Cécile is seventeen, spoiled, and spectacularly self-centred. Spending the summer on the French Riviera with her charming, womanising father, she lives…
The directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), Hot Milk is an intimate exploration of self-discovery, desire, and the complex…
The directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), Hot Milk is an intimate exploration of self-discovery, desire, and the complex…
The directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), Hot Milk is an intimate exploration of self-discovery, desire, and the complex…
The directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), Hot Milk is an intimate exploration of self-discovery, desire, and the complex…
The directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), Hot Milk is an intimate exploration of self-discovery, desire, and the complex…
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance…
The directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), Hot Milk is an intimate exploration of self-discovery, desire, and the complex…
The directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), Hot Milk is an intimate exploration of self-discovery, desire, and the complex…
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance…
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected…
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, UK, USA, 2024, 133m.
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected…
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, UK, USA, 2024, 133m.
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected…
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, UK, USA, 2024, 133m.
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected…
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, UK, USA, 2024, 133m.
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected…
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, UK, USA, 2024, 133m.
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected…
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, UK, USA, 2024, 133m.
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected…
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, UK, USA, 2024, 133m.
Movies, Memories, Magic celebrates the hybrid cinematic and cultural heritage sculpted by London’s South Asian communities across time and space. Cinema has…
Paul Verhoeven's last film produced in the Netherlands before he created his Hollywood classics Robocop and Total Recall, invites us into the twisted psyche of Gerard Reve, a troubled writer whose life becomes entangled with mysterious women, murder, and the supernatural. As Reve spirals… Read More
The film is set in Southern Lebanon, July 2006, during what is known as Israel’s “Second Lebanon War", a month of fighting characterised mostly by Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks from the Shia militia Hizballah on northern Israel in… Read More
The first theatrical re-release of eight-time Academy Award winner Amadeus in over 20 years, now digitally restored. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri… Read More
Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game. Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Simran Patel who writes: 'I'd love to see India's first queer film on the big screen. It was originally believed lost and only recently rediscovered in an archive.' This daring and progressive account of… Read More
Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal)… Read More
Northern China, 1999. The grisly discovery of several corpses is made in a small town. A bloody incident during the attempt to capture the alleged murderer leaves two police officers dead and another badly injured. The surviving officer Zhang Zili is suspended… Read More
William Hurt and Kathleen Turner strike sparks in this taut, South Florida-set tale of lust, greed, and murder that echoes 1940s film noir but is charged with a steamy passion that could only flare in the 80s. When libidinous but none-too-bright attorney… Read More
The screening on 28 June will be introduced by filmmaker and critic Jasper Sharp. Seijun Suzuki's delirious 1967 hit-man film has drawn comparisons with contemporaries Le samouraï and Point Blank and influenced directors such as John Woo, Jim Jarmusch, and Quentin Tarantino among others. The… Read More
Due to popular demand, we're bringing back Caramel, as part of our Lebanese season. The film will be preceded by Dania Bdeir's short film Warsha. The screening on 25 June will be preceded by a short intro by Dr Albertine Fox, writer… Read More
A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets stranded in the rundown town Radiator Springs, where he learns that winning isn't everything in life. On Sunday mornings our Family Screenings are followed by a free activity for Children. The screening is Pay What… Read More
Our screening of Cecil B. Demented on the 14th of August will feature an introduction by season co-curator Ronja Blight. An insane action-comedy about a young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists who kidnap a movie goddess and force… Read More
This Cannes prize-winning documentary takes us on an intimate and emotional journey with the travelling cinemas of India, which yearly bring the wonder of the movies to faraway villages. Filmed over five years, it accompanies a shrewd exhibitor, a benevolent showman and… Read More
Technology and sexuality meet in a head-on collision in Crash -director David Cronenberg's controversial adaptation of writer J. G. Ballard's hugely transgressive 1973 novel starring James Spader and Holly Hunter. Spader stars as James Ballard, a film producer whose deviant sexual desires… Read More
Identical twin gynaecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle routinely trade each others’ identities, lives and even lovers. This ability leads them to a shared relationship with a well-known actress and, ultimately, a physical and psychological tailspin that sends them both to the brink… Read More
