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- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 25th Hour
- A Pure Place
- Adam
- Amazing Grace
- Ammonite
- Amour Fou
- And Then We Danced
- Antim: The Final Truth
- Aware – Reise in das Bewusstsein
- B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
- Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
- Bergman Island
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- BlacKkKlansman
- Blue Velvet
- Borga
- Cicada
- Climate Warriors – Der Kampf um die Zukunft unseres Planeten
- Corpus Christi
- Coup
- Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
- Cry Macho
- Das Schwarze Quadrat
- Dawn Of The Dead
- Dear Evan Hansen
- Dear Future Children
- Deckname Jenny
- Dialogue Earth
- Die Känguru-Chroniken
- Draußen
- Dream Horse
- Dune
- Encanto
- Eternals
- EX the movie
- Fabian or Going to the Dogs
- Falling
- Familie Brasch
- Finding Vivian Maier
- First Cow
- Fisherman's Friends
- Gestern Mitte Morgen
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Grosse Freiheit
- Gunpowder Milkshake
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse
- Hogar
- Home
- House of Gucci
- I predatori
- I'm Your Man
- Instructions for Survival
- Ivie wie Ivie
- Jak najdalej stad
- Je suis Karl
- JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
- Last Duel
- Last Night in Soho
- Le Prince
- Letzte Runde – Last Round
- Lieber Thomas
- Little Women
- Love Sarah
- Martha: A Picture Story
- Midnight Family
- Minari
- Movements of a nearby Mountain
- Mr. X: Le cinema de Leos Carax
- Nahschuss
- Nama-ye nazdik
- Nebenan
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Nico
- Night Of The Living Dead
- No Hard Feelings
- Nomadland
- Notes Of Berlin: The Film
- Nowhere Special
- Percy
- Piazzolla – The Years of the Shark
- Port Authority
- Promising Young Woman
- Rebel Dykes
- Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien
- Sneak Preview
- Solaris
- Spiritual Letters
- Spuren – Opfer des NSU
- Synonymes
- Tagundnachtgleiche – Equinox
- The Father
- The Green Knight
- The Human Voice
- The Matrix
- The Orphanage
- The Other Side of the River
- The Outsiders
- The Power of the Dog
- The Rider
- The Royal Game
- The Scavengers
- The Sunlit Night
- The Unforgivable
- The Velvet Underground
- Titane
- Top Girl oder La deformation professionnelle
- Toubab
- Trans – I Got Life
- Una pelicula de policias
- Variety Lights
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Walchensee Forever
- Walter Kaufmann: What A Life!
- When a Farm goes aflame
- Who is Afraid of Alice Miller?
- Why Are We (Not) Creative?
- Why Are We Creative?
- Why Not You
- Wild at Heart
- Wings of Desire
- Winter Journey
- With One's Own Eyes
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick's monumental space opera is shown in the original version and projected in classical 70 mm. read more
25th Hour
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Amazing Grace
Release Date 28.11.2019 ARETHA FRANKLIN: AMAZING GRACE is a fascinating, dazzling historic document about a career highlight of one of the greatest singers of the 20th century, and about the production of one of her most successful albums. read more
And Then We Danced
Release Date 23.07.2020 Levan Gelbakhiani as Merab frolics with unrestrained energy and a disarming smile in this Georgian love drama about two ballet students. read more
Aware – Reise in das Bewusstsein
Release Date 02.09.2021 The documentary follows six researchers who deal with the topic of awareness from different perspectives – among them are brain researcher Christof Kock, psychedelics researcher Robert Griffith, and biologist Monica Gagliano. read more
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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
Release Date 21.05.2015 A fast paced montage of TV-features, videos and Super-8-films, B-MOVIE tells the story of one of the most exciting periods of the West-Berlin music scene, from the perspective of Mark Reeder, an Englishman from Manchester, who moved to Berlin in ... read more
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
Release Date 02.09.2021 Adaption of the novel by Thomas Mann of the same title. read more
Bergman Island
Release Date 04.11.2021 A filmmaking couple spends a summer in Fårö, the chosen home and place of longing of director Ingmar Bergman. Hansen-Løve interlaces the narrative layers with Bergman themes and motifs with uncanny assuredness. read more
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Release Date 16.07.2020 In Burhan Qurbani‘s new adaptation of Döblin‘s “Berlin Alexanderplatz,“ Franz Biberkopf is replaced by Francis, a migrant from Guinea-Bissau who feels responsible for his wife‘s drowning in the Mediterranean and wants to become a good ... read more
