Movie archive
25km/h
25km/h | Deutschland 2018 | Comedy, Roadmovie | Markus Goller | 6
At their father‘s funeral, brothers Georg (Bjarne Mädel) and Christian (Lars Eidinger) decide to go on the trip that they never went on as teens and chug along with their mopeds in the direction of Timmendorf Beach.
Last Days in the Desert
Last Days in the Desert | USA 2015 | Adventure, Drama, History | Rodrigo Garcia | 12
A Good American
Österreich 2015 | Friedrich Moser
A documentary about William Binney, a system analyst for the NSA, whose ‘Thin Thread’ program might have prevented 9/11 without violating the population’s privacy and about why he quit his job.
The Operative
The Operative | USA/Deutschland/Israel/Frankreich 2019 | Agentenfilm, Thriller | Yuval Adler | 16
One day Rachel, a missing spy for the Mossad, reports back. A story of a woman who was deployed in increasingly more reckless ways for unknown purposes unfolds in her supervisor‘s report to his superior.
Die Allee
Deutschland 2024 | Documentary, Essay Film | Sven Boeck
Director Sven Boeck takes a very personal look at Frankfurter Allee.
Tutto quello che vuoi
Tutto quello che vuoi | Italien 2017 | Comedy, Tragicomedy | Francesco Bruni
23 year old slacker Alessandro is ordered by his father to help Alzheimer‘s afflicted Giorgio and befriends the old man.
Anhedonia – Narzissmus als Narkose
Deutschland 2015 | Comedy, Experimental film | Patrick Siegfried Zimmer
In the near future two young aristocrats are sent to an innovative clinic in order to find purpose in their overstimulated lives.
Anna and the Apocalypse
Anna and the Apocalypse | Großbritannien 2017 | Horror, Comedy, Musical | John McPhail | 16
A Christmas teen zombie apocalypse musical.
Arboretum
Deutschland 2020 | Thriller, Drama | Julian Richberg
Shortly after the turn of the century, best friends Erik and Sebastian living in a Thuringian small town close to the former border are waiting for “something big“ to finally happen. They already have a plan.
Asi mit Niwoh – Die Jürgen Zeltinger Geschichte
Deutschland 2018 | Biography, Documentary | Oliver Schwabe | 12
Jürgen Zeltinger, an original Cologne punk, was always older, fatter, sweatier, louder, and more generous than the rest of the world.
The Assistant
The Assistant | USA 2019 | Kitty Green
Jane, assistant to a choleric, elusive producer suspects that something untoward is happening at the office. But will she act on that suspicion?
Asteroid City
USA 2023 | Comedy | Wes Anderson | 12
Like Richard Linklater in APOLLO 10 ½ Wes Andersons ASTEROID CITY explores a mythical Space Age that dreamt of a bright future very different from the present.
Baby Driver
USA/Großbritannien 2017 | Action, Music Films, Love-story | Edgar Wright | 16
Baby is the best getaway driver in the city. He always listens to music to drown out his tinnitus. He just has one more heist to pull off – then he’s free. An action musical from Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD).
Bait
Bait | Großbritannien 2019 | Drama | Mark Jenkin
Director Mark Jenkin tells a tale of gentrification of Cornwall in grainy 16mm black and white that‘s jumpy and scratched. Martin, a fisherman without a boat, has to renovate the house of newly arrived Londoners, but he has his own plans.
You Were Never Really Here
USA/Frankreich 2017 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Lynne Ramsay | 16
Former soldier Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) has a life filled with trauma behind him. His flashbacks and suicidal plans are kept in check with pills and he uses his violent impulses to become an expert in freeing kidnapped girls.
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
Deutschland 2021 | Comedy, Literary Film Adaptations | Detlev Buck | 12
Adaption of the novel by Thomas Mann of the same title.
Beti and Amare
Beti and Amare | USA/ Spanien/ Rumänien/ Deutschland/ Kanada/ Äthiopien 2014 | Fantasy, Love-story, Science Fiction | Andy Siege | 16
A young woman flees from the war into the desert but the war gives chase. Fortunately, so does a young man from outer space. A gorgeously shot debut feature about love, monsters and desert flowers.
Birds of Passage
Pájaros de verano | Dänemark/Kolumbien 2018 | Drama, Crime Drama, Familientragödie | Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra | 12
BIRDS OF PASSAGE, based on real events, tells the story of the rise and fall of the Colombian Wayuu in 5 cantos who entered the drug trade in 1960 before the beginning of the cartels.
Bohemian Rhapsody
USA/Großbritannien 2018 | Biography, Drama, Music Films | Dexter Fletcher, Bryan Singer | 6
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY tells the story of Farrokh Bulsara aka Freddie Mercury against the backdrop of the band Queen.
The Brandnew Testament
Le tout nouveau testament | Frankreich/Belgien/Luxemburg 2014 | Comedy | Jaco van Dormael | 12
God’s daughter, fed up with her father’s tyrannical tendencies, sets out to find six disciples of her own for a brand new testament.
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Brittany Runs a Marathon | USA 2019 | Drama | Paul Downs Colaizzo | 6
At 27 Brittany decides to stop the unhealthy party life and prepares for a marathon.
Candyman
USA 2020 | Horror, Literary Film Adaptations | Nia DaCosta | 16
Nia DaCosta‘s CANDYMAN is both a sequel and a revision of Bernard Rose‘s horror classic CANDYMAN from 1992, which was progressive in terms of Black visibility in horror, but was told from a White perspective.
