In East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Peter van Eyck, Macdonald Carey, Marianne Koch, Christopher Lee
Votes: 122
94. The Case of the Red Monkey (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A US agent protects a defecting Russian scientist in London as scientists are murdered. The agent finds the killers' hideout, is captured with a policeman's niece, escapes, and stops the killings.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier, John Horsley
Votes: 192
95. 1989 (II) (2014)
97 min | Documentary, History, Thriller
The political drama of the fall of the Iron Curtain as told by one of its power brokers and the widow of one of its casualties.
Directors: Erzsébet Rácz, Anders Østergaard | Stars: Miklós Németh, Gundula Schafitel, Mathias Rössler, Uta Koch
Votes: 237
96. Als wir träumten (2015)
117 min | Drama
In 1990s east Germany, three boys are in love with techno music and start their own club.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Joel Basman, Marcel Heuperman
Votes: 1,326
97. Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, Thriller
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Richard Thomas, Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Jacques Breuer
Votes: 353
98. Das Mädchen aus dem Fahrstuhl (1991)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Frank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connected plant manager in the GDR; Regine's mother is a single parent with four children. Regine... See full summary »
Director: Herrmann Zschoche | Stars: Barbara Sommer, Rolf Lukoschek, Henry Schroeder, Diane Damerau
Votes: 51
99. Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
Director: Michael Schorr | Stars: Horst Krause, Harald Warmbrunn, Karl-Fred Müller, Ursula Schucht
Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.59M
100. Missile from the East (2021)
90 min | Biography
The story of East German motorcycle racer Ernst Degner, who, at the height of the Cold War and on the cusp of achieving his life ambition to win the world championship, fled East Germany with his family in a heart-stopping escape.
Director: Justin Stokes | Stars: Aliona Baranova, James G. Nunn, Murray Walker, Alan Wai
Votes: 88