FILM & CINEMA IN MANCHESTER
FILM & CINEMA IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Film & Cinema in Manchester
Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Hallé St Peter's
Fri 5 Dec 2025 - Fri 6 Feb 2026
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein - The Musical
Hope Mill Theatre
Sat 29 - Sun 30 Nov 2025
Singin' In The Rain
Royal Exchange Theatre
Sat 29 Nov 2025 - Sun 25 Jan 2026
Top Hat - The Musical
Manchester Opera House, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025
You're invited to the musical equivalent of the finest vintage champagne. Based on RKO's classic 1935 Motion Picture which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Matthew White & Howard Jacques' stage adaptation's West End premiere won th...Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes
Lowry, Salford
Saturday 29 November 2025
A timeless fairytale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has captivated audiences and inspired generations of dancers with its powerful tale of obsession, possession and one girl's dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. V...Singin' In The Rain
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025 - 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...Freaky Friday
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025 - Saturday 28 November 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...Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein - The Musical
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Saturday 29 - Sunday 30 November 2025
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein! Grandson...Candlelight - Rings & Dragons
Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 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...The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Manchester Multiple Venues, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - 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...Wicked: For Good (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Thursday 4 December 2025
Witness the epic conclusion of Wicked, as Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time to save Oz. Elphaba, now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her f...National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025
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...Dirty Dancing Bottomless Brunch
Freight Island, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025
Nobody Puts Brunch Baby in the Corner! Get the gang together and get those group chats ready, because Brunch Baby are hosting a massive 'Dirty Dancing' themed Bottomless Brunch and you're all invited! Prepare yourselves for the ultimate br...Ariana Goes Wicked Brunch
Area, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025
A spellbinding fusion of pop perfection and Broadway magic at this live vocal show by the UK's no. 1 Ariana Tribute, Hariana, and her dancers. It's going to be a "Defying Gravity" experience with a show-stopping performance by the UK's #1 A...moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Moviescape Stockport, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Saturday 13 December 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 delibe...Blue Moon (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Thursday 4 December 2025
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi?s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical ?Oklahoma!?.?...Bugonia (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Thursday 4 December 2025
Jesse Plemons is outstanding as a conspiracy-obsessed paranoiac who, with the help of his brother, kidnaps a powerful CEO, believing she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. An inspired take on Jang Joon-hwan?s 2003 South Korean satire S...Die My Love (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Thursday 4 December 2025
From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Die, My Love is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Anchored by a ferocious, tour de force performance from Jennifer Lawrence, and co-starring Robert Pattinso...
Family Film/ CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Saturday 6 December 2025
Sparkling with CBeebies stars, this unique adaption of pantomime classic Cinderella is full of music, magic and festive fun for all the family. Join Cinderella, Buttons and some funny new characters for a story that celebrates finding your ...Family Film/ CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Saturday 6 December 2025
Sparkling with CBeebies stars, this unique adaption of pantomime classic Cinderella is full of music, magic and festive fun for all the family. Join Cinderella, Buttons and some funny new characters for a story that celebrates finding your ...Pillion (18)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Thursday 4 December 2025
Colin is a quiet, unassuming man with supportive parents whose world is rocked when he enters a dom-sub relationship with towering, attractive biker Ray. Navigating his new role, he learns about its pleasures and pains, including those that...Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - Thursday 4 December 2025
He solved the murder of the patriarch of a bitter, feuding family. He entered the labyrinthine world of a tech bro to peel away the layers of deceit and treachery to reveal their murderer. Now Benoit Blanc faces his toughest challenge yet ?...Wes Banderson - The Music of Wes Anderson
The Blues Kitchen, Manchester
Sunday 30 November 2025
Performing a selection of the original score music and deep-cut needle-drops from the films of Wes Anderson. The five-piece ensemble effortlessly switches between instruments as they navigate the soundtracks of Rushmore, The Grand Budapest...Bad Shabbos (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 30 November 2025
David and his soon-to-be-converted fianc?e, Meg, dread an upcoming Shabbat dinner at the Upper West Side home of David?s parents, Ellen and Richard. They have their reasons: Meg?s Catholic parents have been invited, neurotic Ellen is known ...The Choral (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 30 November - Thursday 4 December 2025
1916. A Yorkshire village?s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war. With the annual performance looming, the society is forced to change its entry rules to enlist some unlikely teens and the musically gifted but soci...Hans Zimmer
Co-op Live, Manchester
Tuesday 2 December 2025
The multiple Oscar and Grammy Award winner Hans Zimmer enters The Next Level - and brings Europe with him! The Next Level promises a completely new show featuring groundbreaking electronic soundscapes and a spectacular light production t...Dreamers (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 2 December 2025
After fleeing persecution at home, Nigerian migrant Isio is sent to Hatchworth Removal Centre, where she hopes her asylum plea will receive a fair hearing. Isio believes the only way out is to play by the rules, even when her charismatic ne...Love Actually In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 3 December 2025 - Tuesday 15 December 2026
Directed by Richard Curtis and originally released in cinemas in 2003, Love Actually tells ten separate yet interweaving stories of love around Christmas time. The film features an all-star ensemble cast, including Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson...British-Jewish Life on Film 2025 (12A) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 3 December 2025
An evening of entertaining, poignant and life-affirming films about British Jewish life commissioned by UK Jewish Film.?Films in this programme:?To Fly or Float (dir. Charlotte Peters) - Birmingham, 1979. Newly-orphaned Eva moves in with he...The Man in Grey (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 4 December 2025
Having been a successful writer in 1930s British cinema, Leslie Arliss began working as a director in the following decade. With The Man in Grey, released in 1943, he was able to gather a collection of rising stars - including Margaret Lock...Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
St Philip's Church Salford, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025
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 ...The Wicked Lady (PG) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Writer and director Leslie Arliss reunited with Margaret Lockwood and James Mason ? the stars of 1943?s The Man in Grey ? for what is perhaps the most famous of all the Gainsborough Melodramas: The Wicked Lady. Based on the novel, Life and ...Still Pushing Pineapples (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 7 December 2025
What happens when you?ve created the worst hit song ever ? at least according to the music press??What comes after fleeting fame, and what does it mean to grow old still chasing a dream?Kim Hopkins? moving and funny follow up to her documen...
