Berlin in films
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1. 1989 - A Spy Story (2019 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.
Director: Sven Bohse | Stars: Michael Baral, Lilly Barshy, Oskar Belton, Alexander Beyer
Votes: 406
2. Dogs of Berlin (2018– )
TV-MA | 542 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A politically sensitive murder forces two disparate detectives into a battle with the Berlin underworld and a confrontation with their own corruption.
Stars: Felix Kramer, Fahri Yardim, Katharina Schüttler, Anna Maria Mühe
Votes: 14,256
3. 4 Blocks (2017–2019)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Based in Neukölln, Berlin, Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arab gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, it's never that simple.
Stars: Kida Khodr Ramadan, Veysel Gelin, Sami Nasser, Wasiem Taha
Votes: 9,516
4. 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: 77,112 | Gross: $3.33M
5. 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: 7,789
6. Babylon Berlin (2017– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Lars Eidinger, Fritzi Haberlandt
Votes: 30,010
7. 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: 783
8. Berlin Station (2016–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Follows a CIA team in Berlin and their clandestine activities.
Stars: Leland Orser, Michelle Forbes, Mina Tander, Rhys Ifans
Votes: 10,487
9. Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
183 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
Director: Burhan Qurbani | Stars: Welket Bungué, Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Annabelle Mandeng
Votes: 3,891
10. Run Lola Run (1998)
R | 80 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.
Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
Votes: 207,121 | Gross: $7.27M
11. Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit - Redupers (1978)
98 min | Drama
Through the imagined life of a single mother, the filmmaker and figure of German feminism Helke Sander creates a lively and committed photograph of 1970s West Berlin, between documentary and fiction.
Director: Helke Sander | Stars: Joachim Baumann, Frank Burckner, Eva Gagel, Ulrich Gressieker
Votes: 267
12. Mute (II) (2018)
TV-MA | 126 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A mute bartender goes up against his city's gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Levi Eisenblätter
Votes: 38,185
13. Irgendwo in Berlin (1946)
77 min | Drama
After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs ... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Charles Brauer, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 163
14. Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Unrated | 176 min | Drama, Romance
1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Tom Schilling, Albrecht Schuch, Saskia Rosendahl, Michael Wittenborn
Votes: 2,288
15. Zwischen Pankow und Zehlendorf (1991)
93 min | Drama
Director: Horst Seemann | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke, Kathrin Ackermann, Susanne Bormann
Votes: 18
16. Sweet September (2015 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Men have a hard time with Rebecca, couples anyway. In a bar she meets soul mate Bruno, who seems to have long since finished making love. Rebecca and Bruno become friends. In the sure ... See full summary »
Director: Florian Froschmayer | Stars: Caroline Peters, Misel Maticevic, Regula Grauwiller, Samuel Schneider
Votes: 94
17. A Coffee in Berlin (2012)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
An aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster | Stars: Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi, Andreas Schröders
Votes: 17,541 | Gross: $0.15M
18. Zwei unter Millionen (1961)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Berlin, shortly before the Wall was built. At the last moment, the East Berlin truck driver Kalle flees with Christine across the border to the west of the city. But even here, life is not as rosy as they had hoped.
Directors: Wieland Liebske, Victor Vicas | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Loni von Friedl, Walter Giller, Joseph Offenbach
Votes: 61
19. Spy City (2020)
Not Rated | 48 min | Drama, Thriller
An English spy is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Stars: Dominic Cooper, Romane Portail, Leonie Benesch, Johanna Wokalek
Votes: 1,498
20. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,434 | Gross: $42.77M
21. O Beautiful Night (2019)
89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Yuri is a young musician. He is very afraid of death. For this reason, he hardly leaves his apartment. One day he meets a mysterious man who claims to be death. He takes him on an extraordinary journey.
Director: Xaver Böhm | Stars: Noah Saavedra, Marko Mandic, Vanessa Loibl, David Ali Rashed
Votes: 413
22. Undine (2020)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz
Votes: 9,241
23. Wer fürchtet sich vorm schwarzen Mann (1989)
52 min | Documentary
A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "... See full summary »
Director: Helke Misselwitz
Votes: 70
24. 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
25. Berlin um die Ecke (1965)
85 min | Drama
The story of tensions in a factory in communist east Germany and their society more generally - mostly through the adventures of two provocative factory workers.
Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Dieter Mann, Monika Gabriel, Erwin Geschonneck, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Votes: 75
26. Wedding (1989)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Three former school friends, all grown up in Wedding, the blue collar district of West Berlin, have not seen each other for a decade, meet in their old teenage hide-out, a storage depot close to the East Berlin Wall in the summer of 1989.
Director: Heiko Schier | Stars: Angela Schmid-Burgk, Roger Hübner, Harald Kempe, Heino Ferch
Votes: 54
27. Unknown (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 269,419 | Gross: $63.69M
28. 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: 13,721
29. Leichensache Zernik (1972)
100 min | Crime, Drama
The rookie agent Kramm has to face the chaos of Berlin, to hunt down a murderer. inspired by the real case of the serial killer Willi Kimmritz.
Director: Helmut Nitzschke | Stars: Alexander Lang, Gert Gütschow, Ute Boeden, Dieter Wien
Votes: 86
30. 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: 4,799
31. 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: 8,563
32. 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: 197
33. Stroszek (1977)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg
Votes: 15,333
34. The Serpent's Egg (1977)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent
Votes: 6,359
35. Tätowierung (1967)
86 min | Crime, Drama
Capturing the zeitgeist of discontent and rebellion, the movie anticipates the protests of 1968.
Director: Johannes Schaaf | Stars: Helga Anders, Christof Wackernagel, Rosemarie Fendel, Tilo von Berlepsch
Votes: 109
36. 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: 20,887 | Gross: $2.69M
37. A Stasi Comedy (2022)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After falling in love with the Nathalie and sleeping with his first target, Corinna, Ludger ends up living two lives - one as an underground poet and one as a Stasi agent - both of which eventually come back to haunt him 30 years later.
Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: David Kross, Jörg Schüttauf, Antonia Bill, Margarita Broich
Votes: 457
38. Helden wie wir (1999)
93 min | Comedy
Heroes 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastian Peterson | Stars: Daniel Borgwardt, Xenia Snagowski, Adrian Heidenreich, Luca Lenz
Votes: 361
39. 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: 42,952 | Gross: $1.11M
40. Quartett im Bett (1968)
92 min | Comedy
West Berlin in the summer of 1968. It shows the lifestyle of the time on the basis of several musical quartet formations.
Director: Ulrich Schamoni | Stars: Johanna Jacob, Rosi Jacob, Eva Jacob, Hannelore Jacob
Votes: 69
41. 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: 92,453 | Gross: $2.47M
42. Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Drama, Romance
After 1945, six German ex-soldiers are hired to defuse unexploded Allied bombs in the ruins of Berlin.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 1,191
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