Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Nov 2024

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, three-time Oscar Nominee Agnieszka Holland’s poignant drama GREEN BORDER opens our eyes to the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 28 Nov 2024

40th ANNIVERSARY! Directed by Sergio Leone, Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci and Treat Williams star in ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 29 Nov 2024

Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty, Ridley) and Broadway royalty Stephanie J. Block (Into The Woods, The Cher Show) lead a stellar cast in a sizzling new 5-star production of KISS ME, KATE filmed live at the Barbican in London especially for the big screen. ‘ ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 3 Dec 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Two classic animated fantasies directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024

50TH ANNIVERSARY! Peter Weir’s directorial debut and a classic of the Australian New Wave is beautifully restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. The residents of a small Australian town, Paris, survive by causing traffic accidents, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024

A young girl befriends a cheery ghost cat in a gorgeous Japanese animation. 11-year-old Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in a small Japanese town, where her grandfather - a monk - resides. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024

Iranian filmmaking duo Maryam Moghadam & Behtash Sanaeeha return with a sweet comedy-drama that was a dual award-winner at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Seventy-year-old Mahin has lived alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024

Two of contemporary European cinema’s brightest stars - Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher - are electric together in award-winning writer/director ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024

Starring Cate Blanchett and a terrific ensemble cast, Guy Maddin’s latest is an entertainingly biting political satire. At their annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods at night while attemp ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 6 Dec 2024

Ray Milland is a grumpy old surgeon and racist. He’s got a heart condition and not long to live so ... more

Opening Date: Friday, 6 Dec 2024

MEET THE FILMMAKER: Friday December 6, 6.30pm + 7.00pm (sold out). Join filmmaker David Farrier for a post-film Q&A. A documentary that will cause your jaw to hit the cinema floor in shock, co-directors David Farrier and Dylan Reeve’s TICKLED will have ... more

Opening Date: Sunday, 8 Dec 2024

FREE BOOK LAUNCH EVENT: Sunday December 8, 2.00pm. Join award-winning filmmaker Lawrence Johnston with author Ross Campell in the Nova bar for a discussion all thing movies, cinema and Melbourne. Ross tells the extraordinary story of Melbourne making the ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024

DOUBLE BILL! Go back to school with two comedies that defined their respective generations.

Written by Tina Fey and starring Lindsay ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2024

ADVANCE SCREENING: Wednesday December 4, 6.50pm. Join us for an early screening of Guan Hu’s drama. Taiwanese-born heartthrob Eddie Peng stars alongside a loveable whippet cross in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Prize winner, BLACK DOG. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2024

Inspired by Daft Punk's seminal 2001 album Discovery, animated masterpiece INTERSTELLA 5555 has been remastered for a unique cinema experience.

Directed ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2024

Merry Christmas! Richard Curtis' beloved 2003 Yuletide romance following the lives of eight very different couples during the frantic month ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2024

Sir Peter Wright’s THE NUTCRACKER is a magical production of the beloved festive ballet that remains faithful to the 19th-century ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2024

25TH ANNIVERSARY! Fully restored twenty-five years after it's Australian release, Ton Tykwer's kinetic action thriller stars Franka Potente and Moritz ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 12 Dec 2024

Set in the cultural crossroads of Alice Springs, this unique musical journey introduces us to Ella, grappling with her mother’s recent passing, and Izak, an aspiring indigenous hip-hop artist. Their shared passion for music becomes a bridge between their ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 17 Dec 2024

DOUBLE BILL! A sophisticated British pairing, can you guess the dark forces that inhabit these classic horror movies?

A married couple ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 19 Dec 2024

Aardman’s beloved clay-mation duo Wallace & Gromit return to the silver screen for their first feature-length film since 2005’s The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Gromit's concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 24 Dec 2024

DOUBLE BILL: Ho, Ho, Ho, it's a Die Hard double feature! Bruce Willis stars in his most iconic role - ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 25 Dec 2024

GALA SCREENING: Thursday December 19, 6.40pm. Get an early look at the riveting Palme d’Or winning tragicomedy starring Mikey Madison at our Gala Screening! Your ticket includes drink on arrival and pre-show performance. Palme d'Or winner, Cannes ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 25 Dec 2024

SEARCHLIGHT SPRING CLOSING NIGHT: Tuesday November 19, 7pm. Jessie Eisenberg (The Social Network) directs, writes, and stars in a comedy-drama roadtrip co-starring Succession’s Kieran Culkin. ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 25 Dec 2024

ADVANCE SCREENING: Friday December 20, 6.50pm. Be among the first to experience Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, THE ROOM NEXT DOOR. Enjoy a glass of prosecco on arrival, included with ticket. Anchored by a pair of terrific performan ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Dec 2024

The meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of pop superstar Robbie Williams, BETTER MAN rewrites the rulebook for musician biopics. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 26 Dec 2024

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime. Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love ... more

Opening Date: Tuesday, 31 Dec 2024

MOVIE EPIC! Billed as 'the entertainment experience of a lifetime', director William Wyler's adaptation of Lew Wallace's BEN-HUR stars Charlton ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 1 Jan 2025

Horror maestro Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) directs a striking reimagining of one of the genre’s most iconic tales. NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian v ... more

Opening Date: Wednesday, 1 Jan 2025

PADDINGTON IN PERU brings Paddington's story to Peru as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 9 Jan 2025

ADVANCE SCREENING: Sunday December 8, 4.00pm. Join us for an early screening of the high-paced religious drama starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini. From acclaimed director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) comes all- ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025

MELBOURNE PREMIERE: Friday November 29, 6.40pm & 7pm. Join us for a night of music, margaritas and the Mexican musical thriller that took Cannes by storm! In collaboration with Kismet. Your ticket includes a drink on arrival and after-party in the ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025

MAGIC BEACH, based on Alison Lester's book, features nine children and a dog bringing their imaginative imaginations to life. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 16 Jan 2025

Winner of the Festival Favourites Audience Award at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival, Colman Domingo (Euphoria) delivers an award-winning lead ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2025

Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil) directs a powerful political drama spotlighting the ongoing political unrest in Tehran. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2025

When visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) and his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 23 Jan 2025

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in a decades-spanning romantic drama from director John Crawley (Brooklyn). Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life t ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 2025

The first Indian film to screen in competition at Cannes in 30 years is a melancholic musing of two nurses set against the colourful and charismatic backdrop of modern-day Mumbai. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 2025

Angelina Jolie delivers a career-best performance as the world’s greatest female opera singer, Maria Callas, in Pablo Larrain’s latest. The tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of Maria Callas is relived and reimagined during her final days ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Feb 2025

Gokogu is a small, ancient Shinto shrine in Ushimado, Japan. Home to dozens of street cats, it is also known as Cat Shrine. While Gokogu looks peaceful on the surface, it is also the epicentre of a sensitive issue that divides the local community, as som ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 13 Feb 2025

Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes (Arabian Nights) directs a 20th century Asian odyssey, nominated for the 2024 Palme d’Or at Cannes. Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025

Director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier. In January ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025

Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank) directs Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Franz Rogowski (Passages) in her long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking. 12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted b ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025

David Tennant (Dr Who and Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife and Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 2025

Pamela Anderson gives the performance of her career in director Gia Coppola's Las Vegas-set THE LAST SHOWGIRL. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

Guy Pearce leads an emotionally-raw Australian prison drama from first-time writer-director Charles Williams. A young man (newcomer Vincent Miller) is transferred from juvenile to adult prison, where he is taken under the wing of both Australia’s most de ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

Selected as Sweden's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, THE LAST JOURNEY is the most-watched documentary in Swedish history. When Lars Hammar, after 40 years as a beloved French teacher in Köping, retires, he env ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and L ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 6 Mar 2025

Amidst the lunch rush of a frantic Manhattan restaurant, a series of events threaten to bring the kitchen to a ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 5 Dec 2024

PIECE BY PIECE is an unparalleled motion picture experience that captures the magic and brilliance of Pharrell Williams’ creative genius, ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 2025

Despite the risk and prejudices, a very successful CEO begins an illicit affair with her much younger intern. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

After 20 years away Odysseus decides to come back. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 14 Dec 2024

Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production. British-Italian tenor Freddie De ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 8 Feb 2025

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 29 Mar 2025

Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 10 May 2025

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 7 Jun 2025

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the ... more

Opening Date: Saturday, 5 Jul 2025

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 20 Mar 2025

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 27 Mar 2025

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of ... more

Opening Date: Thursday, 10 Jul 2025

The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this ... more