Weekly overview
11 Aug – 17 Aug
TMDB 59 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 71 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. ...
Harry Potter und die Kammer der Fragen – Das ultimative Harry Potter Quiz by Monkey-Quiz (Frankfurt)
2026 · 135 min
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 77RT 90IMDb 8.1 The Terminator
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
- Action
- Thriller
- Science Fiction
TMDB 53 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
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
DFF FilmmuseumDF35mm
IMDb 7.3 DJ Ahmet
15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
- Drama
- Music
- Comedy
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 43 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
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
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 69RT 85IMDb 6.8 Caught Stealing
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
- Crime
- Thriller
- Comedy
TMDB 73 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
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
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
DFF FilmmuseumOmU35mm
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
Hafen 2 Offenbachstumm
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
DFF FilmmuseumDF35mm
TMDB 49 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
DFF FilmmuseumOmU35mm
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
DFF FilmmuseumDF35mm
TMDB 64 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 59 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
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