Iron Curtain Movies
This is a compilation of movies and documentaries in which the former Inner German border, the Berlin wall or other European sections of the "Iron Curtain" are depicted, including border patrols, escape attempts and scenes at border crossing points.
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- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsJoanna KuligTomasz KotBorys SzycIn the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsRichard BurtonOskar WernerClaire BloomInstead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJames CagneyHorst BuchholzPamela TiffinIn West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.Many scenes at the Brandenburg gate before the Wall was erected.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldRainer BockA doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.Escape attempt via the baltic sea to Denmark.
- DirectorWladyslaw PasikowskiStarsMarcin DorocinskiMaja OstaszewskaPatrick WilsonThe most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.Scenes at a Berlin checkpoint.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsFredric MarchTerry MooreGloria GrahameA Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsOleg MenshikovSandrine BonnaireCatherine DeneuveIn June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Aleksei Golovin, his French wife Marie and their young son. Marie is accused to be a spy, her French passport is torn up and Aleksei accepts to move to Kyiv with his family to save her. They are sent to a room in a communal house and soon Marie befriends the super, an old woman who speaks French. But she is denounced and killed by the government agents. Marie feels guilty and brings her grandson Sasha Vasilyev, who will be evicted, to live in her room with her family. Marie wants to return to her family in France, but Aleksei explains that they are imprisoned in Russia. Marie tries a contact with the leftist French actress Gabrielle Develay to ask for help to leave the USSR. While Marie gets distant from her husband, she gets closer to Sacha, who is a great swimmer and the only chance to Marie contact her family.
- DirectorChristian SchwochowStarsCharly HübnerMilan PeschelUlrich MatthesA comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.
- DirectorUrs EggerStarsJacob MatschenzBernadette HeerwagenMax Riemelt1974. The world is divided into two rigid power blocs. A highly guarded and deadly armed border cuts across Germany. ALEXANDER KAROW, 19, son of a chemistry professor, chooses to serve in the border patrols of the GDR. It is an escape from his protective father who wants to arrange an effortless and less dangerous post for his son. He expects Alexander to follow his footsteps, study chemistry and fight for the utopia of a just socialism. The reality could hardly be more disillusioning. The border troops are dominated by brutal rituals among the soldiers, tolerated by the officers. As a professor's son Alex is exposed to special bullying, but his platoon keeps together and one of the elder privates, GAPPA, befriends and protects him. Alex learns quickly that the ideals of equality, democracy and human dignity are just propaganda. And he understands that rather than protecting the GDR from the western capitalist enemy, the border is there to prevent the own population from fleeing the country. The question what happens if someone emerges in the sight of the kalashnikow engages the soldiers day and night. In all this desperation Alex meets a girl, CHRISTINE: tractor-driver, self-confident and inaccessible at first. The two get close. It is Alex' first love. Christine encourages him not to follow his father's expectations but to fulfill his dream of becoming a photographer. But then Christine'*s brother KNUT uses one of Alexander's photographs of the border installations for an oppositional campaign and things get out of control. Christine asks Alex to let her brother cross the border because Knut is persecuted by the state security. Reluctantly Alex agrees. But when Knut arrives at the specified border point, he is not alone - next to him is Christine. Alex is faced with the toughest decision in his life...
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsMarius Müller-WesternhagenJulie CarmenTowje KleinerAn 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.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsPeter LohmeyerKaroline EichhornPeter DonathThe movie tells a true story in the life of well-known German actor Manfred Krug. Living in the German Democratic Republic he is forced to leave the country after protesting against the expatriation of singer/songwriter Wolf Biermann in 1976.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsErik SchumannMaria KörberRainer EggersBased on the real story of an East German machinist, disenchanted by the building of the Wall, who plans to use a train to cross the border with family members and other disaffected citizens.
- DirectorVivian NaefeStarsAlexander RadszunBarbara AuerStefan Reck
- DirectorMay SpilsWerner EnkeStarsWerner EnkeBeatrice RichterMichael GahrThe dog Wurstl from former student Harry is shot by a hunter and then drifts through the Saale to East Germany.Comedy with a scene at the Inner German border at the Saale river.
- StarsJerome ThorA diplomat from behind the Iron Curtain requests Cannon's assistance to defect to Italy.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsJohn HurtJane AlexanderDoug McKeonTrue tale about two men planning to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them.
