List of films set in Berlin

—This is a list of films whose "setting" is Berlin, Germany.

* A2Z, 2005 , Old man and his Lolita are commited to kill each other this very day,and finish it all off in big style., by Daryush Shokof
* "", 1927 - Expressionist documentary film of 1920s Berlin by Walter Ruttmann
* "Metropolis", 1927 - Berlin-inspired futuristic classic by Fritz Lang
* "Asphalt", 1929 - Film Noir classic by Joe May
* "People on Sunday", 1930 - Avant-garde look at daily life in Berlin, screenplay by Billy Wilder
* "Berlin Alexanderplatz", 1931 - 1920s Berlin, Film of the novel written by Alfred Döblin
* "M", 1931 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang; beginnings of "film noir" and the endings of expressionism
* "Grand Hotel", 1932 - Nothing ever happens at the Grand Hotel. Academy Award for Best Picture (1931-1932)
* "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse", 1933 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang
* "Olympia (Parts 1 & 2)", 1938 - Strikingly aesthetic propaganda by Leni Riefenstahl
* "Berliner Ballade", 1948 - Daily life of a veteran home from the war. Director Robert A. Stemmle
* "The Big Lift", 1950 - Stars Montgomery Clift in the Berlin Air Lift. Film by George Seaton
* "One, Two, Three", 1961 - Cold War before The Wall, comedy by Billy Wilder
* "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", 1965 - Cold War classic set on both sides of The Wall, directed by Martin Ritt
* "Funeral in Berlin", 1966 - Spy film starring Michael Caine
* "Torn Curtain", 1966 - Cold War thriller set in East Berlin, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
* "Cabaret", 1972 - Set in the early 1930s showing Weimar Berlin by Bob Fosse
* "Die Legende von Paul und Paula", 1973 - Love story set in East Berlin by Heiner Carow
* "Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo", 1981 - 1970s portrayal of West Berlin's drug scene by Uli Edel
* "Berlin Tunnel 21", 1981 - A former american officer leads an attempt to build a tunnel underneath The Wall as a rescue route
* "Taxi zum Klo", 1981 - Groundbreaking film documenting gay culture in West Berlin by Frank Ripploh
* "Octopussy", 1983 - James Bond film starring Roger Moore
* "Linie 1", 1988 - Film of the 1986 Musical about U-Bahn (subway) Line 1 in West Berlin by Reinhard Hauff
* "Der Himmel über Berlin", 1987 ("Wings of Desire") - A cult film about the divided city by Wim Wenders
* "Shining Through", 1992 - World War II spy film directed by David Seltzer, starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith
* "Aus der Mitte", 1995 - Documentary about young people in post-wall Berlin by Peter Zach
* "Das Leben ist eine Baustelle", 1997 - Romantic comedy in post-unification Berlin, by Wolfgang Becker
* "Sonnenallee", 1999 - A teen comedy set in the East Berlin of the 1970s by Leander Haußmann
* "Lola rennt", 1998 (Run Lola Run) - Drama with three alternate realities in post-reunification Berlin by Tom Tykwer
* "Berlin Babylon", 2001 - A documentary film on the reconstruction projects after the fall of the Wall
* "Invincible", 2001 - True story of a Jewish strongman in 1932 Berlin by Werner Herzog
* "Was Tun, Wenn's Brennt?", 2002 - Police hunt down radicals whose bomb goes off years later. Film by Gregor Schnitzler
* "Rosenstrasse", 2003 - Flashback retelling of the events of the 1943 Rosenstrasse protest, by Margarethe von Trotta
* "Good Bye Lenin!", 2003 - Award-winning bittersweet comedy about the reunification, by Wolfgang Becker
* "Status Yo!", 2004 - The Berlin HipHop scene, rappers have 24 hours to stage a megaconcert, by Till Hastreiter
* "Der Untergang", 2004 (Downfall) - Film depicting the last days of Hitler and the Battle of Berlin, set in and around the "Führerbunker"
* "The Bourne Supremacy", 2004 - American spy mystery thriller with many scenes filmed / set in Berlin
* "Alles auf Zucker", 2005 (Go for Zucker) - Comedy set mostly in eastern Berlin, Ossi-Wessi and secular-orthodox Jewish themes. Director Dani Levy
* "Das Leben der Anderen", 2005 - East Berlin's cultural scene before reunification, riddled by Stasi secret agents. Drama by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
* "Sommer vorm Balkon", 2005 (Summer in Berlin) - Two women struggle with life, and a man. Director Andreas Dresen
* "Der Rote Kakadu", 2006 (The Red Cockatoo) - Young love and friendship in 1961 East Germany; partly set in the Kopenhagener Straße. Director Domenik Graf
* "Knallhart", 2006 - A film about the run-down district of Berlin-Neukölln. Directed by Detlev Buck
* "The Good German", 2006 - Homage to Film Noir, set in 1945 Berlin during the Potsdam Conference, by Steven Soderbergh
* "Breathful", 2007 - A (Gangster-Comedy) with an all-women cast and dedicated to women's rights by Daryush Shokof
* "Asudem", 2007 - A (Horror-Surreal) film in black and white by Daryush Shokof

See also

*1920s Berlin
*Berlin Film Festival
*Cinema of Germany
*European cinema
*German Expressionism
*List of German films
*Ufa

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