west berlin movies

One, Two, Three (1961)
7.517 / 10

Comedy

C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious...

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...

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
6.8 / 10

Thriller, Drama

Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is...

If Not Us, Who? (2011)
5.7 / 10

Drama

In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West...

Wild Geese II (1985)
4.9 / 10

Action, Thriller

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Escape from East Berlin (1962)
5.9 / 10

Drama, Thriller

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle...

Tattoo (1967)
6.6 / 10

Drama

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail....

The Berliner (1948)
7.4 / 10

Drama, History, Comedy

Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his...

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)
7.7 / 10

Documentary, Music

The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything...

1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)
1 / 10

Drama

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man....

Wilde Clique (1983)
0 / 10

A simple story of young people in the West Berlin of 1982.

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987)
5.7 / 10

Comedy, Crime

Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for...

Never Mind the Wall (2001)
4.9 / 10

Drama, Romance

Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a...

Das Wunder von Berlin (2008)
5.7 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As...

Nachruf auf Jürgen Trahnke (1962)
0 / 10

Berliner Stadtbahnbilder (1982)
0 / 10

Documentary

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the division of the city.

Midnight Confession (2017)
3 / 10

Comedy

West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication...

Berliner Pflaster (1956)
0 / 10

Documentary

Commissioned by the Berliner Landesbildarchiv, this movie shows countless impressions of (West) Berlin everyday life, accentuated with self-ironic...

Two Among Millions (1961)
6 / 10

Drama, Romance

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...