- DirectorÉva GárdosStarsNastassja KinskiScarlett JohanssonRaffaella BánságiA young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsFrank SinatraPeter VaughanDerren NesbittDuring 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.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonRichard WidmarkStarsRichard WidmarkSonja ZiemannCharles RegnierDuring the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest.
- DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsRichard ThomasHorst BuchholzJosé FerrerIn 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.
- StarsMartin DejdarVilma CibulkováPavel ZednícekFates of twelve people just after their emigration from Czechoslovakia to Austria in June to October 1983.
- DirectorEnzo MonteleoneStarsKim Rossi StuartAntonia LiskovaPaolo BrigugliaJust as the Berlin wall is built, in 1962 two Italian students, lucky to live in the western side, decide to help their friend and his family, stuck in the eastern part, to escape the oppressive regime of the ironically called Democratic German Republic.
- DirectorEgon MonkStarsEberhard FechnerOrtwin SpeerJochen GenscherA group of GDR students tries to flee to the west via the Berlin Wall.A group of GDR students tries to flee to the west via the Berlin Wall.
- DirectorRichard IrvingStarsAlan Hale Jr.Randy StuartCarl EsmondWhile on a trip to Czechoslovakia, Biff and Louise attempt to help a U.S. Air Force pilot whose plane accidentally crashed behind the Iron Curtain.
- DirectorChristian CarionStarsGuillaume CanetEmir KusturicaAlexandra Maria LaraThe French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War, which sets off an unfortunate chain of events.Scene at the Finnish-Soviet border.
- DirectorErzsébet RáczAnders ØstergaardStarsMiklós NémethGundula SchafitelMathias RösslerThe 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.
- DirectorRolf HädrichStarsJosé FerrerSean FlynnNicole CourcelCold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
- DirectorNiklaus SchillingStarsTilo PrücknerKornelia BojeDorothea MoritzA brother and sister inhering their father's newspaper on the border between East and West Germany. Sales are going down and the brother decides to get creative with the headlines.
- DirectorGerd KroskeStarsHans-Dieter BehrendtBertoldt FlessaWaldemar GromzigDocumentary about the East German Autobahn and what they tell about the history of the once divided country.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsRadovan LukavskýJirí ValaJirina SvorcováA communist film about Czechoslovak border guards in the late 1940s and their struggle against smugglers and refugees.
- DirectorRainer ErlerStarsFritz WepperMila KoppWolfgang SchirlitzMovie about a East German Police Officer who has to cope with shooting a refugee at the Berlin Wall.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsPaul NewmanJulie AndrewsLila KedrovaAn 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.
- DirectorWolfgang NeussStarsWolfgang NeussCorny CollinsIngrid van BergenSatirical opening scene about two neighbors living next to each other at the border.
- DirectorPeter Schulze-RohrStarsWalter RichterRenate SchroeterPaul Albert KrummThe East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
- DirectorMatthias HoferichterDuring the time of the Cold War the border between Western countries and Eastern bloc meant the end of the world. The autumn 20 years later shows a new picture: Fertile landscapes, exotic animals and energetic farmers, trying to heal the wounds of the past. This still makes the regions special and unique. The former no-go areas where life and economy had their own rules are now re-discovered as remarkable nature and cultural landscapes when the Iron Curtain finally opened. The documentary by Matthias Hoferichter goes on an autumn journey along this now green belt from south to north. Here, with hard work and new ideas, farmers are trying to utilize the forbidden areas of the past. While herb farmers in Bulgaria dry and proceed the harvest of the warm summer, the grape gathering is about to start in Hungary. In Germany farmers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania breed endangered farm animals and successfully built a new business with the sale of goat cheese. Autumn slowly becomes winter and while the Estonian cattle on the island Hiiumaa can still enjoy the last green blades of grass in the sun the reindeer in the far north of Finland already walk through snow. Right next to the Russian border the reindeer herders of the indigenious Sami still practise the reindeer breeding just like their ancestors did it centuries ago. But even for them it becomes more and more difficult to live in a traditional way only. The journey along the former border discovers landscapes and people which have experienced a unique history in the shadow of the Iron Curtain and offer the visitor a fascinating view of life before and after the opening of the border.
- DirectorEndre HulesStarsEndre HulesZsolt LászlóBea MelkviThere were two brothers - two dancers - in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.
