Movies like One Night in Berlin

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One Night in Berlin (2011)
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One Night in Berlin (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Berlin. Night. An old, homeless drunk stumbles down the street. Ignored by everyone - almost everyone. A woman suddenly appears in front of him - mid-thirties, thin, a drug addict. She stands face-to-face for the first time in years with the man she despises. Father and daughter, Volker and Anna. Anna is desperate and on the run from the police. She needs money urgently and demands the key to grandpa's safety deposit box, a key which she knows her father still has. But Volker claims to have hidden it on the other side of the city. They set out on foot through the Berlin night, heading west. On the way, with Anna in pain, Volker discovers she is bleeding from her stomach - but not all the blood is hers. And then he finds the bloodied knife she is carrying... As time runs out and the police close in, father and daughter hurry through the night. Under cover of darkness the secrets of their East German past explode in a final confrontation - and the consequences of times past come to ...
Style: road movie
Plot: nazi, past, inheritance, father, stasi, berlin wall, woman, separation, road
Place: germany, berlin germany, east germany, german democratic republic, gdr

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Most similar movies to One Night in Berlin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about stasi, berlin wall, iron curtain, politics, cold war, spy and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like One Night in Berlin: The Wall - The Final Days (2008), The Man on the Wall (1982), Der Blaue (1994), Berlin Is in Germany (2001), Der Turm (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Wall - The Final Days (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The Berlin wall separated families and friends for 28 years. Some accepted it, and some worked hard to make it fall.
Plot: spy, berlin wall, iron curtain, totalitarian state, historical event, german reunification, soldier, police, border crossing, intercourse, border, nationalism ...
Time: year 1989
Place: east germany, germany, german democratic republic, berlin germany, west germany
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The Man on the Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
Plot: border, berlin wall, iron curtain, stasi, cold war, spy, totalitarian state, border crossing, passport, wife, eccentricity, culture clash ...
Place: east germany, germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, east berlin ...
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Der Blaue (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. The former East German agent is Otto Skrodt who after many years is about to be promoted in the ...
Plot: stasi, german history, agent, intrigue, informant, blackmail, disguise, german reunification, female nudity, clandestine
Place: east germany, german democratic republic
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Berlin Is in Germany (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, serious
Plot: berlin wall, fish out of water, prisoner, friendship, society, social differences, estrangement, unsociability, jail, taxi driver, stasi, german reunification ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, german democratic republic, europe, germany, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Der Turm (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Adapted from an award-winning best-selling book by Uwe Tellkamp, 'The Tower' depicts a higher class family’s struggles during crumbling communist rule in 1980’s East Germany. It illustrates the weaknesses and pending downfall of the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: communism, social problems, political unrest, family problems, double life, german history, cold war, stasi, totalitarian state, berlin wall, public nudity, countryside ...
Place: east germany, german democratic republic
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Barbara (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is the summer of 1980 in East Germany and, alone, Barbara is confined to living and working as a doctor in a small provincial town - her punishment for attempting to emigrate to the West. She has only one focus; to escape and for this, she has to ...
Style: tense, melancholic, compassionate, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: doctor, stasi, cold war, fascism, communism, introspection, character study, power relations, life is a bitch, society, lovers apart, who to trust ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1980
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, northern germany, german democratic republic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Miracle of Berlin (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As he is arrested after a concert, Marco is forced to join the army, where he surprisingly identifies ...
Style: spoof
Plot: spy, punk, subculture, berlin wall, stasi, border, propaganda, politics, male nudity, swan, embarrassment, male objectification ...
Time: 80s
Place: east germany, west berlin west germany, germany, east berlin, german democratic republic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Architects (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose ...
Plot: berlin wall, communism, architecture, socialism, divorce, stasi, end of love, social problems, rebel, career, resistance, self fulfillment ...
Place: east germany, german democratic republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Never Mind the Wall (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fall in love with each other, but the regime "takes care" of their relationship, ...
Style: eighties
Plot: stasi, berlin wall, punk rock, punk, subculture, communism, monkey, iron curtain, coming of age, teenage crush, sex, strong female character ...
Time: 80s
Place: german democratic republic, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Fuehrer Ex (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, realistic ...
Plot: prison, berlin wall, neo nazi, racism, fascism, friendship, teenage boy, jail, politics, moral dilemma, escape, prison life ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: germany, german democratic republic, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Die Nachrichten (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Still missing
Plot: stasi, bureaucracy, career, secret police, media, suicide, politics, boss, television, journalist, memories, stripper ...
