An East German woman and her young son cross to the West and land in the Marienfelde refugee transit camp, where suspicion and interrogation follow them in Christian Schwochow’s tense 2013 drama.

Wim Wenders’ poetic masterpiece follows two angels watching over a still-divided West Berlin in 1987, one of whom longs to become human and fall in love.

Based on the real 1962 tunnel escape, this early Cold War thriller dramatizes one of the most daring underground escapes from East Berlin.

An acclaimed ARD television saga tracing two East Berlin families, one loyal to the regime and one dissident, through the 1980s to the fall of the Wall, bound together by a forbidden love.

Margarethe von Trotta’s drama follows two young lovers separated on the night the Berlin Wall goes up in 1961, whose lives intertwine across the next 28 years until the fall.

A laconic American agent is sent to 1960s West Berlin to infiltrate a neo-Nazi network, in a cerebral Cold War thriller scripted by Harold Pinter and filmed on location in the divided city.

ZDF/Netflix miniseries about an East German honey-trap spy who seduces a West Berlin woman working at a British intelligence listening station.