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5 Oct – 11 Oct

  1. Frühstück bei Audrey

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  2. Alte Liebe

    The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.

    • Drama

    Abaton

  3. Das gewisse Etwas

    After a jewelry heist, a father and son are on the run from the police. They find refuge in a coach full of people with disabilities who are on their way to a holiday camp in the Alpine foothills with their carer. Without further ado, they pretend to be a missing fellow passenger and his carer.
    • Comedy

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  4. Sternbrücke Forever

    Studio Kino

  5. Virginia Woolf's Night & Day

    2026 · 95 min

    Based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel, Night & Day is an unromantic comedy about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. The story of heroine Katharine Hilbery’s bold challenge to the Edwardian patriarchy is set against the backdrop of the suffragette movement and advances in science and technology, at the turn of the 20th century.
    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • Romance

    ASTOR Film Lounge HafenCity

  6. 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

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  7. RT 83

    Bad Apples

    A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.

    • Comedy
    • Thriller

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  8. Sternbrücke Forever

    3001 Kino

  9. Watching People Watching Birds

    Highly topical, serious and humorous, this film observes people who are passionately devoted to bird watching. Through their eyes and ears, we discover the world of the birds that becomes a metaphor for the state of the world.
    • Documentary

    Abaton

  10. TMDB 78RT 95IMDb 8.2

    Pan's Labyrinth

    OV · OmU

    In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
    • Fantasy
    • Drama
    • War

    Zeise KinosOmU

  11. Cocorico 2

    DNA tests before Alice and François's wedding reveal their fathers - an aristocrat and car dealer - aren't as French as they thought.

    • Comedy

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  12. A Stroll to Syracuse

    2026 · 97 min

    In the middle of his life, Paul Gompitz from Rostock makes the decision to travel to Syracuse in Sicily. He is driven to follow in the footsteps of the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume. But: Paul lives in the GDR, behind the most annoying border in the world. His plan is impossible by legal means. So he has to prepare an escape.
    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Savoy Filmtheater

  13. IMDb 7.2

    Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

    Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.
    • Documentary

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  14. Wildes Wien

    Botschaft der Wildtiere

  15. TMDB 82RT 83IMDb 8.6

    Queen: Budapest

    OmU · 2026 · 97 min

    On July 27, 1986, Queen performed the largest-ever stadium concert at the Népstadion in Budapest in front of 80,000 ecstatic fans. The concert was part of the famed Magic Tour, which was the last time the band toured with lead singer Freddie Mercury.
    • Music

    ASTOR Film Lounge HafenCityOmU

  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

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  17. 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

    Zeise Kinos

  18. TMDB 73RT 86IMDb 7.6

    The Jungle Book

    The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.
    • Family
    • Animation
    • Adventure

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  19. TMDB 82RT 83IMDb 8.6

    Queen: Budapest

    OmU · 2026 · 97 min

    On July 27, 1986, Queen performed the largest-ever stadium concert at the Népstadion in Budapest in front of 80,000 ecstatic fans. The concert was part of the famed Magic Tour, which was the last time the band toured with lead singer Freddie Mercury.
    • Music

    ASTOR Film Lounge HafenCityOmU

  20. TMDB 70RT 55IMDb 6.5

    Mamma Mia!

    A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.
    • Comedy
    • Romance

    Magazin Filmkunsttheater

  21. Pans Labyrinth (Best of Cinema)

    OmU · 2006 · 119 min

    Savoy FilmtheaterOmU

  22. IMDb 6.5

    Trick or Treaty?

    OV · OmU

    Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the infamous 1905 agreement wherein First Nations communities relinquished sovereignty over their traditional territories — to reveal the deceptions and distortions which the document has been subjected to by successive governments seeking to deprive Canada’s First Peoples of their lands.
    • Documentary

    Studio KinoOmU

  23. TMDB 78RT 95IMDb 8.2

    Pan's Labyrinth

    In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
    • Fantasy
    • Drama
    • War

    Zeise Kinos

  24. TMDB 77RT 99IMDb 7.9

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941 · 96 min

    A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

    • Mystery
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    ASTOR Film Lounge HafenCity

  25. 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

    Zeise Kinos


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

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