- DirectorRainer WolffhardtStarsPaula DenkOlga von TogniWerner PetersHerr Reichert and Herr Kleinschmidt were business partners and jointly owned a company in what became East Germany after the war. Kleinschmidt fled to West Germany with his family while he had the chance, Reichert remained and kept the business going. It is mainly orders from Kleinschmidt that keep the company going. When the orders are canceled, Reichert travels to the West to meet his erstwhile business partner, and there are complications arising from the two entirely different political systems of the two countries. The East German state police are even suspecting that Reichert has no intentions of returning to the East after his visit.
- DirectorRoland Suso RichterStarsHeino FerchNicolette KrebitzSebastian KochDuring the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMark RylanceAlan AldaDuring 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.
- DirectorRaoul LévyStarsMontgomery CliftHardy KrügerMacha MérilAn American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
- DirectorLaila PakalninaStarsIgors BuraksVadims GrossmansJaan TätteThe Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. The intriguing black-and-white is a contemporary retro tale about Cinderella's slipper, which, in this variation, is found on the beach in a border zone. Russian soldiers take on the role of the prince. But who is Cinderella?
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsHelen MirrenSam WorthingtonTom WilkinsonIn 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.Scenes at the Berlin Wall.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael CaineOscar HomolkaPaul HubschmidSent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.Scenes at Checkpoint Charlie and along the Spree river.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsAlexander ScheerAlexander BeyerRobert StadloberA 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.
- DirectorLeo PennStarsMartin SheenSam WanamakerMax GailAmerican judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
- DirectorDesmond DavisStarsTony DanzaNeil DicksonGeraldine JamesA U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.
- DirectorMichael Patrick KellyStarsThomas BarWolfgang BradlerLothar de MaizièreBehind The Wall documents what life was like on both sides of The Berlin Wall through the eyes of ordinary citizens from East and West Germany. They give an in-depth and overlooked perspective of life before, during and after The Wall fell. Beginning with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the 'Fall of the Wall' then through the voices of the people, weaves a true history of what life was like living on both sides of The Wall.
- DirectorMarcus LimStarsMari BenselJames CarneyNils SchulzIt 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 to survive is to find out the identity of The Man On The Other Side! In the style of classic 70s spy thrillers like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Ipcress File and Day Of The Jackal, The Man On The Other Side transports you back to a world of double crosses, of dark deeds in grey Eastern European cities and of danger lurking behind every kiss.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsTom SchillingSebastian KochPaula BeerGerman 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.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsChristian UlmenKatja DanowskiDetlev BuckBarkeeper 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.The protagonist witnesses the Fall of the Berlin Wall in a very special way.
- DirectorHartmut SchoenStarsHeino FerchInka FriedrichIris BerbenA divided family, an escape attempt and a race against time.
- DirectorPeter TimmStarsRainer GrenkowitzNadja EngelbrechtThomas BestvaterSatirical 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.
- DirectorMichael HerbigStarsFriedrich MückeKaroline SchuchDavid KrossEast 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.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsLeonard ScheicherTom GramenzLena KlenkeA 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.Escape attempt in Berlin.
- DirectorChristian SchwochowStarsJördis TriebelTristan GöbelJacky IdoShe Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.Scenes at a border crossing point.
- StarsJohanna BittenbinderJonathan BerlinHenriette ConfuriusA story of one village in Germany at the end of WW2.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsDon MurrayChristine KaufmannWerner KlempererIn 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.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsCorinna HarfouchMeret BeckerAugust ZirnerEast-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, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
- DirectorAnnika PampelStarsNina RauschChristian WolfPhilippe BrenninkmeyerIn a communist East Germany in 1974, a young couple attempts to escape into the West, seeking freedom, by using a handmade boat to cross the Baltic Sea.
- DirectorDirk KummerStarsTilman DöblerValentin WesselyKatharina Marie SchubertEnd of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the boys have to recognize that they are soon separated from each other. But they want to dig a tunnel to Australia to meet there themselves again. When Jonas should leave the country with his mother this night changes everything.Scenes at a border crossing point.
- DirectorThomas BergerStarsAnja KlingMadeleine LierckMatthias KoeberlinThe Berlin Wall separated families and friends for 28 years. Some accepted it, and some worked hard to make it fall.
