"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...

' A search for a lost budgie quickly unravels into a chaotic journey through the city... Heart Cooks Brain and Farewell Theatre Company invite you to a premiere screening of If You’re Lost I’ll Come Find You , a Manchester-made short film by Sam Bond that follows four housemates as they navigate the uncertainties of their 20s amid the restless pull of city life. Will they find Connor’s beloved ...

Since its release back in 2009, this high-camp and super queer horror comedy has gone on to receive well-deserved cult status thanks to its fantastic performances, killer soundtrack, hilarious humour, and effective themes within a sharp script that is so quintessentially 2009 while still standing strong to this very day. After tragedy strikes the small town of Devil’s Kettle on the night of a pop...

Gurinder Chadha’s feel-good sports comedy is a smart, funny and uplifting tale of ambition, identity and friendship. Desperate to join a team, much to the disapproval of her strict Punjabi parents, Jess is ecstatic when semi-pro footballer Jules notices her skills and she joins her team in secret. Roping in her sister and friends to help her hide it from her parents, Jess struggles to keepie uppi...

Rose Glass’ gothic-tinged psychological drama is a wickedly playful piece of work, by turns insidiously creepy, darkly humorous and heartbreakingly sad. The two leads crackle with palpable chemistry, with Jennifer Ehle’s beautifully nuanced performance proving the perfect complement to Morfydd Clark’s star-making turn as the unsaintly Maud. Consistently upending expectations, this thrilling one-of...

Everyone can relate to feeling nostalgic and homesick for a memory. Charlotte Wells bundled up those exact feelings and packaged them into Aftersun, her first feature film and the winner of the French Touch Jury Prize at the Cannes 2022 Critics’ Week. Aftersun follows a young father, Calum (played by Paul Mescal), and his 11-year-old daughter, Sophie (newcomer Frankie Corio), who are spending a w...

We are Global Justice Now Youth MCR, a youth-run activist organization helping mobilize young people in Manchester for change by drawing attention to global issues so that we can challenge the powerful and help work towards a fairer and more equal world For our third screening at CULTPLEX we are proud to present Woman at War. The movie follows Halla, a choir conductor in her 50s who lives a secret...

Mary Harron’s pitch-black adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial novel turns the horror of capitalism into literal bloodsport with American Psycho. Set in a world of business cards, designer suits, and haute cuisine no one actually eats, American Psycho is as much a razor-wire satire as it is a psychological thriller. Harron directs with icy precision, peeling back the layers of toxic ma...

Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship! Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but in 2023 one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her sermon Barbi...

GASP! returns to their home of Cultplex on International Women’s Day to host a screening of the satirical feminist horror masterpiece, The Slumber Party Massacre! Amy Holden Jones’ 80s cult classic holds a mirror up to the male gaze that was very much present within the majority of slasher films at its time of release, commenting on misogyny and predictable tropes using sharp humour, buckets of m...

Twenty Three years on, Lost in Translation still stands as Sofia Coppola’s defining work; an introspective and wistful romance between two people as puzzled by their own existence as they are by the neon buzz of Shibuya. 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 comme...

Film Hub North's short film showcase, Northern Exposure, brings the best short films from the region to venues and festivals across the North of England. We're thrilled to be part of the tour, with the showcase landing at CULTPLEX this March! All of the featured films have been selected by a group of young Northern film curators who have scoured the region to uncover stories that resonate with th...

We are very proud to present ARROW VIDEO CLUB, a new collaboration with the almighty lords of physical media Arrow Video; where we will present some of the best titles from their back catalogue on our lovely big screen! Expect a variety of cult classics, deep cuts, Arrow Video trailers and a raffle for Arrow Video blu-rays at every event! For March, We have decided to commemorate the passing of t...