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.
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.
Hinterland
Production
Freibeuterfilm, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Scope Pictures, Lieblingsfilm
Cast
Murathan Muslu, Liv Lisa Fries, Max von der Groeben, Matthias Schweighöfer
Director
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Video start
10.02.22 (EST) / 18.02.2022 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2021
Country
Österreich
Local rating
16
In Vienna after the end of the First World War, the former detective Peter Perg returns home from Russian captivity. Perg finds himself in a world that is strange and dark to him, and his previous belief system is called into question. In this situation, Perg is confronted with a murder. The murder victim is one of Perg's comrades with whom he was in Siberia. Perg attempts to find the murderer, assisted by forensic pathologist Dr. Theresa Körner. But it soon becomes clear that his comrade was not the only victim, and may have fallen victim to a serial killer.
Bloodlands - Season 1
Production
HTM Television, Northern Ireland Screen, Hat Trick International
Cast
James Nesbitt, Ian McElhinney, Lisa Dwan, Michael Smiley, Lorcan Cranitch
Director
Pete Travis, Jon East
Video start
18.04.22 (EST) / 22.04.2022 (DVD)
Production year
2021
Country
UK
Local rating
12
Northern Ireland Police Detective Tom Brannick immediately sees the link to an unsolved irish civil war-era cold case when the car of a missing businessman and ex-IRA man is found in the sea. It seems someone is trying to force the police to resume the search for the mysterious killer Goliath, whose four political murders disguised as missing persons were once covered up. One of Goliath's victims was Tom's wife, who worked for the Secret Service. Tom now sets out to find Goliath and uncover a dark past in which he is tragically, guilt-ridden himself.
L'Ora - Inchiostro contro piombo
Cast
Cinzia Susino, Francesco Cristiano Russo, Ivan Giambirtone, Claudio Santamaria
Director
Ciro D'Emilio, Stefano Lorenzi, Piero Messina
Video start
20.01.22 (EST) / 11.03.2022 (DVD/BD)
Production year
2021
Country
Italy
Local rating
16
Palermo in the 1950s: Vittoria Nicastro is supposed to get the unsuccessful communist daily newspaper L'Ora back on track as the new editor-in-chief. He and his journalists uncover a series of dubious crimes and link them to the Sicilian mafia, the "Cosa Nostra". The editors penetrate even the darkest corners of society and the Church. A highly dangerous undertaking that repeatedly puts her life in danger. Finally, in 1958, it was the L'Ora newspaper editors who used the word "mafia" in a headline for the first time to take journalistic action against the widespread, widely organized crime in the region. Cosa Nostra's reaction was not long in coming.
Coppelia
Cast
Michaela DePrince, Daniel Camargo, Vito Mazzeo, Erica Horwood
Director
Jeff Tudor, Steven de Beul, Ben Tesseur
Kino start
16.12.21
Video start
17.06.22
Production year
2021
Country
Belgium, Netherlands, Germany
When everyone in town falls under the spell of charismatic cosmetic surgeon Doctor Coppelius, feisty Swan must save her sweetheart Franz before his heart is used to spark life into Coppelia, the robot-woman the Doctor has created.
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.
I onde dager
Cast
Noomi Rapace, Aksel Hennie, André Eriksen
Director
Tommy Wirkola
Video start
15.10.2021
Production year
2021
Country
Norway
Local rating
18
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to reconnect, but each has intentions to kill the other. Before they can carry out their plans, unexpected visitors arrive and they faced with a greater danger.
Gaia
Cast
Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi, Alex van Dyk
Director
Jaco Bouwer
Video start
17.09.21
Production year
2021
Country
South Africa
Local rating
16
On an observational mission in a jungle, the young park ranger Gabi meets two dropouts, Stefan and Barend, who maintain a post-apocalyptic lifestyle: They live in a wooden hut and feed on what the jungle has to offer. Barend is something like Stefan's philosophical foster father, who has never seen the world outside of the jungle. The two also have an extremely strange relationship with nature. In fact, the jungle seems to have a kind of life of its own, devouring people who get lost in it, only to transform them into alien-like beings ...
Les nouvelles aventures d'Aladin
Cast
Jean-Paul Rouve, Kev Adams, Vanessa Guide
Director
Arthur Benzaquen
Video start
03.09.2021
Production year
2015
Country
France, Belgium
Local rating
12
Anyone who thinks they know the fairy tale of Aladin will rub their magic lamp in disbelief: That the young thief must try, with the help of a wish-fulfilling spirit, to prevent the evil vizier of Baghdad from disempowering the Sultan and the heart of Princess Shallia conquering may sound familiar. However, the fact that motorized flying carpets, a Beyoncé song and even a mass flash mob have to be used will be new to most viewers ...
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.