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On Sunday 11 July 1965, York Gate Hall, now the Palace Cinema, opened as ‘York Gate Cinema’ with THE WIZARD OF OZ and full supporting programme. To celebrate our 60th anniversary, from June-August 2025, we bring back The Wizard of Oz and also present a special programme of 6 celebratory ways for everyone to join in!

A groundbreaking concert experience blending Björk's "Utopia" album with cutting-edge VR and digital theater, merging live music with innovative tech to explore the Icelandic musician's complex relationship with the natural environment.

The life and work of Michelangelo, one of the most important artists of the Italian High Renaissance, are brought to life in this documentary through the landmark exhibition in the National Gallery.

When internationally acclaimed orchestra conductor Thibaut is diagnosed with a serious illness, a DNA test leads him to discover he has a biological brother, Jimmy, a factory worker who plays trombone in a local marching band in Lille. Authentic, funny and very moving, tale of newfound brothers forging an unlikely connection through the joy and power of music.

A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour and a priest with strange intentions make a young man's short stay in the village of his youth take an unexpected turn in this Hitchcockian wry thriller from the director of Stranger by the Lake - a perfect mix of black comedy and melodrama, steeped with dark desires and completely unpredictable.  

What do you do when you’re in your 50s, lose all your worldly possessions and receive a devastating medical diagnosis? Potentially, you decide to walk for 630 miles along England's Southwest Coast Path. Adapted from Raynor Winn's best-selling autobiography.

A striking adaptation of Deborah Levy’s bestselling novel of the same name. When the wife of a renowned, self-important, poet invites a naked stranger found swimming in their holiday pool, things are never going to go smoothly...

Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which sees the agent and his team embark on perhaps their most dangerous - and possible final - mission yet.  

On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Paynes live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. Maria and her English husband Nik, along with their four children are self-sufficient. However, when tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to forge a new path rejoining modern society.

A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.

Wes Anderson's (The Royal Tenebaum's, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) latest off-beat, star-stacked comedy is the story of one rather unusual family and an even more unusual family business.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Nina is a skilled obstetrician at a maternity hospital in Eastern Georgia. After a tragedy strikes in the delivery room, the grief-stricken father demands an inquiry into her methods and a witch-hunt begins.

The Palace jumps into Folk Week, honoured to welcome legendary singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger for a one-of-a-kind conversation in a live Zoom event.

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.