Kino Film Collection Best of 2025: Audience Picks!
It’s been another unforgettable year at Kino Film Collection, and we want to thank you, the audience, for being part of it. We started the Collection to bring undiscovered independent, arthouse, and classic gems to audiences hungry for quality storytelling and cinematic excellence. It’s viewers like you who fuel that mission and make our jobs feel like a shared celebration of film. But some titles you celebrated more than others. From groundbreaking Oscar-nominated documentaries to one of the most talked-about cult horror films of all time, here are the 2025 releases you loved the most on Kino Film Collection.
Last of the Dogmen (1995)
Tom Berenger stars as a bounty hunter hired to track down three escaped convicts in the Oxbow region of the Rockies in this beautifully photographed western filled with romance, adventure, and folklore. After finding a strange arrow shaft, he takes it to anthropologist Lillian Sloan (Barbara Hershey) and together they set off in search of the mysterious Cheyenne Dog Soldiers tribe.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)
This 2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature and Sundance award winner tells the story of the U.S. government's jazz ambassador program in Africa and the CIA's involvement with the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. A provocative, real-life Cold War thriller, "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" intertwines jazz, espionage, and colonialism – uncovering a scandal whose urgency is still resonant in today's geopolitical climate.
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2025)
This exhilarating film explores the dazzling and complex Liza Minnelli, as she rose to stardom in the 1970s, just after the death of her mother Judy Garland. Battling personal and professional obstacles, the film illuminates the contradictions of Liza: privilege and struggle, unreal expectations and towering talent. Liza, Joel Grey, Mia Farrow, Ben Vereen are among the many who tell the story.
When Night is Falling (1995)
In Patricia Rozema’s lesbian love story, Camille, a professor at a Protestant college meets Petra, a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, and is inexplicably drawn. Camille pursues this sensual, dream-like woman, throwing her whole conservative life, not to mention her engagement to a respected minister, into disarray.
Dogtooth (2009)
Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, "Dogtooth" is an ingenious dark comedy and biting social satire that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling director Yorgos Lanthimos ("The Favourite") to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious filmmakers.
Riefenstahl (2024)
Leni Riefenstahl was Nazi Germany's preeminent filmmaker and one of its key propagandists. Yet from the end of WWII until her death, she denied her close ties with Hitler and claimed ignorance of the Holocaust. This chilling new documentary draws on never-before-seen documents from Riefenstahl's estate, uncovering fragments of her biography and placing them in an extended historical context.
Possession (1981)
Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani) insistent on a divorce. As Anna's frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth far more sinister than his wildest suspicions.
Nowhere in Africa (2002)
A love story spanning two continents, this true tale of a Jewish family who fled the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya won the 2003 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel and their five-year-old daughter each deal with the harsh realities of their new life as they learn to cherish their time in Africa.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in this Academy Award Nominated Best Foreign Language Film. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl’s life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence.
Diabolik (2021)
Based on the iconic Italian comic book series, this new adaptation returns to the comic’s noirish roots with eye-popping production design that’s demanded of a “Diabolik” tale. Set in 1960s Clerville, the forthcoming visit of heiress Eva Kant, who possesses a famous pink diamond, catches the attention of Diabolik (Luca Marinelli), the infallible and elusive thief whose real identity is unknown.