Aftersun

USA/Großbritannien 2022 | Drama | R: Charlotte Wells

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.

Another Round

(Druk) | Dänemark 2020 | Drama | R: Thomas Vinterberg | FSK: 12

Male friendship and an obsession: Martin and his friends test the Norwegian philosopher Finn Skårderud‘s theory. According to him, people with half a mil of alcohol in their blood are able to perform at the peak of their mental ability.

Lars von Triers Antichrist

(Lars von Triers Antichrist) | DK 2009 | Psychodrama | R: Lars von Trier | FSK: 18

Liebe, D-Mark und Tod - Ask, Mark ve Ölüm

(Ask, Mark ve Ölüm) | Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Cem Kaya | FSK: 12

Director Cem Kaya‘s documentary about the music production of Turkish-Germans from the 1950s to the present is a fast-paced ride through more than half a century of Turkish-German history.

3D: Avatar 2: The Way of the Water

(Avatar 2: The Way of the Water) | USA 2022 | Animation, Fantasy | R: James Cameron

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.

Babylon

(Babylon) | USA 2022 | Drama | R: Damien Chazelle | FSK: 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.

Blueback

(Blueback) | Australien 2022 | Drama, Family Film | R: Robert Connolly

A tale of Abby who fell in love with the sea when she was a young girl and grew up wanting to protect it. But at the same time she is strugling to get through to her mother who is increasingly affected by dementia.

Bones and All

(Bones and All) | USA 2022 | Drama, Horror, Love Stories | R: Luca Guadagnino

Shy cannibal Maren (Taylor Russell) is searching for her mother and finds vagabond Lee (Timothée Chalamet), a soul mate, along the way,

Close

Belgien/Niederlande/Frankreich 2022 | Drama | R: Lukas Dhont | FSK: 12 | NEW RELEASE

Léo and Rémi are best friends as children. But after switching schools and the start of puberty, their friendship is suddenly put into question.

Crash

(Crash) | USA 1996 | Drama, Thriller | R: David Cronenberg | FSK: 16

Adaptation of a Ballard novel about a group who act out fatal car crashes.

Die Legende von Paul und Paula , m. Gästen u. Gespräch

DDR 1973 | Drama | R: Heiner Carow | FSK: 16

The most popular DEFA film. The film is a portrayal of everyday life in East Berlin. Paula is a single mother who works in a supermarket. She meets Paul and they fall in love. But Paul is married and can't bring himself to go through with a divorce. ...

EO

Polen 2022 | Drama | R: Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski‘s EO is a homage to Bresson‘s AU HASARD BALTHASAR: donkey EO takes an apocalyptic journey across a world that has been turned into hell by humans.

Escape from New York

(Escape From New York) | USA 1981 | Action, Thriller, Crime Drama, Science Fiction | R: John Carpenter | FSK: 16

Everything Everywhere All at Once

(Everything Everywhere All at Once) | USA 2022 | Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure | R: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

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.

Flickering Lights

(Blinkende Lygter) | DK 2000 | Comedy | R: Anders Thomas Jensen | FSK: 12

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song

(Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song) | USA 2021 | Documentary, Music Films | R: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine

The documentary follows the story behind what is probably Leonard Cohen‘s most well-known song.

Holy Spider

Dänemark/ Deutschland/ Frankreich/ Schweden 2022 | Drama, Crime | R: Ali Abbasi

HOLY SPIDER blurs the boundaries between social drama and thriller. In the pilgrimage site Mashhad, deeply religious serial killer Saeed is killing prostitutes in order to “purify“ the city.

In from the Side

(In From The Side) | Großbritannien 2022 | Drama | R: Matt Carter

Two rugby players start an affair. When it comes to light, this revelation also threatens their sports careers.

Kalle Kosmonaut

Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth | NEW RELEASE

The long-term documentary KALLE KOSMONAUT about a childhood in East Berlin in the 2010s follows young Pascal, nicknamed Kalle, over 10 years.

Le otto montagne

(Le otto montagne) | Italien/Belgien 2022 | Drama | R: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch

Over decades, two friends cross paths, lose touch and find each other again in a small mountain village in the Italian Aosta Valley.

Lonesome

Australien 2022 | Drama, Love Stories | R: Craig Boreham

Casey takes in all he can of Sidney's gay nightlife. But when he meets Tib and feels a deep emotional bond, worries and insecurities make themself heard.

