Family Dinner

2022

German

5.7

♡ 8

100%

Peter Hengl Director

Pia Hierzegger as Claudia

Alexander Sladek as Filipp

Nina Katlein as Simi

Michael Pink as Stefan

Overweight and insecure, Simi spends Easter weekend with her famous nutritionist aunt. The hope is that it’ll help her get on a healthier track, but as the aunt’s family’s icy dynamics and an increasingly malevolent atmosphere leave Simi feeling uneasy, weight isn’t the only thing she’s about to lose.

Elaha

2023

German

6.7

♡ 5

Milena Aboyan Director

Emre Kubat as

Mehmet Daloglu as Herr Ceylan

Lennart Gottmann as Herr Stöckner

Derya Dilber as Shilan

Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?

Taste of Life

2017

German

3.8

♡ 6

Roland Reber Director

Thomas Kollhoff as Edmund

Robert Wagner as Mann im Biergarten / Man in the beer garden

Claire Plaut as Martina

Marcus B. Holzhauer as Willy

What does life taste of? For joyful Nikki the answer is clear: of pleasure. Delightfully she enjoys this at every possible occasion, as she drives through the country looking for people and their stories for her video-blog.

The Universal Theory

2023

German

6.1

♡ 4

70%

black and white

cinemascope

Drama

jazz singer or musician

Timm Kröger Director

Hanns Zischler as Dr. Strathen

Olivia Ross as Karin Hönig

David Bennent as Kommissar Arnold

John F. Kennedy as Self

Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.

Erfundene Wahrheit - Die Relotius-Affäre

7.0

Daniel Sager Director

Claas Relotius as Self

Steffen Klusmann as Self

Juan Moreno as Self

The story of one of the biggest media scandals of our time is an epic thriller about deception and psychological manipulation in a world where integrity and credibility are everything – but where the art of telling a good story sometimes weighs heaviest.

Break Free: Two People. Two Years. One Dream

2019

German

5.8

♡ 13

Lena Wendt Director

Lena Wendt as Herself

Ulrich Stirnat as Himself Fufu

Fufu as Himself - Dog from Ghana Ziza

Ziza as Himself - Musician from Mauritania

When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good.

Kokowääh 2

2013

German

5.3

♡ 4

46%

Action

Comedy

Til Schweiger Director

Erdal Yildiz as Bruder 1 Verkäuferin

Til Schweiger as Henry

Oscar Ortega Sánchez as Kaufhaus-Detektiv

Matthias Schweighöfer as Matthias

Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…

All Quiet on the Western Front

2022

German

7.8

♡ 205

90%

Action

based on novel or book

Edward Berger Director

Felix von Bredow as Feldwebel

Daniel Brühl as Matthias Erzberger

Luc Feit as Stabsarzt

Albrecht Schuch as Stanislaus Katczinsky

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

Holy Shit!

2022

German

5.8

♡ 5

Lukas Rinker Director

Friederike Kempter as Dörte

Gedeon Burkhard as Horst

Micaela Schäfer as Mica

Yuki Iwamoto as Takeshi-San

An architect regains consciousness in a locked portaloo – known in German vernacular by the ‘Dixi’ brand name – on a building site where a detonation is being prepared. As he desperately tries to find ways of escaping this ‘prison’ before potentially being blown to smithereens, he realizes who has put him into this predicament. Now he has to do everything in his power to get out alive…

The Door

2009

German

6.7

♡ 3

based on novel or book

Anno Saul Director

Mads Mikkelsen as David

Christof Düro as Fahrer Kleinbus

Heike Makatsch as Gia

Tim Seyfi as Max

A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.

The Seventh Continent

1989

German

7.6

♡ 7

70%

Michael Haneke Director

Georges Kern as

Robert Dietl as

Elisabeth Rath as Lehrerin

Meat Loaf as Self

Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.

Homesick

2015

German

5.8

♡ 2

50%

46%

Drama

Thriller

Jakob M. Erwa Director

Hermann Beyer as Helmut Domweber

Matthias Lier as Lorenz Amann

Lucia Luciano as Melli

Eric Bouwer as Robert

Ambitious cello student Jessica receives an invitation to an international contest. A great opportunity, but at the same time it means enormous pressure. Stress begins to gnaw on Jessica's everyday life and soon reality and imagination blur.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

1922

German

7.8

♡ 90

97%

F.W. Murnau Director

Loni Nest as Child at Window

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok

Gustav von Wangenheim as Hutter

John Gottowt as Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer

The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.

Chantal in Fairyland

2024

German

4.6

♡ 1

social media influencer

sympathetic

vulgar

Bora Dagtekin Director

Maria Happel as Funkelchen

Jannik Schümann as Prinz Bechtold

Benno Fürmann as Steinportal

Florian David Fitz as Zauberspiegel

Chantal is at the beginning of her career as an influencer when she steps through a mirror and finds herself in a fairy tale. She identifies as Sleeping Beauty. Her best friend Zeynep follows her through the mirror. Chantal’s goal, naturally, is to find a man, definitely a prince. Perhaps she will marry Prince Bosco. She already has a wedding gown, but he seems more interested in men. Her friend, Aladdin (Mido Kotaini), has a magic lamp; he rubs it, and people appear. She works to finish making a flying carpet. There is a wicked witch, Sansara, who sometimes looks old but often young. Her friend Zeynep ends up in a grave but reappears. An elderly rather fat fairy pops up occasionally. Chantal must fight a dragon.

How About Adolf?

2018

German

7.0

♡ 17

73%

Action

Comedy

Sönke Wortmann Director

Janina Uhse as Anna

Iris Berben as Dorothea

Justus von Dohnányi as René

Florian David Fitz as Thomas

The family dinner at Stephan and Elisabeth could have been wonderful. But when Thomas announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are going to call their son Adolf, the hosts and the family friend René are stuck in the throat.

First Snow of Summer

2023

German

6.4

♡ 2

Action

Romance

Chris Raiber Director

Matteo Di Sapia as Der junge Alexander

Rina Juniku as Kellnerin

Michael Mendl as Sprecher

Lisa-Caroline Nemec as Studentin

Alexander grows up in a small house with his loving grandmother. In order to avoid his father’s fate, on his tenth birthday, he promises her that he will never fall in love. Every Sunday, Alexander visits his father, who has retreated to live in the Vienna subway system since the death of Alexander’s mother. As a young adult, Alexander wants to be closer to his father and decides to take a job in a lostand- found office in the underground. It is here that he meets the beautiful and vivacious Caro (Verena Altenberger) in her cute subway hatter store. Although Alexander has successfully resisted love before, now his self-imposed oath becomes a difficult promise to keep.

Stolen Time

8.3

Alexander Baldreich Director

Nadine Grosinger as Aiona

David Ketter as Jack der Verrückte

Stephanie Lexer as Janna

Gabriel Holzer as John Parker

John Parker mourns the loss of his brother Pete, while Jack the Madman, driven by anger, seeks revenge. Playing with time travel has consequences. Will time heal all wounds?

You'll Never Walk Alone

2017

German

7.6

♡ 1

André Schäfer Director Campino

Campino as Self

Joachim Król as Self

Gerry Marsden as Self

Oliver Hardy as Self

Documentary about the song “You'll Never Walk Alone,” the most famous sports anthem of the world.

Dogs & Us - The Secret of a Friendship

7.0

human animal relationship

toy dog

Ute de Groot Director

Alex Warner as Narrator

Peter Kaempfe as Sprecher

This heart-warming documentary shows true stories about the unconditional loyalty between humans and dogs and investigates our best friends' remarkable intelligence, their outstanding sensory abilities and emotional bond to us humans.