Censor
Censor | Großbritannien 2021 | Horror | Prano Bailey-Bond | 16
England, at the height of the “video nasty“ era in the mid 80s. Enid works at the censorship board and evaluates horror films, but ends up going deeper and deeper into her own nightmare.
Charlatan
Tschechische Republik/ Irland/ Polen/ Slowakische Republik 2020 | Biography | Agnieszka Holland | 16
An unconventional biopic about the life of Czech herbalist Jan Mikolášek, whose unusual healing methods made him wealthy but also puts him in conflict with the state..
Chumm mit – Der Schweizer Wanderfilm
Schweiz 2022 | Documentary | Daniel Felix
Daniel Felix and his friends are hiking across all 26 Swiss cantons and keep “accidentally“ meeting people who can extensively report on the Swiss stystem of the hiking trails or the history of Swiss cartography.
Cocaine Bear
USA 2023 | Thriller, Tierfilm, Black Comedy | Elizabeth Banks
A bear takes cocaine. This is not good. No one needs a bear on cocaine. The premise may be silly but the film is fairly entertaining.
The Dark and the Wicked
The Dark and the Wicked | USA 2020 | Horror | Bryan Bertino | 16
Director Bryan Bertino (THE STRANGERS) uses elements from the haunted house films of the last 30 years and keeps heightening the scares right until it reaches the last confrontation revolving around old David Straker‘s soul
Dark Glasses
Occhiali Neri | Italien/Frankreich 2022 | Horror | Dario Argento | 18
A killer targets Rome escorts. Diana has escaped him once but lost her sight in the process. And he is stil after her....
Das Land der Heiligen
La terra dei santi | Italien 2015 | Crime Drama, Family Film | Fernando Muraca
The mafia from the female perspective: prosecutor Vittoria came from northern Italy to tear down the structures of Ndragheta. She crosses paths with Assunta, who is forced to marry the brother of her dead husband in order to keep “the family” ...
David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch: The Art Life | Dänemark/USA 2016 | Documentary, Film about film-making, Biography | Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Rick Barnes | oA
David Lynch isn’t just a world-famous director of mysterious films; he is also a successful surrealist painter. The documentary DAVID LYNCH: THE ART OF LIFE is dedicated to this lesser known side of Lynch.
The Death of Stalin
Großbritannien/Frankreich 2017 | Black Comedy, Historical Film, Satire | Armando Iannucci | 12
Armando Iannucci turns the political scramble surrounding the leadership after Stalin‘s death into a hilarious satire.
Those who are well
Dene wos guet geit | Schweiz 2017 | Drama, Satire | Cyril Schäublin
During the day Alice works at a call center in Zurich. She uses her free time calling older women pretending to be their granddaughter in desperate need of (their) money. An offbeat debut from Switzerland.
THE ELECTED
Deutschland 2014 | Documentary | Nancy Brandt
THE ELECTED follows the struggles, challenges and successes of five young members of the German parliament during their first term in office.
Uchenik
Uchenik | Russland 2016 | Drama | Kirill Serebrennikov | 12
A teenager furiously studies the Bible and begins to imprint his faith on his blasé surroundings. His biology teacher is the only one who sees something wrong in this. At the end somebody dies and somebody makes a declaration of faith.
Knock
Knock | Frankreich 2017 | Tragicomedy, Gangster Film, Theateradaption | Lorraine Levy | 6
A tragicomedy about a former crook who pretends to be a doctor and settles down in a small village and convinces the residents that they are in need of treatment.
DogMan
Frankreich/USA 2023 | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime Drama, Tierfilm | Luc Besson
DOGMAN deals with a similar brand of incel teen misanthropy as Todd Phillip‘s JOKER (2019), but approaches it in a less serious and more honest way.
Der dritte Gast – The Third Guest
Der dritte Gast – The Third Guest | Deutschland 2024 | Psychothriller, Drama | Malte Wirtz
Malte Wirtz’ mumblecore-horror film about a young couple and an empty hostel doesn’t give away much and relies almost entirely on the audience's associations.
Drop Out – Nippelsuse schlägt zurück
Drop Out – Nippelsuse schlägt zurück | Deutschland 1997 | Crime Comedy, Experimental film | Beatrice Manowski | 18
Private detective Marion Niplowski, nicknamed Nippelsuse, is suspected of murder and uncovers a conspiracy in Hamburg society. The main actress/director/co-screenwriter of the no-budget parody from 1998 is Beatrice Manowski (NEKROMANTIK, WINGS OF ...
Ciemno, prawie noc
Ciemno, prawie noc | Polen 2019 | Drama, Crime Drama, Mystery | Borys Lankosz | 16
Alicja, an investigative journalist, returns to her hometown to research a series of child kidnappings and stumbles across a world of bad memories and fairy tale creatures.
Edie
Edie | Großbritannien 2017 | Drama | Simon Hunter | oA
Edie Moore took care of her paralyzed husband for 30 years. When he dies, the octogenarian continues with her daily routine – until an old postcard falls into her lap and she remembers an old dream of hers.
Einsamkeit & Sex & Mitleid
Einsamkeit & Sex & Mitleid | Deutschland 2017 | Comedy, Drama | Lars Montag | 16
13 protagonists battle with their small dramas in Lars Montag’s adaptation of Helmut Krausser’s flashy short story collection. They search for love, happiness, themselves, friends, and the moment when everything started to go wrong.
