SquareOne Entertainment is one of the leading independent film distributors in German speaking Europe, known for films like THE IMITATION GAME, BOOK CLUB, ALL IS LOST, THE WIFE, TRAUTMANN and UNHEIMLICH PERFEKTE FREUNDE.
As a Munich-based company we are dedicated to bringing outstanding stories with global reach and local expertise to all screens. Over the past two decades, we have has been responsible for the coproduction, marketing and distribution of domestic and international independent films and series in German-speaking Europe. Years of collaboration with established, first-class content producers enables our team of experts to have early access to premium quality content with a commercial focus. Historically, we have acquired rights through single picture acquisitions with independent production studios from around the globe. Most recently however our team has transitioned our emphasis on acquisition in tandem with production activities. We acquire and coproducer, benefitting from both activities in combination. We make significant, risk-balanced investments in our content every year, to drive the quality of our every growing library creating value for tomorrow. This broader strategic emphasis makes us more resilient for the future.
On The Line
Production
Three Point Capital, BondIt Media Capital, R-Lines Productions, CaliWood Pictures
Cast
Mel Gibson, Kevin Dillon, Enrique Arce, Nadia Fares
Director
Romuald Boulanger
Video start
01.12.22 (EST) / 16.12.22 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2022
Country
USA
Local rating
16
Psychopath Gary kidnaps the wife and child of rough-and-ready Elvis Cooney (Mel Gibson) during a late-night radio talk show. Gary wants to make the gruff presenter pay for the suicide of his former assistant and plays a sadistic game with Elvis and his team. He kills some employees and threatens to blow up Elvis' family. A breathless race against time begins...
Euer Ehren
Production
SquareOne Productions, Monafilm, ARD Degeto
Cast
Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Tobias Moretti, Rainer Bock
Director
David Nawrath
Video start
03.11.22 (EST) / 04.11.22 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2021
Country
Germany, Austria
Local rating
12
Michael Jacobi is one of the most respected judges of Innsbruck thanks to his successful fight against organized crime. When his son Julian causes an accident and flees from the scene, Jacobi throws his strict principles overboard to help him. The badly injured victim turns out to be the son of a Serbian clan chief, who has recently been arrested. His daughter Arija Sailovic, eager to take over the family business and not believing in her brother’s accident, starts doing her own research. The investigation of Commissioner Kirchner also puts Jacobi under a lot of pressure. While his life is running off the rails, Jacobi does all he can to protect his son and not only enrages the gangsters, but also the powerful tycoon Uli Lindner . When a brutal gang war begins and Jacobi is getting caught up in his own lies, the situation threatens to escalate.
Shark Bait
Production
Picaro Films
Cast
Holly Earl, Malachi Pullar-Latchman, Catherine Hannay
Director
James Nunn
Video start
25.08.22 (EST) / 09.09.22 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2021
Country
UK
Local rating
16
College student Nat and her four friends celebrate spring break on the sandy beaches of Mexico. After a night of drinking, the youngsters steal two jet skis at dawn and race out to sea. A bad accident occurs in which one of the friends breaks his leg. Miles away from the coast, one of the jet skis starts to sink, and the second one won’t work anymore. With no idea of how to get home, the friends drift farther and farther out to open sea, when the blood from the open fracture attracts a merciless shark. A merciless fight for life begins.
Shut In
Production
Voltage Pictures
Cast
Rainey Qualley
Director
D.J. Caruso
Video start
17.10.22 (EST) / 28.10.22 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2021
Country
USA
Local rating
16
Violent Rob locks up his ex-girlfriend and single mom Jessica in the pantry of her secluded house in the country. When he drives away, her four-year-old daughter and the little baby are completely left alone and all Jessica can do is to guide them with her voice from inside the chamber. The former drug addict fights fiercly against her urge to relapse, because the small pack of meth in her pocket feels tempting. The situation comes to a head when Sammy, Rob's friend and a pedophile, breaks into the house and threatens Jessica and her little children.
A Day To Die
Production
Capstone Global
Cast
Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, Kevin Dillon
Director
Wes Miller
Kino start
23.06.22
Video start
09.09.22 (EST) / 16.09.22 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2022
Country
USA
Local rating
16
Connor is part of a military ghost unit that has been betrayed by chief negotiator Captain Alston during a bloody hostage rescue. Numerous victims burden the unit's conscience. Fifteen years later, Connor is a parole officer and Alston is a corrupt, ruthless police chief. When Connor shoots a man of the local drug lord in self-defense, the boss kidnaps his wife and demands a ransom of two million dollars within twelve hours. Connor has no choice but to gather his old ghost team to help. But yet there's another threat he didn’t take into account.