Still Pushing Pineapples (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 7 December 2025
What happens when you?ve created the worst hit song ever ? at least according to the music press??What comes after fleeting fame, and what does it mean to grow old still chasing a dream?Kim Hopkins? moving and funny follow up to her documen...Testimony (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 8 December 2025
Testimony is a profoundly moving documentary that chronicles the fight for justice by survivors of Ireland?s Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. It captures the determination of these women, supported by the advocacy group Justic...Testimony (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 8 December 2025
Testimony is a profoundly moving documentary that chronicles the fight for justice by survivors of Ireland?s Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. It captures the determination of these women, supported by the advocacy group Justic...Disney On Ice - Find Your Hero
AO Arena, Manchester
Wednesday 10 - Sunday 14 December 2025
Disney On Ice presents Find Your Hero, an adventure filled with tales of heroism from your favorite Disney stories. Join fearless wayfinder Moana and demigod Maui as they bravely voyage into uncharted territories to return the stolen heart ...Magnificent Obsession (U) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 10 December 2025
The film that first brought together stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, Magnificent Obsession is one of Douglas Sirk?s most well-known melodramas. The story begins when playboy Bob Merrick wrecks his speed boat, and the rescue team resuscita...Zodiac Killer Project (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 11 December 2025
Having tried and failed to make a true crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton instead tells the story of what might have been. In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, the true crime boom is put under the microscope as f...It's a Wonderful Life (U)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 12 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
★★★★★ "It's a Wonderful Life is the closest thing to a postwar American Dickens. This is considered by many to be one of the finest films ever made." ~ Little White Lies. --- Frank Capra's heart-warming 1946 masterpiece has been...The Muppet Christmas Carol (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 13 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
★★★★ The Muppets do Dickens with that trademark blast of irreverence, affection and tap-along tunes. ~ The Times. --- A Christmas cinema screening of Brian Henson's 1992 classic, starring The Muppets and Michael Caine. The Muppets ...The Merchant of Four Seasons (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
Released in 1972, The Merchant of Four Seasons was a turning point in the career of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It marked both an international breakthrough, receiving critical acclaim outside and inside West Germany, and a notable i...Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025 - 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 ...Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025 - 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 ...Home Alone in Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025
This beloved holiday favourite features renowned composer John Williams' charming and delightful score performed live to picture by a live symphony orchestra. Since its debut in 2013, Home Alone in Concert has become a seasonal favourite wi...There's Always Tomorrow (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025
Clifford Groves leads an unremarkable life as a toy manufacturer in Pasadena, California. Feeling ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, Groves begins to rekindle an old relationship when a former employee unexpectedly walks ba...The Holiday In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 16 - Wednesday 17 December 2025
The beloved Christmas film The Holiday will be presented live in concert this winter, featuring its magical musical score performed live to the film by a full concert orchestra. A Universal Pictures production, The Holiday stars Cameron...An Immersive Screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas
Albert Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 16 December 2025
hat's this? What's this? There's magic in the air on the 16th of December, as we get ready for the festive season with Jack Skellington and co as Halloween Town comes to life with an immersive screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas! S...
Gone Too Far (12A) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 16 December 2025
London teenager Yemi risks losing the small amount of street cred he has thanks to the arrival of his estranged big brother from Nigeria. Ikudayisi?s terrible fashion sense, broad Yoruba accent and misplaced confidence with the opposite sex...Fox and His Friends (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 18 December 2025
Another of Rainer Werner Fassbinder?s films that is clearly indebted to the Hollywood melodramas of Douglas Sirk, Fox and His Friends is a tale of money, emotion and social class. The plot follows a working-class gay man, played by Fassbind...The Hallé - The Snowman & Shaun the Sheep
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 20 - Sunday 21 December 2025
The Snowman will be walking in the air, followed by a 'ewe'-nique performance from Shaun the Sheep, as the Halle brings the captivating music of these beloved characters to life in this enthralling concert for all ages. Sit back and enjoy t...Family Film/ A Paw Patrol Christmas (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 20 - Sunday 28 December 2025
Join everyone?s favourite pups on a big screen mission to save Christmas!Search and rescue pup Rubble is looking forward to Santa bringing him a new laser drill, but things take a turn when Santa comes down with a cold and can?t deliver any...Family Film/ How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 25th Anniversary (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 20 - Tuesday 23 December 2025
High above the idyllic town of Whoville lives the Grinch: a grouchy, green recluse who is on a mission against merriment. After his latest humiliation at the hands of the Whos of Whoville, the Grinch sets out for revenge by ruining Christma...The Tarnished Angels (U)
