Movie archive
1917
Grossbritannien/USA 2019 | War Film, Drama, Historical Film | Sam Mendes | 12
Simply breath-taking or blatant pro-military propaganda? Our authors Tom Dorow and Jared Abbott take opposing views to director Sam Mendes' and cinematographer Roger Deakins' one-take-film about two British soldiers in World War I.
Nick Cave – 20.000 Days on Earth
Nick Cave – 20.000 Days on Earth | Großbritannien 2014 | Essay Film, Music Films | Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard | 6
A portrait of the singer and author Nick Cave on the fictitious 20.000th day of his life develops into an essay of the driving forces behind the artist´s creativity.
45 Years
Großbritannien 2015 | Drama | Andrew Haigh | oA
Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay) are about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary when news reaches them that Geoff’s former girlfriend Katya who died in a hiking accident has been found in a glacier. The perfectly ...
7 Days in Entebbe
7 Days at Entebbe | Großbritannien 2018 | Historical Film, Politthriller, Action, Thriller, Crime Drama | José Padilha | 12
José Padilhas adaptation of the hijacking of an Air France plane on June 27th 1976 by two members of the “Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine“ and the German members of the “Revolutionary Cells“ Winfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann ...
Above & Below
Above & Below | Deutschland/Schweiz/USA 2015 | Documentary | Nicolas Steiner
A couple living in a Las Vegas sewer, a loner in an abandoned military bunker, an army veteran in a Mars research station in the desert. ABOVE AND BELOW is a visually stunning and gentle documentary about people who live where the world ends.
Aftersun
USA/Großbritannien 2022 | Drama | Charlotte Wells | 12
Sophie remembers her trip to Turkey with her father Calum 20 years ago by watching old video footage and traces chasms that she didn‘t perceive as a child.
All of Us Strangers
Großbritannien/USA 2023 | Drama, Fantasy | Andrew Haigh
Literature, memory, dream, hallucination, imagining – little is certain in Andrew Haigh's film, in which Adam, who cannot commit to long-term relationships, meets his parents, who died young, and are now a little younger than him.
All the Money in the World
All the Money in the World | USA 2017 | Thriller, Drama, Crime Drama | Ridley Scott | 12
Ridley Scott’s film about the 1973 abduction of Paul Getty III in Italy and his grandfather J. Paul Getty’s refusal to pay the ransom money is a tight thriller with a philosophical twist.
Anatomy Of A Fall
Anatomie d'une chute | Frankreich 2023 | Drama, Thriller | Justine Triet
Writer couple Sandra and Samuel live in a mountain cabin with their son Daniel. When Daniel returns home after walking the dog, his father lies dead in front of the house. Did Sandra push her husband out the window?
Annette
Frankreich/USA 2021 | Musical, Drama | Leos Carax | 12
At its root a very current version of A STAR IS BORN, the collaboration between Leos Carax and the Mael brothers Ron and Russel of the band Sparks is filled to the brim with visual and musical ideas.
Anomalisa
USA 2015 | Animation, Comedy | Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson | 12
ANOMALISA by Charlie Kaufman is a tender stop motion animation for adults about a successful author and motivational trainer who is so depressed that all voices sound the same to him. Then one day he hears a voice that is different: it belongs to a ...
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace | USA 2018 | Documentary, Music Films, Concert Film | Sydney Pollack, Alan Elliott | oA
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.
Arrival
Arrival | USA 2016 | Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction | Denis Villeneuve | 12
Denis Villeneuve’s new film ARRIVAL is a philosophical Sci-fi film in which aliens teach a linguistics professor, who just lost her daughter to cancer, about circular temporal consciousness.
Piazzolla - The Years of the Shark
Piazzolla, los años del tiburón | Argentinien/Frankreich 2018 | Documentary, Music Films | Daniel Rosenfeld
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.
First Man
First Man | USA 2018 | Biography, Drama, Historical Film | Damien Chazelle | 12
Damien Chazelle‘s screen adaptation of the first moon expedition is about the dark side of the expedition, the hardships, failures, and the loneliness of an astronaut in space.
Out of the Furnace
Out of the Furnace | USA/Großbritannien 2013 | Drama, Crime Drama, Thriller | Scott Cooper | 16
A star-packed film, this bleak revenge drama is about two brothers in a working-class steel town on the edge of the Appalachians.
Avatar 2: The Way of the Water
Avatar 2: The Way of the Water | USA 2022 | Adventure, Action, Fantasy | James Cameron | 12
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER tells the story of further adventures of the Sully family, treading pretty much the same ground as the first film, just with better water animation.
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
Deutschland 2015 | Documentary, Music Films | Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange | 16
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 ...
Babylon
Babylon | Großbritannnien 1980 | Drama, Music Films | Franco Rosso
Franco Rosso's most important feature film, BABYLON (1980), is about a group of young men who run a reggae sound system in Brixton and prepare for a dancehall battle.
Babylon
Babylon | USA 2022 | Drama | Damien Chazelle | 12
Period comedy/drama about a number of people caught in the chaos of Hollywood moving from silent to sound film. Some rise, some fall but most of them party.
Battle of the Sexes
USA 2017 | Sportfilm, Comedy, Biography | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | oA
Following the formation of the Women's Tennis Association, Billie Jean King is challenged to a match by 55- year-old tennis buffoon Bobby Riggs. The match is marketed as a BATTLE OF THE SEXES. At the same time, King falls for stylist Marilyn.
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
USA/Großbritannien 2016 | Documentary | Ron Howard | 6
Ron Howard’s documentary shows excerpts of Beatles live shows from 1963 to 1966, the year when the band decided not to perform in public anymore. The film also chronicles the band’s story during the height of Beatlemania.
Beau Is Afraid
USA 2023 | Horror, Comedy, Drama | Ari Aster | 16
Those who understand that Kafka is a funny writer will have fun with BEAU IS AFRAID.
Billie
Billie | Großbritannien 2019 | Documentary, Biography | James Erskine | 12
A kaleidoscope-like image of Billie Holiday emerges out of around 200 hours of tape and cassette recordings of interviews with the singer‘s friends and companions.
