Opening Times
Tuesday 28 July: 09:45 – 20:30
Wednesday 29 July: 10:00 – 20:30
Thursday 30 July: 09:45 – 20:30
Friday 31 July: closed
Saturday 1 August: 18:00 – 20:30
Sunday 2, Monday 3 August: closed
Tuesday 4 August: 09:45 – 16:00
Wednesday 5 August: 10:00 – 19:30
Thursday 6 August: 09:45 – 16:00
The Cinema, Box Office and Café-bar will be closed from Friday 7 August - Wednesday 2 September and will reopen at 5pm on Thursday 3 September.
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Award Winning Independent Cinema
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- Adventure 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
- Fashion in Film
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Green Screen
- Halloween
- 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
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026
- Virtual Cinema
Viewing Archived Events
The Odyssey (PG)
Summer, 1946. The Cousteau family – Jacques, his wife Simone and their two children Philippe and Jean-Michel – live in their beautiful house by the Mediterranean. But Jacques is never content...
We Are Many (12A)
Shown as part of We The People Are The Work, We Are Many is the story of the biggest protest in history and how it changed the world. On February 15th, 2003, over 15 million people marched through the streets of 800 cities around the world to try to ...
Final Portrait (15)
BOOK EARLY. Paris, 1964. Alberto Giacometti (Rush) is living a rather dissolute existence defined by bouts of drinking, womanising, and painting. In town from New York, James Lord (Hammer), Giacometti’s biographer agrees to sit for a portrait.
Creative Play September 26
Part of We The People Are The Work exhibition, come into a stimulating environment where your child can lead you on a discovery of messy fun.
Breakfast Panel Discussion
As part of the We The People Are The Work exhibition, join Ben Borthwick and a selection of artists for an informal talk.
Dwell
Part of Plymouth Art Weekender - Interactive installations and zine debut exploring emotional and physical spaces.
Looe Street Detectives 3
With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we are now going to research the history of Plymouth Arts Centre's site and the people who lived and visited over the centuries. This includes you!
Sarah Forrest: Recital
Gallery in the Cinema: Recital (2016) is set in those first strange moments of waking up, where certainty and strangeness run in parallel as the mind tries to make sense of what is happening.
Scribe (15)
PROGRAMMER'S PICK. In a film that owes much to the classic political thrillers of the 1970s, François Cluzet stars as a recovering alcoholic working for a mysterious employer, typing up recorded conversations.
England Is Mine (15)
An evocative (and surprisingly funny) portrait of (Steven Patrick) Morrissey, frontman of iconic band The Smiths, focused on his time in 70s Manchester.
By Date
By Category
- See All
- Adventure 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
- Fashion in Film
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Green Screen
- Halloween
- 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
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026
- Virtual Cinema
Past Events
- See All
- Art
- Creative Learning
- Film
- Adventure 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
- Fashion in Film
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Green Screen
- Halloween
- 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
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026
- Virtual Cinema
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