1990

The Architects

7/7

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for...

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The Architects

1982

Fire Below Deck

5.6/5

Otto Scheidel (Manfred Krug) has been captain of the Elbe steamer Jenissei for over twenty years, but his ship, the last of its kind, is going to be c...

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Fire Below Deck

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

1975

Toggenburger Bock

5/2

His passion for hunting almost spells doom for the sales manager of a GDR convenience store: his ambition to shoot a big buck just before the start of...

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Toggenburger Bock

1989

Späte Ankunft

10/1

In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the Pruss...

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Späte Ankunft

1980

Kunstraub

0/0

The director of an art museum in Thuringia and an art dealer from Constance entered into an extremely lucrative business relationship. Director Trützs...

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Kunstraub

1967

The Brave Truant

6.2/5

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has a...

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The Brave Truant

1976

Die Emser Depesche

0/0

Theme of this scenic documentation is the consistent preparation of the Franco-German War by Bismarck and leading Prussian military, who, with the hel...

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Die Emser Depesche

1968

Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

9/1

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to be shot as a spy. This decision is con...

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Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

1974

Love at 16

5.625/4

Although at first Ina barely takes any notice of Matti, the two teenagers gradually fall in love at their dance classes and begin their first real rel...

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Love at 16

1964

Black Velvet

7/1

Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.

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Black Velvet

1955

Once Is Never

6.5/2

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local...

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Once Is Never

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

1992

Verlorene Landschaft

7.5/2

Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician, but...

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Verlorene Landschaft

1989

Die Beteiligten

10/1

The body of young Christa Gellert is fished out of the water in a small town on the Elbe in the spring of 1964. Everything points to an accident - Chr...

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Die Beteiligten

1956

Junges Gemüse

10/1

At a GDR farm, VEAB chief Amann bans cabbage in favor of cauliflower, enraging LPG accountant Gritt. Mistaking visiting writer Hans Brauer for a high-...

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Junges Gemüse

1961

The Shadow

0/0

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1989

Farewell, Joseph

5.667/3

A young man who disappears from home for a while returns as his own (deceased) brother and encounters a strange world that should be familiar to him.

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Farewell, Joseph

1964

Divided Heaven

6.409/22

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred,...

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Divided Heaven

1965

The Rabbit Is Me

6.615/13

Maria, a young student sees her brother Dieter going to prison for sedition against the state. She starts an affair with Paul, a judge who turns out t...

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The Rabbit Is Me

1969

Mohr und die Raben von London

9/1

London in 1856. Karl Marx is living in exile in the British capital. One day, "Mohr", as Marx is called by his friends, meets the 13-year old worker′s...

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Mohr und die Raben von London

1981

When Unku was Ede's Girlfriend

8.1/5

Ede falls in love with Unku, a girl from a travelling circus. Love cannot run smoothly however because Unku is a Gypsy. Various adventures take place...

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When Unku was Ede's Girlfriend

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

1965

Der Reserveheld

7/4

The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy about the army. So Horricht believes it a joke, when h...

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Der Reserveheld

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

1982

Apprehension

6.5/4

Inge Herold is in her mid-thirties. She is divorced and lives with her 15-year-old son. She works as a psychologist and social worker and is involved...

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Apprehension

1999

Paths in the Night

7/9

Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure.

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Paths in the Night

1981

Wäre die Erde nicht rund...

10/1

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and have a child...

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Wäre die Erde nicht rund...

1986

Blond Tango

8/1

For five years Rogelio, a Chilean exile, has been in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technician at a theater. Though his colleagues try to make...

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Blond Tango

1984

A Strange Love

4.667/3

After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. He is a widower with two sons, with t...

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A Strange Love

1979

Addio, piccola mia

4/3

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in Germany, bu...

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Addio, piccola mia

1984

Woman Doctors

7/1

Lydia Kowalenko is fired from the pharmaceutical company where she has worked for many years because she refused to help cover up the use of a dangero...

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Woman Doctors

1978

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

8/1

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war...

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Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

1978

Brandstellen

9/1

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin Kunze...

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Brandstellen

1979

Coded Message for the Boss

8/1

Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrica...

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Coded Message for the Boss

1974

The Sinking of Emma

6.4/5

A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.

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The Sinking of Emma

1986

Jan on the Barge

7.5/4

1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to b...

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Jan on the Barge

1987

Wengler & Sons

4.667/3

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to wor...

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Wengler & Sons

1967

Stories of That Night

6.667/3

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There...

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Stories of That Night

1956

Distinguishing marks: none

8/1

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She fin...

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Distinguishing marks: none

1974

Visa für Ocantros

7.5/2

In the troubled state of Ocantros, the prime minister is assassinated. Martin Katrup, who is responsible for setting up a large printing plant, is als...

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Visa für Ocantros

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

1981

Die lange Ankunft des Alois Fingerlein

0/0

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Die lange Ankunft des Alois Fingerlein

1979

Für Mord kein Beweis

5/4

After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home over night. The next morning, his wife Steffi has disappe...

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Für Mord kein Beweis

1989

Holiday Storm

0/0

Summer holidays are beginning for 13 years old Daniel, a boy from East Berlin. He does not know yet that his parents are going to get divorced. They a...

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Holiday Storm

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

1968

Tod im Preis inbegriffen

9/1

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Tod im Preis inbegriffen

1990

Die Ritter der Tafelrunde

0/0

Aging Knights of the Round Table confront a fading realm as moral decay and disillusionment spread. King Arthur doubts the Grail quest; Gawain and Lan...

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Die Ritter der Tafelrunde

1994

Der Menschenfresser

3.667/3

A crime writer on a train to Berlin shares her compartment with a mysterious man who claims to be a cannibal. Initially intrigued, she tries to humoro...

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Der Menschenfresser