El fulgor
El fulgor | Argentinien 2021 | Documentary | Martín Farina | 6
In EL FULGOR, Martín Farinas depicts the daily lives of Argentinian gauchos - and their carneval tradition of wearing opulent, glittery costumes which seems to go against the men‘s typical macho stance. Told entirely without dialogue.
Electroboy
Deutschland/USA/Schweiz 2014 | Documentary | Marcel Gisler
The rise and eventual disintegration of the inter-disciplinary success story of ELECTROBOY Florian Burkhardt.
Poesia sin fin
Poesia sin fin | Frankreich/Chile 2016 | Biography, Drama, Fantasy | Alejandro Jodorowsky
In the second part of his surreal and exuberant autobiography, Alejandro Jodorowsky depicts the young artist cutting ties with his father and him becoming a poet.
Entertainment
USA 2015 | Drama | Rick Alverson | 16
A roadtrip – through the desert, into despair. Loosely based on Gregg Turkington’s “Neil Hamburger“ character, it is funny in the same way that ERASERHEAD is heartwarming.
Erde
Erde | Österreich 2019 | Documentary | Nikolaus Geyrhalter
ERDE is the most beautiful film about the end of humanity since Lars von Trier‘s MELANCHOLIA. Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter shows the enormous changes that Earth goes through because of people in seven chapters.
It
IT (2017) | USA 2017 | Horror | Andres Muschietti | 16
A group of kids are confronted with evil clown Pennywise in this Stephen King adaptation.
Es war einmal in Deutschland
Deutschland/Belgien/Luxemburg 2017 | Comedy | Sam Garbarski | 12
A group of Jewish survivors in post-war Frankfurt try to get the money together to emigrate to the US with dubious businesses. What they all have in common is their acting abilities, inventiveness, and the wish to exact some revenge on Germany.
Ex Libris: New York Public Library
Ex Libris: New York Public Library | USA 2017 | Documentary | Frederick Wiseman | oA
A documentary about New York's public library.
The Fare
USA 2018 | Phantastischer Film, Mystery, Love-story | D.C. Hamilton | 12
SciFi-mystery about a cab driver and his fare caught in a time-loop.
Forever Young
Les Amandiers | Frankreich 2022 | Drama, Comedy | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | 12
In her most recent film, Valerie Bruni Tedeschi processes her time at the famous Parisian acting school Théâtre des Amandiers. FOREVER YOUNG followers a group of acting students for close to a year, from the auditions to the premiere of their ...
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary | USA 2019 | Horror, Literary Film Adaptations | Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer | 16
Thirty years after Mary Lambert's film adaptation of King’s novel, PET SEMATARY rises again. But something is off about it.
Ganz große Oper
Deutschland 2017 | Documentary, Oper, Ballett | Toni Schmid | oA
An upbeat portrait of the Bavarian state opera.
Die Geheimnisse des Schönen Leo
Die Geheimnisse des Schönen Leo | Deutschland 2018 | Documentary, Biography, Familiy History | Benedikt Schwarzer
A documentary about the co-founder of the CSU directed by the politician's grandson.
Girl You Know It's True
Deutschland 2023 | Drama, Biography, Music Films | Simon Verhoeven
A feature film about the rise and fall of the 80s pop duo Milli Vanilli.
The Good Liar
The Good Liar | USA 2019 | Drama | Bill Condon | 12
Ian McKellen plays con man Roy, who meets recently widowed Betty, played by Helen Mirren.
The Greatest Showman On Earth
The Greatest Showman On Earth | USA 2017 | Musical, Biography, Love Stories | Michael Gracey | 6
An all-singing, all-dancing biography about circus impresario P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) and his rise to fame. About as nutritious and addictive as a large tub of buttered popcorn.
Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia etsimässä
Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia Etsimässä | Deutschland/Finnland 2022 | Tragicomedy, Roadmovie | Mika Kaurismäki
Mika Kaurismäki tells a charming, warm-hearted story of two estranged brothers who reconnect after years of silence on a road trip across Germany.
Die Habenichtse
Deutschland 2016 | Drama | Florian Hoffmeister | 12
Just after 9/11: impulsive newlyweds Jakob and Isabelle move to London to flee from tragedy and a lack of purpose. But the world they find is silent and threatening. Do they still have each other or themselves?
Hacksaw Ridge
Hacksaw Ridge | AUS/USA 2016 | Drama, War Film | Mel Gibson | 16
Desmond Doss insists on going to rhe army though he refuses to use a weapon for religious reasons. He is successful and finds himself unarmed in May 1945 in one of the bloodiest offensives of the Pacific War.
Hagazussa – Der Hexenfluch
Hagazussa | Deutschland/Österreich 2017 | Horror, Heimatfilm, Modern Fairytale | Lukas Feigelfeld
Albrun, who is labeled a witch by the villagers, lives in the Austrian mountains with her goat and her child. HAGAZUSSA is a horror film, a psychological portrait of a mother, a historical film about superstition, and a psychedelic trip.
Das Hamlet-Syndrom
Das Hamlet-Syndrom | Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | Elwira Niewra, Piotr Rosolowski
When the war broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014, five actors had to make a decision: Fight or not? Stay or flee? The film documents rehearsals for a play based on their reflections on that decision.
The House By The Cemetery
Quella villa accanto al cimitero | Italien 1981 | Horror | Lucio Fulci
A cinematic re-release of the video nasty from 1981. A scientist tries to find out the reasons for his mentor’s suicide. What he finds is a spooky girl, a rabid bat, and a homicidal maniac. There is also some blood.
