List of films set in Berlin

The world city Berlin is setting and filming location of numerous movies since the beginnings of the silent film era.

This is a list of films whose setting is Berlin, Germany.

1920s

1922

• Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler), 1922 - first (silent) film about the character Doctor Mabuse from the novels of Norbert Jacques, by Fritz Lang.

1924

• The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann), 1924 - The aging doorman at a Berlin hotel is demoted to washroom attendant but gets the last laugh, by F.W. Murnau.

1925

• Varieté (Variety), 1925 - Circus melodrama set in Berlin, with the circus scenes in the Berlin Wintergarten, by Ewald André Dupont.
• Slums of Berlin (Die Verrufenen), 1925 - an engineer in Berlin is released from prison, but his father throws him out, his fiancée left him and there is no chance to find work. Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.

1926

• Die letzte Droschke von Berlin, 1926 - showing the life of an old coachman in Berlin still driving the droshky during the time when the automobile arises. Directed by Carl Boese.

1927

• Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt), 1927 - Expressionist documentary film of 1920s Berlin by Walter Ruttmann.
• Metropolis, 1927 - Berlin-inspired futuristic classic by Fritz Lang.

1928

• Refuge (Zuflucht), 1928 - a lonely and tired man comes home after several years abroad, lives with a market-woman in Berlin and starts working for the Berlin U-Bahn. Directed by Carl Froelich.

1929

• Asphalt, 1929 - The Berlin underworld touches a policeman's life, Film Noir classic by Joe May.
• Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück, 1929 - depicts the cruelty of poverty in Wedding district and Communism as a rescuing force that reaches a mother and her grandchild too late. Directed by Phil Jutzi.

1930s

1930

• People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag), 1930 - Avant-garde look at daily life in Berlin, screenplay by Billy Wilder and Curt Siodmak.
• Symphonie einer Weltstadt (Berlin - Wie es war), 1930 - documentary view of Berlin by Leo de Laforgue. First showed in 1950.
• Die drei von der Tankstelle, 1930 - three friends are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station in Berlin. Then they all fall in love with the same girl. Directed by Wilhelm Thiele.
• Cyankali, 1930 - a poor female office employee in Berlin gets pregnant, but abortion is not allowed in the Weimar Republic. So she goes to a quack doctor who applies toxic potassium cyanide to her. Directed by Hans Tintner.

1931

• Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive), 1931 - Adventure film based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner. Director: Gerhard Lamprecht.
• M, 1931 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang; beginnings of film noir and the endings of expressionism.
• Berlin-Alexanderplatz, 1931 - First film adaption of the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz from Alfred Döblin, directed by Phil Jutzi.
• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, 1931 - Directed by Richard Oswald and based upon the play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt.
• Looking for His Murderer (Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht), 1931 - a man in Berlin plunged in debt does not succeed in committing suicide and has to hire a murderer to kill him within twelve hours. But in the same night he falls in love with a girl who wants to stop the appointed killer. Directed by Robert Siodmak.

1932

• Grand Hotel, 1932 - Nothing ever happens at the Grand Hotel. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Academy Award for Best Picture (1931–1932). Filmed in Hollywood.
• Kuhle Wampe, 1932 - about a working-class family in Berlin in 1931 where survival is difficult during the Great Depression. Directed by Slatan Dudow.

1933

• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), 1933 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang.
• Tugboat M 17 (Schleppzug M 17), 1933 - the skipper of a tugboat on the river Havel falls for a female thief in Berlin and leaves his family for her. Directed by Heinrich George and Werner Hochbaum.

1936

• Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz, 1936 - a flower girl working at Potsdamer Platz can resolve a financial deception. Directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla.

1937

• Charlie Chan at the Olympics, 1937 - Charlie Chan trails spies to Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics. Starring Warner Oland.
• Gleisdreieck, 1937 - At Gleisdreieck station a woman wants to throw herself under a subway train but gets saved by a railway official. By Robert A. Stemmle.

1938

• Olympia (Parts 1 & 2), 1938 - Strikingly aesthetic propaganda by Leni Riefenstahl.
• The Stars Shine (Es leuchten die Sterne), 1938 - musical revue about a young secretary who leaves the country and travels to Berlin to seek work as an actress. Directed by Hans H. Zerlett.

1939

• Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz, 1939 - Telling the stories of different people on New Year's Eve around Alexanderplatz. Directed by Richard Schneider-Edenkoben.

1940s

1941

• Der Gasmann, 1941 - a gas meter reader in Berlin during World War II is suspected of being a foreign spy. Directed by Carl Froelich.

1942

• Two in a Big City (Zwei in einer großen Stadt), 1942 - A sergeant from the Wehrmacht and a nurse (working at the local Red Cross station) meet accidentally at Friedrichstraße station and spend one day together in Berlin. Directed by Volker von Collande.

1943

• Ich vertraue dir meine Frau an, 1943 - a man asks a friend to keep a jealous watch over his wife in Berlin during a business trip with his secretary what causes several adventures for the caring friend. Directed by Kurt Hoffmann.

1944

• Under the Bridges (Unter den Brücken), 1944/45 - Two men and a woman shipping on the river Havel shortly before Berlin gets totally destroyed. Directed by Helmut Käutner.

1945

• Hotel Berlin, 1945 - near the close of World War II, a member of the German underground escapes from the Gestapo and takes shelter at Hotel Berlin. Directed by Peter Godfrey.
• Fall of Berlin – 1945, 1945 - Soviet propaganda documentary film about the Battle of Berlin. Footage of the actual battle is shown, as the Red Army fights the Nazis, building by building. The assault on the Reichstag ends with the famous photograph, raising the Red Flag over the Reichstag. Directed by Yuli Raizman and Yelizaveta Svilova.

1946

• Murderers Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns), 1946 - The first post-WWII Trümmerfilm. Directed by Wolfgang Staudte.
• Irgendwo in Berlin, 1946 - Drama about children in post-war Berlin. Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.

1947

• ...and the Sky Above Us (...und über uns der Himmel), 1947 - A man comes home after World War II into destroyed Berlin and starts working as a black market trader. With Hans Albers, directed by Josef von Báky.
• Razzia, 1947 - crime thriller about black market traders in Berlin. A spy forewarns everybody before the police arrives and a police commissar gets murdered. Directed by Werner Klingler.

1948

• A Foreign Affair, 1948 - Romantic comedy set in Berlin during the Allied occupation; stars Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich; directed by Billy Wilder.
• Berliner Ballade, 1948 - Daily life of a veteran home from the war. Director Robert A. Stemmle.
• Berlin Express, 1948 - Murder mystery with scenes from bombed-out Frankfurt and Berlin, directed by Jacques Tourneur.
• Germany Year Zero, 1948 - Filmed in German in the ruins of the bombed-out city of Berlin, then dubbed into Italian (with subtitles). A masterpiece of neo-realism, by Roberto Rossellini.

1949

• Unser täglich Brot, 1949 - about the difficult life of an extended family in destroyed Berlin in 1946. Directed by Slatan Dudow.
• Rotation, 1949 - showing the life of a mechanic in Berlin between 1920 and 1945. During the Third Reich, as a member of the Nazi Party, he aids a resistance group in printing anti-war propaganda and is finally turned into the authorities by his own son who is a frenetic member of the Hitler Youth. Directed by Wolfgang Staudte.
• The Beaverskin (Die Buntkarierten), 1949 - the fate of a typical working-class family in Berlin between 1883 and 1949 facing child labour, trade union engagement, war, depression, unemployment and the rise and fall of Nazism. Directed by Kurt Maetzig.

