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1949
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Rotation
Rotation6.70 1949 HD
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his...
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1983
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Island of Swans
Island of Swans6.80 1983 HD
Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where...
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1977
Movies
The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes
The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes6.20 1977 HD
Television adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale.
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1963
Movies
Sonntagsfahrer
Sonntagsfahrer5.70 1963 HD
On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to the West. The initiator is the philistine...
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1987
Movies
Die erste Reihe
Die erste Reihe1 1987 HD
Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are...
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1965
Movies
Engel im Fegefeuer
Engel im Fegefeuer1 1965 HD
The Ruhr area in November of 1918. 13-year old Achim Wolters and his friends get their hands on some potatoes on the market. They want to surprise...
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1974
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Hans Rockle and the Devil
Hans Rockle and the Devil7.00 1974 HD
Hans Röckle is a puppeteer, inventor, blacksmith and more. He is challenged by the Devil (in almost a dozen fancy costumes) who offers him even...
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1979
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Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell1 1979 HD
The "Astoria", an English luxury liner, collides with a freighter shortly before the end of its voyage and threatens to sink. Captain Mitchell,...
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1948
Movies
Chemistry and Love
Chemistry and Love5.60 1948 HD
A chemist and his assistant make a groundbreaking discovery. They manage to make butter directly from pasture grass without having to deal with...
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1988
Movies
Kai from the Box
Kai from the Box6.00 1988 HD
Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town.
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1949
Movies
The Beaver Coat
The Beaver Coat6.00 1949 HD
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...
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1970
Movies
Tscheljuskin
Tscheljuskin1 1970 HD
In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon there is an accident in the ice and the team can...
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1981
Movies
Die Stunde der Töchter
Die Stunde der Töchter1.00 1981 HD
A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain...
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1980
Movies
All My Girls
All My Girls8.00 1980 HD
Ralf Paeschke is a film student who has to make a documentary film about a group of women working in a lamp factory. There is brazen Susie,...
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1971
Movies
KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra9.50 1971 HD
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a...
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1983
Movies
Spring Symphony
Spring Symphony6.40 1983 HD
"Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier...
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1951
Movies
Friendship Triumphs
Friendship Triumphs1 1951 HD
Film about the third 'Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden' in East Berlin, 1951. West Germany is represented as a degenerate...
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1962
Movies
Die Nacht an der Autobahn
Die Nacht an der Autobahn1 1962 HD
A young doctor has to spend a night in a lonely house near the transit highway. Unexpectedly, he witnesses East-West smuggling operations, which he...
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1967
Movies
The Heathens of Kummerow
The Heathens of Kummerow5.60 1967 HD
Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive cowherd Krischan out of the village. Being...
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1954
Movies
Alarm at the Circus
Alarm at the Circus10.00 1954 HD
Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves for...