East-Germany, 1990. The first summer after Germany's reunification and Olli is eager to explore this new freedom. But for someone who has never left his small village in East Germany, he has high expectations. On top of that, he is not the brightest candle on the cake. So when he's suddenly convinced that the glorious US is just a stone throw away, across the lake, his sister Peggy knows not to stop her brother but rather see where this adventure might lead them. And to Peggy's surprise New York's subway is closer than she thought.

A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the po...

In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east ...

He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noti...

A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hour...

After graduating from Yale in 1962, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won'...

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian di...

30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more th...

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens ...

A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African ...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's sh...

Zeke seems to think he can tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi while Derek thinks it's all in...

After a long night out two lonely people awake in unfamiliar places on opposite ends of the same cit...

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...

Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later o...

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three or...

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace ...

Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legaliz...