Here we've displayed a list of the best Berlin films : Downfall(2004), Wings of Desire(1987), Stroszek(1977), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler(1922), Germany Year Zero(1948), One, Two, Three(1961), Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime(1922), Rhythm Is It!(2004), Cabaret(1972), The Bourne Supremacy(2004), Christiane F(1981), Who Am I(2014) ... ...
War, Drama, History
Germany|Austria|Italy
2004
154 Minutes
Bruno Ganz Alexandra Maria Lara Corinna Harfouch Ulrich Matthes Juliane Köhler Heino Ferch Christian Berkel Matthias Habich Thomas Kretschmann Ulrich Noethen Gotz Otto
dictator eva braun josef goebbels wife secretary nazi frightening bleak fascinating shocking germany berlin bunker office world war ii adolf hitler disillusionment traudl junge paranoia defeat
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Fantasy
West Germany|France
1987
128 Minutes
Bruno Ganz Solveig Dommartin Otto Sander Curt Bois Lajos Kovács Elmar Wilms Sigurd Rachman
angel circus performer actor elderly person heartwarming tender inspiring emotional berlin germany church love aspirations miracles hope transformation sacrifice forbidden love 1980s
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
Drama
West Germany
1977
108 Minutes
Bruno S. Eva Mattes Clemens Scheitz
busker prostitute pimp neighbor nephew waitress bleak amusing eerie melodramatic berlin prison bar apartment new york city wisconsin immigration displacement loneliness culture shock
In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Germany
1922
195 Minutes
Rudolf Klein-Rogge Alfred Abel Aud Egede Nissen Gertrude Welcker Bernhard Goetzke Robert Forster-Larrinaga Paul Richter Georg John Grete Berger Julius Falkenstein Lydia Potechina
villain criminal inspector wealthy man engaging melodramatic berlin germany deception murder crime pursuit adventure mystery 1920s
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
War, Drama
Italy|France|Germany
1948
73 Minutes
Ernst Pittschau Erich Guhne Edmund Moeschke Ingetraud Hinze Franz Otto Kruger Heidi Blänkner Karl Krüger Jo Herbst
boy father brother sister teacher bleak disheartening disturbing berlin apartment street family poverty desperation starvation sexual advances quest fall transformation 1940s
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.
Comedy
USA
1961
108 Minutes
James Cagney Pamela Tiffin Horst Buchholz Arlene Francis Liselotte Pulver Howard St. John Hanns Lothar Lois Bolton Leon Askin Red Buttons
executive daughter boss communist wife amusing spirited lighthearted witty berlin airport office young love business father/daughter relationship pregnancy communism forbidden love rise 1960s
In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Germany
1922
93 Minutes
Rudolf Klein-Rogge Aud Egede Nissen Gertrude Welcker Alfred Abel Bernhard Goetzke Paul Richter
criminal hypnotist gambler police detective businessman murderer dark intricate suspenseful thrilling nightclub city berlin police station asylum germany crime mind control psychiatry business
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Documentary, Music
Germany
2004
100 Minutes
Simon Rattle Royston Maldoom Berliner Philharmoniker
dancer choreographer major inspiring fascinating ballet berlin classical music youth dance transformation 20th century
RHYTHM IS IT! records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra ventured out of the ivory tower of high culture into ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1972
124 Minutes
Liza Minnelli Joel Grey Michael York Helmut Griem Fritz Wepper Marisa Berenson Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel Helen Vita Sigrid von Richthofen Gerd Vespermann Ralf Wolter
singer student nazi master of ceremonies widower playboy creative disturbing unrestrained berlin nightclub apartment mansion love triangle homosexuality nazism show business love transformation 1930s
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany
2004
108 Minutes
Matt Damon Franka Potente Brian Cox Julia Stiles Karl Urban Gabriel Mick Joan Allen Marton Csokas Karel Roden Tomas Arana Tom Gallop
cia agent director russian girlfriend technician assassin intricate frenetic suspenseful india berlin naples, italy moscow cia office new york city chase framed cia theft murder
When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
Drama
West Germany
1981
138 Minutes
Thomas Haustein Natja Brunckhorst Jens Kuphal Rainer Wölk Jan Georg Effler Christiane Reichelt Daniela Jaeger Kerstin Richter Eberhard Auriga Lothar Chamski Uwe Diderich
girl replacement family emotional berlin club home street clique drugs growing up 1970s
A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
Mystery & Thriller
Germany
2014
105 Minutes
Tom Schilling Elyas M'Barek Wotan Wilke Möhring Antoine Monot Jr. Hannah Herzsprung Stephan Kampwirth Trine Dyrholm Agnes Thi-Mai
hacker investigator friend misfit gripping gritty frenetic uneasy dark fascinating germany berlin party house childhood flashbacks trauma virtual reality hackers underdog
Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA|Germany|India
2015
141 Minutes
Tom Hanks Mark Rylance Alan Alda Amy Ryan Eve Hewson Peter McRobbie Billy Magnussen Austin Stowell Domenick Lombardozzi Michael Gaston Sebastian Koch
pilot spy lawyer cia agent airy brooding dark somber soviet union prison berlin cold war soviet union espionage prisoners of war escape quest rescue 20th century
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
Germany
1998
81 Minutes
Franka Potente Moritz Bleibtreu Herbert Knaup Armin Rohde Joachim Król Nina Petri Heino Ferch Ludger Pistor
girlfriend criminal crime boss mobster banker father creative unrestrained suspenseful berlin bank street apartment subway race against time crime gangsters robbery adventure pursuit
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|Germany|Kenya|France|USA|Switzerland
2005
128 Minutes
Ralph Fiennes Rachel Weisz Danny Huston Bill Nighy Pete Postlethwaite Richard McCabe Donald Sumpter Juliet Aubrey Hubert Koundé Archie Panjabi Gerard McSorley
diplomat activist husband wife doctor friend emotional intense suspenseful london kenya berlin canada espionage corruption conspiracy big business romance investigation quest
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
Drama
USA
1932
115 Minutes
Greta Garbo Joan Crawford John Barrymore Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lewis Stone Jean Hersholt Ferdinand Gottschalk Tully Marshall Mary Carlisle
thief businessperson ballerina accountant secretary melodramatic passionate hotel berlin restaurant corruption romance ambition illness fall underdog transformation 1930s
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Documentary, Music
Germany|Hong Kong
2008
108 Minutes
Simon Rattle Raphael Haeger Long Yu Albrecht Mayer Sarah Willis Götz Teutsch
filmmaker emotional asia berlin search concert tour musicians transformation
Director Thomas Grube (RHYTHM IS IT!) and his accomplished film crew accompany the Berlin Philharmonic on a concert tour into six pulsating, dynamic Asian metropolises, juxtaposing ... See full summary »
Documentary
Germany
2012
90 Minutes
David Nathan Anneke Schwabe
teen boy skater confident creative berlin west germany defiance sports growing up discovery transformation cold war
This Ain't California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1948
116 Minutes
Jean Arthur Marlene Dietrich John Lund Millard Mitchell Peter von Zerneck Stanley Prager
congresswoman military officer singer witty engaging berlin nightclub military base office nazism world war ii political corruption love triangle love quest transformation 1940s
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
Documentary
Germany|UK
2004
113 Minutes
deaf woman musician guitarist dreamy uplifting japan scotland berlin loft grand central station new york city musical performance deafness improvisation travel disability transformation underdog 2000s
A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf.
