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Capitol Arthouse Kino Mainz
Arthouse-Programm in der Mainzer Altstadt.
Neubrunnenstraße 9, 55116 Mainz
A Fading Man
When her ex-husband reappears, now suffering from dementia and having forgotten their divorce, Hanne’s orderly life with partner Bernd is gently upended.
- Drama
TMDB 78RT 98IMDb 7.5 Palestine 36
Year 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe and some arriving with nefarious Zionist-colonial ambitions, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain’s 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.
- Drama
- History
- War
Same Sun - Mit dem Fahrrad durch Afrika
The film SAME SUN tells the story of Wiebke Lühmann's journey from Freiburg to the Cape of Good Hope. Honest, raw, and close to the inner and outer challenges of a 430-day bicycle trip. Her journey takes her through 22 countries, Sahara storms, the rain season, the Congo Basin, and the deserts of Namibia.
- Documentary
Conni and the Mystery of the Crane
While her parents are traveling, Conni experiences an exciting adventure at home with cat Mau, her friends, Grandpa Willi, a stuffy neighbor – and an injured crane, who urgently needs help. Will Conni and her friends manage to get crane Klaus to fly south with the migrating birds in time?
- Adventure
- Animation
- Comedy
- Fantasy
TMDB 69IMDb 7.5 The Drama
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
- Romance
- Comedy
- Drama
TMDB 65RT 71IMDb 6.3 The Burning Sea
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
- Action
- Thriller
- Drama
Conni and the Mystery of the Crane
While her parents are traveling, Conni experiences an exciting adventure at home with cat Mau, her friends, Grandpa Willi, a stuffy neighbor – and an injured crane, who urgently needs help. Will Conni and her friends manage to get crane Klaus to fly south with the migrating birds in time?
- Adventure
- Animation
- Comedy
- Fantasy
TMDB 69RT 98IMDb 7.0 Thelma
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
- Action
- Comedy
- Adventure
A Fading Man
When her ex-husband reappears, now suffering from dementia and having forgotten their divorce, Hanne’s orderly life with partner Bernd is gently upended.
- Drama
18th Rose
A spirited teen dreaming of the perfect debut makes a deal with a lonely newcomer, but unexpected feelings and revelations may shatter their plans.
- Drama
- Romance
- Comedy
TMDB 77 The Sheep Detectives
George Hardy is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can't possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realize they must become the detectives. As they follow the clues and investigate human suspects, they prove that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers.
- Comedy
- Family
- Mystery
All In Sneak Preview
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.
TMDB 66RT 58IMDb 6.2 "Wuthering Heights"
Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.
- Romance
- Drama
TMDB 76 The Sheep Detectives
George Hardy is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can't possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realize they must become the detectives. As they follow the clues and investigate human suspects, they prove that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers.
- Comedy
- Family
- Mystery
TMDB 64RT 83IMDb 6.8 Father Mother Sister Brother
Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
- Comedy
- Drama
TMDB 80IMDb 7.8 Whispers in the Woods
In the heart of the tranquil Vosges forests, where lynxes, bears and deer roam freely, Vincent Munier accompanies his father on his expeditions. He not only seeks to capture the visual wonders of this forest kingdom, but also aims to make its sounds audible. Every whisper of the forest is a reminder of the knowledge of nature that his father once imbued in him – knowledge that Vincent now passes on to his own son. Vincent Munier combines breathtaking footage of nature and its sounds to create a fairytale-like cinematic experience that slows time down.
- Documentary
TMDB 73RT 87IMDb 7.4 Bugonia
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
- Science Fiction
- Thriller
- Comedy
TMDB 74RT 94IMDb 7.7 One Battle After Another
16 years ago, the resistance group known as "French 75" freed 200 detainees from the clutches of the ruthless United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement - ICE for short - in one fell swoop. The resisters, including Bob Ferguson, known to everyone as Ghetto Pat, then disappeared from the scene. Today, Bob is driven by paranoia because he fears that the former ICE Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw is still after him.