Barbaque
Production
Cinéfrance Studios
Cast
Fabrice Éboué, Marina Foïs, Nicolas Lumbreras, Lisa So Couto Teixeira, Victor Meutelet
Director
Fabrice Éboué
Video start
19.05.22 (EST) / 27.05.22 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2021
Country
France
Local rating
18
Pascal and his wife Sophie have been running a small local butcher's shop for about twenty years. Sophie stands with great love for her customers at the cash register and Vincent cuts the carefully selected meat with just as much love. And they lived happily ever after, you might think. But then, as is the case with many small tradesmen, business went downhill and so did their relationship. After almost 30 years of marriage, the marriage bed is as alive as the sausages in the counter. Mutual irritation hinders any form of dialogue. Love, business - nothing works out, so Sophie seeks refuge in her great passion: TV shows about serial killers. Vincent unleashes all his love on Pépère, his gentle rottweiler.
The Hating Game
Production
BCDF Pictures, Convergent Media
Cast
Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell
Director
Peter Hutchings
Kino start
10.03.22
Video start
27.05.22 (EST) / 03.06.2022 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2021
Country
USA
Local rating
12
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him.
The Misfits
Cast
Pierce Brosnan, Tim Roth, Nick Cannon, Hermione Corfield
Director
Renny Harlin
Video start
05.11.2021
Production year
2021
Country
USA
Local rating
12
After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.
Endangered Species
Cast
Rebecca Romijn, Philip Winchester, Isabel Bassett
Director
M.J. Bassett
Video start
08.10.2021
Production year
2021
Country
Kenia, USA
Local rating
16
An intense, action packed survival-adventure about a wealthy American family who travel to the vast African wilderness of Kenya hoping for a dream vacation filled with excitement, bonding and a chance to fix the growing rifts within their family. But when their safari vehicle is attacked by a rhino protecting her calf, the family is left stranded miles from help and their dream vacation turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival in a world where they are the bottom of the food chain.
Way Down
Cast
Freddie Highmore, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Liam Cunningham, Famke Janssen, Sam Riley, Luis Tosar, José Coronado, Axel Stein, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Hunter Tremayne
Director
Jaume Balagueró
Video start
04.06.2021
Production year
2021
Country
Spain
Local rating
12
Thom, a genius engineering graduate is interested in the Bank of Spain's safe. The building is more than 100 years old, with no building blueprints available and a security system that includes an underground river that will flood the safe room if their walls are breached. As Thom learns that a legendary lost treasure is going to be held at the bank's safe for just 10 days, he devises, together with the charismatic art dealer Walter "Cunningham" a detailed plan to breaking in. They will only have 105 minutes, while the Bank's staff will be distracted, watching the 2010 Football World Cup final match, played by Spain's national football team and broadcasted on a giant screen, coincidentally placed just in front of the Bank of Spain‘s building.
Rogue
Cast
Megan Fox, Philip Winchester, Greg Kriek, Brandon Auret, Jessica Sutton, Kenneth Fok, Isabel Bassett, Adam Deacon, Sisanda Henna, Tamer Burjaq
Director
M.J. Bassett
Video start
26.02.2021
Production year
2020
Country
U.K., South-Africa
Local rating
16 and 18
When the mercenary Samantha and her team rescue the kidnapped daughter of a governor from the clutches of African terrorists, everything initially looks like a routine job for the experienced professionals. But the head of the kidnappers Zalaam and his men immediately follow their heels and a dramatic chase begins, which leads Samantha's mercenary troops to an abandoned farm. The team soon realizes that the site was previously used by poachers to raise lions that were sold to trophy hunters and animal dealers - and that not all lions have left the farm. On the run from the terrorists and the most dangerous predator in Africa, the soldiers understand how quickly humans can reach the end of the food chain when hunters become the hunted.
Und Morgen Seid Ihr Tot
Production
Zodiak Pictures
Cast
Morgane Ferru, Sven Schelker
Director
Michael Steiner
Video start
16.06.22 (EST) / 24.06.22 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2021
Country
Germany, Switzerland
Local rating
12
When the Swiss couple Daniela Widmer and David Och are traveling through Pakistan, they are kidnapped and taken 500 kilometers away to Waziristan, where they are handed over to the Taliban. For eight months the couple live as hostages under the most inhumane conditions, looking for a way to escape.