List of Films Set in Berlin - 2000s

2000s

2000

• Tenussian Vaccuvasco, 2000 - Film directed by Daryush Shokof, Lives of 9 different people is seen through their windows on a facade of a building.
• Return to Go! (Zurück auf Los!), 2000 - a group of homosexual men in Prenzlauer Berg district has to get along with love, AIDS, disability, unemployment and alcoholism. Directed by Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss.

2001

• Berlin Babylon, 2001 - Documentary film on the reconstruction projects after the fall of the Wall, directed by Hubertus Siegert.
• Conspiracy, 2001 - Film directed by Frank Pierson, made for HBO (television) USA, about the Wannsee Conference plan to exterminate the Jews during WWII.
• Never Mind the Wall (Wie Feuer und Flamme), 2001 - in 1982 a 17-year-old girl from West Berlin travels to East Berlin to her grandmother's funeral and falls in love with the leader of a punk clique, which evokes severe problems. Director: Connie Walther.
• Taking Sides (Der Fall Furtwängler), 2001 - World famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler stays in Nazi Germany rather than flee, and experiences consequences. Film by István Szabó.
• The Tunnel (Der Tunnel), 2001 - Dramatization of a collaborative tunnel under the wall in the 1950s. Film by Roland Suso Richter.
• Berlin is in Germany, 2001 - Drama about an East German political prisoner released from jail in post-unification Germany and now must come to terms with the geographic, political, and cultural displacements of Berlin in the 1990s. A film by Hannes Stöhr.
• Invincible (Unbesiegbar), 2001 - True story of a Jewish strongman in 1932 Berlin by Werner Herzog.
• What to Do in Case of Fire? (Was tun, wenn's brennt?), 2001 - Police hunt down radicals whose bomb goes off 12 years late. Film by Gregor Schnitzler.
• Planet Alex, 2001 - episodic movie filmed at Alexanderplatz where the stories of several characters intertwine within a period of 24 hours. Directed by Uli M. Schüppel.
• A Fine Day (Der schöne Tag), 2001 - About a girl in Berlin who wants to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. By Thomas Arslan.
• Emil and the Detectives (Emil und die Detektive), 2001 - Adventure film directed by Franziska Buch, based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner.
• Moonlight Tariff (Mondscheintarif), 2001 - an emancipated woman in her twenties living in Berlin is waiting wishfully for a one-night stand lover to call her again and experiences a rising depression. Directed by Ralf Huettner.
• Heidi M., 2001 - a divorced and lonely woman leads a corner shop in Berlin-Mitte where customers can talk about their problems. Directed by Michael Klier.
• Der Zimmerspringbrunnen, 2001 - after years of unemployment and uselessness a man in East Berlin creates a very successful Ostalgie item - a tabletop fountain consisting of a Fernsehturm Berlin model on a plate in the form of the GDR map. Directed by Peter Timm.

2002

• Berlin Symphony (Berlin: Sinfonie einer Großstadt), 2002 - The remake of Ruttmanns classic by Thomas Schadt shows one day in Berlin some years after the German reunification.
• Unternehmen Paradies, 2002 - documentary movie about Berlin by Volker Sattel.
• Big Girls Don't Cry (Große Mädchen weinen nicht), 2002 - two girls in Berlin have been best friends since childhood. But as they step into adulthood, their perfect friendship gets harshly tested by several unfortunate events. Directed by Maria von Heland.
• Führer Ex, 2002 - two friends want to escape from East Germany, are caught and kept enclosed in a Berlin prison where one of them becomes a Neo-Nazi. Directed by Winfried Bonengel.
• Naked (Nackt), 2002 - three couples in Berlin meet for dinner and start an erotic identification game. Directed by Doris Dörrie.
• Der Glanz von Berlin, 2002 - documentary about three cleaning ladies in Berlin and their personal dreams. Directed by Judith Keil and Antje Kruska.

