Films & Events

From the team behind Fisherman’s Friends, Mother’s Pride is a comedy about a failing pub, a divided community and a grieving family whose lives are changed by brewing real ale and entering the Great British Beer Awards.

Based on the true story of a gulag survivor, a Stalinst lawyer discovers to his cost the lengths the establishment will go to in order to protect the status quo. A darkly humourous and disturbing exploration of the absurdities of totalitarianism.

Buster's back at the Palace, this time in three excellent comedy classic shorts accompanied on piano by the peerless Lillian Henley!

François Ozon’s (Frantz, 8 Women) luminous adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novel is a gripping account of human absurdity and murder in 1930s French-colonised Algeria.

Winner of the Venice Golden Lion, Jim Jarmusch's funny, tender and astutely observed take on how familes fall apart and come together. With Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett & Vicky Krieps.

A triumph! A spectacle! A fuzzy wuzzy cuddle puddle! CatVideoFest is all that and more. The world’s favourite family-friendly cat-themed film event leaps joyfully in through the Palace cat flap for this year’s Festival of Cats for a special event which could feature YOUR cat, too!

Making his directorial debut, National Treasure and Succession actor Brian Cox stars alongside Alan Cumming as two estranged brothers reunited in their idyllic Scottish hometown, bound by the traditions of their family’s whiskey distillery.

A sharp, off-kilter comedy starring romantic newly weds head-over-heels until the groom (Robert Pattinson - Tenet) discovers his wife has done something truly unforgivable - and no it's not an affair but something much worse...

United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in present-day Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family’s history. As they explore the house, left untouched since the 1940s, they delve into the life of their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard, taking us to 1895 Paris, with the City of Light on the brink of an industrial and cultural revolution.

From the filmmaker of 'Bait'. When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn.

A bold Brazilian odyssey. A 75-year-old woman escapes surveillance and forced retirement, taking a boat through the Amazon to chase her dream of flight. A tender, defiant journey of resistance, rebellion, and self-discovery.

A riveting political thriller following the rise to power of Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) through his relationship with a young, wildly out of his depth, media spin-doctor (Paul Dano).

This beloved British children's classic gets a wonderful film treatment as it follows Polly (Claire Foy), Tim (Andrew Garfield) and their children, relocating from the city to the remote English countryside where they encounter a magic tree which transports the family to spectacular and fantastical lands.

This month's Sunday Silent (with a slightly earlier start than usual) brings us three two-reelers of the finest silent comedy from Charlie Chaplin’s early years in Hollywood, with live piano accompaniment by Lillian Henley.

Music and power intertwine in Primavera, as Antonio Vivaldi teaches an orphan violinist how to imagine a new destiny for herself.

The iconic – and iconically vicious – Editor-in-Chief of Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is watching the publishing world fall apart. Twenty years later Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine

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