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Daughters of Two Worlds
Two women, a mother and her daughter, one of whom immigrated to Germany from Turkey and the other grew up in Germany, describe life between two cultures. The mother came as a guest worker, while her daughter had a painful arranged marriage.
- Documentary
OmU16mm

TMDB 78RT 96IMDb 7.9 Perfect Days
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
- Drama

Reminiscence of a Moviegoer
For Reminiscence of a Moviegoer, filmmaker Christiane Büchner works extensive interviews with the late Werner Dütsch, a commissioning editor at the German television station WDR, and massively influential figure in postwar West German film culture, into a moving portrait of cinephilia through time.
- Documentary

Vatanyolu – Die Heimreise
In the 1960s, Yusuf returns to Turkey after 20 years in Germany, taking his family on a crowded minibus trip. His eldest son, wanting to stay and finish his training in Germany, sabotages the journey, stranding them in the woods. The family builds a new life until authorities intervene, leading to a compromise: the children stay in Germany while Yusuf and his wife return to Turkey with their youngest daughter.
- Drama

TMDB 81RT 95IMDb 8.2 Some Like It Hot
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
- Comedy
- Romance
- Crime

A Report on a Murder
In the middle of the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979 Captain Kalali who was in jail because of being a Communist is getting release from the prison. But he is after Keymaram the former leader of them who had betrayed them to kill him. Captain goes to Isfahan and manages to kill him and then after that he meets his wife and children who were away from him for a long time.
- Drama
- Thriller
OmeU

TMDB 57IMDb 6.4 The Pasta Detectives 3
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled to Rico into the house. But dies as the grumpy Fitzke, the trouble begins. The stone Breeder inherited Rico his beloved stone-collection over which the boy also very pleased - but then he and his buddy note that Rico's favorite stone calf stone was stolen. The task now is to make the thieves apprehended. And because there are on the way to the Baltic Sea, Rico and Oskar must as soon as possible afterwards. Glad Tanja is flown by Buhl in the "snogging holiday" ...
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
- Action

I Want to Talk About Duras
In 1982, Yann Andréa and Marguerite Duras have been living together for two years. She is almost 70 years old, while he is 38 years her junior. Andréa asks journalist and writer Michèle Manceaux to interview him about his life with Duras, an obsession that both impassions him and drives him mad. He believes by entrusting their story to Manceaux, he may gain more clarity of the relationship. What follows is an intense and compelling conversation delving into the deepest recesses of modern love.
- Drama
- Romance
OmeU

TMDB 70RT 94IMDb 7.2 The Misfits
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
- Western
- Drama
- Romance

TMDB 79RT 98IMDb 8.1 Chinatown
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
- Crime
- Mystery
- Thriller

TMDB 78RT 96IMDb 7.9 Perfect Days
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
- Drama

TMDB 57IMDb 6.4 The Pasta Detectives 3
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled to Rico into the house. But dies as the grumpy Fitzke, the trouble begins. The stone Breeder inherited Rico his beloved stone-collection over which the boy also very pleased - but then he and his buddy note that Rico's favorite stone calf stone was stolen. The task now is to make the thieves apprehended. And because there are on the way to the Baltic Sea, Rico and Oskar must as soon as possible afterwards. Glad Tanja is flown by Buhl in the "snogging holiday" ...
- Family
- Comedy
- Crime
- Action

TMDB 80RT 96IMDb 8.2 Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
- Action
- Drama
- History

RT 80IMDb 6.4 Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.
- Documentary

TMDB 70RT 94IMDb 7.2 The Misfits
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
- Western
- Drama
- Romance

Downpour
When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water.
- Drama
- Romance
- Comedy
OmeUDCP

TMDB 66RT 95IMDb 7.0 Man of the West
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
- Western

TMDB 77RT 100IMDb 7.8 Alice in the Cities
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.
- Drama

TMDB 76RT 89IMDb 8.0 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
- Western

