Award Winning Independent Cinema

Music, clubbing and pills. Human Traffic’s energy is contagious, genuine and an ode to the 90s clubbing scene.

This film follows five friends trying to escape their dull 9-5 jobs by journeying through a chemically induced weekend. The visuals are entrancing, psychedelic and fully encapsulate rave culture all accompanied by an … Continue Reading

City symphonies have been a feature of cinema from the off, with everywhere from Soviet Russia to Liverpool (and a lot of places besides) getting the whole rhapsodic treatment given to them. 

But what about Plymouth? Any rhapsodies for us down here? Anyone…? … Continue Reading

What indeed? 

Well, one thing you can do for an encore is publicly release a film of the concert you just played. And who doesn’t love a great concert movie? You get the best view in the house of your favourite band from a comfy seat, and … Continue Reading

RIP IT UP – CUT AND PASTE! Come and join Plymouth Arts Cinema working in partnership with The Box, Plymouth and Fotonow at the end of September and beginning of October for the 2026 BFI Fan UK-wide season ‘RIP IT UP’. Celebrating the societal importance of the … Continue Reading

After spending almost thirty years writing about the Moomins, Finnish author Tove Jansson turned her attention to adults with her 1972 novel The Summer Book, a collection of loosely connected vignettes following a young girl and her elderly grandmother on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland Charlie … Continue Reading

J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837), though contemporaries and arguably the two greatest British landscape painters of their time, seemed to develop vastly different artistic styles. Like the social media of today, the newspapers of the period did not hold back on criticising the overuse of the colour yellow … Continue Reading

The film opens with a mesmerising depiction of the Shakers’ ecstatic woodland dances. This sets the stage to go back a few years earlier to Manchester, England, in the 18th century, where the roots of this fervent religious movement are revealed.

Initially, the movement was a small, private sect known as … Continue Reading