The Lives of Others
In 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 loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria. From TMDB
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60 of 153 · most liked firstWatch: The Lives of Others, 2006, a film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It won an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
unlabelledView post →Just watched again that great German film, The Lives of Others, about the Stasi in East Germany in the 1980s. Surveillance of artists, policing of dissident speech, interrogations, punishment, operatives and informants securing their own privileges by naming and reporting others. SBS on demand.
unlabelledView post →🗃️ #GDR #Rosie I’m so glad “The Lives of Others” made the NYT list of this century’s top 100 movies. The script is flawless. No wasted scenes. If you're wondering what it feels like to have your everyday conversations scrutinized by a bunch of eavesdropping Nazis, see this movie.
unlabelledView post →Everyone should watch The Lives of Others, a 2006 German film by Florian Donnersmarck about ubiquitous Stasi surveillance in East Germany. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
unlabelledView post →I'll never forget the commentary track on "The Lives of Others" by an East German guy who worked on the movie during a scene where the evening news is playing a report about egg production and he said something like "we used to think this was the news".
unlabelledView post →THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006). It's not like the worst movie ever or anything but I don't really get why it was so highly praised.
unlabelledView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? GOODBYE LENIN! (2003) & THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006)
unlabelledView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s: Amadeus 90s: Unforgiven 00s: The Lives of Others 10s: The Lighthouse 20s: One Battle After Another
unlabelledView post →I have my students in my National Security Law class watch The Lives of Others before we cover electronic surveillance/FISA. Fantastic movie
unlabelledView post →German Spy Film - The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) One of the BEST films I’ve seen, highly recommend it - Masterpiece
unlabelledView post →Also everyone should definitely watch The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen). letterboxd.com/film/the-liv....
unlabelledView post →3/15/96: The Lives of Others Outstanding, but harder to appreciate such films at a reassuring distance today More: @szacharek.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2007/02/09/l... @gointothestory.bsky.social: gointothestory.blcklst.com/classic-inte... @thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2007...
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The Sugarland Express, Hail Caesar, The Client, The Burnt Orange Heresy. The best film I saw this week though was 2006's The Lives of Others. Magnificent.
unlabelledView post →I will say that even though conservatives love it (because it is a COMMUNISM BAD movie) I do not find the politics of THE LIVES OF OTHERS objectionable, unlike the *other* German Oscar-bait movie from that era, DOWNFALL bsky.app/profile/pato...
unlabelledView post →Two Films I’ve seen this past week that I recommend German Thriller/Spy Film - The Lives of Others Spy Film - Breach
unlabelledView post →I just keep replaying the film The Lives of Others in my mind. That's what's in store, probably for decades to come. I watched reporters talking to voters in line yesterday, with many saying they were still deciding who would get their vote. Like it was a popularity contest. This is tragic.
unlabelledView post →damn I totally forgot about The Lives of Others, amazing film
unlabelledView post →#BTS Namjoon shared a pic of him with actor Lee Dong-hwi. Seems like he was attending the play #타인의삶 [Das Leben der Anderen/The Lives of Others], adapted from a 2006 movie with the same title. Lee plays Gerd Wiesler. The play is ongoing until 19.01. #RM
unlabelledView post →I watched "The Lives of Others" yesterday. I can't stop thinking about it. I was particularly struck in that moment when the agent cries hearing a piano piece. Can art transcend evil? 📽️
unlabelledView post →And has never seen a movie. I recommend The Lives Of Others to anyone who never wants to sleep well again.
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched: 35mm Oscar winner The Lives of Others has big brother making Big Brother Cinema’s best use of orange in The Fifth Element Thunderball is James Bond’s Esther Williams film Oscar nominated A Single Life is no Retirement Plan #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →The Lives of Others - great film and excellent reference!
unlabelledView post →German Spy Film - The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) What a film!! Excellent
unlabelledView post →"Watch The Lives of Others, the beautifully told film about surveillance in 80s east Berlin. Act as if you are now living in East Germany and Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp is the Stasi. It is." 😬
unlabelledView post →RIP to Gene Hackman, who once played John Kempe in a short-lived play version of The Book of Margery Kempe in the 1960s. My favorite role of his is in The Conversation (1974), a haunting film about surveillance and complicity in evil regimes - great companion to The Lives of Others (2006).
unlabelledView post →My pending-movie list just placed "Raising Arizona" between "The Lives of Others" and "Elevator to the Gallows", and the fog cleared and I muttered: "So. This is what the next 4 years will be like."
unlabelledView post →Watching this for the..I’ve lost count…time. Still great. 📽️🎥 Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (2006)
unlabelledView post →The guy who says he loves THE LIVES OF OTHERS is now making a film in support of a quasi-paramilitary/secret police force.
unlabelledView post →"The Lives of Others" was a great movie. Showed the impacts living in a secret police state had on ordinary civilians, as well as the police themselves.
unlabelledView post →Watch the German movie "The Lives of Others" from 2006. Set in 1983 East Berlin. The surveillance state.
unlabelledView post →Every time I see that photo, it makes me think of a scene near the beginning of a great film, The Lives of Others. It's about East Germany in the last years of Stasi snooping on citizens' private lives, focused on the intellectuals. Great film if you haven't seen it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_i...
