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23.September2026

  1. Adam’s Eight

    Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.
    • Drama

    Cinéma

  2. TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4

    Fatherland

    82 min

    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

    Kronberger Lichtspiele

  3. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

    On the morning of his hundredth birthday, Fanny finds her grandfather dead in his bed. As she and her family are forced to deal with the death, a bitter dispute over the inheritance erupts, in which old power relations are reversed.
    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Cinéma

  4. Der Spaziergang nach Syrakus

    Lars Jessen | DE 2026 | FSK 6 | 98 Min. Paul Gompitz träumt davon, auf den Spuren von Dichter Johann Gottfried Seume nach Sizilien zu reisen. Doch in der DDR 1982 dafür eine offizielle Genehmigung zu bekommen, soll sich als unmöglich erweisen. So bleibt ihm nur die Flucht nach Syrakus und wieder zurück zu seiner Frau nach Rostock.

    Filmforum Höchst

  5. TMDB 67IMDb 6.4

    Leviticus

    Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.

    • Horror
    • Romance

    Harmonie

  6. Cocorico 2

    92 min

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

    • Comedy

    Kino Kelkheim

  7. FRÜHER GLÜCKLICH, HEUTE FROH

    Regie: Pavel Schnabel | 90 Min. Deutschland 1997. R: Pavel Schnabel. 90 Min. 16mm Mit Gespräch zum Thema Schnitt im Dokumentarfilm mit Eva Voosen (Schnitt) und Melanie Gärtner Filmreihe: Pavel Schnabel In den 1970er Jahren gab es eine ganze Reihe von Menschen, die als Aussteiger*innen ihr bisheriges Leben hinter sich ließen und zum Beispiel Landkommunen gründeten. Zwei Jahrzehnte später hat Pavel Schnabel einige von ihnen aufgesucht und befragt, ob sich ihre Träume und Wünsche von einem alternativen Leben erfüllt haben.

    DFF Filmmuseum16mm

    Pavel Schnabel

  8. Spaziergang nach Syrakus

    97 min

    Paul Gompitz, a young man from Rostock, dreams of retracing the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume's journey to Syracuse. But as a citizen of the GDR, his only option is to flee.

    • Drama

    Kronberger Lichtspiele

  9. Hiddensee

    Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea has always been a place where people have sought freedom. This film takes us on a journey through an entire century, starting in the golden 1920s, as it assembles the island’s scenery, history, and personal stories into a fascinating portrait. Then as now, the political upheavals that have swept across Germany have left their mark.
    • Documentary

    Filmforum Höchst

  10. The Paradise

    OmU · 2026

    In 1980s Secunderabad, a marginalized tribe battles discrimination and fights for citizenship under an unexpected leader's guidance, challenging systemic oppression.

    • Action
    • Thriller
    • Drama

    Astor Film LoungeOmU

  11. TMDB 50RT 11IMDb 4.7

    Jonah Hex

    Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slew his wife and child.
    • Western
    • Fantasy
    • Thriller

    Harmonie

  12. TMDB 66

    The Tasters

    In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of tasters responsible for checking that the food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.
    • Drama
    • History

    DFF Filmmuseum

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Currently 25 cinemas and film series in Frankfurt and the surrounding area: Harmonie Theater Frankfurt, Cinéma Frankfurt, DFF — Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Astor Film Lounge MyZeil, Filmforum Höchst, Kino Kelkheim, Mal seh'n Kino, Filmpalast Hofheim, Kronberger Lichtspiele, Eschborn K, Kino Alte Mühle, Eldorado Arthouse Kino, Kino Köppern, Haus am Dom – Kath. Akademie Rabanus Maurus, Lichtblick Mörfelden, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Hafen 2 Offenbach, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, naxos.Kino, Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft Frankfurt, Deutsches Ledermuseum Offenbach am Main, Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Club Voltaire Frankfurt, Historisches Museum Frankfurt and Pupille — Kino in der Uni.

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