





The grand old Zoo Palast is back! The elaborately restored, traditional cinema in Berlin shows sophisticated entertainment and family films.
14 Locations
Some Berlin cinemas are known for their selected films, the carefully chosen programmes that go beyond the usual multiplex fare. These selected films might be arthouse premieres, restored classics or themed retrospectives, screened for audiences who take their cinema seriously. This tag collects Berlin locations with a curator's touch.
Independent cinemas around Kreuzberg, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg run originals with subtitles, director seasons and festival highlights, while open air screens take over courtyards and parks in summer. Programmes often come with introductions or discussions, and repertory nights revive films rarely seen on a big screen. The Berlinale each winter adds a citywide peak.
Browse the venues below to find selected films across Berlin, from quiet matinees to buzzing premiere nights.






The grand old Zoo Palast is back! The elaborately restored, traditional cinema in Berlin shows sophisticated entertainment and family films.






The Astor Film Lounge chases away your blues with an extra helping of luxury and plush as well as selected movies.



A little hidden, actually in the third backyard of Höfe am Südstern in Kreuzberg, you will find the small, relaxed arthouse-cinema which has long turned into an institution. In 2013 the Sputnik Kino celebrated its 25th anniversary.


The Arsenal is the repertory cinema located in the Film Museum on Potsdamer Platz and one of the movie theatres of the Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale.


If you like to watch movies in their original version, you will love the Odeon!


In Volkspark Rehberge, in the heart of Berlin's Wedding district, a listed open-air stage from the 1930s transforms every summer into one of the city's most atmospheric open-air cinemas. Here, you sit under the open sky, surrounded by old trees, watching films on an inflatable screen.
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The name of the little cinema in the heart of Friedrichshain says it all! With round about 80 seats it’s one of the smallest cinemas in Berlin.



Rum-soaked sugar cones and the classic film "Die Feuerzangenbowle" (The Fire-Tongs Punch) are the focus of the atmospheric Winter Film Festival in the Nikolaiviertel in Berlin-Mitte.

Countless people visit the Field of Stelae near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin daily. However, few Berliners and tourists know that there is also a free exhibition located beneath the Holocaust Memorial.



The beautiful Astor Film Lounge on Kurfürstendamm presents the 1963 film classic 'The Pink Panther' as its 2017 New Year's Eve Special.

In the backyard of an old factory in Moabit, between brick walls and train tracks, the Kulturfabrik Moabit's Open-Air Cinema shows films every summer that are rarely seen on a screen in Berlin. Admission is free, the atmosphere unique.


The Eva is a small independent neighborhood cinema with a sophisticated program and less commercial productions.





The small ACUD Kino is part of the ACUD Kunsthaus, a place for arts.


The Lichtblick is a charming living room cinema on Kastanienallee.