Our screening of Desperate Living on the 29th of August will feature an introduction from Token Homo, programmer of the legendary Bar Trash and Queer Horror Nights. John Waters first feature without Divine in the lead takes some cues from mid-century womens… Read More
An epic and darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction, Dying follows the estranged members of the Lunies family as they wrestle with chaotic private lives. Son Tom (Lars Eidinger), a well-regarded conductor, is too preoccupied to give his ailing parents the attention they… Read More
Eureka plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by Ben Webb, who writes: 'It would be great to see Nic Roeg’s masterpiece on a big screen. It features a towering central performance from Gene Hackman, who sadly… Read More
Our screening of Female Trouble on the 16th of August will feature an introduction by Jaye from TGirlsOnFilm Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse,… Read More
A rare cinema screening of 1980s cult family favourite Flight of the Navigator. 12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but… Read More
Be afraid... Be very afraid... Jeff Goldblum stars as the gifted yet tragic scientist Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg's hi-tech remake of the classic 1950's sci-fi. When Seth makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it… Read More
Berlin, 1942. A shy Hilde falls in love with Hans and gradually finds her place in the resistance group that would come to be known as the 'Red Orchestra'. Together, they spend a beautiful summer where their relationship entwines with quiet acts… Read More
Afflicted with a rare and fatal condition that affects her ability to perceive time and causes sudden blackouts, single mother Frankie Rhodes relies on self-recorded cassette tapes to help her navigate the world. Desperate to make ends meet while she fights for… Read More
Girl plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by our member Joseph Miller, who writes: 'Before his masterpiece Close (2022), Lukas Dhont created a controversial yet deeply humane look at transitioning through the eyes of Lara (based on… Read More
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by our member Mo, who writes, 'I would love to see such an epic Western on the big screen.' With the two preceding… Read More
The Gospel According to St. Matthew plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by members Barbara Armstrong, Penny Averill, and John Forde, who writes: 'This year is the 50th anniversary of the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.… Read More
Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2024, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, UK, USA
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected story about the trauma of modernity and the looming threat of the outsider. Set over seven hallucinatory days in an idyllic… Read More
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola, 1991, USA
In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now, his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based on her footage details… Read More
The film will be preceded by Al Ittisal (The Call), a short film by Sabine Kahwaji. Serge and his girlfriend Leila arrive late at his parents’ big Easter lunch with the wider family. The electricity has been cut, and tensions are already… Read More
Michael Haneke, 2005, France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Michael Haneke was awarded the Best Director prize at Cannes for his stunning exploration of a past that haunts the present. This compelling psychological thriller stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a TV presenter who begins to receive mysterious and alarming packages containing… Read More
We will hold a Q&A with director Sam Shahid after the screening on Friday, July 11. An intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. The documentary reveals Lynes' gifted eye for the… Read More
The directorial debut from award-winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), Hot Milk is an intimate exploration of self-discovery, desire, and the complex bonds that shape us. Set against the sun-drenched Spanish coast, a young woman discovers that the people in her life -… Read More
Our screening on Tuesday 5 August will be introduced by Lucy Bolton (QMUL). A critical and commerical flop upon release in 2003, Jane Campion's giallo-infleced, erotic thriller is now considered a masterpiece of female desire and subjectivity. Frannie (Meg Ryan) is a… Read More
While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are thrown back into the world of super-heroism when Mr Incredible receives a mysterious communication summoning him to a remote island for a top-secret mission. On Sunday mornings our… Read More
Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalised the city's twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. The setup is diabolical in… Read More
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (a commanding Gian Maria Volontè) investigating a… Read More
Agathe, hopelessly clumsy yet charming and full of contradictions, finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books… Read More
An emotional and hilarious story with a life-affirming message, The Last Journey is a cinematic experience that explores a loving son’s attempts to coax his aging father into reengaging with life by embarking on a joyous, heartfelt road trip through the South of… Read More
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armour of fedora… Read More
The film is part of the Beirut Film Society's first edition of Lebanon Cinema Days in the UK, which shines a spotlight on the powerful voices of Lebanese cinema, presenting a curated selection of films by a new generation of filmmakers. Cinema… Read More