1950s

1950

• The Fall of Berlin, 1950 - two-part Soviet propagandistic feature film. The plot revolves around the history of the Great Patriotic War and the Battle of Berlin, focusing on the role that Joseph Stalin played in the events. Directed by Mikheil Chiaureli.
• The Big Lift, 1950 - Stars Montgomery Clift in the Berlin Air Lift. Film by George Seaton.

1952

• Story of A Young Couple (Roman einer jungen Ehe), 1952 - a young married couple - both actors - work in Cold War Berlin. She is on location in East Berlin, and he works at a theatre in West Berlin. As they hold more and more opposed views on politics, art and society, their marriage is in danger of breaking up. Directed by Kurt Maetzig.
• Die Spur führt nach Berlin, 1952 - Film noir about a young American lawyer who discovers a gang of counterfeiters in Berlin and gets hunted himself. By Frantisek Cáp.

1953

• The Man Between, 1953 - Stars James Mason. Atmospheric East/West thriller filmed in bomb-torn Berlin. Directed by Carol Reed.
• No Way Back (Weg ohne Umkehr), 1953 - in 1945 a Red Army officer discovers a frightened girl huddled in a Berlin cellar. He gives her a safe escort home and wins her gratitude. Seven years later they meet again in the divided city. Directed by Victor Vicas.

1954

• Night People, 1954 - during the Cold War a counter-intelligence officer of the United States Army has to recover a young G.I. in Berlin who was hauled off to the East by the Soviets. Directed by Nunnally Johnson.
• Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive), 1954 - Adventure film directed by Robert A. Stemmle, based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner.
• Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben, 1954 - showing the work of famous senior surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch at the teaching hospital Charité in Berlin with several flashback scenes about his former labour. Directed by Rolf Hansen.

1955

• Jackboot Mutiny (Es geschah am 20. Juli), 1955 - about the failed July 20 Plot to kill Adolf Hitler by a bomb placed at Wolf's Lair by Claus von Stauffenberg, which led to the execution of several resistance group members at the Berlin Bendlerblock. Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
• Der 20. Juli, 1955 - feature film on the failed July 20, 1944 attempt at assassinating Adolf Hitler. The film has a realism that comes close to the style of a documentary. Directed by Falk Harnack.
• The Last Ten Days (Der letzte Akt), 1955 - about the last days of Adolf Hitler at the Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin. Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
• Die drei von der Tankstelle, 1955 - three friends are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station in Berlin. Then they all fall in love with the same girl. Directed by Hans Wolff.
• Hotel Adlon, 1955 - episodic movie about the exclusive and world-famous Hotel Adlon, Unter den Linden, before World War II, its illustrious and glamourous guests and the working staff. Directed by Josef von Báky.

1956

• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, 1956 - Directed by Helmut Käutner and based upon the play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt.
• Teenage Wolfpack (Die Halbstarken), 1956 - A portrait of rebellious young people in Berlin during the 1950s. Directed by Georg Tressler.
• A Berlin Romance (Eine Berliner Romanze), 1956 - about youth urban life in the divided city of Berlin. The film is a love story about a seventeen-year-old East German saleswoman and an unemployed auto mechanic from West Berlin. Directed by Gerhard Klein.
• Treffpunkt Aimée, 1956 - a group of criminals smuggles PVC declared as cement from East Berlin to West Berlin until the Volkspolizei becomes suspicious. Directed by Horst Reinecke.

1957

• Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser…, 1957 - Drama by Gerhard Klein about anti-establishment teens in East Berlin.
• Vergeßt mir meine Traudel nicht, 1957 - a lonely 17-year-old girl escapes from a children's home, comes to Berlin and upsets the life of a teacher and a policeman sharing the same flat. Directed by Kurt Maetzig.
• Bewildered Youth (Anders als du und ich / Das dritte Geschlecht), 1957 - a young man in postwar Berlin discovers his homosexuality but his own family tries very hard to set him straight. Directed by Veit Harlan.
• Lissy, 1957 - a poor girl from a working-class family in Berlin-Wedding marries a successful Nazi. But her social advancement gets along with the loss of old friends. Directed by Konrad Wolf.

1958

• Endstation Liebe, 1958 - a young factory worker in West Berlin is a lady-killer and does not believe in true love until he meets the love of his life during a bet. Directed by Georg Tressler.
• Fraulein, 1958 - German woman and American officer caught up in the end of and aftermath of World War II in Berlin. Directed by Henry Koster.
• Solang' noch untern Linden, 1958 - biography of famous chanson and operetta composer Walter Kollo working at the Berliner Theater and the Admiralspalast. Directed by his son Willi Kollo; grandson and opera tenor René Kollo played his own grandfather.
• Tatort Berlin, 1958 - illustrates the advantage for criminals with the still passable inner German border but also the problems with separate police investigations inside Berlin. In the movie a new jurisdiction is seen to help with the resocialisation of former petty criminals into the system of the GDR. Directed by Joachim Kunert.
• Der eiserne Gustav, 1958 - based on the novel by Hans Fallada and telling the true story of horse-drawn cabman Gustav Hartmann from Wannsee district who drove sensationally to Paris in 1928 to demonstrate against the rise of the motorcar taxicab. Directed by George Hurdalek.

1959

• Ten Seconds to Hell, 1959 - focuses on a half-dozen German POWs who return to a devastated Berlin and find employment as a bomb disposal squad, tasked with clearing the city of unexploded Allied bombs. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
• Reportage 57, 1959 - drawing on negative depictions of Halbstarke and Rock 'n' roll in West Berlin in its critiques of the West. Directed by János Veiczi.
• Love's Confusion (Verwirrung der Liebe), 1959 - a medical student at Berlin Humboldt University misses his girlfriend at a masquerade and finds a new girl. His former girlfriend takes the former boyfriend of the student's new girl instead. Before wedding they again switch partners. Directed by Slatan Dudow.

1960s

1960

• We Cellar Children (Wir Kellerkinder), 1960 - about people in postwar Berlin, their careers during the Wirtschaftswunder and what they did before 1945 during the Nazi era. Directed by Hans-Joachim Wiedermann.

1961

• One, Two, Three, 1961 - Cold War before The Wall, comedy by Billy Wilder.
• Zwei unter Millionen, 1961 - a love story in Berlin shortly before the Berlin Wall ist built. Directed by Wieland Liebske and Victor Vicas.

1962

• The Tunnel, 1962 - Acclaimed NBC documentary about an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall, by Reuven Frank.
• The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre), 1962 - telling the story of a young man in West Berlin during the Wirtschaftswunder. Directed by Herbert Vesely.
• Escape from East Berlin, 1962 - drama about a group of people from East Berlin who dig a tunnel under Berlin Wall to take refuge in West Berlin. Directed by Robert Siodmak.
• Her Most Beautiful Day (Ihr schönster Tag), 1962 - a typical feisty female concierge in Berlin has to learn that her own children do not prosper as desired. Directed by Paul Verhoeven.
• The Punch to the Jaw (Der Kinnhaken), 1962 - a woman lives in East Berlin and works in a West Berlin bar when the Wall is built in 1961. Directed by Heinz Thiel.
• ...und Deine Liebe auch, 1962 - two friends love the same girl. One of them is working as an electrician in East Berlin, the other is a cab driver in West Berlin. When the Wall is built, the girl has to make a decision. Directed by Frank Vogel.

1963

• The Endless Night (Die endlose Nacht), 1963 - six people are stuck at Berlin Tempelhof Airport because of deep fog. Directed by Will Tremper.

1964

• Emil and the Detectives, 1964 - Adventure film directed by Peter Tewksbury, based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner.
• Wolf unter Wölfen, 1964 - the four-part movie based on the novel Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada describes the Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic in 1923 which led to widespread unemployment, homelessness, starvation and rioting in Berlin. Directed by Hans-Joachim Kasprzik.
• Gigant Berlin, 1964 - documentary movie about West Berlin made 1957-1963, showing the building of Berlin Wall, and John F. Kennedy and Marlene Dietrich visiting the cosmopolitan city. Directed by Leo de Laforgue.

