FILM & CINEMA IN MANCHESTER
FILM & CINEMA IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Film & Cinema in Manchester
Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Manchester Cathedral
Thu 1 Oct 2026 - Fri 19 Feb 2027
Back To The Future The Musical
Manchester Opera House
Tue 13 Jul - Sat 21 Aug 2027
Horizon of Khufu - Journey to Ancient Egypt
Transmission House, Manchester
Friday 28 August - Sunday 27 September 2026
The Pyramids of Egypt have arrived in the UK for the first time! This immersive and groundbreaking expedition takes you back to the golden age of ancient Egypt, allowing you to explore the depths of the iconic pyramids, meet the goddess Ba...moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Moviescape Stockport, Manchester
Friday 28 - Monday 31 August 2026
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 delib...Bitter Christmas (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 28 August - Thursday 3 September 2026
Ra?l is a respected filmmaker in the midst of a creative crisis. When tragedy strikes one of his closest collaborators, he draws inspiration from it to write his next film. Little by little, he imagines Elsa, a filmmaker struggling to writ...Colony (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 28 August - Thursday 3 September 2026
Horror master Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) directs a new zombie thriller starring Jun Ji-hyun and Koo Kyo-hwan.?Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference cau...Family Film/ Flushed Away (U)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 28 August 2026
Roddy St. James is a pampered pet rat who thinks he?s got it made. But when a sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides it?s his turn to enjoy the lap of luxury, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him in...I Want Your Sex (18)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 28 August - Thursday 3 September 2026
When fresh-faced Elliot lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true after Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him ...Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 28 August - Thursday 3 September 2026
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, t...The Dog Stars (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 28 August - Thursday 3 September 2026
Ridley Scott?s The Dog Stars is a riveting, epic thriller set in a world where survival is instinct, but humanity is a choice. Scott tells the story of Hig, a young pilot who, together with a military survivalist, Bangley, has carved out a...Tony (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 28 August - Thursday 3 September 2026
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.???...Family Film/ Early Man (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 August 2026
A plucky cave man named Dug, his sidekick Hognob and the rest of their tribe face a grave threat to their simple existence. Lord Nooth plans to take over their land and transform it into a giant mine, forcing Dug and his clan to dig for pr...Lady (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 August - Thursday 3 September 2026
A lonely, narcissistic aristocrat dupes a struggling, opportunistic director into filming her every move. Her obsession with the spotlight takes a surreal turn when she starts becoming? invisible.?Blending mockumentary and magical realism,...Looking for Mr. Goodbar (18) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 30 August 2026
Unavailable for many years, this gritty study of 1970s sexual liberation showcases a tour-de-force central performance from Diane Keaton. Adapted from the 1975 novel of the same name by Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar follows There...John Achkar
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Aam Jarrib-Tryin': A heartfelt journey through the chaos of life in your thirties, seen through the eyes of Lebanese comedian John Achkar. In a world where everyone seems to have it all figured out (career, kids, stability ) John is still ...Swamplesque
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 2 - Thursday 3 September 2026
After taking Australia by storm and smashing box office records at Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 & 2025, everyone's favourite ogre-inspired burlesque and drag parody returns to the UK! Swamplesque is the award-winning, critically acclaimed, bu...Cruising (18) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 2 September 2026
William Friedkin?s Cruising (1980) is a gritty thriller starring Al Pacino as a rookie cop undercover in NYC's underground gay leather scene to catch a serial killer. With its grimy visuals, pulsating hardcore punk soundtrack and a magneti...
