Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.
Noen år før det sosialistiske regimet i Øst-Tyskland rakner, er det fryktede Stasi i stand til å overvåke og etterforske hvem som helst for hva som helst. En effektiv Stasi-offiser får for første gang sympati for dem han skal avlytte. Men kan han utgjøre en forskjell?
Dette er den sanne historien om de østtyske familiene Strelzyk og Wetzel, som i september 1979 skapte overskrifter over hele verden. I all hemmelighet arbeidet de med å konstruere en luftballong, som skulle gjøre det mulig for dem at flykte fra diktaturet i øst til friheten i vesten. En dristig og modig plan, hvor både forberedelsene og selve flukten, setter dem i fokus for sikkerhetstjenesten Stasi med sine informanter plassert overalt. Og når Stasi uunngåelig kommer på sporet av dem, blir familienes flukt en kamp mot klokka, hvor hvert sekund teller…
Ray Elwood arbeider for Wallace Berman på Theodore Roosevelt Army Base i Stuttgart. For å få mer spenning i hverdagen driver han og andre på basen med litt lyssky business på si. Når en ny sjef ankommer basen med intensjoner om å rydde opp, tar ikke Ray det så alvorlig - spesielt ikke etter å ha fått øye på hans vakre datter Robyn. Hadde han tatt stjålne våpen til en verdi av 5 millioner dollar, en sjalu kone, en tyrkisk narko-handler, begjær, svik og mord med i beregningen - burde han kanskje bekymret seg likevel..
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
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.
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.
A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefit performance of his acclaimed concept album, The Wall. Set in Berlin, Germany less than a year after the destruction of the hated Berlin Wall, Waters was accompanied by disparate talents such as Cyndi Lauper, James Galway, Joni Mitchell and Albert Finney in the classic dark musical tale of a rock star's descent into madness and back.
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a killer posing as a whore.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lena, from East Germany travels to Hollywood. After landing she loses her bag and can't find her hotel. She befriends a cab driver who doesn't believe someone is out to get her.
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.
Filmen er historien om tysk-norske Katrine, som vokste opp i Øst-Tyskland etter andre verdenskrig, men som flyttet til Norge som 25-åring for å bli gjenforent med sin norske mor. Faren var en tysk soldat, og Katrine ble som spedbarn sendt til Tyskland i regi av det nasjonalsosialistiske Lebensborn-programmet. Etter å ha levd lykkelig sammen med sin mor, ektefelle, barn og barnebarn i Bergen i over 20 år, blir Katrine plutselig en dag konfrontert med sin fortid når en advokat etter Berlinmurens fall ber henne og hennes mor om å vitne i en rettssak mot den norske stat - på vegne av to krigsbarn. Hun nøler, men et nett av hemmeligholdelse blir avslørt inntil Katrine til slutt blir fullstendig avkledd, og hennes kjære blir tvunget til å måtte velge mellom hva som skal være avgjørende: det livet de har hatt sammen, eller den løgnen dette livet bygger på.
Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie