Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds...

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true...

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...

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West...

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel...

As a geophysicist, Leonard Gehra is now known for his theories on silver mining. However, Leonard originally comes from the mining town of Buchenrode...

Portrait of the spokesman of the student movement and extra-parliamentary opposition Rudi Dutschke, who died on December 24, 1979 from the late...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But...

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives. Adapted from the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the...

A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.

The summer of 1986 begins on a promising note for Erfurt sisters Catrin and Maja Streesemann – they’ve finally received a travel permit...

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to...

Beloved heroes from three distinct universes are set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they've ever...

20 years after his encounter with an alien, Petey never moved on. Now his old friend has returned, and the reason why is complicated — and...

When a deadly gang descends on his remote home, a guilt-ridden veteran and the estranged grandchildren he barely knows must unite to survive.

Young Bela forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home that looks uncannily like her own mother, drawing her into a terrifying and...

Scrappy, defiant, and done being treated like a burden, Judy Heumann turns her outrage into a revolution. In 1977, she and more than 100 disability...

A former country star, Misty Jones, comes out of seclusion to investigate the disappearance of her missing niece, a rising country musician and must...

An elderly miser embarks on a supernatural journey after visits from the ghost of his former business partner and the Spirits of Christmas Past,...