NAUGHTY OR NICE 2023

It's the time of year to spread some cheer, so start making a film list and check it twice, as we excitedly bring you Naughty or Nice!

For the entire month of December, Light House and Pálás will be bringing the most beloved festive films and cult Christmas classics to the big screen. This year's nice list includes Frank Capra's iconic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and 20th anniversary screenings of the utterly joyous ELF. The naughty list includes Stanley Kubrick's mysterious EYES WIDE SHUT and our annual trip to Nakatomi Tower in DIE HARD.

And we're finishing out the year in style with Sofia Coppola's MARIE ANTOINETTE in 35mm

See you in December for this year's superb selection of cinematic stocking fillers.

  • Maestro

    This fearless love story chronicles the complicated lifelong relationship between music legend Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein...

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    Director: Bradley Cooper

    Genre: Biopic,Drama

    Release Date: 01-Dec-2023

  • Saltburn

    Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the…

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    Director: Emerald Fennell

    Genre: Thriller

    Release Date: 17-Nov-2023

    Tue 05 Dec
    Wed 06 Dec
    Fri 08 Dec
    Sat 09 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Mon 11 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
    Thu 14 Dec
  • Fallen Leaves

    Celebrating the sweet joy of hope and revelling in the gentle comedy of disappointment, Aki Kaurismäki’s timeless, yet timely, tale is an absolute delight. Peppered with wry visual gags, joyful cinematic references and a scene-stealing dog, we enter the zero-hour-contract…

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    Director: Aki Kaurismäki

    Genre: Comedy,Drama

    Release Date: 01-Dec-2023

    Tue 05 Dec
    Wed 06 Dec
    Thu 07 Dec
    Fri 08 Dec
    Sat 09 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Mon 11 Dec
    Tue 12 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
    Thu 14 Dec
  • Napoleon

    Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film…

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    Director: Ridley Scott

    Genre: Action,Biopic,Drama

    Release Date: 22-Nov-2023

    Tue 05 Dec
    Fri 08 Dec
    Sat 09 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Mon 11 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
    Thu 14 Dec
  • Eileen

    Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally…

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    Director: William Oldroyd

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 01-Dec-2023

    Tue 05 Dec
    Wed 06 Dec
    Thu 07 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Mon 11 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
    Thu 14 Dec
  • Parent & Baby: Maestro

    This fearless love story chronicles the complicated lifelong relationship between music legend Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.


    Our dedicated Parent and Baby screenings let you catch one of our new releases without having to find a…

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    Director: Bradley Cooper

    Genre: Biopic,Drama

    Release Date: 01-Dec-2023

    Wed 06 Dec
  • Anatomy of a Fall

    When her husband Samuel is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra (Sandra Hüller) becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed.


    The trial soon becomes…

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    Director: Justine Triet

    Genre: Thriller,Drama

    Release Date: 10-Nov-2023

    Wed 06 Dec
    Thu 07 Dec
    Mon 11 Dec
    Thu 14 Dec
  • Dream Scenario

    Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound…

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    Director: Kristoffer Borgli

    Genre: Comedy,Horror

    Release Date: 10-Nov-2023

    Wed 06 Dec
  • The Eternal Daughter

    Joanna Hogg’s enthralling ghost story, features an astonishing performance by her The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II collaborator Tilda Swinton.

    An artist and her elderly mother (both played by Tilda Swinton) confront long-buried secrets when they return to a…

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    Director: Joanna Hogg

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 24-Nov-2023

    Wed 06 Dec
    Tue 12 Dec
  • So This is Christmas

    It’s late November in a quiet little Irish town, and the expectations of the impending festive season are growing. Christmas trees are being bought, festive music turned up and presents scrambled for. It’s all getting very bright and loud, excessive…

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    Director: Ken Wardrop

    Genre: Documentary

    Release Date: 16-Oct-2023

    Thu 07 Dec
    Fri 08 Dec
    Sat 09 Dec
    Mon 11 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
  • Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce

    RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCE accentuates the journey of RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR, from its inception, to the opening in Stockholm, Sweden, to the finale in Kansas City, Missouri. It is about Beyonce’s intention, hard work, involvement in every aspect of…

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    Genre: Music

    Release Date: 04-Oct-2023

    Thu 07 Dec
    Fri 08 Dec
    Sat 09 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Thu 14 Dec
  • Silver Screen: The Peasants

    The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by…

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    Director: Dorota Kobiela

    Director: Hugh Welchman

    Genre: Animation,Drama

    Release Date: 08-Dec-2023

    Fri 08 Dec
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol

    What happens when you give a classic Dickens story the Muppet treatment? A lot of laughs, songs and a terrific story too! Michael Caine (who just retired from acting this year) takes on the part of miserable old miser Ebenezer…

    read more

    Director: Brian Henson

    Genre: Comedy,Drama

    Release Date: 02-Dec-2022

    Fri 08 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Fri 15 Dec
    Sat 16 Dec
    Thu 21 Dec
    Sat 23 Dec
  • Elf

    Will Ferrell stars as the ultimate fish out of water, Buddy, who as a baby crawls into Santa's toy bag and is whisked off to the North Pole, where he is raised as an elf. A misfit who grows to…

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    Director: Jon Favreau

    Genre: Comedy,Fantasy

    Release Date: 28-Nov-2003

    Fri 08 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Mon 11 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
    Sun 17 Dec
    Fri 22 Dec
    Sat 23 Dec
  • The Peasants

    The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by…

    read more

    Director: Dorota Kobiela

    Director: Hugh Welchman

    Genre: Animation,Drama

    Release Date: 08-Dec-2023

    Fri 08 Dec
    Sat 09 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Mon 11 Dec
    Tue 12 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
    Thu 14 Dec
  • Love Actually

    Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England...

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    Director: Richard Curtis

    Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

    Release Date: 21-Nov-2003

    Fri 08 Dec
    Thu 14 Dec
    Fri 15 Dec
    Fri 22 Dec
    Sat 23 Dec
  • The Red Shoes

    In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art. Like the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s source fairytale, whose magic shoes compel her to dance, Victoria Page –…

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    Director: Michael Powell

    Director: Emeric Pressburger

    Genre: Drama,Romance

    Release Date: 08-Dec-2023

    Fri 08 Dec
    Sat 09 Dec
    Sun 10 Dec
    Tue 12 Dec
    Fri 22 Dec
  • Parent & Baby: Elf

    Will Ferrell stars as the ultimate fish out of water, Buddy, who as a baby crawls into Santa's toy bag and is whisked off to the North Pole, where he is raised as an elf. A misfit who grows to…

    read more

    Director: Jon Favreau

    Genre: Comedy,Fantasy

    Release Date: 28-Nov-2003

    Sat 09 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol (Open Caption)

    What happens when you give a classic Dickens story the Muppet treatment? A lot of laughs, songs and a terrific story too! Michael Caine (who just retired from acting this year) takes on the part of miserable old miser Ebenezer…

    read more

    Director: Brian Henson

    Genre: Comedy,Drama

    Release Date: 02-Dec-2023

    Sat 09 Dec
  • It’s a Wonderful Life

    Like overcooked poultry, Brussel sprouts and indigestion, It’s a Wonderful Life is a Christmas tradition. However, unlike these things, Frank Capra’s masterpiece is both tremendous fun and good for you. Far from being a saccharine, sentimental wallow, this film, in…

    read more

    Director: Frank Capra

    Genre: Drama,Fantasy

    Release Date: 03-Dec-2021

    Sat 09 Dec
    Sat 16 Dec
    Tue 19 Dec
    Thu 21 Dec
    Sat 23 Dec
  • Scarface (40th Anniversary)

    One of the most influential gangster epics of all time, Scarface is the rags-to-riches story of Cuban immigrant Tony “Scarface” Montana, who finds wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams... at a price he never imagined. From acclaimed director…

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    Director: Brian De Palma

    Genre: Thriller,Drama

    Release Date: 01-Dec-2023

    Sat 09 Dec
    Tue 12 Dec
  • MET Opera: Florencia en el Amazonas (Live)

    Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of…

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    Director: Mary Zimmerman

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Sat 09 Dec
  • Die Hard

    One of the biggest films of the eighties, Die Hard was not only a box office smash, but it made a star of its leading man, Bruce Willis, and quickly became considered as one of the greatest action movies of…

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    Director: John McTiernan

    Genre: Action,Romance

    Release Date: 17-Feb-1989

    Sat 09 Dec
    Sat 16 Dec
    Wed 20 Dec
    Fri 22 Dec
    Sat 23 Dec
  • Home Alone

    An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation...

