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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!

Summer, Sun, Drama

Alaska

Director Max Gleschinski 124 minutes

Cleo

Director Eric Schmitt 101 minutes

Vacation

Director Thomas Arslan 91 minutes

Full Metal Village

Director Sung-Hyung Cho 90 minutes

Happy

Director Carolin Genreith 89 minutes

Precious Ivie

Director Sarah Blaßkiewitz 109 minutes

Lene and the Spirits of the Forest

Director Dieter Schumann 99 minutes

Sun and Concrete

Director David Wnendt 119 minutes

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

Cracks in Reality

The Ordinaries

Director Sophie Linnenbaum 124 minutes

Jupiter

Director Benjamin Pfohl 101 minutes

In the Blind Spot

Director Ayşe Polat 118 minutes

Free Country

Director Christian Alvart 129 minutes

Red stars upon the field

Director Laura Laabs 138 minutes

Shahid

Director Narges Kalhor 86 minutes

80 Years DEFA

Coming Out

Director Heiner Carow 113 minutes

The Murderers Are Among Us

Director Wolfgang Staudte 81 minutes

Jacob the Liar

Director Frank Beyer 101 minutes

Born in ’45

Director Jürgen Böttcher 94 minutes

Berlin – Schönhauser Corner

Director Gerhard Klein 81 minutes

German Histories

Measuring the world

Director Detlev Buck 119 minutes

Beyond the Blue Border

Director Sarah Neumann 102 minutes

Hannah Arendt

Director Margarethe von Trotta 113 minutes

Friends & Family

Foreign Language

Director Claire Burger 101 minutes

Dark Blue Girl

Director Mascha Schilinski 103 minutes

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

Women in east and west

Walchensee Forever

Director Janna Ji Wonders 110 minutes

Die Unbeugsamen 2

Director Torsten Körner 104 minutes minutes

Die Unbeugsamen

Director Torsten Körner 99 minutes minutes

Love and other disasters

Longing

Director Valeska Grisebach 85 minutes

Bones and Names

Director Fabian Stumm 109 minutes

Three

Director Tom Tykwer 119 minutes

50 years of Punk

Just do it! She-Punks from 1977 to today

Director Reto Caduff 94 minutes

whisper & SHOUT

Director Dieter Schumann 120 minutes

BREAKING LINES

BREAKING LINES

The triumphs of teamwork, broken glass ceilings, the devotion of fandom—soccer lovers of all stripes find solidarity and perseverance both on and off the field. 

Sommer. Sonne. Drama

Sommer. Sonne. Drama

Dieser Sommer wird heiß auf Goethe on Demand! SOMMER. SONNE. DRAMA: Acht Filme, acht Perspektiven, unvergessliche Sommermomente: von SONNE UND BETON bis CLEO. Welcher Film wird euer Sommerhighlight?