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A British telecommunication expert comes to 1950s Berlin to help the Americans spy on the USSR. He meets a cute, mysterious local woman.

Heinrich Lohse ist gezwungen, in den Ruhestand zu gehen. Der ehemalige Manager hat nun viel Zeit, die er mit seiner Frau und seinem 16 Jahre alten Sohn verbringen kann. Aber - wollen sie das?

A German stage actor's cult following and popularity after protesting the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia

It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it takes to move in upper class circles and suggests they flee to Carlsbad, a spa in Czechoslovakia. Does he love her or is he only using her? Is the Tigress madly in love with him or does she want to satisfy her vanity and drop him once he falls for her? The ancient cat and mouse game between a man and a woman unfolds amidst sensual seduction, the scheme of robbing a rich Texan and the jilted lover arriving from Berlin, gun drawn.

Frank, ein Zehntklässler, verliebt sich in seine Mitschülerin Regine. Sein Vater ist ein gut vernetzter Betriebsleiter in der DDR, Regines Mutter ist alleinerziehend und hat vier Kinder.

Fall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to West Germany, he is transferred from prison to a juvenile detention center. Here, he meets Jana ... and what starts as a bet, becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control. In the summer of 1990, Jana and Jan flee into the unknown, insecure future of a new Germany. In this film, the director, internationally known for his critical films about children and young people, cast non-professional actors - some from juvenile detention centers - in the leading roles.

Follow these two teenagers as they rebel against rampant paternalism and try to live in coming to terms with daily and cultural life in East Germany.

A girl who is thrilled of elephants is very sad when she has to stay in hospital and is therefore not able to baptise an elephant baby.

Retired police chief Hans Holms is called out of retirement when his grandchildren are visited by fairy tale characters and announce that Snow White has been kidnapped.

Losing his mother to WW2, 13-year-old Tom visits his aunt but finds her missing. Not knowing what to do, he is befriended by Krücke, a one-legged war veteran, and finds shelter with a Jewish woman who sells alcohol to the Allied soldiers.

The documentary portrays the young hustler Daniel at the Zoo train station doing his shady trade among young people hoping for miracles and the johns and the sugar daddies who feed on their youth. It's the drugs, the prostitution, the expired glamour and bad luck city. According to the producer, filming had to be stopped due to Daniel's sudden death.

In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it. Director Helke Misselwitz became internationally known for her documentary Winter Adé (1988), about women in the final years of the GDR. Herzsprung was her feature film debut. The lyrics for the song, "Oh, Your First Love," sung by Eva-Maria Hagen, were adapted by singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, expelled from the GDR in 1976.

Shortly after the end of the war Göran is forced to take care of his somewhat delirious grandfather who manages to confuse a couple of letters resulting in a mess of things.

This harsh yet poetic critique of Stalinism in East Germany centers on the mythical village of Stalina in 1953. The villagers legitimize injustice by glorifying "real existing socialism" ... at the same time as they experience their own destruction by the system. Only children-like the Rainmaker and Marie-still believe in the goodness of people and true love. Critics credit this film with being one of the most radical condemnations of East Germany, "dominated by picturesque tableaux, canvasses awakened to filmic life, contemporary history bundled together in close-ups." In his directorial debut, Herwig Kipping sets out to explore the roots of the socialist society he grew up in.

"How nice it would be to have a sister", Anna often thinks... At 9 years old, little Anna with an overflowing imagination spends her afternoons off in an imaginary world that allows her to overcome the difficulties she meeting in her family and at school. One day, everything changes. While she is hiding in the school photocopier, the machine turns on and creates a replica of herself: a second Anna! Now one can go to school while the other has fun - and no one notices, so begins an exciting game of misunderstandings and confusion!

A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi ideals as time goes on.

It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. Critics note that in this film, director Heiner Carow revisits the themes of his 1972 smash hit, The Legend of Paul and Paula, which became a cult film throughout Germany.

A woman in her mid-thirties, wants to get out, tired of her husband, family and profession. She begin to daydream and make up stories about people and events she come across.

Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes, he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.

The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil (Werner Stocker) falls in love with the prostitute Lissy (Dana Vávrová). Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gymnastic skills. But on his rise in the criminal hierarchy, Lissy might fall by the wayside.