1963

Sunday Drivers

6.5/4

On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to the West. The initiator is the philistine Spiessack...

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Sunday Drivers

1965

Chronicle of a Murder

7/2

In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman, who...

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Chronicle of a Murder

1968

Trail of the Falcon

4.529/17

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and adventur...

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Trail of the Falcon

1970

Signals: A Space Adventure

5.033/15

In the middle of the next century, a spaceship loses its bearings, and the commander of another space crew, seemingly on a routine check flight, decid...

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Signals: A Space Adventure

1969

White Wolves

5.767/15

Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warriors, sole survivors of their tribe. When...

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White Wolves

1965

King Thrushbeard

5.6/25

A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a begg...

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King Thrushbeard

1979

Snow-White and Rose-Red

6.484/32

In an enchanted forest, the princely brothers Michael and Andreas get lost and are transformed, by a mountain spirit who jealously guards his undergro...

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Snow-White and Rose-Red

1971

Sleeping Beauty

5/10

On the occasion of their daughter's birth, the king and queen give a lavish feast. Among the guests are twelve fairies who endow the infant in the cra...

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Sleeping Beauty

1971

Verwandte und Bekannte

10/1

Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to t...

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Verwandte und Bekannte

1967

Chingachgook: The Great Snake

5.935/23

Chingachgook, a Mohawk-born Delaware warrior, strives to rescue his wife Wahtawah from the clutches of an enemy camp of Huron. Joined by his trusted h...

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Chingachgook: The Great Snake

1963

For Eyes Only

6.429/7

The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage, sabotag...

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For Eyes Only

1977

Die Verführbaren

10/1

1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo. Both complete an apprenticeship in...

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Die Verführbaren

1974

… verdammt, ich bin erwachsen

3.929/7

15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult. He can hold a lot of rhubarb win...

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… verdammt, ich bin erwachsen

1971

Husaren in Berlin

7/5

Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.

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Husaren in Berlin

1973

The Second Life of F.W.G. Platow

6.5/4

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, th...

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The Second Life of F.W.G. Platow

1978

Anton the Magician

3.714/7

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.

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Anton the Magician

1954

Stronger Than the Night

8/1

The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a concentration camp and tortured. The Ge...

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Stronger Than the Night

1964

Mir nach, Canaillen

6.571/7

A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and de...

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Mir nach, Canaillen

1972

Tecumseh

4.958/12

At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of vast...

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Tecumseh

1983

Zille und ick

3.667/3

Mostly fictional episodes in the life of famous german social-critical painter Heinrich Zille.

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Zille und ick

1966

Black Panthers

10/1

Seventeen-year-old Martina has a paralyzing fear of heights, which prevents her from fulfilling her father’s wish that they perform a tightrope act to...

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Black Panthers

1978

Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild

8.375/4

10-year-old Kathy Montag moves to a big city in Brandenburg. Before that, she lived in the Harz Mountains together with her father Peter. Her mother h...

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Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild

1965

Der Nachfolger

9/1

The Federal Republic of Germany. Journalist Rohmann, seriously injured in a car accident, is dying in hospital. Before his death, he bequeaths his unf...

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Der Nachfolger

1975

The Red Violin

9/1

When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His mission as...

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The Red Violin

1979

Spurensucher

7/1

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Spurensucher

1967

Pinocchio

6.5/2

The puppet boy Turli, who was only recently been carved from wood by the toymaker Kasimir, suddenly springs to life. Turli has nothing but nonsense on...

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Pinocchio

1970

Tscheljuskin

0/0

In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon there is an accident in the ice and the team can...

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Tscheljuskin

1973

Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

6.6/5

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to sta...

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Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

1966

The Sons of Great Bear

5.063/16

As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father at the hands of Red Fox, who wanted inf...

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The Sons of Great Bear

1978

Der gepuderte Mann im bunten Rock

9/1

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Der gepuderte Mann im bunten Rock

1983

Moritz in der Litfaßsäule

5.333/9

No one has any time for Moritz. And at school, things are not exactly the greatest either. Moritz runs away and moves into the inside of an advertisin...

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Moritz in der Litfaßsäule

1975

Till Eulenspiegel

5.444/9

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for...

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Till Eulenspiegel

1988

Der Geisterseher

10/1

In 1787, Friedrich Schiller published his story about a prince who manipulates, seduces, and ultimately falls victim to a murderous intrigue in Rococo...

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Der Geisterseher

1965

The Criminal on Vacation

8/1

The plot takes place in a picturesque Montenegrin islet of Sveti Stefan. The local authorities investigate the murder of a tourist, which background t...

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The Criminal on Vacation

1963

Fog

6.667/3

At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in R...

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Fog

1968

Treffpunkt Genf

8/0

The East German scientist Professor Gerlach has made a significant discovery with his research into how a new, even stronger pesticide can be protecte...

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Treffpunkt Genf

1968

Murder on Monday

8/2

Photo model Monika Stange is found murdered in her apartment in a major West German city. Detectives Bentheim and Laube find rough diamonds hidden in...