IMDb 6.9 Two Times Lotte
Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do, they look alike. They have never seen each other before, but soon find out that they are identical twins. It turns out that their parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls. They decide to trade places at the end of the summer. Lottie curls her hair, Lisa braids hers, and both go off to where they have never been before. The adventure begins.
- Family
- Comedy

TMDB 73RT 88IMDb 7.4 Three Days of the Condor
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
- Thriller
- Mystery

TMDB 73RT 87IMDb 7.2 Possession
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
- Horror

The Stranger and the Fog
In a remote seaside village, the peaceful lives of the residents are upended when they spot a mysterious boat drifting toward the shore. Upon pulling it in, they find a weary and wounded stranger named Ayat, who has no memory of how he got there. He only recalls being attacked and barely escaping with his life. As Ayat tries to rebuild his sense of self and uncover the truth about his past, he becomes a source of curiosity and suspicion in the community.
- Drama
- Mystery
OmeUDCP

TMDB 74RT 100IMDb 7.6 Kings of the Road
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.
- Drama

IMDb 6.9 Two Times Lotte
Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do, they look alike. They have never seen each other before, but soon find out that they are identical twins. It turns out that their parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls. They decide to trade places at the end of the summer. Lottie curls her hair, Lisa braids hers, and both go off to where they have never been before. The adventure begins.
- Family
- Comedy

TMDB 81RT 95IMDb 8.1 Paris, Texas
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
- Drama

TMDB 73RT 88IMDb 7.4 Three Days of the Condor
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
- Thriller
- Mystery

Downpour
When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water.
- Drama
- Romance
- Comedy
OmeUDCP

TMDB 77RT 100IMDb 7.8 Alice in the Cities
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.
- Drama

TMDB 66IMDb 6.9 Choice of Arms
A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.
- Crime
- Thriller
- Drama

TMDB 73RT 87IMDb 7.2 Possession
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
- Horror

IMDb 6.9 Marianne of My Youth
A new teenage student arrives at a prestige boarding school in Bavaria, having not only the ability to play the guitar and sing, but also to charm animals and detect ghosts. Quickly becoming part of a secretive club of five other students, he is inadvertently stranded by them at an abandoned chateau on an island in the middle of a large lake, where he encounters an enchanting young woman who wants to escape. Also filmed in a separate French language version with largely different cast, MARIANNE DE MA JEUNESSE.
- Fantasy
- Romance

Radio corbeau
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
- Mystery
- Crime
- Drama
OmeU35mm

TMDB 66RT 92IMDb 6.8 24 Frames
A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.
- Drama

IMDb 6.9 Two Times Lotte
Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do, they look alike. They have never seen each other before, but soon find out that they are identical twins. It turns out that their parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls. They decide to trade places at the end of the summer. Lottie curls her hair, Lisa braids hers, and both go off to where they have never been before. The adventure begins.
- Family
- Comedy

IMDb 5.8 Crime Thief
A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
- Crime
- Drama

TMDB 75IMDb 7.5 The Old Gun
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decides to meet them for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.
- Drama
- History

TMDB 55 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery.
- Horror
OmeU35mm

TMDB 66IMDb 6.9 The Last Train
Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
- Drama
- History

IMDb 5.3 The Bitch
After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangster and his former girlfriend…the same woman who sent the cop to prison years before.
- Thriller
- Crime

TMDB 56IMDb 6.3 Waiter!
After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Romance

Sadistic Hallucinations
In a mysterious French castle dark meetings and apparitions happen, seasoned by nauseating erotic menages. The involvement frantically increases up to the amazing epilogue.
- Drama
- Horror
OmeU35mm

L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées
After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the great couturier. He decides to follow her to Nice to present her next collection.
DF35mm

IMDb 6.9 Two Times Lotte
Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do, they look alike. They have never seen each other before, but soon find out that they are identical twins. It turns out that their parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls. They decide to trade places at the end of the summer. Lottie curls her hair, Lisa braids hers, and both go off to where they have never been before. The adventure begins.
- Family
- Comedy

