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

1. Suspiria (I) (2018)

R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela

Votes: 92,484 | Gross: $2.47M

2. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki

Votes: 332,922 | Gross: $45.45M

3. Possession (1981)

R | 124 min | Drama, Horror

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent

Votes: 42,975 | Gross: $1.11M

4. 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: 410,785 | Gross: $11.29M

5. The Giver (2014)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift

Votes: 125,688 | Gross: $45.09M

6. 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: 206,704 | Gross: $51.69M

7. Casino Royale (1967)

Approved | 131 min | Comedy

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles

Votes: 32,522

8. Bridge of Spies (2015)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, History, Thriller

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan

Votes: 327,933 | Gross: $72.31M

9. Wings of Desire (1987)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois

Votes: 77,134 | Gross: $3.33M

10. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

R | 113 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts

Votes: 92,041 | Gross: $16.00M

11. 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: 152,794 | Gross: $4.06M

12. Never Look Away (2018)

R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

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.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl

Votes: 25,385 | Gross: $1.30M

13. Lulu on the Bridge (1998)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Director: Paul Auster | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Richard Edson, Don Byron

Votes: 4,202

14. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

Director: John Cameron Mitchell | Stars: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski

Votes: 37,370 | Gross: $3.03M

15. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy

After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

Director: Felix Herngren | Stars: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Mia Skäringer

Votes: 42,657 | Gross: $1.08M

16. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 18,830

17. The Debt (I) (2010)

R | 113 min | Drama, Thriller

In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain

Votes: 71,907 | Gross: $31.18M

18. Beyond Borders (2003)

R | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

The world's cruelty is confronted with the love of two different people who try to save humanity from poverty and war.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Linus Roache, Teri Polo

Votes: 29,061 | Gross: $4.43M

19. 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: 25,573 | Gross: $0.35M

20. The Formula (1980)

R | 117 min | Crime, Thriller

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of World War II, is sought after by some who aim to sell it, and by others who wish to destroy it.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud

Votes: 2,911

21. Superman: Red Son (2020 Video)

PG-13 | 84 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

What if baby Kal-El's rocket landed not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union? That is the premise of this Elseworld's tale from DC Comics.

Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Jason Isaacs, Amy Acker, Diedrich Bader, Vanessa Marshall

Votes: 16,903

22. Target (1985)

R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When American Donna Lloyd is kidnapped during a trip to Europe, her son Chris and her husband Walter start searching for her.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Brad Williams, Gayle Hunnicutt

Votes: 4,918

23. Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Not Rated | 102 min | Thriller

Sent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi

Votes: 7,790

24. Whispers of Freedom (2025)

Biography, Drama, History | Post-production

The true story of the last daring attempt to escape 1980s East Berlin by crossing the Berlin Wall's infamous death strip.

Director: Brandon Ashplant | Stars: Cameron Ashplant, Wendy Makkena, Darragh Cowley, Paul Freeman

25. The Soldier (1982)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Director: James Glickenhaus | Stars: Ken Wahl, Alberta Watson, Jeremiah Sullivan, William Prince

Votes: 1,525 | Gross: $6.33M

26. Line of Separation (2015–2018)

92 min | Drama, History

A story of one village in Germany at the end of WW2.

Stars: Johanna Bittenbinder, Jonathan Berlin, Henriette Confurius, Heiner Lauterbach

Votes: 1,336

27. Magnetic Beats (2021)

98 min | Drama, History

A kid living in Brittany in the 1980s is called up for military service and drafted to West Berlin.

Director: Vincent Maël Cardona | Stars: Thimotée Robart, Marie Colomb, Joseph Olivennes, Fabrice Adde

Votes: 964

28. 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: 302

29. Naqoyqatsi (2002)

PG | 89 min | Documentary, Music

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Belladonna, Marlon Brando, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Votes: 6,245 | Gross: $0.13M

30. Escape from East Berlin (1962)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In 1962, a group of East Berliners escapes to West Berlin through a tunnel dug from the basement of a house located near the Berlin Wall.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer, Ingrid van Bergen

Votes: 725

31. Le tourbillon de la vie (2022)

120 min | Drama, Romance

About an 80-year old Julia, who reflects on the decisions and circumstances that happened in her life which could have led her down different paths.

Director: Olivier Treiner | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Raphaël Personnaz, Isabelle Carré, Grégory Gadebois

Votes: 643

32. The Tunnel (2001)

150 min | Drama, History, Thriller

During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.

Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch, Alexandra Maria Lara

Votes: 6,407 | Gross: $0.01M

33. A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

Approved | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin as a pawn in a complex spy-game which takes place in Berlin.

Directors: Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Harry Andrews

Votes: 1,291

34. Wild Geese II (1985)

R | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier

Votes: 1,552

35. The Man Who Loved Yngve (2008)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A teenage boy loses his footing when he finds himself drawn to the new boy in class.

Director: Stian Kristiansen | Stars: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Arthur Berning, Ida Elise Broch, Ole Christoffer Ertvaag

Votes: 5,031

36. 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

37. 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: 7,264

38. 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: 7,634

39. B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)

92 min | Documentary, Music

Music, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s. The walled-in city became the creative melting pot for sub- and pop-culture. Before the iron curtain fell, everything and anything... See full summary »

Directors: Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange, Klaus Maeck | Stars: Andi, Bela B., Blixa Bargeld, Ben Becker

Votes: 2,196

40. The Passenger (2012)

Unrated | 61 min | Crime, Drama

In the provocative new drama from the director of The Visitor, sexual and moral boundaries are put to the test when a handsome stranger begins to infiltrate the lives of two artists. While ... See full summary »

Director: Tor Iben | Stars: Niklas Peters, Lynn Femme, Urs Stämpfli, Maxim Albert

Votes: 317

41. 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: 466

42. The Man on the Other Side (2019)

85 min | Drama, Thriller

It is 1974, and in the Cold War paranoia of East and West Germany, it can be dangerous to know too much. But time is running out for Sophie Zimmermann. She is being hunted and the only way ... See full summary »

Director: Marcus Lim | Stars: Mari Bensel, James Carney, Nils Schulz, Jörg Malchow

Votes: 293

43. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)

PG | 90 min | Documentary

Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.

Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Ben Stein, Lili Asvar, Peter Atkins, Hector Avalos

Votes: 12,197 | Gross: $7.69M

44. 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: 5,824

45. Amnesia (I) (2015)

96 min | Drama

Jo has come to Ibiza to be a DJ in the club Amnesia. He befriends a solitary woman who's trying to forget her past. As Jo draws her into techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Marthe Keller, Max Riemelt, Bruno Ganz, Corinna Kirchhoff

Votes: 1,205

46. 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: 2,016

47. Children of the Revolution (1996)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now.

Director: Peter Duncan | Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, F. Murray Abraham, Richard Roxburgh

Votes: 2,427 | Gross: $0.83M

48. Preis der Freiheit (2019)

300 min | Drama, History

The life of three sisters shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Stars: Nadja Uhl, Barbara Auer, Nicolette Krebitz, Godehard Giese

Votes: 215

49. Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet (2020)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary

Five years after his first documentary, award-winning producer/director Torsten Hoffmann revisits Bitcoin and sets out to explore the evolution of the blockchain industry and its new promise. Can this technology, designed to operate independent of trust and within a decentralized network, really provide a robust alternative to the Internet as we know it?

Directors: Torsten Hoffmann, Michael Watchulonis | Stars: Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Vitalik Buterin, Torsten Hoffmann, Robert Kahn

Votes: 1,354

50. 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