Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "checkpoint-charlie"
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Bridge of Spies (2015)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, History, Thriller
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan
Votes: 327,816 | Gross: $72.31M
2. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 18,823
3. The Formula (1980)
R | 117 min | Crime, Thriller
The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of World War II, is sought after by some who aim to sell it, and by others who wish to destroy it.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud
Votes: 2,905
4. Jack Strong (2014)
Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov
Votes: 5,358
5. The Tunnel (2001)
150 min | Drama, History, Thriller
During the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 6,407 | Gross: $0.01M
6. The Secret Agents (1965)
125 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.
Directors: Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Terence Young, Werner Klingler | Stars: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot
Votes: 282
7. Inside Out (1975)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Thirty years after WW2, a team of former GIs and German soldiers plans to retrieve Nazi loot hidden in the Soviet occupied East Germany, its exact location only known to an imprisoned Nazi war criminal.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray
Votes: 655
8. Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on a East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Alexandre | Stars: Veronica Ferres, Peter Kremer, Filip Peeters, Maria Ehrich
Votes: 346
9. The Small Escape (2019)
Short
The film tells the story of a car mechanic in Berlin-Reinickendorf, who decides to modify his car to hide a passenger within a modified engine compartment to help them escape to freedom in ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Feil
Votes: 25
10. Women in Rock (1980)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Music
The essence of the punk movement through performances & interviews of some of punk rock's most important bands, including interviews and performances.
Director: Wolfgang Büld | Stars: Viv Albertine, Beate Bartel, Budgie, Gudrun Gut
Votes: 176
11. Duo Valentianos (1987)
91 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Gertrud Pinkus | Stars: Gilles Lotthe, Margarete Wiedstruck, Ulli Scholz, Angelika Bartsch
12.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Cold War: The Strangelove Factor
(1998)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
Russian Nuclear Secrets of the Cold War.
Directors: Aleksandr Ivankin, Chip Proser | Stars: Charlton Heston, Nikita Khrushchev, Oleg Troyanovski, John Erickson
Votes: 12
13.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The Cold War: Part 1
(2019)
TV-14 | 16 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The Cold War, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 37
14.
Totems (2021– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2021)
Drama, Thriller
While a Soviet project for an orbital bomb threatens the world balance, Francis Mareuil, an aerospace engineer, is sent East to recruit the scientist whose research made this bomb possible and falls for his daughter, Luydmila Golubeva.
Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 68
15.
Mark Felton Productions (2017– )
Episode:
Vladimir Putin - KGB Agent
(2022)
8 min | Documentary, History
The current (2022) leader of Russia, Vladamir Putin, joined the Soviet Communist Party and KGB right out of college. He spent his entire career in the KGB, serving much of it in Germany in ... See full summary »
Star: Mark Felton
16.
Coach Trip (2005– )
Episode:
Episode #7.29
(2011)
Reality-TV
Stars: Brendan Sheerin, Dave Vitty, Stephen Haines
17.
Unbeatable (2021–2023)
Episode:
Episode #2.42
(2023)
44 min | Game-Show
Jason Manford hosts the quiz show where players face a question and pick from a board of six rankable answers. Some answers are good, but only one is unbeatable. Cath, Ryan, Narinder and Annette are today's contestants.
Director: Derek Hallworth | Star: Jason Manford
18.
The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode:
The Fall of the Berlin Wall - 1989
(2023)
Documentary, History
In 1989, the Berlin Wall was knocked down. The Soviet Union begins to come apart.
Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Paul Maddrell, Adam Roberts, Richard John Evans, Hope M. Harrison
19.
Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode:
Berlin (Allemagne)
(2012)
Documentary
A nice journey of Jérôme from the center of Berlin (Daniel Hurst-the musher and his husky dogs-the arrival at the Reichstag, the new glass dome of the Reichstag, the stop at the Brandenburg... See full summary »
Director: Simon Watel | Star: Jérôme Pitorin
20.
Travel Man: 48 Hours in... (2015– )
Episode:
Berlin
(2016)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
Richard takes comedienne Roisin Conaty on a whirlwind tour of Berlin in just 48 hours.
Director: Leo McCrea | Stars: Richard Ayoade, Roisin Conaty
Votes: 109
21.
Haapasalo ja kaverit (2017– )
Episode:
Miesten viikonloppu
(2017)
60 min | Reality-TV
Director: Sako Pajari | Stars: Ville Haapasalo, Arman Alizad
22.
Rick Steves' Europe (2000–2023)
Episode:
Berlin
(2014)
TV-G | 25 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
While visiting Berlin's powerful sights - moving memorials, top-tier museums, surviving bits of communist and fascist days - we'll take time to revel in its vibrant social scene.
Director: Simon Griffith | Star: Rick Steves
Votes: 25