Where Cologne watches films in original version
How many films are shown in original version in Cologne, in which languages, and where? This report counts the screenings participating cinemas have published for the coming week. It updates with the hourly programme refresh.
Programme window: 14 – 20 October 2026 (Berlin time, the seven full calendar days after today). Report generated: . Coverage is partial: some sources or days are missing or older than one hour. These are listed screenings, not the total number of screenings.
- OV screenings
- 215
- Films
- 45
- Cinemas with listings
- 10
- Spoken languages
- 11
Key findings
- 76% of listed OV screenings in Cologne are in English (164 of 215).
- Other common spoken languages: German (7.4%), Korean (5.6%), Polish (2.3%).
- 80% of screenings are labelled OmU (original with subtitles); 6% explicitly list English subtitles.
- Rex am Ring lists the most OV screenings (75, 35% of listed screenings).
- The film with the most OV screenings is Digger (34 screenings at 5 cinemas).
Share by spoken language
| Language | Screenings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| English | 164 | 76% |
| German | 16 | 7.4% |
| Korean | 12 | 5.6% |
| Polish | 5 | 2.3% |
| Basque | 3 | 1.4% |
| Bengali | 1 | 0.5% |
| Spanish | 1 | 0.5% |
| French | 1 | 0.5% |
| Japanese | 1 | 0.5% |
| Kazakh | 1 | 0.5% |
| Turkish | 1 | 0.5% |
| Not specified or conflicting | 9 | 4.2% |
Programme label
| Label | Screenings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| OV | 31 | 14% |
| OmU | 171 | 80% |
| OmeU | 13 | 6% |
Subtitles
| Subtitles | Screenings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| German | 33 | 15% |
| English | 13 | 6% |
| Subtitles, language not specified | 138 | 64% |
| Not specified | 31 | 14% |
Cinemas with the most OV screenings
We collect original-version listings only, so a cinema’s OV share of its whole programme cannot be measured. The share below is the share of all OV screenings listed here.
| # | Cinema | OV screenings | Films | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rex am Ring | 75 | 10 | 35% |
| 2 | Metropolis | 35 | 7 | 16% |
| 3 | Off Broadway Kino | 25 | 7 | 12% |
| 4 | Lichtspiele Kalk | 23 | 9 | 11% |
| 5 | Filmpalette | 17 | 5 | 7.9% |
| 6 | Odeon Lichtspieltheater | 14 | 6 | 6.5% |
| 7 | Kölner Filmhaus | 12 | 5 | 5.6% |
| 8 | Cinenova | 7 | 4 | 3.3% |
| 9 | UCI Hürth Park | 6 | 5 | 2.8% |
| 10 | Residenz Köln | 1 | 1 | 0.5% |
Films with the most OV screenings
| # | Film | Language | Screenings | Cinemas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Digger | English | 34 | 5 |
| 2 | NAZA | English | 25 | 3 |
| 3 | Primetime | English | 21 | 4 |
| 4 | Sense and Sensibility | English | 18 | 2 |
| 5 | Hope | Korean | 12 | 2 |
| 6 | Whalefall | English | 12 | 1 |
| 7 | The Odyssey | English | 8 | 2 |
| 8 | The Social Reckoning | English | 8 | 1 |
| 9 | The Thing with Feathers | English | 6 | 1 |
| 10 | Whistleblower | German | 6 | 1 |
Screenings per day
Cinemas often publish their programme only a few days ahead, so later days in the window usually list fewer screenings. That is not a decline.
Trend
No trend yet: it needs at least two observations exactly one week apart. Dated observations
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Methodology
OV Kinos reads the programmes of participating cinemas in 5 cities every hour. We count every listed screening labelled OV, OmU or OmeU in the seven full calendar days after today (Berlin time). Screenings are deduplicated by cinema, date and the source's screening ID. Closed or untracked cinemas are not counted.
Spoken language comes from the cinema’s listing or, when that is missing, from the matched film’s original language. Subtitles are counted only when the source names them. Unknown values stay unknown and are never estimated. Films are matched by TMDB ID, otherwise by title.
Limits: this covers participating cinemas, not every cinema in Germany. Missing source data is never counted as zero; the coverage note above says when data is missing. The figures measure the published programme, not ticket sales or attendance. Later days in the window are often not fully published yet.
How to cite: “OV Kinos (ovkinos.de), programme data for 14 – 20 October 2026”, with a link to this page. Programme sources · OV, OmU and OmeU explained