Documentary
Germany
2004
99 Minutes
Klaus Nomi
singer david bowie musician performance artist homosexual offbeat spectacular new york city berlin stage rock club klaus nomi fame new wave aids punk rock music rise fall 1980s
Having failed to break into professional opera in his native Germany (where, as an usher in West Berlin's Deutsche Oper, he would serenade the staff after the 'real' performances were over)... See full summary »
Drama
Hungary|West Germany|Austria
1988
120 Minutes
soldier doctor manager lover clairvoyant nazi suspenseful chilling fascinating offbeat austria hospital berlin theater supernatural world war ii nazism politics precognition metamorphosis
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of... See full summary »
Drama, War, History, Biography
USA
2014
137 Minutes
Jack O'Connell Domhnall Gleeson Garrett Hedlund Miyavi Finn Wittrock Jai Courtney Maddalena Ischiale Vincenzo Amato John Magaro Luke Treadaway Louis McIntosh
athlete olympic athlete crew member air force pilot prisoner of war prison guard uplifting patriotic inspiring japan pacific ocean air force base prison camp berlin world war ii prisoners of war olympic games survival air force airplane crash
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK|Japan
1997
117 Minutes
Clive Owen Lothaire Bluteau Brian Webber Ian McKellen Mick Jagger Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Jude Law Paul Bettany
gay man boyfriend prisoner uncle transvestite nazi emotional powerful berlin nightclub forest dachau concentration camp train germany holocaust homosexuality violence suicide forced labor survival
In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Israel|Germany
2017
105 Minutes
Sarah Adler Zohar Strauss Tim Kalkhof Sandra Sade Roy Miller Stephanie Stremler Tagel Eliyahu Tamir Ben Yehuda Eliezer Shimon
baker married man widow lover son family member solemn emotional creative moving passionate bakery jerusalem berlin house kitchen love infidelity homosexuality loss
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Drama, Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Germany
2019
123 Minutes
Elyas M'Barek Heiner Lauterbach Franco Nero Manfred Zapatka Alexandra Maria Lara Jannis Niewöhner Rainer Bock Catrin Striebeck Pia Stutzenstein Peter Prager Hannes Wegener
public defender lawyer industrialist worker dead person intricate suspenseful courtroom berlin murder case conspiracy discovery mystery 2000s
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Documentary, Music
UK|USA
2007
81 Minutes
Emmanuelle Seigner Lou Reed Anohni Brooklyn Youth Chorus Rob Wasserman Steve Hunter
singer rock star musician drug addict dreamy raw dark warehouse brooklyn, n.y. concert performance music rock 'n' roll lou reed berlin rise quest 2000s
Lou Reed's 2006 live concert performance of his 1973 concept album "Berlin", filmed over five nights at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York.
Documentary
Ireland|Canada|USA
1991
89 Minutes
Noel Archambault Roman Kroitor
rock star keith richards mick jagger band member audience confident incredible stage stadium london berlin turin, italy concert touring rock 'n' roll performance the rolling stones adventure discovery 1990s
A filming of the 1990 Rolling Stones "Steel Wheels" concert that traveled Europe. This was filmed in the IMAX process, which allows the film to be projected in a size ten times the size of a regular 35mm projected image.
War
USA
1921
132 Minutes
Rudolph Valentino Alice Terry Pomeroy Cannon Joseph Swickard Brinsley Shaw Alan Hale Bridgetta Clark Mabel Van Buren Nigel de Brulier
landowner german frenchman grandson soldier married woman melodramatic rousing striking passionate argentina paris berlin ranch castle battlefield world war i family ties disapproval affair
An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
Action, Crime, Drama
India|Germany
2011
145 Minutes
Shah Rukh Khan Priyanka Chopra Boman Irani Lara Dutta Om Puri Florian Lukas Kunal Kapoor Wolfgang Stegemann Senta Dorothea Kirschner
don criminal crime boss suspenseful berlin underworld greed power money pursuit
Don turns himself in and escapes with Vardhaan from prison, following which he recruits a team to steal currency printing plates from a bank in Berlin.