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16.September2026

  1. TMDB 67IMDb 7.2

    Maspalomas

    After breaking up with his partner, 76 year-old Vicente leads life the way he likes it in Maspalomas: he spends his days lying in the sun, partying, and looking for pleasure. An unexpected accident obliges him to return to San Sebastián and to the daughter he abandoned years ago. Vicente will have to live in a retirement home where he finds himself driven back into the closet and to conceal a part of himself that he thought was long resolved. In this new environment, Vicente must ask himself if he has enough time left to make his peace with others… and with himself.
    • Drama

    Cinéma

  2. En el camino

    During the trip back from their vacation, a young couple is stranded in the middle of the road and they lose all forms of communication, including each other.

    • Drama

    Cinéma

  3. Hinter guten Türen

    R: Julia Beerhold · D 2023, 79 Min · Deutsch

    The story of two siblings. Their parents loved and nurtured them. But the parents also used brute force: The children were beaten, even on wounds. They were slapped when they fell down. Sometimes for no reason. For the parents, this was no contradiction. They claimed to love their children, and the children believed it.
    • Documentary

    naxos.Kinonaxos.Kino

  4. Red Rue Express (Ukrainische Sprachfassung)

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  5. IMDb 5.5

    Der Koch

    Maravan, aged 24, is a Tamil asylum seeker in Switzerland, working as casual help in a highly rated, gourmet restaurant in Zurich. It is also well below his own standards, because he is a gifted and highly passionate cook. In Sri Lanka his grandmother initiated him in the culinary arts, not least in the secrets of aphrodisiacal cuisine. When Maravan loses his job his colleague Andrea persuades him into a deal of the special kind: a joint catering venture for love menus.
    • Romance
    • Drama

    DFF Filmmuseum

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  6. River Dreams

    Young women imagine themselves as a river: what starts off as a poetic metaphor is linked to images of landscape and becomes a many-voiced narration, radically morphing into a political statement. The Kazakh woman, she prefers life without man.
    • Documentary

    Filmforum HöchstOmeU

  7. Where the Waves Took Her

    For many, crossing the Mediterranean is their last hope of escaping war, persecution, and hunger. As more and more women are forced to take this deadly route, a midwife is now a permanent member of the crew of a sea rescue ship. While midwife Anne-Katrin takes part in her first mission, survivors recount the horrors of their journey. Their worlds briefly collide before the rescued women step into another uncertain future.
    • Documentary

    Filmforum Höchst

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    Harmonie

  9. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?


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Which cinemas are covered?

Currently 23 cinemas and film series in Frankfurt and the surrounding area: Astor Film Lounge MyZeil, Cinéma Frankfurt, DFF — Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Harmonie Theater Frankfurt, Filmforum Höchst, Filmpalast Hofheim, Kino Kelkheim, Mal seh'n Kino, Lichtblick Mörfelden, Eschborn K, Kino Köppern, Kronberger Lichtspiele, Eldorado Arthouse Kino, Haus am Dom – Kath. Akademie Rabanus Maurus, naxos.Kino, Pupille — Kino in der Uni, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Hafen 2 Offenbach, Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Club Voltaire Frankfurt, Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft Frankfurt, Deutsches Ledermuseum Offenbach am Main and Historisches Museum Frankfurt.

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Frankfurt has an unusually dense cinema scene — the DFF Filmmuseum, Astor, three arthouse houses, Pupille at the university, Programmkino Rex in Darmstadt, the Murnau in Wiesbaden — but no shared programme. This site lays every house onto one searchable day view.

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