Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "east-berlin-east-germany", "east-germany"

1. 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: 410,837 | Gross: $11.29M

2. 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: 206,748 | Gross: $51.69M

3. 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: 32,528

4. Top Secret! (1984)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.

Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke

Votes: 73,148 | Gross: $20.50M

5. 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: 327,984 | Gross: $72.31M

6. Octopussy (1983)

PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn

Votes: 113,060 | Gross: $67.90M

7. Cold War (2018)

R | 89 min | Drama, Music, Romance

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza

Votes: 61,972 | Gross: $4.57M

8. One, Two, Three (1961)

Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy

In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis

Votes: 23,011

9. 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: 37,373 | Gross: $3.03M

10. 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: 1,195

11. 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: 29,279

12. 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: 15,045

13. 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: 71,912 | Gross: $31.18M

14. 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: 13,343 | Gross: $0.01M

15. 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: 3,354

16. 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: 7,791

17. 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: 2,540

18. The Silent Revolution (2018)

PG | 111 min | Drama, History

A group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski

Votes: 6,028

19. 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

20. The Palace (2021–2022)

319 min | Drama, Music

Set in the Friedrichstadt-Palast music hall in the late 1980s, follows twin sisters as they search for their roots.

Stars: Luise Befort, Svenja Jung, Anja Kling, Hermann Beyer

Votes: 575

21. 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: 2,547

22. 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: 6,409 | Gross: $0.01M

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Red Elvis: The Cold War Cowboy (2022)

91 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Meet Dean Reed, the American popstar who defected to the Soviet Bloc in the '70s and became a superstar. He packs stadiums, preaches Marxism and inspires a generation...until his body is found, drowned, in a lake in East Berlin.

Director: Thomas Latter | Stars: Dean Reed, Ramona Reed, Mike Wallace, James Reed

Votes: 150

28. Singing the Blues in Red (1986)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Music

A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Sigfrit Steiner, Cristine Rose

Votes: 570

29. Question 7 (1961)

106 min | Biography, Drama, History

Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Michael Gwynn, Christian De Bresson, Almut Eggert, Margaret Jahnen

Votes: 135

30. Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)

81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The story of a group of rebellious teens in East Berlin.

Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Ilse Pagé, Ekkehard Schall, Harry Engel, Ernst-Georg Schwill

Votes: 388

31. Boxhagener Platz (2010)

103 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Feature adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.

Director: Matti Geschonneck | Stars: Gudrun Ritter, Michael Gwisdek, Samuel Schneider, Meret Becker

Votes: 464

32. No Way Back (1953)

87 min | Drama, History, Romance

In 1945, Mischa, a Red Army officer, discovers a frightened German girl, Anna, huddled in a Berlin cellar. He gives her a safe escort home and wins her gratitude. Seven years later, Mischa ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Vicas | Stars: Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen, Karl John

Votes: 96

33. 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

34. 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

35. Die Wahrheit über die Stasi (1992)

50 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A satire on the political and spiritual conditions in GDR by the end of the 80s.

Director: Alexander Zahn | Stars: Wolfgang Dahl, Thomas Dorl, Dirk Feinermann, Flake

Votes: 18

36. Der Doppelgänger von Ost-Berlin (2019 TV Special)

58 min | Documentary, History

Young East German Michael lives and works at an international hotel in East Berlin. He longs to go abroad and experience Western culture, but is denied to travel. One day Young Danish ... See full summary »

Directors: Mirella Pappalardo, Kasper Vilsmark | Stars: Devid Striesow, Michael Schneider, Morten Bank-Mikkelsen, Hannelore Schneider

Votes: 10

37. Volkspolizei 1985 (1985)

60 min | Documentary

An observational documentary on an institution, the state police of East Germany.

Director: Thomas Heise

Votes: 16

38. Abendschau (1958– )

Documentary, News, Talk-Show

The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.

Stars: Sascha Hingst, Eva-Maria Lemke, Nadya Luer, Arndt Breitfeld

Votes: 16

39. Dragan Wende - West Berlin (2012)

87 min | Documentary

Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the 1970s and has seen the city change throughout the years. His nephew comes to live with him and Dragan remembers the "good old days" he lived as a Yugoslavian immigrant in the divided city.

Directors: Lena Müller, Dragan von Petrovic | Stars: Rolf Eden, Dragan Wende

Votes: 160

40. Ein Koffer in Berlin - La vague Mémoire (2006)

29 min | Documentary, Short

SYNOPSIS November 9th, 1989 : The Berlin Wall falls. We all remember the images : the thousands of euphoric faces destroying the bricks of the forced border which, for almost thirty years, ... See full synopsis »

Director: Johanna Pankow

41. Ein Traum in Erdbeerfolie (2009)

84 min | Documentary

»Comrade Couture« is a journey into the world of the fashionistas and Bohemians of East Berlin in the 80s. A fantasy world within East Germany's restricted everyday life. Director Marco Wilms was himself a model at GDR's fashion institute.

Director: Marco Wilms | Stars: Frank Schäfer, Sabine von Oettingen, Robert Paris, Angelika Kroker

Votes: 61

42. Walter Ulbricht - Porträt eines Stalinisten (1962 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

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Star: Walter Ulbricht

43. Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende (2012 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

About the last days of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the last dictator Erich Honecker and his wife Margot.

Director: Eric Friedler | Stars: Lothar de Maizière, Peter-Michael Diestel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Gregor Gysi

Votes: 26

44. Der Fall X - Wie die DDR West-Berlin erobern wollte (2010 TV Movie)

43 min | Documentary

The Warsaw Pact planned a blitzkrieg against Western Europe in the event of a military conflict, in which the NVA and MfS were to bring West Berlin under their control in three days.

Directors: Rainer Burmeister, Hans Sparschuh | Stars: Egon Bahr, Robert J.S. Corbett, Winfried Heinemann, Hansi Jochmann

45. 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

46. Kennedy (2023)
Episode: The Torch Has Passed (January 1961 - December 1961) (2023)

Documentary, Biography, History

The youngest President ever elected, Kennedy faces the height of the Cold War and a national civil rights crisis.

Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Conan O'Brien, Chris Matthews, Charles K. Ross

Votes: 29

47. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: The Romeo Project (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Gabrielle Kleim was one of many women working in West Germany targeted by "Romeo Spies." Duped into sharing intelligence for love at the behest of the "Man Without a Face", East German HVA Chief Marcus Wolf.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: James M. Olson, Paul Maddrell, H. Keith Melton, David Charney

48. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: Unrepentant: The SS and its Myth After 1945 (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Drawing a line to the present, the atrocities of the SS are beyond all doubt, yet, there is a cult surrounding 'old comrades' today.

Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: James Milano, Peter Hammerschmidt, Benjamin Ferencz, Bastian Hein

49. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: Brothers in Arms (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

A confident, popular John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the youngest ever elected American president, but he will have to rely on his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, to help him navigate the disasters of 1961.

Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Martin Sheen, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Patrick J. Kennedy, Richard Mahoney

Votes: 56