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 sledgehammer duels.
Co-written and directed by Walter Hill, STREETS OF FIRE fella like a fusion between Hill's earlier film THE WARRIORS (1979) and the rock musical PURPLE RAIN (1984). The film's soundtrack features contributions from Jimmy Lovine, Jim Steinman and Stevie Nicks and the main track, "Nowhere Fast" is a certified banger. Don't miss out on this cinematic treat as there's nothing else out there quite like STREETS OF FIRE!!!
Reel Gems Film Club is all about sharing and celebrating the unsung gems of genre cinema.
Zoinks! Treat your inner child to a big-screen adventure with Scooby and the gang! With plenty of Boozy Snacks! When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren't the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it's up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma to uncover the truth behind the mysterio...
Be Gay, Do Crime! With The Wachowskis’ stylish Mob thriller starring Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon and Joe Pantoliano. With seduction, double-crosses, murder, and some of the hottest sex scenes in cinema – Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s sizzling neo-noir Bound is a bonafide crime classic. When Corky, a tough-as-nails ex-con, meets Violet, a mobster’s ultra-femme girlfriend, the sparks fly and a plan ...
A videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man to his unborn child. As the day progresses the man's requests and behaviour become increasingly more bizarre. All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.
Relive Damien Chazelle's dazzlingly stylised homage to the classic Hollywood musical as Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star as an ambitious jazz pianist and an aspiring actress who fall in love while pursuing their dreams of stardom. Mia (Emma Stone) is a wannabe actress, barely holding down a day job on a studio lot while juggling auditions for second rate parts, while Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is a...
Akira Kurosawa's final masterpiece, Ran is a reworking of Shakespeare's King Lear, set in feudal Japan. Ran tells the story of Hidetora Ichimonji an aging warlord who, after spending his life consolidating his empire, decides to abdicate and divide his Kingdom amoungst his three sons Taro, Jiro and Saburo When Saburo voices concerns about the wisdom of his father's plan, claiming that treacher...
Join us on Sunday the 8th of February for a special Super Bowl LX party! We will be showing The Big Game on the biggest screen in our venue - our glorious Screen 1! You can expect a relaxed and friendly environment, special big screen fun from 9pm, amazing drinks and tasty AF hot dogs served between 9pm and 11pm to help you fill your belly for a long night of american football! Your ticket to th...
Pitchblack Playback: James Blake 'James Blake' 15th anniversary
Wed 11 Feb
Immerse yourself James Blake's stunning debut album at our listening session in the dark, celebrating 15 years since its release. Hear this immense record played loud in uncompressed audio on Cultplex's powerful cinema sound system. No distractions; just you and the music. "This sounds great” — Rick Rubin "A fabulous idea" — Jay Kay, Jamiroquai "The optimal way to listen to an album" — Max Rich...
Pitchblack Playback: Fugees 'The Score' 30th anniversary
Wed 11 Feb
Immerse yourself in Fugees' stone-cold hip hop classic 'The Score' at our listening session in the dark, celebrating 30 years since its release. Hear this immense record played loud in uncompressed audio on Cultplex's powerful cinema sound system. No distractions; just you and the music. "This sounds great” — Rick Rubin "A fabulous idea" — Jay Kay, Jamiroquai "The optimal way to listen to an al...
Immerse yourself in ROSALÍA's breathtaking new vision at our exclusive listening session in the dark for 'LUX' — one of our Best Albums Of 2025. Hear this immense record played loud in uncompressed audio on Cultplex's powerful cinema sound system. No distractions; just you and the music. "This sounds great” — Rick Rubin "A fabulous idea" — Jay Kay, Jamiroquai "The optimal way to listen to an al...
Before hope was instilled in a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas visited the future in 1971 with his feature-debut THX 1138. Set sometime in the 21st century, the film offers a world where citizens live underground and are controlled by the use of mandatory drugs, altering their minds and suppressing their emotions. Sexual intercourse and the concept of family are prohibited - it’s a future wher...
This February, on Friday the 13th, come spend the night with GASP! Horror Film Festival as they screen a Valentine's special double bill of (not very) romantic horror movies starting with the Universal Monsters classic, Bride of Frankenstein, a highly ambitious and highly influential horror masterpiece that changed the genre as we know it with its gothic, atmospheric horror that provides so much i...
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! In career that has encompassed such controversial classics...
Here at CULTPLEX we are here to give everyone what they want on Valentine's Day - A screening of our favourite romance trilogy - Linklater's the before films! This isn't just a series of films; it is the holy scripture of modern(ish) romance, tracking the evolution of a relationship in real-time intervals of nine years. From the naive optimism of youth to the complex, battle-hardened reality of l...
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...
This final movie version was created as an alternative ending to the NEON GENESIS EVANGELION TV series, remaking the final two episodes from the series. SEELE plans an attack on NERV after failing to create a man-made Third Impact. After reaffirming both her own and her mother’s existence in a state of despair, Asuka returns and begins the counterattack. However, new enemies descend from the heave...
