Danses concertantes, commissioned by Ninette de Valois in 1955, was MacMillan’s first major work. An early sign of the incredible artistic output that would follow, the work’s critical success spurred MacMillan to abandon performing in favour of choreography. It is…
Director: Kenneth MacMillan
Genre: Ballet,Event Cinema
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during a rapidly escalating civil war that has engulfed the entire nation...
Director: Alex Garland
Genre: Action,Drama
Release Date: 12-Apr-2024
When wealthy magazine editor Kosuke begins classes with his new personal trainer Ryuta, there’s an immediate spark between the two men. Before long, they begin a passionate romantic relationship. Ryuta works hard in a bid to earn enough money to…
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Genre: Drama,Romance
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
A celebration of the most iconic – and much missed – homegrown star of the 21st century, BACK TO BLACK tells the extraordinary tale of Amy Winehouse. Painting a vivid, vibrant picture of the Camden streets she called home and…
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Genre: Biopic
Release Date: 12-Apr-2024
Takashi receives an unexpected phone call from northern Kyushu: his estranged father Yohji has been arrested and taken into care. Not only that, but Yohji’s second wife Naomi appears to have disappeared. Takashi travels to Kyushu for a reluctant reunion,…
Director: Kei Chika-Ura
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
Oscar-nominated The Teachers’ Lounge is German writer-director İlker Çatak’s brilliantly observed drama. Playing out like a thriller, the film expertly explores the fault lines of contemporary society. Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch) is a dedicated and idealistic new high-school teacher. A…
Director: Ilker Çatak
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 22-Mar-2024
An unabashed kid navigates the filthy world of 1973 Glasgow, preoccupying himself with the equally poor youth around him...
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 12-Apr-2024
Yoshinori enjoys one of the happiest evenings of his life after he proposes to his girlfriend Ichiko. Their celebrations are short - lived, however, as Ichiko disappears the following morning. Police detective Goto promises a distraught Yoshinori he will investigate…
Director: Akihiro Toda
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
Teenager Kokoro has stopped going to school after being bullied by classmates. At home alone one day, she’s shocked to see a portal open up in her bedroom mirror. On the other side, she discovers an opulent castle. There, she…
Director: Keiichi Hara
Genre: Animation,Fantasy
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
Akemi and her colleagues wake up in their office one Monday morning after pulling an all - nighter to work on a major project. The team endures a week from hell as they try to push the project over the…
Director: Ryo Takebayashi
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
When young Wakaba sees her classmate Koki being bullied, she decides to intervene and help Koki - an act that leads to a new friendship but also a shocking act of retaliation. Years later, Wakaba has moved on with her…
Director: Kenichi Ugana
Genre: Drama,Horror
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
A tale of star-crossed lovers on the run, of l’amour fou anarchically celebrated, what sets Gun Crazy apart is low-budget director Joseph H. Lewis’ constantly surprising and wildly inventive treatment of familiar material. Take, for example, the startling way in…
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 04-Mar-2024
In the aftermath of World War II, three lost souls meet in a derelict ramen shop. When a violent outburst fractures the fragile family unit, the youngest of the three - a young orphan boy - flees. He embarks on…
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Genre: Drama,Historical
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
Architect Shiro returns to his hometown with one goal in mind: to finally shut down the family business, a long - running bathhouse named Marukin Hot Spring. When an unfortunate accident lands Shiro’s brother Miura in a hospital bed, bathhouse…
Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Genre: Drama,Comedy
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
Yoriko lives a quiet, uneventful life with her husband Osamu, son Takuya and ailing father - in - law. But when the 2011 earthquake hits, Osamu - terrified of radiation poisoning - flees his home and family. Years later, Yoriko…
Director: Naoko Ogigami
Genre: Drama,Comedy
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators,…
Director: David Bickerstaff
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 04-Sep-2023
Shinji Sōmai was one of the most fascinating and accomplished Japanese filmmakers of the 1980s and 90s, directing an eclectic mix of 13 films before he died in 2001 at just 53 years of age. We’re delighted to present one…
Director: Shiniji Somai
Genre: Drama,Romance
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture. Miyako Aoki, who lives with her father Seishiro, is trying to figure out what she wants to do after graduating high school. Her father, who succeeded her grandfather as a highly respected tsugaru - nuri lacquerware…
Director: Keiko Tsuruoka
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
2022 In the residential zone of Tama New Town, to the west of Tokyo, three different women spend the day moving around the area’s parks and streets. Unknown to each other and only briefly crossing paths, they encounter friends and…
Director: Yui Kiyohara
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 21-Mar-2024
Puccini’s bittersweet love story arrives in cinemas on 20 April, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess.…
Director: Nicolas Joel
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 21-Aug-2023
Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time. Stop Making Sense stars core band members…
Director: Jonathan Demme
Genre: Music,Documentary
Release Date: 18-Jul-2023
After a nature photographer (Mark L. Taylor) dies on assignment in Venezuela, a poisonous spider hitches a ride in his coffin to his hometown in rural California, where arachnophobe Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels) has just moved in with his…
Director: Frank Marshall
Genre: Comedy,Horror
Release Date: 08-Jul-1990
Sophie's Take: Compartment No 6 is about a woman named Laura who plans to go on a trip to see petroglyphs with her girlfriend, who is an anthropology professor. Petroglyphs are ancient drawings on rocks, and anthropology is the study…
Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 08-Apr-2022
Puccini’s bittersweet love story arrives in cinemas on 20 April, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess.…
Director: Nicolas Joel
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 21-Aug-2023
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the National Health Service, Aneurin…
Director: Rufus Norris
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 04-Jan-2024
Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the…
Director: Marius Petipa
Director: Lev Ivanov
Genre: Ballet,Event Cinema
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
Capturing a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in Ireland in the 1970’s, That They May Face The Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and…
Director: Pat Collins
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 26-Apr-2024
Tashi, a tennis player-turned-coach, has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him from a mediocre player into a world-famous Grand Slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a “Challenger” event — close…
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Genre: Drama,Romance
Release Date: 15-Sep-2023
Capturing a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in Ireland in the 1970’s, That They May Face The Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and…
Director: Pat Collins
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 26-Apr-2024
A true classic of guerrilla filmmaking, Mapantsula is now available to watch in stunning 4K after years of suppression, marking the 30th anniversary of South African Freedom Day in April 2024. Director Oliver Schmitz worked closely with co-writer and lead…
Director: Oliver Schmitz
Genre: Drama,Historical
Release Date: 27-Apr-2024
Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the…
Director: Marius Petipa
Director: Lev Ivanov
Genre: Ballet,Event Cinema
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
Sung in French with English subtitlesDamiano Michieletto's sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet's score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing…
Director: Damiano Michieletto
Genre: Event Cinema,Opera
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their original glory...