BlacKkKlansman
Release Date 23.08.2018 BLACKKKLANSMAN tells the (true) story of black police detective Ron Stallworth who pretended to be a white racist on the phone and entered the most inner circle of the Ku Klux Klan in the 70s. read more
Blue Velvet
Evil is looming behind the white picket fences in David Lynch's psychological thriller BLUE VELVET. read more
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Climate Warriors – Der Kampf um die Zukunft unseres Planeten
Release Date 06.12.2018 A documentary about "climate warriors" in Germany and the US. read more
Corpus Christi
Release Date 03.09.2020 A harsh, beautiful exploration of religion and redemption in small-town Poland. read more
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
Release Date 19.08.2021 Julian Temple (THE GREAT ROCK’N’ROLL SWINDLE, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS) has paid The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan a cinematic punk tribute. read more
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Das Schwarze Quadrat
Release Date 25.11.2021 Forger Vincent and the somewhat naive Nils steal Malewitsch‘s “The Black Square“ and flee on a cruise ship. A surreal ensemble crime film with a touch of Wes Anderson. read more
Dawn Of The Dead
Release Date 28.10.2021 Classic zombie film from George A. Romero: On the run from the zombie apocalypse the survivors hide in a shopping mall. Soon the place is overrun by aggressive bikers and shambling zombies. read more
Dear Future Children
Release Date 14.10.2021 Filmmaker Franz Böhm and his team accompanied three activists on three continents in DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN: Rayan (22) fights for more equality in Chile, Hilda (22) founded Fridays for Future Uganda, and “Pepper“ demonstrates for more democratic ... read more
Deckname Jenny
Release Date 19.04.2018 A young woman, “Code Name Jenny,“ joins a militant, autonomous group that is planning two attacks. When the operation is about to fail, “Jenny‘s“ father, who used to be active in a revolutionary cell, takes over. read more
Die Känguru-Chroniken
Release Date 02.07.2020 Scatter-brained artist Marc-Uwe and his anarchist roommate, the Kangaroo, have to outwit a property speculator who wants to rebuild Kreuzberg. An adaptation of Marc-Uwe Kling‘s cult classic “The Kangaroo Chronicles.“ read more
Dream Horse
Release Date 12.08.2021 Based on a true story: a Welsh village community starts race horse breeding and raises a winner in an allotment garden. read more
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Fabian or Going to the Dogs
Release Date 05.08.2021 Dominik Graf has filmed Erich Kästner‘s saddest novel. A future Berlin classic. read more
Familie Brasch
Release Date 16.08.2018 Father Horst Brasch was the founder of the Free German Youth and a SED official, children Thomas, Klaus, Peter, and Marion are all artists, writers, actors, and novelists. Annekathrin Hendel‘s documentary reviews the family‘s history between ... read more
Finding Vivian Maier
Release Date 26.06.2014 At an auction in 2005 the collector and director John Maloof bought a box of negatives. After he developed the photos he discovered one of the best photographers of the 20th century. He goes looking for the back story of the unknown photographer ... read more
Fisherman's Friends
Release Date 08.08.2019 Danny gets tasked with signing the Shanty Choir from Port Isaac to a record label. When he realizes that this was a joke, he is already knee deep in the small town‘s network of relationships. read more
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Continuing events 30 years after GHOST BUSTERS, the third part sees the next generation face a supernatural threat to the world. read more
Grosse Freiheit
Release Date 18.11.2021 From the concentration camp directly to prison: Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) is gay and that is still considered a crime in post-war FRG. He meets Viktor (Georg Friedrich) there, who is in prison for murder. read more
Gunpowder Milkshake
Release Date 02.12.2021
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Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse
Release Date 16.09.2021 A long-term documentary about an extraordinary teacher and his class. read more
Home
Release Date 29.07.2021 Franka Potente‘s film HOME is set in a Californian small town hit by poverty and the opioid epidemic. Marvin returns to his hometown after 17 years in prison where the granddaughter of the woman he murdered develops sympathy for him.
