FILM & CINEMA IN MANCHESTER
FILM & CINEMA IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Film & Cinema in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Wed 26 Feb - Sat 8 Mar 2025
Sun 21 Sep - Sun 12 Oct 2025
Shirley Valentine
Wednesday 26 February - Saturday 8 March 2025
Be transported to sunny Greece with this beloved northern comedy! Mina Anwar reprises the title role in Willy Russell's heart-warming comedy following her acclaimed performance in our 2020 production. This will once again see Mina resetting...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Wednesday 26 February - Wednesday 31 December 2025
If you are looking for a film to watch, ManchesterTheatres. com have rounded-up the best movies currently showing at Manchester's cinemas, and we are offering discounted tickets at Odeon, Vue, Cineworld and HOME too. We've also compiled...
A Complete Unknown (15)
Wednesday 26 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★ Timothee Chalamet is brilliant and believable in James Mangold's conventional Dylan biopic. ~ BBC. --- Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the ballad of a true original. A Film by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, El...
HOME Film Pass
Wednesday 26 February - Wednesday 31 December 2025
See everything everywhere (almost all at once) with the new HOME Film Pass! Experience new releases at HOME, any time, as many times as you like for one monthly price. For just £18 you'll also get a range of perks to make the most of your ...
Schmeichel (15) + Q&A with Peter Schmeichel
Wednesday 26 - Thursday 27 February 2025
The 18:00 screening on Fri 21 Feb at HOME will be followed by a Q&A with Peter Schmeichel, hosted by sports broadcaster and film producer Simon Lazenby. --- Peter Schmeichel is a giant of football, perhaps the greatest goalkeeper of all tim...
moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Wednesday 26 February - Wednesday 30 April 2025
Inspired by the hit SAW movie franchise, SAWtopsy at moviESCAPE, Stockport's leading Escape Room offering, is a gory and ominous room with dim, atmospheric lighting, however it does not feature any jump scares - well none that are deliberat...
Before Sunrise (15)
Wednesday 26 - Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★★ Not a romcom, not a romantic drama, but just ... a romance, a brief encounter on a train without heartache, a strange and wonderful moment-by-moment miracle that never seems cloying or absurd. Richard Linklater's film from 1...
Hard Truths (12A)
Wednesday 26 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★ British Oscar-nominated director Mike Leigh is back on form in this gruelling tale. ~ The Times. --- From acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh, comes Hard Truths. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin. The Oscar-nom...
I'm Still Here (15)
Wednesday 26 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★ From The Motorcycle Diaries to On the Road, Walter Salles is a great celebrator of liberation, both personal and political. The two come together in stirring and poignant ways here. You can feel the shadow of a contemporary Br...
Ichiko (15)
Wednesday 26 February 2025
KAWABE Ichiko (SUGISAKI Hana) happily accepts when her boyfriend HASEGAWA (WAKABA Ryuya) asks her to marry him. But the very next day, she's vanished without a trace, and HASEGAWA contacts the police only to find out that there is no record...
Memoir of a Snail (15)
Wednesday 26 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★ This Oscar-nominated animation with Sarah Snook is a darkly funny, oddball delight. Adam Elliot's stop-motion tale of twins separated as children in Australia is an enchantingly weird life lesson for us all. ~ Evening Standar...
Picnic at Hanging Rock (12A)
Wednesday 26 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★★ A fascinating film that is by turns fascinating and mysterious. ~ Empire. --- Returning to the big screen to celebrate its 50th anniversary in a dazzling 4K restoration, Peter Weir's 1975 adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel ...
The Brutalist (18)
Wednesday 26 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★★ Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones star in a majestic historical epic from the director Brady Corbet. This may be the film to beat at the Oscars. ~ The Times. --- Brady Corbet's staggering epic, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity...
The Seed of The Sacred Fig (15)
Wednesday 26 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★★ This Oscar-nominated thriller is a blistering attack on the Iranian regime. If Mohammad Rasoulof was to make just one film worth having to flee Iran for, this gripping family thriller would be it. ~ Evening Standard. --- Him...
Oppenheimer (15)
Wednesday 26 February - Saturday 1 March 2025
★★★★✭ "This combustible and relentlessly-paced biography of the 'father of the the atomic bomb' is a contender for Christopher Nolan's best film." ~ Little White Lies. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is a...
Ichiko
Wednesday 26 February 2025
When Ichiko goes missing, her boyfriend immediately begins to search for her. But he discovers that she?s not who he thought she was? ...
Schmeichel
Wednesday 26 - Thursday 27 February 2025
Owen Davies? documentary features unprecedented access to the international sporting hero, Peter Schmeichel....
The Monkey
Wednesday 26 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father?s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. ...
The Best of Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival (18)
Thursday 27 February 2025
Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival present a diverse selection of outstanding short films showcasing unique LGBTQ+ stories from around the world. This showcase of standout films from Iris 2024, featuring award-winning stories on love, ident...
The Fire Inside (12A)
Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★ Barry Jenkins is back with a blazing biopic of Olympic boxer Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields, featuring rising star Ryan Destiny and 'Atlanta' actor Brian Tyree Henry. ~ Independent. --- See the making of a champion in this compelling...
A Real Pain (18)
Friday 28 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★ Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs and stars in a film that manages to be ruefully perceptive and laugh-out-loud funny, often at the same time. ~ The Telegraph. --- "One of the best films of the year." Written, directed by and s...
