german democratic republic movies

The Lives of Others (2006)
8.026 / 10

Drama, Thriller

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed...

Balloon (2018)
7.5 / 10

Drama, History, Thriller

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...

Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
7.551 / 10

Comedy, Drama

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...

Night on Earth (1991)
7.526 / 10

Comedy, Drama

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Sun Alley (1999)
6.8 / 10

Comedy

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...

Balls of Fury (2007)
5.228 / 10

Comedy, Crime

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...

The Tunnel (2001)
7.1 / 10

Drama, Thriller

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...

Führer Ex (2002)
6.3 / 10

Drama

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The...

Friendship! (2010)
6.32 / 10

Comedy, Drama

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...

23 (1998)
6.831 / 10

Drama, Thriller

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...

NVA (2005)
5.8 / 10

Comedy

Kings of the Road (1976)
7.4 / 10

Drama

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his...

The Legend of Rita (2000)
6.052 / 10

Drama

Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German...

Go Trabi Go 2 - Das war der wilde Osten (1992)
4.4 / 10

Comedy

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

Hot Summer (1968)
6 / 10

Comedy, Music

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...

No Place to Go (2000)
6.5 / 10

Drama

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...

Kleinruppin Forever (2004)
5.917 / 10

Comedy

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

Die Todesautomatik (2007)
2 / 10

Drama

Despite It All! (1972)
6 / 10

Drama, War

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich...

The Red Cockatoo (2006)
5.4 / 10

Comedy, Drama

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political...