unlabelledView post →I love this movie so much it is already in the stratosphere of I Will Never Tire of Talking About this Movie incl. (equal stature) THE LIVES OF OTHERS THE RULING CLASS ZOOLANDER THE CONVERSATION ADAPTATION IKIRU VERTIGO BLADE RUNNER (both) ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
unlabelledView post →#Bales2026FilmChallenge Day 28 - Movie Made in Germany The Lives of Others (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck --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.
unlabelledView post →Ever since I described The Lives of Others as "a prestige Tom Clancy movie" on Letterboxd, nobody has faved any of my reviews. Some people just can't handle the truth, I guess. 💅💅💅
unlabelledView post →Keira Knightley and Luke Thompson are set to lead the London stage version of ‘THE LIVES OF OTHERS’. The production reworks the Oscar-winning film into a psychological surveillance thriller set in 1984 East Berlin, where a love story unfolds under Stasi control. #KeiraKnightley #LukeThompson
unlabelledView post →I recommend to all: The Lives of Others. In 2006, as the film ended, I found the person next to me in tears. She said: That’s just as it was. Over and over. It’s streaming. You won’t regret it.
unlabelledView post →Kash just watched the movie “The Lives of Others” and thought he’d like to bring Cold War 1984 German tactics to this country
unlabelledView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge 10/3 Example of a movie from Germany The Lives of Others (2006) #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky
unlabelledView post →There is an oppressive stillness about the film which achieves things that comparable films like The Lives of Others (2006) did a bit more flashily. Here the practices of the Stasi are somehow even drearier, even less dramatic, and arguably more insidious. 3/4
unlabelledView post →Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner All the Presidents Men 12 Years a Slave The Zone of interest To Kill a Mockingbird The Lives of Others… Personally looking forward to the film that tells the story of America’s descent into a fascist dictatorship.
unlabelledView post →> What's a non-Criterion movie that deserves a Criterion release? The Lives of Others (d. FH von Donnersmarck 2006)
unlabelledView post →And it has given me an idea for a new demo/presso "The Lives of Others - Live". I love that film - simultaneously oppressive, disturbing, and yet redemptive - it is stunning. So how interesting to have a walkthrough of the spook tech in it - both explicit and implied. What do we think - Yes? 3/3
unlabelledView post →The Lives of Others is the best movie not enough people have seen. Pained to leave Collateral, Win Win and Duplicity off the list.
unlabelledView post →Great movie about the Stasi called The Lives of Others.
unlabelledView post →I love exploring international film. So it’s hard to pick. But these are a few examples: The Lives of Others, The Secret in Their Eyes, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy and Amelie. And does The Artist count considering it’s silent? 🤫
unlabelledView post →“Name an antifascist film” They Live The Lives of Others Sophie Scholl: The Final Days Captain America: The First Avenger The Tin Drum Aguirre: The Wrath of God To Have and Have Not
unlabelledView post →#ResignationInProtest, Chinese Communist Party edition incredibly compelling story that is begging to be made into a movie, a la “The Lives of Others” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/b...
unlabelledView post →The Lives of Others! Rewatched it around the inauguration (for no particular reason, of course), and it really holds up. LOVE that movie.
unlabelledView post →This week we’re celebrating our 200th spy movie review by tackling the academy award winning spy thriller THE LIVES OF OTHERS… But what are your thoughts on the film? Is it one of the all-time greats? 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... 🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/5kE2...
unlabelledView post →Movies you’ve watched more than six times using only gifs. I know you were expecting Twilight but this also fits the criteria and is unfortunately super relevant and everyone should please watch it. No gifs for this movie on here so here is are two stills from The Lives of Others (2006).
unlabelledView post →The Lives of Others was a great movie. That's what we're headed toward; a society where everyone spies on each other.
unlabelledView post →The movie The Lives of Others used the Stasi HQ as a filming location. Always wanted to see it.
unlabelledView post →Classic movie titles, but about people with Long COVID / MECFS: "Walk, Lola, Walk" "The Good, the Bad, and the Tired" "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the PEM" "Howl's Unmoving Castle" "The PEMpire Strikes Back" "The Lives Of Others" [Unchanged]
unlabelledView post →Infernal Affairs. Pan's Labyrinth. RRR. Downfall. The Lives of Others. Godzilla Minus One. I'm not a cutting edge film aficionado, just a middle aged dad with an internet connection, but I've got more 21st century foreign film recommendations than Tarantino does.
unlabelledView post →"The Lives Of Others", movie Marcel Beyer: "Spies", book 🫡
unlabelledView post →The Lives of Others is a great movie and is "required viewing" for these times.
unlabelledView post →I'm glad the longread mentions 'The Lives of Others', impossible not to think of that film when reading this.
unlabelledView post →THE LIVES OF OTHERS was rightly showered with critical praise upon release including BAFTA and Oscar wins, but what is your favourite foreign language spy movie? Hear more on LIVES OF OTHERS in our deep dive: pod.fo/e/2b6f25
unlabelledView post →Join us as we lock ourselves in the attic to celebrate our 200th spy movie review with a deep dive on 2006s academy award winning Cold War spy thriller THE LIVES OF OTHERS! Will it make the NOC list? Tune in now: pod.fo/e/2b6f25
unlabelledView post →The Oscar-winning 2006 film "The Lives Of Others" illustrates the situation in 1983 Berlin brilliantly.
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