What’s New on Kino Film Collection in July 2026
Amrum
July on Kino Film Collection opens with a dreamlike road trip through fractured memory, then heads to the shores of a remote German island for a stark tale of isolation. Stream a new dark comedy starring Willem Dafoe as a hotel manager fighting to preserve his livelihood before diving into two wildly erotic, self-referential classics by French director Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Streaming on July 2
Luminous Motion
Bette Gordon | Drama | 1998
A dreamlike and erotically charged thriller from critically acclaimed director Bette Gordon (Variety).
Streaming on July 6
Amrum
Fatih Akin | Drama | 2026
It is the Spring of 1945 on the German island of Amrum, a remote outpost in the North Sea. The front is far away, and 12-year-old Nanning (newcomer Jasper Billerbeck) spends his days working the nearby farm and his nights fishing, helping his mother to feed their family. Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept isle seems idyllic. When their anti-fascist neighbor Tessa (Diane Kruger) mentions to Nanning that the war will soon be over, the boy – too young to understand the political implications – is pleased to imagine that his father, a Nazi officer, might soon be coming home.
Streaming on July 14
The Souffleur
Gastón Solnicki | Drama | 2026
After thirty years managing an iconic Vienna hotel, Lucius (Willem Dafoe) fights to save it from a developer set on demolishing it.
Streaming on July 21
Trans-Europ-Express
Alain Robbe-Grillet | Erotic, Cult | 1967
A self-referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Marienbad).
Streaming on July 28
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Alain Robbe-Grillet | Erotic Drama | 1974
Successive Slidings of Pleasure delves into the twisted mind of a young woman (Anicee Alvina) suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora (Olga Georges-Picot, Love and Death). Imprisoned in a convent, the girl's seductive wiles hypnotize the cops and clerics that surround her. All submit to her sexual whims, and are drawn into a sado-masochistic world where fantasy and reality are pleasurably blurred.