Movie archive
Land
Land | USA 2021 | Drama | Robin Wright | 6
Robin Wright's directorial debut about Edee, a woman who retreats to a remote cabin after suffering a tragedy.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Großbritannien/USA 2016 | Comedy | Mandie Fletcher | 12
The film ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS is a cheery binge viewing experience for fans. Like the original BBC series, the film’s main attraction is the intoxicated nonchalance in which Eddy and Patsy gallivant in the world of the rich and beautiful.
After the Wedding
USA 2019 | Drama | Bart Freundlich | 6
Isabel (Michelle Williams) had dedicated her life to working in an Indian orphanage. Businesswoman Theresa (Julianne More) brings her back to New York under the pretense of wanting to donate money, but she actually has an entirely different motive.
Aladdin
USA 2019 | Fantasy, Adventure, Family Film | Guy Ritchie
Turning animation into reality through extensive CGI, the new ALADDIN offers all the pleasures of the Golden Age of film-musicals while slightly updating Princess Jasmine's motivations.
Alle Farben des Lebens
About Ray | USA 2015 | Gaby Dellal
Ramona, or Ray, is 16 and has known for a long time that she is a boy. What is missing is parental approval for gender affirming surgery. The patchwork family has to first overcome their differences in order to sign the important document.
Calvary
Calvary | Irland/Großbritannien 2014 | Drama, Comedy, Crime Drama | John Michael McDonagh | 16
In confession a member of his parish announces that he is going to kill Father James Lavelle. The priest (Brendan Gleeson) has one week to find his murderer and convince him otherwise.
On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach | Großbritannien 2018 | Drama | Dominic Cooke | 12
ON CHESIL BEACH, based on the Ian McEwan novel, revolves around a single moment, a single fatal, unsuccessful encounter: the wedding night of Florence and Edward in a small hotel on the pebble beach of Chesil Beach in 1962.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral | USA 2016 | Drama, Crime Drama | Ewan Mcgregor | 12
Ewan McGregor adapted the 400 page Philip Roth novel AMERICAN PASTORAL in his directing debut. A decent citizen is thrown off his life course when his daughter bombs a local post office and disappears in 1968.
Ammonite
Großbritannien 2020 | Drama, Romance Films, Biography | Francis Lee | 12
Kate Winslet is paleontologist Mary Anning who collects fossils on the southern coast of England and sells them to tourists. She is tasked with caring for a client‘s sickly wife, Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who has been prescribed to get some sea ...
Amy
USA 2015 | Documentary, Music Films | Asif Kapadia | oA
The fast-paced career of Amy Winehouse and her untimely death at 27 due to alcohol poisoning are still fresh in our collective memory. Asif Kapadia attempts to showcase a more intimate side of a well-documented woman beloved by the tabloids.
Andrea lässt sich scheiden
Österreich 2023 | Tragicomedy | Josef Hader
Not much happens in the province. The cows of a sick farmer die. Georg celebrates his birthday. Andrea is getting a divorce.
Women Talking
Women Talking | USA 2022 | Drama | Sarah Polley
After the men of a Mennonite community get convicted of multiple rapes, the women have to decide what they are going to do. Sarah Polley‘s unconventional adaptation of Miriam Toew‘s novel follows the womens' discussion.
The Babadook
The Babadook | Australien 2013 | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Jennifer Kent | 16
The little son of a single mother finds a book about THE BABADOOK, a monster that comes knocking and that will not disappear. He is scared of the monster at all times. The mother tries to fight his fears, but more and more she too feels an evil ...
Baby to Go
The Pod Generation | Belgien/Frankreich/Großbritannien 2023 | Science Fiction, Comedy | Sophie Barthes
Those who can afford it carry their child to term in an external egg-shaped pod in the somewhat dystopian world of POD GENERATION.
Barbie
USA 2023 | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy | Greta Gerwig
Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) travel from pink and plastic Barbieworld to the real world after starting to question their perfect surroundings.
The Batman
USA 2022 | Action, Comic book movie | Matt Reeves
Matt Reeves (CLOVERFIELD) reboots the BATMAN-franchise, with Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Colin Farrell as the Penguin. The trailer suggests it will get gritty. And who is the Riddler?
