East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As he is arrested after a concert, Marco is forced to join the army, where he surprisingly identifies with socialism and believes he has to defend his country against the capitalist enemy. While Jürgen is astonished, his wife Hanna and Marco's girlfriend Anja, supporting the civil rights movement, don't like his new attitude...

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...

A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined...

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement ag...

Tom and Malte are best friends; they make music together, DJ in Berlin clubs, dream of a career toge...

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

Just before the Berlin Wall is built, a young East German worker tries his personal and professional...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an ...

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

An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial M...

The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a vil...

The school authorities want to read success stories in director Joachim Faber's reports. But they ca...

Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of he...

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

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, wh...

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young so...

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for...

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at th...

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany....