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From Hilde, with Love (2024)
In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
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70
51
7.2
/2215/
68
/79/
72
/72/
3.5
/2480/

Gundermann (2018)
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.
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63
50
6.9
/3249/
66
/37/
62
/60/
3.4
/1784/
60
/15/
69
/29/
50
/6/

Summer in Berlin (2005)
An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.
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Kanopy
66
46
6.6
/1637/
62
/29/
56
/38/
3.5
/566/
88
/43/
57
/54/
64
/14/

Cloud 9 (2008)
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
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6.8
/1632/
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/63/
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/56/
3.4
/3756/
50
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Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022)
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
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33
7.6
/1776/
71
/43/
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/46/
3.7
/878/
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Stopped on Track (2011)
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
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30
7.1
/1755/
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/29/
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/33/
3.6
/588/
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/11/

Grill Point (2002)
Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Both are friends with Uwe, who runs a fast food kiosk, and Ellen, who works in a perfume shop. Their four lives are stuck in a rut. Until the day Chris and Ellen sleep together and upset the balance of the two couples...
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6.1
/679/
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/61/
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/34/
3.1
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The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter (2017)
The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
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6.3
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3.3
/1043/
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As We Were Dreaming (2015)
Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.
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7.3
/786/
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65
/17/
3.5
/269/

Night Shapes (1999)
The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.
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Whiskey with Vodka (2009)
A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.
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6.8
/16/
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Zug in die Ferne (1990)
A desolate provincial railway station and six People waiting for the late connecting train to the main station. About itchy feet and the longing of the locked in in October 1989, when the big turn of November was not in sight yet.
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7.6
/24/
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/1/

Shortcut to Istanbul (1991)
Spring 1990, Berlin: Young Niyazi of Turkish descent works at McDonald's in West Berlin and wants to return to Istanbul as soon as possible. He has heard from a friend that apartments in the eastern part of the city are much cheaper. If he worked in the west but lived in the east, he would have enough money to leave the country a year earlier. With the aim of settling in with her, he goes on a blind date with Klara, a young woman from East Berlin. However, she immediately thinks about the advantages she could gain from the acquaintance.
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10
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Simbabwe – Träume von der Zukunft (1990)
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6.9
/12/
10
/1/

Was jeder muss... (1988)
Susanne and Dieter are 20 years old. They have just got a Baby. Family life could start now, but Dieter has to join the army. The film accompanies him the first six weeks, shows doubts, insights and hardly acceptable conditions. A little realistic view into the National People's Army shortly before the fall of the wall.
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7.4
/18/
10
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Jenseits von Klein Wanzleben (1989)
A documentary on day-to-day life of a small GDR-Brigade in Zimbabwe educating young Africans as construction workers. Best intentions meet exported narrow-mindedness.
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6.8
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60
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Konsequenzen—Peter, 25 (1987)
GDR, the last working day of an industrial worker between loud machines, shower cabins and life prospects agains all reason.
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10
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Mein unbekannter Ehemann (1995)
To save her married friend's African lover from deportation, Britta enters into a marriage of convenience with Farouk. With the handsome stranger, chaos enters her well-ordered single world. Things get really complicated when Britta also falls in love with Farouk.
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Nachts schlafen die Ratten (1988)
A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.
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Changing Skins (1997)
Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.
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Henryk from the Back Row (2012)
A new dramedic documentary about what politics and democracy mean when your working in the rough business of parlamentarian tasks, assemblies and your every day live in your constituency. Are there things that need to be changed?
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Vote for Henryk! (2003)
German national election campaign 2002: Henryk Wichmann from the conservative party is fighting a lost battle in the Uckermark.
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8.1
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20 × Brandenburg (2010)
Under the artistic direction of director Andreas Dresen, 20 renowned documentary filmmakers, experienced television writers, and teams tell stories about the country and its people. The teams filmed at 20 different locations between June and August 2010 under the same production conditions: four days of filming, one week of editing.
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Kanopy
61
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6.6
/191/
55
/6/
57
/7/
3.4
/219/

Silent Country (1992)
A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted.Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. The world is changing and somewhere, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place and it seems that wishes might come true. Great hopes emerge in the little town and unexpected events overtake Kai's mutating production.
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Policewoman (2000)
A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.
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/3/
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Willenbrock (2005)
Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.
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Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
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Recess (1987)
Student film depicting recess at a grade school.


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