If Beale Street could talk
If Beale Street Could Talk | USA 2018 | Drama, Crime Drama | Barry Jenkins
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a 2018 American romantic drama film directed and written by Barry Jenkins, based on James Baldwin's novel of the same name.
Beautiful Boy
USA 2018 | Biography, Drama | Felix van Groeningen | 12
This intense melodrama, about a drug addicted son and his father who wants to help him, constantly switches back and forth between hope and despair.
Ben is Back
USA 2018 | Drama | Peter Hedges | 12
Ben is a drug addict. When he goes home for the holidays, his mother (Julia Roberts) does everything in order to save him.
Bergman Island
Frankreich 2021 | Drama | Mia Hansen-Løve | 12
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.
On the Basis of Sex
On the Basis of Sex | USA 2018 | Biography, Drama | Mimi Leder | oA
Mimi Leder‘s biopic is about Ruth Bader Ginsberg‘s beginnings – her studies, her job as a professor, and the precedent case in which she enforced gender equality before the law for the first time.
Blue Bayou
USA 2021 | Drama | Justin Chon
When Antonio, an adopted child of Korean origin who grows up in a US family, comes into conflict with the police over something minor, he unexpectedly lands in a detention center.
Booksmart
USA 2019 | Comedy | Olivia Wilde | 12
Friends Amy and Molly have spent their school year conscientiously working on getting into a good college. When the find out that others have managed with far less denial, they have a new goal: party hard of the night and thoroughly misbehave before ...
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies | USA 2015 | Drama, Thriller | Steven Spielberg | 12
Lawyer James Donovan from Brooklyn is suddenly involved in world-politics when he gets a mission assignment from the CIA.
Bros
USA 2022 | Love Stories, Comedy | Nicholas Stoller | 12
The first completely queer mainstream romcom. Screenwriter: Billy Eichner.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
USA 2018 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | Marielle Heller | oA
Melissa McCarthy plays real-life author Lee Israel, a struggling malcontent writer, propped up by alcohol and affection for her cat, who turns to forgery and theft after her last book is rejected for publication.
Carol
USA/Großbritannien 2015 | Drama | Todd Haynes | 6
New York, 1952. In the Christmas season the shop girl Therese (Rooney Mara) makes the acquaintance of a glamorous housewife: Carol (Kate Blanchett). They embark on a relationship they both daren’t call love.
Cat Person
USA 2023 | Drama, Thriller | Susanna Fogel
Student Margot meets 33 year Robert while working at a cinema. An adaptation of the eponymous short story by Kristen Roupenian about a bad date that became a viral phenonemon in 2017.
Challengers
Challengers | USA 2023 | Drama, Sportfilm | Luca Guadagnino
A woman, two men who fight over here, a second-rate tennis game as the simplest possible metaphor for their competition: Luca Guadagnino directs this essentially banal farce, as if it were a matter of life and death, with grand gestures and rousing ...
Citizenfour
D/USA 2014 | Documentary | Laura Poitras
In January 2013 the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras received some anonymous emails. The sender: Citizenfour. A young employee at a security firm was behind the pseudonym. His name is John Edward „Ed“ Snowden and he wanted to inform the world ...
Club Zero
Deutschland/ Frankreich/ Großbritannien 2023 | Drama, Thriller | Jessica Hausner | 12
Jessica Hausner’s satire about the creation of a cult is made with a good dose of Austrian sadism.
Crimson Peak
USA 2015 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | Guillermo del Toro | 16
Young author Edith Cushing marries Sir Thomas Sharpe. Edith tries to forget a terrible family tragedy in her new home but the house and the supernatural inhabitants aren’t making it easy on her.
A Date for Mad Mary
A Date for Mad Mary | Irland 2016 | Drama | Darren Thornton | 6
Mary, who everyone believes is “mad“, gets released from jail shortly before her best friend Charlene gets married. She tries to get a date for the wedding, but her rough demeanor puts everyone off – except Jess.
