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by s-jones-09 | created - 12 Oct 2015 | updated - 13 Oct 2015 | PublicList of films set in Berlin, via Wikipedia.
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1. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Not Rated | 242 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9,162
2. The Last Laugh (1924)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz
Votes: 15,191 | Gross: $0.09M
3. Variety (1925)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap ... See full summary »
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward
Votes: 1,405 | Gross: $0.71M
4. Slums of Berlin (1925)
113 min | Drama
A young engineer lies to protect his fiancée, and is later convicted of perjury (after which his fiancée abandons him) and sent to prison. When he gets get, he tries to return to his former... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Bildt, Aud Egede-Nissen, Arthur Bergen
Votes: 84
5. Die letzte Droschke von Berlin (1926)
73 min | Comedy, Drama
A taxi driver in Berlin refuses to give up his horse and switch to motor transport.
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Lupu Pick, Hedwig Wangel, Maly Delschaft, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Votes: 34
6. Menschen untereinander (1926)
108 min | Drama
The "people among us" are Berlin building tenants, a cross section of late 20s society.Among them: a government assessor and his wife,who gives birth while in prison, and a flighty landlady who is swindled by a diamond seller.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Alfred Abel, Aud Egede-Nissen, Eduard Rothauser, Renate Brausewetter
Votes: 71
7. Die Stadt der Millionen (1925)
80 min | Documentary
The first full-length portrait of the city of German film history shows how peaceful and modern, but also hectic busy and happy at the same time sentimental Berlin was in 1925.
Director: Adolf Trotz
Votes: 60
8. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary
This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
Director: Walter Ruttmann | Star: Paul von Hindenburg
Votes: 4,791
9. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,303 | Gross: $1.24M
10. Zuflucht (1928)
130 min | Drama
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Henny Porten, Max Maximilian, Margarete Kupfer, Alice Hechy
Votes: 33
11. Asphalt (1929)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to ... See full summary »
Director: Joe May | Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann
Votes: 1,686
12. Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück (1929)
121 min | Drama
Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. The film depicts the cruelty of poverty and communism as a rescuing force that reaches Mutter Krause and the child too late.
Director: Phil Jutzi | Stars: Alexandra Schmitt, Holmes Zimmermann, Ilse Trautschold, Gerhard Bienert
Votes: 321
13. People on Sunday (1930)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers
Votes: 3,541
14. Symphonie einer Weltstadt (1950)
87 min | Documentary
This film seeks to pass itself off as a positive and definitive history of the city of Berlin before the outbreak of World War Two. It is heavily influenced by the bent of the National ... See full summary »
Director: Leo de Laforgue | Stars: René Carol, Madeleine Lohse, Friedrich Luft, Paul Edwin Roth
Votes: 28
15. Three from the Filling Station (1930)
99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love with the same girl.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey, Heinz Rühmann, Oskar Karlweis
Votes: 877
16. Cyankali (1930)
89 min | Drama
A fervid drama forcefully illustrates the catastrophic consequences of keeping abortion illegal.
Director: Hans Tintner | Stars: Grete Mosheim, Nico Turoff, Claus Clausen, Herma Ford
Votes: 34
17. Emil and the Detectives (1931)
75 min | Adventure, Family, Drama
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack, Fritz Rasp, Rudolf Biebrach
Votes: 715
18. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,274 | Gross: $0.03M
19. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Not Rated | 931 min | Crime, Drama
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser
Votes: 4,893
20. Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
Director: Phil Jutzi | Stars: Heinrich George, Maria Bard, Margarete Schlegel, Bernhard Minetti
Votes: 782
21. The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
107 min | Comedy
A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur, Paul Wagner
Votes: 118
22. The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
97 min | Comedy, Film-Noir
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek, Hans Leibelt
Votes: 243
23. 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931)
112 min | Drama
Dramatization of the lead up to the First World War blames Czarist Russia rather than Wilhelmine Germany for precipitating "the burning of the world."
