Germany

There are 24 premium screens in Germany, across IMAX, Dolby Cinema, Chain premium screen and CinemaxX - no in-house PLF. The biggest picture is at Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX — 792 m² of lit screen, 17% more than the next room.

3 rooms can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame, which is the thing worth travelling for if a film was shot with IMAX cameras. The rest crop to 1.90.

Worth knowing before you book: UCI Kinowelt Mercedes Platz & IMAX never lights 19% of its screen. The fabric is bigger than the picture, which is why the ranking here is by lit area rather than by the dimensions cinemas advertise.

One of these is a dome, scored on projected surface area — not a like-for-like comparison with a flat screen, and noted as such on the pages.

8 of 24 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. 4 of 24 have a projector confirmed by two independent sources.