TMDB 79RT 97IMDb 8.1 Army of Shadows
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
- War
- Drama
- Thriller
- History

TMDB 60IMDb 6.3 The Cage
The story of a woman who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead he finds himself locked in a cage in the cellar.
- Drama

Ballad of Tara
Tara, a young beautiful widow, returns with her two children from the country to her village. On her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes his belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one will accept. One day on the road, she meets an ancient warrior. He claims that his clan have sent him to take the old sword back. Tara finally submits the sword to him, but he returns upon realizing that he has fallen powerfully in love with her.
- Fantasy
- Drama
OmeUDCP

TMDB 54RT 29IMDb 5.6 The End of Violence
In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.
- Drama
- Thriller

IMDb 5.4 The Eyes of the Mummy
Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.
- Drama
- Horror
- Adventure

Finding Connection
In a world where digital distance reshapes human bonds, genuine closeness has become a fragile treasure. Finding Connection follows those yearning for trust and emotional intimacy, only to discover an unexpected anchor in the algorithms of AI. The deeply personal exchanges between humans and machines give rise to questions that echo long after the credits roll. The film’s perspective remains refreshingly unbiased, inviting reflection rather than judgment.
- Documentary
DCP

TMDB 76RT 89IMDb 8.0 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
- Western

TMDB 77RT 100IMDb 7.9 Life, and Nothing More…
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
- Drama
- Adventure

TMDB 59RT 25IMDb 5.7 The Million Dollar Hotel
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
- Drama
- Thriller

TMDB 77RT 95IMDb 7.9 All the President's Men
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
- Drama
- Mystery
- Thriller

TMDB 74 Bashu, the Little Stranger
During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.
- Drama
- War
OmUDCP

TMDB 81RT 95IMDb 8.1 Paris, Texas
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
- Drama

TMDB 74RT 100IMDb 7.6 Kings of the Road
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.
- Drama

TMDB 53IMDb 5.1 A Dirty Shame
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
- Comedy

TMDB 71RT 81IMDb 7.0 Barefoot in the Park
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
- Comedy
- Romance

TMDB 74 Bashu, the Little Stranger
During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.
- Drama
- War
OmUDCP

TMDB 77RT 100IMDb 7.9 Life, and Nothing More…
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
- Drama
- Adventure

TMDB 53IMDb 5.1 A Dirty Shame
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
- Comedy

TMDB 77RT 95IMDb 7.9 All the President's Men
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
- Drama
- Mystery
- Thriller

TMDB 62RT 63IMDb 6.4 Land of Plenty
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
- Drama

Ballad of Tara
Tara, a young beautiful widow, returns with her two children from the country to her village. On her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes his belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one will accept. One day on the road, she meets an ancient warrior. He claims that his clan have sent him to take the old sword back. Tara finally submits the sword to him, but he returns upon realizing that he has fallen powerfully in love with her.
- Fantasy
- Drama
OmeUDCP

TMDB 79RT 84IMDb 8.3 Heat
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
- Crime
- Drama
- Action

TMDB 62RT 41IMDb 6.6 Don't Come Knocking
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...
- Drama
- Western

TMDB 80RT 93IMDb 8.2 The Sting
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama

TMDB 75RT 91IMDb 7.6 Rebel Without a Cause
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
- Drama

TMDB 56RT 31IMDb 6.1 Inside Daisy Clover
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
- Drama
- Music
- Romance

