With this magnificent epic of experimental cinema, Akerman offers a feminist perspective on the stifling and frustratingly recurrent aspects of everyday life.
Dominated by a commanding performance from Delphine Seyrig, the film sparingly depicts a homemaker and part-time prostitute struggling to raise and provide for her teenage son. As her patient, highly choreographed routines become strained, a remarkable portrait emerges, one that displays the full force and intensity of domestic estrangement.
All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.
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...
You're not Hardcore unless you LIVE Hardcore! Class is in Session! Accept no substitute as it's time to rock out with this raucous bottomless romp starring the hilarious Jack Black as a hapless music teacher! After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band. A ticket for thi...
Rachel Ormont (Betsy Brown) lives in an all-too-familiar, decidedly dystopian, alternate universe where she tries to navigate a life of feverish monotony. Raised in captivity in the carefully controlled and craftily curated clutches of an advertising agency, Rachel’s humanity is imprinted by and organized around commodity and perception. Her parasocial relationship with the product being advertis...
In the 80s and 90s, director John Woo would cement his reputation as a master of action films with classics like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Bullet in the Head. This would culminate in 1992 with the release of his masterpiece Hard Boiled, the hyperkinetic, hyperviolent exemplar of the Heroic Bloodshed genre. Iconic actor Chow Yun-Fat (City on Fire) stars as Tequila, a gung-ho cop working to...
CULTPLEX is super excited to be presenting a 40th anniversary screening of the sci-fi/fantasy epic Highlander in 4K! With its sprawling story spanning centuries, sword-and-sorcery spin on science fiction, and legendary soundtrack by Queen, it’s a cornerstone of 80s pop culture in all its glorious, cheesy glory - throw in Sean Connery as an immortal swordsman and location shoots from Manhattan to ...
Join us at CULTPLEX for another unforgettable Oscars watchalong experience in our cinema! Immerse yourself in the glitz, glamour, drama, shocks and surprises as we screen the entire ceremony live. This will be a super fun interactive screening, where attendees can win big by guessing the winners and more! But that's not all – before the main event kicks off, get ready to test your Oscars knowledg...
Visually fascinating and historically relevant, The Elephant Man is a haunting masterpiece of compassion, beauty and humanity. With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England – that of the friendship between London surgeon Frederick Treves and freakshow performer John Merrick. Shot in gorgeous blac...
A federal agent is dead. A killer is loose. And the City of Angels is about to explode. William Petersen and Willem Dafoe face off in a deadly game of cat and mouse in this "riveting" ( The New York Times ) action-thriller from the Oscar-winning director of The French Connection . This raw tale of corruption and revenge features one of the most harrowing car chases ever caught on film and a shock...
OBSCURE FILM PRESENTS: A SURPRISE FILM FROM LIZZIE BORDEN
Fri 20 Mar
The third in a year-long series of feature and short film screenings presented by Obscure Film at Cultplex in 2026! This special screening will present the personal copy of a feature by Lizzie Borden, director of many films featuring women in the centre who are otherwise pushed to the margins: sex workers, anarchists, collectivists, poets, journalists, artists. Her daring 1980s films are highly p...
INTERFERENCE FILMS PRESENTS: THE EXTERMINATOR & COMBAT SHOCK
Fri 20 Mar
On March 20th 2026 - Interference is proud to present a double helping of grimy, grindhouse classics...James Glickenhaus's THE EXTERMINATOR & Buddy Giovinazzo's COMBAT SHOCK!! Two very different tales of Vietnam war veterans returning to civilian life, haunted by the traumas of war and troubled by the harsh realities of 1980's New York - one embarks on a path of bloody revenge whilst the other ...
Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote: “The Sins of Castle Cove”
Fri 20 Mar
Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote continues its Manchester residency at Fairfield Social Club with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode “The Sins of Castle Cove”. A former student of Jessica Fletcher has written a scandalous novel based on Cabot Cove and when she returns home it sparks a murder that only JB (or you!) can solve! Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wro...
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breath-taking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady E...
