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87
8.4
/438352/
82
/6331/
80
/3939/
4.3
/179798/
92
/162/
96
/11154/
89
/39/
cc age 17+

The Lives of Others (2006)
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.5
/64757/
73
/2024/
74
/1538/
4.0
/168001/
92
/254/
82
/176/
90
/45/
cc age 16+

Cold War (2018)
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
poster
81
7.7
/38855/
77
/1003/
74
/406/
4.1
/66509/
92
/117/
93
/3140/
85
/29/
cc age 15+

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
poster
80
7.6
/341066/
75
/15714/
72
/7098/
3.6
/212896/
91
/314/
87
/2551/
81
/48/
cc age 13+

Bridge of Spies (2015)
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.6
/13009/
76
/603/
75
/362/
3.9
/19820/
91
/1203/

Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.
poster
79
7.8
/24382/
77
/478/
75
/404/
4.0
/21465/
88
/25/
87
/306/
73
/8/

One, Two, Three (1961)
C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca-Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.
poster
79
7.7
/158294/
77
/3331/
75
/2532/
3.9
/147039/
91
/108/
93
/2986/
68
/32/
cc age 14+

Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
poster
78
7.7
/27687/
78
/888/
77
/726/
3.9
/30727/
77
/140/
87
/74/
68
/28/
cc age 17+

Never Look Away (2018)
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.2
/16895/
69
/351/
72
/346/
3.8
/20200/
94
/83/
76
/159/
86
/22/

Barbara (2012)
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
poster
MGM Plus
77
7.5
/20321/
74
/486/
71
/315/
3.9
/17623/
86
/21/
82
/282/
cc age 10+

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
poster
75
7.2
/80351/
73
/3106/
71
/1319/
3.7
/82517/
77
/52/
80
/1830/
68
/15/
cc age 12+

Top Secret! (1984)
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
poster
Hoopla
74
7.3
/916/
67
/34/
72
/31/
4.0
/4302/
95
/21/
83
77
/8/

La Flor (2019)
An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes…
poster
Hoopla
72
7.0
/7337/
69
/153/
65
/65/
3.5
/1912/
82
/33/
72
/118/
74
/16/

A Woman in Berlin (2008)
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
poster
72
6.9
/2543/
67
/32/
58
/31/
3.5
/862/
80
/15/
75
/18/

The Legend of Rita (2000)
Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the reunification.
poster
71
7.0
/3820/
64
/41/
64
/32/
3.5
/783/
74
/61/
73
/178/
67
/22/

Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
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75
69
7.1
/7841/
76
/207/
67
/123/
3.6
/4054/
89
/47/

Berlin Blues (2003)
In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.
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72
69
7.2
/7719/
73
/310/
68
/222/
3.5
/3631/
78
/102/

23 (1998)
The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.
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Kanopy
69
6.7
/4522/
63
/91/
62
/104/
3.6
/8719/
82
/55/
55
/83/

Yella (2007)
A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
68
6.7
/217515/
70
/19815/
64
/6463/
3.3
/258672/
79
/365/
64
/1849/
63
/50/
cc age 17+

Atomic Blonde (2017)
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.
poster
68
7.1
/5857/
68
/96/
66
/54/
3.5
/1755/
68
/25/
75
/109/

Mother Night (1996)
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
poster
Netflix
68
7.1
/175837/
72
/4446/
69
/2250/
3.4
/68086/
64
/134/
75
/2375/
63
/29/
cc age 16+

Spy Game (2001)
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
poster
67
6.8
/73551/
67
/1814/
66
/928/
3.3
/14355/
77
/182/
66
/2161/
65
/37/
cc age 15+

The Debt (2010)
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
poster
Kanopy
71
65
7.5
/14650/
76
/843/
74
/454/
3.6
/12929/
70
/30/
83
/15/
53
/9/

Balloon (2018)
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
poster
76
65
7.7
/6549/
72
/73/
71
/106/
3.5
/1164/
84
/25/
91
/154/
72
/14/

The Tunnel (2001)
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
poster
Kanopy
78
64
7.4
/6445/
75
/261/
74
/254/
3.7
/7233/
90
/10/
86
/8/

The Silent Revolution (2018)
Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.
poster
70
63
6.8
/7495/
70
/165/
66
/116/
3.4
/5332/
81
/49/

