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10 Essential Luxembourgish Films

Ranked native cinema in Luxembourg’s own creative voice.

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   1. Baby(a)lone

   2015

   Two troubled Luxembourg teenagers, each lashing out at a world that has failed them, drift together and slowly form a fragile bond. A raw coming-of-age drama.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: Two troubled teens in Luxembourg act out their frustrations on the world, and slowly grow closer.

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   2. Superjhemp Retörns

   2018

   A pudgy, retired Luxembourgish superhero who draws his powers from the national cheese is called back into action to save the country from a new threat. A broad comedy based on a beloved local comic.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: Luxembourg’s locally authored superhero comedy became the country’s most successful domestic film and adapts an established Luxembourgish comic figure.

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   3. Rusty Boys

   2017

   A group of grumpy, aging friends in Luxembourg, dreading the prospect of a lonely retirement home, decide to start their own communal household and reclaim a bit of freedom. A warm, wry comedy.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: Andy Bausch’s Luxembourgish-language comedy follows four older men resisting institutionalization and is explicitly catalogued as a national production.

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   4. The Unemployment Club

   Le club des chômeurs · 2003

   A group of out-of-work men in Luxembourg band together, forming a ramshackle club as they navigate joblessness with humor and camaraderie. A gentle social comedy.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: This locally made working-class comedy is one of the Film Fund’s identified iconic Luxembourg works and a durable domestic audience film.

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   5. Gutland

   2017

   A mysterious drifter turns up in a tidy Luxembourg farming village and takes work at the harvest, ingratiating himself with the locals — but the deeper he settles in, the more the community's dark secrets close around him. A moody, unsettling thriller.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: Govinda Van Maele’s rural mystery turns a Luxembourg village, its language, secrecy, and social boundaries into the complete dramatic world.

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   6. Sawah

   2019

   A young Egyptian DJ chasing a big gig in Europe gets stranded and undocumented, bouncing between Luxembourg and Belgium as he scrambles to reach his dream. A breezy immigrant comedy.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: Adolf El Assal’s Luxembourg-led comedy makes the country’s institutions and multilingual immigrant experience central to its stranded-DJ story.

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   7. The Last Ashes

   Läif a Séil · 2023

   A woman returns under a false identity to the remote village she fled long ago, bent on avenging an old wrong. Billed as Luxembourg's first Western, a brooding revenge drama.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: Loïc Tanson’s Luxembourgish western is a nationally produced historical genre film built around local landscape, language, and folklore.

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   8. Eng Nei Zäit

   2015

   In the aftermath of World War I, a young man returns to a Luxembourg village transformed by loss and upheaval, navigating a changed community and an uncertain new era. A period drama.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: Christophe Wagner’s postwar drama confronts collaboration, resistance, and compromised memory inside Luxembourg after liberation.

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   9. Blind Spot

   Doudege Wénkel · 2012

   A young Luxembourg policeman investigating a robbery is drawn into a web of corruption and violence involving Balkan criminals — and dangerously close to home. A gritty crime thriller.

   Why & details

   Curator’s note: This Luxembourgish police thriller ties corruption and investigation to the country’s own institutions and contemporary society.

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    10. Little Secrets

    Perl oder Pica · 2006

    Set in Luxembourg's mining region in the 1960s and 70s, this drama follows a boy growing up amid family tensions and social change, keeping the small, painful secrets of childhood. A coming-of-age drama.

    Why & details

    Curator’s note: Pol Cruchten’s Luxembourgish-language childhood drama is rooted in a local novel and a specifically postwar Luxembourg social world.