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30.August2026

  1. TMDB 76IMDb 7.8

    The Invite

    Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.

    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  2. Red Rue Express

    A romantic comedy that modernizes and reimagines one of the most famous and vivid Ukrainian national symbols, Chervona Ruta, and turns it into a new cultural phenomenon.

    • Comedy
    • Romance

    Zeise Kinos

  3. Was haben wir gelacht

    An entire generation of Germans was raised on male comedians. But what about their female counterparts? Maren Kroymann, Hella von Sinnen, Bettina Böttinger, Esther Schweins, and Gaby Köster look back at the way women were portrayed on TV in the 1990s and early 2000s, when jokes at women’s expense were the order of the day.

    • Documentary

    Zeise Kinos

  4. TMDB 71RT 81

    H Is for Hawk

    After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.

    • Drama

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  5. IMDb 7.5

    Long Is the Road

    The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.

    • History
    • Drama

    Metropolis Kino

  6. TMDB 65

    Bitter Christmas

    After her mother dies in December, advertising director Elsa immerses herself in work to cope. When a panic attack forces her to take a break, she decides to travel to Lanzarote with her friend Patricia. The story of these women run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.

    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  7. TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4

    Fatherland

    Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • Action
    • TV Movie

    Abaton

  8. Becoming Kim

    German filmmaker Susanne, married to a Korean man named Kim Jeong Rae, turns the camera toward her own intercultural marriage and family with both humor and tenderness. Blending vérité and performance, the film dives into the beautiful mess of love, identity, and cultural collision. Becoming Kim asks: How do we stay true to ourselves—while learning to love another?

    • Documentary

    SchanzenKino 73

  9. TMDB 54RT 59IMDb 5.6

    The Bling Ring

    OV

    Lured by stardom, a crew of aimless teens breaks into celebrity homes for a string of high-profile robberies and fame by appropriation.

    • Drama
    • Crime

    Studio KinoOV

  10. Forever 16

    Charlotte, Helena, and Oskar haven't really been in touch since their experimental filmmaking group disbanded. A shared vacation aims to reunite the bitterly estranged trio, but envy and jealousy soon flare up again. Things get really complicated when Rudolph joins the group and they decide to make a film about a female serial killer.

    • Drama

    SchanzenKino 73

  11. LA ROSIÈRE DE PESSAC 68/79

    OV · OmU

    Metropolis KinoOmU

  12. TMDB 81RT 94IMDb 8.1

    My Neighbor Totoro

    OV · OmU

    Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

    • Fantasy
    • Animation
    • Family

    SchanzenKino 73OmU

  13. TMDB 65

    The Musicians

    Astrid Thompson finally succeeds in fulfilling her father's dream: to bring together four Stradivarius for a unique concert, eagerly expected by music lovers around the world. But Lise, George, Peter and Apolline, the four virtuosos recruited for the occasion, are incapable of playing together. The rehearsals are one ego crisis after another. With no solution in sight, Astrid decides to go and find the only person who, in her eyes, can still save the event: Charlie Beaumont, the composer of the score.

    • Drama
    • Music
    • Comedy

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  14. IMDb 7.7

    Trial of Hein

    After 14 years away, Hein returns to his home village on a remote island, only to discover that the close-knit community no longer recognises him. Suspecting him to be an impostor, they demand a trial to determine his true identity.

    • Drama

    SchanzenKino 73

  15. TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4

    Fatherland

    Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • Action
    • TV Movie

    Zeise Kinos

  16. TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4

    Fatherland

    Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • Action
    • TV Movie

    Zeise Kinos

  17. IMDb 6.3

    Beyond Jurassic Park

    OV

    Prepare to go deeper into the breathtaking adventures of the Jurassic Park Trilogy! Highlighted by fascinating, never-seen-before footage from all three Jurassic Park films, this DVD offers an exclusive look at deleted scenes, additional footage and other materials not shown on any theater screen.

    • Science Fiction
    • Adventure
    • Action
    • Thriller
    • Documentary

    Metropolis KinoOV


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Currently 19 cinemas and film series in Hamburg and the surrounding area: Zeise Kinos, Magazin Filmkunsttheater, SchanzenKino 73, Abaton, ASTOR Film Lounge HafenCity, Metropolis Kino, Koralle Lichtspiele, Savoy Filmtheater, Studio Kino, Hansa-Filmstudio, Passage Kino Hamburg, Alabama Kino, Filmraum, 3001 Kino, Blankeneser Kino, Zeise Open Air, Elbe Filmtheater, Botschaft der Wildtiere and Sommerkino Alsterdorf.

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