One of Disney's most beloved films, The Little Mermaid tells the story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid who longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which… Read More
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Roma) beautifulyl adaptated this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden). Sara Crewe is forced to leave her home in India as the outbreak of World War I draws her father into the military. She is sent to… Read More
Various Directors, Various Years, Various Countries
Like childhood, animation is full of wonder and simple pleasures. This carefully chosen programme for our littlest and most special audience contains 10 of the best, wonderful short animated films, full of joy, from all around the world. There’ll be talking animals,… Read More
Bi Gan followed the mesmerising Kaili Blues with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution). Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series… Read More
The Lost Weekend plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by Ben Whitehead, who writes, 'Reasons: 1. I’m continually discovering the genius of Billy Wilder, 2. I haven’t seen this one, 3. In 2011, The Lost Weekend was… Read More
Our screening of Sunday 3 August will be introduced by film journalist Darren Richman. Inspired by true events, this rain-drenched sophomore feature from the Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon ho blends true-crime with social satire and comedy in typically masterful fashion. In 1986… Read More
Millennium Actress plays as part of our Members' Summer Select season. The film was proposed by Harry Robertson, who writes: 'My favourite Satoshi Kon movie that I can never find anywhere to stream and would love to see on the big screen. It’s… Read More
Our screening on Wednesday 16 July will be introduced by John Wischmeyer (City Lit). The brilliant breakthrough film by writer-director Neil Jordan journeys into the dark heart of the London underworld to weave a gripping, noir-infused love story. Bob Hoskins received a… Read More
Summer holidays at The Garden Cinema would not be complete without Monsieur Hulot. Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly… Read More
John Waters’ gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters’ native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical… Read More
Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an… Read More
Directed by Dr. Lester James Peries, widely regarded as the father of Sri Lankan cinema, and based on a short story by the prominent Sinhalese author G.B Senanayake, Nidhanaya is a chilling portrait of a crumbling aristocracy in colonial Sri Lanka through the microcosm… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Mary Yohanse, who writes: 'A group of teens have one goal and one goal only, to get to the wildest party of the year, however; lesbians, aliens, polyamory, suicide, drugs and the looming sense of… Read More
Colin Butfield, Toby Nowlan, Keith Scholey, 2025, UK
Ocean with David Attenborough takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. The celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker reveals how his lifetime has coincided with the great age… Read More
Our screening on 11 June will be introduced by freelance curator Yuriko Hamaguchi. In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful and enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems… Read More
Identical twins Annie and Hallie are separated at birth after their parents' divorce. Unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and then plot with each other to switch… Read More
In a bid to secure his family’s legacy, an international tycoon brings his nun-daughter into his most daring scheme yet in this tale of espionage and intrigue from legendary filmmaker Wes Anderson. The Garden Cinema View: With pastel colours, deadpan humour, and… Read More
Our screening of Pink Flamingos on the 22nd of August will feature an introduction from former Scala programmer, Jane Giles. The second screening on the 31st of August will feature an introduction from Category H Film Club programmer, Molly Miles. John Waters made… Read More
For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of… Read More
One of the most important and influential film makers in cinematic history, Akira Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. His final masterpiece, Ran, is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in feudal Japan. Ran tells the story of Lord… Read More
This potent, political landmark of Indian independent filmmaking – famously funded by 500,000 farmers – explores the ugly truths of class and caste in rural Gujarat. Produced by 500,000 farmers who contributed 2 ruppes each towards the making of the film, Manthan … Read More
Made in 1973, two years after Bangladesh’s independence, A River Called Titas remains a deeply relevant cinematic gem from Ritwik Ghatak, a master filmmaker who was described by Satyajit Ray as, “one of the few truly original talents in Indian cinema.” Based on… Read More
In the remote Irish woods, Cellach (Brendan Gleeson) prepares a fortress for an impending attack by a Viking war party. Unbeknown to Cellach, his young nephew Brendan (Evan McGuire) -- who has no taste for battle -- works secretly as an apprentice… Read More
John Waters brings his twisted cinematic vision to the seemingly mundane world of suburbia in Serial Mom, an outrageous dark comedy starring Kathleen Turner (Body Heat, Romancing The Stone). Beverly (Turner) is the perfect happy homemaker. Along with her doting husband Eugene… Read More
This UK premiere of the director's cut of The Shadow Play is presented in a double bill with Ma Yingli’s Behind the Dream: A Documentary on The Shadow Play on Saturday 14 June. Due to popular demand, an extra screening of The Shadow Play is added on 13… Read More
