Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate have been filled with places to see a film since the dawn of moving pictures! Join us to discover them all, in person and on foot.

Cinema Walks explore and celebrate everywhere the towns have shown films, from converted sheds to glorious picture palaces, from buildings still standing to those of which all flickering traces are long gone. Taking in local characters and social history, archive images and film clubs happening next week, visit each town’s love for the sights, sounds and sensations of film from the 1890s to today.

Cinema Walk: Ramsgate Sun 7 June, 10:30-12:00.  Meeting point: Benches on prom near entrance to Ramsgate tunnels.

Cinema Walk: Margate/Cliftonville Sun 14 June, 10:30-12:00.  Meeting point: Low wall in front of Esso Garage on Northdown Road in Cliftonville, corner of Wyndham Avenue.

Cinema Walk: Broadstairs Sun 28 June, 10:30-11:45.  Meeting point: Corner Victoria Parade / Queens Gardens.

Routes - Cinema Walks are in the centre of each town: Broadstairs is smaller and flatter but Ramsgate and Margate include hillier streets. Please contact the Palace in advance to check if the route is suitable for you / your group. Free places are offered to carers accompanying those with a disability. 

Health & Safety - By agreeing to participate in a Cinema Walk, all customers are agreeing to listen to safety instructions and exercise due care and attention whilst walking. 

Bad weather - Cinema Walks do not offer any protection from the weather. In the event of weather bad enough to prevent a Walk taking place, participants will be given the choice of an alternative date or a full refund. 

Director: Palace Cinema
Starring: Broadstairs, Ramsgate & Marget
Year: 1896 - 2026
Language: In English
Country: Isle of Thanet
Running time: 1hr 30mins

Headlined by Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall (One Day, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy), Oscar-winning documentarian Daniel Roher’s (Navalny) narrative debut moves cleverly between low-key thriller and winsome rom-com.

With a warm, sly script, jazzy original music by Marius de Vries, and charismatic performances from Hoffman, Woodall and Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms), Tuner is a playful and satisfying watch that takes us into the world of a very specific profession.

Veteran piano tuner Harry Horowitz (Hoffman) is losing his hearing, while his shy apprentice Niki (Woodall) is incredibly sensitive (he has a condition called hyperacusis, which obliges him to wear earplugs at all times). Together, they’re the best tuners in town. But when Niki’s skills are called on in unusual circumstances, he is exposed to a criminal but lucrative potential side trade – shortly before he meets and begins to fall for music composition student Ruthie (Liu).

Director: Daniel Roher
Starring: Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman & Havana Rose Liu
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA / Canada
Running time: 1hr 47mins

A gloriously unscrupulous social climber (Richard E Grant) and his razor-sharp wife (Claire Foy) prepare to host a dinner party for a duke and duchess in 18th-century England.

A hilariously scabrous tale of aristocracy in decline, as a pair of desperate aristocrats bank on schmuzing a visiting Duke in a desperate attempt to revive their favour and fortune as their ancestral home crumbles around their ears. 

18th Century England, low-ranking aristocrats, the Savages are at their lowest: they despise each other, their house is falling apart, and they are deeply disliked in polite society - sleeping with their servants, and selling off jewellery to keep their gambling and drinking going. Oh, and Chauncey Savage’s (Richard E. Grant - Withnail & I, Can You Ever Forgive Me?) foot might be rotting off.

Hearing of an impending visit by higher ranking nobility, gives them a last gasp chance at saving their failing ancestral home. The pair splash out on new outfits, polish their silver, and hire new help to make sure the House of Savage is looking as impressive as possible. Anchored by two outrageously hilarious performances by British legends Claire Foy (H is for Hawk, All of Us Strangers) and Richard E. Grant as you’ve never seen them before, the sights and smells of Savage House will stick to your skin long after you’ve exited the cinema.

Director: Peter Glanz
Starring: Claire Foy, Richard E. Grant, Bel Powley & Jack Farthing
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 54mins

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, Hen follows a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece. 

As she fights to protect her eggs, she becomes an unwitting witness to the complex human lives around her as the restaurant is caught up in greed, smuggling, and the migrant crisis.