The Birth of a Nation
USA 2016 | Biography, Drama, Historical Film | Nate Parker | 16
Film pioneer D.W. Griffith’s THE BIRTH OF A NATION was the first feature-length film that had its own fully developed film language – a racist concoction. Director Nate Parker tells the story of the 1831 slave uprising led by Nat Turner anew ...
BlacKkKlansman
BlacKkKlansman | USA 2018 | Biography, Comedy, Crime Drama | Spike Lee | 12
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.
Blood Simple
Blood Simple | USA 1984 | Thriller, Crime, Crime Drama | Joel Coen | 18
A revival of the restored version of the Coen brothers 1984 debut. Bar owner Marty hires sleazy detective Vissar to kill his wife Abby and her lover Ray, but Vissar has his own plans.
Blue Ruin
USA 2013 | Thriller | Jeremy Saulnier | 16
Dwight is a homeless guy who lives in a broken down car on the beach. His life changes when a killer gets out of prison. Excellent Noir-Thriller with nods to classic European crime movies and a fantastic Macon Blair in the leading role.
Book Club
Book Club | USA 2018 | Comedy | Bill Holderman | oA
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen play four college friends who have had a book club for years and are inspired to have romantic adventures after reading “Fifty Shades of Gray.“
Boyhood
USA 2002-2014 | Drama | Richard Linklater | 6
Richard Linklater filmed Boyhood with the same cast over a 12-year period. The film starts when the young boy, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), is 6 and ends when he leaves home and goes to college at 18.
Bunch of Kunst
Bunch of Kunst | Deutschland 2017 | Biography, Documentary, Music Films | Christine Franz
A documentary about the British working-class electro-dance-punk band Sleaford Mods.
Certain Women
USA 2016 | Drama | Kelly Reichardt | oA
Kelly Reichardt’s films show great affection for her unsure heroes and heroines who are muddling through somehow. This time four women from Livingston, Montana are the center of three very loosely connected episodes that depict the undersides of ...
Civil War
USA 2024 | Action, Drama, War Film | Alex Garland | NEW RELEASE
CIVIL WAR is a warning about the escalation of social conflicts in the US on one hand, and on the other it’s a story about a hard-boiled war photographer who takes a young, ambitious photographer under her wings.
Colonia Dignidad – Es gibt kein Zurück
Colonia | Deutschland / Luxemburg / Frankreich 2015 | Drama, Historical Film, Thriller | Florian Gallenberger | 16
On the outside „Colonia Dignidad“ in Chile was a deeply religious German community. Behind closed doors sect leader Paul Schäfer drugged and abused his disciples and ran a prison for the Pinochet regime. Florian Gallenberger uses the real story ...
C'mon C'mon
C'mon C'mon | USA 2021 | Drama | Mike Mills
Radio journalist Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) interviews children in different cities about their plans, worries, and also, what makes them happy. When his sister Vivien has to take care of her mentally distressed ex-husband, Johnny takes Vivien‘s ...
Crimes Of The Future
Kanada/Griechenland/Frankreich 2022 | Drama, Science Fiction | David Cronenberg
In the world which David Cronenberg‘s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE depicts, most people don‘t feel any pain anymore. One exception is performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), who is constantly in pain and is constantly producing new organs with ...
Crimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future | Kanada/Griechenland/Frankreich 2022 | Drama, Science Fiction | David Cronenberg | 16
In the world which David Cronenberg‘s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE depicts, most people don‘t feel pain anymore. One exception is performance artist Saul Tense (Viggo Mortensen), who is constantly in pain and producing new organs with unclear purposes.
The Cut
Deutschland 2014 | Drama, Historical Film | Fatih Akin | 12
Fatih Akin concludes his trilogy about Love, Death and the Devil with the epic story of the Armenian blacksmith Nazaret Mamoolian's search for his daughters after the Armenian genocide in 1915.
Daliland
Daliland | USA/Großbritannien 2022 | Drama, Biography | Mary Harron
In the 1970s, the aging Dalí couple holds court in a New York hotel and makes tons of money with their glamorous lifestyle. Young James, Dalí‘s assistant, is meant to ensure that the painter makes enough paintings for a planned exhibition.
A Dark Song
Irland/Grossbritannien 2020 | Horror | Liam Gavin | 16
Sofia wants occultist Joseph to conduct the “Abremalin Operation,“ a long process that is meant to end with her facing her guardian angel who will be able to fulfil any wish. A Welsh indie occult horror film.
Death of a Ladies' Man
Kanada/Irland 2020 | Drama | Matt Bissonnette | 16
Sam (Gabriel Byrne) is an alcoholic and a university professor and an old charmer, even if that doesn‘t totally work anymore. Recently, he‘s been having strange hallucinations and is haunted by memories of his father.
Destroyer
USA 2018 | Action, Thriller, Crime Drama, Drama | Karyn Kusama | 12
Nicole Kidman‘s restrained but intense performance as down-and-out policewoman Erin Bell is the highlight of DESTROYER, which tells a typical noir revenge story.
Die Florence Foster Jenkins Stories
Großbritannien 2016 | Stephen Frears
Florence Foster Jenkins, the "world's worst singer," was a promising piano player in her youth but lost her musical ability due to a Syphilis related illness. Stephen Frears tells her life story as a feminist tragicomedy.
Legend of the Ugly King
Österreich/Deutschland 2017 | Documentary | Hüseyin Tabak
Hüseyin Tabak wanted to make a film about his idol, the turkish-kurdish director Yilmaz Güney. His research unearthes deeply toxic personality traits in the celebrated director.
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot
Don't worry, he won't get far on foot | USA 2018 | Drama, Biography | Gus Van Sant | 12
A loving biopic from Gus Van Sant about the biting cartoonist and outsider John Callahan who became paralyzed from the neck down after a car accident when he was 21 and likes stepping on people‘s toes with his illustrations.
Dream Scenario
USA 2023 | Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror | Kristoffer Borgli
Neurotic, married university teacher Paul Matthews (Nicholas Cage) appears in different people’s dreams and becomes a media sensation.
Drive Away Dolls
Drive Away Dolls | USA 2023 | Comedy | Ethan Coen | 16
DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS is about a lesbian love triangle, a trip to Tallahassee in Florida, and a briefcase which various bad guys are also after.