Director: George Lucas
Genre: Sci-Fi,Action
Release Date: 21-Feb-2024
Sung in French with English subtitlesDamiano Michieletto's sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet's score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing…
Director: Damiano Michieletto
Genre: Event Cinema,Opera
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
This year the Bealtaine Festival is proud to partner with the Dublin International Film Festival to present a number of short films curated by their Silver Screen Critics for Bealtaine on Screen. The group was invited to make their selection…
Genre: Festival
Release Date: 28-Mar-2024
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman stars as the callous American naval officer Pinkerton, whose betrayal destroys her. ..
Director: Anthony Minghella
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 21-Aug-2023
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman stars as the callous American naval officer Pinkerton, whose betrayal destroys her. ..
Director: Anthony Minghella
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 21-Aug-2023
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet...
Director: Michael Bay
Genre: Sci-Fi,Action
Release Date: 13-Feb-2024
Hard-boiled detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) is searching for evidence that proves Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice is the city's most dangerous crime boss. He may have found the key to unraveling the crimelord's illegal empire in Breathless Mahoney (Madonna), an…
Director: Warren Beatty
Genre: Action,Comedy
Release Date: 08-Jul-1990
King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, stays with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale where a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and all…
Director: Christopher Wheeldon
Genre: Ballet,Event Cinema
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, stays with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale where a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and all…
Director: Christopher Wheeldon
Genre: Ballet,Event Cinema
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive. Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance-theatre…
Director: Kate Prince
Genre: Event Cinema
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive. Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance-theatre…
Director: Kate Prince
Genre: Event Cinema
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
The National Gallery of London is one of the world’s greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an endless source of stories. But whose stories are told? Which art has the most impact and…
Director: Phil Grabsky
Director: Ali Ray
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 04-Sep-2023
Sung in Italian with English subtitlesAt a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier,…
Director: David McVicar
Genre: Event Cinema,Opera
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
Allison Vernon Williams is a rich "square" who finds herself uncontrollably drawn to the dreamy juvenile delinquent and his forbidden world of rockabilly music and fast cars. It's the hysterical high-throttle world of 1954 in director John Waters' outrageous musical…
Director: John Waters
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 10-Jun-1990
Sung in Italian with English subtitlesAt a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier,…
Director: David McVicar
Genre: Event Cinema,Opera
Release Date: 11-Jul-2023
Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote comes to town, with interactive screenings of classic Murder, She Wrote episodes. Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a unique and hilarious night featuring games, prizes and audience participation, with special permission from NBC Universal Television. June 22nd Light House…
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 15-Apr-2023
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love...
Director: Rob Reiner
Genre: Family
Release Date: 13-Feb-2024
Young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile...
Director: Lana Wachowski
Director: Lilly Wachowski
Genre: Action,Comedy
Release Date: 13-Feb-2024
Repairmen Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are tired of their dull lives in the small desert town of Perfection, Nev. But just as the two try to skip town, they happen upon a series of mysterious…
Genre: Horror,Comedy
Release Date: 20-May-1990
A psychotic drug lord leaves prison bent on sharing his profits with the poor, but finds that the streets are tougher than when he left and that there is no way of washing the blood from his dirty money...
Director: Abel Ferrara
Genre: Thriller,Drama
Release Date: 28-Sep-1990
In Paris in 1931, an orphan named Hugo Cabret who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton...
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Drama,Family
Release Date: 02-Dec-2011
Danny Boyle directs this adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel about a group of young Edinburgh heroin addicts. Ewan McGregor stars as Mark Renton, the most reflective member of a group that also includes the compulsive womaniser, Sick Boy (Jonny Lee…
Director: Danny Boyle
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 23-Feb-1996
Punk-rock star Orpheus (Robert McGinley) seeks Eurydice (Megan Murphy) in a future world of bad TV and shredded memories...
Director: Robert McGinley
Genre: Action,Horror
Release Date: 20-Jul-2024
Police Lt. Kinderman (George C. Scott) notices similarities between his current murder investigation and the methods used by the "Gemini" killer (Brad Dourif) who was executed 15 years before. He soon discovers a hospitalized mental patient (Jason Miller) claiming to…
Director: William Peter Blatty
Genre: Horror
Release Date: 17-Aug-1990
Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) is dying, apparently. This is good news, since his life was not much worth living anyway. On the upside, a strange millionaire (Lloyd Bridges) offers Joe a way to die with meaning and dignity: by hurling…
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 08-Jan-1990