When Dr. Schmith's 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. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and h...

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presi...

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the cons...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Ju...

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, ha...

Long-haul driver Hannes picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb, who had a falling-out with his parents af...

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shor...

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, an...

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking ...

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he...

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

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Altho...

Angi Vera is a young nursing assistant in a hospital. When she speaks out against the appalling cond...

In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their...

After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious...

A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.