Hell or High Water
USA 2016 | Drama, Crime Drama, Social Drama, Western | David Mackenzie | 12
A neo Western about two lowlifes who rob banks in order to buy back their Ma’s farm. Jeff “TRUE GRIT” Bridges is the Sheriff who is after them. Nick Cave made the music.
Hinter guten Türen
Deutschland 2023 | Documentary, Essay Film | Julia Beerhold | 12
Director Julia Beerhold uses the cleaning out of her parents' old house to explore the causes and consequences of manipulation and abuse in her family.
Der Homo communis – Wir für alle
Homo Communis | Deutschland 2020 | Documentary | Carmen Eckhardt | oA
Documentary focusing on several groups and cooperations from Germany and Venezuela trying to create a better, more sustainable world. The important point is to connect with others.
Der Hund begraben
Deutschland 2016 | Black Comedy | Sebastian Stern
In this comedy a bland everyman realizes how empty his life is. Having lost his job and unwilling to own up to his shortcomings, he struggles to find his place in a world usurped by a dog and a shifty geezer.
Hundswut
Deutschland 2023 | Drama | Daniel Alvarenga | 16
On the night before the Nazi takeover, one last witch trial takes place in Bavaria.
Il Traditore - The Traitor
Il Traditore | Italien 2019 | Biography, Crime, Drama | Marco Bellocchio | 12
Former Sicilian mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta decides to go on record as a chief witness and discuss all the details about the “honorable society“. The resulting “Maxi trial“ took six years in a bulletproof room and resulted in the indictment ...
Sisters Apart
Im Feuer – Zwei Schwestern | Deutschland/Griechenland 2020 | Drama, War Film | Daphne Charizani | 12
In the Middle of the River
USA 2018 | Western, Familientragödie, Sociological Film | Damian John Harper | 16
War veteran Gabriel returns to New Mexico from Iraq as an injured and traumatized man in a world shaped by drugs, violence, and racism. Gabriel has to find out who killed his sister here.
Indemnity
Südafrika 2022 | Action, Thriller, Crime Drama | Travis Taute
Travis Taute‘s first feature-length film, the South African INDEMNITY, is in the tradition of the US action thriller which filled cinemas and video stores in the 90s and wants to cover all of the tropes of the genre at once.
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Finnland 2018 | Comedy, Science Fiction, Trash | Timo Vuorensola | 12
A parody of right-wing conspiracy theories that turns into blunt entertainment part II.
Death by Death
Je me tue à le dire | Frankreich/Belgien 2016 | Tragicomedy | Xavier Seron
When his mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Michel panics – he might also have breast cancer. A strange Belgian comedy about an adult hypochondriac and his stifling, loving mother.
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway | Estland/Äthiopien 2019 | Action, Comedy, Science Fiction | Miguel Llansó
The cyber agent thriller takes its destruction of reality seriously. There‘s no reliable savior here, no ultimate truth, just the next transitional reality made up of 80s pop culture, Afrofuturism, Estonian brutalism, and Spanish chiptune music.
Jojo Rabbit
USA 2019 | Youth Film, Comedy, Slapstick | Taika Waititi | 12
Ten-year-old Jojo discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl. Not even his imaginary friend Hitler knows what to do. Taika Waititi‘s garish comedy offers jokes in volleys, but it also contains an emotionally moving story.
Joker 2: Folie a Deux
Joker 2: Folie a Deux | USA 2024 | Crime Drama, Drama, Musical | Todd Phillips
The sequel to 2019's JOKER. A musical.
Her er Harold
Her er Harold | N 2014 | Tragicomedy | Gunnar Vikene | 6
Harold had running a small furniture store for 40 years when an Ikea Megastore opens in viewing distance. Harold goes bankrupt an begins to plot revenge.
Matar a dios
Matar a Dios | Spanien 2017 | Comedy, Black Comedy, Splatter | Caye Casas, Albert Pintó | 16
A run-down dwarf crashes a New Year‘s party: he introduces himself as god himself and announces that he will wipe out all of humanity by New Year‘s Day - all but two people.
Die Kinder aus Korntal
Deutschland 2023 | Documentary | Julia Charakter | 12
In her documentary, Julia Charakter’s talks with former foster children who experienced widespread abuse in Korntal, and she shows a place that would prefer to forget this.
Little Germans
Kleine Germanen | Deutschland/Österreich 2019 | Documentary, Animation | Frank Geiger, Mohammad Farokhmanesh | 12
The documentary KLEINE GERMANEN interviews representatives of the New Right and shows how right-wing ideology is transmitted within the family.
Knives Out
Knives Out | USA 2019 | Crime Drama, Sociological Film, Black Comedy | Rian Johnson | 12
A homage to good old-fashioned whodunnits including a famous victim, a dysfunctional family, and a flamboyant master detective (Daniel Craig) with the nice name of Benoit Blanc.
Kolyma: Road of Bones
Kolyma | Deutschland 2017 | Documentary, Roadmovie | Stanislaw Mucha | 12
“You must have nothing to lose to want to live here today.“ Filmmaker Stanislav Mucha goes on a road trip across northern Siberia.
Sage femme
Sage Femme | Frankreich 2017 | Drama, Familientragödie | Martin Provost | 6
Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve play two different women who get closer to each other: Claire (Frot) is a midwife. She lives for her work, is sensible and serious, and is a confidant for the mothers - the exact opposite of Beatrice (Deneuve), ...
