AT THE HEART OF EVERYTHING WE DO AT SQUAREONE, IS OUR GROWING LIBRARY OF HIGH QUALITY CONTENT RIGHTS

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.

Current Releases

Freaks Out

Slayers

The Lair

Inside

Bandit

On The Line

Euer Ehren

Shark Bait

The Terror Room

A Day To Die

Juniper

Veganer Schmecken Besser

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Freaks Out

Freaks Out

Production

Gabriele Mainetti

Cast

Claudio Santamaria, Aurora Giovinazzo, Pietro Castellitto

Director

Gabriele Mainetti

Video start

15.06.2023 (EST) / 23.06.2023 (DVD/BD)

Production year

2021

Country

Italy

Local rating

16

They are a freak of nature and the greatest attraction in the circus: a magically gifted albino, a magnetic dwarf, a werewolf with superpowers and an electric dancer. When the Germans march into Rome in 1943 and their foster father Israel disappears without a trace while searching for an escape route, a bizarre odyssey begins for Cencio, Mario, Fulvio, and Matilde through the war-torn eternal city. The four of them must fight together for survival and hope to have found a new home in Circus Berlin. However, the circus director, a fanatical Nazi named Franz, pursues his own perverse plans and conducts grotesque human experiments.

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Slayers

Slayers

Production

Bondlt Media Capital, Buffalo 8 Productions, Fasehun Films

Cast

Thomas Jane Abigail Breslin Kara Hayward

Director

K. Asher Levin

Video start

22.06.2023 (EST) / 30.06.2023 (DVD/BD)

Production year

2022

Country

USA

Local rating

16

Elliot Jones, a tough vampire hunter, has made it his life's mission to seek revenge on the bloodsuckers who murdered his daughter during her teenage years. After years of pursuit he has finally discovered their secluded, luxurious hideout. However, in order to get closer to the vampires he must blend in with a colorful group of social media stars as the influencers have caught the attention of the mysterious billionaire, Beverly Rektor, who invites them to a party at her estate. Soon though the young guests realize that the wealthy individuals are nothing more than ancient vampires who are keeping them trapped in a house of horrors.

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The Lair

The Lair

Production

Rather Good Films Production

Cast

Charlotte Kirk, Jonathan Howard, Jamie Bamber, Leon Ockender

Director

Neil Marshall

Video start

11.05.2023 (EST) / 19.05.2023 (DVD/BD)

Production year

2022

Country

USA

Local rating

18

Royal Air Force combat pilot Kate Sinclair is shot down over a dangerous rebel stronghold in Afghanistan. While fleeing from the Taliban, she comes across an old, sealed bunker where experiments with aliens and humanoid fetuses were apparently conducted. What was once bred as a living weapon of war is now awakening and has only one goal: to kill! Kate manages to escape to a US military base initially. However, when the creatures from the bunker break free and attack the command post, all hell breaks loose...

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Inside

Inside

Production

Heritec, Schiwago Film, A Privat View, MMC Studios

Cast

Willem Dafoe

Director

Vasilis Katsoupis

Kino start

16. March 2023

Video start

22.9.2023 (EST) / 29.09.2023 (DVD/BD)

Production year

2021

Country

Germany, Belgium, Greece

Local rating

12

Inside tells the story of Nemo (Willem Dafoe), an art thief who enters a collector’s penthouse apartment hunting for valuable works of art. As he enters, the security system locks everything down. And then malfunctions. He is locked inside. At first, he expects his partner-in-crime to arrive, then the security guards or the police. Or the owner. But no one comes. And days stretch out into weeks and months. He is locked inside a prison adorned with exquisite, strange, even eerie works of art: works that he both covets and admires, but which are now, for him, useless. Instead, he must use all of his cunning and invention to survive. The luxury penthouse – this locus of perfection and aspiration – has become a prison. And then a place of revelation.

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Bandit

Bandit

Production

Yale Production, Goldrush Entertainment

Cast

Josh Duhamel, Mel Gibson, Elisha Cuthbert

Director

Allan Ungar

Video start

27.04.23 (EST) / 05.05.23 (DVD/BD)

Production year

2022

Country

USA

Local rating

12

BANDIT is a thrilling true-life story of Gilbert Galvan Jr., who successfully got away with 63 bank and jewelry heists during his crime spree. It tells the tale of the career criminal (Josh Duhamel), who escapes from a U.S. prison and crosses the border into Canada, assuming a new identity.

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On The Line

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...

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Euer Ehren

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.

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Shark Bait

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.

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The Terror Room

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.

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A Day To Die

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.

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Juniper

Juniper

Production

Maasmond II Productions

Cast

Charlotte Rampling, George Ferrier, Marton Csokas

Director

Matthew Saville

Video start

29.09.22 (EST) / 07.10.22 (DVD/BD)

Production year

2021

Country

New Zealand

Local rating

12

Seventeen-year-old Sam and his father live on a farm in New Zealand. After the recent death of his mother, Sam is in a deep crisis and highly suicidal. One day his alcoholic grandmother Ruth, coming from England, moves in with them. She is a gruffly, but as brave as eccentric old lady who is bound to a wheelchair because of a broken leg. After several conflicts, Ruth and her grandson develop an extraordinary friendship which brings Sam back to life and helps Ruth to face her mortality.

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Veganer Schmecken Besser

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.

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