Starring Yannis Kokiasmenos, Hen's feathered lead is played by eight real-life Hungarian chickens named Eszti, Szandi, Feri, Enci, Eti, Enikő, Nóra, and Anett.

Writing alongside frequent collaborator Zsófia Ruttkay, György Pálfi’s penchant for investigating human sin through unconventional methods produces a witty and deeply moving universal story.

Director: György Pálfi
Starring: Yannis Kokiasmenos, Eszti, Szandi, Feri, Enci, Eti, Enikő, Nóra, and Anett
Year: 2025
Language: In English, Greek and Italian with partial English subtitles
Country: Greece/Germany/Hungary
Running time: 1hr 36mins

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?

This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people. We are coming close to, Disclosure Day.

Based on a story by Steven Spielberg, the screenplay is by David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the scripts for Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds.

Starring Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Josh O’Connor (Challengers) and Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters) and two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing).

Director: Steven Spioelberg
Starring: Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor Colman Domingo & Colin Firth
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 2hrs 25mins

Love and astronomy don’t mix in this un-romantic comedy based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel, fresh from opening London's SXSW festival.

Aspiring astronomer Katharine Hilbery (Haley Bennett) is passionate about two things and two things only: the stars and Cambridge University. While her controlling father (Timothy Spall - Turner) tries to push her away from learning and into marriage with family friend William (Jack Whitehall), the headstrong young woman stands up to expectations forced on her by getting involved in the suffragette movement, spearheaded by the sprightly, straight-talking Mary (Lily Allen).

Based on one of Virginia Woolf’s lesser-known comic novels, Night & Day is a refreshing take on the romantic comedy, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century London and crumbling Edwardian patriarchal attitudes. With Haley Bennett’s sparkling performance at the heart of the film, BAFTA-nominated director Tina Gharavi turns writer Justine Waddell’s script into a sparkling, feminist unromantic comedy.

Director: Tina Gharavi
Starring: Haley Bennett, Jack Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders, Timothy Spall & Lily Allen
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK/Germany/USA
Running time: 1hr 35mins

A strange doorway leading to a vast underground labyrinth appears in the basement of a furniture showroom in this unclassifiable instant spooky classic.

A therapist (Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value) ventures into a mysterious, liminal dimension after her patient (Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave) inexplicably vanishes deep inside a suburban furniture showroom. As she searches the seemingly endless labyrinth of anonymous spaces, she begins to feel that she might not be alone. 

Inspired by a 2019 4chan image of an empty yellow-carpeted office space, Kane Parsons’ nine-minute “found-footage” horror shortBackrooms has racked up 77 million views on YouTube since he posted it four years ago when he was just 16. This feature-length adaptation of the global phenomenon makes Kane Parsons the youngest director in A24’s history at age 20.

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Director: Kane Parsons
Starring: Renate Reinsve, Chiwetel Ejiofor &, Mark Duplass
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 45mins

The toys are back and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs get exponentially harder when they go head to head with an all-new threat to playtime.

Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and the rest of the gang’s jobs are challenged when they come face-to-face with Lilypad (Greta Lee), a brand-new tablet device that arrives with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for their kid, Bonnie.

Will playtime ever be the same?

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen.

Director: Andrew Stanton & McKenna Harris
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Greta Lee, Tony Hale & Conan O'Brien
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 42mins

Two brothers run away from home in England to reach their estranged grandfather (played by Bill Nighy) on Ireland's west coast.

500 MILES is a poetic, life-affirming road movie and celebration of the human spirit that follows a broken family forced to come together when two young brothers run away from home.

While their fighting parents (Clare Dunne and Michael Socha) desperately search for them, runaways Finn (Roman Griffin Davis) and his live-wire younger brother Charlie (Dexter Sol Ansell) embark on an epic adventure from Yorkshire, over land and sea, to the Wild West coast of Ireland. With the free-spirited busker Cate (Maisie Williams), helping the young boys along the way, their destination is Dingle, County Kerry and their estranged, beloved grandfather (Bill Nighy), who their parents have not spoken to since fateful events the previous summer.

Director: Morgan Matthews
Starring: Bill Nighy, Maisie Williams, Roman Griffin Davis, Clare Dunne, Dexter Sol Ansell, Michael Socha
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 41mins

As the glacial iceflows of renowned Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason's homeland melts, he finds himselef chasing something elusive. He constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. An awe-inspiring documentary of our world in flux.

Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs, and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. 

From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, Time and Water is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound change.

Brilliant soul-stirring stuff taking us from awe-inspiring vast Icelandic landscapes to the most intimate of human stories as time and climate change slowly begin to affect what we have always taken for granted and thought permanent: the lives we lead.

Director: Sara Dosa
Starring: Andri Snær Magnason
Year: 2026
Language: In Icelandic and some English with English subtitles
Country: Iceland
Running time: 1hr 33mins

Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton exchange barbs, flirtations and truths in this hit Sundance dinner party comedy with bite, directed by Wilde (Don't Worry Darling). 

San Franciscan married couple Joe and Angela (Rogen and Wilde) are two tightly wound individuals who seem to be at odds over almost everything. When Angela invites their attractive, free-spirited upstairs neighbours (Cruz and Norton) over for dinner, the evening feels primed to combust. Where Angela is intrigued by the pair, Joe is irritated by the constant noise that travels from their bedroom above.

This masterful dissection of modern relationships, treats us to four knockout performances from Wilde, Rogan, Cruz and Norton. They are assisted in no small part by a razor-sharp script from writing duo Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Celeste and Jesse Forever) and a vibrant score from Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange).

Director: Olivia Wilde
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 46mins

Minions & Monsters introduces us to an entirely new tribe of Minions, who find themselves in Hollywood at the dawn of cinema looking for a new evil mastermind to serve in this rambunctious family treat.

We meet brand-new Minions James and Henry in the distant past and witness their trials and tribulations as they search far and wide for an evil master to serve. Eventually they reach the 1920's, and wind up crashing a Hollywood film set. Their brief and accidental appearance on camera pays off and before they know it the Minions are bona-fide movie stars. They begin to live the Hollywood lifestyle, and soon they're throwing lavish parties, living in a huge mansion, and inspiring an army of fans to dress in overalls and goggles.

The Minions' 15 minutes of fame are soon up, however. With the addition of sound to film and the rise of the "talkies," they drop in popularity – it turns out they can't follow the script when all they speak is Minionese. Destitute and aimless, the Minions roam the streets of Hollywood looking for a purpose…and a new evil master to serve. Inspired family fun!

PARENTS! GUARDIANS! Please note the front row of our balcony is not suitable for seating young children due to the height of the guard-rail blocking small ones' sightlines of our screen.

Director: Pierre Coffin
Starring the voices of: Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, Jessie Eisenberg & Zoey Deutch
Year: 2026
Language: In English and Minion.
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 30mins

Northern Soul: Still Burning charts the history of Northern Soul, from its birth at the world-famous mecca, Wigan Casino, right through to the modern day.

Alan Byron's fascinating slice of early UK (some may even go further and say Wigan) dance culture examines how this movement has weaved and transformed itself musically and culturally through the decades. Continuing to re-invent itself more than any other music genre, Northern Soul remains as vibrant and relevant today as when it first evolved.

Features exclusive interviews with Richard Searling, Paul Mason, Elaine Constantine, Levanna McLean, Tony Blackburn and many, many more.

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Director: Alan Byron
Starring: Richard Searling, Paul Mason, Elaine Constantine, Levanna McLean, Tony Blackburn
Year: 2026
Language: In English
Country: UK
Running time: 1hr 35mins

John Huston’s gorgeous elegiac anti-western, The Misfits, set in the late 1950s, about broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages was both Marilyn Monroe's and Clark Gable's final - and perhaps best - film presented her in a glorious BFI restoration marking the centenary of Monroe's birth. 

Written by Monroe's husband, the great American playwright Arthur Miller, The Misfits is a touching and off-beat drama, one of the finest of Monroe's career, as she lights up the lives of Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider, both with bittersweet memories of a west that’s no longer wild.

A mutual respect marked the relationship between Monroe and Huston. Huston cast Monroe as an unknown in The Asphalt Junglein 1950, working with her again a decade later, with their two collaborations serving as bookends to her career, both infused with the promises of what could have been if she had been given more time and freedom to explore her skills as a dramatic performer.

Director: John Huston
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable & Montgomery Clift
Year: 1961
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 2hrs 5mins