2003

• Anatomy 2, 2003 - A medical horror story, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.
• Good Bye, Lenin!, 2003 - Award-winning bittersweet comedy about the reunification, by Wolfgang Becker.
• Herr Lehmann, 2003 - a portrait of typical people in Berlin-Kreuzberg during the 1980s. Director: Leander Haußmann.
• Kroko, 2003 - a violent girl in Berlin-Wedding is sentenced to several days of community work at a flat-sharing community with handicapped persons. Director: Sylke Enders.
• liegen lernen, 2003 - based on the novel of Frank Goosen and telling the love stories of a young man driving several times to Berlin, beginning with a school trip. Director: Hendrik Handloegten.
• Rosenstrasse, 2003 - Flashback retelling of the events of the 1943 Rosenstrasse protest, by Margarethe von Trotta.
• Alltag, 2003 - depicting life in the Turkish neighborhood of Kreuzberg. Directed by Neco Celik.
• Soloalbum, 2003 - About a young music editorial journalist in Berlin. Directed by Gregor Schnitzler.
• We (Wir), 2003 - a group of school friends meet real life in Berlin after final secondary-school examinations and before the beginning of studies. Directed by Martin Gypkens.
• Angst (Der alte Affe Angst), 2003 - the different attitudes toward life lead a sensitive stage director and his beautiful girlfriend in Berlin to constant fights and conflicts. Directed by Oskar Roehler.
• Berlin - Eine Stadt sucht den Mörder, 2003 - a female photo-journalist is after a ripper in Berlin who could be a taxi driver. Directed by Urs Egger.

2004

• Alles auf Zucker! (Go for Zucker), 2004 - Comedy with Ossi-Wessi and secular-orthodox Jewish themes. Director Dani Levy.
• A2Z, 2004 - An old man and his Lolita are committed to kill each other that very day, directed by Daryush Shokof.
• Venussian Tabutasco, 2004 - life of people in a building is seen through a "glass elevator" going up and down the floors of the building, Directed by Daryush Shokof.
• Berliner Maifestspiele, 2004 - Director: Nives Konik.
• Der Teufel von Rudow, 2004 - horror film about a couple in Rudow district investigating mysterious incidents dealing with a man caged in their neighbour's house. Director: Ulrich Meczulat.
• Downfall (Der Untergang), 2004 - Film depicting the last days of Hitler and the Battle of Berlin, set in and around the "Führerbunker", directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.
• Muxmäuschenstill, 2004 - follows a vigilante who lives in Berlin and used to study philosophy. The do-gooder wants to bring justice to criminals in his own way, but becomes a wrongdoer himself. Director: Marcus Mittermeier.
• Status Yo!, 2004 - The Berlin HipHop scene, rappers have 24 hours to stage a megaconcert, by Till Hastreiter.
• The Bourne Supremacy, 2004 - American spy mystery thriller with many scenes filmed / set in Berlin. Directed by Paul Greengrass.
• The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei), 2004 - Film depicting the encounter of three anti-capitalist activists and a wealthy businessman in Berlin-Zehlendorf. Directed by Hans Weingartner.
• Jargo, 2004 - a coming of age film about a young male who experiences culture shock from moving from Saudi Arabia to Berlin. Directed by Maria Solrun.
• Stauffenberg, 2004 - about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Directed by Jo Baier.
• Die Stunde der Offiziere, 2004 - a semi-documentary movie telling in chronological order about the German resistance attempts to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany in the July 20 plot of 1944. Directed by Hans-Erich Viet.
• Rhythm Is It!, 2004 - documents a project by the Berlin Philharmonic principal conductor Simon Rattle and choreographer Royston Maldoom to popularize classical music by staging a performance of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring with 250 children from Berlin's public schools. Directed by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch.
• Walk on Water, 2004 - an Israeli hitman working for Mossad has to find an aging Nazi war criminal in Berlin but has in the meantime formed a profound friendship with two young German grandchildren of the senile man. Directed by Eytan Fox.
• Love in Thoughts (Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken), 2004 - about the so-called Steglitz student tragedy in 1927, when two young men made a suicide pact under the influence of alcohol, music and sex, which lead to a tragedy. Directed by Achim von Borries.
• Meine schönsten Jahre, 2004 - eight-part Ostalgie movie about a man looking back to the year 1983 when he was 13 years old and lived in a Plattenbau settlement in East Berlin. Directed by Edzard Onneken and Ulli Baumann.
• Das Zimmermädchen und der Millionär, 2004 - a millionaire owns the luxurious Berlin Hotel Ritz for a short period of time. But when he arrives he is considered to be a temporary waiter, instructed for service and falls in love with a waitress. Directed by Andreas Senn.

