August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the border that the Wall is being built in Berlin. They have 3½ hours to make a life-changing decision: to get off the train or keep going.

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

A detective sues the railroad company for the wrongful death of his partner.

Two angels glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisib...

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

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fig...

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

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumb...

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

In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization,...

Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationsh...

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from ev...

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distin...

Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. Bu...

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

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies sh...

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German ...

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...

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

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucr...