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This screening brings together two films that centre sex workers’ voices across different contexts — from digital labour online to long-term grassroots organising for rights and decriminalisation. The evening opens with Private Chat (2020), a short film by Joe Bowden and Ashley Song . Set within the world of online camming, the film follows a young cam model who books a private session with anoth...

Fiery, feminist comedian Beth Moore wants to bring the homely film watching experience of literally throwing yourself off your sofa, bruising your best friend’s arm from slapping and grabbing it so much and jaw dislocation from shock and awe to the cinema! DVD MENU SCREAM is a live-reaction-interactive- film-watching-spectacle! Beth'll bring the Overboard based complimentary comedy segments and...

Join us for Manchester’s only cult film pub quiz! Every other month our own in-house quizmaster, comedian Beth Moore, writes a completely original five round quiz and it takes place in Screen One – our 100-seater cinema! That’s right, a film quiz, in a cinema! Which means you can expect multimedia rounds showcasing a range of questions from the super nerdy to accessible trivia questions for all (p...

Interference Films is proud to present an ultra rare screening of the Hong Kong Category 3 classic RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY (??, 1991) Directed by Lam Nai Choi, Riki-Oh has become the stuff of cult film legend. Based upon the Japanese manga of the same name, Riki-Oh is an outlandish, hilarious, ultra violent martial arts movie set within the walls of a futuristic privatised prison. Ricky Ho (...

When rock singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is kidnapped by Raven (Willem Dafoe) and his biker gang her former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody (Michael Paré), is hired to bring her back. What follows is a trawl through the city’s nightmarish underbelly, alongside Ellen's manager Billy Fish (Rick Moranis) and former soldier McCoy (WEAPONS’ Amy Madigan), that includes rock numbers, bike chases and sled...

Satsuki and Mei's mother has taken ill. In order to be closer to her while she recovers in a rural convalescent hospital, their father moves the two sisters from their home in a city to the countryside. The house they move into is a ramshackle old place in the shadow of an ancient camphor tree, and Satsuki and Mei embark on adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. This screeni...

The second in a series of feature and short film screenings presented by Obscure Film at Cultplex in 2026! Each of the Genre Identities programmes will feature two hours of short films by local and international filmmakers, exploring the relationship between themes and concepts of a wide variety of film genres and the identities of the filmmakers and their communities. The short films in this scr...

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web...

SPEED + STRIKE PRESENTS: CRASH David Cronenberg's perverted, erotic, grotesque and nihilistic masterpiece CRASH. Banned in Westminster upon release, dragged through the mud in rags up and down the country and now coming to Cultplex for all of the freaks of Manchester for its 30th anniversary. Following director James Ballard (James Spader) as he finds himself entwined in the sexual lives of a gr...

All About My Mother cemented Almodóvar’s status as the Spanish auteur to watch. The film’s commercial success went hand in hand with prestigious accolades, including an Academy Award for Best International Film, and BAFTAs for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Not in the English Language. Manuela, an Argentine living in Madrid with her son Esteban hides a secret. She has never...

Diane, 19:00-22:00pm February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. There will be a cabaret night dedicated to the incredible show Twin Peaks. With 6 performers bringing Lyncian themed acts that will make you laugh, cry and fall in love all over again with the series. Alongside these performances we will also be doing a Twin Peaks raffle where you could win some themed goodies to take home with y...

Welcome to our annual Twin Peaks Day Celebration event! Join us for an unforgettable evening as we delve into the surreal mind of David Lynch! This year we'll be going into the event we'll be going into the event a little more heavy hearted than previous years due it being a year since the loss of the master David Lynch. But as always, we'll be celebrating his genius all day We will be screening...

"Hello wall!" Shirley Valentine , as played by the late great Pauline Collins is a 1980s Liverpool housewife with an ungrateful family, a cracked kitchen wall and to-camera monologues so sharp they could slice a frozen Viennetta. This 1989 comedy is powered by sassy northern women who shouldn't have to suffer the sheer indignity of making chips for someone who doesn’t deserve them and have so muc...

Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese ...

Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore feature is a boldly conceived story of self-discovery, defined by the ecstatic highs and devastating pitfalls of pop-cultural obsession. Teenager Owen (Justice Smith) is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the te...

A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an...

The spirit of John Waters lives on in this gloriously deranged meeting of gross-out comedy and gonzo horror. A bitter love-triangle erupts between Braden and his father Ronnie after they become jointly smitten by an attendee of their downtown Disco walking tour, Janet. A conflict further complicated by an upsurge in nocturnal attacks by the mysterious Greasy Strangler. British director Jim Hoskin...

Another world, another time… in the age of Wonder. From genius filmmaker Jim Henson comes The Dark Crystal , a masterful live-action fantasy starring some of the most imaginative creatures ever put on film. In this immersive and fantastical adventure from the creators of the Muppets, a mystical planet has fallen under the barbaric rule of the evil Skeksis. These vulture-like beasts have all but e...

One of Powell and Pressburger’s masterpieces is a celebration of art, dance, music and the power of cinema to move and inspire. Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young comp...

“You Are the Universe” (2025, 102 min, directed by Pavlo Ostrikov) is a Ukrainian science fiction film about loneliness, human connection, and choice in a world after catastrophe. This film is not only a film about space, but about humanity, hope, and responsibility in times of destruction — themes that deeply resonate with the experience of contemporary Ukraine. “You Are the Universe” in Manches...