Verfolgte Wege (1989)

Recém-chegada em Hamburgo, Rachel Morgan é afetada de imediato pelo clima sombrio que a cidade conserva depois de ter sido inteiramente destruída durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Seu marido, o coronel britânico Lewis , foi encarregado de coordenar a reconstrução da região por tempo indeterminado. Em uma decisão unilateral, Lewis estabelece que o casal ficará hospedado na casa de um viúvo alemão, provocando sentimentos conflituosos em sua esposa.

Um jovem promotor da Alemanha Ocidental do pós-guerra investiga uma conspiração massiva para encobrir o passado nazista de importantes figuras públicas.

Na Berlim do pós-guerra, um soldado americano ajuda um menino Tcheco perdido a encontrar sua mãe. Um menino Tcheco de nove anos de idade, mudo, sobrevivente de Auschwitz, foge de um centro de refugiados na Alemanha no pós-guerra e é encontrado por um soldado americano. Ao mesmo tempo, a mãe do menino, o único membro sobrevivente de sua família, procura pelo seu filho em Centros de Refugiados. Tempo, distância, e o enorme número de crianças refugiadas são fatores que dificultam o reencontro de mãe e filho.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Saga inteligente e acachapante de um pelotão de soldados americanos, acompanhando-os através da Europa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cenas dramáticas intercaladas com imagens de noticiários. A guerra não tem vencedores, apenas sobreviventes. Matar destrói os assassinos, bem como os mortos, porque mata a decência, o autorrespeito e, finalmente, a própria vida. A história segue os passos de um pelotão de jovens soldados americanos desde os primeiros dias da Batalha da Inglaterra, passando pela luta feroz na Itália e na França, para terminar na paz inquieta de Berlim.

Um americano na Cidade de Ho Chi Minh no Vietnã, antiga Saigon, procura uma filha que ele gerou durante a guerra. Nessa busca o filme vai retratando indivíduos que triunfam sobre as adversidades, recuperando-se dos traumas, ansiosos por melhores tempos, bem como com a nostalgia por aqueles dias melhores antes das invasões americanas e francesas e outras invasões, materiais ou ideológicas. É um filme poético que tenta pintar uma imagem da cultura urbana submetida à ocidentalização.

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.

An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.

Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

In melodramatic fashion, the film tells the tale of a young German woman who finds herself alone in the world when the rest of her family is killed in a WWII air raid. Helping an American military man escape the Gestapo, she finds herself on the run from the Russian Army. Escaping to the American (and safe) side of Berlin, she registers herself as a prostitute (unknowingly) and finds herself caught between the German officer who thinks she is for sale and the American officer who she saved and is now in love with her.

Post-war Germany 1945: Two rival gangs of uprooted boys fight each other in the ruins of Berlin, whose business is the black market out of necessity in order to survive. Their respective leaders are Gerhard and Dietrich. A pretty young circus artist named Corona comes to the destroyed city with a traveling circus. She immediately caught the boys' attention. When the latter notice that the circus director is abusing the girl, the two gangs join forces and plot an act of revenge against the tyrant. But with the hustle and bustle caused by this, Corona falls from the trapeze and is seriously injured. When the circus moves on, the boys organize a doctor for the sick artist who has been left behind. Their collectively concern for the blonde beauty makes them forget their enmity. This welds the troops closer together and sets the course for a common, meaningful future.

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.

A "What if?" alternative history sees Nazi Germany prevailing in the second World War. First the occupiers establish their power bases, before they find themselves under attack from the underground resistance.

Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically died. Many years ago he dreamed of building a city, and now she is walking along the street bearing his name, a street without end. Having met her father’s friends, Olya learns him anew. They tell the girl how her father wanted to see large houses and wide streets on the site of the tent city. How he knew how to be friends and to love, and how longed for Olya when he broke up with his wife, who didn't agree to go with him.

Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.

June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .

It is an unknown chapter of the German post-war history: On April 23rd, 1949, the kingdom of the Netherlands occupied German soil as a pledge for demanded war reparations. Part of the annexed territories was also the small municipality of Elten. While the people of Elten were initially afraid of the occupation, the time “with Holland” actually became a miracle of prosperity and economy about which many people from Elten still rave today. The occupation period ended with the largest organized smuggling in the history of the federal republic of Germany. The Documentary shows this in never before released 8 mm footage!

The antihero "Mr. Karl" tells a "young person", the viewer, his life story while he sits at work in the warehouse of a delicatessen. The narrator increasingly turns out to be an opportunistic follower from the petty-bourgeois milieu, who maneuvered his way through life in the changing course of Austrian history from the end of the First World War to the end of the occupation in the 1950s.