- DirectorToke Constantin HebbelnStarsAlexander FehlingAugust DiehlRonald ZehrfeldThe dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.Escape attempt via Czechoslovakia.
- DirectorSebastian PetersonStarsDaniel BorgwardtXenia SnagowskiAdrian HeidenreichHeroes 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 young hero falls in love, from an early age, with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. Our hero's father, however, is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself. The absurdities of everyday life in the former German "Democratic" Republic are comically (sometimes tragically) are exposed throughout the film.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoNadia SandersAntonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
- DirectorCarsten FiebelerStarsTobias SchenkeAnna BrüggemannMichael GwisdekTim a West German teenager is a rich brat who aspires to be a tennis player. He meets his identical twin Ronny while on a school trip to East Germany. This chance meeting changes his life forever.Border crossing, escape attempts.
- DirectorStephan WagnerStarsJörg SchüttaufMartina GedeckMatthias BrandtBased on a true story, Stephan Wagner's thriller focuses on a man and his fight against the East German secret service. After an escape attempt, Wolfgang Stein is sentenced to ten years in prison, but is finally ransomed by the West German government in 1971. Dieter Michaelis, another refuge, asks him to help an East German fellow-sufferer to flee the country via Bulgaria. This is the beginning of Stein's efforts to outsmart the agents of the East German "Staatssicherheit" again and again, until they finally try to eliminate him...
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsErik SchumannEva KotthausGeorg ThomallaA border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
- DirectorRoland GräfStarsJenny GröllmannErika PelikowskyArmin Mueller-StahlWhen Dr. Schmith's (Armin Mueller-Stahl) proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. He falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina (Jenny Gröllmann). Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly... As the topic of escaping to the West was taboo in the GDR, The Flight is an exception in East German film history. The film, which won the Grand Prix at the Karoly Vary International Film Festival in 1978, was the last one Armin Mueller-Stahl made at the East German DEFA studios. In 1980, only two years after the release of the film, he left East Germany for the West because of professional restrictions imposed upon him after he joined protests against the expatriation of the dissident singer/songwriter Wolf Biermann.One of the first East German movies depicting the border and dealing with "Republikflucht".
- DirectorOliver DommengetStarsAnna LoosThure RiefensteinAndreas PietschmannMovie about the largest escape at the Inner German border during Cold War, when 14 families from the village of Böseckendorf in the GDR left towards West Germany.
- DirectorJan RuzickaStarsBenno FürmannAnnika KuhlLotte Flack
- DirectorMiguel AlexandreStarsVeronica FerresPeter KremerFilip PeetersBased on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on a East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to go there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie...Escape attempt at the Romanian-Yugoslav border.
- StarsFrederick LauParaschiva DragusLivia GreifEast-Germany, 1984: Frank Korbach is looking forward to attending drama school, while his rebellious best friend Thomas is refusing to do military service. Together with the adventurous but naive Alex, Thomas plans to make a desperate attempt to escape to the West. Knowing that he might never see them again, Frank accompanies Thomas and Alex to the frontier. Suddenly, they are confronted by a special unit of the Stasi, the East German secret police. Although the boys manage to avoid capture, Frank's old life is gone forever - he has now become a fugitive. Frank's father Kurt Korbach is stunned by the escape. Unknown to his son, Kurt is a Major in the Stasi. Convinced that Frank is innocent, he persuades his superiors that he alone can bring his son back. Together with the suspicious Colonel Frey - a time bomb waiting to explode - Kurt sets off to track down the runaway boys.Escape attempt in Czechoslovakia.
- DirectorHajo GiesStarsWolfgang StumphKatrin SassJürgen TarrachThis TV movie focuses on an average East German citizen, who accidentally becomes a Cold War victim. Shortly before his wedding day, East German Stephan Busemann goes to West Germany to attend his brother Hubert's fiftieth birthday. At the same time, his son Martin and his daughter-in-law Bettina flee their communist home country in a balloon, what Stephan didn't know. As the East Germans believe he helped them to escape, he isn't allowed to return, so Martin writes a letter to the country's leader Erich Honecker. However, now the West Germans think that Stephan is a spy...
