Hans-Uwe Bauer

At once a political thriller and human drama, The Lives of Others begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. The film traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler, a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Amid the isolated era of dictatorship, a naive, young and enthusiastic drama-school graduate has been given the job of directing a theater group in a grim factory town. His spirits are undaunted even when the super-conservative locals afflict his life. However, when the winds of change sweep through the country, while everyone else is given a new lease on life, it begins to seem as though he has lost something essential to the continuation of his. (Goethe-Institut Los Angeles)

Karl and Richard, two German soldiers captured by the Russians in World War I, become very close friends-so close that Richard shares intimate stories about his wife, Anna. (imdb)

Hanna and Simon are a 40-something couple living together in Berlin. A Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man. (imdb)

While training for sculling championship at summer camp in Hungary in 1988 East German teenage twin sisters meet young guys vacationing from Hamburg. In the meeting of east and west the bond between sisters is tested. (imdb)

10 year old Fee from Romania is sold to a child merchant in Berlin and forced to work as a prostitute in a club in Berlin. Officers Wegemann and Hansen keep the club under surveillance and contact federal prosecutor Lessing who gets interested when she hears that her friend judge Neidhart is one of the wooers. But the culprits have contacts to the top level and always seem to be one step ahead of the investigators.

A teenage German soldier is falsely accused of being a war criminal and arrested in Poland in 1945. (imdb)

"Blum is the owner of a funeral home in a renowned ski resort and the loving mother of two young children. Following her husband's accidental death, she is shaken to the very core of her existence. Soon, Blum realizes that her husband was murdered because he was in the process of uncovering terrible secrets. She sets out on a quest for revenge, but during her pursuit she turns from predator to prey." (imdb)

Revolves around the Lunies family whose estranged members include mother Lissy, son Tom and daughter Ellen. They reconnect after each of them faces death in one way or another.

A Christmas reunion becomes a gateway to the past in this three-part series that explores the intimate complexities of one family's history. (imdb)

The city of Schwerin is sweltering under a heat wave never seen before. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims at random - but nothing is what it seems. (imdb)