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Großbritannien 2019 | Drama, Comedy, Literary Film Adaptations | Armando Iannucci | 6
Armando Iannucci tones the melodrama down and turns the comedy up in his lively new adaptation of the semi-autobiographical classic without losing Dickens‘ social-revolutionary message on the way.
Detroit
USA 2017 | Thriller, Historical Film, Drama | Kathryn Bigelow | 12
Detroit, 1967. Decades of discrimination turn into angry street riots. When shots from the Algiers Hotel are reported, the police step in and bullies a group of predominantly African-American hotel guests. Several people are shot.
Belle
Belle | Großbritannien 2013 | Drama, History | Amma Asante | 6
Dido Elisabeth Belle, the child of an English officer and an African slave, grows up in England in the care of her aristocratic uncle as - almost - an equal member of the family.
The Darkest Hour
The Darkest Hour | Großbritannien 2017 | War Film, Drama, Historical Film | Joe Wright | 6
The Germans captured Belgium in May 1940, France is on the brink of surrendering, and the Nazi invasion in England is foreseeable. England‘s prime minister Winston Churchill is faced with a decision of either continuing an almost hopeless war or ...
Emily
Großbritannien 2022 | Drama, Biography | Frances O'Connor
Similar to how Francis Lee‘s AMMONITE painted a picture of the undocumented sides of women‘s lives in the 19th century by portraying a real person, namely paleontologist Mary Anning, EMILY is more of a fantasy than a biopic.
Emma
Großbritannien 2020 | Comedy, Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | Autumn de Wilde | oA
Rich, beautiful and smart Emma loves to devise plans for others, but is in no rush to give up her comfortable status as the favorite daughter – until she dances with outspoken Mr. Knightley. A pastel colored Austen adaptation.
Fahrenheit 11/9
USA 2018 | Documentary | Michael Moore | 12
Like its similarly-monikered predecessor, FAHRENHEIT 11/9 is timely as hell.
You’re Ugly Too
You're Ugly Too | Irland 2014 | Drama, Comedy | Mark Noonan | 6
Will has been given an early release from prison in orderto take care of his 11-year-old niece Stacey. Stacey isn’t very keen on the idea - especially when Will takes her to their new home: a trailer park in the dreary midlands of Ireland.
The Farewell
USA 2019 | Familiy History, Drama, Tragicomedy | Lulu Wang | oA
Billi is a young New Yorker who loves her grandmother in China very much. When Nai Nai gets cancer, the family doesn‘t want to tell her anything and hastily organize a wedding instead so that everyone can see Nai Nai again.
Finding Vivian Maier
Finding Vivian Maier | USA 2013 | Documentary | Charlie Siskel, John Maloof | oA
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 ...
Fisherman's Friends: One and All
Fisherman's Friends: One And All | Großbritannien 2022 | Comedy, Music Films | Meg Leonard, Nick Moorcroft
The seaman's choir returns home from its tour to face a world where things are no longer going smoothly.
Free Solo
USA 2018 | Documentary, Sportfilm | Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | 6
Part intimate portrait, part breath-taking extreme sport thriller, FREE SOLO follows climber Alex Honnold in his ascent of the 1000 m high El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Alex is climbing it “free solo“ - all in one go with ...
Freeheld
Freeheld | USA 2015 | Biography, Drama | Peter Sollett | 6
FREEHELD tells the true story of Laurel Hester who worked for the Ocean County police for 23 years when she was diagnosed with cancer and couldn´t transfer her pension benefits to her partner in case of her death – a routine procedure had she ...
The French Dispatch
USA/Deutschland 2020 | Comedy | Wes Anderson | 12
In his most recent film Wes Anderson tells stories about the last edition of an imaginary American magazine in an imaginary French town.
Coup de chance
Coup de Chance | USA 2023 | Drama, Crime Drama | Woody Allen
Woody Allen arranges his characters into a classic crime thriller and throws a few entertaining coincidences here and there into the narrative.
Grand Budapest Hotel
GB/D 2014 | Drama, Crime Comedy | Wes Anderson | 12
Of the filmmakers working today, Wes Anderson is certainly one of the more unconventional and visual of the bunch. His films depict bizarre, brightly coloured parallel worlds that become more detailed and eccentric each time. In his latest film, ...