- DirectorFriedemann FrommStarsHenriette ConfuriusKatja FlintEdgar SelgeDuring the Cold War, Ulrich and Heike Molitor's attempt to escape from the GDR with their children hidden in the car ends in a prison conviction and both kids going to adoption unless they accept to leave daughter Rebecca behind to that fate and choose 'exulsion' with son Klaus. When the kids near adulthood, Klaus is frustrated that his parents only wine about his lost sister. Meanwhile, the time is ripening for the Berlin wall to come down. Rebecca's adoptive pa resists his wife's bitching to leave the Stasi.Escape attempt at a border crossing point.
- DirectorPeter TimmStarsFelicitas WollMaxim MehmetAnna FischerIn 1989 Berlin, Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fall in love. But soon the Stasi believes they are witnessing the start of a revolt. Afer all, this is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague. Franzi and Sascha must find ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible: to bring down the wall.
- DirectorLutz KonermannStarsAnneke Kim SarnauChristoph BachHans Werner MeyerIn 1989 more and more GDR citizens fled to the West German embassy in Prague
- DirectorHeiner CarowStarsAngelica DomröseGottfried JohnJörg GudzuhnIt is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. Critics note that in this film, director Heiner Carow revisits the themes of his 1972 smash hit, The Legend of Paul and Paula, which became a cult film throughout Germany.
- DirectorWieland SpeckStarsSigurd RachmanRainer StreckerAndy LucasFelix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become suspicious, Thomas decides to try and flee to the West.
- DirectorConnie WalterStarsAnna BertheauAntonio WannekTim SanderGermany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fall in love with each other, but the regime "takes care" of their relationship, meaning: They cannot see each other again. Germany 1990: The country is reunited. Nele searches for her lost love.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsMax RiemeltJessica SchwarzRonald ZehrfeldA coming-of-age story set in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.Building of the Wall at the end of the movie.
- DirectorEberhard ItzenplitzStarsRuth WinterRudolf BeiswangerGustav BurmesterSatire about an East German village which over night became part of the West.
- DirectorCãtãlin MitulescuStarsDorotheea PetreTimotei DumaIoan AlbuIn Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.Escape attempt from Communist Romania towards Yugoslavia.
- DirectorAnca Miruna LazarescuStarsToma CuzinAndi VasluianuPatricia MogaRomania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the end only hope is left.Escape attempt from Communist Romania towards Yugoslavia.
- DirectorVera LoebnerStarsMarianne WünscherGerry WolffKatrin SassAbout the lives of a family that is divided between East and West Berlin.
- StarsNadja UhlBarbara AuerNicolette KrebitzThe life of three sisters shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- DirectorCynthia BeattStarsTilda SwintonIn 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is by turns idyllic, surreal, whimsical and depressing.
- DirectorMatthias BruhnRalf KukulaStarsAli LyonsOisin ConroyLucy CarolanEast Germany, 1989. 12 year old Fritzi takes care of her best friend Sophie's dog Sputnik, while Sophie's family is on summer vacation in Hungary. When Sophie doesn't come back from vacation, Fritzi and Sputnik set out in search of her.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsElke SommerBob CraneWerner KlempererA beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsIsabella RosselliniAnthony HopkinsCampbell ScottA British telecommunication expert comes to 1950s Berlin to help the Americans spy on the USSR. He meets a cute, mysterious local woman.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsBibiana BeglauRichard KropfMartin WuttkeThe 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.Escape towards the East.
- DirectorLouis BélangerStarsSerge ThériaultGilles RenaudSébastien DelormeThe owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsRichard GreeneEva BartokMarius GoringKarin finds herself back at home in Dresden when the flight on which she is stewardess, is forced down. She is then used by the State police to find her wanted brother, so when Jim arrives to get her back, he has to watch his back.
- DirectorAnthony MannLaurence HarveyStarsLaurence HarveyTom CourtenayMia FarrowThe 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.
- DirectorBartosz KonopkaThe untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls.
- DirectorNiki SteinStarsStephan KampwirthMisel MaticevicLoretta PflaumLoosely based on the life of Michael Gartenschläger who was sentenced to long-term imprisonment in a show trial in East Germany and later tried to draw the world's attention to the human rights abuses at the Inner German border.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsRüdiger VoglerHanns ZischlerLisa KreuzerA traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.Set in the Western border lands at the Inner German border.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsRoy ScheiderJürgen ProchnowTim ReidCold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border.
- DirectorJohn GlenStarsRoger MooreMaud AdamsLouis JourdanA 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.