2005

• Summer in Berlin (Sommer vorm Balkon), 2005 - Two women struggle with life, and a man. Director Andreas Dresen.
• Speer und Er, 2005 - three-part docudrama about Adolf Hitler and his General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital, Albert Speer, their plans to convert Berlin into Welthauptstadt Germania and Speers imprisonment at Spandau Prison after the Nuremberg Trials. Directed by Heinrich Breloer.
• Antibodies (Antikörper), 2005 - a police officer from a small village wants to solve the murder of a 12-year-old girl, travels to Berlin to talk to a pederast serial killer and slowly begins to explore his own dark side. Directed by Christian Alvart.
• Æon Flux, 2005 - Science fiction film featuring many of Berlin's architectural landmarks, by Karyn Kusama.
• Gespenster, 2005 - a female end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems starts a new job as a garden cleaner in Berlin and meets two mysterious women. Directed by Christian Petzold.
• The Airlift (Die Luftbrücke - Nur der Himmel war frei), 2005 - historic drama about a difficult love affair between a German waitress working at the Berlin Tempelhof Airport and an American soldier during the Berlin Airlift 1948-1949. Directed by Dror Zahavi.
• Spiele der Macht - 11011 Berlin, 2005 - a female political scientist becomes counsellor of the Chancellor of Germany who transfers some of his power to her. Directed by Markus Imboden.
• KlassenLeben, 2005 - documentary on a project in Schöneberg district to integrate four disabled children into a regular school form. Directed by Hubertus Siegert.
• Stadt als Beute, 2005 - episode film about the lives of three actors rehearsing a play at a Berlin backyard theatre. Directed by Miriam Dehne, Esther Gronenborn and Irene von Alberti.
• Die letzte Schlacht, 2005 - docudrama about the Battle of Berlin from April to May 1945, based on genuine stories of contemporary witnesses. Directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.

2006

• The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), 2006 - East Berlin's cultural scene before reunification, riddled by Stasi secret agents. Drama by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
• Knallhart, 2006 - A film about the run-down district of Berlin-Neukölln. Directed by Detlev Buck.
• Komm näher, 2006 - the relationship problems of several lonely persons in Berlin and the efforts to find a new love attachment. Director: Vanessa Jopp.
• P05 Protection 05 Jugend in Kreuzberg, 2006 - Directors: Nives und Marc Konik.
• Schwarze Schafe, 2006 - tells in five episodes the stories of people in Berlin with financial problems. Director: Oliver Rihs.
• The Good German, 2006 - Homage to Film Noir, set in 1945 Berlin during the Potsdam Conference, by Steven Soderbergh.
• The Red Cockatoo (Der Rote Kakadu), 2006 - Young love and friendship in 1961 East Germany; partly set in the Kopenhagener Straße. Director Dominik Graf.
• Die Mauer - Berlin '61, 2006 - Telling the story of a family in Berlin who was divided during the day when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. Directed by Hartmut Schoen.
• Lucy, 2006 - About an 18-year-old girl in Berlin who has a baby and still lives with her own mother. Directed by Henner Winckler.
• Nicht böse sein!, 2006 - documentary on three addicted men who share a flat in Kreuzberg district. Directed by Wolfgang Reinke.
• Feiern, 2006 - documentary on people in Berlin who dedicate their lives to electronic dance music, nightclubs, parties and drugs. Directed by Maja Classen.
• 18.15 Uhr ab Ostkreuz, 2006 - trashy parody on Miss Marple about a retired teacher from Haselhorst district witnessing a horrible murder on a passing Berlin S-Bahn train. Directed by Jörn Hartmann.
• Rage (Wut), 2006 - the rise of a conflict between a liberal German middle-class family in Tempelhof district and a Turkish gang leader results in brutal vigilantism. Directed by Züli Aladag.
• Valerie, 2006 - a former model who is now totally broke has to survive in her car in Christmassy Berlin. Directed by Birgit Möller.
• Altlastpalast, 2006 - the story of the Palace of the Republic and its deconstruction in 2006 to make room for the reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss. Directed by Irina Enders.
• Tornado - Der Zorn des Himmels, 2006 - two-part fictional drama on a young meteorologist returning from USA to Berlin, who predicts a tornado sweeping over the capital city. Directed by Andreas Linke.
• You Told Me, You Love Me (Du hast gesagt, dass Du mich liebst), 2006 - a retired woman in Berlin who has been a professional swimmer during her young days meets a younger writer after she responded to his lonely hearts ad. Directed by Rudolf Thome.

