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7.4

♡ 5

80%

Joe May Director

Arthur Duarte as

Paul Hörbiger as Ein Dieb

Betty Amann as Else Kramer

Gustav Fröhlich as Wachtmeister Albert Holk

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.

Rosa Luxemburg

1986

6.9

♡ 12

80%

Margarethe von Trotta Director

Felix Moeller as

Daniel Olbrychski as Leo Jogiches

Barbara Sukowa as Rosa Luxemburg

Barbara Lass as Rosas Mutter

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

1932

6.6

♡ 2

Slatan Dudow Director

Hermann Krehan as

Hertha Thiele as Annie Bönike

Helene Weigel as Ballad Singer

Gerhard Bienert as Zeitungsleser in der S-Bahn

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”

Beyond Silence

1996

7.4

♡ 3

83%

Caroline Link Director

Birge Schade as Fräulein Mertens

Matthias Habich as Gregor

Sylvie Testud as Lara

Hansa Czypionka as Tom

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

Je Suis Karl

5.6

♡ 4

17%

Christian Schwochow Director

Milan Peschel as Alex Baier

Jannis Niewöhner as Karl

Luna Wedler as Maxi Baier

Fleur Geffrier as Odile Duval

An explosion sends fear and terror through Berlin. Young Maxi's home is reduced to rubble and ashes, burying her mother and little brothers. Only she and her father survive the terrorist bomb attack. When she happens to meet the charismatic Karl, who tells her about a conference for young people in Prague, she seizes the opportunity to flee Berlin and her grieving father. The political movement behind the meeting claims to be working for a better Europe. Maxi has no idea how close the murderers really are to her family.

Race

2016

receiving of stolen goods

7.1

♡ 80

64%

Stephen Hopkins Director

Jonathan Aris as Alfred J. Lill

Jeremy Irons as Avery Brundage

Nicholas Woodeson as Fred Rubien

Jason Sudeikis as Larry Snyder

Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

Engel aus Eisen

6.6

War

Thomas Brasch Director

Anna Thalbach as Agnes Gabler, Tochter

Kurt Raab as Chauffeur

Hilmar Thate as Gustav Völpel

Hanns Zischler as Ridzinski

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

Christiane F.

1981

7.5

♡ 22

Uli Edel Director

Jens Kuphal as Axel

David Bowie as David Bowie

Thomas Haustein as Detlev

Daniela Jaeger as Kessi

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.

Funeral in Berlin

1966

secret intelligence service

6.8

♡ 11

60%

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.

Charlotte

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

French

6.3

♡ 6

71%

93%

Action

Animation

Éric Warin Director

Sam Claflin as Alexander Nagler

Keira Knightley as Charlotte Salomon

Marion Cotillard as French Charlotte

Tony Nappo as Mr. Brahvi / Vatican Guard

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

Flightplan

2005

6.3

♡ 110

36%

Robert Schwentke Director

Sean Bean as Captain Rich

John Benjamin Hickey as David

Brent Sexton as Elias

Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

A Woman in Berlin

2008

7.0

♡ 13

82%

Max Färberböck Director

Nina Hoss as Anonyma

Ralf Schermuly as Buchhändler

Rüdiger Vogler as Eckhart

Rosalie Thomass as Greta Malthaus

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Lancaster Skies

2019

4.3

♡ 21

23%

Callum Burn Director

Ed Porter as Airman

Steve Healey as Fighter

Rosa Coduri as Jo

Joanne Gale as Kate Hedges

Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.

Dealer

1999

6.2

♡ 3

Thomas Arslan Director

Tamer Yigit as Can

Birol Ünel as Erdal

Idil Üner as Jale

Tim Wilde as Kollege Erdal

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan, who has to keep his customers supplied within his narrowly staked out territory. Jale, who works in the ware-house of a department store, has been pressing Can to give up this activity. Can, also fed up with his situation, sees a bright new beginning for himself and his family when Hakan offers him the prospective chance to run a bar on his very own. But Can has little control over the pressures that gradually begin to build up around him and soon finds himself floundering in quicksand.

Brothers and Sisters

6.5

Thomas Arslan Director

Tamer Yigit as Erol

Mario Mentrup as Passant - wird angegriffen

Bilge Bingul as Ufuk

Raymond Tarabay as Zivi

Thomas Arslan's second feature film and part of his Berlin trilogy is a slow-paced milieu study of German-Turkish youth in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The film depicts the everyday life, domestic conflicts, dreams, and disappointments of three siblings and their aimless, meandering strolls through the Kreuzberg district.

Rent Boys

2011

6.7

♡ 2

100%

Rosa von Praunheim Director

Oliver Sechting as Self

Rosa von Praunheim as Self

Peter Kern as Self

Sergiu Grimalschi as Self

Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active prostitutes, the realities of male prostitutes in Berlin are treated. The film is objective, and records the hustler scene as a social Submilieu, which is characterized by both tragic fates, as well as everyday things and routines. Not only the direct sale of sexual services is discussed, but also other aspects associated with male prostitution: poverty, drug addiction, AIDS, crime, migration, love and partnership.

Beyond Words

2017

6.0

♡ 3

50%

Urszula Antoniak Director

Mamadou Niang as

Evans Nierenz as

Paulo Luther Maria as

Jakub Gierszal as Michael

A young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland.

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

7.1

♡ 8

93%

75%

1930s

aspiring actress

based on novel or book

Dominik Graf Director

Julia Blankenburg as Buchhalterin

Sönke Möhring as Einarmiger

Michael Wittenborn as Justizrat Labude

Albrecht Schuch as Stephan Labude

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

Boy Meets Boy