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Albert Bassermann, Hermann Wlach, Wolfgang von Schwindt, Robert Hartberg
Votes: 40
24. Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Votes: 20,859 | Gross: $2.69M
25. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
71 min | Drama
During Great Depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called Kuhle Wampe.
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer
Votes: 816
26. Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933)
87 min | Drama
In the depths of the Great Depression and in the waning days of the crumbling Weimar Republic, a poor Berlin youth is torn between loyalty to his unemployed Communist father and his ever-growing fascination of the Hitler Youth movement.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Heinrich George, Berta Drews, Jürgen Ohlsen, Hermann Speelmans
Votes: 1,820
27. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 13,571
28. Tugboat M 17 (1933)
78 min | Drama
Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.
Directors: Heinrich George, Werner Hochbaum | Stars: Heinrich George, Berta Drews, Joachim Streubel, Betty Amann
Votes: 47
29. Violet of Potsdam Square (1936)
89 min | Drama
In a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry is threatened with slaughter so two sinister types can make some money .But a flower seller, her grandfather, and some other nice people try to save the honorable steed.
Director: J.A. Hübler-Kahla | Stars: Rotraut Richter, Paul W. Krüger, Margarete Kupfer, Else Elster
Votes: 13
30. Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery
When a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane
Votes: 1,831
31. Dangerous Crossing (1937)
80 min | Drama
The stationmaster in the Berlin subway falls for an unhappy young lady whose brother is a petty criminal.
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Heli Finkenzeller, Paul Hoffmann, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 22
32. The Divine Jetta (1937)
97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Berlin songwriter and showman wins away a popular music hall star from an undeserving country nobleman.
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Grethe Weiser, Viktor de Kowa, Hansi Arnstaedt, Wilhelm Bendow
Votes: 40
33. His Best Friend (1937)
99 min | Crime
In this remake of his 1929 film, Piel is a detective who tries to train a German Shepherd dog, who used to belong to a crook, to work for the police and eventually help capture his former owner.
Director: Harry Piel | Stars: Harry Piel, Edna Greyff, Henry Lorenzen, Alfred Haase
Votes: 17
34. Furlough on Parole (1938)
87 min | Drama, War
Berlin, 1918. During six hours' leave, German soldiers see their (un)faithful wives, meet their teachers, experience first love, and two of them are confronted with the leftist revolutionary movement. Will they return and do their duty?
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Ingeborg Theek, Iwa Wanja, Rolf Möbius, Fritz Kampers
Votes: 56
35. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Not Rated | 111 min | Documentary, Sport
The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Erwin Blask
Votes: 5,236
36. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Sport
The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Ferenc Csík
Votes: 4,321
37. The Stars Shine (1938)
80 min | Musical
A young secretary quits her job and goes to Berlin to try to be a film star. She enters Gloria Films as an extra, there many German and foreign film stars appear as pictures in process are ... See full summary »
Director: Hans H. Zerlett | Stars: La Jana, Vera Bergman, Carla Rust, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 63
38. A Night in May (1938)
88 min | Comedy
The young Inge Fleming lost her driving license. Nevertheless, she sets off, quickly causes an accident and flees. She gets to know Willy Prinz and is convinced to go on a bus ride into the blue because she wants to escape her arrest.
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Marika Rökk, Viktor Staal, Karl Schönböck, Gisela Schlüter
Votes: 78
39. The Four Companions (1938)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Carsta Löck, Sabine Peters, Ursula Herking
Votes: 185
40. Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1938)
101 min | Comedy
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karin Hardt, Sybille Schmitz, Ernst Legal
Votes: 52
41. Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz (1939)
86 min
Young and old couples, elated, lonely and jealous hearts, hope and despair, crooked and honest souls, drunks and dutiful medics, a hit-and-run driver and the first baby of the year all converge on the first-aid station in downtown Berlin.
