1956

Heimliche Ehen

9/1

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Heimliche Ehen

1962

Star-Crossed Lovers

8.833/3

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sente...

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Star-Crossed Lovers

1973

The Legend of Paul and Paula

5.793/29

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome...

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The Legend of Paul and Paula

1975

Schwester Agnes

7/3

Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with the new mayor. The consequences leave an entire comm...

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Schwester Agnes

1952

The Condemned Village

8/1

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.

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The Condemned Village

1985

Außenseiter

0/0

Paul Schulte takes a spa stay on the Baltic Sea to have his heart condition treated. His wife Barbara accompanies him and finds interest in the valuab...

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Außenseiter

1959

Ware für Katalonien

5.5/4

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When...

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Ware für Katalonien

1974

Das Geheimnis des Ödipus

5.167/3

July 1944: at a fascist front school in occupied Greece, Captain Weirauch, a civilian professor of classical Greek studies, gives a lecture on guilt a...

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Das Geheimnis des Ödipus

1959

Ehesache Lorenz

8/1

Trude and Willi Lorenz have had an exemplary marriage for 24 years. Their daughter Gitta takes them as a role model for herself and her fiancé Peter....

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Ehesache Lorenz

1960

Life Begins

8/1

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in Brandenburg, to W...

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Life Begins

1974

The Naked Man on the Sportsfield

6.4/5

In this film, Wolf and scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase explore the role of art and the artist in socialist society. A sculptor questions the reception...

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The Naked Man on the Sportsfield

1958

Klotz am Bein

9/1

The construction of five houses for a workers' housing cooperative has been delayed due to a shortage of workers. It is winter and it is foreseeable t...

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Klotz am Bein

1973

Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita

8/1

She is called Dona Juanita: the attractive young architect Anita Nachtigall, who manages a department on a large construction site with great success....

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Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita

1962

The Punch to the Jaw

7/4

Carolin lives in the East and works in a West Berlin bar. After the building of the wall she tries to persuade Georg, a soldier of the border regiment...

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The Punch to the Jaw

1988

Fallada: The Last Chapter

6/5

This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is intermi...

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Fallada: The Last Chapter

1961

Five Days, Five Nights

7/3

Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While Dresden is in ruins,...

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Five Days, Five Nights

1967

The Banner of Kryvyi Rih

7.5/2

In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, give their flag as a gift to the locals of...

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The Banner of Kryvyi Rih

1978

Der Nachlass

0/0

Physicist Karjoli’s death leads his pupils, Harry and Friedbert, to discover a process for transferring life experiences. They test it on a fisherman,...

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Der Nachlass

1979

Herbstzeit

8/1

A retired head cashier, lonely after the death of his wife, lives in the hope of being able to move in with his son and his family after the latter bu...

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Herbstzeit

1992

Sie und Er

9/1

After 20 years and with their children gone, Georg and Charlotte face unexpected distance. Charlotte, eager to enjoy newfound freedom, clashes with Ge...

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Sie und Er

1959

White Blood

9/1

The military officer Manfred von der Lohe has just been on a training course in the USA. During atomic bomb tests there, he was radioactively contamin...

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White Blood

1976

Concert for Frying Pan and Orchestra

7/1

For the "Festival of good ideas" that is to take place in their residential quarter the musically enthusiastic young Bum wants to rehearse a music sho...

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Concert for Frying Pan and Orchestra

1956

A Berlin Romance

6.071/7

Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West. B...

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A Berlin Romance

1957

Castles and Cottages

8/1

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of the...

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Castles and Cottages

1978

Astray

7.167/6

In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.

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Astray

1954

Alarm at the Circus

10/2

Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves for tra...

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Alarm at the Circus

1975

Frau Jenny Treibel

8/1

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Frau Jenny Treibel

1958

Jahrgang 21

7/2

At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "foreign worker company". After rescuing a...