Green Book
USA 2018 | Drama | Peter Farelly | 6
In 1962 African-American pianist Dr. Don Shirley needs a driver to accompany him on a risky tour in the South and hires Italian-American bouncer Tony Lip for the job.
Hail, Caesar!
USA/Großbritannien 2016 | Comedy, Musical | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | oA
The new Coen film is set in a Hollywood studio in the 50s. Scarlett Johansson is a bathing beauty in a water ballet, George Clooney is Baird Whitlock, a movie star in the vein of Charlton Heston. When Whitlock is kidnapped by “The Future” gang, ...
Her
Her | USA 2013 | Drama, Comedy, Love Stories | Spike Jonze | 12
Set in the very near future HER tells the love story of a lonely writer and his operating system. A pastel coloured rumination on artificial intelligence and love by Spike Jonze (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION).
House of Gucci
House of Gucci | USA 2021 | Familiy History, Thriller, Biography | Ridley Scott | 12
Ridley Scott‘s adaptation of the story of the inglorious end of the family business Gucci is great theater, somewhere between Macbeth, THE GODFATHER, and a tabloid, between shrill farce and epic tragedy.
The Inspection
USA 2022 | Drama | Elegance Bratton
In THE INSPECTION, Elegance Bratton directs a film inspired by personal experience in a straightforward, powerful way: after coming out, he was kicked out by his mother and lived on the street, before he finished basic training to become a marine.
Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs | USA 2018 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Wes Anderson | 6
Wes Anderson‘s animated film is set on a Trash Island near the imaginary Japanese city Megasaki. The mayor has banned all dogs from the city and all the canines lead a miserable existence until 12 year old Atari looks for his dog Spot on the ...
20th Century Women
20th Century Women | USA 2016 | Drama, Comedy | Mike Mills | oA
Mike Mills 20TH CENTURY WOMEN is a warm-hearted trip to late 70s sunny California. Single mom Dorothea (Annette Bening) wants to help her teenage son Jamie get through puberty with the help of her patchwork circle of friends.
The Boy And The Heron
Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka | Japan 2023 | Animation, Adventure | Hayao Miyazaki
In THE BOY AND THE HERON, Hayao Miyazaki processes his own experiences in the Pacific War and turns it into an almost free associative fantasy world.
The Kindness of Strangers
Dänemark/Kanada 2019 | Drama | Lone Scherfig | 12
A group of lonely souls find each other in a Christmassy, snowy New York.
Knight of Cups
USA 2015 | Drama, Love Stories | Terrence Malick | 6
Yet another opulent and mystifying meditation on the essence of life by veteran arthouse director Terrence Malick.
Crooked House
Großbritannien 2018 | Crime Drama, Mystery, Literary Film Adaptations | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | 12
The mysterious murder of a family patriarch, a tyrannical, father figure, who loomed over a decaying empire, permeates this latest Agatha Christie romp.
The Lady in the Van
Großbritannien 2015 | Biography, Drama, Comedy | Nicholas Hytner | 6
When writer Alan Bennett moved to Camden Town in London in the 1970s, old Miss Shepherd and the old van in which she lived were already there. One day he allowed her to park her van in his driveway. She remained there for 15 years.
Lady Macbeth
Großbritannien 2016 | Drama, Melodram, Historical Film | William Oldroyd | 12
LADY MACBETH, based on the Nikolai Leskov novel, transports the archaic passions of the Shakespeare archetype to the demure costume drama setting of a Jane Austen romance.
Late Night
USA 2019 | Comedy | Nisha Ganatra | oA
Young writer Molly Patel (Mindy Kaling) has to save Katherin Newbury‘s (Emma Thompson) late night show from getting cancelled.
The Lesson
Deutschland/Großbritannien 2023 | Thriller | Alice Troughton
Oxford student Liam is meant to coach Bertie, the son of writer J.M. Sinclair, so he can get into Oxford. In the Sinclair house, a tense coldness prevails, the spirit of the dead older son is ever-present.
