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...

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...

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...

Night on Earth (1991)
7.521 / 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.

23 (1998)
6.837 / 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...

Kings of the Road (1976)
7.445 / 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...

Balls of Fury (2007)
5.223 / 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...

NVA (2005)
5.8 / 10

Comedy

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...

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...

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...

Dessau Dancers (2014)
5.3 / 10

Music, Comedy

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...

Kruso (2018)
4.9 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the...

November Child (2008)
5.5 / 10

Drama

Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But...

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...

Kleinruppin Forever (2004)
5.917 / 10

Comedy

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

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...

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)
4.4 / 10

History, Drama

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...

The Flight (1977)
8.5 / 10

Drama, Thriller

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an...