Dumb Money
Dumb Money | USA 2023 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | Craig Gillespie
A feature film about the Gamestop stock market scandal 2020/2021, when a group of mainly small traders pushed the bankrupt shop chain “Gamestop” and caused massive stock fluctuations. Shareholders who had bet against the chain lost millions, and ...
Dune
USA 2021 | Science Fiction, Adventure, Literary Film Adaptations | Denis Villeneuve | 12
Long-awaited film version of Frank Herbert's scifi-epic. Political intrigue and giant sandworms on the desert planet Arrakis. Young Paul Atreides has to face up to his destiny.
Dunkirk
Frankreich, USA, Großbritannien 2017 | Historical Film, War Film, Drama | Christopher Nolan | 12
Eden
Frankreich 2014 | Drama, Music Films | Mia Hansen-Løve | 12
Based on true events, EDEN tells the story of the 1990s French house scene. The film follows the fortunes of DJ Sven Løve, Paul in the film, from his first raves in an old fortress to the clubs of Paris to the garage raves in New York. But soon a ...
Elvis
USA 2022 | Drama, Biography | Baz Luhrmann | 6
Baz Luhrmann isn‘t a storyteller, he‘s a showman. The actual protagonist of the film isn‘t Elvis, but rather Elvis‘ manager Colonel Tom Parker, one of the most hated villains in show business.
The Endless
USA 2017 | Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | 12
Justin and Aaron, played by directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, fled from a UFO suicide cult as children. When Justin convinces his brother to visit the cult one more time, they notice that the members haven‘t aged a day.
The Last Bus
The Last Bus | Großbritannien 2021 | Drama | Gillies MacKinnon
Widower Tom fulfills his late wife's dying wish by carrying her ashes from northern Scotland to Cornwall - only using public buses.
The Theory of Everything
The Theory of Everything | Großbritannien 2014 | Biography, Drama | James Marsh | oA
The adaptation of Stephen Hawking's first wife Jane Wilde's autobiography tells of their long marriage, sends out the message that love overcomes almost everything and draws a symbolic parallel between their love and the place of religion in modern ...
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once | USA 2022 | Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure | Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | 16
Considering all of its absurd ideas, butt plug jokes, martial arts sequences, wobbly eyes and parallel universes, EEAAO is a very moving and charming family film.
Exhibition
Großbritannien 2013 | Drama | Joanna Hogg
Joanna Hogg´s new film tackles upper middle class bohemia through the relationship of H and D, both artists, who are trying to sell the modernist house they have been living in for the last decade. EXHIBTION is a subtle and beautiful ...
The Eyes of My Mother
USA 2016 | Drama, Horror | Nicolas Pesce | 16
Francesca’s mother is murdered by a serial killer. The young woman traps the murderer in a barn and develops strange obsessions.
The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans | USA 2022 | Drama | Steven Spielberg
THE FABELMANS can be regarded as a pivotal film in Spielberg‘s career and as a mirror to his obsessions.
Colour Out of Space
Color Out Of Space | USA 2019 | Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Literary Film Adaptations | Richard Stanley | 16
Cult director Richard Stanley tries his hand at Lovecraft. A meteor crashes into a family‘s garden and triggers mutations reminiscent of John Carpenter‘s THE THING.
The Favourite
Irland/Großbritannien 2018 | Drama, History, Comedy | Yorgos Lanthimos | 12
No one has filmed malice, lies, deception as wonderfully as Yorgos Lanthimos has in THE FAVOURITE in a long time.
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Großbritannien 2017 | Biography, Drama, Romance Films | Paul McGuigan | 6
A beautifully shot melodrama about the last great love of one the biggest film noir femme fatales, Gloria Grahame.
Final Account
USA/Großbritannien 2020 | Documentary | Luke Holland
Luke Holland asked the perpetrator generation about their memories of the Nazi regime, their involvement and guilt for over 10 years.
First Reformed
USA 2017 | Drama, Thriller | Paul Schrader
Pastor Ernst Toller is seriously ill, he is eaten up by guilt over his son’s death in Iraq. When he meets environmentalists Mary and Michael, his crisis deepens – until he makes a terrible decision.
Fisherman's Friends
Großbritannien 2019 | Comedy, Drama, Musical | Chris Foggin | oA
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.
The Forbidden Room
Kanada 2015 | Drama, Comedy, Mystery | Guy Maddin
In THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Guy Maddin, the great Canadian magician of surreal cinema, resurrects lost and forgotten storylines and compiles them making a meandering, wild and hypnotic cinematic trip.
Frank
Irland/Großbritannien 2013 | Comedy | Leonard Abrahamson | 12
British small town wannabe musician Jon stumbles into the band Soronprfbs, led by the charismatic and ingenious FRANK, who never takes his artificial head off. Soon Jon finds himself on a collision course with the excentric members of the Band.
Woman Walks Ahead
Woman Walks Ahead | USA 2018 | Biography, Drama, History | Susanna White | 12
In 1890 Catherine Weldon wants to paint the portrait of Lakota-Sioux-Chief Sitting Bull, just when the government is about to pass the infamous "General Allotment Acts" and the army contemplates revenge for their defeat at Little Big Horn.
Freakscene – The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Deutschland/USA 2020 | Documentary | Philipp Reichenheim | 6
Dinosaur Jr. are indie rock pioneers, but there have been reports of tension between the three band members from the beginning. In FREAKSCENE, J Mascis, Lou, and Murph speak openly about the toxic atmosphere in the band.
Ghost Fleet
Ghost Fleet | USA 2018 | Documentary | Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron
The Thai fishing industry is one of the largest in the world. What is not as known is that many companies operate using slave labor. Patima Tungpuchayathul tries to free the enslaved men with her organization LPN (Labor Rights Promotion Network ...
Ghost in the Shell
USA 2017 | Action, Drama, Science Fiction | Rupert Sanders | 16
Remake of the Japanes anime classic, with impressive visuals and a sharp turn in the philosophy.
Ghost Stories
Großbritannien 2017 | Scary Film, Horror, Theateradaption | Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman | 16
Professor Goodman is tasked with clearing up three ghost sightings by his big role model, TV ghost debunker Charles Cameron who has been missing for decades. A lovingly told and somewhat confusing homage to classic British horror anthologies.