1965

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1965 - Cold War classic set on both sides of The Wall, from the book by John le Carré, directed by Martin Ritt.
• Karl Liebknecht (Part 1: Solange Leben in mir ist, 1965; Part 2: Trotz alledem!, 1972) - two part film about the German Communist leader Karl Liebknecht. Directed by Günter Reisch.
• Born in '45 (Jahrgang '45), 1965 - a young couple from Prenzlauer Berg tries to get a divorce. He drifts through the city while she suffers from separation. Directed by Jürgen Böttcher and first shown in 1990.
• Berlin um die Ecke, 1965 - about conflicts between young and old metal workers in East Berlin. Directed by Gerhard Klein and first shown in 1990.

1966

• Funeral in Berlin, 1966 - Spy film from the book by Len Deighton starring Michael Caine, directed by Guy Hamilton.
• The Quiller Memorandum, a 1966 spy film starring George Segal, directed by Michael Anderson.
• Torn Curtain, 1966 - Cold War thriller set in East Berlin, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
• Playgirl, 1966 - About a model discovering Berlins nightlife. By Will Tremper.
• Ganovenehre, 1966 - comedy about the panderer and crime environment in 1925 Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Directed by Wolfgang Staudte.

1967

• Ein Lord am Alexanderplatz, 1967 - telling the story of a marriage swindler and his daughter in Berlin during the time when the Alexanderplatz was rebuilt and the Fernsehturm was erected. Directed by Günter Reisch.
• Der tapfere Schulschwänzer, 1967 - a schoolboy in East Berlin decides to skip school, incidentally discovers a fire, alerts the fire department but runs off before they can note down his personal data. The firefighters manage to save two infants from burning and search for the young hero. Directed by Winfried Junge.

1968

• I Was Nineteen (Ich war neunzehn), 1968 - A nineteen-year-old Red Army soldier's experiences as the Soviets advance into Berlin at the close of World War II, directed by Konrad Wolf.
• A Dandy in Aspic, a 1968 espionage film set in East and West Berlin, directed by Anthony Mann.
• The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, 1968 - Cold War spy farce about an Olympic athlete who defects. Director George Marshall.
• Berliner Antigone, 1968 - during World War II a young woman is sentenced to death at Plötzensee Prison by the People's Court because she stole the dead body of her insurgent brother from the Anatomic Institute to bury him secretly. Based on the novel by Rolf Hochhuth and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt.
• Quartet in Bed (Quartett im Bett), 1968 - nonsense movie about the 1968 bohemian society in Kreuzberg district. Directed by Ulrich Schamoni.

1970s

1970

• Gentlemen in White Vests (Die Herren mit der weißen Weste), 1970 - a criminal comes home to West Berlin and gets hunted by a retired judge and his friends. Directed by Wolfgang Staudte.

1971

• Husaren in Berlin, 1971 - Hungarian hussars under András Hadik occupy Berlin for one day in the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War before the Prussian Army arrives. Directed by Erwin Stranka.
• It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt), 1971 - follows the adventures of a young man in Berlin who discovers gay culture but also discrimination and fear. Directed by Rosa von Praunheim.

1972

• Cabaret, 1972 - Set in the early 1930s depicting Weimar Berlin from the writings of Christopher Isherwood; film by Bob Fosse.
• Der Mann, der nach der Oma kam, 1972 - after grandmothers remarriage an artist family in East Berlin has to find a new home help and nanny and hires a young talented man who turns out to be a postgraduate writing about emancipation. Director: Roland Oehme.
• Erinnerungen an einen Sommer in Berlin, 1972 - an American author visits the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin where his enthusiasm changes to scepticism. Directed by Rolf Hädrich.
• Dear Mother, I'm All Right (Liebe Mutter, mir geht es gut), 1972 - a metalworker moves from Württemberg to West Berlin, does not like the disunity among the workers there and mobilises his co-workers to fight for their rights. Directed by Christian Ziewer.
• Leichensache Zernik, 1972 - in 1948 a young woman is murdered in a Berlin forest. Police stations in the different sectors of Berlin discuss about responsibility what provokes the killer to proceed. Directed by Gerhard Klein and Helmut Nitzschke.

1973

• The Legend Of Paul And Paula (Die Legende von Paul und Paula), 1973 - Love story set in East Berlin by Heiner Carow.
• The Death of Adolf Hitler, 1973 - details the last ten days of Hitler's life as World War II comes to an end and Allied troops are closing in on the Berlin Führerbunker. Directed by Rex Firkin.
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days, 1973 - depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's suicide. Directed by Ennio De Concini.
• Berliner Bettwurst, 1973/1975 - by Rosa von Praunheim.

1974

• One or the Other of Us (Einer von uns beiden), 1974 - Psychological thriller takes place in West Berlin, with scenes near the wall. Director Wolfgang Petersen.

1975

• Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand, 1975 - two Berlin actors are accidentally locked in the rehearsal hall for one night. He tries to seduce her; she puts him off. Together they have to face the loss of ideals from the German student movement. Directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms.
• Everyone Dies Alone (Jeder stirbt für sich allein), (1975 in German; 1976 in English) – Hans Fallada's novel based on the lives of Otto and Elise Hampel, who undertook acts of civil disobedience against Nazism in 1940. Directed by Alfred Vohrer.

1976

• Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture, 1976 - Documentary about Berlin's cultural scene during the Weimar Republic, by Gary Conklin.
• Hostess, 1976 - a young woman in East Berlin is leading sight-seeing tours, and she rejects her boyfriends' proposal of marriage due to his lovelessness. Directed by Rolf Römer.
• Nelken in Aspik, 1976 - a totally untalented advertising artist in East Berlin climbs the social ladder by just remaining silent after a mischance with his teeth. Directed by Günter Reisch.

1978

• Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo, 1978 - A Prussian officer returns home to Berlin following the end of World War I. Unable to find employment elsewhere, he works as a gigolo in a brothel run by a Baroness. With David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich, by David Hemmings.
• The All-Around Reduced Personality (Die Allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit - Redupers), 1978 - a female freelance press photographer has to survive at subsistence level with her daughter in West Berlin when she becomes part of a project to deliver photos of Berlin. Directed by Helke Sander.
• Ein Mann will nach oben, 1978 - a man and his friends establish a baggage transportation service between the Berlin railway terminal stations before World War I. The movie in 13 parts is based on the novel by Hans Fallada and directed by Herbert Ballmann.

1979

• The Third Generation (Die dritte Generation), 1979 - a black comedy about the activities of the third generation of the left wing terror group RAF in Berlin. Written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• Für Mord kein Beweis, 1979 - the dead body of a woman from Prenzlauer Berg found at Langer See leads the Volkspolizei to a hiding doctor who practised during the Nazi Euthanasia programme at Dachau concentration camp. Directed by Konrad Petzold.
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun), 1979 - A woman trying to make a life in the aftermath of WWII by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

1980s

1980

• Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1980 - 1920s Berlin, film of the novel written by Alfred Döblin. Made for television film (in 14 episodes) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• Solo Sunny, 1980 - Portraits the life of a girl singing in a band in East Berlin, directed by Konrad Wolf.
• Berlin Chamissoplatz, 1980 - Love story between an older architect and a young student, set against the backdrop of the housing struggles in West Berlin. Director: Rudolf Thome.
• Backhouse Bliss (Glück im Hinterhaus), 1980 - a fairly well-off librarian in his mid-forties with two children and a boring marriage in Berlin leaves his family for his intern. But the spark doesn't show up in his day-to-day life. Directed by Herrmann Zschoche.

