1963

Naked Among Wolves

6.273/22

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

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Naked Among Wolves

1959

Love's Confusion

4.667/6

The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical s...

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Love's Confusion

1973

Unterm Birnbaum

6.25/4

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, i...

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Unterm Birnbaum

1963

Julia lebt

8/1

GDR border guard Gunter Rist is a young man from humble homes. During a swimming competition he meets Penny, a professor’s daughter from a good family...

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Julia lebt

1961

The Man with the Objective Lens

5.5/6

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist reg...

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The Man with the Objective Lens

1990

Alter schützt vor Liebe nicht

7/1

Otto is turning 65 and a big celebration with relatives and friends is coming up. What does life bring? A comfortable retirement, looking after his be...

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Alter schützt vor Liebe nicht

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

1979

The Blonde Geisha

0/0

The plot takes viewers to various places in Europe, including Prague, Erfurt, Frankfurt/Main and even Tenerife. And the title "The Blonde Geisha" turn...

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The Blonde Geisha

1980

Radiokiller

7.5/2

Enemy secret services from the West had used modern technology for the "cold war", i.e. the confrontation with the Eastern Bloc, and developed a devic...

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Radiokiller

1976

Carnations in Aspic

7/7

A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived innovation leads to rapid advancement in an ad agen...

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Carnations in Aspic

1982

The Just People of Kummerow

6.667/3

In a remote Prussian village, the shepherd Krischan with his fantastic stories is the attraction point for the children. One day they experience toget...

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The Just People of Kummerow

1957

Die Schönste

7.25/2

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman. Th...

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Die Schönste

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

1971

The Lost Angel

7.2/5

August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach lives in the small town of Güstrow, keepin...

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The Lost Angel

1977

Der rasende Roland

6.5/2

"Route Casanova" is how people call the train driver Roland Diesler, as a love awaits him at almost every station. His colleague even has to carry out...

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Der rasende Roland

1985

Irrläufer

10/1

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Irrläufer

1957

Katzgraben

9/1

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Katzgraben

1959

Stars

7.357/21

Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter – a German Wehrmacht sergeant and artist – lives in almost idyllic distance from the war. Th...

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Stars

1964

Lutt Matten and the White Seashell

8.667/3

Eleven years old Lutt Matten lives near Baltic Sea and has only one dream - to go deep sea fishing independently and catch some eels.

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Lutt Matten and the White Seashell

1977

Der Hasenhüter

6.667/3

The young shepherd Konrad wants to ask the princess to marry him. All the exhortations of the kitchen maid Anne are to no avail. With the help of a ma...

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Der Hasenhüter

1971

Anlauf

9/1

In the spring of 1969, a young man from a small town arrives at the partner company in Berlin, where he falls in love with red-haired Rita. A love sto...

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Anlauf

1962

The Second Track

6.667/6

In this German drama, Brock, a railroad inspector, witnesses a robbery at a train depot. He recognizes the thief, but turning the man in would mean ac...

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The Second Track

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

1963

The Baldheaded Gang

6.25/4

August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless wo...

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The Baldheaded Gang

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

1965

Spring Takes Time

6.3/5

Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and accused of approving a defective pipelin...

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Spring Takes Time

1964

Sommer in Heidkau

0/0

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Sommer in Heidkau

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

1965

Engel im Fegefeuer

7/1

The Ruhr area in November of 1918. 13-year old Achim Wolters and his friends get their hands on some potatoes on the market. They want to surprise Ach...

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Engel im Fegefeuer

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

1959

Before lightning strikes

10/1

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Before lightning strikes

1991

Das Kleid

8/2

Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally m...

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Das Kleid

1969

Time to Live

6.333/3

The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he h...

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Time to Live

1971

Declaration of Love to G.T.

5.167/3

Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have her own child. Suddenly, a big interdis...

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Declaration of Love to G.T.

1970

Im Spannungsfeld

10/1

Electronic data processing is an absolute must in the Information Age. Karl Hoppe, the director of a large plant, is aware of this need for modernizat...

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Im Spannungsfeld

1973

Die Squaw Tschapajews

9/1

Two school classes compete against each other. The prize for the winner is a trip to the Baltic Sea. Lars, Peter and the group leader Manni are confid...

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Die Squaw Tschapajews

1980

Puppen für die Nacht

0/0

Four small-time crooks occasionally enlist the help of their girlfriends to earn a living by robbing cars. It is only when a former television produce...