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    Director: Chris Columbus

    Genre: Comedy

    Release Date: 07-Dec-1990

    Sun 10 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
    Sun 17 Dec
    Wed 20 Dec
    Fri 22 Dec
    Sat 23 Dec
  • I Dream in Photos

    I DREAM IN PHOTOS is a feature length documentary that explores the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Cathal McNaughton, who quit “the best job in the world” at the peak of his career aged just 40. Through…

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    Director: Gary Lennon

    Genre: Documentary

    Release Date: 02-Nov-2023

    Sun 10 Dec
  • Tokyo Godfathers (20th Anniversary)

    In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the…

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    Director: Satoshi Kon

    Genre: Animation,Comedy

    Release Date: 07-Oct-2003

    Mon 11 Dec
    Sun 17 Dec
  • MET Opera: Florencia en el Amazonas (Encore)

    Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of…

    read more

    Director: Mary Zimmerman

    Genre: Opera

    Release Date: 21-Aug-2023

    Tue 12 Dec
  • May December

    Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), a popular television star, has arrived in a tight-knit island community in Savannah. Here, she will be doing intimate research for a new part, ingratiating herself into the lives of Gracie (Julianne Moore), whom she’ll be playing…

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    Director: Todd Haynes

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 17-Nov-2023

    Tue 12 Dec
    Wed 13 Dec
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Henry Selick delivers a delightful vision of Tim Burton’s Halloween-meets-Christmas tale.

    Jack Skellington of Halloween Town finds scaring people just isn’t fun anymore, so sets his sights on neighbouring Christmas Town, a place covered in snow and full of joy. However,…

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    Director: Henry Selick

    Genre: Animation,Fantasy

    Release Date: 16-Dec-1994

    Tue 12 Dec
  • Tangerine

    Tangerine, the gloriously queer alternative Christmas tale, is a rip-roaring odyssey, loaded with dry-wit and foul-mouthed comedy as it follows the lives and loves of a couple of transgender sex workers through the various subcultures of Los Angeles at Christmastime.

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    Director: Sean Baker

    Genre: Comedy,Thriller,Drama

    Release Date: 09-Oct-2015

    Tue 12 Dec
  • Royal Ballet 2023/24: The Nutcracker (Live)

    Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed. Marvel at the brilliance of Tchaikovsky’s score, as Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker fight the Mouse King and visit…

    read more

    Genre: Event Cinema,Ballet

    Release Date: 11-Jul-2023

    Tue 12 Dec
  • Santa Claus: The Movie

    This is the story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves in the North Pole and becomes Santa Claus. But when Santa's eager-to-please elf Patch leaves the North Pole for the big streets of New York…

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    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Genre: Family,Fantasy

    Release Date: 06-Dec-1985

    Wed 13 Dec
    Tue 19 Dec
    Sat 23 Dec
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (Open Caption)

    Like overcooked poultry, Brussel sprouts and indigestion, It’s a Wonderful Life is a Christmas tradition. However, unlike these things, Frank Capra’s masterpiece is both tremendous fun and good for you. Far from being a saccharine, sentimental wallow, this film, in…

    read more

    Director: Frank Capra

    Genre: Drama,Fantasy

    Release Date: 03-Dec-2021

    Thu 14 Dec
  • Godzilla Minus One

    Godzilla returns to Japanese parent company Toho after a stint in Hollywood, for one of the best entries yet in the world’s longest continually running film franchise. Returning to its roots as a metaphor for the devastation in post-war Japan,…

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    Director: Takashi Yamazaki

    Genre: Action,Sci-Fi

    Release Date: 15-Dec-2023

    Fri 15 Dec
    Sat 16 Dec
    Sun 17 Dec
  • Solve-Along-A Murder She Wrote

    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.

