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
DroneArt Show: Harry Potter
Haydock Park, Newton-le-Willows
Friday 21 - Saturday 22 August 2026
DroneArt Show: Harry Potter™ blends cutting-edge drone technology with the iconic music from the Harry Potter™ films to create a spellbinding spectacle under the stars. As 1,200 drones move in perfect harmony above you, iconic moments ...Horizon of Khufu - Journey to Ancient Egypt
Transmission House, Manchester
Friday 21 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 21 - 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...Lady (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 21 - Thursday 27 August 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,...Songs of Forgotten Trees (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 21 - Thursday 27 August 2026
In the restless sprawl of Mumbai, Thooya- a migrant and aspiring actress, navigates the city through beauty, wit, and uneasy compromises. When she sublets her sugar daddy?s sleek apartment to Swetha, a corporate professional new to the cit...Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 21 - Thursday 27 August 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 End of Oak Street (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 21 - Thursday 27 August 2026
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighbourhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now un...The Invite (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 21 - Thursday 27 August 2026
Joe and Angela?s marriage is on thin ice, and tonight may be when it all falls apart. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit t...The Summer Book (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 21 - Thursday 27 August 2026
The Summer Book follows an intergenerational family spending a transformative summer at their rustic vacation home on an unspoiled, remote island in the Gulf of Finland.?Adapted from Tove Jansson?s beloved novel, the film explores grief, n...Tony (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 21 - Thursday 27 August 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.???...Rental Family
Lucem House, St Helens
Friday 21 August 2026
Phillip Vanderpleog lives in the Japanese capital. Looking for any work opportunities, he is employed by a ?rental family? company, which provides clients with actors who play stand-in roles of absent loved ones. The work offers Phillip po...Family Film/ Early Man (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 22 - 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...
Low Rider (18)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 22 August 2026
Quinn, a sexually confident young woman of dual heritage ancestry, struggles to find her footing in London after her mother?s death.?On impulse, she decides to travel to South Africa in search of her estranged father after uncovering an ol...Celebrating Caroline Aherne
New Century, Manchester
Sunday 23 August 2026
Celebrate the legacy of Caroline Aherne's work with her collaborator, writer David Scott....Sunny Dancer (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 23 - Wednesday 26 August 2026
After 17-year-old Ivy beats cancer she can?t think of anything worse than becoming a Make-A-Wish kid.?When her parents send her to a summer camp for kids affected by cancer, Ivy has a hard time adjusting to the rules. But as the weeks prog...Blue Film (18)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 24 August 2026
When fetish camboy Aaron Eagle visits a client in exchange for $50,000, he discovers a masked man with a camera and a series of increasingly probing questions - only to discover a disturbing tie to his past.?This provocative debut film fro...Blue Film (18) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Monday 24 August 2026
When fetish camboy Aaron Eagle visits a client in exchange for $50,000, he discovers a masked man with a camera and a series of increasingly probing questions - only to discover a disturbing tie to his past.?This provocative debut film fro...Preview/ Blue Film (18) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Monday 24 August 2026
When fetish camboy Aaron Eagle visits a client in exchange for $50,000, he discovers a masked man with a camera and a series of increasingly probing questions - only to discover a disturbing tie to his past.?This provocative debut film fro...Barbara Forever (18) + recorded Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Event/ This screening will be followed by a recorded Q&A with filmmaker Brydie O?Connor.?Barbara Forever is an expansive, immersive exploration of the life, work, and ongoing cultural impact of filmmaker Barbara Hammer ? a pioneering artis...Baby & Carer/ The End of Oak Street (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 27 August 2026
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighbourhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now un...Chatlines (18) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 27 August 2026
Event/ This screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaking team. In 2027, terminally ill Jordan logs into a webcam chatroom and meets Danny, a stranger who swears it's 2005. As an impossible connection deepens, Chatlines blends my...Hunky Jesus (18) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 27 August 2026
Event/ This screening will be followed by a local community panel discussion about the Manchester chapter of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Hunky Jesus explores the legacy of the San Francisco chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indu...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...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...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 ...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)
