Movies: German democratic republic
- 2006
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Lives of Others8.02006HD
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives....
- 2003
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Good Bye, Lenin!7.62003HD
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....
- 1991
Night on Earth (1991)
Night on Earth7.51991HD
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night....
- 1998
23 (1998)
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The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss c...
- 2001
The Tunnel (2001)
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Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel....
- 2007
Balls of Fury (2007)
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Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in Vegas; whe...
- 2018
Balloon (2018)
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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 ...
- 1976
Kings of the Road (1976)
Kings of the Road7.51976HD
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in...
- 2005
NVA (2005)
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- 2010
Friendship! (2010)
Friendship!6.32010HD
A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: "friendsh...
- 1954
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class4.41954HD
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary ...
- 1999
Sun Alley (1999)
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A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" fri...
- 1968
Hot Summer (1968)
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In this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast. When a loud and obnoxious group of boys intrudes on their holiday, the girls are horrified to learn that the boys have the sam...
- 1955
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class (1955)
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class6.41955HD
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow sol...
- 1992
Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East (1992)
Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East4.51992HD
Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the su...
- 2024
Two to One (2024)
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A family in East Germany finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless marks during 1990's reunification, and takes what they can carry....
- 1977
The Flight (1977)
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When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then ...
- 2012
This Ain't California (2012)
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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, throug...
- 1992
I Am My Own Woman (1992)
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The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays he...
- 2000
No Place to Go (2000)
No Place to Go6.22000HD
Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days s...