Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Award Winning Independent Cinema
Past Events
By Date
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- Adventure Film Club
- Art of Action - Kicking It!
- Artist Moving Image
- Beyond the Page with The Box
- Black History Month
- Bringing in Baby
- Classic Film
- Descriptive Subtitles Available
- Documentary
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Family Friendly
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Green Screen
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Live Show
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- NT Live
- Plymouth Urban Tree Festival
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Film Festival
- Silent Cinema Season with Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Summer Holiday Cinema
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025
- Virtual Cinema
Past Events
- See All
- Art
- Creative Learning
- Film
- Adventure Film Club
- Art of Action - Kicking It!
- Artist Moving Image
- Beyond the Page with The Box
- Black History Month
- Bringing in Baby
- Classic Film
- Descriptive Subtitles Available
- Documentary
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Family Friendly
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Green Screen
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Live Show
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- NT Live
- Plymouth Urban Tree Festival
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Film Festival
- Silent Cinema Season with Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Summer Holiday Cinema
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025
- Virtual Cinema
Viewing Archived Events: Documentary
Shinjuku Boys (15)
This documentary from Kim Longinoto and Jano Williams offers rich insight into gender and sexuality in Japan via a candid portrait of Kazuki, Tatsu, and Gaish, three trans masculine hosts working at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo’s bustling Shinjuku...
Becoming Led Zeppelin (12A)
Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story.
The Way We Live and Out of Chaos (U) [SOLD OUT]
The National Gallery, in partnership with The Box and Plymouth Arts Cinema, are pleased to be screening two films by acclaimed documentary director Jill Craigie. Part of a series of events leading up to Jeremy Deller’s upcoming commission, The Triu...
Grand Theft Hamlet (15)
Two friends attempt to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game Grand Theft Auto. Winner of two British Independent Film Awards 2024.
Exhibition on Screen – Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers (12A)
Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionised his style.
No Other Land (15)
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.
Dahomey (PG)
The screening on Friday 29th November at 6pm will be introduced by Rebecca Bridgman from The Box, Plymouth. Set in November 2021, the documentary charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their co...
#ClimateScam? + Q&A
With increasingly devastating climate disasters all over the news, why do so many people believe that the climate crisis is a hoax? The latest documentary produced by Cornwall Climate Care.
Dahomey (PG)
Set in November 2021, the documentary charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin.
A Story of Bones (12A) + introduction with Helen Thomas
As the Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s troubled £285m airport project, Annina Van Neel learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity, an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans.
By Date
By Category
- See All
- Adventure Film Club
- Art of Action - Kicking It!
- Artist Moving Image
- Beyond the Page with The Box
- Black History Month
- Bringing in Baby
- Classic Film
- Descriptive Subtitles Available
- Documentary
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Family Friendly
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Green Screen
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Live Show
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- NT Live
- Plymouth Urban Tree Festival
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Film Festival
- Silent Cinema Season with Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Summer Holiday Cinema
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025
- Virtual Cinema
Past Events
- See All
- Art
- Creative Learning
- Film
- Adventure Film Club
- Art of Action - Kicking It!
- Artist Moving Image
- Beyond the Page with The Box
- Black History Month
- Bringing in Baby
- Classic Film
- Descriptive Subtitles Available
- Documentary
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Family Friendly
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Green Screen
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Live Show
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- NT Live
- Plymouth Urban Tree Festival
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Film Festival
- Silent Cinema Season with Theatre Royal Plymouth
- Summer Holiday Cinema
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025
- Virtual Cinema
Winner of Best Arts, Culture and Theatre Venue – Muddy Stilettos Devon Awards 2024
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