What’s on

Broadscares: A Dip into Horror. This winter, we bring you a cornucopia of frightening films and special scary events for all ages and tastes including brand new releases, classics, silents, documentaries, even family friendly fare - drawn from around the world - with introductions and special guest filmmaker events.  

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A stunning adaptation of the incredible stage musical in which we meet Galinda and Elphaba - the future Good Witch of the North and Wicked Witch of the West!

A welcome return to the Palace for everyone's favourite marmalade sandwich loving bear! A visit to his Aunt Lucy in Peru becomes a thrilling quest to unravel a mystery which only he and the Browns can solve.

An angel helps a despairing Jimmy Stewart by showing him how impoverished life would have been like for his entire town if he had never existed… A Christmas cinema tradition returns to the Palace!

The Pope has died and Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes - ) must lead the Conclave to select the new leader of the Catholic world in one of the world’s most secretive and ancient rituals. Directed by Oscar winner Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) co-starring Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini.

Part of our Broadscares Season. American psychologist (Dana Andrews) journeys to London to debunk a devil-worshipping cult. Based on a short story by seminal horror writer M. R. James and atmospherically directed as an occult noir by Jacques 'Cat People' Tourneur, this British classic will have you shrieking “It’s in the trees! It’s coming!”. With an introduction on Saturday afternoon.

Clint Eastwood's thoughtful nailbiting moral dilemma grips like a vice. Juror Nicholas Hoult slowly realises that the person on trial is innocent of causing a motoring killing which he himself is guilty of.  

Hotly tipped for this year's BAFTAs and Oscars, Sean Baker's Cannes Palme d'Or winner presents a modern-day Cinderella story about Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meeting Vanya, a spoiled son of a Russian oligarch, who offers her a glamorous new life of possibility and incredible wealth. What could go wrong?

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix. The lives of three women intersect and overlap in a haunting drama that sees the city of Mumbai play a central role from Director-Screenwriter Payal Kapadia.

Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in John Crowley's (Brooklyn) decade-spanning English romance.

Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance star in this brilliantly funny satire of political ineptitude and selfishness. Think 'Yes, Minister' meets ' Invasion of the Body Snatchers' as if made by the Marx Brothers and you'll be on the right track...

Part of our Broadscares Season. Robert (The Lighthouse) Eggers much anticipated thrilling new take on Dracula with an all star cast and hotly tipped for the Oscars season.

In 1950s Mexicoi City, William Lee (Daniel Craig), outcast American expat, becomes increasingly infatuated with an elusive stranger in this brilliant new film from Luca 'Call Me By Your Name' Guadagnino with Lesley Manville as you've truly never seen her before!

The impossibly glamorous, moving story of iconic opera singer, Maria Callas set in Paris, 1977 where the world’s greatest soprano hides in her apartment, having lost her voice and retreated from the world. Can she ever return to the stage? Featuring many of Callas’s greatest recordings.

Jazz and decolonisation fuse in this unforgettable historical rollercoaster. Hotly tipped for Oscar and Bafta awards and featuring a mind-blowing who's who of 60s jazz, culture and politics including Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Malcolm X, Nikita Khrushchev, and many more....

MAGIC HOURS is a film heritage project led by the Palace Cinema Broadstairs. It reaches across Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate, exploring the shared sense of community of cinema experiences from the 1950s to the present day.