A Ghost Story
USA 2017 | , Fantasy, Drama | David Lowery | 12
A young couple. The Man, C., dies suddenly in a car crash. The woman, M., survives and is shaken. C. returns as a ghost with no one noticing and observes how the world keeps moving. A gentle, sad, and philosophical ghost film.
Gimme Danger
USA 2016 | Documentary, Music Films | Jim Jarmusch | oA
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary GIMME DANGER about The Stooges, who Jarmusch calls the “greatest rock ‘n roll back of all time” right at the beginning is an astoundingly conventional, perhaps deliberately relaxed rock documentary that contrasts ...
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
USA 2014 | Horror, Thriller | Ana Lily Amirpour | 12
At night, the GIRL haunts the streets of Sherhabad "Bad City," an apocalyptic oil mining town. The GIRL has no name, she wears the chador like a superhero’s cape and she takes the souls of men. Then she meets young Arash, a boy who loves nothing ...
The Girl with all the Gifts
The Girl with all the Gifts | USA/Großbritannien 2016 | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Colm McCarthy | 16
Melanie is the most talented among the few children who developed signs of intelligence in spite of their infection with a zombie fungus. Her brain is the last hope for a small group of people who make their way through the infested lands.
Good Vibrations
Irland/Großbritannien 2012 | Biography, Drama, Music Films | Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn | 6
It is 1976 in Northern Ireland and Terri Hooley is a not-so-young, leftie, one-eyed, pacifist hippie annoyed by the sectarian violence euphemistically known as The Troubles. He decides to open up a record store in Belfast on the most bombed street ...
The Green Knight
USA/Irland 2020 | Fantasy | David Lowery | 16
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.
Green Room
USA 2015 | Thriller | Jeremy Saulnier | 18
A punk band short on cash perform at a Nazi joint, see something they weren’t supposed to see, and find themselves trapped. A very bloody, suspenseful thriller with believable characters and cleverly devised action sequences in a closed space.
Submergence
Submergence | USA 2018 | Drama, Thriller | Wim Wenders | 12
A MI6 agent pretending to be a hydraulic engineer and a deep-sea researcher fall in love on the Norman beach. He is then captured by Islamists and she submerges in the Nordic Sea.
H.G. LEWIS Midnight Special
The Gruesome Twosome | USA 1967 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Herschell Gordon Lewis
June is the month to see films by Herschell Gordon Lewis, the master of exploitation cinema. He is best known for creating the “splatter” subgenre of horror films. To celebrate Lewis’ 85th birthday the TILSITER LICHTSPIELE cinema is screening ...
The Hallow
Irland/Großbritannien 2015 | Horror | Corin Hardy | 16
In his home-invasion-meets-creature-horror debut Corin Hardy sends a young couple into the Irish woods where “the hallow” live and take revenge on anyone who dares trespass into their territory.
Hereditary
USA 2018 | Horror | Ari Aster | 16
A family tragedy turns into an escalating nighmare in this original and effective horror film.
High Life
High Life | Großbritannien/ Frankreich/ Deutschland 2018 | Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror | Claire Denis | 16
In Claire Denis‘ science fiction film a prison spaceship is racing towards a black hole. On board, Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) conducts fertility experiments and lives out her desires in a “fuckbox“ while Monte (Robert Pattinson) remains ...
High Rise
High Rise | USA 2015 | Action, Drama, Science Fiction | Ben Wheatley | 16
Neurosurgeon Dr. Laing buys an apartment in a posh brutalist high-rise. When the buildings facilities fail, an orgy of violence ensues. A wild adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s cult novel.
How To Blow Up A Pipeline
How to Blow Up a Pipeline | USA 2022 | Drama, Thriller | Daniel Goldhaber
The eco-terrorism thriller meticulously follows the operations of a group that builds two bombs and wants to blow up an oil pipeline.
I, Tonya
USA 2017 | Biography, Sportfilm, Drama | Craig Gillespie | 12
Right before the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, a man is assigned to hit ice skater Nancy Kerrigan with an iron rod by ice skater Tonya Harding‘s ex husband. A funny and engaging biopic with an excellent cast.
Io capitano
Io Capitano | Italien/Belgien 2023 | Drama | Matteo Garrone
16 year old cousins Moussa and Seydou from Dakar in Senegal embark on a trip to Europe without their families knowing. Garrone directs this teen odyssey with monumental images and hundreds of amateur actors.
The Great Escaper
The Great Escaper | Großbritannien 2023 | Drama | Oliver Parker
Based on real events, the film tells the story of 90 year old world war veteran Bernhard Jordan, who secretly disappeared from his care home in 2014 in order to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
Infinity Pool
Kanada/Frankreich/Ungarn 2023 | Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery | Brandon Cronenberg | 18
Brandon Cronenberg shows tourists lean into the excesses of sex and violence in a country where money can literally buy anything.
Inherent Vice
USA 2015 | Drama, Crime Drama | Paul Thomas Anderson | 16
Paul Thomas Anderson directs the first ever adaptation of a novel by the cult author Thomas Pynchon. INHERENT VICE is cooler than expected, and, in spite of an abundance of jokes and wild allusions, a melancholy elegy to the hippie era.
It Follows
USA 2014 | Horror | David Robert Mitchell | 12
An incredibly creepy teen horror film: after a romantic encounter Jay finds herself being constantly followed by strange entities that will surely kill her. .
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It Lives Inside
USA 2023 | Horror | Bishal Dutta
Bishal Dutta’s horror film uses Hindu mythology similarly to how THE EXORCIST used Catholicism.
Jazz On a Summer's Day
Jazz On A Summer's Day | USA 1959 | Documentary, Concert Film, Music Films | Bert Stern | 12
In 1958 fashion photographer Bert Stern and his co-director Aram Avakian filmed the Newport Folk Festival. They captured a hip summer audience that attended a musical game-changer on a bright summer‘s day.
Seberg
USA 2019 | Biography, Drama | Benedict Andrews | 12
SEBERG tells the story of actress Jean Seberg (BREATHLESS), who was driven to numerous suicide attemps by J. Edgar Hoover‘s FBI because she was involved with the black civil rights movement and the Black Panther party.
Joker
USA 2019 | Drama, Crime Drama, Thriller | Todd Phillips | 16
THE KILLING JOKE meets TAXI DRIVER and KING OF COMEDY.