- Thriller
- Crime
- Comedy
TMDB 64RT 83IMDb 6.8 Father Mother Sister Brother
Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
- Comedy
- Drama
TMDB 79RT 80IMDb 8.0 Departures
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
- Drama
TMDB 80IMDb 7.8 Whispers in the Woods
In the heart of the tranquil Vosges forests, where lynxes, bears and deer roam freely, Vincent Munier accompanies his father on his expeditions. He not only seeks to capture the visual wonders of this forest kingdom, but also aims to make its sounds audible. Every whisper of the forest is a reminder of the knowledge of nature that his father once imbued in him – knowledge that Vincent now passes on to his own son. Vincent Munier combines breathtaking footage of nature and its sounds to create a fairytale-like cinematic experience that slows time down.
- Documentary
TMDB 74RT 94IMDb 7.7 One Battle After Another
16 years ago, the resistance group known as "French 75" freed 200 detainees from the clutches of the ruthless United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement - ICE for short - in one fell swoop. The resisters, including Bob Ferguson, known to everyone as Ghetto Pat, then disappeared from the scene. Today, Bob is driven by paranoia because he fears that the former ICE Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw is still after him.
- Thriller
- Crime
- Comedy
TMDB 67RT 88IMDb 6.5 The Little Sister
Fatima, 17, the youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family in a Paris suburb, leaves school for a prestigious prep class. She plays football, has a secret boyfriend, but hides that she loves women. In Paris, new freedoms clash with family tradition and faith, forcing her to find her own path.
- Drama
- Romance
TMDB 69IMDb 7.2 Friend
Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grew up together in the wearisome years of the 70s. But as time goes by, each of them takes a different life path.
- Action
- Drama
- Crime
stumm
TMDB 74 Gelbe Briefe
Derya and Aziz, a celebrated artist couple from Ankara, lead a full life with their 13-year-old daughter Ezgi - until an incident at the premiere of their new play changes everything. Overnight, they are targeted by the state and lose their job and their home. They move to Istanbul, where they stay with Aziz's mother for the time being. While Aziz ekes out a living with odd jobs and sticks to his convictions, Derya looks for a way out that will make her financially independent. Gradually, the distance between them and their daughter grows until they have to decide between their values and their future together as a family.
- Drama
TMDB 68RT 90IMDb 7.0 Sirāt
A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.
- Drama
- Thriller
TMDB 67RT 88IMDb 6.5 The Little Sister
Fatima, 17, the youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family in a Paris suburb, leaves school for a prestigious prep class. She plays football, has a secret boyfriend, but hides that she loves women. In Paris, new freedoms clash with family tradition and faith, forcing her to find her own path.
- Drama
- Romance
TMDB 69IMDb 7.2 Friend
Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grew up together in the wearisome years of the 70s. But as time goes by, each of them takes a different life path.
- Action
- Drama
- Crime
stumm
TMDB 68RT 90IMDb 7.0 Sirāt
A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.
- Drama
- Thriller
TMDB 62 Die My Love
After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
- Drama
Astrid Lindgren – Die Menschheit hat den Verstand verloren
An unknown young Swedish woman named Astrid Lindgren keeps a diary about the Second World War, is in a deep life crisis and discovers the power of writing. Shortly after the end of the war, her debut novel "Pippi Longstocking" is published. Her daughter and grandchildren tell the story behind her world-famous authorship
- Documentary
TMDB 68RT 94 In die Sonne schauen
A remote four-sided farm in the Altmark, whose walls have borne the stories of the people who lived there for over a century. A farm once inhabited by four women whose lives are intertwined over several decades. Alma, Erika, Angelika and Nelly - each of them spent their childhood or youth on this place, but as they walk through their own time, traces from the past are revealed to them. Hidden fears, repressed traumas and long-kept secrets come to light. Alma learns that she was named after her deceased sister and fears that she shares her fate. Erika falls under the spell of her seriously injured uncle and loses herself in dangerous fantasies. Angelika vacillates between a lust for life and a longing for death, while she is trapped in a torn family system. Nelly grows up in apparent safety, but dark dreams and unconscious memories of past events haunt her.
- Drama
Los geht's Maxi: Wir entdecken die Kinotechnik
TMDB 64 Pillion
When shy Colin meets charismatic Ray in a bar, he is immediately smitten. He can hardly believe that the attractive biker has chosen him as his new companion. Ray demands absolute submission, which Colin is only too willing to do. He cleans, cooks, does the shopping and sleeps on the rug without complaint. In return, Ray opens the door to an exciting world of wild adventures and sexual ecstasy. While his parents become increasingly worried, Colin enjoys his new life to the full. But slowly a quiet longing awakens in him for something that Ray may never be able to give him. Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Potter star Harry Melling shine in Harry Lighton's surprisingly sensitive DomCom with an outstanding performance full of humor, tenderness and emotional depth.