The screening on 22 July will be introduced by Aagya Pradhan. The second feature from writer-director Min Bahadur Bham, following 2015’s The Black Hen – Nepal’s official Oscars entry and a Venice Critics Week winner. In the heart of the Nepalese Himalayas, the… Read More
The grumpy ogre Shrek finds his swap overrun with magical creatures exiled by a villanous lord. In exchange for his home back, Shrek agrees to go on a quest to rescue a princess. On Sunday mornings our Family Screenings are followed by… Read More
Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals. The Garden Cinema View: You'll likely know within a few minutes whether The Shrouds is to your taste. That is to say whether you can tune into… Read More
Smiles of a Summer Night plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by Jonathan Wakeham, who writes: 'I would love to celebrate the 70th anniversary of one of Ingmar Bergman’s best-loved films. It’s one of his few… Read More
This screening of François Truffaut's classic marks the centennial of the great French composer Antoine Duhamel. The screening will be preceded by a special introduction from Oscar-nominated composer Gary Yershon. Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third instalment in… Read More
In a Sudan torn apart by years of war, become immersed in the daily fight of young Sudanese activists, yearning for freedom and reform. Both harrowing and rousing, their fight reminds us of the human ability to find hope in the most… Read More
These screenings are part of 'Lou Ye: Chaotic Desires', a special presentation dedicated to one of China’s great contemporary auteurs, and featuring a collection of Lou's key works across two decades, alongside the release of his new title An Unfinished Film. China,… Read More
Select Japan is delighted to bring The Tale of Iya back to London for only the second UK screening. We would like to thank Tsteuichiro Tsuta for his assistance with the screening, as well as Garden Cinema member Edmund Barns for initially suggesting… Read More
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season. It was proposed by Ryan Gilbey, who writes: 'I don’t know if it’s a rights issue but it’s surprising that this film is so rarely screened. It’s… Read More
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new material for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called 'Videodrome'. His attempts to unearth the program’s origins send him on a hallucinatory journey into… Read More
Donghwa, a poet in his thirties, drops off Junhee, his girlfriend of three years, at her house and marvels at how large it is. He intends to look around the front yard and then leave, but by chance he runs into Junhee’s… Read More
This film was chosen as Films of Resistance's pick for the Lebanese season, to highlight the way Lebanese and Palestinian communities are interconnected. This screening will be introduced by Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso, curator from South Lebanon. In this award-winning documentary, directors Masri and… Read More
Playing as part of Members' Summer Select, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was proposed by Renee Francis, who writes, 'The first Pedro Almodovar film I ever saw… now he’s one of my favourite directors. A madcap film focused on the… Read More
Following our in-depth season focusing on iconic American, British, and French crime thrillers in 2022, Noir International explores how the visual style, thematic concerns, and atmosphere of Film Noir spread throughout a variety of global cinemas, and how…
The Garden Cinema introduces the UK’s first full season of Lebanese cinema. In contrast to recent simplistic, sensationalist, and often misleading news headlines, this selection of films will showcase an authentic range of…
To mark the release of David Cronenberg’s latest film, the deeply personal The Shrouds, we’re bringing four of his masterpieces back to The Garden Cinema. The original ‘new flesh’, Videodrome (1983) remains a…
Throughout July and August, join us for an array of screenings and partnership events around South Asian Heritage Month 2025, which is themed ‘Roots to Routes.’ Including restored classics, contemporary cinema, short films,…
This August, the Garden Cinema welcomes you to revel in Divine Trash: The Films of John Waters. With a filmography spanning from the late 1960s to early 2000s, the films of John Waters are…
Inspired by your many suggestions on the Members’ Area and passionate campaigning for your favourite films, our Members’ Summer Selection returns once again. We’ve taken into account support and upvotes from the community, as…
Events for members only, including free bi-weekly screenings for Garden Cinema Members with films chosen for members, by members. Selected films are added regularly, so keep an eye on this page for updates.…
Events for members only, including free bi-weekly screenings for Garden Cinema Members with films chosen for members, by members. Selected films are added regularly, so keep an eye on this page for updates.…
Join us every Saturday & Sunday morning and on weekdays during the school holidays for some of our favourite family classics. For cinema lovers of all ages. On Sundays the films are followed…
Select Japan is an initiative from The Garden Cinema to showcase the best of Japanese cinema, classic and contemporary, with a focus on titles and filmmakers which have been rarely screened in the…
The Garden Cinema’s new strand of nature and environment-focused screenings. We have curated a selection of international films that span many genres, themes and countries to tell stories of resilience and resistance…
The Chinese Cinema Project is an exhibition initiative presented by The Garden Cinema. It showcases works from emerging and under-represented Chinese filmmakers via regular screenings, exploring auteurship and cinematic beauty in its various…
Movies, Memories, Magic celebrates the hybrid cinematic and cultural heritage sculpted by London’s South Asian communities across time and space. Cinema has…
