Weekly overview
12 Oct – 18 Oct
IMDb 7.2 Emil and the Detectives
When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
- Animation
- Comedy
- Adventure
- Science Fiction
- Family
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
- Animation
- Comedy
- Adventure
- Science Fiction
- Family
Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
- Drama
Adam’s Eight
Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.
- Drama
Songs of Hope and Despair. Performed by Bundschuh, Fish, Fox Tail, Rainbow, Dead Drummer, Muse-Leaving Germany and by other agencies
OV · OmU
A group of strangely costumed heroes set out on a journey to find a miracle in this absurdist lo-fi musical roadmovie by the politically engaged art collective Chto Delat. Their experimental flashmob, staged in the former German mining town of Hettstedt, channels the political anxieties of our times.
- Music
AbatonOmU
How Can I Help
In 2030, retired actress Mrs. Winkler lives bitterly and marked by pain. When her daughter Emi accepts a theater offer, a care robot named Pavlovich takes over the care of her mother. Unexpectedly, his knowledge of classical plays seems to reawaken Mrs. Winkler's will to live...
- Drama
Gabriele-Tergit-Preis für mutigen Lokaljournalismus
Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
- Drama
RT 61IMDb 5.5 Gentle Monster
After relocating with her family to the countryside, a renowned pianist uncovers a life-shattering truth that forces her to confront the complexities of love, trust, and deception.
- Drama
SNEAK Extreme
OV · OmU
Zeise KinosOmU
RT 93 Toy Story 5
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
- Animation
- Family
- Comedy
- Adventure
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
- Animation
- Comedy
- Adventure
- Science Fiction
- Family
Spaziergang nach Syrakus
Paul Gompitz, a young man from Rostock, dreams of retracing the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume's journey to Syracuse. But as a citizen of the GDR, his only option is to flee.
- Drama
TMDB 74RT 96IMDb 7.8 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
- History
- Adventure
- Drama
Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
- Drama
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
On the morning of his hundredth birthday, Fanny finds her grandfather dead in his bed. As she and her family are forced to deal with the death, a bitter dispute over the inheritance erupts, in which old power relations are reversed.
- Drama
- Comedy
TMDB 81RT 100IMDb 8.3 Sansho the Bailiff
OV · OmU
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.
- Drama
AbatonOmU
TMDB 76RT 93IMDb 7.8 Drive
OV
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.
- Drama
- Thriller
- Crime
Status and Terrain
Exploring the mechanisms of the Nazi seizure of power and focusing on forgotten sites in Saxony and Thuringia, the film investigates early "wild" concentration camps established after 1933 for the suppression of political opponents.
- Documentary
Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
- Drama
IMDb 6.8 Visitation
A plot of land, a house by the lake, its changing inhabitants. This one plot of land reflects 70 years of German history from Weimar, the Nazis, the war, the Soviet occupation and reconstruction to the fall of the GDR.
- Drama
TMDB 79RT 91IMDb 8.0 Akira
OmU · 1988 · 124 min
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
- Animation
- Science Fiction
- Action
Adam’s Eight
Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.
- Drama
TMDB 66IMDb 7.1 Almanya: Welcome to Germany
After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything.
- Drama
- Comedy
IMDb 7.2 Emil and the Detectives
When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
TMDB 66IMDb 7.1 Almanya: Welcome to Germany
After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything.
- Drama
- Comedy
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
- Animation
- Comedy
- Adventure
- Science Fiction
- Family
Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
- Drama
Adam’s Eight
Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.
- Drama
A Note for Nature
A celebration of wild Ireland and a call to arms. Over an hour we meet some remarkable people dedicating their lives to protect Ireland’s disappearing nature.
- Documentary
Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
- Drama
TMDB 69RT 93IMDb 7.1 Don't Look Now
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
- Thriller
- Drama
- Horror
TMDB 79RT 91IMDb 8.0 Akira
OmU · 1988 · 124 min
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
- Animation
- Science Fiction
- Action
RT 61IMDb 5.5 Gentle Monster
After relocating with her family to the countryside, a renowned pianist uncovers a life-shattering truth that forces her to confront the complexities of love, trust, and deception.
- Drama
TMDB 67RT 67IMDb 6.9 Goodbye Berlin
Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life changing experiences during the eventful journey.
- Drama
- Comedy
IMDb 7.2 Emil and the Detectives
When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
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
Whalefall
OV · 2026 · 106 min
Following the death of his father, Jay Gardiner goes diving off the central Coast of California in search of his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale. While trapped inside its belly with only one hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize that the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.
- Thriller
Sternbrücke Forever
RT 83 Bad Apples
A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.