    December 15th Light…

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    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 15-Apr-2023

    Fri 15 Dec
  • Eyes Wide Shut

    After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings…

    read more

    Director: Stanley Kubrick

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 10-Nov-2022

    Fri 15 Dec
    Sun 17 Dec
  • Parent & Baby: The Muppet Christmas Carol

    What happens when you give a classic Dickens story the Muppet treatment? A lot of laughs, songs and a terrific story too! Michael Caine (who just retired from acting this year) takes on the part of miserable old miser Ebenezer…

    read more

    Director: Brian Henson

    Genre: Comedy,Drama

    Release Date: 02-Dec-2022

    Sat 16 Dec
    Wed 20 Dec
  • The Shop Around the Corner

    Made between the more famous Ninotchka (1939) and To Be or Not to Be (1942), and now re-released, this is director Ernst Lubitsch’s supreme romantic comedy, a warmly affectionate study of the love, loneliness and friendship shared between a group…

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    Director: Ernst Lubitsch

    Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

    Release Date: 08-May-1940

    Sat 16 Dec
  • Staff Pick: Lost in Translation

    A lonely, aging movie star named Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and a conflicted newlywed, Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), meet in Tokyo. Bob is there to film a Japanese whiskey commercial; Charlotte is accompanying her celebrity-photographer husband. Strangers in a foreign land,…

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    Director: Sofia Coppola

    Genre: Drama,Comedy

    Release Date: 28-Oct-2003

    Sat 16 Dec
  • Scrooged

    In this modern take on Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after…

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    Director: Richard Donner

    Genre: Comedy,Drama,Fantasy

    Release Date: 23-Dec-1988

    Sat 16 Dec
  • Royal Ballet 2023/24: The Nutcracker (Encore)

    Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed. Marvel at the brilliance of Tchaikovsky’s score, as Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker fight the Mouse King and visit…

    read more

    Genre: Event Cinema,Ballet

    Release Date: 11-Jul-2023

    Sun 17 Dec
  • Carol

    Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, May December) was the perfect director to bring Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Price of Salt, a story of secret love, against a backdrop of 1950s glamour, to the big screen.

    Shopping for a Christmas…

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    Director: Todd Haynes

    Genre: Romance,Drama

    Release Date: 05-Oct-2015

    Sun 17 Dec
    Wed 20 Dec
  • North Circular + Q&A

    Atmospherically shot in black and white, North Circular travels the length of the eponymous road that links some of Dublin’s most beloved and infamous places. This magical journey is enriched with musical performances from local artists including John Francis Flynn,…

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    Director: Luke McManus

    Genre: Documentary

    Release Date: 02-Dec-2022

    Sun 17 Dec
  • Cinema Book Club: Die Hard

    One of the biggest films of the eighties, Die Hard was not only a box office smash, but it made a star of its leading man, Bruce Willis, and quickly became considered as one of the greatest action movies of…

    read more

    Director: John McTiernan

    Genre: Action,Romance

    Release Date: 17-Feb-1989

    Mon 18 Dec
  • Silver Screen: It’s a Wonderful Life

    Silver Screenings take place every Friday morning for film fans over the age of 65. The reduced ticket price of €6 includes complimentary tea/ coffee before the film.


    It’s a Wonderful Life is a Christmas tradition. Far from…

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    Director: Frank Capra

    Genre: Drama,Fantasy

    Release Date: 03-Dec-2021

    Fri 22 Dec
  • Priscilla 35mm

    When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes,…

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    Director: Sofia Coppola

    Genre: Biopic,Drama

    Release Date: 05-Jan-2024

  • Asteroid City

    Asteroid City takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955 in which the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly…

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    Director: Wes Anderson

    Genre: Comedy,Romance

    Release Date: 23-Jun-2023

    Wed 27 Dec
  • Barbie

    To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, directed by Indie-darling turned…

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    Director: Greta Gerwig

    Genre: Action,Comedy

    Release Date: 21-Jul-2023

    Thu 28 Dec
  • Oppenheimer

    Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is an incredibly detailed and awe-inspiring cinematic experience. This historical epic features a career defining performance from Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppehiemer, the father of the atomic bomb. What is being hailed as Nolan’s greatest work…

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    Director: Christopher Nolan

    Genre: Biopic,Drama,Historical

    Release Date: 21-Jul-2023

    Thu 28 Dec
  • Past Lives

    Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny...

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    Director: Celine Song

    Genre: Drama,Romance

    Release Date: 08-Sep-2023

    Fri 29 Dec
  • Stop Making Sense

    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…

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    Director: Jonathan Demme

    Genre: Music,Documentary

    Release Date: 18-Jul-2023

    Fri 29 Dec
  • TÁR

    From producer-writer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician Lydia Tár. TÁR examines the changing nature of power, its impact, and durability in our modern world...

    read more

    Director: Todd Field

    Genre: Drama,Musical

    Release Date: 13-Jan-2023

    Sat 30 Dec

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