FILM & CINEMA IN MANCHESTER
FILM & CINEMA IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Film & Cinema in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Sat 25 Apr 2026
Freaky Friday
Friday 2 - Sunday 11 January 2026
The new musical, Freaky Friday, based on the beloved 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers and the hit Disney films, which has captured the hearts of generations, comes to HOME with its UK stage premiere next year. When an overworked mother and her t...
Singin' In The Rain
Friday 2 - Sunday 25 January 2026
A timeless masterpiece, and perhaps one of the greatest musicals ever made - a must-see show for Christmas 2025. A charismatic, tap-dancing extravaganza SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is the much-loved story of the highs and lows of Hollywood as a rad...
The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks
Friday 2 - Sunday 11 January 2026
Tom Hanks narrates an epic experience that offers a new perspective on humankind's past and future voyages to the moon. This winter at Aviva Studios, step into The Moonwalkers - an awe-inspiring immersive experience for all ages. Created by...
moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Friday 2 January - Sunday 15 February 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 delibe...
Avatar: Fire and Ash (12A)
Friday 2 January 2026 - Wednesday 6 January 2027
James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new sci-fi adventure. As the Sully family comes to terms with tragedy, deadly new threats emerge which put the future of Pandora?s inhabitants in grave danger.?This work contains...
L'Atalante - 4K Restoration (PG)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 January 2026
A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L?Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. The film is now considered to be one of cinema?s very greatest works. Dita Parlo stars as a young bride w...
Marty Supreme (15)
Friday 2 January 2026 - Wednesday 6 January 2027
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Marty Supreme follows his journey from playing for bets in Manhattan to winning 22 major titles and becoming the oldest to win a national...
Peter Hujar's Day (12A)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 January 2026
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the stunning new film from Ira Sachs, a richly cinematic rendering of the meeting of acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar and writer and artist Linda Rosenkrantz. Recorded in 1974, Hujar describes the rout...
Sentimental Value (15)
Friday 2 January 2026 - Wednesday 6 January 2027
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has...
Song Sung Blue (12A)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 January 2026
Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams. Starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson....
The Shining - 45th Anniversary (15)
Friday 2 January 2026 - Tuesday 5 January 2027
Aspiring writer Jack Torrance travels to a remote Colorado hotel with his wife and son to take up the position of winter caretaker. In a place haunted by ghosts from the past, which his gifted son becomes all too aware of, Jack gradually lo...
National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
Thursday 8 January 2026
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-ste...
National Theatre Live - Mrs Warren's Profession (12A)
Friday 9 January 2026
Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw's incendiary moral classic. Vivie W...
National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
Friday 9 - Saturday 10 January 2026
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-ste...
Candlelight - Rings & Dragons
Saturday 10 January - Sunday 22 March 2026
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...
The Wind (CTBA) + live score
Saturday 10 January 2026
A young woman from the east, played in a spellbinding performance by Lillian Gish, arrives in the desert of West Texas and moves in with her cousin, where her presence causes tensions. There, she has to fight the elements, the oppressive he...
Becoming Victoria Wood (15)
Sunday 11 - Tuesday 20 January 2026
Victoria Wood remains one of Britain?s most cherished entertainers ? a comic genius whose work reshaped the landscape of British humour. But behind the joyous persona ? the singer, the satirist, the sharp-witted writer ? lay a young woman n...
Film Course: French New Wave
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Coinciding with the release of the release of Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater 2025) this course will offer an overview of the French New Wave introducing key films and actors who emerged at the end of the 1950s, offering some insights int...
Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Thursday 15 - Saturday 17 January 2026
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 ...
Next Stop Somewhere (18)
Saturday 17 January 2026
In Next Stop, Somewhere, filmmakers James Lee and Jeremiah Foo explore the personal struggles of emigration in all their intimacy and complexity through two parallel stories of separation and connection. Huang, a Hong Kong actor endures a t...
The Bodyguard - The Musical
Monday 19 - Saturday 31 January 2026
Starring international leading lady Sidonie Smith as Rachel Marron, Olivier Award nominee Adam Garcia as Frank Farmer, Sasha Monique as Nicki Marron and Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star Matt Milburn as Sy Spector. At certain performance...
Queerpanorama (18)
Thursday 22 January 2026
Premiered at Berlinale 2025 and awarded Golden Horse Best Director 2025, Queerpanorama is a tender and introspective exploration into Hong Kong?s queer lives, led by a riveting and revelatory performance by Jayden Cheung in his acting debut...
Bande à part (PG)
Sunday 25 January 2026
Franz and Arthur, a couple of streetwise chancers, team up with the shy Odile to plan a robbery. As the trio of misfits roam the cafes of suburban Paris, do a lightning tour of the Louvre, and play-act shoot-outs, the suspicion grows that t...
Breathless (12A)
Wednesday 28 January 2026
After a car theft goes drastically wrong, small-time crook Michel must go on the run from the police. Arriving in Paris, Michel reconnects with Patricia, an old flame, and the pair plan to escape to Italy. But the police are closing in... J...
Cult/ Who Are You Polly Maggoo (18)
Friday 30 January 2026
Polly Maggoo is the world?s hottest model; an American icon worshipped at the altar of Parisian haute couture at the height of the cultural revolutions of the 1960s. Polly is pursued by everyone. Fanatical men, the love-struck prince of a f...
The Hallé - The Silence of the Lambs: Live in Concert
Saturday 31 January 2026
Chilling and thrilling: experience this cult classic, multi-Oscar-winning film with iconic soundtrack performed live by the Halle orchestra. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) races against time to stop a serial killer nicknamed 'Buf...
Bulk (15) + Q&A
Saturday 31 January 2026
When an over-zealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far - his brane explodes. Thats ?brane? not ?brain? - but that means someone has to sort out the mess he has created. Our hero Corey Harlan is sent in - kicking an...
Spacked Out - 25th Anniversary (18)
Sunday 1 February 2026
On the 25th anniversary of its release, we celebrate Spacked Out ? a rarely-seen landmark of Hong Kong independent cinema and a vivid time capsule of early 2000s fashion and culture. Channelling the punkish energy of 1990s productions like ...
Khartoum (18)
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Five lives, one city, a nation at war.A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom through animated dreams, street revolutions and a war from ...
My Night with Maud (PG)
Thursday 5 February 2026
The film that propelled Eric Rohmer to international acclaim remains one of the finest achievements of his career. My Night with Maud tells the story of a chaste and conservative thirty-something who sees a woman that he believes will be hi...
Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Friday 6 February 2026
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 ...
For the Love of Vampire Diaries UK
Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 February 2026
Part of the Monopoly Events family of pop culture conventions, attracting thousands of fans annually, if you love The Vampire Diaries Universe then this is the show for you! This event will see guests from all three franchises across the u...
National Theatre Live - Hamlet (12A)
Sunday 8 February 2026
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultima...
July Rhapsody - 4K Restoration (18)
Sunday 8 February 2026
Brimming with serene beauty, July Rhapsody by Hong Kong director Ann Hui and scriptwriter Ivy Ho is a profound and soothing tale about how one paddles through life?s chaos like the Yangtze river. On the surface, Lam leads a successful life ...
Tim Vine: Rocker 'Brella Fella (U) + Q&A
Monday 9 February 2026
It?s Tim Vine in a brand-new, rocking Plastic Elvis feature film! Featuring 26 original new songs and a silly toe-tapping tale that?ll send your spirits soaring. Sam Salono returns home to Widestairs because the family umbrella business is ...
Jules et Jim (12A)
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Starting just before the Great War and spanning three decades, Fran?ois Truffaut?s hugely popular classic depicts one of cinema?s most captivating love triangles. Two best friends ? the Austrian Jules and the French Jim ? vie for the object...
Batman (1989) In Concert
Friday 13 February 2026
Experience Tim Burton's Batman on the big screen with Danny Elfman's iconic score performed live by a full symphony orchestra. Relive Michael Keaton's legendary Batman and Jack Nicholson's unforgettable Joker as Gotham City comes alive thr...
Candlelight - Valentine's Day Special
Saturday 14 February 2026
Discover romantic music from the world of rock, pop and movies played by a string quartet this Valentine's Day in an awe-inspiring location under the gentle glow of candlelight. ...
Pop Princesses
Monday 16 February 2026
This is the children's pop concert with a big difference. A musical spectacular starring four fabulous Fairy tale Princesses who just love to sing! It's the perfect mix. Featuring a soundtrack of top pop hits from artists such as Little Mix...
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert - The Musical
Thursday 19 - Saturday 28 February 2026
The Broadway and West End musical comedy sensation follows three friends on a hilarious and heartwarming road trip across the Australian Outback to stage the show of a lifetime. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert is a joyous celebration of unity...
Disney in Concert - The Sound of Magic
Friday 20 February - Sunday 29 March 2026
Disney in Concert: The Sound of Magic returns to cebrate 100 years of the Disney experience through its music. This symphonic celebration will see renowned Novello Orchestra bring to life the soundtracks and characters from the Walt Disney ...
Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Saturday 21 February 2026
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 ...
Candlelight - The Best of Joe Hisaishi
Thursday 26 February 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 ...
NT Live/ The Audience (CTBA)
Sunday 1 - Tuesday 3 March 2026
Returning to the big screen for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award-winning hit production, The Audience, directed by Stephen Daldry. For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with...
Mamma Mia!
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 21 March 2026
Sophie's quest to discover the father she's never known brings her mother face to face with three men from her distant romantic past on the eve of a wedding they'll never forget. Whatever age you are, you can't help but have the time of you...
National Theatre Live - Hamlet (12A)
Wednesday 4 March 2026
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultima...
Cleo From 5-7 (PG)
Wednesday 4 March 2026
Agn?s Varda?s classic Cleo From 5-7 captures Paris at the height of the 60s. Expertly crafted and intriguingly told, the film unfolds in real time following a singer whose life is in turmoil as she awaits a test result from a biopsy. As Cle...
Othello (CTBA)
Wednesday 11 - Sunday 15 March 2026
Shakespeare?s Othello rages to life like never before in a compelling new production starring David Harewood OBE, Toby Jones OBE and Caitlin FitzGerald. Directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris OBE with music by PJ Harvey, this epic story o...
Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Friday 20 March 2026
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 ...
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