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18.November2026

  1. TMDB 68IMDb 6.3

    Chopin, a Sonata in Paris

    115 min

    He is the talk of the town, the most romantic figure of decadent Parisian nights. When his lungs start bleeding, Chopin knows his days are numbered. Composing becomes his only obsession. The ticking clock rushes him to revolutionize music.
    • Drama
    • History
    • Music

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  2. TMDB 65RT 73IMDb 6.7

    Paradise: Faith

    118 min

    For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
    • Drama

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  3. Lügen über meine Mutter

    112 min

    In the 1980s, the life of a family in a small village is determined by just one issue: the mother's body weight. Her husband Werner decides that she needs to lose weight, Cornelia suffers as a result and their daughter Ela is caught in the middle.
    • Drama

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  4. RT 93

    Wild Horse Nine

    117 min

    Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg

  5. RT 85

    A Talent for Murder

    subtitled OV · 106 min

    A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.
    • Drama
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  6. Helene Weigel - Revolutionärin im Rampenlicht

    107 min

    Who was Helene Weigel? Using impressive archive material, the film follows the convinced communist, acting icon, and free spirit from her early days in theater to her escape from the Nazi regime to the founding and management of the Berliner Ensemble. The result is a powerful portrait that finally puts the “woman at Brecht's side” in the spotlight.
    • Documentary

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  7. Le sucre, pour la douceur et pour le pire

    DF

    Sugar has played an important role in human history for five centuries. But what price does dependence on sugar exact? Its seductive sweetness and lucrative business were the driving forces behind conquest, colonization, slavery and forced labour.
    • Documentary
    • War & Politics
    • Drama

    Karlstorkino HeidelbergDF

  8. RT 93

    Wild Horse Nine

    subtitled OV · 117 min

    Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Thriller

    Gloria & Gloriette HeidelbergOV

  9. IMDb 6.8

    Visitation

    121 min

    A plot of land, a house by the lake, its changing inhabitants. This one plot of land reflects 70 years of German history from Weimar, the Nazis, the war, the Soviet occupation and reconstruction to the fall of the GDR.
    • Drama

    Die Kamera Heidelberg

  10. Identitti

    103 min

    A student named Nivedita finds an old photo of her professor and discovers the latter had been living a lie. Saraswati, of all people — a woman of color who lectures on cultural identity — is in fact white. While the media and online community whip up a frenzy, Nivedita faces a political and personal dilemma as she tries to find out Saraswati's motive.
    • Comedy
    • Drama

    Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg


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Currently 3 cinemas and film series in Heidelberg and the surrounding area: Gloria & Gloriette Heidelberg, Die Kamera Heidelberg and Karlstorkino Heidelberg.

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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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