Jubilee (15) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 3 September 2026
Derek Jarman?s provocative account of the punk movement is both prophetic and apocalyptic. Queen Elizabeth I and her occult aide Dr John Dee - brilliantly played by Jenny Runacre and Richard O?Brien, respectively - travel into the future t...East is East
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Friday 4 September - Saturday 3 October 2026
The 30th anniversary production of Ayub Khan Din's modern classic, a story about identity, generational conflict, and the messy, unbreakable bonds of family. Salford, 1971. The Khan family are living above a chip shop and on the fault line...Rose of Nevada
Lucem House, St Helens
Friday 4 September 2026
Rose of Nevada is a Cornwall set drama directed by Mark Jenkin, director of ?Bait? and ?Enys Men'. It follows a fishing village that becomes unsettled when a long-lost trawler returns after years at sea, drawing its crew into a strange and...Family Film/ Short Films for Families (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 5 - Saturday 19 September 2026
A vibrant collection of short films all about how curiosity drives us forward, helping us learn about ourselves, others and the wider world. Short Films for Families showcases a wide variety of animations from France, Portugal, Germany, Cz...Preview/ Bad Apples (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 5 September 2026
Maria is a primary school teacher doing her best to inspire a class of 11-year-olds, but she's unable to because of one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child?s behaviour spiralling, Maria makes a series of b...Hardcore (18) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 6 September 2026
Paul Schrader?s second directorial work, following Blue Collar (1978), this psychological neo-noir sees a devout Calvinist businessman, played by George C. Scott, leave his Midwestern town to find his teenage daughter, who has vanished on ...Kiki's Delivery Service (U) Dubbed
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 6 September 2026
Celebrate this beloved coming-of-age story from the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award?-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, about a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, on...Trainspotting - 30th Anniversary (18)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 6 September 2026
A misfit group of friends ? heroin addicts, violent criminals, and upstanding members of society ? lead chaotic, hedonistic lives in Leith, fuelled by drugs, alcohol and the pursuit of a good time. When Mark Renton decides that he?s had en...Jersey Boys
Palace Theatre, Manchester
Monday 7 - Saturday 19 September 2026
The internationally acclaimed stage sensation Jersey Boys is working its way back around the UK! The boys are back as the original Tony®-winning sensation returns for its 20th Anniversary Tour! Go behind the music and inside the story of ...Super Nature (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 7 September 2026
Super Nature celebrates our universal connection to nature, with an intimate gaze, creating a visceral, poetic, personal meditation on the natural world. Ed Sayers? award-winning debut feature saw him collaborating with 40 people on 80 dif...Monday Matinee: Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert
Lucem House, St Helens
Monday 7 September 2026
Long-lost footage from Elvis Presley?s legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour, and 8mm from the Graceland archive, plus recordings of Elvis telling ?his side of the story? redisc...Nightshift (18) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 8 September 2026
It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask. Like the camera, she gazes steadily, both silent spectator and vicarious participant in th...Taxi Driver (18) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Fifty years after it picked up the Palme d?Or at Cannes, Scorsese?s chilling masterpiece has lost none of its power to shock and disturb in its visceral exploration of alienation and violence in urban America. Travis Bickle works night shi...Family Film/ Short Films for Wee Ones (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 12 - Friday 25 September 2026
A collection of seven short films, carefully selected to delight and amuse our youngest cinemagoers. Short Films for Wee Ones features an exciting mix of stories and animation styles from around the world ? each celebrating friendship, acc...Mikey and Nicky (15) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 13 September 2026
Elaine May had made her name in the 1950s working on improvisational comedy with Mike Nichols, before going on to direct film comedies with a sharp and bitter edge such as A New Leaf (1971) and The Heartbreak Kid (1972). However, nothing t...