- Romance
- Drama
- Comedy
TMDB 62 Die My Love
After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
- Drama
Astrid Lindgren – Die Menschheit hat den Verstand verloren
An unknown young Swedish woman named Astrid Lindgren keeps a diary about the Second World War, is in a deep life crisis and discovers the power of writing. Shortly after the end of the war, her debut novel "Pippi Longstocking" is published. Her daughter and grandchildren tell the story behind her world-famous authorship
- Documentary
TMDB 64 Pillion
When shy Colin meets charismatic Ray in a bar, he is immediately smitten. He can hardly believe that the attractive biker has chosen him as his new companion. Ray demands absolute submission, which Colin is only too willing to do. He cleans, cooks, does the shopping and sleeps on the rug without complaint. In return, Ray opens the door to an exciting world of wild adventures and sexual ecstasy. While his parents become increasingly worried, Colin enjoys his new life to the full. But slowly a quiet longing awakens in him for something that Ray may never be able to give him. Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Potter star Harry Melling shine in Harry Lighton's surprisingly sensitive DomCom with an outstanding performance full of humor, tenderness and emotional depth.
- Romance
- Drama
- Comedy
SOMMERFLIMMERN: The Housemaid - Wenn sie wüsste
SOMMERFLIMMERN: No Other Choice
IMDb 6.9 22 Lengths
Tilda's days are strictly structured: she studies, works at the supermarket checkout and looks after her little sister Ida - on some days she also has to look after her alcoholic mother. But this summer brings a change: Tilda receives a promising job offer for a doctorate in Berlin. Viktor also turns up, who, like her, always swims 22 laps in the swimming pool. When Tilda begins to believe that everything could be better, the situation at home spirals out of control.
- Drama
TMDB 73RT 92IMDb 7.3 Nouvelle Vague
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.
- Comedy
- Drama
- History
SOMMERFLIMMERN: The Housemaid - Wenn sie wüsste
TMDB 81RT 99IMDb 8.5 Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
- Drama
- Romance
SOMMERFLIMMERN: No Other Choice
TMDB 73RT 92IMDb 7.3 Nouvelle Vague
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.
- Comedy
- Drama
- History
SOMMERFLIMMERN: Der Teufel trägt Prada 2
SOMMERFLIMMERN: Sentimental Value
TMDB 77 Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents' upper-class villa. From then on, he tries to find his identity as a young man between the world of theater and the everyday life of his eccentric grandparents.
- Comedy
- Drama
SOMMERFLIMMERN: Hamnet
SOMMERFLIMMERN: Der Teufel trägt Prada 2
SOMMERFLIMMERN: Sentimental Value
SOMMERFLIMMERN: Hamnet
TMDB 86RT 94IMDb 8.4 Project Hail Mary
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
- Science Fiction
- Adventure
TMDB 71RT 96IMDb 7.2 Amrum
On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends, his mother sinks into depression, and he must navigate new conflicts while struggling to find his own path.
- Drama
SOMMERFLIMMERN: Rental Family
Der Fremde
After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a new job, but also wanted to finally settle down here. The party leadership sends him to the Schepp brigade, which has made itself "suspicious" (on paper) due to its extremely high production figures. The stranger is accused of being a spy for the factory management. Willi finds it difficult to assert himself, but he is taken with the big excavator, the prospect of one day being allowed to drive it, and the brash flapper Hanna. He stays, and with his help a mine foreman is exposed as a Western agent and coal production is brought up to a really high level.
- Drama
TMDB 86RT 94IMDb 8.4 Project Hail Mary
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
- Science Fiction
- Adventure
TMDB 71RT 96IMDb 7.2 Amrum
On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends, his mother sinks into depression, and he must navigate new conflicts while struggling to find his own path.
- Drama
Der Fremde
After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a new job, but also wanted to finally settle down here. The party leadership sends him to the Schepp brigade, which has made itself "suspicious" (on paper) due to its extremely high production figures. The stranger is accused of being a spy for the factory management. Willi finds it difficult to assert himself, but he is taken with the big excavator, the prospect of one day being allowed to drive it, and the brash flapper Hanna. He stays, and with his help a mine foreman is exposed as a Western agent and coal production is brought up to a really high level.
- Drama