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The Souvenir Part II

£3.50

The second chapter of Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece and winner of Sight and Sound's 'Best Films of 2021' poll.

Drama
2020
107 mins
Joanna Hogg

True Things

£3.50

Ruth Wilson is at her best in this compelling drama about a lonely woman whose life is changed by Tom Burke, the dangerous stranger who offers something different.

Drama
2021
102 mins
Harry Wootliff

Wildfire

£3.50

Sisterly bonds are pushed to breaking point in this simmering drama set on the Irish border, the debut feature from acclaimed shorts director Cathy Brady.

Drama
2020
84 mins
Cathy Brady

High-Rise

£3.50

Ben Wheatley's savage and brilliant adaptation of JG Ballard's dystopian satire, starring Tom Hiddleston.

Science Fiction
2016
119 mins
Ben Wheatley

Kill List

£3.50

Ben Wheatley’s ultra-violent second feature, invoking both The Wicker Man and Apocalypse Now.

Crime
Horror
2011
92 mins
Ben Wheatley

Attack the Block

£3.50

Aliens wage war on a tower block after one of their number is bludgeoned by a street gang in this witty, action-packed feature debut by Joe Cornish.

Crime
Science Fiction
2011
88 mins
Joe Cornish

360

£3.50

Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Anthony Hopkins lead an ensemble cast in a sleek thriller exploring the way our lives interconnect across the world.

Drama
2012
110 mins
Fernando Meirelles

Bend it Like Beckham

£3.50

Gurinder Chadha’s smash hit about an Asian girl with an undying love for football.

Sport
2002
112 mins
Gurinder Chadha

'71

£3.50

A young British squaddie is caught behind enemy lines in bomb-torn Belfast, in Yann Demange’s riveting suspense thriller.

Thriller
2014
99 mins
Yann Demange

45 Years

£3.50

One of the most acclaimed British features of recent years, starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay as a couple rocked by news from the past.

Drama
2015
95 mins
Andrew Haigh

Brakes

£3.50

Breakups have never been funnier, as Mercedes Grower's all-star, ensemble comedy charts the end of various affairs. With Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, Julia Davis and Noel Fielding.

Comedy
Romance
2017
85 mins
Mercedes Grower

Brooklyn

£3.50

Saoirse Ronan shines as a woman who journeys from post-war small-town Ireland to New York, in Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s best-selling novel.

Romance
Drama
2015
112 mins
John Crowley

Broken

£3.50

A compelling drama of splintered families and warring neighbours, with a stunning debut from young Eloise Laurence. With Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy.

Drama
2013
91 mins
Rufus Norris

Bunny & the Bull

£3.50

Anarchic comedy from the director of Paddington and The Mighty Boosh, following an odd-couple’s wild European adventure.

Comedy
2009
97 mins
Paul King

Trap for Cinderella

£3.50

Emilia Fox delves into Tuppence Middleton’s repressed childhood memories, in Iain Softley’s erotic and elaborate psycho-thriller.

Drama
2013
100 mins
Iain Softley

Testament of Youth

£3.50

Alicia Vikander brings to life the extraordinary life of Vera Brittain, whose affair with a dashing friend (Kit Harington) is cruelly cut short by the onset of war.

Drama
2015
130 mins
James Kent

The Comedian

£3.50

Touching drama about a thirtysomething comedian looking for happiness.

Drama
2013
79 mins
Tom Shkolnik

Sweetheart

£2.50

AJ discovers it’s not so bad being on a family holiday when she meets flirtatious lifeguard Isla in this smart and funny first feature

Comedy
Romance
2021
103 mins
Marley Morrison

Dark River

£3.50

Clio Barnard follows The Selfish Giant and The Arbor with this searing and eloquent Yorkshire-set drama exploring the fragility of familial relationships.

Drama
2018
89 mins
Clio Barnard

Death Defying Acts

£3.50

The great illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) meets his match when the charming and manipulative Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) magically appears in his life.

Drama
Romance
2008
93 mins
Gillian Armstrong

The Deep Blue Sea

Buried passions boil over in a buttoned-up postwar Britain in Terence Davies acclaimed adaptation of Rattigan's play, starring Rachel Weisz.

