The Vault
Never Mind the Wall
2001 ★ 5.0Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fal
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
1993 ★ 6.7The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the
whisper & SHOUT
1988 ★ 7.3Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling
Ein Kessel Buntes
1972 ★ 4.2The show was meant to compete with those on West German television. To this end it was fairly successful even attracting a following in parts of West Germany wh
Our Children
1989 ★ 9.5From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as goths, ski
Sam: A Saxon
2023 ★ 5.2Based on the true story of Sam Meffire’s rise and fall in East Germany, this miniseries follows Sam’s desperate search for a place he can call home, as he fight
From Us to Me
2016 ★ 8.0In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British film crew ever allowed to shoot in East Germany. They filme
Solo Sunny
1980 ★ 6.2Sunny is the singer of a band trying to establish itself in the East Berlin music scene. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch wit
The Lives of Others
2006 ★ 8.0In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly
Duped Till Doomsday
1957 ★ 6.3East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., t
Downfall
2004 ★ 7.9In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the wes
Seven Freckles
1978 ★ 6.2East Germany 1978. Karoline and Robert, teenagers who used to live in the same house until Robert's family moved, meet again at this year's holiday-camp. First
Einar Schleef - No Germany Did I Find
2026 ★ 0.0With his monumental productions, Einar Schleef pushed theatre to the outer reaches, confounded expectations in East and West alike, grappled with GDR origins an
Fatherland
2026 ★ 0.0In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weim
A Berlin Romance
1956 ★ 6.1Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West. But she als
Pentathlon
1994 ★ 4.4When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his deman
Judgment in Berlin
1988 ★ 5.4An American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified. Judgment in Berlin is a 1988 American drama fi
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990 ★ 4.0Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic canni
Ostzone
2017 ★ 2.23 young people buy a haunted house in eastern Germany. Suddenly one after another get killed and they try to find out about the mystery behind the ghost doing i
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
2007 ★ 6.7Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of
Funeral in Berlin
1966 ★ 6.4Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants
Never Look Away
2018 ★ 7.7German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime. Drama R
Lindenstraße
1985 ★ 5.5Lindenstraße is a German television show on ARD's Das Erste, one of Germany's two publicly administered TV channels. The first episode was aired on 8 December 1
In a Land That No Longer Exists
2022 ★ 6.2It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory