Damiel er en af englene, der bevæger sig rundt blandt menneskene i Berlin og lytter til deres fortvivlede tanker og forsøger at støtte dem. Hans længsel efter at leve og dø som menneske bliver indfriet efter at han forelsker sig i cirkus-artisten Marion.

Vi befinder os i vestberlin under den kolde krig. Da Mark vender hjem efter en rejse, finder han ud af at hans kone Anna vil forlade ham.

Den jaloux Mark hyrer en privatdetektiv, som skal følge Anna og finde ud af om hun har en hemmelig elsker, men privatdetektiven bliver brutalt myrdet.

Hans frygt for at Anna har mødt en anden, eller noget andet, bekræftes...

Den unge, amerikanske balletdanserinde Susie flytter til Berlin i 1970'erne for at danse i et berømt kompagni. Kort forinden er en aldrende psykolog, dr. Klemperer, blevet opsøgt af en pige fra samme ballettrup, som hævder, at der er okkulte kræfter løs på danseskolen. Pigen er siden forsvundet under mystiske omstændigheder, og det mørke, som huserer på skolen, truer nu også med at opsluge Suzy.

Østberlin, 1984. Den dybt loyale Stasi-Agent Wiesler. er fra højeste sted blevet beordret om at overvåge den intellektuelle forfatter Dreyman, og hans kæreste, Sieland, en kendt skuespillerinde, men finder snart ud af at ministeren kun søger snavs på Dreyman for selv at kunne få fingre i kæresten. Wiesler bliver mere og mere fascineret af deres liv, og bliver trukket længere ind end han burde.

DDR, 1979. I al hemmelighed arbejder familierne Strelzyk og Wetzel på at konstruere deres egen luftballon, som skal gøre det muligt for dem at flygte til friheden i vest. Det er en farlig og vovet plan, for sikkerhedstjenesten Stasi har informanter alle steder. Og da netop Stasi kommer på sporet af gruppen og deres plan, bliver familiernes flugt en kamp mod uret, hvor hvert sekund tæller.

Mønsterkommunisten Christiane er i koma, da hendes elskede DDR bryder sammen. Da hun vågner igen, forsøger hendes søn at skåne hende for virkeligheden, og han skaber derfor en illusion om, at DDR stadig består.

Pink Floyd The Wall er en musical-film fra 1982 af den britiske instruktør Alan Parker, baseret på Pink Floyds album fra 1979, The Wall.

Filmen, som veksler mellem animationsfilm og spillede scener, er fuldstændig uden dialog, med kun få sagte replikker. Handlingen bliver alene båret frem af billederne og musikken fra albummet The Wall.

Berlin-muren står for fald, og alle forbereder sig på en ny verdensorden. Men på Theodore Roosevelt Army Base udenfor Stuttgart oplever soldaten Ray Elwood, hvordan hans egen kolde krig er ved at blive hvidglødende.

Elwood er en charmerende småsvindler; en værnepligtig, for hvem der er lykkes at omdanne sin militærtid til en blomstrende sortbørsforretning og da den nye oversergent, Lee, ankommer og har det erklærede mål at rydde op på basen, er Elwood overbevist om, at han sagtens kan klare den nytilkomne overordnede.

Briternes efterretningstjeneste får nys om, at en russisk oberst ønsker at hoppe af i Berlin. Den hornbrillebærende cockneyagent Harry Palmer sendes ind i Østberlin, hvor han arrangerer en skinbegravelse for oberst Stok, så han kan smugle 'liget' over til Vesten. Men da optoget krydser grænseposten, finder Palmer og hans lokale kontakt, Vulkan, en tysk gangster i kisten!

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.

9. november 1989. På tv meddeler en embedsmand, at DDR´s borgere nu frit kan krydse grænsen. En nyhed, der er så sær, at den kunne være sand. Nysgerrige østberlinere samles ved grænseovergangen Bornholmer Strasse. Det stiller grænsevagten Harald i et dilemma. Han har nemlig ingen ordrer fået, og nu må han prøve noget nyt - nemlig selv at træffe en beslutning! Skal han lade den voksende menneskemængde krydse grænsen til Vestberlin?

30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop of this "secret files scandal," Micha Lewinsky sets his film. Conscientious policeman Viktor Schuler is tasked by his superior to infiltrate the Schauspielhaus, a renowned Zurich theatre, in order to keep an eye on its leftist scene. However, Viktor finds himself quite taken with the artist's life and falls in love with the subversive actress Odile Lehmann.

Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?

The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a killer posing as a whore.

Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.

Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.

18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend. Helmut studies, literature and politics in his home town and have a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine at the same university but they break up after having an affair with her roommate. Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.