24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the “Soviet zone”. Meanwhile their East German counterparts are under enormous pressure. The day begins with disciplinary action after one of the border guards was found sleeping on duty. The supervisors demand utmost vigilance and a solid ideological bent, and suspicion and mistrust are the rule within the ranks of these soldiers of the National People’s Army (NVA). Unnoticed by the soldiers, four East Berlin students are preparing to flee to the west. But in the morning mists, only their accomplice, an NVA private, succeeds …

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

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...

Manuel and Lupe want to have a baby. When Manuel discovers he is infertile, he starts to fall apart ...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...

High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a compute...

Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himme...

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o...

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belon...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...