1981

• Berlin Tunnel 21, 1981 - A former American officer leads an attempt to build a tunnel underneath The Wall as a rescue route. Directed by Richard Michaels.
• Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, 1981 - 1970s portrayal of West Berlin's drug scene by Uli Edel.
• Taxi zum Klo, 1981 - Groundbreaking film documenting gay culture in West Berlin by Frank Ripploh.
• Possession, 1981 - A woman left her family and the husband starts following his wife to find out the truth. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski.
• The Bunker, 1981 - depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around the Führerbunker in Berlin. Directed by George Schaefer.

1982

• Der Mann auf der Mauer, 1982 - a man in East Berlin tries unsuccessfully to get over Berlin Wall. After he is ransomed by the West-German Government, he wants for his beloved wife. Directed by Reinhard Hauff.

1983

• Octopussy, 1983 - James Bond film starring Roger Moore and directed by John Glen.
• White Star, 1983 - a former rock 'n' roll band manager tries very aggressively to promote a young musician in West Berlin, but the punk audience does not like the synthpop-style music. Directed by Roland Klick.
• Zille and Me (Zille und ick), 1983 - musical film using fictional episodes from the life of famous Berlin social-critical painter Heinrich Zille around the year 1900. Directed by Werner W. Wallroth.
• Island of Swans (Insel der Schwäne), 1983 - a fourteen-year-old boy has to move from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn where his father works as a construction worker and where he must find his way in a completely new environment and surrounded by strange people. Directed by Herrmann Zschoche.
• Stadt der verlorenen Seelen, 1983 - by Rosa von Praunheim.

1984

• The Wannsee Conference, 1984 (TV) - German film about the infamous WWII conference in Berlin-Wannsee where the Final Solution to exterminate the Jews was planned. Directed by Heinz Schirk.
• The Jesse Owens Story, 1984 (TV) - Biographical film of the life and times of 1936 Olympics star Jesse Owens, by Richard Irving.
• Forbidden, 1984 - about a wealthy German countess who hides her Jewish boyfriend in her apartment in Berlin during World War II. Directed by Anthony Page.
• Sigi, der Straßenfeger, 1984 - a street sweeper finds a box with 300.000 Deutsche Mark and a compromising photo of his boss what evokes several adventures. With Harald Juhnke, by Wolf Gremm.

1985

• Westler, 1985 - Telling the story of a homosexual student from West Berlin who falls in love with a guy from East Berlin. Directed by Wieland Speck.
• Wild Geese II, 1985 - based on the 1982 novel The Square Circle by Daniel Carney, in which a group of mercenaries are hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison. Directed by Peter R. Hunt.
• Dèmoni, 1985 - horror movie about people in a Berlin cinema transforming into demons. Directed by Lamberto Bava.
• The Berlin Affair, 1985 - in 1938 the wife of a rising Nazi diplomat in Berlin falls in love with the daughter of the Japanese Ambassador and an artist. Her husband finds out and moves to break up the affair. Based upon the novel Quicksand and directed by Liliana Cavani.

1986

• Liebling Kreuzberg, 1986–1998 - Five series with altogether 58 episodes. Leading actor: Manfred Krug as a Berlin lawyer. Director: Werner Masten.
• Meier, 1986 - comedy about a paper hanger in East Berlin who can buy a counterfeit West-German passport which he does not use to escape from East Germany but to provide his crafts enterprise with wallpaper material from West-Berlin. Directed by Peter Timm.

1987

• Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin), 1987 - drama about an angel falling in love with a human, which also concerns the divided city and its fate by Wim Wenders.
• In der Wüste, 1987 - showing one day in the life of a jobless Chilean in West-Berlin spending time with his Turkish friend and searching for food and love. Based on a novel by Antonio Skármeta and directed by Rafael Fuster Pardo.
• Reichshauptstadt - privat, 1987 - two-part docudrama about a man and a woman who meet in Berlin and look back on their love story in the fascistic Reichshauptstadt between 1937 and 1945. Directed by Horst Königstein.
• Richy Guitar, 1987 - a young guitar player in Berlin wants to become a famous musician and attempts to establish a band. Featuring punk band Die Ärzte and singer Nena; directed by Michael Laux.

1988

• Judgment in Berlin, 1988 - Based on the book Judgment in Berlin telling the story of the LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 hijacking from Gdańsk to West Berlin and the subsequent 1979 trial conducted in the United States Court for Berlin; stars Martin Sheen and Sean Penn. Directed by Leo Penn.
• Linie 1, 1988 - Film of the 1986 musical about U-Bahn (subway) Line 1 in West Berlin by Reinhard Hauff.
• Kai aus der Kiste, 1988 - during the hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic 1923 in Berlin a boy and his friends start a campaign of competitive advertising for an American chewing gum brand and use the resources of the metropolis for it. Based upon the novel by Wolf Durian and directed by Günter Meyer.

1989

• Coming Out, 1989 - deals with the process of the protagonists in East Berlin coming out as gay. Directed by Heiner Carow.
• Der Bruch, 1989 - in 1946 several burglars want to break into the Deutsche Reichsbahn building in Berlin to steal money from the safe. Directed by Frank Beyer.
• The Philosopher (Der Philosoph), 1989 - a philosopher in Berlin almost withdrew from the world to concentrate on his Heraclitus studies, having no relationship for eight years. When he wants a new suit for a lecture about his new book, he meets three sisters who share a house and invite him to move in to stay with them in polygamy. Directed by Rudolf Thome.

1990s

1990

• The Plot to Kill Hitler, 1990 - a historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government. Directed by Lawrence Schiller.
• Der König von Kreuzberg, 1990 - showing the life of a young Turkish man in Berlin who is of the opinion that he can fly. Director: Matthias Drawe.
• Wedding, 1990 - three school day friends meet after several years again in Wedding district and talk about their unsuccessful lives including a broken family, homicide and excessive indebtedness. Directed by Heiko Schier.
• Dr. M, 1990 - in the future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides. A policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis. Directed by Claude Chabrol.
• Die Architekten, 1990 - an architect in his late thirties receives his first challenging and lucrative commission to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin when more and more people leave East Germany wearily in the late 1980s. Directed by Peter Kahane.

1991

• Ostkreuz, 1991 - a 15-year-old girl escapes to West Berlin via Hungary with her mother shortly before the fall of Berlin Wall and becomes a petty criminal to afford an own apartment. Director: Michael Klier.
• Something to Do with the Wall, 1991 - Berlin Wall documentary shot just before and after its fall, by Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine.
• Die Mauer, 1991 - documentary on the last days and the deconstruction of Berlin Wall. Directed by Jürgen Böttcher.
• Wer hat Angst vor Rot, Gelb, Blau?, 1991 - About painters in Berlin. By Heiko Schier.
• Zwischen Pankow und Zehlendorf, 1991 - a musical 11-year-old girl shuttles between her mother's home in eastern Pankow and her grandmother's house in western Zehlendorf during the 1950s to take piano lessons until her father returns from war captivity. Directed by Horst Seemann.

1992

• The Little Punker (Der kleene Punker), 1992 - animation movie about a poor punk in Berlin who starts to form a band with his friends to perform at Brandenburg Gate. Director: Michael Schaack.
• Shining Through, 1992 - World War II spy film directed by David Seltzer, starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith.
• Dana Lech, 1992 - a Polish woman lives in West Berlin with her German-Italian friend when she meets her previous Polish boyfriend from Warsaw during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Directed by Frank Blasberg.
• Never Sleep Again (Nie wieder schlafen), 1992 - three women travel to Berlin to attend the wedding of a female friend and discover the recently reunited city. Directed by Pia Frankenberg.