Lampenfieber
Deutschland 2019 | Documentary | Alice Agneskirchner | oA
The Friedrichstadtpalast regularly has revues with children and teens, the so-called “young ensemble.“ Alice Agneskirchner accompanies some of the young stars of the “Spiel mit der Zeit“ show – from the casting to the premiere.
Landraub
Österreich 2015 | Documentary | Kurt Langbein | oA
All over the world, peasants are driven off their land by multinational agricultural companies.
Legend
Großbritannien/Frankreich 2015 | Gangster Film, Thriller | Brian Helgeland | 16
Skipping their rise and fall, Tom Hardy (BRONSON) playing both Kray brothers as they punch, charm and shout their way through Swinging London. Actual events may have been altered but this is legendary crime at its most entertaining.
Leif In Concert
Leif In Concert | Deutschland 2019 | Drama | Christian Klandt | oA
Barkeeper Lene who has been sorely missed by her regulars is back in town. A night at a bar.
Die Liebe frisst das Leben – Tobias Gruben, seine Lieder und die Erde
Die Liebe frisst das Leben – Tobias Gruben, seine Lieder und die Erde | Deutschland 2019 | Documentary, Music Films | Oliver Schwabe | 12
Lobster Soup
Spanien/Island/Litauen 2020 | Documentary | Pepe Andreu, Rafael Molés
Every day the same personnel meet in a small cafe in a tiny Icelandic village at the end of the world.
Look Me Over: Liberace
Look Me Over: Liberace | Deutschland 2020 | Documentary, Biography | Jeremy J.P. Fekete | 12
LOOK ME OVER – LIBERACE takes a look beneath the fabulous facade of “Mr. Showmanship“ while also reveling in his brand of spectacle.
Loriots große Trickfilmrevue
Loriots große Trickfilmrevue | Deutschland 2023 | Animation, Short-film Programme, Comedy | Peter Geyer, Loriot | oA
The 31 animated films of Loriot from the years 1967-78, which Peter Geyer lovingly polished up, include classics like the gentlemen in the bathtub and the couple with the breakfast egg, but also lesser known films like a report about a married ...
Maigret
Frankreich/Belgien 2022 | Crime Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | Patrice Leconte | 12
Commissioner Maigret (Gerard Depardieu) is called to the scene of a murder of a young woman. She has no identifying markers, but she is wearing an expensive evening gown and has a bottle of laudanum with her. Maigret tries to reconstruct the life of ...
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns | USA 2018 | Family Film, Fantasy, Music Films | Rob Marshall | oA
While the original Banks children have now grown up, there’s a new generation of Banks children in need of Mary’s particular brand of whimsy, and so, Mary Poppins… um... returns
Master Cheng in Pohjanjoki
Mestari Cheng | Finnland/China/Großbritannien 2019 | Drama, Comedy | Mika Kaurismäki | 6
Master Cheng, a polite chef from Shanghai, and his shy son are searching for a friend in a remote village in the mountains of Lapland and decide to stick around there.
Mathilde
Matilda | Russland 2017 | Drama, Historical Film, Love Stories | Aleksei Uchitel | 12
The film adaptation of an affair between the Russian crown prince and later Czar Nicholas II led to censorship attempts and participants and cinemas being threatened with violence. The film itself is a fairytale with impressive scenery and costumes.
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Ma vie de Courgette
Ma vie de courgette | Frankreich 2016 | Animation, Children's Film | Claude Barras | 6
Icare, nicknamed ‘Courgette‘, has to live in a home after accidentally killing his mother. The other children there come from similarly difficult families and he soon makes friends. Brave Camille especially catches his eye. The sweetest film ...
My Internship in Canada
Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre | Kanada 2015 | Comedy | Philippe Falardeau | oA
A rural politician is suddenly faced with the deciding vote on military action. How will he fare against angry truckers, his wife and the might of the “gluten-free mercenaries”, if what he really wants is to not make any decision at all?
Memory Games
Deutschland/USA/Schweden 2018 | Documentary | Janet Tobias, Claus Wehlisch | oA
MEMORY GAMES depicts four memory athletes as they prepare for the world championship in Indonesia. Their secret is the “memory palace,“ a method that connects the stored information to visual and emotional stimuli.
Men (2022)
Men | USA 2022 | Drama, Science Fiction, Horror | Alex Garland | 16
Harper has come to the countryside to recover from her relationship with an aggressive partner, but the men in the rural idyll aren‘t particularly sympathetic either. Modern folk horror directed by Alex Garland.
Knife + Heart
Un couteau dans le coeur | Frankreich 2018 | Crime Drama, Film about film-making, Love-story | Yann Gonzalez | 16
1979: theres a murderer in the Parisian gay scene. The killer is targeting the cast of director Anna‘s (Vanessa Paradis) new porn film. When the police don‘t take action, Anne investigates herself.
The County
Héraðið | Island 2019 | Drama | Grímur Hákonarson | 6
After the death of her husband and shortly before filing for bankrupcy, Icelandic dairy famer Inga goes against the local cooperative, accusing them of operating a mafia scheme.
Milchzaehne - Baby Teeth
Milchzähne – Milk Teeth | Deutschland/Schweiz 2024 | Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | Sophia Bösch | 12
In a remote post-apocalytpic village community, a little girl called Meisis appears one day. She says she’s a wolf and her parents were burned to death.
Minamata
GB 2020 | Drama | Andrew Levitas
Johnny Depp as the former war photographer Eugene Smith sent to the fishing town of Minamata to report on a spate of birth defects and illness amongst the population.