Drama
Romance
2011
99 mins
Terence Davies

Departure

£3.50

Andrew Steggall’s deft and delicate drama about a teenage dreamer who falls for the rough beauty of a local boy while staying in France.

Drama
2016
108 mins
Andrew Steggall

Beats

£3.50

Best mates Johnno and Spanner head out for one last night of raving together before Johnno’s family move away, in this bittersweet coming-of-age ode to '90s subculture.

Drama
2018
101 mins
Brian Welsh

Early Man

£3.50

In Aardman’s latest animated adventure, Caveman Dug and his pet hog, Hognog, must unite their tribe if they're are to survive the threat of pompous tyrant Lord Nooth.

Animation & Artists Moving Image
2018
89 mins
Nick Park

The Double

£3.50

Richard Ayoade’s stylish and sinister adaptation of Dostoevsky’s story stars Jesse Eisenberg in a dual-role as a timid office clerk confronted by his confident, scheming doppelganger.

Drama
Comedy
2014
93 mins
Richard Ayoade

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn

£3.50

Lulu Danger's (Aubrey Plaza) unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a former lover comes to town in this strange and surreal comedy.

Comedy
2018
108 mins
Jim Hosking

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

£3.50

The wife of a puritanical farmer seems resigned to her lot, until she has her head turned by the arrival of a young couple in Thomas Clay’s provocative period drama.

Drama
2020
112 mins
Thomas Clay

Fast Girls

£3.50

The four young runners on the Team GB women's relay team battle to overcome rivalries and personal demons in time for the World Athletics Championship.

Sport
Drama
2012
91 mins
Regan Hall

The Fight

Jessica Hynes’ directorial debut is a life-affirming lesson in the importance of learning to stand up for yourself.

Drama
2019
91 mins
Jessica Hynes

You Were Never Really Here

£3.50

Lynne Ramsay journeys with Joaquin Phoenix into the mind of an ex-soldier gun-for-hire whose own demons are as brutal as the actions of his adversaries.

Thriller
2017
90 mins
Lynne Ramsay

Frank

£3.50

Michael Fassbender is the man inside the papier-mâché head, in this fictionalised reimagining of the story of northern entertainer Frank Sidebottom.

Comedy
2014
95 mins
Lenny Abrahamson

Yardie

£3.50

In his thrilling directorial debut, Idris Elba brings to life Victor Headley’s cult crime novel.

Crime
2018
102 mins
Idris Elba

Free Fire

£3.50

Ben Wheatley’s (High-Rise, Sightseers) all-guns-blazing bullet opera, starring Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer.

Action and Adventure
Crime
2017
90 mins
Ben Wheatley

God's Own Country

£3.50

A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee.

Drama
2017
105 mins
Francis Lee

Great Expectations

£3.50

Pip, a poor blacksmith's apprentice, becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. A BAFTA-nominated telling of the Dickens' classic.

Drama
2012
129 mins
Mike Newell

The Guard

£3.50

Brendan Gleeson plays the Garda sergeant reluctantly pitted on the trail of a major drug-smuggling ring, in John Michael McDonagh’s wild comedy.

Comedy
Crime
2011
92 mins
John Michael McDonagh

Ginger & Rosa

£3.50

Teenage friendship is torn apart when Rosa finds love in the wrong place, in Sally Potter's acute, 60s-set drama.

Drama
2012
90 mins
Sally Potter

Harry Brown

£3.50

Michael Caine’s storming return to an action role finds him as a retired marine confronting local hoodlums on his housing estate.

Crime
2009
103 mins
Daniel Barber

The Invisible Woman

£3.50

Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in this adaptation of Claire Tomalin’s book about the long-standing affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan.

Biopic
Historical drama
2014
111 mins
Ralph Fiennes

Journeyman

£3.50

Paddy Considine directs and stars with Jodie Whittaker in this emotional knockout - the story of a boxer rebuilding his life after a near-fatal injury.

Drama
Sport
2018
92 mins
Paddy Considine

The Violators

£3.50

In this spiky and stylish debut from novelist Helen Walsh, two girls from different backgrounds form an unlikely bond, setting off on a dangerous course.