MARG-E YAZDGERD
Regie: Bahram Beyzai | 110 Min. Death of Yazdgerd Iran 1982. R: Bahram Beyzai. D: Susan Taslimi, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Behrouzian. 110 Min. DCP. OmeU Original version with English subtitles Filmreihe: Bahram Beyzai Basierend auf einem eigenen Theaterstück des Regisseurs kreist MARG-E YAZDGERD um den letzten König der Sassaniden-Dynastie, der im 7. Jahrhundert auf der Flucht vor der arabischen Invasion im Iran in einer Mühle ums Leben kam. Im Mittelpunkt des Films stehen der Müller, seine Frau und ihre Tochter, die jeweils widersprüchliche Schilderungen des Todes des Königs liefern, um sich selbst zu retten – in Anlehnung an die Erzählstruktur von RASHOMON und in einem unverkennbar an Shakespeare geschultem Stil umgesetzt. Dieses hochpolitische und poetische Epos ist ein komplexes,…
OmeUDCP

You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?
Lena is a cheerful student who firmly believes in happiness and the good in people. As part of a social project, she is sent by the office as a writing coach to Hugo Drowak, who has long since lost his luck and lives alone in a run-down tower block.
- Drama

TMDB 80RT 93IMDb 8.2 The Sting
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama

TMDB 75RT 91IMDb 7.6 Rebel Without a Cause
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
- Drama

TMDB 66RT 95IMDb 7.0 Man of the West
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
- Western

Killing Mad Dogs
Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.
- Thriller
- Drama
OmeUDCP

A VISIT TO WARD 4
Regie: Tony Edozie | 143 Min. Ein Besuch auf Station 4 Nigeria 2026. R: Tony Edozie. 143 Min. DCP. engl. OF Filmreihe: Nollywood Film Festival Germany Die zehnjährige Ella kämpft gegen eine schwere Krankheit, findet aber Zuversicht in ihrem Glauben. Ihre Eltern, Sarah und Tari, haben zunächst Schwierigkeiten, mit ihren Emotionen umzugehen. Doch nach und nach wächst auch in ihnen ein spirituelles Vertrauen. Die Geschichte beleuchtet das Zusammenspiel von Glauben und Wissenschaft und zeigt, wie Liebe, Hoffnung und Spiritualität angesichts der Sterblichkeit Trost und Stärke schenken können.
DCP

FOLLOW ME TO FOREVER
Regie: Eric Stephenson | 82 Min. Folge mir in die Ewigkeit Nigeria 2026. R: Eric Stephenson. 82 Min. DCP. engl. OF Filmreihe: Nollywood Film Festival Germany Eine mächtige Geschäftsmagnatin drängt ihren Sohn zu einem Bündnis mit der Tochter eines Rivalen, um ihr Vermächtnis zu sichern. Doch dann verliebt er sich stattdessen in die Tochter der Reinigungskraft. Es folgt ein Kampf, in dem Macht, Loyalität und die wahren Wünsche des Herzens auf die Probe gestellt werden.
DCP

TMDB 61IMDb 6.4 Rossini
Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie.
- Comedy

TMDB 74RT 90IMDb 7.7 Ordinary People
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
- Drama

IMDb 6.9 Cathedrals of Culture
"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE offers six startling responses. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves, examining human life from the unblinking perspective of a manmade structure. Six acclaimed filmmakers bring their own visual style and artistic approach to the project. Buildings, they show us, are material manifestations of human thought and action: the Berlin Philharmonic, an icon of modernity; the National Library of Russia, a kingdom of thoughts; Halden Prison, the world's most humane prison; the Salk Institute, an institute for breakthrough science; the Oslo Opera House, a futuristic symbiosis of art and life; and the Centre Pompidou, a modern culture machine. CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE explores how each of these landmarks reflects our culture and guards our collective memory.
- Documentary

TMDB 59RT 82IMDb 6.3 Downhill Racer
An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
- Drama

TMDB 69RT 80IMDb 7.1 Sneakers
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama

TMDB 54RT 28IMDb 5.5 Every Thing Will Be Fine
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
- Drama
OmU

TMDB 75RT 91IMDb 7.6 I Knew Her Well
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
- Drama

Pepe
A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
- Drama
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TMDB 73RT 97IMDb 7.5 Quiz Show
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
- History
- Drama