Tomorrow we shall be free
Morgen sind wir frei | Deutschland 2019 | Drama | Hossein Pourseifi | 12
Beate, a successful chemical engineer, is at odds with the ruling GDR ideology. After the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, she hopes for a new beginning in Iran with her husband Omid, an Iranian diplomat.
Mr. Jones: Red Secrets – Im Fadenkreuz Stalins
Mr. Jones (2019) | PL/GB/UA 2019 | Biography, Historical Film, Drama | Agnieszka Holland
Die Nachbarn von Oben
Die Nachbarn von Oben | Schweiz 2023 | Comedy | Sabine Boss
The neighbors upstairs seem to be having a lot of sex, Anna and Thomas’ relationship, on the other hand, is stagnating. An evening together unfolds in an interesting way. A Swiss comedy.
New Life
USA 2023 | Thriller | John Rosman | 16
Thriller meets horror: pursued by FBI veteran Elsa, Jessica is on the run to Canada. A gruesome fate awaits everyone who meets her and helps her along the way.
Radin!
Radin! | Frankreich 2016 | Comedy | Fred Cavayé | oA
Dany Boon plays pathological curmudgeon François Gautier, who uses street lamp lights to light up his dinner made up of slightly expired food. He doesn’t care that no one especially likes him – until he falls in love and a daughter unexpectedly ...
O Beautiful Night
Deutschland 2019 | Metropolitan Movie, Comedy, Love Stories | Xaver Böhm | 12
Hypochondriac Berliner Juri constantly feels death approaching. One night he finally meets him for real, looking a small time criminal. Together they take a trip through the city's night life. There's danger, love and exotic birds.
Kawaita hana
Kawaita Hana | Japan 1964 | Drama, Thriller | Masahiro Shinoda
The world has changed in the three years that Muraki has served in prison for murder. The lightness of the swinging sixties has even taken a hold of the gangsters. The Yakuza wanders through the city and at an illegal card game he meets Saeko, who ...
Piranhas
La paranza dei bambini | Italien 2019 | Drama, Gangster Film, Youth Film | Claudio Giovannesi | 16
A Neapolitan child gang battle the mafia bosses in the neighborhood, until the kids see themselves as the bosses.
The Peanut Butter Falcon
USA 2019 | Roadmovie, Comedy, Sportfilm | Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz | 12
Two men on the lam: 22 year old Zak with Down syndrome and outsider Tyler sail towards Florida on a raft and become friends.
Petting statt Pershing
Es ist aus, Helmut | Deutschland 2018 | Tragicomedy | Petra Lüschow | 12
West Germany in the 1980s. In the province, 17 year old Ursula fights for her freedom.
Platzspitzbaby – Meine Mutter, ihre Drogen und ich
Platzspitzbaby – Meine Mutter, ihre Drogen und ich | Schweiz 2020 | Drama | Pierre Monnard | 12
Mia‘s mother Sandrine stays clean for a month before she meets an old acquaintence in her home town who introduces her to the smalltown junkie meeting place. From that point on Mia knows that she will only experience her mother‘s love ...
Polder Tokyo Heidi
Polder Tokyo Heidi | Deutschland/Schweiz 2015 | Drama, Science Fiction | Samuel Schwarz | 16
A German-Swiss cyberpunk adventure involving cosplay, witches, and the search for lost family-members. Question reality before it starts questioning you. You are the hero, aren’t you?
Raman Raghav 2.0
Raman Raghav 2.0 | Indien 2016 | Drama, Crime Drama, Thriller | Anurag Kashyap
PSYCHO RAMAN is a copycat killer who molds his persona after a 1960’s Bombay serial killer. Soon he begins to focus on the policeman who pursues him. Both develop a mutual fascination with each other.
Queen of Earth
USA 2015 | Drama | Alex Ross Perry
After a traumatic experience, two good friends meet for their annual vacation at an idyllic lake house. The period of recuperation soon spirals into personal disintegration.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Deutschland/ Kanada/ Frankreich/ Australien 2016 | Paul W.S. Anderson
The franchise that wouldn’t die walks again. Alice has 48 hours to return to the Hive and release the antivirus to save humanity. More of the same but the second-best installment P.W.S. Anderson has directed.
Rewind – Die zweite Chance
Rewind – Die zweite Chance | Deutschland 2017 | Crime Drama, Science Fiction | Johannes Sievert | 12
An accident, a bank robbery, a woman is shot. A dead person leaves strange formulas behind that have to do with time travel. Johannes F. Sievert has made his own sci-fi thriller after making documentaries on German genre films.
Rocketman
Großbritannien 2019 | Drama, Biography, Music Films | Dexter Fletcher | 12
The ultimate Elton John musical: prioritizing energy and fun over historical accuracy. ROCKETMAN gaily races through the life of Elton John from his youth until 1983.
Sand Dollars
Dólares de Arena | Argentinien/ Mexiko/ Dominikanische Republik 2015 | Drama, Love-story | Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán | oA
Noeli is offering wealthy visitors to a beach resort company in exchange for gifts. She is caught between the affection for her boyfriend and the promise of a new life in Paris. A quest for love and trust, communicated largely through glances and ...
Schattenstunde – Jochen Kleppers letzter Tag
Schattenstunde – Jochen Kleppers letzter Tag | Deutschland 2021 | Drama | Benjamin Martins | 12
Christian author Jochen Klepper, his wife Hanni and their daughter Renate committed suicide in 1942 when the wife, who was considered Jewish, was threatened with deportation. Benjamin Martin‘s film follows Klepper‘s diary entries.
