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
Film
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- Descriptive Subtitles Available
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- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Family Friendly
- Fashion in Film
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- MUBI GO
- NT Live
- Plymouth Urban Tree Festival
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- Rip It Up - Cut and Paste!
- 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
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- 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
- Rip It Up - Cut and Paste!
- 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
The Incomer (12A)
Set on a remote Scottish island, two siblings survive by hunting seabirds, retelling the stories of their ancestors, and defending the isle from ‘Incomers’. Their world is upended with the arrival of an awkward council worker.
RIP IT UP – CUT AND PASTE! – Zine Workshop
What does Plymouth feel like to you? Is the city a boring, grey place or is it full of surprises? Join us at Fotonow on a street photography and Zine-making workshop.
Super Nature (PG)
Ed Sayers’ award-winning debut feature saw him collaborating with 40 people on 80 different antique Super 8 cameras across land, in the air, and underwater, all telling the stories of nature close to them and their hearts with as little travel as p...
The Fastest Bicycle (15) + Q&A
The Fastest Bicycle tells the amazing story of Barney Townsend and his team’s attempt at the World Human Powered Vehicle land speed record at Battle Mountain Nevada. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and local guests.
The Land Remains (12A) + Director intro and discussion
The Land Remains places Britain’s renewed interest in folklore and ritual in dialogue with the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge, exploring how land, migration, and belonging shape national identity today.
A Dairy Story (PG)
Every day, thousands of dairy calves are separated from their mothers at birth. It's one of the most divisive questions in dairy farming. A Dairy Story follows Wilma and David Finlay as they risk everything to prove there’s another way.
Just An Illusion (12A)
It’s 1985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris, with an older brother who brushes him off and parents who never stop arguing. No longer a kid but not quite an adult, Vincent fumbles through life’s big questions.
RIP IT UP – CUT AND PASTE! – Blinded By the Light (12)
Javed is a Pakistani teenager who experiences racial and economic turmoil while living in Luton, England, in 1987. His life is changed when he discovers the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Bathing Places: Screening Water Worlds
In association with 37 Looe Street’s Bathing Places exhibition, this special screening includes all the artists’ films shown as part of the exhibition.
State Organs (15) + Q&A
When two young people in China disappear while in police custody, their families embark on a perilous 20-year journey to search for them.