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In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

In 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.

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

A 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.

During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay at home on official occasions. Goethe marries her when she saves his life during an attack by plundering Napoleonic soldiers. Her new social position as Goethe's wife is resented and envied by all. When she is openly attacked by the snooty, jealous people, Goethe is only half-hearted in coming to her defence. But she stays with him for he is her great love, even when she turns to the charms of many youthful admirers...

In the summer of 1919, the Esaus family moved from Grausteen to Bossdom, where their parents bought a junk shop with a bakery.

Feature adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.

After years of unemployment, a former GDR housing manager retrains as a salesman and creates an "ostalgic" indoor fountain that becomes a bestseller, while his marriage gradually seems to be failing.

In Poland in Autumn 1942, to save his two daughters from the Holocaust, a Jewish doctor sends them with forged papers as Polish forced laborers into the lion's den itself: Germany. Escaping from the ghetto, Eva and Irene initially use the names of Katarzyna and Elzbieta. They make their way from a forced-labor collection point to a machine factory in the German Ruhr. Forced to move again, they assume new identities, finally arriving at a vineyard in the Rhine Valley and a boat that will take them all the way to the Swiss border. An incredible journey to the limits of humanity, inspired by a true story.