La belle epoque
La belle époque | Frankreich 2019 | Comedy, Love-story | Nicolas Bedos | 12
Viktor‘s best day was May 14th 1974. He was a carefree 25 year old, dreaming of a career as a cartoonist and meeting the woman he would go on to marry. With the help of an event agency, Viktor wants to experience this day again as immersive ...
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Score: A Film Music Documentary | USA 2016 | Documentary, Film about film-making | Matt Schrader | 12
SCORE investigates the development of film music with the musicians who had a major impact on the field.
Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado
Sicario: Day of the Soldado | USA/Italien 2018 | Action, Thriller, Crime Drama, Drama | Stefano Sollima | 18
Stefano Sollimas (SUBURRA) directs the sequel about ruthless CIA agent Graver (Josh Brolin) and his mercenary Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) that revolves around the kidnapping of the daughter a drug lord.
Sick Of Myself - Syk Pike
Syk Pike | Norwegen/Schweden 2022 | Comedy | Kristoffer Borgli | 12
Signe takes questionable medication with strong side effects and becomes an “interesting“ medical case because she wants to get the same attention that her boyfriend Thomas usually gets.
Sie nannten ihn Spencer
Deutschland/Österreich 2017 | Documentary, Film about film-making | Karl-Martin Pold | oA
Karl-Martin Pold has made the first feature-length documentary about the life and work of Carlo Pedersoli, better known as “Bud Spencer”, with the help of Hill & Spencer fans from around the world.
HaChayal HaTov: The Good Soldier
HaChayal HaTov: The Good Soldier | Israel/Frankreich/Deutschland 2021 | Documentary | Silvina Landsmann | 12
The NGO “Breaking the Silence“ was founded in 2004 by veterans of the Israeli armed forces in order to give a more realistic image of the military operations than the government bodies do.
So This Is Christmas
Irland 2023 | Documentary, Christmas Film | Ken Wardrop
The documentary by Ken Wardrop portrays five households with a lack of Christmas spirit.
Sophia, der Tod und ich
Deutschland 2023 | Comedy, Literary Film Adaptations | Charly Hübner
Death is meant to pick up Reiner, but something goes wrong and so Reiner, death trapped in a human body, and Reiner‘s ex Sophia find themselves in a surreal road movie traveling across Germany.
Speak No Evil
USA 2024 | Thriller, Horror | James Watkins | 16
English-language remake of the Danish thriller
SPK-Komplex
SPK-Komplex | Deutschland 2018 | Documentary | Gerd Kroske | 6
The Socialist Patient Collective began as an alternative therapy group for psychiatric patients that were also critical of society in 1970. The ex-members being interviewed aren‘t in agreement about how contact between SPK and RAF was made.
Stan & Ollie
Großbritannien/USA/Kanada 2018 | Drama, Tale of a friendship, Biography | Jon S. Baird
When Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a theater tour across Britain in 1953, their glory days seem to be behind them and their artistic relationship is also strained.
The Strangers: Prey at Night
The Strangers: Prey at Night | USA 2018 | Horror | Johannes Roberts | 16
Where Does A Body End?
Where Does A Body End? | Kanada 2019 | Documentary, Biography, Music Films | Marco Porsia | 12
In his documentary about the industrial-noise-rock band Swans, director Marco Borsia chooses to focus on band founder Michael Gira.
The Mute
Krew Boga | Polen/Belgien 2018 | Drama, Historical Film | Bartosz Konopka
The dark Middle Ages: two knights try to convert a pagan tribe to Christianity, otherwise there will be a massacre...
Taste of Cement
Deutschland/ Libanon/ Syrien/ Katar/ VAE 2017 | Semi-documentary Film, Essay Film | Ziad Kalthoum
Numerous Syrian refugees work on construction sites in Beirut. Ziad Kalthoums‘ essay film combines the voiceover of a worker with the machine sounds of the construction site, music, images of war, and the roars of the sea and assembles a ...
Tehran Taboo
Deutschland / Österreich 2017 | Animation, Sociological Film, Metropolitan Movie | Ali Soozandeh | 16
TEHRAN TABOO, which was filmed with rotoscoped images in order to protect the cast, is about the lives of young people living in Tehran whose private lives are in conflict with the system.
Tenet
USA/Großbritannien/Kanada 2020 | Action, Science Fiction | Christopher Nolan | 12
For the most part, TENET is a fun two-and-a-half hours of sci-fi spy-thriller immersion. For better and worse, it finds Nolan in pure entertainment mode while also going all-in on his chrono fetish.
Ranenyy Angel
Ranenyy Angel | Deutschland/Frankreich/Kasachstan 2015 | Drama | Emir Baigazin
Four boys are leaving behind their childhood in post-Soviet Kazachstan and growing up in a gorgeously terrifying world.
Titane
Frankreich 2021 | Thriller, Drama | Julia Ducournau | 16
The comparison to David Cronenberg‘s CRASH is obvious. However, Cronenberg‘s film is cold and intellectual and TITANE is emotional and disturbing.
Total Thrash! – The Teutonic Story
Total Thrash! – The Teutonic Story | Deutschland 2022 | Documentary, Music Films | Daniel Hofmann | 12
In TOTAL THRASH, the protagonists discuss the German metal scene in a very calm and jovial manner. They delve into how bands emerged from youth clubs and dirty rehearsal rooms in the early 80s, screaming against the boredom and frustration of living ...