House of Gucci
Release Date 02.12.2021 The real-life assassination of the head of fashion house Gucci is turned into a stylish, star-studded crime thriller by Ridley Scott. read more
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I'm Your Man
Release Date 01.07.2021 Historian Alma is meant to spend three weeks with a robot who has been programmed to be her ideal partner using statistical data from millions of women and Alma‘s personal “mindfiles.“ read more
Instructions for Survival
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Je suis Karl
Release Date 16.09.2021 Maxi‘s mother and her little siblings die in a terrorist attack that is attributed to Islamist terrorists but was actually committed by neo-Nazis. Handsome young Nazi Karl creeps in on Maxi in order to use her for the group‘s propaganda. read more
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Last Night in Soho
Release Date 11.11.2021 Sensitive and introverted Eloise dreams of glamorous Sandy at night, who wants to become a singer in the swinging sixties in London. But soon the dark and dangerous sides of the sixties are revealed. read more
Lieber Thomas
Release Date 11.11.2021 In their Thomas Brasch biopic, director Andreas Kleinert and writer Thomas Wendrich playfully work with facts, widely shake things up, leave things out, bulk things up, exaggerate and underplay. read more
Little Women
Release Date 30.01.2020 Greta Gerwig's adaptation of the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. The four March sisters are moving from childhood to adulthood, briefly stuck in a transitory state as "little women". read more
Love Sarah
Release Date 10.09.2020 After her mother dies, 19 year old Clarissa wants to fulfill her biggest dream together with her grandmother and her mother‘s old friend Isabella: to open a bakery in London‘s hipster neighborhood Notting Hill. read more
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Midnight Family
Movements of a nearby Mountain
Mr. X: Le cinema de Leos Carax
A portrait of one of the most extraordinary directors currently active: Monsieur Leos Carax. read more
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Release Date 01.10.2020 When 17-year-old Autumn from Pennsylvania finds out that she‘s pregnant, she only tells her cousin Skyler about it. With little money and the address of a clinic in her bag, the two make their way to New York City. read more
No Hard Feelings
Release Date 24.09.2020 Parvis manouvers between the queer Hildesheim party scene and his liberal, Iranian suburban parental home with aplomb. When he does community service at a refugee home, he meets Amon and his sister Bana and starts roaming the streets with them over ... read more
Notes Of Berlin: The Film
Release Date 09.09.2021 Joab Nist‘s blog NOTES OF BERLIN, which posted the notes found on Berlin street lamps, windscreens, and post boxes was turned into the interactive website “Notes of Berlin Lab“ in 2014, where the stories behind the notes are told: which is ... read more
Nowhere Special
Release Date 07.10.2021 A Northern Irish window cleaner has cancer and knows he doesn‘t have much time left. Before he dies, he wants to find the right adoptive family for his son. read more
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Piazzolla – The Years of the Shark
Release Date 07.11.2019 An intimate portrait of tango revolutionary Astor Piazzola in super 8 family films, recordings of conversations with his daughter Diana from the 80s, and current stories from his son Daniel.
Promising Young Woman
Release Date 19.08.2021 Every Saturday night Casssandra (Carey Mulligan) pretends to be a helpless young woman – in order to get back at the men who want to use her. read more
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Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien
Release Date 20.08.2020 A documentary on German film and theatre director Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010), assembled entirely from his films and interviews. read more
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Spuren – Opfer des NSU
Release Date 13.02.2020 Documentary following the relatives of three men killed by right-wing terrorists between 2000 and 2007. read more
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Tagundnachtgleiche – Equinox
Release Date 18.11.2021 Silent Alexander begins a passionate affair with artist Paula. Shortly after, the beautiful stranger is dead, and Alexander loses it. read more
The Father
Release Date 26.08.2021 Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is a distinguished old man who lives alone in his spacious apartment, but he‘s having more and more glitches. French director Florian Zeller portrays the mental decline from the subjective perspective of the afflicted. read more
The Green Knight
Release Date 29.07.2021 David Lowery (GHOST STORY) has taken on the strange epic “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight“ and has turned it into an even stranger, hypnotic film that is visually reminiscent of German expressionism and the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer. read more
The Matrix
Hacker Neo finds out that his life is a complex illusion and part of the “Matrix.“ Awakened, Neo joins a rebel group to fight the machines controlling it. But this battle can only be fought inside the Matrix. With kung-fu and lots of guns. read more
The Orphanage
Release Date 04.11.2021 The late 1980s in Afghanistan. Cinephile Quodat lives on the streets of Kabul before he is picked up by the police and taken to a children‘s home. read more
The Royal Game
Release Date 23.09.2021 The impressive, partially shocking psychological portrait of an indomitable character. Philip Stölzl adapted Stefan Zweig‘s last text, “The Royal Game.“ read more
The Scavengers
The Sunlit Night
Release Date 23.09.2021 When artist Fran gets the opportunity to paint artist Nils‘ shed in Lofoten over the summer, she is thankful for the unusual offer – anything to get away from New York! The romantic comedy thrives on weird and warm characters, imaginative decor, ... read more
Top Girl oder La deformation professionnelle
Release Date 15.01.2015 TOP GIRL is reminiscent of René Pollesch's discourse theatre. The second part of Turanskyj's women and work trilogy tells the story of Helena, an unemployed actor (Julia Hummer), who works as an escort and fulfills the sexual wishes of her clients. ... read more
Trans – I Got Life
Release Date 23.09.2021 The documentary shows how plastic surgery can help trans patients feel comfortable in their bodies. It portrays men and women in different life and transitional phases as well as their doctors and their work. read more
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Una pelicula de policias
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Variety Lights
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Follow-up to VENOM with a new, even deadlier symbiote appearing on the scene. read more
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Walchensee Forever
Release Date 21.10.2021 Janna Ji Wonder‘s documentary about her own family takes her from Bavaria to the US, to Rainer Langhan‘s commune, and back to Walchensee. read more
Walter Kaufmann: What A Life!
