West Berlin Movies

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

A simple story of young people in the West Berlin of 1982.

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail....

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the division of the city.

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government...

West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication...

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...

Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the artist Jürgen Baldiga who sensitively and...

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man....

With a critical eye, the film wanders through the streets of Kreuzberg and captures the voices of workers who report on their difficult working...

One year before the Berlin Wall fell, this silent black&white documentary from 1988 is a profile of West-Berlin: places and people, moods and...

Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six...

By the end of the seventies Tanzclub Dschungel moved from Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg to Nürnberger Straße, Berlin...

The last day in the tanzclub "Dschungel" at Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg. Located at the bar Slumberland, GoltzStraße. 24. It...