List of Films Set in Berlin - 1990s

1990s

1990

• The Plot to Kill Hitler, 1990 - a historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government. Directed by Lawrence Schiller.
• Der König von Kreuzberg, 1990 - showing the life of a young Turkish man in Berlin who is of the opinion that he can fly. Director: Matthias Drawe.
• Wedding, 1990 - three school day friends meet after several years again in Wedding district and talk about their unsuccessful lives including a broken family, homicide and excessive indebtedness. Directed by Heiko Schier.
• Dr. M, 1990 - in the future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides. A policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis. Directed by Claude Chabrol.
• Die Architekten, 1990 - an architect in his late thirties receives his first challenging and lucrative commission to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin when more and more people leave East Germany wearily in the late 1980s. Directed by Peter Kahane.

1991

• Ostkreuz, 1991 - a 15-year-old girl escapes to West Berlin via Hungary with her mother shortly before the fall of Berlin Wall and becomes a petty criminal to afford an own apartment. Director: Michael Klier.
• Something to Do with the Wall, 1991 - Berlin Wall documentary shot just before and after its fall, by Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine.
• Die Mauer, 1991 - documentary on the last days and the deconstruction of Berlin Wall. Directed by Jürgen Böttcher.
• Wer hat Angst vor Rot, Gelb, Blau?, 1991 - About painters in Berlin. By Heiko Schier.
• Zwischen Pankow und Zehlendorf, 1991 - a musical 11-year-old girl shuttles between her mother's home in eastern Pankow and her grandmother's house in western Zehlendorf during the 1950s to take piano lessons until her father returns from war captivity. Directed by Horst Seemann.

1992

• The Little Punker (Der kleene Punker), 1992 - animation movie about a poor punk in Berlin who starts to form a band with his friends to perform at Brandenburg Gate. Director: Michael Schaack.
• Shining Through, 1992 - World War II spy film directed by David Seltzer, starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith.
• Dana Lech, 1992 - a Polish woman lives in West Berlin with her German-Italian friend when she meets her previous Polish boyfriend from Warsaw during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Directed by Frank Blasberg.
• Never Sleep Again (Nie wieder schlafen), 1992 - three women travel to Berlin to attend the wedding of a female friend and discover the recently reunited city. Directed by Pia Frankenberg.

1993

• Prinz in Hölleland, 1993 - a jester is giving a puppet theatre performance about a homosexual prince for the junkies at Kottbusser Tor station. Director: Michael Stock.
• Faraway, So Close! (In weiter Ferne, so nah!), 1993 - Sequel to Wings of Desire (1987), angels desire to be human, by Wim Wenders.
• The Innocent, 1993 - A joint CIA/MI6 operation to build a tunnel under East Berlin during the Cold War. Directed by John Schlesinger.

1994

• Linsenstraße, 1994–1998 - Director: Christiane Nalezinski.
• From D-Day to Berlin, 1994 (TV) - Stirring colour documentary of the American campaign, including footage from Berlin, by George Stevens, Jr.

1995

• A Trick of Light (Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky), 1995 - shows the birth of cinema in Berlin where Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil built a projector. Directed by Wim Wenders.
• Aus der Mitte, 1995 - Documentary about young people in post-wall Berlin by Peter Zach.
• The Promise (Das Versprechen), 1995 - two young lovers in Berlin are separated when the Berlin wall goes up in 1961, and their stories intertwine during the three decades to German reunification. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
• Gentleman, 1995 - the loss of his car and his selected woman drives a yuppie in Berlin into a little massacre among prostitutes. Directed by Oskar Roehler.

1996

• Störung Ost, 1996 - documentary on the former punk subculture in East Berlin and the persecution people suffered from the Government of the German Democratic Republic. Directed by Mechthild Katzorke and Cornelia Schneider.
• Dem deutschen Volke, 1996 - documentary on the art project Wrapped Reichstag by Christo and Jeanne-Claude who worked to convince the officials from 1971 to 1994 until the project of wrapping the Reichstag building could be realized in 1995. Directed by Jörg Daniel Hissen and Wolfram Hissen.

