A film about the love for cinema, a voyage of discovery through one hundred years of German film, which shows us that all which seems so far away, is, in reality, so close. Eye to Eye shows the great moments of German cinema history. Unforgettable images are passing before our eyes and make us feel like watching the classics again. Acclaimed German filmmakers such as Michael Ballhaus, Andreas Dresen, Doris Dörrie, Dominik Graf, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Caroline Link, Christian Petzold, Tom Tykwer, Wim Wenders and Hanns Zischler, use film extracts to illustrate us the films that have been particularly important to them; they investigate the essence of German film. Layer by layer, the film uncovers what so often has obscured our view of German film history. A history closely connected to contemporary German history. Five chapters, five cinematic essays: the city of Berlin as seen in film, cinema under National Socialism, the cinema of the GDR, a cinematic journey through Germany, and the question: what makes German cinema German? Finally, six different kinds of images are shown - men's eyes, women's gazes, kisses, screams, smoking, making a phone call - all taken from different films and different eras in the history of German cinema.