Drama
2016
96 mins
Helen Walsh

Where Hands Touch

£3.50

Amma Asante (Belle, A United Kingdom) presents this rites-of-passage story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.

Drama
2017
122 mins
Amma Asante

We Need to Talk About Kevin

£3.50

Tilda Swinton gives a BAFTA-nominated performance as the mother of a teenager who commits a high school massacre. With Ezra Miller and John C. Reilly.

Drama
2011
112 mins
Lynne Ramsay

Iona

£3.50

Scott Graham’s follow-up to Shell follows a woman whose return to a Scottish island arouses dormant passions.

Drama
2016
85 mins
Scott Graham

The Lighthouse

£3.50

Based on a true story, Chris Crow’s atmospheric chamber piece follows the dark and dire fortunes of two men trapped on a lighthouse for months on end.

Drama
2015
102 mins
Chris Crow

Vera Drake

£3.50

Mike Leigh’s acclaimed story of a selfless woman who performs unlawful abortions in 1950s Britain; both an affecting drama and vital social history.

Drama
2005
120 mins
Mike Leigh

Lilting

£3.50

Ben Whishaw stars in an intimate portrait of two strangers brought together by the common language of grief.

Drama
2014
86 mins
Hong Khaou

The Lobster

£3.50

Colin Farrell, Ben Whishaw and Rachel Weisz star in this bleakly hilarious dystopian drama from Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth).

Science Fiction
2015
118 mins
Yorgos Lanthimos

Tell It to the Bees

£3.50

Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger star as two very different women who fall in love in this 1950s-set romantic drama.

Drama
2017
108 mins
Annabel Jankel

London Road

£3.50

Daring, startling and wholly original: a musical based on the infamous Ipswich murders of 2006, adapted by National Theatre director Rufus Norris.

Musical
2015
92 mins
Rufus Norris

Madagascar Skin

£2.50

John Hannah stars as a painfully shy gay man who escapes the city in Chris Newby’s extraordinary second feature.

Drama
1995
91 mins
Christopher Newby

Mindhorn

£3.50

Julian Barratt is hilarious as the washed-up actor forced to reprise his 80s TV role as a sleuth with a robotic truth-telling eye, to help catch a deranged killer.

Comedy
2017
88 mins
Sean Foley

Mari

£3.50

Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris’ debut, which investigates a young woman’s identity and the complex relationship she has with her mother and sister.

Drama
2018
95 mins
Georgia Parris

Under the Skin

£3.50

An alien Scarlett Johansson prowls the streets of Glasgow in Jonathan Glazer’s astonishing, mind-bending mixture of existential sci-fi and inner-city realism.

Horror
Science Fiction
2014
108 mins
Jonathan Glazer

Trespass Against Us

£3.50

Brendan Gleeson and Michael Fassbender are the father and son outlaws in this exhilarating crime drama with a Chemical Brothers soundtrack.

Crime
Drama
2017
99 mins
Adam Smith

Colette

£3.50

This witty, Belle Époque-era biopic stars Keira Knightley and Dominic West as literary couple Colette and Willy, whose relationship rewrote social and gender rules.

Biopic
2019
112 mins
Wash Westmoreland

Norfolk

£3.50

A father and son dwelling in a remote wasteland wage a war against a gang of local revolutionaries, in Martin Radich’s unsettling rural drama.

Drama
2016
83 mins
Martin Radich

Tyrannosaur

£3.50

Paddy Considine’s powerful feature debut, featuring astonishingly strong performances from Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan.

Drama
2011
92 mins
Paddy Considine

Perfect 10

£3.50

An aspiring teen gymnast’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of the half-brother she never knew she had.

Drama
2019
84 mins
Eva Riley

Possum

£3.50

"Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin." The reliably deranged Sean Harris is plagued by an evil puppet in this dark, brooding fable from Matthew Holness.

Horror
2018
85 mins
Matthew Holness

Traveller

£3.50

Reluctant newlywed travellers Angela and Michael try to smuggle goods across the border in this lyrical Irish road movie written by Neil Jordan.

