影片根据安东尼·约翰斯顿（Antony Johnston）的同名小说改编，讲述了“冷战”结束前的间谍行动：1989年，民主德国局势发生急剧变化，“柏林墙”面临拆除的命运，但此时也是最黑暗的时刻，各种暗杀行动时有发生。一位英国军情六处的地下官员在柏林遇刺，他掌握了从民主德国带回来的一份间谍名单，但杀手在他身上并未找到。一位名叫洛林·布劳顿的特工，肩负起找回这份间谍名单的任务。
1984年的东德，整个社会笼罩在国家安全局的高压统治之下，特工魏斯曼（乌尔利希·穆厄 饰）奉命监听剧作家德莱曼（塞巴斯蒂安·寇治 饰）和他妻子演员克里斯蒂娜（玛蒂娜·杰蒂克 饰）的生活，监听过程中，魏斯曼渐渐对这家人的生活产生了兴趣，开始暗中帮助他们。一篇刊登在西德《明镜》报上的文章引起了特工头目的注意，他们认为这篇文章是德莱曼写的，并逮捕了克里斯蒂娜，希望能够从她口中得出她丈夫的秘密？而审问克里斯蒂娜的正是魏斯曼。
1979年冷战高峰期，身在东德的冈特（大卫·克劳斯 David Kross 饰）和彼得（弗莱德里奇·穆克 Friedrich Mücke 饰）为了追求自由，用超过两年的时间筹画了一场“惊天大逃亡”：他们用有限的资源，自制了一个巨大的热气球，并打算用它载着家人逃到西德。不料，就在即将越过边境时，热气球却意外坠毁，引来东德秘密警察铺天盖地的调查。在紧迫的时间和严密的侦查之下，他们拼命打造了新的热气球，而在此同时，秘密警察也逐渐锁定了他们，一场分秒必争的绝命逃亡就此展开…
1980年的德意志民主共和国，还是极权共产国家。年轻女医生芭芭拉(尼娜·霍斯 Nina Hoss 饰）正在计划移民国外——毫无疑问，她要去到的国家是联邦德国，也就是西德。芭芭拉拥有一位西德爱人，她申请到西德欲和爱人长相厮守，因为这种想法，她被当地政府处罚，从首都的医院被“下放”到了一个毫无前景的荒凉乡村的卫生所里。而她那个远在西德的爱人，正在帮助她筹划着从波罗的海离开东德。而现在的芭芭拉，只能慢慢等待。来到了这个小镇子之后，芭芭拉深感寂寞无奈，筑起心墙和医院的所有工作人员保持距离，等待着机会为爱私奔，因为在她的心中，她的生活将会在到达西德之后才开始。小镇的人民都很友好，但是这依然无法让芭芭拉在这里安心工作，在这里她认识了很多新的朋友，并且有了一个新的住房。可是很显然，芭芭拉的生活重心并不在这上面。医院的男同事安德烈（隆纳德·泽荷菲德 Ronald Zehrfeld 饰）对她无微不至的关怀，芭芭拉与细心体贴的安德烈日久生情而引燃暧昧火花，这是否能融化她早已封闭的心？随着与爱人私奔计划之日逼近，她的心竟开始摇摆不定，不知是否应该为爱出走。她会选择身体的自由，还是心灵的寄托？
In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east - out of love. The teenager has fallen hopelessly in love with an East Berliner. Jenny’s parents are foaming from wrath and offer a reward: One-hundred thousand, later even a million, deutschmarks for whoever brings them their daughter back. The prospect of so much money gets east and west into quite a disarray – and in the end, the Wall really falls.
在爱上 Nathalie 并与他的第一个目标 Corinna 上床后，Ludger 最终过上了两种生活——一种是地下诗人，另一种是斯塔西特工——这两种生活最终都在 30 年后困扰着他。
A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.
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 highest government ranks. He is anxious to maintain a squeaky clean image. His daughter is Isabelle. The young and friendly Kalle returns after spending many years in jail for his escape attempts. He doesn't know exactly who blew the whistle, but his friend Skrodt is definitely under suspicion. Kalle returns to ostensibly renew the friendship and to see Isabelle whom he loves. The duplicitous friendship between the two men becomes the main focus of the story which features interesting plot twists at the end.
1982年，德国仍处于分裂状态。来自西德富裕家庭的17岁少女尼尔（Anna Bertheau 饰）去东柏林参加祖母的葬礼，在此他邂逅了朋克乐队卡普汀（Antonio Wannek 饰），两人迅速坠入爱河。自此两人频繁约会，尼尔为乐队带来西方最新的摇滚乐唱片，卡普汀和朋友们则希望通过尼尔向世界表明他们的朋克态度。
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
Berlin, 1989. Helena and Louise are happy in their relationship if it wasn't for this huge wall separating them. The only solution is writing letters. But what the two of them don't know is that Stasi officer Bernd who works for the surveillance department, is enjoying their constant letter exchanges as his daily bed time story. While Bernd has yet to figure out how to read between the lines, his assistant Eberhardt grows suspicious and desperately tries to open Bernd's eyes. But maybe Bernd isn't as oblivious as Eberhardt thinks he is. While the officers are playing hide and seek with Louise's and Helena's letters, the women are already in the midst of escaping. Nothing can stop them now. Except for maybe...the Fall of the Wall?
A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.
While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies.
At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her closely guarded secret: Judith had been brought as a child under mysterious circumstances in a DDR children's home. Origin: unknown. Now, 25 years later, Judith has the evidence in her hands that she was swapped as a child. A stranger lived her life. Did this stranger also die of her - Judith's - death?
A German Stasi officer is tasked with an assignment to reveal the identity of a mysterious assassin known as 'The Englishman'.
Anja and Frank are enjoying their family vacation sailing on the Baltic Sea. Anja leaves their two young children alone on the boat for just a moment and when she returns, they are nowhere to be found.
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.
East-Berlin, 1980. Two sisters, one professional fleeing assistant and one soldier. And an escape that could go either way...