I Am Martin Parr
Friday 28 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★ Parr's work is kinder, cleverer and funnier than anything in Little Britain. ~ Time Out. --- Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to ...
September Says
Friday 28 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
★★★★ Ariane Labed has adapted Daisy Johnson's gothic novel, Sisters, into an unsettling modern fable that's fired by the tension between the siblings' claustrophobic bond and their surreal interactions with the world at large. ~ The...
The Last Showgirl (15)
Friday 28 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, glamorous showgirl Shelly (Pamela Anderson) must reconcile with the decisions she's made and the life she has built as she plans her next act wh...
Cult/ Barb Wire
Friday 28 February 2025
Revisit this 90s cyberpunk classic, featuring a brilliant bombshell performance from Pamela Anderson....
Superboys of Malegaon
Friday 28 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
A ragtag group of friends discover the magic of cinema while living in the shadow of Bollywood....
The Summer with Carmen
Friday 28 February - Thursday 6 March 2025
While enjoying a day soaking up the sun at Athens? gay beach, best friends Demostheneos and Nikitas brainstorm ideas for a screenplay....
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
Saturday 1 - Thursday 6 March 2025
The UK's biggest festival of Japanese cinema, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (JFTFP), is back for its latest and greatest instalment! In a world where injustice runs rampant, cinematic expressions of justice seem inexhaustible:...
Ghost Cat Anzu
Saturday 1 March 2025
Wishing to see her dead mother again, a young girl sets out on a fantastical adventure accompanied by her grandfather?s goofy magical talking cat. ...
Qualia
Saturday 1 March 2025
Saki has been hired for a position at a family-run poultry farm. She also happens to be in an affair with her employer?s husband, plunging the once-peaceful farm into claustrophobic chaos?...
National Theatre Live - The Importance of Being Earnest (PG)
Sunday 2 March 2025
Showing as though live, on the big screen, three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde's most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a...
Ensemble Symphony Orchestra - Discovering Morricone
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Experience the enchanting world of Maestro Ennio Morricone, brought to life by Italy's Ensemble Symphony Orchestra and led by conductor Giacomo Loprieno. After multiple critically acclaimed tours in Italy, Discovering Morricone debuts in th...
Bushido
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Now-unemployed samurai Kakunoshin?s life was destroyed by a false accusation. Having learned the truth, he sets out to restore his honour through revenge, but this comes at a cost?...
All the Long Nights
Thursday 6 March 2025
A woman with debilitating PMS and a man with a severe panic disorder find companionship in one another as they help each other to find their places in society....
September Says + recorded Q&038;A
Thursday 6 March 2025
Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different. September Says explores familial ties ? and a love so intense it transforms reality....
Banff Mountain Film Festival
Friday 7 March - Wednesday 7 May 2025
Embark on a thrilling night of adventure with a brand-new collection of short films filled with extreme journeys, untamed characters and captivating cinematography from the world's most prestigious mountain film festival as it heads on a...
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Friday 7 March 2025
This new documentary from Raoul Peck explores the life of Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience....
Mickey 17
Friday 7 March 2025
Mickey has found himself working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job? to die, for a living....
On Falling
Friday 7 March 2025
On Falling explores the silent, vital struggle to find meaning and connection in a world designed to keep us apart....
The Sloth Lane
Saturday 8 - Sunday 9 March 2025
After a terrifying storm destroys their home, a speedy sloth named Laura and her kooky family move to the big city in their rusted old food truck, Gordito, hoping to make their business a success....
Les Misérables - 40th Anniversary Staged Concert (12A)
Sunday 9 March 2025
Seen by over 120 million people worldwide, Les Miserables is undisputedly one of the world's most popular musicals. In 2019, Cameron Mackintosh produced a spectacular sell-out staged concert version at the Gielgud Theatre featuring an all-s...
Twiggy + Q&A with Sadie Frost
Monday 10 March 2025
The 17:30 screening on Mon 10 Mar at HOME will be followed by a Q&A with director Sadie Frost, chaired by Kirsty Fairclough, Professor of Screen Studies at The School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Twiggy focu...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tuesday 11 - Sunday 16 March 2025
In a brand-new production of this much-loved family favourite, directed by Thom Southerland (Titanic, Parade), choreographed by Karen Bruce (BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, The Bodyguard) and designed by Morgan Large (Newsies, Joseph and the T...
Blue Velvet
Thursday 13 March 2025
Colliding sensuality and violence, voyeurism and innocence, Blue Velvet's dissection of the American psyche remains as potent as ever.?...
Candlelight - Rings & Dragons
Friday 14 March 2025
Discover the beautiful soundtracks of fantasy films performed by a string quartet under the gentle glow of candlelight at this multi-sensory musical experience in an awe-inspiring location. Expect to hear music from Rings of Power, The Lo...
Away
Friday 14 March 2025
Meditative and dreamlike ? told through beautiful animation and without dialogue ? Away is a moving story of resilience and the quest for connection....
Black Bag
Friday 14 March 2025
When she is suspected of betraying the nation, intelligence agent George faces the ultimate test ? loyalty to his marriage or his country....
Oh My Goodness
Friday 14 March 2025
Mother Veronique and five eccentric sisters of the St. Benedict convent set out to save the local nursing home by entering the local bike race....
Candace Bushnell - True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex and The City
Saturday 15 March 2025
In her new one-woman show, New York icon Candace Bushnell, the international best-selling novelist and creator of Sex and the City takes the audience on a whirlwind tour of New York City, from Studio 54 to the Lipstick Jungle and beyond, sh...