RT 30IMDb 4.5 The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple’s conversation meanders through memories, unspoken desires and passion through poetic dialogue.
- Drama

TMDB 70RT 80IMDb 7.2 A River Runs Through It
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.
- Drama

TMDB 75RT 96IMDb 7.7 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
- Fantasy
- Animation
- Comedy
- Crime

TMDB 75RT 100IMDb 7.7 Au Hasard Balthazar
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
- Drama

TMDB 69RT 73IMDb 6.7 The Horse Whisperer
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
- Adventure
- Drama
- Romance

PINA - TANZT, TANZT SONST SIND WIR VERLOREN (3D)
Regie: Wim Wenders | Darsteller: Ales Cucek, Anna Wehsarg, Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airoudo, Ruth Amarante | 106 Min. | Dokumentarfilm Pina – Tanzt, Tanzt sonst sind wir verloren Deutschland/Frankreich 2011. R: Wim Wenders. Dokumentarfilm. 106 Min. DCP. 3D Filmreihe: Wim Wenders Schon lange wollte Wim Wenders einen Film über die Choreographin Pina Bausch drehen, doch erst 2008 konnte er mit den Vorarbeiten beginnen; gemeinsam mit der Protagonistin wählte er die Stücke für den Film aus: „Café Müller“, „Le Sacre du Printemps“, „Vollmond“ und „Kontakthof“. Nach dem Tod der Choreographin im Sommer 2009 hat Wim Wenders sein Projekt nicht beendet, sondern änderte seine Konzeption. Er drehte mit dem Ensemble des Tanztheaters Wuppertal auf der Bühne und in der Stadt Wuppertal PINA…
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TMDB 69RT 80IMDb 7.1 Sneakers
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama

TMDB 59RT 82IMDb 6.3 Downhill Racer
An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
- Drama

TMDB 71RT 73IMDb 7.1 The Chase
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
- Crime
- Drama

RESERVIERUNG DAUERKARTE TERZA VISIONE
58 Min. | Special Event Für die Reservierung einer Dauerkarte für alle 18 Filme des Festivals Terza Visione im August 2026 bitte eine Freikarte über "Ticket kaufen" erwerben. Im nächsten Schritt bei "Preiskategorie" bitte auswählen, ob Mittwoch-Sonntag für 108 Euro, Donnerstag-Sonntag für 96 Euro oder Freitag-Sonntag für 77 Euro gewünscht ist (bitte beachten: ohne aktive Änderung ist die Grundeinstellung "Do-So")! Dieses kostenfreie "Reservierungs-Ticket" kann erst am 12.8. ab 15 Uhr an der Kasse des DFF gegen die Festival-Dauerkarte eingelöst und vor Ort in bar oder mit EC-Karte bezahlt werden. Ein direkter Online-Kauf der Dauerkarte ist aus technischen Gründen leider nicht möglich. ...

IMDb 6.0 Summertime Killer
During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps the man's daughter and goes to a hideout. In the meantime, an ex-cop has been tracking them down.
- Action
- Crime

TMDB 53IMDb 4.7 Joan Lui
In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism.
- Music
- Adventure
- Fantasy

IMDb 6.1 The Three Faces
Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini and Franco Indovina. First segment: Il Provino; second segment: Gli amanti celebri; third segment: Latin Lover.
- Drama
- Romance
- Comedy

Decameron II
During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betrayals and erotic adventures
- Comedy
DF35mm

IMDb 5.5 Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
Two friends help Sam Houston work for Texas statehood. Johnny Ears and his deaf-mute sidekick Erastus "Deaf" Smith go after a Mexican general under orders from Germany to agitate the populace.
- Western

TMDB 43IMDb 3.8 Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.
- Horror

IMDb 6.7 The Beast
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
- Adventure
- Comedy

IMDb 4.8 Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." If Katar can marry her...
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Romance

TMDB 73RT 75IMDb 7.1 Blood and Black Lace
Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.
- Horror
- Thriller
- Mystery