1993

• Prinz in Hölleland, 1993 - a jester is giving a puppet theatre performance about a homosexual prince for the junkies at Kottbusser Tor station. Director: Michael Stock.
• Faraway, So Close! (In weiter Ferne, so nah!), 1993 - Sequel to Wings of Desire (1987), angels desire to be human, by Wim Wenders.
• The Innocent, 1993 - A joint CIA/MI6 operation to build a tunnel under East Berlin during the Cold War. Directed by John Schlesinger.

1994

• Linsenstraße, 1994–1998 - Director: Christiane Nalezinski.
• From D-Day to Berlin, 1994 (TV) - Stirring colour documentary of the American campaign, including footage from Berlin, by George Stevens, Jr.

1995

• A Trick of Light (Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky), 1995 - shows the birth of cinema in Berlin where Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil built a projector. Directed by Wim Wenders.
• Aus der Mitte, 1995 - Documentary about young people in post-wall Berlin by Peter Zach.
• The Promise (Das Versprechen), 1995 - two young lovers in Berlin are separated when the Berlin wall goes up in 1961, and their stories intertwine during the three decades to German reunification. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
• Gentleman, 1995 - the loss of his car and his selected woman drives a yuppie in Berlin into a little massacre among prostitutes. Directed by Oskar Roehler.

1996

• Störung Ost, 1996 - documentary on the former punk subculture in East Berlin and the persecution people suffered from the Government of the German Democratic Republic. Directed by Mechthild Katzorke and Cornelia Schneider.

1997

• Das Leben ist eine Baustelle, 1997 - Romantic comedy in post-unification Berlin, by Wolfgang Becker.
• Love Story: Berlin 1942, 1997 - Documentary of the love affair between Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust, by Catrine Clay.
• Magass, 1997 - Surreal Comedy by Daryush Shokof. The film is about a blacklisted artist, his four romances and their pet "a Fly" which becomes their "flying angel".
• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, 1997 - Directed by Frank Beyer and based upon the play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt.
• Comedian Harmonists, 1997 - a biopic about the successful German vocal group Comedian Harmonists founded in 1927 in Berlin during the Golden Twenties and domiciled there until the three Jewish members were banned from stage by the Nazi Reichsmusikkammer in 1934. Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier.
• Geschwister - Kardeşler, 1997 - showing the life and problems of three Turkish siblings in Berlin. Director: Thomas Arslan.

1998

• Run Lola Run (Lola rennt), 1998 - Drama with three alternate realities in post-reunification Berlin by Tom Tykwer.
• The Final Game (Das Finale), 1998 - terrorists cause a mass panic during the final of the DFB Cup at Berlin Olympic Stadium. Directed by Sigi Rothemund.
• Memory of Berlin, 1998 - Autobiographical essay film by John Burgan.
• Angel Express, 1998 - about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience in late nineties Berlin. Directed by Rolf Peter Kahl.
• The Berlin Airlift: First Battle of the Cold War, 1998 - documentary containing many personal recollections and eyewitness accounts of the massive humanitarian, military, and political effort known as the Berlin Airlift. Directed by Robert Kirk.
• Solo for Clarinet (Solo für Klarinette), 1998 - in a Berlin apartment house a man is found ruffianly murdered with a clarinet. A burnt out police inspector follows a suspicious but mysterious woman and falls for her. Directed by Nico Hofmann.

1999

• Downhill City, 1999 - Director: Hannu Salonen.
• Aimée & Jaguar, 1999 - Lesbian love story set against the backdrop of war-time Berlin, by Max Färberböck.
• Sonnenallee, 1999 - A teen comedy set in the East Berlin of the 1970s by Leander Haußmann.
• Heroes Like Us (Helden wie wir), 1999 - showing life in East Berlin between 1968 and 1989. A young Stasi officer falls in love with a former school friend who is now critical of the regime. Directed by Sebastian Peterson.
• Nightshapes (Nachtgestalten), 1999 - About socially deprived people in Berlin. Directed by Andreas Dresen.
• Lola and Billy the Kid, 1999 - a 17-year-old Turkish boy in Berlin discovers that he is homosexual, which provokes severe problems with his traditional family. Directed by Kutluğ Ataman.
• Bombs Under Berlin (Götterdämmerung - Morgen stirbt Berlin), 1999 - at a building site in Berlin a time bomb is found. A historian believes that a complete series of bombs was placed there by a Nazi special force to destroy Berlin at the end of World War II and that someone is still taking care of the bombs. Directed by Joe Coppoletta.
• Der Einstein des Sex, 1999 - follows the life of Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld who was a sexologist, a gay socialist and who established the first Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin in 1919. Directed by Rosa von Praunheim.
• Dealer, 1999 - a Turkish man in Berlin is unable to devote himself to anything other than being a criminal and a drug dealer. Directed by Thomas Arslan.
• Der Tunnel, 1999 - documentary on four students in West Berlin digging a tunnel under Berlin Wall towards East Berlin in 1962 to rescue 29 people. Directed by Marcus Vetter.
• Snow on New Year's Eve (Schnee in der Neujahrsnacht), 1999 - episodes from the 1999 Silvester night in Berlin, where a radio announcer calls people to bring their New Year's resolutions to fruition during the last hours of the old year. Directed by Thorsten Schmidt.
• Berlin – Ecke Bundesplatz, 1999-2009 - long term documentary film project about (middle-class and other) people living around the Bundesplatz in Wilmersdorf district. Filming began in 1985. Director: Hans-Georg Ullrich and Detlef Gumm.

2000s

2000

• Tenussian Vaccuvasco, 2000 - Film directed by Daryush Shokof, Lives of 9 different people is seen through their windows on a facade of a building.
• Return to Go! (Zurück auf Los!), 2000 - a group of homosexual men in Prenzlauer Berg district has to get along with love, AIDS, disability, unemployment and alcoholism. Directed by Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss.

2001

• Berlin Babylon, 2001 - Documentary film on the reconstruction projects after the fall of the Wall, directed by Hubertus Siegert.
• Conspiracy, 2001 - Film directed by Frank Pierson, made for HBO (television) USA, about the Wannsee Conference plan to exterminate the Jews during WWII.
• Never Mind the Wall (Wie Feuer und Flamme), 2001 - in 1982 a 17-year-old girl from West Berlin travels to East Berlin to her grandmother's funeral and falls in love with the leader of a punk clique, which evokes severe problems. Director: Connie Walther.
• Taking Sides (Der Fall Furtwängler), 2001 - World famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler stays in Nazi Germany rather than flee, and experiences consequences. Film by István Szabó.
• The Tunnel (Der Tunnel), 2001 - Dramatization of a collaborative tunnel under the wall in the 1950s. Film by Roland Suso Richter.
• Berlin is in Germany, 2001 - Drama about an East German political prisoner released from jail in post-unification Germany and now must come to terms with the geographic, political, and cultural displacements of Berlin in the 1990s. A film by Hannes Stöhr.
• Invincible (Unbesiegbar), 2001 - True story of a Jewish strongman in 1932 Berlin by Werner Herzog.
• What to Do in Case of Fire? (Was tun, wenn's brennt?), 2001 - Police hunt down radicals whose bomb goes off 12 years late. Film by Gregor Schnitzler.
• Planet Alex, 2001 - episodic movie filmed at Alexanderplatz where the stories of several characters intertwine within a period of 24 hours. Directed by Uli M. Schüppel.
• A Fine Day (Der schöne Tag), 2001 - About a girl in Berlin who wants to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. By Thomas Arslan.
• Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive), 2001 - Adventure film directed by Franziska Buch, based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner.
• Moonlight Tariff (Mondscheintarif), 2001 - an emancipated woman in her twenties living in Berlin is waiting wishfully for a one-night stand lover to call her again and experiences a rising depression. Directed by Ralf Huettner.
• Heidi M., 2001 - a divorced and lonely woman leads a corner shop in Berlin-Mitte where customers can talk about their problems. Directed by Michael Klier.
• Der Zimmerspringbrunnen, 2001 - after years of unemployment and uselessness a man in East Berlin creates a very successful Ostalgie item - a tabletop fountain consisting of a Fernsehturm Berlin model on a plate in the form of the GDR map. Directed by Peter Timm.