H.G. Lewis Midnight Special
Just for the Hell of It | USA 1968 | Drama, Thriller | Herschell Gordon Lewis
June is the month to see films by Herschell Gordon Lewis, the master of exploitation cinema. He is best known for creating the “splatter” subgenre of horror films. To celebrate Lewis’ 85th birthday the TILSITER LICHTSPIELE cinema is screening ...
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon | USA 2023 | Drama, Crime Drama, Historical Film | Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese displays a social panorama of Osage County at the beginning of the 20th century, when white “soldiers of fortune“ did everything they could to exploit the Osage, who owned the land and the oil in it, and didn‘t shy away from ...
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.
The Last Movie
USA 1971 | Drama | Dennis Hopper | 12
Dennis Hopper’s legendarily maligned, long-lost followup to EASY RIDER returns in a newly restored edition.
Last Night in Soho
Last Night in Soho | USA/Grossbritannien 2021 | Horror, Thriller | Edgar Wright | 16
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.
Lee Scratch Perry's Vision of Paradise
Deutschland/ Schweiz/ Großbritannien/ Jamaika/ Äthiopien 2015 | Biography, Documentary, Music Films | Volker Schaner
In his documentary feature Swiss director Volker Schahner visits Lee “Scratch” Perry, the charismatic high priest of dub in his Swiss refuge in 1999.
King of Thieves
King of Thieves | Großbritannien 2018 | Crime Drama, Drama | James Marsh | 12
The old heroes of British crime cinema get together and re-enact one of the most spectacular heists of recent history, the Hatton Garden robbery in Kondon's jewelry district.
The Lighthouse
USA 2019 | Horror | Robert Eggers | 16
THE LIGHTHOUSE, a film about two men whose assignment as lighthouse keepers on a lonely rock island takes longer than planned, till food and alcohol becomes scarce, pulls you into a sense of impending doom and doesn’t let up.
Licorice Pizza
USA 2021 | Drama, Comedy | Paul Thomas Anderson | 12
LICORICE PIZZA is set in 1973, the oil crisis is imminent. In easy-going anecdotes, Paul Thomas Anderson chronicles the life of film producer Gary Goetzman, a friend of Anderson‘s, as well as the water beds, pinballs, celebrities and old records.
Lion
USA/Großbritannien/Australien 2016 | Drama | Garth Davis | 12
Little Saroo falls asleep in a freight car one night and lands in Calcutta 1600 kilometers away. Adult Saroo begins to search for his roots years after being adopted by an Australian family.
The Lodge
Großbritannien 2019 | Horror, Psychothriller | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | 16
The first US film from Austrian directing duo Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz (GOODNIGHT MOMMY). Two children drive to a mountain cabin with their soon-to-be stepmother. Mysterious things happen.
Love & Mercy
USA 2014 | Biography, Drama, Music Films | Bill Pohlad | 6
LOVE & MERCY is a portrait of Brian Wilson, the creative mind behind The Beach Boys at two crucial moments in his life: at the peak of his musical career, when he slips into a psychological crisis and twenty years later, when he meets the car ...
Love, Cecil
USA 2017 | Documentary | Lisa Immordino Vreeland | oA
Lisa Immordino Vreeland‘s lively doc about famous British glamour photographer Cecil Beaton is above all a celebration of his images and rightly so.
Loving
USA/Großbritannien 2016 | Drama, Biography | Jeff Nichols | 6
The first sterile and gentle film about the civil rights movement. LOVING tells the story of Mildred and Richard Loving and the Loving vs the State of Virginia case which ended the ban on so-called “mixed marriages.”
Lucky
USA 2017 | Drama | John Carroll Lynch | oA
Harry Dean Stanton in his last role: Lucky has a peaceful routine in a sleepy desert town. One day he falls over and has to grapple with his imminent death.
Making Montgomery Clift
USA 2018 | Documentary, Biography | Robert Anderson Clift, Hillary Demmon | 6
Documentary taking in the highs and lows in the career of Montgomery Clift, Hollywood-star and queer icon. Co-directed by Clift's nephew Robert.
Mandy
Mandy | USA 2018 | Horror, Action, Thriller, Crime Drama | Panos Cosmatos | 18
The manic cult-revenge-fantasy MANDY provides great fanboy fun and features an irate Nicholas Cage completely losing the plot.
Ford v Ferrari
Ford v Ferrari | USA 2019 | Biography, Drama, Sportfilm | James Mangold | 12
A men‘s film: in 1966 the Ford company, known for its tasteful family cars, challenged Ferrari‘s leading position as a race car manufacturer.
Maps to the Stars
Deutschland/Kanada/Frankreich/USA 2014 | Drama | David Cronenberg | 16
A David Cronenberg film that chronicles the lives of two dysfunctional families and their encounters with sex, violence and incest.
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots | Großbritannien 2018 | Biography, Drama, Historical Film | Josie Rourke | 12
Mary Stuart returned to Scotland from France, quelled a Protestant rebellion, and was ultimately defeated due to intrigues. An attempt at a new feminist interpretation.
Medusa Deluxe
Großbritannien 2022 | Thriller | Thomas Hardiman
A grisly murder has taken place at a hairdressing competition. An eccentric whodunit.
Memoria
Kolumbien/ Thailand/ Deutschland/ Mexiko/ Qatar 2021 | Drama | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 12
Jessica (Tilda Swinton) is woken up by a muffled bang. She‘s the only one who can hear the sound. The sound scares her at first, but then she wants to hear it more and more.
Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool
USA 2019 | Documentary, Music Films | Stanley Nelson | oA
An uptempo chronicle of a musical and style icon
Moonlight
USA 2017 | Drama | Barry Jenkins | 12
Barry Jenkins MOONLIGHT, nominated for eight Oscars, is a masterpiece, a daring film about what it means to grow up poor and black, a film about sexuality and masculinity, about damages to the soul, about sensuality and goodness.
Motherless Brooklyn
USA 2019 | Crime Drama, Drama | Edward Norton | 12
Edward Norton‘s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem‘s exhillarating novel MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN is a good, solid noir film with a great jazz soundtrack.
Still Life
Still Life | Italien/Großbritannien 2013 | Tragicomedy | Uberto Pasolini | oA
The last case of a gentle man who arranges funerals for people who died without relatives leads him closer to his own passions than ever before.
