Balloon (2018)

Summary: East Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.

Release Date: September 27, 2018

Genres: Drama, Thriller, History

Director: Michael Herbig

Writers: Kit Hopkins

, Thilo Röscheisen

, Michael Herbig

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: herbX Film, StudioCanal, SevenPictures Film

Distributor: Distrib Films

Countries: Germany, France, United States

Language: German

Domestic: $ 34,222

International: $ 11,765,369

The Lives of Others (2006)

Summary: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Release Date: March 30, 2007

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARTE, Creado Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Germany, France

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,286,112

International: $ 66,386,573

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

Summary: In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Release Date: May 14, 2004

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Wolfgang Becker