Time: 90s
Place: german democratic republic, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Prager Botschaft (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Plot: iron curtain, berlin wall, stasi, mass hysteria, camp, protest, embassy, politics, politician, propaganda, police, fence ...
Time: 80s
Place: east germany
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56%
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Open the Wall (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
Style: humorous, tense, captivating, light
Plot: berlin wall, propaganda, border crossing, society, rivalry, friendship, iron curtain, cold war, totalitarian state, stasi, german history, working class ...
Time: year 1989
Place: germany, german democratic republic, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Weissensee Saga (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.
Style: compassionate, realistic, poignant, serious, touching ...
Plot: stasi, communism, berlin wall, spy, social differences, prejudice, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, adolescence, first love, parents and children, family feud ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: east germany, berlin germany, german democratic republic, germany, east berlin
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55%
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West (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, gloomy
Plot: cold war, immigrant, single mother, starting over, social decay, family relations, hopes, coming of age, society, haunted by the past, friendship, freedom ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, german democratic republic, east germany, west germany ...
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As We Were Dreaming (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: friends, unfulfillment, teenage boy, nightlife, lifestyle, freedom, coming of age, techno, stasi, berlin wall, subculture, youth ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: germany, east germany
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Cold Summer (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Wall - Berlin '61.
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Time: year 1961, 60s
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Shores of Hope (2012)
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Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense
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Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Style: anthology
Plot: international relations, politics, muslim, german politics, german culture
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Men and Beasts (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 178 min.
Story: The story of a man who fought in WW2, was captured by the Nazis and put into different concentration camps, witnessed much cruelty, after his liberation fate took him to Argentina, to work for a German landowner and his Russian wife, then he goes to ...
Plot: capitalism, concentration camp, corruption, mother daughter relationship, red army, nazism, car accident, road trip, family relations, past, nazi, daughter ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, argentina, germany, east germany, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Kings of the Road (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western ...
Style: road movie, contemplative, black and white, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: on the road, travel, male pubic hair, spirituality, drifter, past, filmmaking, truck, summer, existentialism, trucker, realism ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, german democratic republic, europe
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45%
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The Innocent (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman who will take him on the dark side of evil.
Style: sexual, political thriller, independent film, sexy, exciting ...
Plot: spy, cold war, berlin wall, iron curtain, stasi, cavalry, crisis, danger, espionage, secret agent, couples, infidelity ...
Time: year 1993, 50s, 1950s
Place: germany, europe
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43%
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Wrong Move (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, ...
Style: road movie, art house, spiritual, cult classic, manga ...
Plot: on the road, bicycle, girl man relationship, writers, suicide, spirituality, past, art, troubled relationship, blood, suicide by hanging, voice over narration ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
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43%
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The Promise (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: politics, berlin wall, spy, iron curtain, stasi, cold war, crisis, anti communism, couples, love affair, impossible love, political unrest ...
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 801
Herbert (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Plot: boxing, stasi, berlin wall, male pubic hair, male nudity, bare butt, bare chested male, male objectification, party, bully, male bonding, tattoo ...
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The Same Sky (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Lars is a "Romeo agent" from East Germany in the 1970s. His task is to go West, first to seduce and then to spy on Western women who worked in government or defense institutions.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, political
Plot: berlin wall, stasi, spy, espionage, seduction, sister sister relationship, cold war, surveillance, resistance, iron curtain, homosexual, swimmer ...
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Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, west germany, west berlin west germany ...
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38%
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Eastalgia (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, Serbia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Ruslana floods her Munich flat, Vladan, a former Boxer from Serbia, comes to her rescue. It is the night when Ruslana's son Bogdan should finally come from Kiev. He rather falls in love with the spoiled pop-starlet Maria, for whom he is ...
Plot: father, mother, sexuality, separation, boxer, son, bus driver, drunk, darkness
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Singing the Blues in Red (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: berlin wall, cold war, stasi, journalist, singer, politics, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, rock, political unrest, unemployment, political intrigue ...
Place: east germany, germany, europe, england, dover england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The State I Am In (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: With 1970s Germany in the background, this film depicts the story of a family from the “R.A.F. Terrorist” group and their search for a normal life and their inner self.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, grownups, youth, love and romance, family problems, family relations, teenage love, parent child relationship, puberty, fall in love, eccentric family, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: germany, portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Summer in Berlin (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy but it’s not. This film is an intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, erotic ...
Plot: friendship, unemployment, sexual abuse, lifestyle, life is a bitch, single parent, sexual intercourse, love, drinking, loneliness, drinking alcohol, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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