Napoleon
USA 2023 | Historical Film, Biography | Ridley Scott
The rise and fall of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix), his battles and his love for Joséphine (Vanessa Kirby).
Locke
Großbritannien/USA 2013 | Drama, Thriller | Steven Knight | oA
Tom Hardy is construction manager Ivan Locke. On the eve of a big, important day at work he receives a call and must drive to London. One night, one man, a car and a telephone.
Nocturnal Animals
USA 2016 | Drama | Tom Ford | 16
Susan is a successful gallery owner, married to an attractive, rich, cheating husband. One day she receives a manuscript of her ex-husband Tony’s book NOCTURNAL ANIMALS which is dedicated to her. But is Tony’s brutal novel meant to seduce, charm ...
Nomadland
USA 2020 | Drama | Chloé Zhao | oA
Fern (Frances McDormand) becomes one of the “nomads“ after the death of her husband. The community lives in trailers at the margins of society leading a life somewhere between poverty and freedom.
Nowhere Special
Großbritannien/Italien 2020 | Drama | Uberto Pasolini | 6
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.
Official Secrets
USA/Großbritannien 2019 | Drama, Thriller | Gavin Hood | 6
Keira Knightley plays whistleblower Katharine Gun, who unveils the attempt of the British secret service to push the Iraq War.
Old
Old | USA 2021 | Thriller | M. Night Shyamalan | 16
In M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller a group of people are trapped on a beach which makes them age rapidly. And they're also being watched.
One of These Days
One of These Days | Deutschland/USA 2020 | Drama | Bastian Günther
Bastian Günther‘s feature is about an endurance competition in which participants have to put their hand on an expensive pickup truck for as long as they can.
Oppenheimer
USA 2023 | Drama, Biography, Historical Film | Christopher Nolan
A three-hour epic by visual perfectionist Christopher Nolan chronicling the development of the atomic bomb and the internal struggle of its "father", J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cilian Murphy)
Paradise Hills
Spanien 2019 | Drama, Science Fiction | Alice Waddington | 12
Rich young women are meant to train to conform on “Paradise“ island, but Uma (Emma Roberts) and her friends suspect something even more evil is at play.
Paterson
USA 2016 | Jim Jarmusch
Inspired by a poem by William Carlos William, PATERSON follows the daily routines of bus driver Paterson who lives in the town of Paterson and writes poetry in his spare time.
Perfect Days
Japan/Deutschland 2023 | Drama | Wim Wenders
Hirayama lives a quiet and content life cleaning public toilets and taking delight at the small things he encounters each day.
A Walk in the Woods
A Walk in the Woods | USA 2015 | Adventure, Drama, Comedy | Ken Kwapis | oA
Bill Bryson (Robert Redford), retired author of travel guides and his best friend Katz (Nick Nolte) an alcoholic out of shape, decide to walk the Appalachian Trail.
Priscilla
USA 2023 | Drama, Biography | Sofia Coppola
Cailee Spaeny plays Priscilla Beaulieu Presley as an observer whose interests, desires, and agency are being suffocated in the oppressive rooms of Graceland.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | USA 2017 | Biography, Sociological Film, Erotic Film | Angela Robinson | 12
William Marston, the inventor of both the lie detector and superheroine Wonder Woman, grew up in a suffragette household and lived with feminists his entire life.
Queen and Slim
Queen and Slim | USA 2019 | Drama, Crime Drama | Melina Matsoukas | 12
QUEEN & SLIM is the rare film that feels both important and super cool.
Room
Room | Kanada/Irland 2015 | Drama | Lenny Abrahamson | 12
Joy and her Son Jack are kept in a small room by Joy’s kidnapper. Jack was born in this room, and Joy pretends that the room is the only thing that really exists in the world. But Jack is getting too old for this illusion.
Remedy
USA 2013 | Drama, Thriller | Cheyenne Picardo
Cheyenne Picardo's film REMEDY is a cinematic autobiography that revolves around the relationship between the sex worker Remedy and her clients and the feelings around these encounters.
Respect
USA 2021 | Biography, Music Films | Liesl Tommy | 12
RESPECT isn‘t the worst music biopic, as long as you don‘t expect a historically accurate depiciton of the life of soul legend, feminist, and civil rights icon Aretha Franklin.
The Revenant
The Revenant | USA 2015 | Adventure, Drama, Western | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 16
Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) barely survives a bear attack and is left to die in the wilderness by a group of hunters. A breathtaking and surreal revenge tale directed by Alejandro Iñárritu.
The Rider
USA 2017 | Drama | Chloé Zhao | 12
Lakota cowboy Brady isn‘t actually allowed to ride anymore after a head injury which he got while doing rodeo, but there‘s no other life for him. In Chloe Zhao‘s moving and enchanting film, Brady and his family play a fictional version of ...
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
USA 2018 | Drama, Crime Drama | Dan Gilroy | 6
Lawyer and activist Roman Israel has been working as the man behind the curtain in an office for decades. When his partner dies, he has to reorient himself, but stubborn, finicky Roman J. Israel is not very good with people.
The Shallows
The Shallows | USA 2016 | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Jaume Collet-Serra | 12
Nancy, a surfer, (Blake Lively) gets attacked by a shark on a desolate beach in Mexico. She barely manages to crawl on a small rock, but the shark keeps circling her, and sooner or later, her sanctuary will be submerged.
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan | Großbritannien/Irland 2020 | Documentary, Biography | Julien Temple | 12
Julian Temple (THE GREAT ROCK’N’ROLL SWINDLE, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS) has paid The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan a cinematic punk tribute.
The Shape of Water
Shape of Water | USA 2017 | Fantasy, Love-story, Modern Fairytale | Guillermo del Toro | 16
Sally Hawkins saves the “Creature from the Black Lagoon” in Guillermo del Toro’s nostalgic Cannes-winner.
She Said
USA 2022 | Drama | Maria Schrader
An adaptation of the eponymous book that journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey wrote about their research into Harvey Weinstein.
Sicario
USA 2015 | Action, Drama, Crime Drama | Denis Villeneuve | 16
DEA agent Kate is transferred to a secret task force that is part of the „War on Drugs“ on the Mexican border. Her role on this strange team is unclear and the role of the South American lawyer Alejandro is even more dubious.