1997

• Das Leben ist eine Baustelle, 1997 - Romantic comedy in post-unification Berlin, by Wolfgang Becker.
• Love Story: Berlin 1942, 1997 - Documentary of the love affair between Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust, by Catrine Clay.
• Magass, 1997 - Surreal Comedy by Daryush Shokof. The film is about a blacklisted artist, his four romances and their pet "a Fly" which becomes their "flying angel".
• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, 1997 - Directed by Frank Beyer and based upon the play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt.
• Comedian Harmonists, 1997 - a biopic about the successful German vocal group Comedian Harmonists founded in 1927 in Berlin during the Golden Twenties and domiciled there until the three Jewish members were banned from stage by the Nazi Reichsmusikkammer in 1934. Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier.
• Geschwister - Kardeşler, 1997 - showing the life and problems of three Turkish siblings in Berlin. Director: Thomas Arslan.

1998

• Run Lola Run (Lola rennt), 1998 - Drama with three alternate realities in post-reunification Berlin by Tom Tykwer.
• The Final Game (Das Finale), 1998 - terrorists cause a mass panic during the final of the DFB Cup at Berlin Olympic Stadium. Directed by Sigi Rothemund.
• Memory of Berlin, 1998 - Autobiographical essay film by John Burgan.
• Angel Express, 1998 - about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience in late nineties Berlin. Directed by Rolf Peter Kahl.
• The Berlin Airlift: First Battle of the Cold War, 1998 - documentary containing many personal recollections and eyewitness accounts of the massive humanitarian, military, and political effort known as the Berlin Airlift. Directed by Robert Kirk.
• Solo for Clarinet (Solo für Klarinette), 1998 - in a Berlin apartment house a man is found ruffianly murdered with a clarinet. A burnt out police inspector follows a suspicious but mysterious woman and falls for her. Directed by Nico Hofmann.

1999

• Downhill City, 1999 - Director: Hannu Salonen.
• Aimée & Jaguar, 1999 - Lesbian love story set against the backdrop of war-time Berlin, by Max Färberböck.
• Sonnenallee, 1999 - A teen comedy set in the East Berlin of the 1970s by Leander Haußmann.
• Heroes Like Us (Helden wie wir), 1999 - showing life in East Berlin between 1968 and 1989. A young Stasi officer falls in love with a former school friend who is now critical of the regime. Directed by Sebastian Peterson.
• Nightshapes (Nachtgestalten), 1999 - About socially deprived people in Berlin. Directed by Andreas Dresen.
• Lola and Billy the Kid, 1999 - a 17-year-old Turkish boy in Berlin discovers that he is homosexual, which provokes severe problems with his traditional family. Directed by Kutluğ Ataman.
• Bombs Under Berlin (Götterdämmerung - Morgen stirbt Berlin), 1999 - at a building site in Berlin a time bomb is found. A historian believes that a complete series of bombs was placed there by a Nazi special force to destroy Berlin at the end of World War II and that someone is still taking care of the bombs. Directed by Joe Coppoletta.
• Der Einstein des Sex, 1999 - follows the life of Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld who was a sexologist, a gay socialist and who established the first Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin in 1919. Directed by Rosa von Praunheim.
• Dealer, 1999 - a Turkish man in Berlin is unable to devote himself to anything other than being a criminal and a drug dealer. Directed by Thomas Arslan.
• Der Tunnel, 1999 - documentary on four students in West Berlin digging a tunnel under Berlin Wall towards East Berlin in 1962 to rescue 29 people. Directed by Marcus Vetter.
• Snow on New Year's Eve (Schnee in der Neujahrsnacht), 1999 - episodes from the 1999 Silvester night in Berlin, where a radio announcer calls people to bring their New Year's resolutions to fruition during the last hours of the old year. Directed by Thorsten Schmidt.
• Berlin – Ecke Bundesplatz, 1999-2009 - long term documentary film project about (middle-class and other) people living around the Bundesplatz in Wilmersdorf district. Filming began in 1985. Director: Hans-Georg Ullrich and Detlef Gumm.