- Comedy
- Thriller
Jailer 2
OmU · 2026 · 175 min
Following the events of "Jailer", former ruthless police officer Muthuvel Pandian must come face-to-face with an even larger threat.
- Action
- Comedy
TMDB 68RT 96IMDb 6.9 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
- Horror
- Romance
urgewald – Auf den Spuren des Geldes
When nature is destroyed, climate targets are disregarded and human rights are violated, there is always a lot of money behind it. This is where urgewald comes in. Since 1992, the environmental and human rights organization has been revealing the sources of money behind destructive projects. Over 30 years ago, a handful of activists gathered around a table in a shared flat to form the basis of the organization. Since then, the small club in the Münsterland province has become a recognized, powerful organization.
- Documentary
Schwarze Häuser
After World War II, countless children throughout Germany were sent to health resorts in order to recover; instead they endured systemic abuse. Through survivors’ voices and her own family history, filmmaker Katrin Sikora uncovers this long silenced chapter and its echoes across generations.
- Documentary
Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
- Drama
RT 95IMDb 8.7 Primetime
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
- Drama
- Thriller
Voices in my Head
Recently, a tragedy deeply shook the siblings Sarah and Kevin. Their parents died in a car accident. Sarah suffers greatly from the loss. She is convinced that her parents were murdered by a creepy woman who haunts their home. Increasingly, Kevin must realize that his sister is in great danger.
- Horror
IMDb 7.2 Emil and the Detectives
When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
Spaziergang nach Syrakus
Paul Gompitz, a young man from Rostock, dreams of retracing the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume's journey to Syracuse. But as a citizen of the GDR, his only option is to flee.
- Drama
Hamburg International Queer Film Festival: The Heterics
Jailer 2
OmU · 2026 · 175 min
Following the events of "Jailer", former ruthless police officer Muthuvel Pandian must come face-to-face with an even larger threat.
- Action
- Comedy
IMDb 6.8 Visitation
A plot of land, a house by the lake, its changing inhabitants. This one plot of land reflects 70 years of German history from Weimar, the Nazis, the war, the Soviet occupation and reconstruction to the fall of the GDR.
- Drama
RT 95IMDb 8.7 Primetime
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
- Drama
- Thriller
Femmenella Ballad
A journey into the largest and oldest transgender community in Europe — that of Naples — told through the voices of six femmenelle, suspended between centuries-old rituals and contemporary tensions.
- Documentary
IMDb 6.8 Visitation
A plot of land, a house by the lake, its changing inhabitants. This one plot of land reflects 70 years of German history from Weimar, the Nazis, the war, the Soviet occupation and reconstruction to the fall of the GDR.
- Drama
TMDB 78IMDb 7.3 Pressure
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
- Thriller
- History
- War
TMDB 74IMDb 6.2 My Fault: London
18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an attraction between them neither can avoid. As Noah spends the summer adjusting to her new life, her devastating past will catch up with her while falling in love for the first time.
- Drama
- Romance
All In Sneak Preview
OV · OmU
Cheng Jialang and Wei Yifu are the contemporary poker twin stars, and they are about to have their first face-to-face confrontation. However, at this moment, Cheng Jialang accidentally transferred his poker talent to a small-time crook named Huang Xiaoqi, who had no previous experience. The two of them went through a wonderful journey and decided to join forces to challenge Wei Yifu.
Zeise KinosOmU
Zeise Shortfilm Slam
IMDb 9.1 Meeting the Buddha
Meeting the Buddha presents the life and legacy of the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje—the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage, one of four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The film captures the remarkable presence of this spiritual teacher, known as a Living Buddha and the King of the Yogis. We meet Ole Nydahl, a wild young hippy from Denmark who, as a small child, had declared his wish to become the "Danish champion of mind." His life is radically transformed by a chance encounter with the Karmapa in Nepal in 1969. Ole and his wife, Hannah, become key figures in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding hundreds of meditation centres—from Mexico City to Vladivostok—and carrying forward their teacher's vision with unshakable dedication.
- Documentary
IMDb 7.2 Emil and the Detectives
When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
NAZA
OV · OmU
In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.
- Documentary
Zeise KinosOmU
IMDb 7.2 Emil and the Detectives
When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
Bibi Blocksberg - Die total verhexte Zeitreise
Things are about to get bewitched—and pretty chaotic! The students at Neustadt High are about to start their big internship. But of all people, Bibi Blocksberg has once again missed the registration deadline. While Marita gets to investigate a case with the police and Florian is on the hunt for the next big story with cult reporter Karla Kolumna, the only spot left for Bibi is at the museum—which, for her, is probably the most booooring place in the world.