2002

• Berlin Symphony (Berlin: Sinfonie einer Großstadt), 2002 - The remake of Ruttmanns classic by Thomas Schadt shows one day in Berlin some years after the German reunification.
• Unternehmen Paradies, 2002 - documentary movie about Berlin by Volker Sattel.
• Big Girls Don't Cry (Große Mädchen weinen nicht), 2002 - two girls in Berlin have been best friends since childhood. But as they step into adulthood, their perfect friendship gets harshly tested by several unfortunate events. Directed by Maria von Heland.
• Führer Ex, 2002 - two friends want to escape from East Germany, are caught and kept enclosed in a Berlin prison where one of them becomes a Neo-Nazi. Directed by Winfried Bonengel.
• Naked (Nackt), 2002 - three couples in Berlin meet for dinner and start an erotic identification game. Directed by Doris Dörrie.
• Der Glanz von Berlin, 2002 - documentary about three cleaning ladies in Berlin and their personal dreams. Directed by Judith Keil and Antje Kruska.

2003

• Anatomy 2, 2003 - A medical horror story, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.
• Good Bye, Lenin!, 2003 - Award-winning bittersweet comedy about the reunification, by Wolfgang Becker.
• Herr Lehmann, 2003 - a portrait of typical people in Berlin-Kreuzberg during the 1980s. Director: Leander Haußmann.
• Kroko, 2003 - a violent girl in Berlin-Wedding is sentenced to several days of community work at a flat-sharing community with handicapped persons. Director: Sylke Enders.
• liegen lernen, 2003 - based on the novel of Frank Goosen and telling the love stories of a young man driving several times to Berlin, beginning with a school trip. Director: Hendrik Handloegten.
• Rosenstrasse, 2003 - Flashback retelling of the events of the 1943 Rosenstrasse protest, by Margarethe von Trotta.
• Alltag, 2003 - depicting life in the Turkish neighborhood of Kreuzberg. Directed by Neco Celik.
• Soloalbum, 2003 - About a young music editorial journalist in Berlin. Directed by Gregor Schnitzler.
• We (Wir), 2003 - a group of school friends meet real life in Berlin after final secondary-school examinations and before the beginning of studies. Directed by Martin Gypkens.
• Angst (Der alte Affe Angst), 2003 - the different attitudes toward life lead a sensitive stage director and his beautiful girlfriend in Berlin to constant fights and conflicts. Directed by Oskar Roehler.
• Berlin - Eine Stadt sucht den Mörder, 2003 - a female photo-journalist is after a ripper in Berlin who could be a taxi driver. Directed by Urs Egger.

2004

• Alles auf Zucker! (Go for Zucker), 2004 - Comedy with Ossi-Wessi and secular-orthodox Jewish themes. Director Dani Levy.
• A2Z, 2004 - An old man and his Lolita are committed to kill each other that very day, directed by Daryush Shokof.
• Venussian Tabutasco, 2004 - life of people in a building is seen through a "glass elevator" going up and down the floors of the building, Directed by Daryush Shokof.
• Berliner Maifestspiele, 2004 - Director: Nives Konik.
• Der Teufel von Rudow, 2004 - horror film about a couple in Rudow district investigating mysterious incidents dealing with a man caged in their neighbour's house. Director: Ulrich Meczulat.
• Downfall (Der Untergang), 2004 - Film depicting the last days of Hitler and the Battle of Berlin, set in and around the "Führerbunker", directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.
• Muxmäuschenstill, 2004 - follows a vigilante who lives in Berlin and used to study philosophy. The do-gooder wants to bring justice to criminals in his own way, but becomes a wrongdoer himself. Director: Marcus Mittermeier.
• Status Yo!, 2004 - The Berlin HipHop scene, rappers have 24 hours to stage a megaconcert, by Till Hastreiter.
• The Bourne Supremacy, 2004 - American spy mystery thriller with many scenes filmed / set in Berlin. Directed by Paul Greengrass.
• The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei), 2004 - Film depicting the encounter of three anti-capitalist activists and a wealthy businessman in Berlin-Zehlendorf. Directed by Hans Weingartner.
• Jargo, 2004 - a coming of age film about a young male who experiences culture shock from moving from Saudi Arabia to Berlin. Directed by Maria Solrun.
• Stauffenberg, 2004 - about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Directed by Jo Baier.
• Die Stunde der Offiziere, 2004 - a semi-documentary movie telling in chronological order about the German resistance attempts to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany in the July 20 plot of 1944. Directed by Hans-Erich Viet.
• Rhythm Is It!, 2004 - documents a project by the Berlin Philharmonic principal conductor Simon Rattle and choreographer Royston Maldoom to popularize classical music by staging a performance of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring with 250 children from Berlin's public schools. Directed by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch.
• Walk on Water, 2004 - an Israeli hitman working for Mossad has to find an aging Nazi war criminal in Berlin but has in the meantime formed a profound friendship with two young German grandchildren of the senile man. Directed by Eytan Fox.
• Love in Thoughts (Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken), 2004 - about the so-called Steglitz student tragedy in 1927, when two young men made a suicide pact under the influence of alcohol, music and sex, which lead to a tragedy. Directed by Achim von Borries.
• Meine schönsten Jahre, 2004 - eight-part Ostalgie movie about a man looking back to the year 1983 when he was 13 years old and lived in a Plattenbau settlement in East Berlin. Directed by Edzard Onneken and Ulli Baumann.
• Das Zimmermädchen und der Millionär, 2004 - a millionaire owns the luxurious Berlin Hotel Ritz for a short period of time. But when he arrives he is considered to be a temporary waiter, instructed for service and falls in love with a waitress. Directed by Andreas Senn.

2005

• Summer in Berlin (Sommer vorm Balkon), 2005 - Two women struggle with life, and a man. Director Andreas Dresen.
• Speer und Er, 2005 - three-part docudrama about Adolf Hitler and his General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital, Albert Speer, their plans to convert Berlin into Welthauptstadt Germania and Speers imprisonment at Spandau Prison after the Nuremberg Trials. Directed by Heinrich Breloer.
• Antibodies (Antikörper), 2005 - a police officer from a small village wants to solve the murder of a 12-year-old girl, travels to Berlin to talk to a pederast serial killer and slowly begins to explore his own dark side. Directed by Christian Alvart.
• Æon Flux, 2005 - Science fiction film featuring many of Berlin's architectural landmarks, by Karyn Kusama.
• Gespenster, 2005 - a female end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems starts a new job as a garden cleaner in Berlin and meets two mysterious women. Directed by Christian Petzold.
• The Airlift (Die Luftbrücke - Nur der Himmel war frei), 2005 - historic drama about a difficult love affair between a German waitress working at the Berlin Tempelhof Airport and an American soldier during the Berlin Airlift 1948-1949. Directed by Dror Zahavi.
• Spiele der Macht - 11011 Berlin, 2005 - a female political scientist becomes counsellor of the Chancellor of Germany who transfers some of his power to her. Directed by Markus Imboden.
• KlassenLeben, 2005 - documentary on a project in Schöneberg district to integrate four disabled children into a regular school form. Directed by Hubertus Siegert.
• Stadt als Beute, 2005 - episode film about the lives of three actors rehearsing a play at a Berlin backyard theatre. Directed by Miriam Dehne, Esther Gronenborn and Irene von Alberti.
• Die letzte Schlacht, 2005 - docudrama about the Battle of Berlin from April to May 1945, based on genuine stories of contemporary witnesses. Directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.

