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
What’s On
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
- 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
- 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
Dartmoor Calling + intro and Q&A
Dartmoor Calling tells the story of the people who saved Dartmoor from development from the 1950s – 1980s led by Sylvia Sayer.
Hard Truths (12A)
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.
The Brutalist (18)
This monumental drama is an ambitious American epic starring Adrien Brody as a Jewish Hungarian architect who flees Europe at the end of World War II to rebuild his life in an unfamiliar land.
Spirited Away (PG) – Family Friendly and Bringing in Baby
All Tickets £4, with a FREE drop in colouring session on Saturday 22nd February. These are relaxed screenings especially for families with the sound lowered and the lights left on a little. Babies are welcome!
I Am Martin Parr (12A)
Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising photographer Martin Parr.
Memoir of a Snail (15)
From Academy Award®-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail is a poignant, heartfelt, hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.
Celebrating David Lynch: Blue Velvet (18)
As a celebration of the life of Director David Lynch, who died in January, we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see the film that introduced audiences to his very personal blend of neo-noir, fairy tale, surrealism and small-town Americana.
Spirited Away (PG)
Standard screening: families are welcome, but there is no workshop, cinema lights are switched off during the film and our standard prices apply. With Japanese Dialogue.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (15)
Shot entirely in secret, The Seed of The Sacred Fig centres on a family thrust into the public eye when the father Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran.
Iris on the Move: Best of IRIS 2024 (15)
This programme, curated by the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, is a showcase of the standout films from Iris 2024, featuring award-winning stories that explore love, identity, and the human experience.