Director: Richard Schneider-Edenkoben | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Carl Raddatz, Jutta Freybe, Karl Martell
Votes: 12
42. Request Concert (1940)
103 min | Musical, Romance, War
At the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - ... See full summary »
Director: Eduard von Borsody | Stars: Hedwig Bleibtreu, Joachim Brennecke, Heinz Goedecke, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 175
43. Der Gasmann (1941)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Anny Ondra, Walter Steinbeck, Erika Helmke
Votes: 78
44. Friedemann Bach (1941)
102 min | Drama, Music
During a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just given up his position in Dresden because he no longer could endure the reprisals of his superiors.
Directors: Traugott Müller, Gustaf Gründgens | Stars: Gustaf Gründgens, Leny Marenbach, Johannes Riemann, Camilla Horn
Votes: 107
45. Zwei in einer großen Stadt (1942)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Volker von Collande | Stars: Claude Farell, Karl John, Marianne Simson, Hansi Wendler
Votes: 51
46. Die große Liebe (1942)
102 min | Drama, Romance, War
During a leave in Berlin, Lieutenant Paul Wendlandt, a young Luftwaffe pilot, falls for Anna Holberg, a famous singer, who returns his love. But in time of war it is hard to live on love ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf Hansen | Stars: Zarah Leander, Grethe Weiser, Viktor Staal, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 225
47. Andreas Schlüter (1942)
111 min | Drama, History
Director: Herbert Maisch | Stars: Valy Arnheim, Paul Dahlke, Peter Elsholtz, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 27
48. Berlin Correspondent (1942)
Approved | 70 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In 1941, a U.S. radio correspondent (Dana Andrews as Bill Roberts) in Berlin broadcasts sensitive information about the Nazis, prompting the Gestapo to investigate these leaks and how they pass the censors.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Virginia Gilmore, Dana Andrews, Mona Maris, Martin Kosleck
Votes: 511
49. Die Entlassung (1942)
110 min | Drama, History
A sequel to 1940's "Bismarck", Bismarck is dismissed by an under-pressure Wilhelm II. Then the treaty with Russia is in peril as the leader is left with the dilemma of who could complete Bismarck's work.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Emil Jannings, Margarete Schön, Christian Kayßler, Theodor Loos
Votes: 106
50. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Not Rated | 163 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie
Votes: 16,331
51. Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an (1943)
88 min | Comedy
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Adina Mandlová, Werner Fuetterer, Else von Möllendorff
Votes: 110
52. Großstadtmelodie (1943)
107 min | Drama, Musical
A passionate provincial photographer's rare photo is put on cover of famous journal. Hopeful, she goes to Berlin, for fame, but it eludes her. She finally gets it, and almost her man, to part ways, as he has only time for work, not love.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Werner Hinz, Karl John, Paul Henckels
Votes: 46
53. Es lebe die Liebe (1944)
88 min | Comedy
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Lizzi Waldmüller, Johannes Heesters, Will Dohm, Hilde Seipp
Votes: 41
54. Under the Bridges (1946)
99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz, Gustav Knuth, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 861
55. Familie Buchholz (1944)
92 min | Comedy
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Vera Achilles, Sigrid Becker, Elisabeth Botz, Käthe Dyckhoff
Votes: 43
56. Neigungsehe (1944)
94 min | Comedy
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Henny Porten, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Käthe Dyckhoff, Marianne Simson
Votes: 19
57. Philharmoniker (1944)
79 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Eugen Klöpfer, Will Quadflieg, Malte Jaeger, Theodor Loos
Votes: 25
58. Hotel Berlin (1945)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, War
In 1945, a strange mix of Germans, military personnel and civilians, pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi, celebrities and escaped prisoners, converges at a lavish hotel in heavily-bombed Berlin.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey, Andrea King
Votes: 883
59. The Fall of Berlin (1945)
PG-13 | 70 min | Documentary, History, War
Over 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.
