A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

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

Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his d...

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

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

Desperate to prove to his peers that he’s more than a chubby kid that never wins at anything, little...

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...

Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is m...

The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to ...

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party is...

The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet V...

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual de...

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can...

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock...

A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and de...

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