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Jahrgang 21

1974

Der Sandener Kindermordprozeß

7/1

Young Anna Hallbauer, daughter of a blind trumpeter, is suspected of infanticide. In the winter of 1802, children playing in a pond near the village o...

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Der Sandener Kindermordprozeß

1965

Seine Kinder

0/0

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Seine Kinder

1973

Ein idealer Gatte

0/0

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Ein idealer Gatte

1979

Marta, Marta

4.75/4

East Berlin, late 1970s: Because she doesn't really have any particular career aspirations, Marta becomes a nurse. And since true love is a long time...

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Marta, Marta

1961

Der Arzt von Bothenow

8/1

The son of a working-class man, Harry Brenner studied medicine at the ABF and quickly made a career as a doctor in Berlin. His lifestyle and his deman...

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Der Arzt von Bothenow

1994

Deadly Web

7/1

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Deadly Web

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

1977

Schach von Wuthenow

10/1

In 1806 Berlin, the salon of the beautiful Frau von Carayon and her daughter Victoire, who is suffering from illness, is a magnet for some of the offi...

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Schach von Wuthenow

1968

Leben zu zweit

7/1

Karin, who is in her mid-thirties, works as registrar but has been divorced for several years. Together with her 16-year old daughter Nora, she leads...

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Leben zu zweit

1960

Sommerwege

7/1

In the late summer of 1958, party secretary Ernst Wollni is sent from Berlin to the village of Schwarzwalde to help set up an agricultural cooperative...

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Sommerwege

1991

Engel mit einem Flügel

9/1

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Engel mit einem Flügel

1983

Mathilde Möhring

7/1

Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel.

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Mathilde Möhring

1961

Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot

7/1

Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in fact an "aircraft commander". This assertion brings...

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Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot

1968

Baron Münchhausens Tochter

0/0

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Baron Münchhausens Tochter

1972

Gartenparty

0/0

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Gartenparty

1976

Der Weg ins Nichts

0/0

In 1923, Judge Böhnsdorf and Inspector Dumke convict 22-year-old Fritz Bondersen of treason, accused of selling military secrets on the testimony of G...

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Der Weg ins Nichts

1971

My Friend Robinson

6.25/4

19-year old Peter is working to gain practical experience for his planned medical studies. But his life turns into confusion as he unexpectedly comes...

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My Friend Robinson

1981

My Father Alfons

7/1

Ten years old Ernst and his father Alfons are traveling to the family event on their bikes.

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My Father Alfons

1958

Der Lotterieschwede

9/1

Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and children. He hopes to escape his poverty by winnin...

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Der Lotterieschwede

1956

Bold Adventure

5.909/11

In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, D...

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Bold Adventure

1955

Wer seine Frau lieb hat

8.5/2

The Berlin Volkseigene Betrieb (VEB) Komet is planning a company outing. Willi Redlich, member of the party committee, votes like the others: The rela...

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Wer seine Frau lieb hat

1992

Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East

4.6/25

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house mu...

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Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East

1972

Sun Seekers

4.944/9

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.

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Sun Seekers

1964

Preludio 11

7/1

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot...

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Preludio 11

1958

Only One Woman

9/1

The film tells the life story of Louise Otto Peters, who in the middle of the XIX century in Germany for the first time raised a voice of protest agai...

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Only One Woman

1963

Tote reden nicht

0/1

After Elmers, the head of the publishing house, is reported missing, his son-in-law Jürgen Brandt is targeted by the Hamburg criminal police. Inspecto...

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Tote reden nicht

1960

Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall

7/1

Under political pressure, a West German radio station stages a radio play about a Russian invasion of West Germany. A handsome fee convinced the unemp...

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Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall

1979

Hochzeitsreise

0/0

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Hochzeitsreise

1963

Bonner Pitaval - Die Affäre Heyde-Sawade

7/1

After participating in more than 100,000 euthanasia crimes during the Nazi era, the former SS psychiatrist and physician Dr. Werner Heyde leads an unm...

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Bonner Pitaval - Die Affäre Heyde-Sawade