Director: Yuli Raizman | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Rudolf Boettger, Vasiliy Chuikov, Hermann Göring
Votes: 154
60. 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: 2,544
61. And the Heaven Above us (1947)
84 min | Drama
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Hans Albers, Paul Edwin Roth, Lotte Koch, Annemarie Hase
Votes: 72
62. Seven Journeys (1947)
111 min | Drama, War
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Gert Schäfer, Erich Schellow, Winnie Markus, Werner Hinz
Votes: 354
63. Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
105 min | Drama
In Nazi Germany actor Hans refuses to divorce his Jewish wife Elisabeth. He is threatened to be drafted and sent to the front while she will be deported to a concentration camp. Desperate, Hans decides that suicide is their only way out.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat, Alfred Balthoff, Claus Holm
Votes: 195
64. A Foreign Affair (1948)
Approved | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Votes: 8,546
65. The Ballad of Berlin (1948)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
After he has luckily survived the war, Otto tries to build up his new life in the remains of Berlin.
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher
Votes: 226
66. Germany Year Zero (1948)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Votes: 13,690
67. Berlin Express (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas
Votes: 3,593
68. Street Acquaintances (1948)
104 min | Drama
Erika is 20 lives with her strict parents in a post-war apartment, works as a tiller in a laundry and is always hungry. In her friend Else, she sees how she should do it: Else has caught an older man who provides her with new stockings
Director: Peter Pewas | Stars: Gisela Trowe, Alice Treff, Ursula Voß, Siegmar Schneider
Votes: 37
69. Und wieder 48 (1948)
102 min
1948: Students from Berlin University take part as extras in the shooting of a film about the 1848 Revolution. Students form two camps, which fight each other violently about the historical events, commanded by Elsa and Heinz.
Director: Gustav von Wangenheim | Stars: Inge von Wangenheim, Wilhelm Borchert, Viktoria von Ballasko, Josef Sieber
Votes: 7
70. Our Daily Bread (1949)
99 min | Drama
A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new ... See full summary »
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Viktoria von Ballasko, Paul Bildt, Harry Hindemith, Paul Edwin Roth
Votes: 58
71. Rotation (1949)
80 min | Drama, History
The life of the worker Hans Behnke and his family from 1925 to 1945 in Berlin. Hans ultimately does join the Nazi party, but still shows signs of disagreement with their ideology.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Paul Esser, Irene Korb, Karl Heinz Deickert, Reinhold Bernt
Votes: 385
72. Die Buntkarierten (1949)
100 min | Drama
Family drama spanning three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Camilla Spira, Werner Hinz, Liselotte Lieck, Friedrich Gnaß
Votes: 72
73. Die Kuckucks (1949)
93 min
Director: Hans Deppe | Stars: Ina Halley, Heinz Schröder, Nils-Peter Mahlau, Regine Fischer
Votes: 18
74. The Fall of Berlin (1950)
167 min | Drama, War
A years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Vladimir Savelev, Marina Kovalyova
Votes: 547
75. The Big Lift (1950)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, War
Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel
Votes: 1,730
76. Zugverkehr unregelmäßig (1951)
82 min
Director: Erich Freund | Stars: Claus Holm, Inge Keller, Hanns Groth, Peter Lehmbrock
Votes: 13
77. Story of a Young Couple (1952)
102 min | Drama
A young married couple-both actors-work in Cold War Berlin before the Wall is built. Agnes is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen, her husband, works at the Westend Theater in West ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Yvonne Merin, Hans-Peter Thielen, Willy A. Kleinau, Hilde Sessak
Votes: 31
78. Adventure in Berlin (1952)
70 min | Crime, Thriller
Berlin shortly after World War II. An American lawyer is looking for the missing heir to a large fortune in the bombed-out city. He accidentally gets in the way of an unscrupulous counterfeiting gang and has to fear for his life.