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Murder on Monday

1984

Der Mann mit dem Ring im Ohr

7/1

For years, the carpenter Tillmann Rutenschneider has moved around. In 1932, at the age of thirty, he returns to his village in the Mark Brandenburg wi...

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Der Mann mit dem Ring im Ohr

1968

Der Mord, der nie verjährt

10/1

In 1929 Berlin, the progressive editor-in-chief Bornstein is on trial for libel. An article in his magazine attempted to uncover the role that Reichsa...

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Der Mord, der nie verjährt

1968

Schüsse unterm Galgen

9/1

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scot...

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Schüsse unterm Galgen

1986

Bearskin

6.714/7

The war is over and soldier Christoffel has no prospects for the future and no money. He doesn't know what to do, so he meets the devil. He offers him...

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Bearskin

1972

Walter Defends Sarajevo

7/32

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can en...

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Walter Defends Sarajevo

1969

Seine Hoheit – Genosse Prinz

5.75/2

Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohenlohe-Liebenstein. His royal grandmother designate...

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Seine Hoheit – Genosse Prinz

1970

Der rote Reiter

9/1

In 1920, Michael, the son of a German laboring man, decides to travel to Russia. As "red horseman" he wants to support the socialist revolution and fi...

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Der rote Reiter

1981

The Youth of Peter

6.833/12

The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna S...

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The Youth of Peter

1977

Trini

7/1

Trini avenges the torture of his uncle by a landowner’s son. Trini and his fellow peons destroy the landowner’s home and overpower his guards with the...

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Trini

1977

DEFA Disko 77

9/1

A film gala featuring a colorfully mixed program of musical numbers, along with the most popular artists of the GDR music, film and television scenes....

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DEFA Disko 77

1978

Severino

6.25/8

After a ten-year absence, Severino returns to his tribe, the Manzeneros, who live on the edge of the Argentinian Andes. The reason for his visit is to...

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Severino

1979

Des Henkers Bruder

9/1

On the eve of the German Peasants' War, the family of the young Christoph falls victim to an act of revenge by the knight Scharfenstein. The peasant l...

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Des Henkers Bruder

1974

Hans Rockle and the Devil

7.4/5

Hans Röckle is a puppeteer, inventor, blacksmith and more. He is challenged by the Devil (in almost a dozen fancy costumes) who offers him even more i...

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Hans Rockle and the Devil

1983

The Scout

5.75/10

1877, the tribe of the Nez Percés Indians are driven into the reservation by a white cavalry force. So that they can not escape, their horses are requ...

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The Scout

1985

Der Doppelgänger

10/1

Romantic comedy about a series of mix-ups. Brigitte Kaufmann wants to divorce her husband Jörg who is an engineer and chief executive of an electronic...

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Der Doppelgänger

1961

Der Tod hat ein Gesicht

8/1

Three chemists unveil “Substance L,” a pesticide capable of eradicating all life without harming material assets. When Dr. Zichy, haunted by his work...

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Der Tod hat ein Gesicht

1961

Ein Sommertag macht keine Liebe

7/1

During a weekend spent on the island Hiddensee, the snobbish high school student Jan, who has just been expelled from school, meets Christine. Christi...

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Ein Sommertag macht keine Liebe

1961

Das Rabauken-Kabarett

8/1

Wolfgang is a bully, but overall he‘s not a bad guy. However, not everyone in Thuringia, where he goes to school, is sympathetic to him and his buddie...

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Das Rabauken-Kabarett

1967

Brot und Rosen

10/1

At the VII Party Congress of the SED, a delegate tells a reporter his life story: 18-year-old returning soldier Georg Lendau ends up in a small villag...

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Brot und Rosen

1966

Trace of Stones

6.138/29

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New...

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Trace of Stones

1964

When Martin Was Fourteen

6.75/4

Martin′s and his girlfriend′s Kathrin′s childhood comes to an abrupt end in 1920, when their Mecklenburg village is drawn into the events surrounding...

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When Martin Was Fourteen

1963

Prague at Zero Hour

9/1

Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.

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Prague at Zero Hour

1960

Schritt für Schritt

9/1

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Schritt für Schritt

1965

The Adventures of Werner Holt

7.806/18

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the fro...

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The Adventures of Werner Holt

1968

Farewell

6.6/5

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he will no...

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Farewell

1967

Frozen Flashes

7.75/4

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But...

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Frozen Flashes

1958

The Sailor's Song

6.571/7

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solida...

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The Sailor's Song

1975

Eine Pyramide für mich

10/1

A conference is to be held once again to discuss the construction of a new dam, which Professor Paul Satie rejects. During a train journey, he spontan...

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Eine Pyramide für mich

1971

Das letzte Wort

8/1

The starting point of the story is a scandalous affair that took place in West Germany at the end of the 1950s. It began with the unexpected death of...

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Das letzte Wort

1981

At the Beginning of Glorious Days

8.667/3

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