2007

• Asudem, 2007 - A surreal horror story filmed in black and white, directed by Daryush Shokof.
• Breathful, 2007 - A gangster-comedy with an all-female cast and dedicated to women's rights, by Daryush Shokof.
• KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst, 2007 - Directors: Matthias Glasner, Lars Kraume, Filippos Tsitos, Edward Berger, Andreas Prochaska and Züli Aladag.
• Keinohrhasen, 2007 - a yellow press reporter in Berlin is sentenced to 300 hours of community service at a daycare center where he falls in love with the female center's manager. Director: Til Schweiger.
• The Baader Meinhof Complex, 2007 - retells the story of the early years of the West German far-left terror group RAF showing the murder of Benno Ohnesorg in West-Berlin during the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the bombing of the Axel Springer AG until the set of events called German Autumn. Directed by Uli Edel.
• Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler, 2007 - comedy about Adolf Hitler and his preparation together with his Jewish acting coach for a big New Year's speech. Directed by Dani Levy.
• Prinzessinnenbad, 2007 - Documentary about three teenagers in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, by Bettina Blümner.
• Shootback Heimat Kreuzberg, 2007 - Directors: Nives und Marc Konik.
• The Reichsorchester, 2007 - Documentary about the Berlin Philharmonic during the Third Reich, by Enrique Sánchez Lansch.
• Du bist nicht allein, 2007 - a portrait of people living in a tower block with council flats in East Berlin. Directed by Bernd Böhlich.
• wegen Nelly, 2007 - Director: Jonathan Bölling.
• Drifter, 2007 - documentary showing the life of homeless children in Berlin mired in drug addiction and child prostitution. Directed by Sebastian Heidinger.
• Der Letzte macht das Licht aus!, 2007 - three unemployed men try to survive in Berlin and prepare for emigration to Norway. Directed by Clemens Schönborn.
• Leroy, 2007 - a black afro guy in Berlin falls in love with a girl who has five Neo-Nazi brothers. Directed by Armin Völckers.
• Raging Inferno (Das Inferno - Flammen über Berlin), 2007 - a fire breaks out in the Fernsehturm Berlin and a chaos erupts among the trapped. A disgraced former firefighter helps to rescue the visitors. Directed by Rainer Matsutani.
• Knut - Aus der Kinderstube eines Eisbären / Knut - Ein Eisbär entdeckt die Welt, 2007 - two-part documentary about cute little polar bear Knut who gets raised by his zookeeper Thomas Dörflein at Berlin Zoological Garden and subsequently becomes a beloved celebrity. Directed by Georg Berger, Daniel Remsperger and Andrea Stieringer.
• BerlinSong, 2007 - documentary on six young musicians from around the world who have settled in Berlin and written songs about their favourite places in the city. Directed by Uli M. Schüppel.
• Wrong Number, 2007 - a New Yorker in Berlin dials a wrong number, the girl on the other end is curiously receptive and their subsequent conversations become seemingly spontaneous and personal. Directed by Lewis Häusler.

