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- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsCharles BrauerHarry HindemithHedda SarnowAfter WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless... Gerhard Lamprecht built his reputation during the 1920s and '30s with films like Emil and the Detectives (1931, script Billy Wilder) and socially-critical Berlin films based on the drawings of Heinrich Zille. In Somewhere in Berlin-his first postwar film, made just months after the cessation of hostilities-he portrays the people of the shattered city with precision and psychological realism.
- DirectorPhil JutziStarsHeinrich GeorgeMaria BardMargarete SchlegelFranz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsHeinz RühmannMartin HeldHannelore SchrothA young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin...
- DirectorDieter HallervordenChristian RateukeStarsDieter HallervordenWolfgang KielingGerhard WollnerA series of murders eliminates the poverty-stricken heirs to a 10 million-dollar fortune while Didi Dodel, the unsuspecting main heir, blithely escapes the attempts on his life. After a wealthy miser dies and leaves his fortune to Didi and five others, the five each hit upon the idea of eliminating Didi from the list (Didi does not know he has been named), but they do not realize how fate can step in and alter the best and worst of intentions.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMark RylanceAlan AldaDuring the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsChristian UlmenKatja DanowskiDetlev BuckBarkeeper Frank, semi-formally called "Herr Lehmann", is part of a lethargic West Berlin-microcosm. His lifestyle is disturbed when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with his girlfriend and his best friend acts strange.
- DirectorWolfgang BeckerStarsDaniel BrühlKatrin SassChulpan KhamatovaIn 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsAlexander ScheerAlexander BeyerRobert StadloberA group of kids grows up on the east side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West Germany. The antics of the people on Sonnenallee all show the absurdity of their everyday life.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJames CagneyHorst BuchholzPamela TiffinIn West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsGeorge ClooneyCate BlanchettTobey MaguireWhile in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation that involves his former mistress and his driver.
- DirectorRadu GabreaStarsWerner StockerDana VávrováDominique SandaThe ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil (Werner Stocker) falls in love with the prostitute Lissy (Dana Vávrová). Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gymnastic skills. But on his rise in the criminal hierarchy, Lissy might fall by the wayside.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsMichael HerbigJürgen VogelThekla ReutenIn 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run its course.
- DirectorGeorg HurdalekStarsHeinz RühmannLucie MannheimErnst SchröderGustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
- DirectorDani LevyStarsHelge SchneiderUlrich MüheSylvester GrothThis action comedy is set in 1944. Hitler appears in it as a physically and mentally destroyed person who takes the advice of Goebbels and goes to a Jewish concentration camp to receive lessons in eloquence to inspire the German people to continue to fight.
- DirectorDavid WnendtStarsOliver MasucciThomas M. KöpplMarc-Marvin IsraelAdolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
- DirectorBob FosseStarsLiza MinnelliMichael YorkHelmut GriemA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
- DirectorSteve BoyumStarsJason Scott LeeThomas Ian GriffithMary Page KellerA Time Enforcement Commission police officer (Jason Scott Lee) travels back in time to prevent a criminal mastermind from gaining control of the future.
- DirectorDror ZahaviStarsHeino FerchBettina ZimmermannUlrich TukurTwo-part historic drama about a difficult love affair between a German woman and an American soldier during the Berlin Airlift. After her husband Axel is declared dead, Luise Kielberg must survive as a single mother of a 12-year-old boy in post-war Berlin. At the beginning of the Soviet Blockade in 1948, she waitresses at the Tempelhof Airport and gets to know General William Turner, one of the most influential aides of General Clay to organize the American airlifts. Luise becomes his personal secretary and falls in love with him, but suddenly Axel returns.
- DirectorUli EdelStarsNatja BrunckhorstEberhard AurigaPeggy BussieckA teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
- DirectorNeele Leana VollmarStarsAnton PetzoldJuri WinklerKaroline HerfurthThe child-duo Rico and Oskar. One is more sluggish but because of fantasy and his own world view; the other is smart but scared of life.
