Berlin in films

Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.

A politically sensitive murder forces two disparate detectives into a battle with the Berlin underworld and a confrontation with their own corruption.

Based in Neukölln, Berlin, Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arab gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, it's never that simple.

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

Sent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.

Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

Follows a CIA team in Berlin and their clandestine activities.

A man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Through the imagined life of a single mother, the filmmaker and figure of German feminism Helke Sander creates a lively and committed photograph of 1970s West Berlin, between documentary and fiction.

A mute bartender goes up against his city's gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner.

After 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.

1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

Men have a hard time with Rebecca, couples anyway. In a bar she meets soul mate Bruno, who seems to have long since finished making love. Rebecca and Bruno become friends. In the sure belief that they are not each other's type, they philosophize about love and the unreasonable sacrifices that a couple relationship demands. But can men and women really just be friends? Before they can finally clarify the question, the past interferes: Bruno's ex re-enters his life and Rebecca meets her "best friend" Johann. But something is wrong. Disillusioned, she leaves for New York without further ado, determined, not But then it is the distance that lets them see what makes them happy.

An aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.

Berlin, shortly before the Wall was built. At the last moment, the East Berlin truck driver Kalle flees with Christine across the border to the west of the city. But even here, life is not as rosy as they had hoped.

An English spy is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall.

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Yuri is a young musician. He is very afraid of death. For this reason, he hardly leaves his apartment. One day he meets a mysterious man who claims to be death. He takes him on an extraordinary journey.

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.

A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary." - Elke Schieber, film historian

The story of a group of rebellious teens in East Berlin.

The story of tensions in a factory in communist east Germany and their society more generally - mostly through the adventures of two provocative factory workers.