Never Look Away (2018), November Days (1992), Top Secret! (1984), Sky Without Stars (1955), Mother Night (1996), Funeral in Berlin (1967), Sun Alley (2000), Torn Curtain (1966) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best East Germany movies.
Storyline: Young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets the student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.—Wiedemann & Berg Film
Plot Keywords: artist, doctor, mental patient, fugitive, professor, art student, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film was commissioned by the BBC and shot one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. By way of a series of interviews, it explores the "hangover" in the wake of German reunification. In taking stock of this situation, Ophuls quickly departs from the conventional reportage model, approaching his material in a playful manner and infusing his commentary on it with ironic humor. His interviewees - who range from GDR head of state Egon Krenz, dramatist Heiner Müller and neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen to members of the general public - are not degraded into contemporary witnesses of a fact-driven narrative. Rather, it is through their experiences and perspectives that the story emerges.—X
Plot Keywords: politician, bureaucrat, communist, documentarian, fascinating, intense, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This time Zucker and Abrahams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.
Plot Keywords: singer, scientist, woman, agent, general, father, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Plot Keywords: german, woman, son, border patrol officer, love interest, great-grandmother, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American living in Germany since childhood, is recruited by the United States to become an informer during the upcoming Second World War. What he does become, is one of the leading anti-semitic news broadcasters of Nazi Germany. After the fall of Hitler's Germany, Campbell's government friends arrange for a quiet life in the United States. His life is quiet until a complex web of spies and neo-Nazis draws him back into the life which he once led. Eventually captured by the Isralies, Campbell's one defense was: "I was an American Spy."—Anthony Hughes <husnock31@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: writer, wife, secret agent, young girl, military officer, radio host, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Colonel Stok, a Soviet Intelligence Officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect, but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.—Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: secret agent, colonel, intelligence officer, spy, love interest, criminal, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.—GMeleJr
Plot Keywords: teen boy, teen girl, soldier, rebel, love interest, mother, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Professor Michael Armstrong is heading to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend a physics conference accompanied by his assistant and fiancée Sarah Sherman. Once arrived however, Michael informs her that he may be staying for awhile and she should return home. She follows him and realizes he's actually heading to East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain. She follows him there and is shocked when he announces that he's defecting to the East after the U.S. government cancelled his research project. In fact, Michael is there to obtain information from a renowned East German scientist. Once the information is obtained, he and Sarah now have to make their way back to the West.
Plot Keywords: spy, physicist, friend, communist, fiancé, fiancée, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Plot Keywords: german, dancer, frenchwoman, love interest, beautiful woman, film producer, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The unbelievable story of Breakdance in East Germany
Plot Keywords: emotional, east germany, street, team, government, life, underdog ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A British spy (Ralph Richardson) sends a Polish defector (Christopher Jones) to East Germany to verify missile sites.
Plot Keywords: spy, defector, girlfriend, mentor, agency director, confident, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.
Plot Keywords: nazi, russian spy, boy, orphan, captain, chilling, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A family of German communists becomes caught on the wrong side of history.
Plot Keywords: grandfather, stalinist, nazi, politician, brooding, profound, intense ...
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