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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.