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27.September2026

  1. TMDB 76IMDb 7.6

    The Little World of Don Camillo

    107 min

    In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
    • Comedy

    Cinema Wuppertal

  2. Bibi Blocksberg - Die total verhexte Zeitreise

    90 min

    Things are about to get bewitched—and pretty chaotic! The students at Neustadt High are about to start their big internship. But of all people, Bibi Blocksberg has once again missed the registration deadline. While Marita gets to investigate a case with the police and Florian is on the hunt for the next big story with cult reporter Karla Kolumna, the only spot left for Bibi is at the museum—which, for her, is probably the most booooring place in the world.
    • Family
    • Fantasy
    • Adventure

    Cinema Wuppertal

  3. Hiddensee

    119 min

    Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea has always been a place where people have sought freedom. This film takes us on a journey through an entire century, starting in the golden 1920s, as it assembles the island’s scenery, history, and personal stories into a fascinating portrait. Then as now, the political upheavals that have swept across Germany have left their mark.
    • Documentary

    Cinema Wuppertal

  4. Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom

    80 min

    On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
    • Animation
    • Comedy
    • Science Fiction
    • Family

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal

  5. IMDb 6.2

    PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie

    83 min

    The Paw Patrol lands on a mysterious dinosaur island after a storm, where they meet Rex, a stranded pup. When Humdinger's reckless mining triggers a volcano, the team faces their biggest rescue mission yet to save the island.
    • Adventure
    • Animation
    • Comedy
    • Family

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal

  6. James McNeill Whistler

    subtitled OV · 90 min

    Tate Britain is now holding the first major retrospective of Whistler in three decades. This blockbuster exhibition promises to reawaken the world to just how important Whistler is to art history, uniting world-famous masterpieces with rarely seen works. Exhibition on Screen will bring these stunning works and the incredible story behind them to cinemas around the world while the exhibition is still running, bringing this truly global artist to a global audience. This will be an unmissable chance to get to know this visually spectacular artist and the influence he has had on those who followed.
    • Documentary

    Rex Filmtheater WuppertalOV

  7. Das gewisse Etwas

    105 min

    After a jewelry heist, a father and son are on the run from the police. They find refuge in a coach full of people with disabilities who are on their way to a holiday camp in the Alpine foothills with their carer. Without further ado, they pretend to be a missing fellow passenger and his carer.
    • Comedy

    Cinema Wuppertal

  8. IMDb 7.2

    Emil and the Detectives

    91 min

    When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.

    • Family
    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal

  9. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

    125 min

    On the morning of his hundredth birthday, Fanny finds her grandfather dead in his bed. As she and her family are forced to deal with the death, a bitter dispute over the inheritance erupts, in which old power relations are reversed.
    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Cinema Wuppertal

  10. RT 100

    A Sad and Beautiful World

    110 min

    In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
    • Romance
    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Cinema Wuppertal

  11. TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4

    Fatherland

    82 min

    Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • Action
    • TV Movie

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal

  12. TMDB 80RT 80IMDb 6.9

    David

    109 min

    From the songs of his mother’s heart to the whispers of a faithful God, David’s story begins in quiet devotion. When the giant Goliath rises to terrorize a nation, a young shepherd armed with only a sling, a few stones, and unshakable faith steps forward. Pursued by power and driven by purpose, his journey tests the limits of loyalty, love, and courage—culminating in a battle not just for a crown, but for the soul of a kingdom.
    • Animation
    • Family
    • Drama
    • History
    • Adventure

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal

  13. TMDB 76IMDb 7.8

    The Invite

    subtitled OV · 107 min

    Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.

    • Drama
    • Comedy

    Cinema WuppertalOV

  14. IMDb 7.2

    Emil and the Detectives

    91 min

    When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.

    • Family
    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal

  15. Adam’s Eight

    120 min

    Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.
    • Drama

    Cinema Wuppertal

  16. Spaziergang nach Syrakus

    97 min

    Paul Gompitz, a young man from Rostock, dreams of retracing the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume's journey to Syracuse. But as a citizen of the GDR, his only option is to flee.

    • Drama

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal

  17. TMDB 62

    The Doll

    80 min

    Eastern France, nowadays. Rémi, who has never recovered from a heartbreak, shares his life with a doll called Audrey. But the day his new coworker, Patricia, arrives at his company, Audrey comes to life. The two women will turn Rémi’s life upside down.
    • Comedy
    • Romance

    Cinema Wuppertal

  18. Disunited Nations

    subtitled OV · 79 min

    Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, had already labelled events in Gaza a genocide back in March 2024. Following her lead, this piece takes us deep into the heart of the institution’s crisis, as it struggles with its inability to stop the massacre of civilians.
    • Documentary

    Rex Filmtheater WuppertalOV

  19. The Uprising

    128 min

    As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.
    • Drama
    • Action
    • History

    Cinema Wuppertal

  20. RT 95IMDb 8.7

    Primetime

    subtitled OV · 107 min

    In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

    • Drama
    • Thriller

    Rex Filmtheater WuppertalOV

  21. Adam’s Eight

    120 min

    Adam's Eight tells the remarkable true story of Karl Adam — a visionary rowing coach who, in 1950s Germany, brought together a group of underdogs and turned them into champions. Within just three years, his team defied all odds and won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.
    • Drama

    Cinema Wuppertal

  22. TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4

    Fatherland

    82 min

    Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • Action
    • TV Movie

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal

  23. IMDb 7.5

    Heart of the Beast

    subtitled OV · 101 min

    After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.
    • Adventure
    • Thriller
    • Drama

    Cinema WuppertalOV

  24. RT 83

    Bad Apples

    100 min

    A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.

    • Comedy
    • Thriller

    Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal


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Currently 10 cinemas and film series in Wuppertal and the surrounding area: Rex Filmtheater Wuppertal, Cinema Wuppertal, CinemaxX Wuppertal, Alte Feuerwache - Gathedrale, Kubis Musik-Café, Färberei, Machbar Reparaturcafé & Nachhaltigkeit, Medienprojekt Wuppertal, Orangerie im Botanischen Garten and Pina Bausch Zentrum.

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