IMDb 5.0 Hard Car - Desiderio sfrenato del piacere
A young woman watching accidentally killing an unknown in the offices of her lover. From now on she's on the run, chased by an SUV who seeks her after life. The woman is desperate to escape their fate and experienced a world of humiliation and fear. After being raped she takes her fate into their own hands - the hunted becomes the hunter.
- Thriller

IMDb 5.9 Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
- Comedy
- Crime

The Tree with Pink Leaves
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
- Drama
OmU35mm

TMDB 69 The Passionate Thief
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
- Comedy
DF35mm

TMDB 49IMDb 4.7 The Other Hell
A priest investigates paranormal activity at a nuns' convent where a deep, dark secret is about to resurface in the guise of murder! Could the devil be behind this, or is that just what Mother Superior wants everyone to believe?
- Horror
- Thriller

The Prey
Colombia. Here lives a couple now destroyed: Betsy, alcoholic and Daniel, spianed, who is in love with an indigenous, the beautiful Nagaina, the beautiful prey with which he plans to escape.
- Drama
- Romance
OmU35mm

The Fighting Men
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.
- Drama
DF35mm

TMDB 64IMDb 6.6 One on Top of the Other
A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
- Mystery
- Thriller

TMDB 59IMDb 6.6 California
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
- Western

TMDB 75RT 91IMDb 7.6 I Knew Her Well
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
- Drama

TMDB 75RT 94IMDb 7.7 Jules and Jim
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
- Drama
- Romance

RT 30IMDb 4.5 The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple’s conversation meanders through memories, unspoken desires and passion through poetic dialogue.
- Drama

TMDB 73RT 97IMDb 7.5 Quiz Show
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
- History
- Drama

TMDB 75RT 100IMDb 7.7 Au Hasard Balthazar
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
- Drama

TMDB 73RT 75IMDb 7.1 Blood and Black Lace
Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.
- Horror
- Thriller
- Mystery

IMDb 6.5 My Giraffe
Dikkertje Dap was born on the same day as Raf the giraffe. Dikkertje can often be found at the zoo, because Raf is his best friend. They are inseparable, until Dikkertje goes to school for the first time and finds out giraffes can’t go to school. Dikkertje dearly misses Raf, but also experiences exciting new things. He even makes a new friend: Yous. Raf misses Dikkertje too. So Dikkertje devises a plan to bring the giraffe to school and introduce his two friends to each other.
- Drama
- Family

TMDB 61RT 62IMDb 6.4 The Electric Horseman
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.
- Drama
- Romance
- Comedy
- Western

TMDB 59RT 50IMDb 5.8 Zardoz
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
- Fantasy
- Action
- Thriller
- Science Fiction

TMDB 70RT 80IMDb 7.2 A River Runs Through It
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.
- Drama

PINA - TANZT, TANZT SONST SIND WIR VERLOREN (3D)
Regie: Wim Wenders | Darsteller: Ales Cucek, Anna Wehsarg, Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airoudo, Ruth Amarante | 106 Min. | Dokumentarfilm Pina – Tanzt, Tanzt sonst sind wir verloren Deutschland/Frankreich 2011. R: Wim Wenders. Dokumentarfilm. 106 Min. DCP. 3D Filmreihe: Wim Wenders Schon lange wollte Wim Wenders einen Film über die Choreographin Pina Bausch drehen, doch erst 2008 konnte er mit den Vorarbeiten beginnen; gemeinsam mit der Protagonistin wählte er die Stücke für den Film aus: „Café Müller“, „Le Sacre du Printemps“, „Vollmond“ und „Kontakthof“. Nach dem Tod der Choreographin im Sommer 2009 hat Wim Wenders sein Projekt nicht beendet, sondern änderte seine Konzeption. Er drehte mit dem Ensemble des Tanztheaters Wuppertal auf der Bühne und in der Stadt Wuppertal PINA…
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