Movies and TV shows set in west berlin west germany

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in west berlin west germany ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, political, suspenseful, suspense and social films and TV shows about / with cold war, berlin wall, danger, iron curtain, female nudity, stasi, politics, death, police and male nudity plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in Germany, West Germany, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as west berlin west germany: The Same Sky (2017), 23 (1998), One, Two, Three (1961), The Tunnel (2001), Berlin Blues (2003), The Silent Revolution (2018), The Reader (2008), Christiane F. (1981), The Airlift (2005), Deutschland 83 (2015).

List of movies set in west berlin west germany

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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 ...
Time: year 1974, 20th century
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, west germany, west berlin west germany ...
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23 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: mind bending, psychological, cyber, cult classic, political ...
Plot: hacker, computer, cold war, espionage, hacking, conspiracy, computer hacker, drug addiction, mathematics, internet, kgb, conspiracy theory ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, year 1986
Place: west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, europe, berlin germany, hamburg germany ...
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One, Two, Three (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
Style: funny, fast paced, black and white, talky, biting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, satire, coca cola, communism, capitalist, farce, corporate executive, race against time, voice over narration, cold war era, psychological torture ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, east berlin, east germany ...
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The Tunnel (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story: 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.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, political, compassionate ...
Plot: berlin wall, tunnel, politics, communism, betrayal, cold war, breast feeding, political unrest, wartime, freedom, brutality, heroes ...
Time: 60s, ancient times, year 2001
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
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Berlin Blues (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among ...
Style: cynical, bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot: depression, imagination, lone hero, irreverent, culture clash, adaptation, existentialism, life philosophy, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2003, year 1989
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, east germany
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The Silent Revolution (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: It's 1956. During a visit to a cinema in West Berlin, East German high school pupils Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, one of the GDR’s flagship workers’ settlements, they have ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, social ...
Plot: cold war, solidarity, teenager, high school, friendship, learning the truth, border crossing, communism, betrayal, father son relationship, twists and turns, nazi ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1956, year 1953
Place: east germany, west berlin west germany, germany, hungary, german democratic republic ...
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The Reader (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, touching, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, holocaust, nazi, first love, older woman younger man sex, secret, trial, world war two, sexuality ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, year 1980, year 1958, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Christiane F. (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, depressing, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, junkie, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, teenage girl, drug overdose, teenager, friendship, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1981
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, europe, west germany
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The Airlift (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: light, touching, exciting, sincere
Plot: cold war, soldier, pow, anti communist, army, air force, german history, world war two, world war, crisis, conservative, boys and girls ...
Time: post world war two
Place: west berlin west germany, east berlin, germany, berlin germany
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Deutschland 83 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: cold war, stasi, espionage, spy, secret police, double agent, political intrigue, undercover, state affairs, rivalry, german soldier, military ...
Time: 20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place: germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The ...
Style: political, bleak, realistic, intellectual, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, anti war, revolution, protest, revolutionary, journalist, prison, politics, idealism, capitalism, assassination, terrorist attack ...
Time: 70s, year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1967 ...
Place: germany, somalia, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, africa ...
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Possession (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, insanity, occult, hysteria, supernatural, monster, body horror, serial killer, existentialism, possession, cosmic horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, europe
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Wild Geese II (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Style: offbeat, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mercenary, world war two, rescue mission, commando, nazi, machine gun, world war, prisoner, prison, battles, heroes, rescue ...
Time: year 1985, 20th century, 80s
Place: west berlin west germany, germany, east germany, europe, berlin germany ...
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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 ...
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Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Director Robert Siodmak's 1962 film, inspired by true events, is about an East Berlin resident who attempts to escape to West Berlin with his family and girlfriend through a secret underground tunnel.
Style: political