La Femme infidèle (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 15 September 2026
A mid-career masterpiece within Claude Chabrol?s remarkable run of bourgeois psychological thrillers, La Femme infid?le traces the fallout after a husband?s discovery of his wife?s affair and his quiet, unnerving and devastating act of rev...Hustle (18) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Following the box-office success of The Longest Yard (1974), director Robert Aldrich and star Burt Reynolds chose a very different path with their next collaboration. Hustle is a dark, Los Angeles set, neo-noir about a police lieutenant wh...It's Nice Up North - 20th Anniversary (U) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 17 September 2026
RBM presents a special 20th anniversary celebration of Graham Fellows? much-loved comedy documentary, It?s Nice Up North. This special event is also presented as a tribute to the late Martin Parr, the celebrated photographer who served as ...It's Nice Up North - 20th Anniversary + Q&A (U)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 17 September 2026
RBM presents a special 20th anniversary celebration of Graham Fellows? much-loved comedy documentary, It?s Nice Up North. This special event is also presented as a tribute to the late Martin Parr, the celebrated photographer who served as ...PULP: What Do You Do For An Encore (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 18 September 2026
A night you will remember for the rest of your life. PULP: What Do You Do For An Encore? is a celebration of one of Britain's most unusual bands, captured during their triumphant 2025 tour. Directed by longtime collaborator Garth Jennings ...A Private Life
Lucem House, St Helens
Friday 18 September 2026
After learning about the suicide of a patient (Virginie Efira), psychoanalyst Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster) suspects foul play and decides to uncover the truth. Enlisting the help of her ex-husband-cum-sleuthing partner (Daniel Auteuil), h...Mystery Ensemble - Hayao Miyazaki's Dreams
Bolton Parish Church, Bolton
Saturday 19 September 2026
The Miyazaki Dreams concert is an immersion in the fabulous atmosphere of the films of the world-famous Japanese director and Oscar winner Hayao Miyazaki. Mystery Ensemble has collected magical music from his cartoons and compositions insp...Les biches (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 20 September 2026
A loose, gender-swapped riff on Patricia Highsmith?s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Claude Chabrol?s Les biches is an examination of the seduction of privilege, and how desire can become entangled with destructive forces. Two women - one wealthy...National Theatre Live - The Misanthrope (15)
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Tuesday 22 - Wednesday 23 September 2026
Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Moliere's classic dark comedy. Telling the truth isn't always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lie...National Theatre Live - The Misanthrope (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 September 2026
Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Moliere's classic dark comedy. Telling the truth isn't always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lie...The Son (15)
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Tuesday 22 - Sunday 27 September 2026
Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, and Anthony Hopkins star in this drama from Florian Zeller (The Father), who revisits the intricacies of family dynamics as it falls apart and tries to come back together again. A cou...Que la bête meure (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 23 September 2026
A father whose son has been killed by a hit-and-run driver sets out to identify and murder the culprit, only to find the situation considerably more complicated than revenge usually allows. Cited by Bong Joon Ho as a key influence on his O...The Cycle of Love (12A) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 24 September 2026
The Cycle of Love follows the extraordinary true story of PK, a 23-year-old street artist from Delhi who sets off with a handful of paint brushes and a second-hand bicycle on a 6,000 mile journey across Europe and Asia to find Lotta, the w...Candlelight - Disney Love Songs
Manchester Cathedral, Manchester
Friday 25 September - Wednesday 11 November 2026
The ultimate concert experience for Disney fans! Immerse yourself in the world of Disney through live renditions of your favourite love songs, all performed classically by a string quartet by the light of a thousand candles. A fairy-tale c...Candlelight - The Best of Joe Hisaishi
Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Friday 25 September 2026
Relive your favourite anime scenes in this unique homage to Joe Hisaishi! The genius composer is responsible for creating Studio Ghibli's iconic soundtracks, in much-loved films such as Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. An incredible...
National Theatre Live - The Misanthrope (15)
Lucem House, St Helens
Friday 25 September 2026
Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Moliere's classic dark comedy. Telling the truth isn't always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lie...Le Boucher (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 27 September 2026
A schoolteacher and a butcher strike up a tender, tentative friendship in a small P?rigord village, just as a series of murders unsettle the local community.A work of extraordinary restraint, in which the landscape itself seems to harbour ...Extra Geography (CTBA) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Monday 28 September 2026
Flic and Minna are best friends and high achievers at a girls? boarding school, fiercely focused on their futures and making it into the best possible university. But their friendship and universe are challenged when they decide to become ...Juste avant la nuit (18)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 29 September 2026
A man accidentally kills his mistress and returns to his ordinary life, waiting, with mounting dread, to be found out. But nobody seems to be looking ? and his wife has good reason for wanting him to remain quiet. Claude Chabrol?s most pit...Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Manchester Cathedral, Manchester
Thursday 1 October 2026 - Friday 19 February 2027
The most awe-inspiring music from one of the greatest film composers of all time brought to you by a string quartet in an intimate candlelight setting. No doubt these tracks will sound familiar, as they give life to iconic films such as...Rondallas (18)
