Pouco antes da queda do Muro de Berlim, a mãe de Alex, uma comunista ferrenha, teve um ataque cardíaco e entrou em coma. Quando finalmente acorda, no Verão de 1990, a RDA deixou de existir e Berlim está reunificada. Determinado a protegê-la de emoções fortes, o seu filho decide ocultar o triunfo capitalista e não lhe contar que o seu amado país deixou de existir.

No início dos anos 80, na antiga RDA, o bem sucedido dramaturgo Georg, e a sua companheira de muitos anos Christa, uma famosa actriz, são duas das grandes estrelas intelectuais do estado socialista, apesar de, em privado, não concordarem com tudo o que o partido faz. O Ministro da Cultura que começa a interessar-se por Christa, manda um agente secreto espiar o casal. O agente encarregue da tarefa começa a interessar-se profundamente na vida do casal.

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

Uma coleção de cinco histórias passadas dentro de 5 táxis em 5 cidades diferentes. Los Angeles - Uma agente de talentos para o cinema acha sua motorista de táxi perfeita para um papel. Nova York - Um motorista de táxi imigrante continuamente perdido numa cidade que não conhece. Paris - Um taxista da Costa do Marfim que pega uma menina cega. Roma - Um taxista falante que pega um religioso. Helsinki - Um trabalhador industrial é despedido e seus compatriotas reclamam da vida para o motorista.

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.

Uma história de amizade entre dois homens: Bruno, conhecido como “King of the Road”, que repara projectores de cinema e viaja pela Alemanha numa carrinha, e o psicólogo Robert, que foge ao seu passado. Quando Robert atira o seu carro para o rio Elba, é salvo por Bruno. Este é o início de um viagem pela Alemanha, que os leva desde Luneburgo até à Floresta da Baviera.

Após um tempo longe das competições, um grande nome do ping pong retorna às mesas, mas dessa vez para ajudar o FBI em uma missão. Trata-se de uma competição perigosa, em que o perdedor está marcado para morrer e o principal adversário é um perigoso chefe do crime.

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.

A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: "friendship".

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll crash course in capitalism - with unsurpassed success.

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg.

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers. Alex understands that the ideals of balance, democracy and human dignity are propaganda. The question of what happens when the other appears in the sights of the Kalashnikov occupies the soldiers day and night, interrupted almost exclusively by the games of the World Cup with the historic encounter between the GDR and the FRG. Alex draws strength from his love for Christine, a confident tractor driver who lives in the neighbouring village. Christine encourages him not to do what his father expects, but to follow his dream of becoming a photographer. But when her brother sends Alex's photo from the border fortifications to the West, everything gets out of control...

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.