Movies Like Westler: East of the Wall
If you liked Westler: East of the Wall (1985), a drama and romance movie directed by Wieland Speck, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Great Freedom (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceIn post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he…
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Cocoon (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceIn the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her…
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Christopher and His Kind (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceIn 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's…
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Cabaret (1972)
★ 7.4/10Also romance and dramaInside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
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Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceIn 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi…
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The Lives of Others (2006)
★ 8/10Also dramaIn 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting…
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Wings of Desire (1987)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and romanceTwo angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with…
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Faraway, So Close! (1993)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceA group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceIn 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his…
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The Tunnel (2001)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaInspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
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Despair (1978)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaBerlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other…
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Coming Out (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romancePhilipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.
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Ghosts (2005)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaNina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. Meanwhile, Francoise is picked up at a Berlin psychiatric hospital…
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The Good German (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaAn American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between…
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In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaElvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her…
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Alone in Berlin (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaBerlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front…
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The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceAfter returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.
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Arch of Triumph (1948)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceIn the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi…
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Love in Thoughts (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
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Victoria (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also romanceA young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.