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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

From visionary director Harmony Korine comes a bold new vision of the seasonal American ritual known as ‘spring break’ – the bacchanalia of bikinis, beach parties and beer bongs that draws hordes of college students to the Florida coast and elsewhere each year. Brit (Ashley Benson), Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are best friends anxious to cut loose on th...

When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer sees his life and the future of media spin out of control. Max Renn (James Woods) is looking for fresh new content for his TV channel when he happens across some illegal S&M style broadcasts called “Videodrome”. Embroiling his girlfriend Nick (Deborah Harry) in his search for the source, his journey begins to b...

Ghost in the Shell remains one of the most influential anime films of all time, partly made in response to Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal 1988 Akira, and inspiring a continuing franchise as well as a Hollywood live-action remake with Scarlett Johansson. Yet it’s Oshii’s original vision that remains the most powerfully prophetic, raising philosophical questions around transhumanism that are more relevan...

Ladies and gentlemen please be upstanding as we pay our respects to Vine. #RIPVine is a tribute to the six second icons that have given so much joy to millions the world over and provided the inspiration for TikTok's global domination. Back in 2018, Pilot Light TV Festival and Live Cinema UK curated two big-screen compilations of the all-time greatest Vine loops, presented as part of the BFI’s ‘...

To celebrate Transgender Day of Visibilty, we are bringing back the now cult classic, The People's Joker on 1st April. This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted trans girl as she moves to Gotham City to make it big as a comedian by joining the cast of UCB Live - a government-sanctioned late n...

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages and early modern era suffered from the same ills as psychiatric patients diagnosed with hysteria in the film's own time. Far from a dry dissertation on the topic, the film itself is a...