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...

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...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

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.

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

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town t...

Japanese fishery instructor Akira is attracted to beautiful Cuban young girl Martia. Though initial...

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

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

Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East...

Long-haul driver Hannes (Manfred Krug) picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb (Jaecki Schwarz), who had a...

Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Ar...

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

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

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