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 writes a completely original six round quiz which can ONLY be played within the walls of our cinema, YES IT’S A MOVIE PUB QUIZ THAT HAPPENS IN A CINEMA! This means you can expect a feast of multimedia rounds on top of the uber nerdy, classic trivia questions. Example rounds include… DRAW US A PI...
Interference Films Presents: Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Fri 20 Feb
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...
Zoinks! Treat your inner child to a big-screen adventure with Scooby and the gang! With plenty of Boozy Snacks! When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren't the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it's up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma to uncover the truth behind the mysterio...
Be Gay, Do Crime! With The Wachowskis’ stylish Mob thriller starring Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon and Joe Pantoliano. With seduction, double-crosses, murder, and some of the hottest sex scenes in cinema – Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s sizzling neo-noir Bound is a bonafide crime classic. When Corky, a tough-as-nails ex-con, meets Violet, a mobster’s ultra-femme girlfriend, the sparks fly and a plan ...
A videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man to his unborn child. As the day progresses the man's requests and behaviour become increasingly more bizarre. All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.
Relive Damien Chazelle's dazzlingly stylised homage to the classic Hollywood musical as Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star as an ambitious jazz pianist and an aspiring actress who fall in love while pursuing their dreams of stardom. Mia (Emma Stone) is a wannabe actress, barely holding down a day job on a studio lot while juggling auditions for second rate parts, while Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is a...
Akira Kurosawa's final masterpiece, Ran is a reworking of Shakespeare's King Lear, set in feudal Japan. Ran tells the story of Hidetora Ichimonji an aging warlord who, after spending his life consolidating his empire, decides to abdicate and divide his Kingdom amoungst his three sons Taro, Jiro and Saburo When Saburo voices concerns about the wisdom of his father's plan, claiming that treacher...
Join us on Sunday the 8th of February for a special Super Bowl LX party! We will be showing The Big Game on the biggest screen in our venue - our glorious Screen 1! You can expect a relaxed and friendly environment, special big screen fun from 9pm, amazing drinks and tasty AF hot dogs served between 9pm and 11pm to help you fill your belly for a long night of american football! Your ticket to th...
Pitchblack Playback: James Blake 'James Blake' 15th anniversary
Wed 11 Feb
Immerse yourself James Blake's stunning debut album at our listening session in the dark, celebrating 15 years since its release. Hear this immense record played loud in uncompressed audio on Cultplex's powerful cinema sound system. No distractions; just you and the music. "This sounds great” — Rick Rubin "A fabulous idea" — Jay Kay, Jamiroquai "The optimal way to listen to an album" — Max Rich...
Pitchblack Playback: Fugees 'The Score' 30th anniversary
Wed 11 Feb
Immerse yourself in Fugees' stone-cold hip hop classic 'The Score' at our listening session in the dark, celebrating 30 years since its release. Hear this immense record played loud in uncompressed audio on Cultplex's powerful cinema sound system. No distractions; just you and the music. "This sounds great” — Rick Rubin "A fabulous idea" — Jay Kay, Jamiroquai "The optimal way to listen to an al...
Immerse yourself in ROSALÍA's breathtaking new vision at our exclusive listening session in the dark for 'LUX' — one of our Best Albums Of 2025. Hear this immense record played loud in uncompressed audio on Cultplex's powerful cinema sound system. No distractions; just you and the music. "This sounds great” — Rick Rubin "A fabulous idea" — Jay Kay, Jamiroquai "The optimal way to listen to an al...
Before hope was instilled in a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas visited the future in 1971 with his feature-debut THX 1138. Set sometime in the 21st century, the film offers a world where citizens live underground and are controlled by the use of mandatory drugs, altering their minds and suppressing their emotions. Sexual intercourse and the concept of family are prohibited - it’s a future wher...
This February, on Friday the 13th, come spend the night with GASP! Horror Film Festival as they screen a Valentine's special double bill of (not very) romantic horror movies starting with the Universal Monsters classic, Bride of Frankenstein, a highly ambitious and highly influential horror masterpiece that changed the genre as we know it with its gothic, atmospheric horror that provides so much i...
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! In career that has encompassed such controversial classics...
Here at CULTPLEX we are here to give everyone what they want on Valentine's Day - A screening of our favourite romance trilogy - Linklater's the before films! This isn't just a series of films; it is the holy scripture of modern(ish) romance, tracking the evolution of a relationship in real-time intervals of nine years. From the naive optimism of youth to the complex, battle-hardened reality of l...
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...
This final movie version was created as an alternative ending to the NEON GENESIS EVANGELION TV series, remaking the final two episodes from the series. SEELE plans an attack on NERV after failing to create a man-made Third Impact. After reaffirming both her own and her mother’s existence in a state of despair, Asuka returns and begins the counterattack. However, new enemies descend from the heave...
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 writes a completely original six round quiz which can ONLY be played within the walls of our cinema, YES IT’S A MOVIE PUB QUIZ THAT HAPPENS IN A CINEMA! This means you can expect a feast of multimedia rounds on top of the uber nerdy, classic trivia questions. Example rounds include… DRAW US A PI...
Interference Films Presents: Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Fri 20 Feb
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...
