1930s
- 1930
- People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag), 1930 - Avant-garde look at daily life in Berlin, screenplay by Billy Wilder and Curt Siodmak.
- Symphonie einer Weltstadt (Berlin - Wie es war), 1930 - documentary view of Berlin by Leo de Laforgue. First showed in 1950.
- Die drei von der Tankstelle, 1930 - three friends are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station in Berlin. Then they all fall in love with the same girl. Directed by Wilhelm Thiele.
- Cyankali, 1930 - a poor female office employee in Berlin gets pregnant, but abortion is not allowed in the Weimar Republic. So she goes to a quack doctor who applies toxic potassium cyanide to her. Directed by Hans Tintner.
- 1931
- Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive), 1931 - Adventure film based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner. Director: Gerhard Lamprecht.
- M, 1931 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang; beginnings of film noir and the endings of expressionism.
- Berlin-Alexanderplatz, 1931 - First film adaption of the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz from Alfred Döblin, directed by Phil Jutzi.
- Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, 1931 - Directed by Richard Oswald and based upon the play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt.
- Looking for His Murderer (Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht), 1931 - a man in Berlin plunged in debt does not succeed in committing suicide and has to hire a murderer to kill him within twelve hours. But in the same night he falls in love with a girl who wants to stop the appointed killer. Directed by Robert Siodmak.
- 1932
- Grand Hotel, 1932 - Nothing ever happens at the Grand Hotel. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Academy Award for Best Picture (1931–1932). Filmed in Hollywood.
- Kuhle Wampe, 1932 - about a working-class family in Berlin in 1931 where survival is difficult during the Great Depression. Directed by Slatan Dudow.
- 1933
- Hitlerjunge Quex, 1933 - Hans Steinhoff propaganda drama about a boy in the Hitler Youth.
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), 1933 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang.
- Tugboat M 17 (Schleppzug M 17), 1933 - the skipper of a tugboat on the river Havel falls for a female thief in Berlin and leaves his family for her. Directed by Heinrich George and Werner Hochbaum.
- 1936
- Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz, 1936 - a flower girl working at Potsdamer Platz can resolve a financial deception. Directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla.
- 1937
- Charlie Chan at the Olympics, 1937 - Charlie Chan trails spies to Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics. Starring Warner Oland.
- Gleisdreieck, 1937 - At Gleisdreieck station a woman wants to throw herself under a subway train but is saved by a railway official. By Robert A. Stemmle.
- 1938
- Urlaub auf Ehrenwort, 1938 - four soldiers have a brief furlough in Berlin late in 1918, on their promise to return to their troop train in time. Propaganda film by Karl Ritter
- Olympia (Parts 1 & 2), 1938 - Strikingly aesthetic propaganda by Leni Riefenstahl.
- The Stars Shine (Es leuchten die Sterne), 1938 - musical revue about a young secretary who leaves the country and travels to Berlin to seek work as an actress. Directed by Hans H. Zerlett.
- 1939
- Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz, 1939 - Telling the stories of different people on New Year's Eve around Alexanderplatz. Directed by Richard Schneider-Edenkoben.
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