Little Joe
Little Joe | Österreich/ Großbritannien/ Deutschland 2019 | Science Fiction, Drama | Jessica Hausner | 12
Alice and her team of biotechnologists have developed a red flower with a smell that causes happiness. “Little Joe“ flourishes well, but the vast amounts of pollen that the supposedly sterile plant produces is strange….
Little Women
USA 2019 | Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | Greta Gerwig | oA
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".
The Lobster
Frankreich/ Irland/ Großbritannien/ Niederlande/ Griechenland 2015 | Satire, Love-story | Giorgos Lanthimos
Because his wife left him David (Colin Farrell) has to report to a bizarre hotel, where he has 45 days to find a new partner. Otherwise he will be transformed in an animal of his choice.
A Long Way Down
Großbritannien 2014 | Drama, Comedy | Pascal Chaumeil | 6
Adaptation of Nick Horny's bestselling novel. Four people meet accidentally at the top of "Topper House", London's most famous suicide spot, at new year's eve. They decide to stay together and alive for at least a month.
The Lost King
Großbritannien 2022 | Drama, Comedy | Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears directs the true story of how Richard III‘s body was found under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012 due to the dogged research of hobby archeologist Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins).
The Lost Leonardo
Großbritannien 2021 | Documentary | Andreas Koefoed | oA
The story of the painting “Salvator Mundi,“ painted by Leonardo da Vinci, or perhaps not, is a documentary thriller about art, business, and politics.
Maggie's Plan
Maggie's Plan | USA 2015 | Comedy | Rebecca Miller | oA
New York university employee Maggie is planning to have a child. She has already set a date, found a willing sperm donor, and accumulated some savings. But when she meets John, a depressed professor of “Fictional Anthropology”, her meticulous ...
Manchester By The Sea
Manchester By The Sea | USA 2016 | Drama | Kenneth Lonergan | 12
One morning withdrawn Lee, who works as a janitor in Quincy, finds out his brother Jo died from a heart attack. Lee goes back to the coastal town of Manchester-by-the-Sea, a place that connects him with his traumatic past.
Mary Shelley
USA/Großbritannien/Luxemburg 2017 | Drama, Biography, Romance Films | Haifaa Al-Mansour | 12
Mary Wollstonecraft is only 17 when she falls hard for the romantic – and married – poet Percy Shelley and runs off with him and her sister. She writes her classic novel“Frankenstein“ at 21.
Song from the Sea
Song of the Sea | Dänemark/ Frankreich/ Irland/ Belgien/ Luxemburg 2014 | Animation, Family Film, Fantasy | Tomm Moore | oA
SONG FROM THE SEA, told in beautiful, hand painted animated images is the story of a brother and a sister who go through a series of adventures inspired by Irish folk tales and finally become friends.
C'e ancora domani
C'è ancora domani | Italien 2023 | Drama | Paola Cortellesi
THERE’S STILL TOMORROW tells the thrilling story of emancipation in 1940s Italy in unexpected stages.
A Most Wanted Man
Deutschland/USA/Großbritannien 2014 | Thriller | Anton Corbijn | 12
Anton Corbijn's (CONTROL) adaptation of a thriller by John Le Carré takes place in contemporary Hamburg. Philip Seymour Hoffman in his last role plays the leader of a secret German spy unit who investigates a dubious Chechen refugee.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris | USA 2022 | Literary Film Adaptations | Anthony Fabian | oA
When Londoner Mrs. Harris, a cleaning woman, falls in love with the Dior ball gown of one of her clients and unexpectedly wins a nice amount on a bet, she dares to set a goal for herself. A fairy-tale, impractical luxury goal: a Dior dress.
Southside with you
Southside With You | USA 2016 | Biography, Drama, Love-story | Richard Tanne | 6
In its best moments this tender account of the very first date of Michelle and Barack Obama is reminiscent of Linklater’s first date movie BEFORE SUNRISE and has a Nouvelle Vague lightness.
My Zoe
Deutschland 2019 | Drama | Julie Delpy | 12
Isabelle and James are in the middle of a divorce and an acrimonious custody battle over their daughter Zoe when she suddenly falls seriously ill.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | USA/Großbritannien 2020 | Drama | Eliza Hittman | 6
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.