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Puppen für die Nacht

1966

Alfons Zitterbacke

6.167/9

Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various mishaps.

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Alfons Zitterbacke

1978

Hiev up

5.4/5

The crew of a small Saßnitz fisherman has problems with the "making a cultural socialist life". In order not to lose the competition prize again in th...

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Hiev up

1978

Sabine Wulff

5.571/7

Sabine Wulff is almost 18 when she is released from the juvenile detention center. She doesn't want to return to her unsupportive parents or to her fo...

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Sabine Wulff

1974

Johannes Kepler

9/1

Europe, 1620: The well-known astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, who teaches as a professor in Linz, receives the message that his mother is...

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Johannes Kepler

1984

The Swapped Queen

7/3

A tale about the evil queen who gets swapped with a simple and nice woman.

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The Swapped Queen

1988

Mensch, mein Papa...!

9/1

Pensioner Erich Zarling loves two things: his daughter Ulrike and his dog sports club, of which he is chairman. But this position is in danger, so he...

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Mensch, mein Papa...!

1959

SAS 181 antwortet nicht

8/1

Kurt, an apprentice in a fish combine, is an ambitious loner. He wants to show what a good sailor he is at a regatta, but fails because of his reckles...

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SAS 181 antwortet nicht

1961

Mother Courage and Her Children

7.25/4

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wago...

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Mother Courage and Her Children

1958

Der Prozeß wird vertagt

5.75/4

In 1955, Michael Vierkant, a Jew who had emigrated during the Nazi era, returns from abroad to the Federal Republic of Germany to obtain the convictio...

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Der Prozeß wird vertagt

1958

Die Feststellung

10/1

A farmer who has fled the republic returns disappointed from the West to the village of Oslitz (GDR). He and his wife are supposed to get their house...

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Die Feststellung

1960

Einer von uns

9/1

A wrestler finds his political interest and activism through sport. However, this is extremely dangerous during the Nazi era and the workers' sports m...

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Einer von uns

1960

People with Wings

5.6/5

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Ges...

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People with Wings

1962

Mord ohne Sühne

7/1

Based on an authentic case from the 1920s. The head country constable Heinz Lippert arrests the Polish farm worker Jakubowski on suspicion of murderin...

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Mord ohne Sühne

1957

Der Fackelträger

6.333/3

Senior public prosecutor Sänger from West Berlin has only one goal in mind: to finally be appointed to the Federal Court of Justice.

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Der Fackelträger

1957

Polonia-Express

7/1

Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the Eas...

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Polonia-Express

1982

Soviel Wind und keine Segel

0/0

The water sports fans of a cooperative on the coast finally want to acquire a seaworthy sailing ship. But at the board they encounter deaf ears. Only...

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Soviel Wind und keine Segel

1973

Den Wolken ein Stück näher

8/1

After his family moves from Potsdam to East Berlin, 15-year-old Klaus initially has difficulties at his new school, especially with the popular Heinz....

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Den Wolken ein Stück näher

1970

Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

10/1

Paul Pospischiel loses his job in the great colliery collapse in the Ruhr, retrains and builds a new life for himself. One day, he receives a letter f...

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Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

1975

Censored: Kuhle Wampe

10/1

A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932). Directed...

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Censored: Kuhle Wampe

1964

Der Andere neben dir

7/1

Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully they are linked by events from a dark past. A tri...

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Der Andere neben dir

1968

Der Kristallspiegel

0/0

In spring 1946, Warsaw historian Wojtek arrives in a Polish provincial town to study the Renaissance. He soon becomes entangled in the fierce postwar...

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Der Kristallspiegel

1978

Matrosen in Berlin

0/0

The documentary tells the story of the Volksmarinedivision, which was formed by revolting sailors stationed in Berlin during the November Revolution....

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Matrosen in Berlin

1971

Ist‌anbul – Masche

10/1

What the trick and illusion artists Lina and Richard Kortmann have to offer their audience is by no means sensational. Their performances are too anti...

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Ist‌anbul – Masche

1965

Tito in Deutschland

0/0

The film explores the visit of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito to Germany, examining his political influence and interactions within the country. Util...

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Tito in Deutschland

1971

Wer bist du?

0/0

The little dog Nero looks around inquisitively in a world that is still somewhat foreign to him. He doesn't really know who or what he is and wants to...

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Wer bist du?

1960

Projekt Merkur

0/0

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Projekt Merkur