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The streaming platform of the Goethe-Institut

The Goethe-Institut presents a carefully curated collection of German films, available to stream for free. Discover award-winning festival hits, exciting new voices in German cinema and legendary film classics – and find your own personal favourites. Sit back, make yourself comfortable and… action!

Breaking Lines

Too Far Away

Director Sarah Winkenstette 88 minutes

We Wanted More – The Miracle of Taipei

Director John David Seidler 87 minutes

Weekend Rebels

Director Marc Rothemund 109 minutes

The Last Taboo

Director Manfred Oldenburg 94 minutes

Winners

Director Soleen Yusef 119 minutes

Risse in der Wirklichkeit

In the Blind Spot

Director Ayşe Polat 118 minutes

Red stars upon the field

Director Laura Laabs 138 minutes

Shahid

Director Narges Kalhor 86 minutes

Starke Charaktere

Beyond the Blue Border

Director Sarah Neumann 102 minutes

Orphea in Love

Director Axel Ranisch 107 minutes

Walchensee Forever

Director Janna Ji Wonders 110 minutes

Foreign Language

Director Claire Burger 101 minutes

Hannah Arendt

Director Margarethe von Trotta 113 minutes

Dark Blue Girl

Director Mascha Schilinski 103 minutes

Filmerbe aus der DDR – 80 Jahre DEFA-Stiftung

Jakob the liar

Director Frank Beyer 101 minutes

Born in ’45

Director Jürgen Böttcher 94 minutes

Coming Out

Director Heiner Carow 113 minutes

Berlin – Schönhauser Corner

Director Gerhard Klein 81 minutes

Among Friends

All About Me

Director Caroline Link 100 minutes

Kiss my Wounds

Director Hanna Doose 116 minutes

Kaddish for a Friend

Director Leo Khasin 94 minutes

Raw Materials

Director Tuna Kaptan 86 minutes

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Die Unbeugsamen

Director Torsten Körner 99 minutes minutes

Die Unbeugsamen 2

Director Torsten Körner 104 minutes minutes

Longing

Director Valeska Grisebach 85 minutes

Bones and Names

Director Fabian Stumm 109 minutes

Free Country

Director Christian Alvart 129 minutes

whisper & SHOUT

Director Dieter Schumann 120 minutes

Just do it! She-Punks from 1977 to today

Director Reto Caduff 94 minutes

Three

Director Tom Tykwer 119 minutes

Classics of the Weima

Classics of the Weimar Era

2026 is not only the year in which Fritz Lang’s world-famous futuristic dystopia METROPOLIS is set; it is also the 50th anniversary of the director’s death. To mark the occasion, we are presenting a selection of significant classics from the cinema of the Weimar Republic, alongside METROPOLIS itself.