The Aftermath
The Aftermath | Großbritannien/USA/Deutschland 2019 | Drama, Romance Films, War Film | James Kent | 12
Hamburg, right after the war. British officer‘s wife Rachel (Keira Knightley) hates the Germans and the fact that she has to share the requisitioned villa with its previous owner, a charming German architect (Alexander Skarsgård).
Night Moves
USA 2013 | Thriller, Drama | Kelly Reichardt
Josh, Dena and Harmon meet in the Oregon woods. They plan to explode a massive hydroelectric dam. When their eco-terrorist plan goes wrong, each of them has to deal with the aftermath on their own.
Nightmare Alley
USA 2021 | Crime Drama, Thriller | Guillermo del Toro
In del Toro‘s remake of the noir classic from 1947, Bradley Cooper plays prowler Carlisle who lands in a carnival as a temporary employee, quickly works his way up, and ultimately becomes a popular medium in high society.
Nope
USA 2022 | Horror, Science Fiction | Jordan Peele
In Jordan Peele‘s (GET OUT) new horror film, a ranch and aliens play a role.
Nymphomaniac 1
Nymphomaniac: Volume II | Deutschland/ Dänemark/ Frankreich/ Großbritannien/ Belgien 2013 | Drama | Lars von Trier | 16
The nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) recounts her life story to a stranger (Stellan Skarsgård) in eight chapters. Part I describes her career as a nymphomaniac while Part II follows the older Joe and shows her descent into ever-deeper ...
Nymphomaniac 2
Nymphomaniac 2 | D 2013 | Drama | Lars von Trier | 16
With his two-part NYMPH()MANIAC, Lars von Trier presents his most dazzling film to date. Marketed as an “Art house porno,” the film links an episodic structure and explicit sex scenes to tongue-in-cheek philosophical considerations, high-brow ...
The Old Oak
Großbritannien/Frankreich/Belgien 2023 | Drama | Ken Loach
TJ is the owner of “The Old Oak,“ the last pub in the former mining village in Durham. When he makes his back room available as a meeting room for Syrian refugees, he finds himself in the firing line of the resentful locals.
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles | USA 2021 | Documentary | Laura Gabbert | oA
Star chef Yotam Ottolenghi is invited to create the opening buffet of a MOMA exhibit about Versailles and invites patisserie artists from all over the world.
Paddington
Kanada/Frankreich/Großbritannien 2014 | Family Film, Comedy | Paul King | oA
Extremely cute adaptation of Michael Bond’s children’s classic, with a friendly message about emigration and hospitality thrown in.
Paddington 2
Großbritannien 2017 | Family Film, Comedy, Animation | Paul King | oA
Paddington wants to buy a pop-book for his aunt Lucy‘s birthday in London, but first he has to save money and then the book gets stolen. There are new, lovably set-up adventures surrounding the little bear.
Past Lives
Past Lives | USA 2023 | Drama, Love Stories | Celine Song
From the restrained beginning to its tender end, PAST LIVES is a film in which every nuance is right, capturing every subtle oscillation that hangs in the air between the three protagonists, never saying too much or too little.
Pleasure
Schweden/Niederlande/Frankreich 2021 | Drama | Ninja Thyberg | 18
19 year old Linnéa came to California from Sweden to become a porn star. Carefully researched and shot with a cast of actors and porn stars, PLEASURE is about the compromises that Linnéa makes in order to pursue her dream.
Polite Society
Großbritannien 2023 | Action, Comedy | Nida Manzoor
British-Pakistani teen Ria (Priya Kansara) dreams of becoming a stuntwoman. But when she realizes that her parents are planning to marry off her sister in an arranged marriage, Ria's new battle is to sabotage this wedding.
Poor Things
USA/Irland/Großbritannien 2023 | Science Fiction, Drama | Yorgos Lanthimos
Scientist Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) has created Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) and built her world, but Bella – half child, half adult woman – becomes an explorer herself as well as a revolutionary who defies convention.