- DirectorWolfgang GroosStarsAnton PetzoldJuri WinklerKaroline HerfurthFor the first time ever, Rico has a friend coming for a sleepover. After weeks of not seeing each other, Rico and Oskar are reunited and start their adventure with the weekly bingo at the retirement home. But although Tanja wins two handbags, Oskar seems suspiciously grumpy and Tanja oddly sad. Oskar's dad leaves a bag in front of the door because he needs some distance from his son. So much heart affliction is too much for Rico. When Oskar finally tells Rico that Tanja was cheating at bingo the other night and that those ugly handbags she wins all the time are really expensive leather bags, Rico refuses to accept that his mother might be a crook; Ellie Wandback, the bingo host, must be blackmailing her. Since the Bühl is too occupied with a champagne-drinking redhead, Rico and Oskar seek help from sprightly pensioner Mr. van Scherten; together they try to find out what is going on. Not everything goes as planned, but in the end, the two young detectives discover more than just the truth about the bingo-cheat and the handbags.
- DirectorNeele Leana VollmarStarsAnton PetzoldJuri WinklerKaroline HerfurthAmateur sleuths Rico and Oskar deal with thieves of a valuable stone.
- DirectorOttokar RunzeStarsDieter HallervordenCatherine AlricTilo PrücknerThe harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put him the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert brings the "passenger" to East Berlin. There Boeckmann falls into the clutches of the KGB, who considers him a top agent of the CIA. As Herbert eventually returns to the western part of the city, already the CIA waiting for him to be the taxi driver again suspected of being a top agent of the KGB. To prove his innocence, Herbert must find the real killer of Stravinsky. A mysterious vials to which he sniffs in extreme situations, helping them not only to amazing powers and unsuspected abilities. As Super Agent "Herbie Melbourne" mixed Herbert on the agent scene. But between the lines he gets in the line of professional killer.
- DirectorReinhard SchwabenitzkyStarsDieter HallervordenPeter FrickeWalo LüöndAfter car mechanic Willi Schulze and election expert Willy Schneider get a car accident, they both lose their memory. The police assume Schulze is the expert and rapidly he turns into the pivot in a stone-hard election-contest.
- DirectorReinhard SchwabenitzkyStarsDieter HallervordenTilo PrücknerHans-Joachim GrubelA wealthy businessman and the owner of a rundown pub share one thing in common - they look like identical twins! When the businessman hears of a plot against him, he hires the pub owner as a decoy. However, the pub owner is accident prone and causes more trouble than he is worth. An action-packed, physical comedy.
- DirectorAlfred VohrerStarsHildegard KnefCarl RaddatzSylvia ManasWhen they start losing family members and neighbors due to World War II and the German government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
- DirectorVincent PerezStarsLouis HofmannEmil von SchönfelsKatrin PollittAfter a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.
- DirectorTil SchweigerTorsten KünstlerStarsNuman AcarMeret BeckerGode BenedixHenry is a handsome screenwriter who is trying to win the heart of the woman he truly loves. His plans are interrupted when he finds Magdalena, a little girl at his house.
- DirectorTil SchweigerTorsten KünstlerStarsArthur AbrahamAndreas AdamSascha AlexanderHenry,his daughter Magda,his girlfriend Katharina and their newborn son live together happily,but everything starts to change when Katherina decides to live separately for a while.
- DirectorDavid LeitchStarsCharlize TheronJames McAvoyJohn GoodmanAn undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
- DirectorKen DukenStarsTom WlaschihaMarisa Leonie BachKen DukenWhen Frank offers Andreas a ride into Berlin out of courtesy he is certainly not aware that this decision will end up in a violent road trip for life and death.
- DirectorHannes StöhrStarsPaul KalkbrennerRita LengyelCorinna HarfouchA man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
- DirectorJan-Ole GersterStarsTom SchillingKatharina SchüttlerJustus von DohnányiAn aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.
- DirectorKaspar HeidelbachStarsKaroline HerfurthSebastian UrzendowskyAxel PrahlIn the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance as it is decided whether or not a Jewish athlete can be a part of the German Olympic team.
- DirectorAnika DeckerStarsHannah HerzsprungKaroline HerfurthPalina RojinskiThe story of three young women and one older one (the mother of two of the others), who are looking for love and romance.
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsRolf WenkhausKäthe HaackFritz RaspEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- DirectorRobert A. StemmleStarsPeter FinkbeinerHeli FinkenzellerWolfgang LukschyEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- DirectorPeter TewksburyStarsWalter SlezakBryan RussellRoger MobleyEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- DirectorFranziska BuchStarsTobias RetzlaffAnja SommavillaJürgen VogelEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.