2006

• The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), 2006 - East Berlin's cultural scene before reunification, riddled by Stasi secret agents. Drama by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
• Knallhart, 2006 - A film about the run-down district of Berlin-Neukölln. Directed by Detlev Buck.
• Komm näher, 2006 - the relationship problems of several lonely persons in Berlin and the efforts to find a new love attachment. Director: Vanessa Jopp.
• P05 Protection 05 Jugend in Kreuzberg, 2006 - Directors: Nives und Marc Konik.
• Schwarze Schafe, 2006 - tells in five episodes the stories of people in Berlin with financial problems. Director: Oliver Rihs.
• The Good German, 2006 - Homage to Film Noir, set in 1945 Berlin during the Potsdam Conference, by Steven Soderbergh.
• The Red Cockatoo (Der Rote Kakadu), 2006 - Young love and friendship in 1961 East Germany; partly set in the Kopenhagener Straße. Director Dominik Graf.
• Die Mauer - Berlin '61, 2006 - Telling the story of a family in Berlin who was divided during the day when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. Directed by Hartmut Schoen.
• Lucy, 2006 - About an 18-year-old girl in Berlin who has a baby and still lives with her own mother. Directed by Henner Winckler.
• Nicht böse sein!, 2006 - documentary on three addicted men who share a flat in Kreuzberg district. Directed by Wolfgang Reinke.
• Feiern, 2006 - documentary on people in Berlin who dedicate their lives to electronic dance music, nightclubs, parties and drugs. Directed by Maja Classen.
• 18.15 Uhr ab Ostkreuz, 2006 - trashy parody on Miss Marple about a retired teacher from Haselhorst district witnessing a horrible murder on a passing Berlin S-Bahn train. Directed by Jörn Hartmann.
• Rage (Wut), 2006 - the rise of a conflict between a liberal German middle-class family in Tempelhof district and a Turkish gang leader results in brutal vigilantism. Directed by Züli Aladag.
• Valerie, 2006 - a former model who is now totally broke has to survive in her car in Christmassy Berlin. Directed by Birgit Möller.
• Altlastpalast, 2006 - the story of the Palace of the Republic and its deconstruction in 2006 to make room for the reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss. Directed by Irina Enders.

2007

• Asudem, 2007 - A surreal horror story filmed in black and white, directed by Daryush Shokof.
• Breathful, 2007 - A gangster-comedy with an all-female cast and dedicated to women's rights, by Daryush Shokof.
• KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst, 2007 - Directors: Matthias Glasner, Lars Kraume, Filippos Tsitos, Edward Berger, Andreas Prochaska and Züli Aladag.
• Keinohrhasen, 2007 - a yellow press reporter in Berlin is sentenced to 300 hours of community service at a daycare center where he falls in love with the female center's manager. Director: Til Schweiger.
• The Baader Meinhof Complex, 2007 - retells the story of the early years of the West German far-left terror group RAF showing the murder of Benno Ohnesorg in West-Berlin during the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the bombing of the Axel Springer AG until the set of events called German Autumn. Directed by Uli Edel.
• Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler, 2007 - comedy about Adolf Hitler and his preparation together with his Jewish acting coach for a big New Year's speech. Directed by Dani Levy.
• Prinzessinnenbad, 2007 - Documentary about three teenagers in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, by Bettina Blümner.
• Shootback Heimat Kreuzberg, 2007 - Directors: Nives und Marc Konik.
• The Reichsorchester, 2007 - Documentary about the Berlin Philharmonic during the Third Reich, by Enrique Sánchez Lansch.
• Du bist nicht allein, 2007 - a portrait of people living in a tower block with council flats in East Berlin. Directed by Bernd Böhlich.
• wegen Nelly, 2007 - Director: Jonathan Bölling.
• Drifter, 2007 - documentary showing the life of homeless children in Berlin mired in drug addiction and child prostitution. Directed by Sebastian Heidinger.
• Der Letzte macht das Licht aus!, 2007 - three unemployed men try to survive in Berlin and prepare for emigration to Norway. Directed by Clemens Schönborn.
• Leroy, 2007 - a black afro guy in Berlin falls in love with a girl who has five Neo-Nazi brothers. Directed by Armin Völckers.
• Raging Inferno (Das Inferno - Flammen über Berlin), 2007 - a fire breaks out in the Fernsehturm Berlin and a chaos erupts among the trapped. A disgraced former firefighter helps to rescue the visitors. Directed by Rainer Matsutani.
• Knut - Aus der Kinderstube eines Eisbären / Knut - Ein Eisbär entdeckt die Welt, 2007 - two-part documentary about cute little polar bear Knut who gets raised by his zookeeper Thomas Dörflein at Berlin Zoological Garden and subsequently becomes a beloved celebrity. Directed by Georg Berger, Daniel Remsperger and Andrea Stieringer.
• BerlinSong, 2007 - documentary on six young musicians from around the world who have settled in Berlin and written songs about their favourite places in the city. Directed by Uli M. Schüppel.
• Wrong Number, 2007 - a New Yorker in Berlin dials a wrong number, the girl on the other end is curiously receptive and their subsequent conversations become seemingly spontaneous and personal. Directed by Lewis Häusler.

2008

• 1. Mai – Helden bei der Arbeit, 2008 - episodic movie on several people who meet during the International Workers' Day and the traditional riots in Kreuzberg district. Directed by Jan-Christoph Glaser, Carsten Ludwig, Sven Taddicken and Jakob Ziemnicki.
• A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin), 2008 - Film of the diary by Marta Hillers depicting the rape of Berlin by the Soviets in 1945, by Max Färberböck.
• Berlin Calling, 2008 - Berlin's electronic music scene, a tragicomedy in the Berlin of today. Written and directed by Hannes Stöhr.
• This Is Berlin Not New York, 2008 - Artists from New York and Berlin create original artworks, director Ethan Minsker.
• Valkyrie, 2008 - Historical thriller by Bryan Singer based on the July 20, 1944 plot by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler with the conspirators operating out of Berlin.
• The Miracle of Berlin (Das Wunder von Berlin), 2008 - About a family in East Berlin who experiences the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Directed by Roland Suso Richter.
• Wolke Neun, 2008 - a woman in the middle of her 60s living in Berlin has been married for 30 years when she starts a secret love affair with a man aged 76. Directed by Andreas Dresen.
• Berlin by the Sea (Berlin am Meer), 2008 - Telling the story of students in Berlin working as Disc jockeys and sharing a flat. Directed by Wolfgang Eissler.
• Melodies of Spring (Märzmelodie), 2008 - about the relationship problems of several couples in Berlin. Directed by Martin Walz.
• Heroes from the Neighbourhood (Helden aus der Nachbarschaft), 2008 - the female host of an unsuccessful TV show in Berlin is searching for new participants. Directed by Jovan Arsenic.
• Waiting for Angelina (Warten auf Angelina), 2008 - a paparazzo and an obsessive fan become pals while staking out Brangelina's apartment in Berlin. Directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.
• Evet, ich will!, 2008 - several multicultural couples in a Berlin tower block want to get married but experience severe problems. Directed by Sinan Akkuş.
• Love, Peace & Beatbox, 2008 - documentary on the rising beatboxing subculture in Berlin. Directed by Volker Meyer-Dabisch.