David Bowie: Moonage Daydream

(David Bowie: Moonage Daydream) | USA 2022 | Documentary, Music Films | R: Brett Morgen | FSK: 12

Director Brett Morgan (COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK) rooted through the immense archive of video and audio footage of David Bowie and created a unique 140-minute-collage, a trip through the life of the recording artist.

Night of the Living Dead

(Night of the Living Dead) | USA 1968 | Horror | R: George A. Romero | FSK: 16

A handful of people flee from a zombie attack and barricade themselves in an isolated farmhouse. A genre game changer from George Romero, who brought the zombies from the Caribbean into Pittsburgh.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

(Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) | USA 2022 | Adventure, Animation, Family Film | R: Joel Crawford

Puss in Boots (Banderas) journeys to find the mystical Last Wish and restore the eight of his nine lives that he lost.

Vengeance

(Vengeance) | USA 2022 | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller | R: B.J. Novak | FSK: 12

Raquel 1,1

(Raquel 1,1) | BR 2022 | Thriller | R: Mariana Bastos

Retour a Seoul

(Retour à Séoul) | Belgien/ Deutschland/ Frankreich/ Qatar 2022 | Drama | R: Davy Chou | NEW RELEASE

Freddie was adopted by a French married couple as a baby, but her roots are in South Korea. Following an impulse, she travels to the country of her biological parents.

Seaside Special

Deutschland 2022 | Documentary | R: 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.

She Said

USA 2022 | Drama | R: Maria Schrader

An adaptation of the eponymous book that journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey wrote about their research into Harvey Weinstein.

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Sonne

Österreich 2022 | Drama | R: Kurdwin Ayub | FSK: 12

Yesmin, Bella, and Nati perform “Losing My Religion“ wearing a hijab. Only one of them, Kurdish Yesmin, wears a headscarf in real life, and she gives the directions. But when Bella posts the video online without asking Yesmin, the act of freedom ...

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond

(Gekijoban Tensei shitara slime datta ken) | J 2022 | Animation, Fantasy, Literary Film Adaptations | R: Yasuhito Kikuchi | FSK: 12 | NEW RELEASE

The Banshees of Inisherin

Irland/Großbritannien/USA 2022 | Drama | R: Martin McDonagh

Once upon a time, musician Colm quit his friendship with his best friend, Pádraic the farmer. Just like that. An existential folk fairy tale directed by Martin McDonagh.

The Fire Within - A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft , m. Einführung

(The Fire Within – A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft) | USA 2022 | Documentary | R: Werner Herzog

The Idiots

(Idioterne) | DK 1998 | Drama, Comedy | R: Lars von Trier | FSK: 16

The Inheritance

(Arven) | DK/S 2003 | Drama | R: Per Fly

The Menu

USA 2022 | Satire, Thriller | R: Mark Mylod | FSK: 16

A high-class dining experience on a remote island turns sinister.

The Salvation

Dänemark/ Großbritannien/ Südafrika 2014 | Western | R: Kristian Levring | FSK: 16

The Danish soldier Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) has built a new life for himself in America and sends for his wife and son to join him. When they are murdered on the journey, Jon seeks revenge and starts a vicious circle of violence.

The Son

Großbritannien 2022 | Drama | R: Florian Zeller | NEW RELEASE

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.

Three Thousand Years of Longing

(Three Thousand Years of Longing) | USA/Australien 2022 | Drama, Fantasy | R: 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.

Till

(Till) | USA 2022 | Drama | R: Chinonye Chukwu | NEW RELEASE

TILL tells the story of teenager Emmett Till who was lynched by White people in the 1950s and of his mother Mamie Till who spent her whole life being involved in the civil rights movement.

Unrest

(Unrueh) | Schweiz 2022 | Drama | R: Cyril Schäublin

UNRUH is about Kropotkin‘s time in the Jura valley, the upheavel of the watchmaking industry in the 19th century and the anarchist self-organization of the watch workers, but also about the capitalist dictate of time, subtle oppression and quiet ...

Was man von hier aus sehen kann

Deutschland 2023 | Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | R: Aron Lehmann

Aron Lehman‘s adaptation of Mariana Leky‘s beststeller largely plays it safe. What is most memorable are the gloriously weird characters of the template.

White Noise

(White Noise) | USA 2022 | Drama, Horror, Comedy | R: Noah Baumbach