The Sisters Brothers
USA/Frankreich/Rumänien/Spanien 2018 | Drama, Western | Jacques Audiard | 12
The Sisters Brothers are ruthless assassins. They are meant to get a secret formula from a gold prospector that will simplify the digging of gold and then murder the man, but the prospector has used his charm and friendliness to befriend one of them.
Skinamarink
USA 2022 | Horror, Experimental film | Kyle Edward Ball
SKINAMARINK is simultaneously impressive, frightening, and intrusively slow. There hasn't been a more experimental horror film in a long time.
H.G. Lewis Midnight Special
Something Weird | USA 1967 | Fantasy, Horror | Herschell Gordon Lewis
June is the month to see films by Herschell Gordon Lewis, the master of exploitation cinema. He is best known for creating the “splatter” subgenre of horror films. To celebrate Lewis’ 85th birthday the TILSITER LICHTSPIELE cinema is screening ...
The Sparks Brothers
Großbritannien 2021 | Documentary, Porträt, Music Films | Edgar Wright | 12
Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, BABY DRIVER) has made a long and very entertaining film about the very long career of the band of brothers Ron and Russel Mael.
Speak No Evil
Gæsterne | Dänemark 2022 | Thriller | Christian Tafdrup | 16
Björn and Luise, a reserved Danish couple with a small daughter, are visiting their vacation acquaintances, the extroverted Dutch couple Patrick and Karin. While there, they are exposed to small but gradually escalating transgressions.
Spiral
Spiral | Kanada 2019 | Horror | Kurtis David Harder
White, older Aaron and his younger, Black partner Malik are moving from the city to the countryside with Aaron's teen daughter Kayla. SPIRAL is a horror film with ritual and folk themes, in many ways reminiscent of Jordan Peele's GET OUT.
St. Vincent De Van Nuys
St. Vincent De Van Nuys | USA 2014 | Comedy | Theodore Melfi | 6
Bill Murray plays Vincent, a grumpy old wino and gambler, who starts to babysit a small boy because he desperately needs the money. Not Bill Murray’s best film but boasting a terrific cast and some lovely set pieces.
A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born | USA 2018 | Drama, Music Films | Bradley Cooper | 12
Lady Gaga as Barbra Streisand as Judy Garland plays a singer who becomes a star while the male star who discovers her succumbs to his alcohol and drug addiction. The fourth version of the material – not counting variations like ALL ABOUT EVE, ...
Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens | USA 2015 | Adventure, Action, Science Fiction | JJ Abrams | 12
The new STAR WARS movie.
Starry Eyes
USA 2014 | Horror | Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer | 18
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense | USA 1984 | Concert Film, Music Films | Jonathan Demme | 12, oA
The cult concert classic by Jonathan Demme is back.
Suspiria
Italien/USA 2018 | Horror, Dance Film | Luca Guadagnino | 16
A strange dance school, brutal murders, a coven. Luca Guadagnino‘s eagerly awaited new adaptation of Dario Argento‘s horror classic.
Swiss Army Man
USA 2016 | Adventure, Drama, Comedy | Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | 12
On a lonely island a depressed young man played by Paul Dano meets a farting corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe. He teaches the corpse how to speak and they become friends.
Talk to Me
Talk to Me | Australien 2022 | Horror | Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
There‘s a new sensation at school: you meet and conjure up the dead with the help of a magic, embalmed hand. One person touches the hand, says “talk to me“ and sees a half-decayed ghost.
Finding Your Feet
Finding Your Feet | Großbritannien 2017 | Comedy, Drama | Richard Loncraine | 12
When Sandra (Imelda Staunton) finds out that her renowned husband has been having an affair for years, she fleas to her older, fun-loving, political hippie sister Bif (Joanna Lumley).
Test
USA 2013 | Drama | Chris Mason Johnson
San Francisco 1985. Frankie is starting his career as a modern dancer. TEST gives a precise snapshot of the 1980s when androgynous was hip, and dancing and drugs the most important way to avoid the fear in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
The Evil Dead
USA 1981 | Splatter | Sam Raimi | 18
Sam Raimi’s legendary 80s cult horror film that involves a cabin in the woods, teenagers, demons, and amazing play dough splatter effects was banned for decades and can finally be shown in German cinemas.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | USA 1974 | Splatter | Tobe Hooper | 18
This classic horror film has been banned from German screens for decades. Now Leatherface is back from his exile to clandestine screenings, smuggled DVDs and torrent-downloads in a glorious, restored 4k-digital cinema print.
The Toxic Avenger (WA)
USA 1985 | Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
TOXIC AVENGER is one of the most successful films released by the infamous Troma Entertainment, known in the 1980s for producing low-budget B movies. Troma has cult status but that doesn’t make the film any better or more bearable.
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Three Thousand Years of Longing | USA/Australien 2022 | Drama, Fantasy | George Miller
Literary scholar Alithea (Tilda Swinton) researches myths in pop culture. At a conference in Istanbul, she buys an antique bottle and the jinn (Idris Elba) inside it grants her three wishes. But first, the jinn tells her about his life.
Time Trial
Großbritannien 2017 | Documentary | Finlay Pretsell | oA
In his documentary Finlay Pretsell follows the final season of Scottish cycling pro David Millar.
Tina
USA 2021 | Documentary, Porträt, Music Films | Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin
The restrained, affectionate documentary TINA tells the story of Tina Turner from her early success, to the abuse she suffered at the hands of Ike Turner, up until her comeback.
Tomorrow Is Always Too Long
Tomorrow Is Always Too Long | Großbritannien/Deutschland 2014 | Animation, Documentary, Essay Film, Musical | Phil Collins | 12
A love song to Glasgow, a musical with the intoxicating songs of Welsh songwriter Cate Le Bon, sung by ordinary Glaswegians and played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. An arrestingly funny, moving and poetic film about the things that make ...
Trash
Großbritannien 2014 | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Stephen Daldry | 12
Raphael, Gardo, and Rato live in a Favela on the edge of a garbage dump. One day they come across a mysterious wallet which the cops and their sadistic captain Frederico are also looking for. A fast-paced adventure based on a young adult novel by ...
