Movies and TV shows set in west germany – page 4

List of movies set in west germany

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Spy/Master (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: During the height of the Cold War, Victor Godeanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and secret agent for the KGB, must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. Helped by an undercover ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, tense, captivating, period drama
Plot: cold war, espionage, agent, spy, secret, undercover agent, secret agent, problem, special agent, spy thriller, fight, stasi ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: west germany, bucharest
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Our wonderful years (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: In a politically, morally and economically destroyed country, three sisters of an industrialist family in post-war Germany reinvent themselves and set the course for their future.
Style: disturbing, captivating, period piece
Plot: post war germany, post war, world war two, family life, cold war, unrequited love, war, panic attack, german history, social differences, holocaust, marriage of convenience ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany
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Ku'damm 56 – Rebel With a Cause (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Ku’damm 56 is a German television trilogy about the 50s youth generation in the period between the end of World War II and the German Wirtschaftswunder.
Style: captivating, sincere, thought provoking, saga, family saga ...
Plot: dance school, post war germany, rock and roll, musician, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations, overprotective parent, lifestyle, family problems, sisters, young girl ...
Time: 1950s, year 1956, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, west germany
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The Formula (1980)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: oil, money, investigation, murder, world war two, espionage, police detective, dishonesty, danger, intrigue, uncover truth, state affairs ...
Time: year 1980, 1940s
Place: rome italy, haiti, west germany, hamburg germany, berlin germany ...
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Casino Royale (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take ...
Style: parody, spoof, psychedelic, surreal, funny ...
Plot: 007, spy, spy spoof, espionage, satire, james bond, james bond spoof, secret agent, auction, one against many, farce, cold war ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, scotland, india, london, east berlin ...
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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 Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
Style: psychological, emotional, touching, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: marriage, world war two, infidelity, wartime life, lovers reunited, rise to the top, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, danger, human nature, survival ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, post world war two, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, 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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Manta, Manta (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A not so clever guy called Berti with a Opel Manta (a low budget European sports-coupe from the '80s) gets competition in a street race from a guy with a fast Mercedes, and another slick guy with a Ferrari tries to get his hands on Bertis ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, car race, contests and competitions, couple relations, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, car chase, buddies, driving, street racing, youth, automobile ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, west germany
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Heimat II: A Chronicle of a Generation (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK, Spain, Sweden, France, Norway, Finland, Austria, Denmark, Australia
Duration: 532 min.
TV show
Story: The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). Every episode ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: youth, friendship, friends, musician's life, coming of age, introspection, couple relations, artists and showbiz, buddies, fall in love, love and romance, idealism ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, west germany, east germany, munich germany ...
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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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Mogadischu (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: terrorism, terrorist attack, passenger, daring rescue, confined, danger, airplane, hysteria, raf, pilot, mossad, hijacking ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: germany, africa, west germany
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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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Stray Cats (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two bestfriends, a gay man and a woman, are always unlucky in finding love.
Style: parody
Plot: gay, novelist, glbt, gay man has sex with a woman, cat, female executive, hopeless romantic, gay subtext, friendship, writers, pickpocket, cemetery ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, year 1983
Place: the philippines, germany, europe, west germany
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Germany Pale Mother (1980)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, german history, world war, woman, anti war, art, lonely, nazi, post war germany, nazi germany, german woman, drunkenness ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 1930s, year 1939
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, west germany
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