Films & Events

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.

Ethan Hawke is an innocent convict tasked by corrupt prison governor Russell Crowe to smuggle stolen gold out of a remote mine alongside a dangerous crew of prisoners, on an impossible trek through the treacherous Appalachian forests to win his freedom.

The residents of Mossy Bottom Farm are all looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch!

In one of the most influential films of the silent era presented here with its original pre-recorded orchestral score. A sinister hypnotist travels the carnival circuit leaving a trail of murders in his wake.

The Palace is delighted to welcome back the Folkestone Documentary Festival! Join us for these wonderful two films celebrating living traditions of folk and craft connecting our past, present and future.

Tom Cruise leads an impressive cast in ‘a comedy of catastrophic proportions’, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro Iñárritu (The Revenant). The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch (who also has a small acting role in Nadja) to come up with a low-budget horror movie, Michael Almereyda made this thrilling, moody, funny and endlessly inventive reimagining of the Dracula myth.

From the Oscar-winning directors of No Other Land, comes NAZA, a searing account of civilian casualties in the war on Palestine.

Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social media reckoning we’re seeing play out today, this is a true David and Goliath story.

Andrew Garfield stars as the legendary leader of the Peasants Revolt, rebelling against the tyranny of King Richard II (written and directed by Paul Greengrass - Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93 and Captain Phillips). As war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival.

In rural Ireland, amateur historian Catherine Corless (Monica Dolan - Typist Artist Pirate King, Elsinore) begins researching a former institution for unmarried mothers and their children, she stumbles upon evidence pointing towards a deeply troubling past.

From Pawel Pawilkowski, Oscar and Bafta winning filmaker of Ida and Cold War. Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his grown up daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller - The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall) - actress, writer and rally driver, return to post-war Germany and find themselves adrift as they navigate family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

Oscar winner Taika Waititi’s luminous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel sees Jenna Ortega play an enthusiastic artificial friend desperate to find a loving home.

Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star in Ken Russell's The Devils, a landmark exploration of religious persecution, hysteria and institutional corruption. Showing here for the first time ever in a new restoration of Russell's original unseen vision.

A wonderfully eccentric fable which, at its core, is witty and big-hearted love story between a fishmonger and her made-to-measure husband starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Peter Dinklage.

Come and join us to welcome back the wonderful Lillian Henley as we return to her live accompaniment of this tremendous, ravishing and tense account of Ernest Shackleton's trip to the South Pole.

A genre-defying majestic epic, rooted in the legacy of beloved writer Federico García Lorca. Following three men connected across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017, this wonder is rich with Lorca's poetry, suffused with desire, grief and hope - both an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and history.

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup to oust Salvador Allende, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). From the Oscar/Bafta winnng director of The Banshees of Inisherin.

Cliftonville has been filled with places to see a film since the dawn of moving pictures! Join us at Margate Film Festival 2026 to discover them all, in person and on foot.