2008

• 1. Mai – Helden bei der Arbeit, 2008 - episodic movie on several people who meet during the International Workers' Day and the traditional riots in Kreuzberg district. Directed by Jan-Christoph Glaser, Carsten Ludwig, Sven Taddicken and Jakob Ziemnicki.
• A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin), 2008 - Film of the diary by Marta Hillers depicting the rape of Berlin by the Soviets in 1945, by Max Färberböck.
• Berlin Calling, 2008 - Berlin's electronic music scene, a tragicomedy in the Berlin of today. Written and directed by Hannes Stöhr.
• This Is Berlin Not New York, 2008 - Artists from New York and Berlin create original artworks, director Ethan Minsker.
• Valkyrie, 2008 - Historical thriller by Bryan Singer based on the July 20, 1944 plot by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler with the conspirators operating out of Berlin.
• The Miracle of Berlin (Das Wunder von Berlin), 2008 - About a family in East Berlin who experiences the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Directed by Roland Suso Richter.
• Wolke Neun, 2008 - a woman in the middle of her 60s living in Berlin has been married for 30 years when she starts a secret love affair with a man aged 76. Directed by Andreas Dresen.
• Berlin by the Sea (Berlin am Meer), 2008 - Telling the story of students in Berlin working as Disc jockeys and sharing a flat. Directed by Wolfgang Eissler.
• Melodies of Spring (Märzmelodie), 2008 - about the relationship problems of several couples in Berlin. Directed by Martin Walz.
• Heroes from the Neighbourhood (Helden aus der Nachbarschaft), 2008 - the female host of an unsuccessful TV show in Berlin is searching for new participants. Directed by Jovan Arsenic.
• Waiting for Angelina (Warten auf Angelina), 2008 - a paparazzo and an obsessive fan become pals while staking out Brangelina's apartment in Berlin. Directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.
• Evet, ich will!, 2008 - several multicultural couples in a Berlin tower block want to get married but experience severe problems. Directed by Sinan Akkuş.
• Love, Peace & Beatbox, 2008 - documentary on the rising beatboxing subculture in Berlin. Directed by Volker Meyer-Dabisch.

2009

• Berlin, 2009 - a threepart documentary, each dealing with a different aspect of the history of Berlin. Written and presented by Matt Frei.
• Berlin 36, 2009 - telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach.
• Ninja Assassin, 2009 - a disillusioned Japanese assassin is looking for retribution against his former mentor. In Berlin he meets a female Europol agent investigating political murders carried out by the same old Ninja clan where the assassin was trained as a child. Directed by James McTeigue.
• The City Named Desire (Sehnsucht Berlin), 2009 - Documentary of the city as seen by famous artists, temporary Berliners. Written and directed by Peter Zach.
• Saturn Returns, 2009 - a privileged female North American expat in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Director: Lior Shamriz.
• 24 Hours Berlin (24 h Berlin - Ein Tag im Leben), 2009 - The 24 hours documentary shows the personal life of 50 different people in Berlin. Directed by Volker Heise.
• Zweiohrküken, 2009 - following Keinohrhasen, everyday routine has entered the relationship between the reporter and his girlfriend after two years. By Til Schweiger.
• Hans im Glück, 2009 - Portrait of Berlin bass player Hans Narva, his music, his family and a life spent fighting the rules - whoever defines them. Directed by Claudia Lehmann.
• In Berlin, 2009 - the documentary follows the life and work of several persons engaged in the Berlin cultural sector and politics. Directed by Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari.
• The International, 2009 - a finance thriller directed by Tom Tykwer.
• Men in the City (Männerherzen), 2009 - about the personal problems of several men in Berlin who exercise at a fitness centre. Directed by Simon Verhoeven.
• Beloved Berlin Wall (Liebe Mauer), 2009 - a female student in West Berlin falls in love with a soldier from the NVA border troops in East Berlin during the year 1989. Directed by Peter Timm.
• Männersache, 2009 - a man working at the Berlin Zoo wants to start a career as a comedian. Directed by Gernot Roll and Mario Barth.
• 24 Stunden Schlesisches Tor, 2009 - a film team talking to people passing by at Schlesisches Tor station in Kreuzberg district for 24 hours. Directed by Anna de Paoli and Eva Lia Reinegger.
• Rabbit à la Berlin, 2009 - the documentary movie tells the story of the Berlin Wall but from point of view of a group of wild rabbits which inhabited the zone between the two walls separating West Berlin from East Berlin during the Cold War. Directed by Bartosz Konopka.
• Catapult (Achterbahn), 2009 - documentary movie about carny Norbert Witte and his family, his futile attempts to run and develop the Berlin Spreepark amusement park and his fall after smuggling cocaine from Peru to Germany. Directed by Peter Dörfler.
• I've Never Been Happier (So glücklich war ich noch nie), 2009 - an incurable impostor gets released from prison and tries to live a normal life in Berlin but lapses back into crime and falls in love with a beautiful but shy prostitute. Directed by Alexander Adolph.