Ein Traum von Revolution
Deutschland 2023 | Documentary | Petra Hoffmann
A documentary about the hopes for a socialist Nicaragua, which 15,000 German activists also dreamt about, and the ruins of this dream 40 years later.
Trouble Every Day
Frankreich 2001 | Drama, Erotic Film, Horror | Claire Denis | 18
A glamorous couple arrives in Paris, a biker picks up a beautiful, enraptured woman in a parking lot. Claire Denis‘ film with Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, and music by the Tindersticks.
The Two Sights
CDN/GB 2020 | Documentary, Essay Film | Joshua Bonetta
Canadian filmmaker Joshua Bonetta was making a film examining the sounds of the Scottish Hebrides when he came upon the long-held belief that the Hebrides are a “soft place” where the borders between the living and the passed-on are less clear.
Und wer nimmt den Hund?
Deutschland 2019 | Tragicomedy, Drama, Romance Films | Rainer Kaufmann | oA
Children, a dog, and 25 years of marriage. Doris (Martina Gedeck) and Georg (Ulrich Tukur) have had enough. They wants to discuss their relationship one more time with their marriage counsellor and then call it quits.
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir | Frankreich 2018 | Adventure, Comedy, Literary Film Adaptations | Ken Scott | 6
A French-Indian drama about a young man trying to find his father.
Die vergessene Armee
Deutschland, Dänemark 2017 | Documentary | Signe Astrup | 6
After the end of the GDR, a quarter of a million soldiers as well as Stasi and police officers didn’t just lose their jobs, they lost their value system. Signe Astrup’s documentary examines how the former executive powers of the party have dealt ...
Vicious Fun
USA 2020 | Horror, Comedy | Cody Calahan
Horror journalist Joel wakes up in a closed bar where serial killers are having a self-help seminar. Everyone has set their sights on him. A horror comedy.
Der Vierer
Deutschland 2024 | , Comedy | Iván Sáinz-Pardo
Sophie and Paul want to explore a foursome to spice up their relationship - with desastrous results.
We are the Flesh
Tenemos la carne | Frankreich/Mexiko 2016 | Horror | Emiliano Rocha Minter | 18
Mariano distills booze from organic material and drums. A brother and sister discover his solitary world and he begins to play a game with them. The stakes are flesh, incest, sex, blood, and death.
Weil Du nur einmal lebst – Die Toten Hosen auf Tour
Deutschland 2019 | Documentary, Music Films | Paul Dugdale, Cordula Kablitz-Post | 6
Documentarian Cordula Kablitz-Post and concert director Paul Dugdale accompany Die Toten Hosen on their “Laune der Natour“ tour and witness a very disciplined band.
Wer hat eigentlich die Liebe erfunden?
Deutschland 2017 | Tragicomedy, Roadmovie, Modern Fairytale | Kerstin Polte | 6
Charlotte has been married to Paul for over 37 years, but doesn‘t know why anymore. One day she leaves him in a service station and goes to the sea. WER HAT EIGENTLICH DIE LIEBE ERFUNDEN deals with serious topics like love and death with a light ...
Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters | Großbritannien 2017 | Action, Thriller, Crime Drama, Science Fiction | Tommy Wirkola | 16
A strict one-child rule has been introduced because the world population has exploded and resources are dwindling. The septuplets Monday, Tuesday, and so on pretend to be one person in order not to get caught.
What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
My Nazi Legacy | Großbritannien 2015 | Documentary, Familiy History, War Film | David Evans
Philippe Sands, born in 1960, lost almost his entire family in an area controlled by Nazi officers Hans Frank and Otto Wächter. He travels with the sons of both of them and goes to the places where their fathers ruled.
Where to Invade Next
Where to Invade Next | USA 2015 | Documentary | Michael Moore | 12
Michael Moore ‚invades‘ European countries in order to ‚steal‘ solutions for American problems from them. May contain traces of idealism.
Wien vor der Nacht
Deutschland/Frankreich/Österreich 2016 | Documentary | Robert Bober
Rober Rober is looking for his great-grandfather who spent the last part of life in Viennese Leopoldstadt, the former Jewish quarter, looking for a Vienna that no long exists.
Winchester
Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built | USA/Australien 2018 | Horror, Historical Film | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | 16
An Australian horror film with Helen Mirren.
A Woman Captured
Ungarn/Deutschland 2017 | Documentary | Bernadett Tuza-Ritter | 12
Director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter Eta meets domestic worker Marish in Hungary. Marish has been living in her boss‘s house for 10 years without receiving pay while giving away her factory wage and being beaten.
Wunder der Wirklichkeit
Deutschland 2017 | Documentary, Biography | Thomas Frickel
Shortly before Christmas 1991 a historical DC-3 crashes near Heidelberg with artist Martin Kirchberger and his team on board. Kirchberger‘s friend, filmmaker Thomas Frickel, examines the circumstances of the tragedy and Kirchberger‘s short ...
Yummy
Belgien 2019 | Splatter, Comedy | Lars Damoiseaux | 18
Zombie outbreak in a dodgy eastern European beauty clinic.
Zoologija
Zoologiya | Deutschland/Frankreich/Russland 2016 | Drama | Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
The life of mid-fifties Natasha is as gray and cold as the coastal town she lives in. The colleagues in the zoo administration ridicule her by calling her a frigid hippo and doctors can’t find a remedy against the pain and tiredness. Then, one ...
2:1
2:1 | Deutschland 2024 | Comedy, Historical Film | Natja Brunckhorst
A summer film about friendship, the home you create yourself, and a crime that in reality has not been fully been solved to this day.
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