- Family
- Fantasy
- Adventure
Adam’s Eight
Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.
- Drama
RT 61IMDb 5.5 Gentle Monster
After relocating with her family to the countryside, a renowned pianist uncovers a life-shattering truth that forces her to confront the complexities of love, trust, and deception.
- Drama
Macbeth - Verdi (MET 2026/27)
OmU · 2026 · 210 min
TMDB 60RT 87IMDb 6.0 Infinity Pool
While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you'll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.
- Horror
- Science Fiction
- Thriller
TMDB 78IMDb 7.3 Pressure
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
- Thriller
- History
- War
TMDB 72RT 86IMDb 7.2 Only Lovers Left Alive
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
- Drama
- Romance
- Fantasy
Whalefall
OV · 2026 · 106 min
Following the death of his father, Jay Gardiner goes diving off the central Coast of California in search of his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale. While trapped inside its belly with only one hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize that the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.
- Thriller
TMDB 76RT 97IMDb 7.7 Halloween
OV · OmU
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
- Horror
- Thriller
Studio KinoOmU
Lecture on Birdsong Trilogie
OV
AbatonOV
TMDB 81RT 100IMDb 8.3 Sansho the Bailiff
OV · OmU
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.
- Drama
AbatonOmU
Spaziergang nach Syrakus
Paul Gompitz, a young man from Rostock, dreams of retracing the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume's journey to Syracuse. But as a citizen of the GDR, his only option is to flee.
- Drama
Everyman & I
Is it possible to get close to someone who sees their sole task in life in losing themself in the parts they play? How can a film portrait be created when every image only contributes to further fictionalization? Who is facing each other when the line between fact and fiction becomes blurred? Katharina Pethke looks back to dissect the past and her contradictory feelings for the celebrated actor Philipp Hochmair, following the lines of her own artistic and personal doubts.
- Documentary
Kuzma: Extremely Happy
Through exclusive archival footage and never before seen home video, this documentary aims to explore the real face of Andriy Viktorovych Kuzmenko (Kuzma Skryabin), the father of the contemporary Ukrainian rock and roll scene.
- Documentary
- History
- Music
Bibi Blocksberg - Die total verhexte Zeitreise
Things are about to get bewitched—and pretty chaotic! The students at Neustadt High are about to start their big internship. But of all people, Bibi Blocksberg has once again missed the registration deadline. While Marita gets to investigate a case with the police and Florian is on the hunt for the next big story with cult reporter Karla Kolumna, the only spot left for Bibi is at the museum—which, for her, is probably the most booooring place in the world.
- Family
- Fantasy
- Adventure
Junkies of Dreaming
OV · OmU
Orchestra rehearsals with Teodor Currentzis. The House of the Radio of the GDR in Berlin. A young couple in love. The artistic process viewed from the outside – and from the inside. Mahler’s boundary-breaking Third Symphony. What triggered the composition 130 years ago, and what does it trigger in us today?
- Documentary
AbatonOmU
IMDb 7.2 Emil and the Detectives
When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
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
Die andere Seite
Since losing her family, a woman is living alone in the wilderness — far away from society, which is dominated by mistrust and fear after the outbreak of a fatal disease. When she is forced to leave this life behind, she not only experiences a boundless freedom, but also remembers the importance of human closeness and the feeling of belonging.
- Drama
- Thriller
TMDB 78IMDb 7.3 Pressure
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
- Thriller
- History
- War
Materia Prima
OV · OmU
Bolivia has the world's largest deposits of lithium, a metal that is essential for the energy transition. Without lithium, no electricity storage facility, no data centre, no electric car, no smartphone would work. The Europeans want the raw material to save their automotive industry. The Bolivians want it to combat poverty. While the Bolivian government negotiates with corporations from around the world, civil society groups are mobilising in rural areas, organised mainly by women. The film offers a rare insight into the Europeans' strategy to secure the sought-after material and carves out the conflicting interests towards extractivism and industrialisation in Bolivia.
- Documentary
3001 KinoOmU
TMDB 68RT 80IMDb 6.9 Near Dark
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
- Horror
Jailer 2
OmU · 2026 · 175 min
Following the events of "Jailer", former ruthless police officer Muthuvel Pandian must come face-to-face with an even larger threat.
- Action
- Comedy
TMDB 68RT 70IMDb 6.9 The Thomas Crown Affair
OV · OmU
A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes that he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist--until he must match wits with an insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.
- Crime
- Romance
- Drama
- Thriller
AbatonOmU
RT 95IMDb 8.7 Primetime
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
- Drama
- Thriller
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