Dog Day Afternoon is a Oscar-winning film based on a true story about a bank robbery gone haywire one hot August day in Brooklyn. Sonny (Pacino) and his accomplice Sal (Cazale) plan to rob a bank in order to pay for Sonny’s lover to have sex reassignment surgery, but they arrive after the daily cash pick-up and soon find themselves in a stand-off with the FBI when they take the employees hostage....
Arguably the defining cult film of the Reagan era, the feature debut of Alex Cox is a genre-busting mash-up of atomic-age science fiction, post-punk anarchism, and conspiracy paranoia, all shot through with heavy doses of deadpan humour and offbeat philosophy. After quitting his dead-end supermarket job, young punk Otto (Emilio Estevez) is initiated as a “repo man” after a chance encounter with ...
Welcome to Jurassic Park. In Steven Spielberg’s dino classic paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park’s mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the faci...
Make A Scene Film Club presents a true icon: Victor/Victoria —the Oscar winning 1982 musical comedy that said "what if Julie Andrews was a woman playing a man playing a woman?" and goes for it! Directed by Blake Edwards , best know for the Pink Panther films this gloriously tangled farce is set in 1930s Paris a world of smoky cabarets, tuxedos and rigid gender expectations where Andrews' down on...
After witnessing the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas), police detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington), and his partner Jonesy (John Goodman), are soon investigating another murderer whose mode of operation is eerily similar to that of Reese. During the investigation, Hobbes meets theology professor Gretta Milano (Embeth Davidtz), who introduces him to the world of the occult...
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...
UrbanArtistry Presents: Blue Light & Blurred Memories
Fri 27 Mar
Blue Light: When filmmaker Sophie Sonntag is hired by the Berlin transport company BVG to make a promotional film, she has no idea that it's all fake and that she is part of a large-scale art production. After filming, all the memory cards disappeared, but a few days later they anonymously landed in her mailbox. She investigated and decided to make a film about it. The result: a 90-minute docudra...
With this magnificent epic of experimental cinema, Akerman offers a feminist perspective on the stifling and frustratingly recurrent aspects of everyday life. Dominated by a commanding performance from Delphine Seyrig, the film sparingly depicts a homemaker and part-time prostitute struggling to raise and provide for her teenage son. As her patient, highly choreographed routines become strained, ...
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...
You're not Hardcore unless you LIVE Hardcore! Class is in Session! Accept no substitute as it's time to rock out with this raucous bottomless romp starring the hilarious Jack Black as a hapless music teacher! After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band. A ticket for thi...
Rachel Ormont (Betsy Brown) lives in an all-too-familiar, decidedly dystopian, alternate universe where she tries to navigate a life of feverish monotony. Raised in captivity in the carefully controlled and craftily curated clutches of an advertising agency, Rachel’s humanity is imprinted by and organized around commodity and perception. Her parasocial relationship with the product being advertis...
In the 80s and 90s, director John Woo would cement his reputation as a master of action films with classics like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Bullet in the Head. This would culminate in 1992 with the release of his masterpiece Hard Boiled, the hyperkinetic, hyperviolent exemplar of the Heroic Bloodshed genre. Iconic actor Chow Yun-Fat (City on Fire) stars as Tequila, a gung-ho cop working to...
CULTPLEX is super excited to be presenting a 40th anniversary screening of the sci-fi/fantasy epic Highlander in 4K! With its sprawling story spanning centuries, sword-and-sorcery spin on science fiction, and legendary soundtrack by Queen, it’s a cornerstone of 80s pop culture in all its glorious, cheesy glory - throw in Sean Connery as an immortal swordsman and location shoots from Manhattan to ...
Join us at CULTPLEX for another unforgettable Oscars watchalong experience in our cinema! Immerse yourself in the glitz, glamour, drama, shocks and surprises as we screen the entire ceremony live. This will be a super fun interactive screening, where attendees can win big by guessing the winners and more! But that's not all – before the main event kicks off, get ready to test your Oscars knowledg...
Visually fascinating and historically relevant, The Elephant Man is a haunting masterpiece of compassion, beauty and humanity. With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England – that of the friendship between London surgeon Frederick Treves and freakshow performer John Merrick. Shot in gorgeous blac...