Sonnenallee (1999)
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
poster
Hoopla
66
63
6.8
/8423/
68
/248/
64
/152/
3.4
/4844/
60
/10/
73
/92/

Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
poster
61
6.6
/31289/
66
/664/
66
/631/
3.2
/26766/
63
/32/
52
/520/
55
/8/

Torn Curtain (1966)
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
poster
Kanopy
78
61
7.7
/2265/
70
/29/
64
/34/
3.8
/1193/
95
/19/
84
/57/
85
/14/

Paragraph 175 (2000)
During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.
poster
57
6.5
/118900/
66
/4288/
63
/2110/
2.9
/78642/
41
/49/
47
/1823/
63
/14/
cc age 14+

Octopussy (1983)
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
poster
Kanopy
72
56
7.1
/1764/
70
/28/
64
/36/
3.7
/1107/
87
/46/
67
/124/
75
/17/

Terror's Advocate (2007)
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.
poster
Kanopy
71
54
7.1
/3326/
70
/72/
66
/64/
3.4
/792/
92
/13/
74
/26/
62
/5/

Two Lives (2012)
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
poster
63
54
6.5
/5920/
65
/199/
63
/134/
3.1
/2539/
64
/24/

Friendship! (2010)
A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: "friendship".
poster
FlixHouse
60
51
6.2
/3438/
61
/108/
63
/67/
3.2
/2387/
55
/47/

Virus (1980)
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
poster
Kanopy
66
46
7.0
/2037/
62
/44/
64
/45/
3.6
/2966/
62
/28/

Coming Out (1989)
Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.
poster
77
45
7.1
/1488/
70
/25/
69
/28/
3.5
/847/
100
/5/
85
/18/

Jacob the Liar (1974)
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.
poster
Kanopy
45
5.0
/34380/
54
/1376/
52
/784/
2.4
/24080/
26
/42/
34
/1060/
48
/11/
cc age 14+

Casino Royale (1967)
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
poster
74
44
7.3
/1109/
71
/38/
65
/29/
3.6
/916/
84
/19/
81
/10/
76
/9/

This Ain't California (2012)
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.
poster
66
42
6.7
/1530/
66
/92/
63
/85/
3.4
/1603/

Free Country (2020)
Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. Did they run away from home or did something more terrible happen to them?
poster
78
41
7.5
/949/
76
/13/
71
/24/
3.9
/1063/
80
/5/
89
/18/

Hitler: A Film from Germany (1978)
A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of personality in propaganda to how said propaganda was associated with pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual, and national heritage to the Holocaust and the ideology behind it, particularly from Himmler's point of view.
poster
67
41
6.5
/1692/
67
/50/
61
/37/
3.3
/757/
80
/5/
66
/21/

Night Crossing (1982)
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
poster
Kanopy
60
40
6.0
/1141/
60
/43/
57
/47/
2.8
/1899/
67
/5/

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (2023)
Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age.
poster
65
39
6.7
/1542/
66
/69/
63
/53/
3.3
/1322/

The Last Execution (2021)
The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...
poster
62
38
6.1
/1182/
65
/54/
63
/38/
3.1
/4262/

Two to One (2024)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a communist family discovers a bunker full of money soon to be worthless. With the help of their neighbors, they embark on a race against time to enter the capitalist world in style.
poster
64
38
6.6
/736/
57
/12/
62
/23/
3.5
/867/
81
/16/
50
/20/
62
/6/

Longing (2006)
An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart finds his emotions unexpectedly stirred when he falls for a pretty waitress from a nearby town.
poster
54
37
5.5
/333/
10
/3/
33
/6/
88
/475/
88
/6014/

Lena's Holiday (1991)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lena, from East Germany travels to Hollywood. After landing she loses her bag and can't find her hotel. She befriends a cab driver who doesn't believe someone is out to get her.
poster
60
37
6.0
/1794/
62
/84/
56
/65/
3.2
/1336/

Go Trabi Go (1991)
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 are some incidents during their journey.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
35
5.8
/703/
50
/19/
67
/11/
83
/6/
55
/55/

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)
Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of rationing, censorship and the most spied upon people in history rather than the Marxist utopia they were expecting. But if they thought getting in was difficult wait until they try to get out.


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