Pride
Großbritannien 2014 | Comedy | Matthew Warchus | 6
England 1984. Based on true events, PRIDE tells the story of an unusual friendship between a group of lesbian and gay activists and a mining community in Wales.
A Rainy Day In New York
A Rainy Day In New York | USA 2019 | Comedy | Woody Allen | oA
A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK is another entry in Woody Allen's list of light urban romantic comedies, following MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, TO ROME WITH LOVE, and VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA.
Results
USA 2015 | Comedy | Andrew Bujalski
The new independent comedy by Andrew Bujalski (COMPUTER CHESS) explores the alien universe of a fitness studio and its bizarre clients.
The Riot Club
Großbritannien 2014 | Drama, Thriller | Lone Scherfig | 12
Once a year the ten members of Oxford University’s Riot Club honour the legendary scholar and libertine Lord Riot with a meal in which the tradition is to indulge as extravagantly as possible. But this year the excess escalates.
Seaside Special
Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | Jens Meurer
Director Jens Meurer filmed a very personal and loving film about Europe‘s last “End-of-Pier-Show,“ in the seaside resort Cromer in Norfolk and England during the fatal Brexit decision.
Phantom Thread
Phantom Thread | USA 2017 | Drama, Love-story, Historical Film | Paul Thomas Anderson | 6
An opulently filmed gothic romance about a perfectionist fashion designer (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his young lover Alma who dares to defy the master.
Serena
USA 2014 | Drama | Susanne Bier | 12
North Carolina in the late 1920s. When George Pemberton meets the wild and ambitious Serena he believes he has found his equal. Together they begin to build a timber empire in the remote Smoky Mountains. A dark and epic tale by Danish director ...
Breathe
Großbritannien 2017 | Biography, Drama, Romance Films | Andy Serkis | 12
Diana and Robin are newlyweds and are expecting a child when Robin suddenly breaks down. He has polio and will never be able to walk again. With the help of Diana and some resourceful friends he fights for more space bit by bit.
The Son
Großbritannien 2022 | Drama | Florian Zeller
After THE FATHER, Florian Zeller has shot another psychological portrait of a family in crisis. This time it‘s about depressed teen Nicholas, whose suffering is causing his divorced parents to despair.
Sorry We Missed You
Großbritannien 2019 | Drama | Ken Loach | 12
Ken Loach takes the ‘I Incorporated‘ world to task: Ricky Turner from Newcastle becomes a self-employed parcel carrier. If everything goes well, he and his wife Abbie, an outpatient geriatric nurse, can pay off their little house….
The Front Runner
The Front Runner | USA 2018 | Drama, Biography | Jason Reitman | oA
An adaptation of Matt Bais novel All Truth Is Out with a fantastic cast about the rise and fall of two-time US presidential candidate Gary Hart who stumbled due to his extramarital affair in the late 80s.
Spoiler Alert
Spoiler Alert | USA 2022 | Drama, Comedy, Love Stories | Michael Showalter | 12
A lot about Kit and Michael‘s love story is ordinary. The first meeting at a club is followed by first dates, their first home, happy years, the first grudges. However, it‘s clear from the film‘s first image that their happiness won‘t last
Steve Jobs
USA 2015 | Biography, Drama | Danny Boyle | 6
Based on the Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography, Danny Boyle (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, TRAINSPOTTING, 127 HOURS) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (WEST WING, THE SOCIAL NETWORK) have tackled some fast-paced and very amusing parts of the life and ...
Stop the Pounding Heart
USA/Italien/Belgien 2013 | Documentary | Roberto Minervini
In almost documentary images, STOP THE POUNDING HEART tells of Sara, a 14-year-old girl growing up in an extremely religious family in America's 'Bible belt', who tentatively starts to doubt her way of living.
Styx
Deutschland/Österreich 2018 | Drama | Wolfgang Fischer | 12
Hobby sailor Rike sees an overcrowded refugee boat that is about to sink off the coast of Africa. The coastguard demands that Rike should stay away and promises to send help, but no rescue boats are coming.
