Georg Dreyman é o maior dramaturgo da Alemanha Oriental, sendo por muitos considerado o modelo perfeito de cidadão para o país, já que não contesta o governo nem seu regime político. Apesar disto o ministro Bruno Hempf acha por bem acompanhar seus passos, para descobrir se Dreyman tem algo a esconder. Ele passa esta tarefa para Anton Grubitz, que a princípio não vê nada de errado com Dreyman mas é alertado por Gerd Wiesler, seu subordinado, de que ele deveria ser vigiado. Grubitz passa a tarefa a Wiesler, que monta uma estrutura em que Dreyman e sua namorada, a atriz Christa-Maria Sieland, são vigiados 24 horas.

Michael Caine interpreta o papel de Harry Palmer, o antigo cabo do exército que contra a sua vontade serve como espião para Sua Majestade, para não ter de cumprir uma longa pena atrás das grades.Palmer é enviado a Berlim onde terá de ajudar um general russo dissidente que quer fugir do país. Depois de aceitar a missão com relutância, ele arranja um plano de fuga que inclui um falso funeral... mas infelizmente o corpo errado é transportado para fora da Rússia. A partir daí muitas armações acontecem, com Caine circulando por Berlim, nos braços de belas mulheres.

Um cientista americano vai para Copenhagen a fim de participar de um congresso internacional e física e leva sua noiva/assistente. Lá ela intercepta uma mensagem destinada a ele e descobre que seu noivo está desertando para Berlin Oriental, onde pretende conseguir fundos para seu projeto.

Stalinstadt, Alemanha Oriental, 1956. Enquanto a revolta húngara contra os soviéticos está ocorrendo, os adolescentes de uma sala de aula da escola local realizam um ato aparentemente inofensivo, mas com consequências inesperadas.

Alemanha Oriental, anos 1980. Barbara, médica em Berlim, é banida para uma clínica no interior por ter solicitado imigração. Insatisfeita com a transferência e com medo que seus colegas sejam informantes da Stasi, Barbara permanece indiferente, especialmente com o bom chefe da clínica, Andre.

No verão de 1979, na Alemanha Oriental, uma família bola um ousado plano para finalmente conseguir deixar o local: montar um grande balão caseiro que irá flutuar até a fronteira ocidental e repousar naturalmente logo depois. No entanto, na primeira tentativa, o clima instável faz com que eles pratiquem um pouso forçado e as autoridades são avisadas, fazendo com que a família corra contra o tempo.

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

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.

When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police. In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of all… the fight for his life.

No outono de 1992, os inspetores de polícia Patrick e Markus são enviados a um canto remoto do país para examinar o desaparecimento de duas irmãs adolescentes, de 15 e 16 anos. As duas lindas garotas acabaram de fugir de sua cidade caipira ou fizeram algo mais sinistro acontecer com eles? Nesta parte remota do país, os efeitos do regime da Alemanha Oriental ainda turvam as águas. Ninguém viu nada, os inspetores são recebidos por um silêncio férreo.

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New Socialist Unity Party secretary Werner Horrath is charged with bringing the rough-and-ready builder crew into line. The task seems doomed to fail as the two men compete for the affections of young engineer Kati Klee. But when she gets pregnant by married man Horrath, he is in danger of being expelled from the party, and Balla takes his side...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.

In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Germany in 1968 to live in the DDR but killed himself eight months after.

East-Germany, 1990. The first summer after Germany's reunification and Olli is eager to explore this new freedom. But for someone who has never left his small village in East Germany, he has high expectations. On top of that, he is not the brightest candle on the cake. So when he's suddenly convinced that the glorious US is just a stone throw away, across the lake, his sister Peggy knows not to stop her brother but rather see where this adventure might lead them. And to Peggy's surprise New York's subway is closer than she thought.

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before her, lived through the separation of East and West Germany. Tapetenwechsel (Change of Scenery) is the story of youth seeking their identity when confronting their collective memory.

When Chris Gueffroy becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life in 1980s East Germany, he hatches a plan with his friend, Christian Gaudian, to escape the isolated Eastern bloc state without telling his mother, Karin. The pair believe that the standing order to shoot anyone who crosses the Berlin Wall, as ordered by the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, Erich Honecker, has been lifted due to the state visit of Swedish PM Ingvar Carlsson. The young men seize their chance and attempt the fateful escape to the west.

An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.

Em 1979, em pleno outono, aconteceu uma das mais corajosas e sensacionais fugas registradas pela História. Naquele ano, as famílias Streizyk e Wetzel construíram um balão caseiro e atravessaram o Muro de Berlim.

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.