Opening Times
Tuesday: 5pm-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1pm-8.30pm (5pm-8.30pm if no matinee)
Thursday: 5pm-8.30pm
Friday: 5pm-8.30pm
Saturday: 1pm-8pm
Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Plymouth College of Art
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Independent Cinema for Everyone
Past Events
Viewing Archived Events: F Rated
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Bergman Island (15)
Bergman Island follows a couple of American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), who retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer.
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Happening (15)
Audrey Diwan’s outstanding Venice Golden Lion winner could not be more timely or urgent. Based on Anne Ernaux’s memoir.
Film
From The Box: Breaking the Mould
A selection of archive films from the collection at The Box, Plymouth to coincide with the current exhibition, Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945.
Film
Playground (15)
Writer-director Laura Wandel’s extraordinary debut has won multiple awards. Intimately immersing you in the lives of its brilliantly naturalistic young performers, this is bold, lucid and gripping.
Film
Adventure Film Club: The Wall of Shadows (12A)
Director Eliza Kubarska follows a Sherpa family who must decide if they will break a cultural taboo to climb Khumbakarna, the most sacred of their mountains.
Film
The Audition (15)
Alexander, a serious, young teenager, auditions at a prestigious Berlin music school. The vote is split, but Anna Bronsky stands up for him, insisting she can train him.
Film
Ali & Ava (15)
Enveloped in music, humour and emotion, Ali & Ava is a heartfelt contemporary love story written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Clio Barnard.
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Memory Box (15)
A package of keepsakes from 1980s wartime Beirut arrives in contemporary Montreal. Teenager Alex covertly goes through her mother Maia’s box of journals, audio tapes and photographs.
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Amulet (15)
Following an accident that leaves him homeless in London, former soldier Tomaz is brought to the rotting home of Magda, a lonely woman in desperate need of help as she looks after her dying mother.
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