Director: Frantisek Cáp | Stars: Gordon Howard, Irina Garden, Kurt Meisel, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 64
79. Frauenschicksale (1952)
102 min | Drama
Berlin, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for happiness and a good man in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and ... See full summary »
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Sonja Sutter, Lotte Loebinger, Anneliese Book, Susanne Düllmann
Votes: 48
80. The Man Between (1953)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone
Votes: 2,519
81. Die Unbesiegbaren (1953)
107 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Arthur Pohl | Stars: Alice Treff, Willy A. Kleinau, Tamara Osske, Werner Peters
Votes: 18
82. 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: 95
83. Night People (1954)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
During the Cold War, an American soldier is abducted in West Berlin, sparking a recovery effort led by Colonel Steve Van Dyke.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam
Votes: 1,507
84. Emil und die Detektive (1954)
90 min | Adventure, Family
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Peter Finkbeiner, Heli Finkenzeller, Wolfgang Lukschy, Kurt Meisel
Votes: 366
85. Sauerbruch - Das war mein Leben (1954)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Rolf Hansen | Stars: Ewald Balser, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Maria Wimmer, Lina Carstens
Votes: 130
86. Deadly Decision (1954)
92 min | Biography, Drama, War
Brief biopic of Wilhelm Canaris, army intelligence (Abwehr) chief of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1944.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: O.E. Hasse, Barbara Rütting, Adrian Hoven, Martin Held
Votes: 310
87. Alarm at the Circus (1954)
75 min | Crime, Drama
Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. Their dream is a career in boxing, and they save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves with which to train. Nevertheless, it ... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Uwe-Jens Pape, Karl Kendzia, Ulrich Thein
Votes: 24
88. Rittmeister Wronski (1954)
99 min | Thriller
Director: Ulrich Erfurth | Stars: Willy Birgel, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Antje Weisgerber, Ilse Steppat
Votes: 32
89. It Happened on July 20th (1955)
75 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Bernhard Wicki, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Carl Wery, Erik Frey
Votes: 334
90. The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955)
97 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Director: Falk Harnack | Stars: Wolfgang Preiss, Annemarie Düringer, Robert Freitag, Fritz Tillmann
Votes: 190
91. The Last Ten Days (1955)
113 min | Drama, History, War
The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich during World War 2.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Albin Skoda, Oskar Werner, Lotte Tobisch, Willy Krause
Votes: 379
92. The Rats (1955)
91 min | Drama
In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 371
93. Hotel Adlon (1955)
100 min | Drama
The story of Germany's most famous hotel, located in central Berlin. It is shown in several plots and subplots showing famous and not so famous guests of the hotel and its demise at the end of World War II.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Sebastian Fischer, Nelly Borgeaud, René Deltgen, Werner Hinz
Votes: 56
94. I Am a Camera (1955)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
In Weimar-era Berlin, an aspiring writer strikes up a friendship with a vivacious, penniless singer.
Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell
Votes: 654
95. The Devil's General (1955)
117 min | Drama, War
During WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Viktor de Kowa, Karl John, Marianne Koch
Votes: 1,326
96. Eine Berliner Romanze (1956)
81 min | Drama, Romance
Die 16-jährige Ostberlinerin Uschi (Annekathrin Bürger) lernt im HO-Bekeidungswarenhaus am Alexanderplatz den Beruf einer Verkäuferin. Als sie bei einer Modenschau Kleider vorführen darf, ... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Annekathrin Bürger, Ulrich Thein, Uwe-Jens Pape, Erika Dunkelmann
Votes: 84
97. Teenage Wolfpack (1956)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
"Think of a law, they've broken it. Think of a crime, they've committed it." A tense, tough story of teenage gangs committing acts of robbery, violence, and murder. The leader of the gang ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Tressler | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Karin Baal, Christian Doermer, Jo Herbst
Votes: 537
98. Treffpunkt Aimée (1956)
75 min | Crime
Director: Horst Reinecke | Stars: Renate Küster, Paul R. Henker, Rolf Möbius, Hermann Dieckhoff
Votes: 21
99. The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth, Willy A. Kleinau
Votes: 1,902
100. Lissy (1957)
89 min | Drama
A story about the rise of Nazism based on a novel by a German-Jewish author who managed to survive by fleeing to the USA. The movie focuses on working class Berliner Lissy Schroeder who ... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Sonja Sutter, Horst Drinda, Hans-Peter Minetti, Raimund Schelcher
Votes: 118
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