2009

• Berlin, 2009 - a threepart documentary, each dealing with a different aspect of the history of Berlin. Written and presented by Matt Frei.
• Berlin 36, 2009 - telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach.
• Ninja Assassin, 2009 - a disillusioned Japanese assassin is looking for retribution against his former mentor. In Berlin he meets a female Europol agent investigating political murders carried out by the same old Ninja clan where the assassin was trained as a child. Directed by James McTeigue.
• The City Named Desire (Sehnsucht Berlin), 2009 - Documentary of the city as seen by famous artists, temporary Berliners. Written and directed by Peter Zach.
• Saturn Returns, 2009 - a privileged female North American expat in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Director: Lior Shamriz.
• 24 Hours Berlin (24 h Berlin - Ein Tag im Leben), 2009 - The 24 hours documentary shows the personal life of 50 different people in Berlin. Directed by Volker Heise.
• Zweiohrküken, 2009 - following Keinohrhasen, everyday routine has entered the relationship between the reporter and his girlfriend after two years. By Til Schweiger.
• Hans im Glück, 2009 - Portrait of Berlin bass player Hans Narva, his music, his family and a life spent fighting the rules - whoever defines them. Directed by Claudia Lehmann.
• In Berlin, 2009 - the documentary follows the life and work of several persons engaged in the Berlin cultural sector and politics. Directed by Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari.
• The International, 2009 - a finance thriller directed by Tom Tykwer.
• Men in the City (Männerherzen), 2009 - about the personal problems of several men in Berlin who exercise at a fitness centre. Directed by Simon Verhoeven.
• Beloved Berlin Wall (Liebe Mauer), 2009 - a female student in West Berlin falls in love with a soldier from the NVA border troops in East Berlin during the year 1989. Directed by Peter Timm.
• Männersache, 2009 - a man working at the Berlin Zoo wants to start a career as a comedian. Directed by Gernot Roll and Mario Barth.
• 24 Stunden Schlesisches Tor, 2009 - a film team talking to people passing by at Schlesisches Tor station in Kreuzberg district for 24 hours. Directed by Anna de Paoli and Eva Lia Reinegger.
• Rabbit à la Berlin, 2009 - the documentary movie tells the story of the Berlin Wall but from point of view of a group of wild rabbits which inhabited the zone between the two walls separating West Berlin from East Berlin during the Cold War. Directed by Bartosz Konopka.
• Catapult (Achterbahn), 2009 - documentary movie about carny Norbert Witte and his family, his futile attempts to run and develop the Berlin Spreepark amusement park and his fall after smuggling cocaine from Peru to Germany. Directed by Peter Dörfler.
• I've Never Been Happier (So glücklich war ich noch nie), 2009 - an incurable impostor gets released from prison and tries to live a normal life in Berlin but lapses back into crime and falls in love with a beautiful but shy prostitute. Directed by Alexander Adolph.

2010s

2010

• Boxhagener Platz, 2010 - about family life and problems in East Berlin in 1968 while at the same time in West Berlin the students are protesting. Director: Matti Geschonneck.
• Heaven's Taxi (Hitler's Grave), 2010 - An Iranian Moslem girl promises her dying brother to find Hitler's grave in Berlin. Written and directed by Daryush Shokof.
• Neukölln Unlimited, 2010 - Documentary about three siblings' daily lives in Berlin's Neukölln district, directed by Agostino Imondi and Dietmar Ratsch.
• Berlin: Hasenheide, 2010 - Documentary about a park in Berlin's Neukölln district, directed by Nana Rebhan.
• Zivilcourage, 2010 - a senior bookseller does not know much about his problematic Berlin quarter until he is involved in a brutal assault. Directed by Dror Zahavi.
• Rammbock, 2010 - a horror movie about zombies attacking people in Berlin. Directed by Marvin Kren.
• 380.000 Volt – Der große Stromausfall, 2010 - an electrical power outage in Berlin causes a riot and looting in the city. Directed by Sebastian Vigg.
• Bella vita, 2010 - a housewife is deceived by her husband publicly and has to find a new home and life with her daughter in Kreuzberg district. Directed by Thomas Berger.
• We Are the Night (Wir sind die Nacht), 2010 - horror film about a group of female vampires in Berlin. Directed by Dennis Gansel.
• Shahada, 2010 - the fates of three Muslims in Berlin collide during Ramadan as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in western society. Directed by Burhan Qurbani.
• Three, 2010 - centered on a 40-something couple in Berlin who, separately, fall in love with the same man. Directed by Tom Tykwer.
• Single by Contract (Groupies bleiben nicht zum Frühstück), 2010 - a 17-year-old girl in Berlin falls in love with the lead singer of a band named Berlin Mitte. But he has signed a contract to stay a single person to enhance band marketing. Directed by Marc Rothemund.
• The Drifters (Eine flexible Frau), 2010 - a 40-year-old female architect in Berlin loses her job and has to get along with identity, job centre and the loss of her social status. Directed by Tatjana Turanskyj.
• Die Friseuse, 2010 - a female hairdresser in Marzahn district struggles with her own overweight, the separation from her husband, the difficult foundation of a hairdresser's shop and a rising multiple sclerosis. Directed by Doris Dörrie.
• When We Leave (Die Fremde), 2010 - highlights the problem of honor killings by depicting the drama of a Turkish family living in Berlin. Directed by Feo Aladag.
• In the Shadows (Im Schatten), 2010 - focuses on a burglar in Berlin who gets released from prison and wants to contact his old partner, but the former partner sets two killers on him. Directed by Thomas Arslan.
• Weissensee, 2010 - the story of two different families in East Berlin during the 1980s. One family is loyal to the socialistic system while the other familiy is quite critical. Directed by Friedemann Fromm.

2011

• Unknown, 2011 - A drama thriller directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.
• Kokowääh, 2011 - story of a man in Berlin who meets his eight year old daughter the first time and learns that she will live with him now. Directed by and starring Til Schweiger.
• Christopher and His Kind, 2011 - tells the story of Christopher Isherwood's life in Berlin in the early 1930s. The film was adapted by Kevin Elyot from Isherwood's autobiography of the same title. Directed by Geoffrey Sax.
• Unlike U, 2011 - documentary about the illegal and criminal graffiti trainwriter scene in Berlin. Directed by Björn Birg and Henrik Regel.
• Urban Explorer, 2011 - horror-thriller film about four young urban explorers who meet up in Berlin via the internet to explore the subterranean relicts of Nazi Germany. But when tragedy strikes the group's leader, they soon realize not all things go according to plan. Directed by Andy Fetscher.
• Hotel Desire, 2011 - erotic movie about a hotel maid in Berlin who did not have sex for several years when she unintentionally breaks into a blind painter's hotel room. Directed by Sergej Moya.
• Blissestrasse, 2011 - the story of a group of young American Christians on a mission to Berlin to try to bring the Germans back to Jesus. Directed by Paul Donovan.
• Afterwards, 2011 - a female drug addict on the run has one night to find her estranged, homeless father on the streets of Berlin, and under cover of darkness the secrets of their East German past come to light. Directed by Kivmars Bowling.
• Don 2 2011 Bollywood Film, - A direct sequel to 2006 hit Don: The Chase Begins Again. An action-thriller featuring Shahrukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra. Story revolves around a robbery in Berlin's DZB. Directed by Farhan Akhtar.
• Pigeons on the Roof (Die Relativitätstheorie der Liebe), 2011 - several couples in Berlin (all played by the same two actors) try to find or keep love and respect. Directed by Otto Alexander Jahrreiss.
• Männerherzen … und die ganz ganz große Liebe, 2011 - following Men in the City and showing the same group of men in Berlin who have to fight for their beloved women. Directed by Simon Verhoeven.

2012

• Wordlessness 2012-several people are together one whole day under a condition not to say a word until the day is over.Directed by Daryush Shokof.
• Flushers 2012-life continues in toilets Directed by Daryush Shokof.
• strange stranger 2012-a horrorful bet between two friends.Directed by Daryush Shokof.

See also

• 1920s Berlin
• Berlin Film Festival
• Cinema of Germany
• European cinema
• German Expressionism
• List of German films
• Ufa