Tully
USA 2018 | Comedy | Jason Reitman | 12
Marlo‘s rich brother Craig treats her to a “night nanny“ while she‘s expecting her third child, the freewheeling, beaming student who always finds a way to gets by.
Under the Silver Lake
USA 2018 | Crime Drama, Thriller | David Robert Mitchell | 16
David Robert Mitchell‘s (IT FOLLOWS) new film is a Hollywood paranoid thriller about power and immortality. A whiff of MULLHOLLAND DRIVE with Andrew Garfield in the main role.
Under the Skin
Großbritannien 2013 | Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller | Jonathan Glazer
An alien disguised as Scarlett Johansson picks up hitchhikers in Scotland and leads them to their deaths. When she lets a disfigured young man escape, she becomes a fugitive herself.
A United Kingdom
Großbritannien 2016 | Biography, Drama | Amma Asante | 6
A UNITED KINGDOM tells the story of the marriage between Seretse Kama, the crown prince of Bamangwato in Botswana, and British insurance officer Ruth Williams, who goes against the British colonial powers, the South African government, and must ...
The Unknown Known
USA 2013 | Documentary | Errol Morris | 12
When he was minister of defense, Donald Rumsfeld convinced the public with fake evidence and a web of lies that the war against Iraq was inevitable. Errol Morris (THE THIN BLUE LINE) interviews the unrepentant sophist.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man | Brasilien/USA 2020 | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller | Leigh Whannell | 16
Cecilia's abusive ex is dead. Or is he? Something or somebody is tormenting her. Somebody she cannot see.
At Eternity's Gate
At Eternity's Gate | Großbritannien/Frankreich/USA 2018 | Biography, Drama | Julian Schnabel | 6
The best film about Van Gogh since Maurice Pialat‘s VAN GOGH (1991) and Robert Altman‘s VINCENT AND THEO (1990) depicts the artist as a pioneer of gestural painting and a forerunner of expressionist abstraction.
The Beguiled
The Beguiled | USA 2017 | Drama, Western | Sofia Coppola | 12
1864. A school for girls offers a place of refuge in the middle of the Civil War. An injured soldier is brought to the school, and everything starts spiraling out of control.
The Post
The Post | USA 2017 | Drama, Biography, Historical Film | Steven Spielberg | 6
Steven Spielberg‘s film about the publishing of the secret “Pentagon Papers“ in the Washington Post in 1971 is a passionate plea for an independent press that orients itself on facts, even when they don‘t align with one‘s own position.
Vice
Vice | USA 2018 | Biography, Drama, History | Adam McKay
Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) was the most powerful vice president in the history of the US. He instigated a war based on falsified evidence and reinstated torture, calling it “enhanced interrogation.“ Adam McKay turns Cheney‘s story into a ...
Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds | USA 2017 | Thriller, Drama | Cory Finley | 16
Rich girls and former childhood friends Lily and Amanda decide to get Lily‘s stepfather out of the way. Schoolyard dealer Tim is meant to help them do that.
Waves
USA 2019 | Drama, Romance Films | Trey Edward Shults | 12
Writer-director Trey Edward Shults’s latest film adds to a small subsection of movies that use a highly stylistized brand of filmmaking to engage with the extreme but familiar emotions of modern life. It also relies heavily on music, sound design, ...
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist | Großbritannien 2018 | Documentary, Biography | Lorna Tucker | oA
Vivienne Westwood invented punk, or at least British punk fashion, along with Malcolm McLaren. Today, she runs a successful and independent fashion label with her partner Andreas Kronthaler. A documentary.
The Whale
USA 2022 | Drama | Darren Aronofsky | 16
Brendan Fraser won Best Actor at this year‘s Academy Awards for his role as Charlie, a dying, immobile, overweight English teacher.
Whiplash
USA 2014 | Drama, Music Films | Damien Chazelle | 12
19-year-old drummer Andrew enters a prestigious jazz academy and meets the abusive teacher Terence Fletcher, who tries to trash talk his students to brilliance. A passionate duel ensues in this five-time Oscar ™ nominated movie
Wiener-Dog
Wiener-Dog | USA 2016 | Black Comedy | Todd Solondz | 12
A little dachshund is passed through four owners, each one older than the next: a young boy who is a cancer survivor with a penchant for anarchy; Dawn Wiener, who is a veterinarian ‘s assistant in her latest incarnation, a rundown movie director ...
Wild Rose
Großbritannien 2018 | Drama, Music Films | Tom Harper | 12
Irish actress and singer Jessie Buckley plays singer Roselynn Harlan, who dreams of performing in Nashville but has to stand on her feet again after being in prison in her hometown Glasgow.
Wilson
Wilson | USA 2017 | Comedy | Craig Johnson | 12
Wilson is the kind of guy who will chew your ear off with his bitterness while you’re at a bar, a cafe, or the subway; someone who hates everyone, most of all himself. An adaptation of the ultra-depressing Daniel Clowes graphic novel.
US
Us | USA 2019 | Horror, Thriller | Jordan Peele | 16
The Wilsons are a perfectly normal Black middle-class family until they meet their doppelgängers during one traumatic evening. An inventive horror film by Jordan Peele (GET OUT).
Desert Dancer
Desert Dancer | Großbritannien 2014 | Biography, Drama | Richard Raymond | 12
Afshin Ghaffarian is an Iranian dancer and choreographer in a country where dancing is forbidden so he starts an underground dance company. The company performed for the first time in 2007 in the middle of the desert. DESERT DANCER recounts his ...
Yes, God, Yes
Yes, God, Yes | USA 2019 | Comedy | Karen Maine
In the middle of the restrictive environment of a Christian fundamentalist school in the 90s, 16 year old Alice discovers that she‘s interested in sex.
Yesterday
Großbritannien 2019 | Comedy, Music Films, Phantastischer Film | Danny Boyle | oA
After a worlwide blackout nobody on Earth remembers the Beatles anymore - except failing musician Jack Malik.
Dawn Of The Dead
USA 1978 | Horror | George A. Romero | 18
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.
The Zone of Interest
USA/Großbritannien/Polen 2023 | Drama, Historical Film | Jonathan Glazer
With a color palette oriented on the cool German color scale of Agfa/Orwo, Glazer depicts the life of the family of the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, Rudolf Höß.
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