Films & Events

Disney's tremendously fun Moana (Catherine Lagaʻaia) answers the Ocean’s call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson).

The Palace is delighted to present a season of films accompanied by introductions, fixed ticket prices of £6/£8 all shows and a season loyalty card available from the cinema (buy tickets for 5 films, get the 6^th and 7^th for free). The season also launches Dementia-Friendly Palace screenings at the Palace including snacks, intros and reminiscence sessions.

NOBODY'S PERFECT SEASON: This pitch-black all-time film noir classic sees Joe Gillis, a broke screenwriter, ensnared by Norma Desmond (a never better Gloria Swanson), as a washed-up delusional silent-film star longing for her glorious silver screen comeback. Are you ready for your close-up? Showing as part of our Billy Wilder season.

Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely Broadway show, based on his album and tour of the same name.

As part of our “Nobody’s perfect!” Billy Wilder season, we are very pleased to present six free dementia friendly screenings for people living with dementia and their carers.

Sian Clifford gives an Ab Fab style larger-than-life performance as a hilariously unselfaware narcissistic aristocrat who hires a struggling filmmaker to record her every move, in Samuel Abrahams’ eccentric mockumentary.

NOBODY'S PERFECT SEASON: Marilyn Monroe's all-time classic comic fantasy showing as part of our Billy Wilder season.

For fans of The Substance, comes a new kind of smart 'identity horror' from Jane Schoenbrum, one of the most exciting new voices in cinema, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. A young horror director is given the task of revitalising the (fictional!) ageing Camp Miasma horror franchise and quickly finds herself on a strange odyssey of fear and desire.

NOBODY'S PERFECT SEASON: Agatha Christie's favourite film adaptation, starring Charles Laughton as a crusty barrister defending accused murderer Tyrone Power, who gets no help from wife Marlene Dietrich. With Laughton’s own wife Elsa Lanchester as his unwelcome nurse.

NOBODY'S PERFECT SEASON: Two jazz musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) are witness to a mob hit. To save their lives, they disguise themselves as women in an all-girl band, featuring one Sugar ‘Kane’ Kowalczyk (Marilyn Monroe at the height of her bombshell powers), and head to sunny Florida.

A witty, pacy and engaging dramatisation of the early years of famed American chef and author Anthony Bourdain as he earns his stripes in the some of the world's toughest kitchens - adapted from Bourdain's 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential.

The Palace is delighted to be taking part in Heritage Open Days for the 8th year, opening the doors for free anyone who'd like to have a quick look inside or join us for a free illustrated talk!

To break his writer's block, a filmmaker desperately mines inspiration from his closest relationships - but at what cost to his friendships in this latest rich offering from Spanish giant of cinema, Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother, Pain & Glory).

NOBODY'S PERFECT SEASON: Billy Wilder’s beloved romcom, with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine finding love amid corporate New York’s sea of sexual deception.

Fresh from its award-winning appearances at Sundance and the Edinburgh Film Festivals comes this warm and witty comedy of oddballs refusing to leave their harsh isolated life on a remote Scottish island. Think Local Hero and The Banshees of Inisherin!

NOBODY'S PERFECT SEASON: Billy Wilder’s cunning masterpiece, adapted from James M. Cain’s then-notorious pulp novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and the very definition of hard boiled with Barbara Stanwyck as perhaps the greatest femme fatale in all cinema.

While we wait for our regular pianist Lillian Henley to return from her summer break, we're delighted to be showing the restored full cut of Fritz Lang's iconic 1926 silent classic Metropolis with a pre-recorded symphonic score.

NOBODY'S PERFECT SEASON: When a trip to Paris transforms Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) into a beautiful and elegant young woman, she soon has workaholic Humphrey Bogart and carefree playboy William Holden competing for her attention in this spry romantic comedy classic.