Many film cultural institutions, interest groups from the film industry as well as film and media companies are based in Wiesbaden. Numerous film and production companies in the film industry are based in the state capital. They are a magnet for filmmakers. The leading organization of the film industry, the Voluntary Self-Regulation Body (FSK), the Board of Trustees for Young German Film and the German Film and Media Rating Board (FBW) are all based in Wiesbaden. Many of these organizations and institutions have their offices in the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation's German Film House.
The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and the archive and distribution of the DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum are two important institutions in Wiesbaden whose task is to preserve and maintain Germany's film heritage.

The Wiesbaden Media Center in the Mauritius Mediathek, which is run as a municipal association, promotes media education and media skills both inside and outside schools and offers, among other things, further training, workshops and various media education projects. There are courses of study in the media sector in Wiesbaden at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences. There are also advanced training courses at the Wiesbaden Media Academy.

The municipal cinema, the Caligari FilmBühne, is an institution of the Department of Culture and is considered one of the most beautifully preserved and restored cinemas in Germany. With the Murnau-Filmtheater in the Deutsches Filmhaus, the open-air cinema in the Reisinger Anlagen and the film events in Schloss Biebrich, the Department of Culture also supports other venues. The promotion of international film festivals and film series round off this broad commitment in the film sector.