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14 Aug – 20 Aug

  1. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  2. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  3. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  4. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  5. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  6. Vishwanath & Sons

    OV · OmU

    Sanjay Vishwanath is an acclaimed professional handgunner in his 40s with a major stake in fame and wealth. When he comes across a woman named Maddy in her 20s, their dynamic poses many issues that they must come to terms with.

    • Family
    • Drama
    • Romance

    Filmpalast HofheimOmU

  7. TMDB 74RT 94IMDb 7.7

    One Battle After Another

    Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

    • Thriller
    • Crime
    • Comedy

    Freiluftkino FrankfurtOmU

  8. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  9. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  10. 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

    Hafen 2 Offenbach

  11. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  12. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  13. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  14. Vishwanath & Sons

    OV · OmU

    Sanjay Vishwanath is an acclaimed professional handgunner in his 40s with a major stake in fame and wealth. When he comes across a woman named Maddy in her 20s, their dynamic poses many issues that they must come to terms with.

    • Family
    • Drama
    • Romance

    Filmpalast HofheimOmU

  15. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  16. IMDb 6.7

    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

    Terza Visione

  17. 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

    Freiluftkino FrankfurtOmU

  18. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  19. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  20. 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

  21. TMDB 69RT 100IMDb 7.3

    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

    Terza Visione

  22. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  23. TMDB 84RT 86IMDb 8.3

    Once Upon a Time in America

    A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

    • Drama
    • Crime

    Cinéma

  24. Vishwanath & Sons

    OV · OmU

    Sanjay Vishwanath is an acclaimed professional handgunner in his 40s with a major stake in fame and wealth. When he comes across a woman named Maddy in her 20s, their dynamic poses many issues that they must come to terms with.

    • Family
    • Drama
    • Romance

    Filmpalast HofheimOmU

  25. IMDb 5.3

    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

    Terza Visione

  26. In My Mother's Mirror

    When successful archaeologist Ursula Scheuer makes a sensational discovery of a body during a bog excavation, her demented mother suddenly dies. Unexpectedly, a childhood trauma breaks out for Ursula. The appearance of her new assistant Mel is also puzzling: she seems to know Ursula’s past very well. Ursula is increasingly drawn into a mysterious web of fantasies and deceptions and must finally free herself from it.

    • Drama

    Cinéma

  27. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  28. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  29. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  30. IMDb 4.7

    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

    Terza Visione

  31. TMDB 75RT 97IMDb 7.5

    No Other Choice

    After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.

    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Freiluftkino FrankfurtOmU

  32. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  33. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  34. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione

  35. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  36. Filmgespräch: Salz und Wasser

    Harmonie

  37. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  38. Open Air Kino „Die Rosenschlacht“

    UK / USA 2025 | 105 Min. | FSK ab 12 Mit Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Samberg Film Inhalt In der Ehe von Theo und Ivy beginnt es zu kriseln, als Theo einen beruflichen Rückschlag verkraften muss, während Ivys Karriere voranschreitet. Ungelöste Konflikte haben einen erbitterten Kleinkrieg zur Folge. Tolles Remake des Filmklassikers „Der…

    Eschborn K

  39. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  40. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  41. LeMali 70

    R: Markus Schmidt · D 2023, 93 Min · Deutsch

    In Berlin, a bigband discovers old vinyls from the Malian Bigband era, music which embodied the hope for Malian independence before a coup brought an end to the legendary brass sections. Inspired by these songs, the Berliners travel to Mali to find the heroes of their vinyl-collection. There they research the origins of the songs and bring back the lost brass sections to play with forgotten Malian stars, leading often to heated arguments over the correct beats, and record an album in a studio in Bamako. The film offers a rare insight into the working relationships between artists from different cultures. It captures several key moments which would eventually lead to the production of a truly collaborative album that pays homage to a special period in Mali’s rich musical history.

    • Documentary

    naxos.Kinonaxos.Kino

  42. Hallo Betty

    110 min

    In 1956, advertising copywriter Emmi Creola invents the fictional character Betty Bossi, who quickly becomes a Swiss culinary icon. But as her creation rises to fame, Emmi finds herself caught between growing professional expectations and her own personal struggles — a tension that threatens to consume her.

    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Kronberger Lichtspiele

  43. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  44. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    In Memoriam: Mario Adorf

  45. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  46. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Wim Wenders

  47. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  48. TMDB 85RT 93IMDb 8.7

    GoodFellas

    The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

    • Drama
    • Crime

    Cinéma

  49. A Sad and Beautiful World

    In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.

    • Romance
    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Cinéma

  50. TMDB 74RT 93IMDb 7.7

    Marty Supreme

    Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

    • Drama
    • Thriller

    Freiluftkino FrankfurtOmU

  51. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Kino Kelkheim

  52. Steckerlfischfiasko

    Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans.

    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  53. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Wim Wenders

  54. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Robert Redford

  55. IMDb 4.6

    No. 1 of the Secret Service

    No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, No. 1 encounters mercenaries from the evil organization K.R.A.S.H. (Killing, Rape, Arson, Slaughter, and Hit).

    • Action
    • Comedy

    Freiluftkino FrankfurtOmU

  56. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Wim Wenders

  57. Cotton Queen

    In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers told by her grandmother, the village matriarch Al-Sit. But when a young businessman arrives from abroad with a new development plan and genetically engineered cotton, Nafisa becomes the center of a power play to determine the future of the village. Awakening to her own strength, Nafisa sets out to save the cotton fields – and herself. Neither she nor her community will ever be the same again.

    • Drama

    Hafen 2 Offenbach

  58. 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

    DFF Filmmuseum

    Terza Visione


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Currently 27 cinemas and film series in Frankfurt and the surrounding area: Astor Film Lounge MyZeil, DFF — Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Cinéma Frankfurt, Filmpalast Hofheim, Harmonie Theater Frankfurt, Kino Kelkheim, Eschborn K, Freiluftkino Frankfurt, Mal seh'n Kino, Hafen 2 Offenbach, Kino Alte Mühle, Lichtblick Mörfelden, Orfeo's Erben, Eldorado Arthouse Kino, Kronberger Lichtspiele, Haus am Dom – Kath. Akademie Rabanus Maurus, naxos.Kino, Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft Frankfurt, MGGU – Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität, Pupille — Kino in der Uni, Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Alte Schmelze, Deutsches Ledermuseum Offenbach am Main, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hessen, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt and TAUNALE – Taunus Filmfest Oberursel.

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