Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.

This Ain't California

2012

German

7.3

♡ 1

84%

german democratic republic

Marten Persiel Director

Zaneta Fuchsová as Luzie Krause

David Nathan as Nico

Bill Clinton as Self

Helmut Kohl as Self

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.

Funeral in Berlin

1966

English

6.8

♡ 11

60%

secret intelligence service

spy

Thriller

Guy Hamilton Director

Oskar Homolka as Col. Stok

Michael Caine as Harry Palmer

John Abineri as Rukel

Eva Renzi as Samantha Steel

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.

Cycling the Frame

1988

English

6.7

♡ 2

Cynthia Beatt Director

Tilda Swinton as The Cyclist

In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate - accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. As Swinton travels through fields and historic neighborhoods, past lakes and massive concrete apartment buildings, the Wall is a constant presence.

Buffalo Soldiers

2001

English

6.7

♡ 31

73%

72%

Action

army

based on novel or book

Gregor Jordan Director

Michael Peña as Garcia

Idris Elba as Kimborough

Elizabeth McGovern as Mrs. Berman

Joaquin Phoenix as Ray Elwood

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

Suspiria

2018

English

6.7

♡ 160

65%

Luca Guadagnino Director

Tilda Swinton as Madame Blanc / Dr. Josef Klemperer / Helena Markos

Chloë Grace Moretz as Patricia

Mia Goth as Sara

Dakota Johnson as Susie Bannion

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Singing the Blues in Red

1986

German

6.2

♡ 4

55%

Ken Loach Director

Robert Dietl as East German lawyer

Cristine Rose as Lucy Bernstein

Hans Peter Hallwachs as Rainer Schiff

Ronald Simoneit as Uwe

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...

Balloon

2018

German

♡ 15

Action

based on a true story

german democratic republic

Michael Herbig Director

Timur Bartels as Gefreiter Kenner

Christian Näthe as Hauptmann Heym

Antje Traue as Kindergärtnerin

Emily Kusche as Klara Baumann

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

Good Bye Lenin!

2003

German

7.7

♡ 39

91%

husband wife relationship

police state

Romance

tragicomedy

Wolfgang Becker Director

Daniel Brühl as Alex

Michael Gwisdek as Klapprath

Chulpan Khamatova as Lara

Alexander Beyer as Rainer

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.