Plot: berlin wall, cold war, iron curtain, stasi, communism, family relations, tunnel, cold war era, group, house, family reunited, secret passageway ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, east berlin, germany, german democratic republic ...
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A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, cold war, berlin wall, espionage, undercover, undercover agent, secret mission, secret agent, iron curtain, double agent, photographer, homesickness ...
Time: future, 20th century, 60s
Place: britain, berlin germany, east berlin, west berlin west germany, germany ...
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If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: terrorism, fighting the system, sexuality, activism, love affair, rebellion, unlikely couple, danger, politics, society, rebelliousness, raf ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: germany, west berlin west germany, europe, west germany
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Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: political thriller, suspenseful, visually stunning, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, espionage, berlin wall, spy, funeral, 007, chase, betrayal, hotel, murder, intrigue, secret mission ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, england ...
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Suspiria (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style: suspense, dark, suspenseful, twisted, scary ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: good versus evil, ritual sacrifice, dead woman, witchcraft, mysterious event, paranormal phenomena, telepathy, curse, occult, spiritualism, abuse of power, corporal punishment ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1943, year 1948, post world war two
Place: berlin germany, italy, west berlin west germany, east berlin, ohio
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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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Westler (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become suspicious, Thomas ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, cold war, berlin wall, gay interest, lgbtq, iron curtain, gay subtext, curfew, gay love, transvestite, homosexual love ...
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, west germany, east germany, east berlin
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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Style: exciting, epic, intense, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick
Plot: comic book, mutant, superhero, superhero team, superpower, teleportation, technology, x men, good versus evil, psychic, transformation, disguise ...
Time: future, year 1983, 2010s, year 2016, 80s
Place: cairo egypt, egypt, poland, west berlin west germany, berlin germany ...
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Nonstop Trouble with the Family (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A series of murders eliminates the poverty-stricken heirs to a 10 million-dollar fortune while Didi Dodel, the unsuspecting main heir, blithely escapes the attempts on his life. After a wealthy miser dies and leaves his fortune to Didi and five ...
Plot: attempted murder, revenge, relatives, money, heir, last will and testament, nephew, lack of money, rich man, greed, con man, family relations ...
Place: west berlin west germany
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Bridge of Spies (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min.
Story: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate ...
Style: suspense, realistic, dramatic, intense, historical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cold war, lawyer, espionage, spy, cia, justice, courtroom, court, trial, berlin wall, soviet spy, negotiation ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 50s, 60s ...
Place: east germany, berlin germany, soviet union, new york, persia ...
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The Third Generation (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released ...
Style: political, art house, black comedy, postmodern, cult classic ...
Plot: transvestism, terrorism, politics, raf, anarchist, female nudity, exodus, protest, cold war, satire, hostage, death squad ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, europe, west germany, germany
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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
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Never Look Away (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 189 min.
Story: Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, sincere, intellectual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: painter, nazi, art gallery, artist, nazism, berlin wall, father daughter relationship, sex scene, world war two, forced abortion, romantic relationship, pregnancy ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1948 ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, central europe ...
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Julia(s) (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Paris 2052. Julia, 80 years old, had a fulfilled life. On her birthday, she reflects on the decisions and circumstances that could have led her on different paths. From the age of 17 to this day, her life was full of small but critical moments. Each ...
Plot: 17 year old, concert, cemetery, elevator, funeral, teacher, beach, cancer, choir, daughter, bus, bookstore ...
Time: year 1989, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, west berlin west germany, berlin germany
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Heimat 2: A Chronicle of a Generation (1992)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, UK, Spain, Sweden, France, Norway, Finland, Austria, Australia
Duration: 1532 min.
TV show
Story: The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). The movie tells a story in many different levels about love, friendship, ...
Style: psychedelic, semi autobiographical, avant garde
Plot: terrorist, unrequited love, fictional biography, female nudity, young man, composer, big city life, years of lead, desperation, cello, painter, illusion ...
Place: germany, munich germany, west berlin west germany, venice, west germany ...
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The Venus Trap (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdialing woman, he starts a restless search ...
Style: surreal, sexy, surprise ending, erotic drama, twist ending ...
Plot: sex, seduction, sensuality, porn, libertine, rough sex, womanizer, erotica, surrealism, cheating, seductive woman, sex scene ...
Time: 80s
Place: west berlin west germany
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