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29.June2026

  1. RT 85

    This Life of Mine

    101 min

    Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life's complexities.

    • Comedy
    • Drama

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  2. RT 94

    The Love That Remains

    109 min

    Tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.

    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  3. TMDB 72RT 81

    The Summer Book

    90 min

    The story of the relationship between Sophia, an eight-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of her life. They are spending time together with Sophia’s father, at the family summer house on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. All three are coming to terms with the recent death of Sophia’s mother in very different ways.

    • Drama

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  4. Germaine Acogny - The Essence of Dance

    subtitled OV · 93 min

    Drawing from traditional West African dances and her own exploration of various European dances, Germaine Acogny developed the technique named for her: the Acogny technique. More than 50 years spent on the international stage and in teaching young dancers in Senegal and around the world have given Acogny, now 80, an iconic status across an entire continent.

    • Documentary

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  5. Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war

    95 min

    Sandra Hüller portrays Ingeborg Bachmann on an imaginary day in Rome. Regina Schilling’s hybrid film weaves together reenactments, archival footage, and Bachmann’s own writings into a portrait that offers a refreshing new perspective on the author and positions her writings as a reference point in current debates on gender relations and power.

    • Documentary

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  6. Hallo Betty

    113 min

    In 1956, advertising copywriter Emmi Creola invents the fictional character Betty Bossi, who quickly becomes a Swiss culinary icon. But as her creation rises to fame, Emmi finds herself caught between growing professional expectations and her own personal struggles — a tension that threatens to consume her.

    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  7. Dao

    OmdtU

    A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.

    • Drama

    Karlstorkino Heidelberg

  8. TMDB 61RT 30IMDb 5.8

    Mechanic: Resurrection

    subtitled OV · 160 min

    Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

    • Action
    • Crime
    • Thriller
    • Adventure

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  9. IMDb 5.6

    18th Rose

    95 min

    A spirited teen dreaming of the perfect debut makes a deal with a lonely newcomer, but unexpected feelings and revelations may shatter their plans.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Comedy

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  10. IMDb 7.4

    The Death of Robin Hood

    subtitled OV · 123 min

    Grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, Robin Hood finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman, he is offered a chance at salvation.

    • Drama
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV


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Currently 4 cinemas and film series in Heidelberg and the surrounding area: Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg, Die Kamera Heidelberg, Karlstorkino Heidelberg and Sammlung Prinzhorn.

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Language version: OmU = original audio with German subtitles, OmeU = original with English subtitles, DF = German-dubbed version, OV = original version with no subtitles, stumm = silent film (often with live accompaniment). Projection format: DCP = Digital Cinema Package, the digital standard in modern cinemas; 35mm / 16mm / 70mm = analogue film prints on physical stock.

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Heidelberg has an unusually dense cinema scene — the DFF Filmmuseum, Astor, three arthouse houses, Pupille at the university, Programmkino Rex in Darmstadt, the Murnau in Wiesbaden — but no shared programme. This site lays every house onto one searchable day view.

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