Release Date 30.09.2021 Walter Kaufmann, born in 1924, escaped to England with the Kindertransport and became a travel writer in the GDR thanks to his Australian passport: his journeys took him from Hiroshima to the US civil rights movement, the Cuban revolution, and ... read more
Who is Afraid of Alice Miller?
Release Date 11.11.2021 A documentary about Martin Miller and his mother Alice Miller, the author of “The Drama Of The Gifted Child,“ and their complex relationship. read more
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
Release Date 23.09.2021 A documentary exploring the factors that lessen creativity. read more
Why Are We Creative?
Release Date 04.10.2018 Hermann Vaske asked celebrities like Marina Abramovic, David Bowie, Mel Gibson, Neo Rauch, Angelina Jolie, Nelson Mandela, and Bono where their creativity actually comes from. read more
Why Not You
Release Date 07.10.2021 Mario‘s friend Lenz dies in an islamist terrorist attack in Rome. In Mario‘s South Tyrol home village, Nadim, a former classmate and Muslim, is Mario‘s ally. The film explores sexual identity, religious terrorism, survivor guilt, addiction, ... read more
Wings of Desire
Release Date 12.04.2018 Otto Sander and Brunco Ganz as angels watching over Berlin. Wim Wender‘s poetic film is also a historic document of the city before the fall of the Wall. read more
Winter Journey
Release Date 22.10.2020 Georg Goldsmith and his wife fled Nazi Germany in 1941; he now lives alone in his house in Arizona. He had not spoken about the past for years until his son Martin confronts him with it and reconstructs his parents’ story. read more
With One's Own Eyes
Release Date 11.11.2021 WITH ONE‘S OWN EYES documents the work of the editorial team of ARD‘s political magazine “Monitor“ on a segment about the killing of district president Walter Lübke. read more
New Releases
Now Playing
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 25th Hour
- A Pure Place
- Adam
- Amazing Grace
- Ammonite
- Amour Fou
- And Then We Danced
- Antim: The Final Truth
- Aware – Reise in das Bewusstsein
- B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
- Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
- Bergman Island
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- BlacKkKlansman
- Blue Velvet
- Borga
- Cicada
- Climate Warriors – Der Kampf um die Zukunft unseres Planeten
- Corpus Christi
- Coup
- Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
- Cry Macho
- Das Schwarze Quadrat
- Dawn Of The Dead
- Dear Evan Hansen
- Dear Future Children
- Deckname Jenny
- Dialogue Earth
- Die Känguru-Chroniken
- Draußen
- Dream Horse
- Dune
- Encanto
- Eternals
- EX the movie
- Fabian or Going to the Dogs
- Falling
- Familie Brasch
- Finding Vivian Maier
- First Cow
- Fisherman's Friends
- Gestern Mitte Morgen
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Grosse Freiheit
- Gunpowder Milkshake
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse
- Hogar
- Home
- House of Gucci
- I predatori
- I'm Your Man
- Instructions for Survival
- Ivie wie Ivie
- Jak najdalej stad
- Je suis Karl
- JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
- Last Duel
- Last Night in Soho
- Le Prince
- Letzte Runde – Last Round
- Lieber Thomas
- Little Women
- Love Sarah
- Martha: A Picture Story
- Midnight Family
- Minari
- Movements of a nearby Mountain
- Mr. X: Le cinema de Leos Carax
- Nahschuss
- Nama-ye nazdik
- Nebenan
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Nico
- Night Of The Living Dead
- No Hard Feelings
- Nomadland
- Notes Of Berlin: The Film
- Nowhere Special
- Percy
- Piazzolla – The Years of the Shark
- Port Authority
- Promising Young Woman
- Rebel Dykes
- Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien
- Sneak Preview
- Solaris
- Spiritual Letters
- Spuren – Opfer des NSU
- Synonymes
- Tagundnachtgleiche – Equinox
- The Father
- The Green Knight
- The Human Voice
- The Matrix
- The Orphanage
- The Other Side of the River
- The Outsiders
- The Power of the Dog
- The Rider
- The Royal Game
- The Scavengers
- The Sunlit Night
- The Unforgivable
- The Velvet Underground
- Titane
- Top Girl oder La deformation professionnelle
- Toubab
- Trans – I Got Life
- Una pelicula de policias
- Variety Lights
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Walchensee Forever
- Walter Kaufmann: What A Life!
- When a Farm goes aflame
- Who is Afraid of Alice Miller?
- Why Are We (Not) Creative?
- Why Are We Creative?
- Why Not You
- Wild at Heart
- Wings of Desire
- Winter Journey
- With One's Own Eyes