Drama
1981
81 mins
Joe Comerford

Queen and Country

£3.50

John Boorman’s follow up to Hope and Glory finds 18-year-old Bill called up for National Service against the backdrop of the Korean War.

Comedy
2015
115 mins
John Boorman

8 Minutes Idle

£3.50

Quirky British call-centre comedy about a man whose life is disrupted when he has to start living in his office.

Comedy
2012
86 mins
Mark Simon Hewis

Donkey Punch

£3.50

Nichola Burley and Jamie Winstone star in the yacht-set shocker, in which a teen sex party turns into a deadly fight for survival.

Thriller
2008
95 mins
Olly Blackburn

Remainder

£3.50

Omer Fast’s gripping puzzle-box thriller about an amnesiac reconstructing his elusive past.

Drama
Thriller
2016
103 mins
Omer Fast

Two for Joy

£3.50

A visceral, moving exploration of one British family's life following a tragedy, starring Samantha Morton, Daniel Mays and Billie Piper.

Drama
2018
90 mins
Tom Beard

The Selfish Giant

£3.50

Two Yorkshire tearaways struggle with life and friendship in this challenging, compassionate growing-up tale by the director of The Arbor.

Drama
2013
91 mins
Clio Barnard

Slow West

£3.50

A teenage boy treks through a harsh American west accompanied by a bounty hunter of dubious morality, in this indie western that’s dripped with blood and drenched in style.

Western
2015
84 mins
John Maclean

Sightseers

£3.50

Young lovers Chris and Tina turn their first holiday together into a rural killing spree in Ben Wheatley's priceless black comedy.

Comedy
Drama
2012
88 mins
Ben Wheatley

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

£3.50

Britain’s brilliant experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea) presents this haunting desert parable which follows a filmmaker’s abduction and ritual humiliation.

Animation & Artists Moving Image
2016
95 mins
Ben Rivers

Trishna

£3.50

Tragedy befalls a young Indian woman when she falls in love with a rich British man in Michael Winterbottom's sharp Thomas Hardy update.

Drama
2012
114 mins
Michael Winterbottom

Spaceship

£3.50

British teen cinema gets an injection of hallucinogenic imagination, plus a few unicorns and aliens, in Alex Taylor’s unclassifiable debut feature.

Comedy
Fantasy
2017
90 mins
Alex Taylor

Streetdance

£3.50

A streetdance crew are forced to take in some ballet dancers in order to compete at their UK finals. With performances by Diversity and Flawless.

Musical
2010
98 mins
Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini

Submarine

£3.50

Richard Ayoade’s sweet and quirky directorial debut about a Swansea teen’s travails with his distant girlfriend and warring parents.

Comedy
Drama
2011
97 mins
Richard Ayoade

3 Steps to Heaven

£2.50

Edgy mixture of black comedy and urban drama about a woman uncovering the hidden truths about her dead lover.

Drama
1995
87 mins
Constantine Giannaris

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The Souvenir Part II

True Things

Wildfire

High-Rise

Kill List

Attack the Block

360

Bend it Like Beckham

'71

45 Years

Brakes

Brooklyn

Broken

Bunny & the Bull

Trap for Cinderella

Testament of Youth

The Comedian

Sweetheart

Dark River

Death Defying Acts

The Deep Blue Sea

Departure

Beats

Early Man

The Double

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

Fast Girls

The Fight

You Were Never Really Here

Frank

Yardie

Free Fire

God's Own Country

Great Expectations

The Guard

Ginger & Rosa

Harry Brown

The Invisible Woman

Journeyman

The Violators

Where Hands Touch

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Iona

The Lighthouse

Vera Drake

Lilting

The Lobster

Tell It to the Bees

London Road

Madagascar Skin

Mindhorn

Mari

Under the Skin

Trespass Against Us

Colette

Norfolk

Tyrannosaur

Perfect 10

Possum

Traveller

Queen and Country

8 Minutes Idle

Donkey Punch

Remainder

Two for Joy

The Selfish Giant

Slow West

Sightseers

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

Trishna

Spaceship

Streetdance

Submarine

3 Steps to Heaven

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