A federal agent is dead. A killer is loose. And the City of Angels is about to explode. William Petersen and Willem Dafoe face off in a deadly game of cat and mouse in this "riveting" ( The New York Times ) action-thriller from the Oscar-winning director of The French Connection . This raw tale of corruption and revenge features one of the most harrowing car chases ever caught on film and a shock...
OBSCURE FILM PRESENTS: A SURPRISE FILM FROM LIZZIE BORDEN
Fri 20 Mar
The third in a year-long series of feature and short film screenings presented by Obscure Film at Cultplex in 2026! This special screening will present the personal copy of a feature by Lizzie Borden, director of many films featuring women in the centre who are otherwise pushed to the margins: sex workers, anarchists, collectivists, poets, journalists, artists. Her daring 1980s films are highly p...
INTERFERENCE FILMS PRESENTS: THE EXTERMINATOR & COMBAT SHOCK
Fri 20 Mar
On March 20th 2026 - Interference is proud to present a double helping of grimy, grindhouse classics...James Glickenhaus's THE EXTERMINATOR & Buddy Giovinazzo's COMBAT SHOCK!! Two very different tales of Vietnam war veterans returning to civilian life, haunted by the traumas of war and troubled by the harsh realities of 1980's New York - one embarks on a path of bloody revenge whilst the other ...
Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote: “The Sins of Castle Cove”
Fri 20 Mar
Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote continues its Manchester residency at Fairfield Social Club with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode “The Sins of Castle Cove”. A former student of Jessica Fletcher has written a scandalous novel based on Cabot Cove and when she returns home it sparks a murder that only JB (or you!) can solve! Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wro...
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breath-taking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady E...
Dog Day Afternoon is a Oscar-winning film based on a true story about a bank robbery gone haywire one hot August day in Brooklyn. Sonny (Pacino) and his accomplice Sal (Cazale) plan to rob a bank in order to pay for Sonny’s lover to have sex reassignment surgery, but they arrive after the daily cash pick-up and soon find themselves in a stand-off with the FBI when they take the employees hostage....
Arguably the defining cult film of the Reagan era, the feature debut of Alex Cox is a genre-busting mash-up of atomic-age science fiction, post-punk anarchism, and conspiracy paranoia, all shot through with heavy doses of deadpan humour and offbeat philosophy. After quitting his dead-end supermarket job, young punk Otto (Emilio Estevez) is initiated as a “repo man” after a chance encounter with ...
Welcome to Jurassic Park. In Steven Spielberg’s dino classic paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park’s mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the faci...
Make A Scene Film Club presents a true icon: Victor/Victoria —the Oscar winning 1982 musical comedy that said "what if Julie Andrews was a woman playing a man playing a woman?" and goes for it! Directed by Blake Edwards , best know for the Pink Panther films this gloriously tangled farce is set in 1930s Paris a world of smoky cabarets, tuxedos and rigid gender expectations where Andrews' down on...
After witnessing the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas), police detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington), and his partner Jonesy (John Goodman), are soon investigating another murderer whose mode of operation is eerily similar to that of Reese. During the investigation, Hobbes meets theology professor Gretta Milano (Embeth Davidtz), who introduces him to the world of the occult...
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...
UrbanArtistry Presents: Blue Light & Blurred Memories
Fri 27 Mar
Blue Light: When filmmaker Sophie Sonntag is hired by the Berlin transport company BVG to make a promotional film, she has no idea that it's all fake and that she is part of a large-scale art production. After filming, all the memory cards disappeared, but a few days later they anonymously landed in her mailbox. She investigated and decided to make a film about it. The result: a 90-minute docudra...
With this magnificent epic of experimental cinema, Akerman offers a feminist perspective on the stifling and frustratingly recurrent aspects of everyday life. Dominated by a commanding performance from Delphine Seyrig, the film sparingly depicts a homemaker and part-time prostitute struggling to raise and provide for her teenage son. As her patient, highly choreographed routines become strained, ...