The Sun is also a Star
The Sun Is Also A Star | USA 2019 | Drama, Romance Films | Ry Russo-Young | 6
Korean student Danile falls in love with Jamaican Natasha. It could be so sweet but Natasha's family is about to be deported.
Swimming with Men
Swimming with Men | Großbritannien 2018 | Drama, Comedy, Romance Films | Oliver Parker | oA
Accountant Eric Scott becomes part of a surreal male synchronised swimming group by accident. Their motto is: “synchronized swimming against the meaninglessness of life.“
Tar
Tar | USA 2022 | Drama, Music Films | Todd Field
Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár with multiple layers and ambivalence, a woman who is both a mysterious-iconic hero and a deeply toxic personality.
The Dinner
USA 2016 | Drama | Oren Moverman
Two couples – played by Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Richard Gere, and Rebecca Hall – meet for a luxurious 7 course menu. In reality, the dinner is an emergency meeting: their sons attacked a defenseless homeless woman.
A Thousand and One
USA 2023 | Drama | A.V. Rockwell | 12
New York, 1994. Inez is released from prison and kidnaps her own son, six year old Terry, who is in a foster home. The two of them muddle through with fake papers for the next decade.
Touch Me Not
Rumänien/ Deutschland/ Tschechische Republik/ Bulgarien/ Frankreich 2018 | Drama | Adina Pintilie | 16
The 2018 Berlinale winner TOUCH ME NOT is a mixture of very personal interviews, extremely stylized scenes, and reservedly observed therapy sessions.
Tulip Fever
Tulip Fever | USA/Großbritannien 2016 | Drama, Romance Films, Historical Film | Justin Chadwick | 6
Based on the novel by Deborah Moggach, director Justin Chadwich tells the story of the intertwined fates of two women in Amsterdam of the 17th century during the “tulip mania” era, one of history’s first speculative bubbles.
Unbranded
Unbranded | USA 2015 | Documentary | Phillip Baribeau | oA
Four young men decide to travel from Mexico to Canada on horseback to raise awareness of the plight of America’s mustangs.
Monster
Kaibutsu | Japan 2023 | Drama | Hirokazu Koreeda | 12
Saori suspects that her son’s teacher is bullying him. Hirokazu Kore-eda tells the story three times, from different perspectives, and each time the assessment of what happens changes.
Victoria & Abdul
Großbritannien 2017 | Drama, Biography, Historical Film | Stephen Frears | 6
Stephen Frears (THE QUEEN) has made an amusing historical drama about the historically verified friendship between Queen Victoria and her Indian servant Abdul Karim.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending | Großbritannien 2017 | Drama | Ritesh Batra
Tony received a letter one day. He inherited a small amount of money and a diary. The inheritence catapults him back to his youth in the early 1960s and makes him discover that not everything happened the way he remembers.
Woman (2020)
Frankreich 2019 | Documentary | Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova
Woman from different countries talk about their lives in front of a neutral, black background in portrait shots. What does their life story, body awareness, their own experience of being a woman in this world mean to them?
Wonder Wheel
USA 2017 | Comedy | Woody Allen | 12
America in the 1950s. The paths of four stranded people with big dreams cross in a Coney Island fair, played by Kate Winslet, James Belushi, Juno Temple, and Justin Timberlake.
This Beautiful Fantastic
This Beautiful Fantastic | USA, Großbritannien 2016 | Drama, Comedy | Simon Aboud | oA
Bella has two obsessions and one big wish: she arranges things constantly, she hates nature, and she wants to write children’s books. But when she sits in front of her typewriter at night, she can’t come up with anything – until her grumpy ...
Armageddon Time
Armageddon Time | USA 2022 | Drama | James Gray
ARMAGEDDON TIME tells a coming-of-age story set in the 1980s in Queens, New York with a keen sense for the nuances and fractures. 12 year old Paul is supposed to pursue a successful career at any cost, but he prefers to dream about a life as an ...
Zootopia
Zootopia | USA 2016 | Animation | Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush | oA
Zootropolis is a city made up of animals. All species have their own needs: mice have small houses, elephants have bigger ones. Officer Judy Hopps is the first bunny to become a cop since it’s a job for bigger animals.
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