Utama
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself
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The Wife
Behind any great man, there’s always a greater woman – and you’re about to meet her. Joan Castleman, a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty – the perfect devoted wife.
The Ladykillers
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery, rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians. The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter…
Les jeux interdits (Forbidden Games)
A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, after she wanders away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to…
Dark River
After receiving news of her father’s death, Alice, a young travelling sheep-shearer, tentatively decides to return to the dilapidated family house of her childhood, in muddy North Yorkshire. Surprisingly, it’s been already fifteen years since Alice left behind an ailing dad and her older brother, Joe, to wander about from…
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
A young teacher in modern Bhutan, shirks his duties while planning to go to Australia to become a singer. As a reprimand, his superiors send him to the most remote school in the world, a glacial Himalayan village called Lunana. There he finds no electricity, no textbooks, not even a…
Searching for Sugarman
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumoured there to be…
All About My Mother
A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son Esteban, Manuela cried until her eyes ran completely dry. Far from seeing clearly, the present and the future become mixed up in darkness.
The Draughtsman’s Contract
Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner, to produce a set of twelve drawings of her husband’s estate, a contract which extends much further than either the purse or the sketchpad. The sketches themselves prove of an even greater significance…
Where the Crawdads Sing
Abandoned by her family, Kya Clark, otherwise known to the townspeople of Barkley Cove as the Marsh Girl, is mysterious and wild. “Where the Crawdads Sing” is a coming-of-age story of a young girl raised by the marshlands of the South in the 1950s. When the town hotshot is found…
The Keeper
In 1945, German paratrooper, Bert Trautmann, is captured while fighting in the forests near Kleve. Transferred to a British POW camp in Lancashire, he and his comrades are kept under strict conditions and made to work to repair the damage their country has caused to the surrounding area. Jack Friar,…
Intouchables
The Banishment
Saving Grace
Weeping Camel
Winter’s Bone
Simple Life
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Diaboliques
Water
My Week with Marilyn
Station Agent
Angels’ Share
Incendies
Il Postino
Way out West
Belleville
The Help
A Separation
The Reader
E Brokovich
Rebel Without a Cause
The Chorus
Made in Dagenham
Mao’s Last Dancer
Chariots of Fire
Up
Concert
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Goodbye Bafana
White Ribbon
The Red Violin
All About My Mother
Chinatown
Whale Rider
Persepolis
Cinema Paradiso
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
Set in 1950s Rio de Janeiro, the film revolves around two sisters, living restricted lives with their conservative parents. However, each nourishes a passionate dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist; Guida of finding love. In a dramatic turn of events, they are separated and forced to live apart. They…
The Father
Having scared off his latest caregiver, Anthony, an ailing octogenarian gradually succumbing to dementia, feels abandoned when his concerned daughter, Anne, tells him she’s moving to Paris. Confused and upset, debilitated by his rapid mental decline and warped perspective, Anthony loses his grip on reality as he struggles to navigate…
The Memory Box
Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia sent to her best friend from 1980’s Beirut. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it.…
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution – escape to Bolivia.
The French Dispatch
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in ‘The French Dispatch Magazine’.
The Maltese Falcon
Private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves three eccentric criminals, agorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after hispartner is murdered.
Hit The Road
Hit the Road takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and adds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four — two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other an ebullient six-year-old — as they drive across the Iranian countryside. Over the course…
After Love
Set in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.
Petite Maman
Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse. What follows is a tender tale of childhood grief, memory and connection.
A Taste of Honey
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
The Quiet Girl
Set in 1981, this film tells the story of a young girl, Cáit, who is sent away for the summer from her dysfunctional family to live with “her mother’s people”. These are Seán and Eibhlín Cinnsealach; a middle-aged couple she has never met. Slowly, in the care of this couple,…
The Courier
THE COURIER is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch), recruited to help avert one of the greatest international conflicts in history – the Cuban missile crisis. PLUS – Before the film, we will be asking you to help choose films for…
Like Father, Like Son
Showing at our new venue of the Shaftesbury Theatre, Dawlish, Like Father, Like Son, concerns Ryota, a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his…
Wajib
After years abroad in Italy, Shadi (Bakri) returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He’s back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his “wajib” (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister’s wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two – who are often stuck…
Blinded by the Light
In 1987 Britain, Javed Khan is a British-Pakistani college arts student in Luton in a family with a domineering father. Depressed by his oppressive family life and feeling he has no future in a hostile community, a newfound friend introduces Javed to the music of Bruce Springsteen. Touched by the…
The Last Tree
Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take.
The Man in a Hat
The Man in the Hat journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? The film will be preceded by…
Minari
Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, the ambitious paterfamilias, Jacob Yi, relocates his Korean-American family: sceptical wife, Monica, and their children, David and Anne, from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream. However, new…
Dr Strangelove
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, deploys a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the…
First Cow
A loner and cook (John Magaro) has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds connection with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee). The men collaborate on a business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner’s prized milking…
Woman at War
Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. But right as she…
The Peanut Butter Falcon
We regret to announce the cancellation of this film showing. Please see the notice on our home page for further information.
Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Please note this film will be shown at the Richard Newton Hall, Higher Buckeridge Road, Teignmouth, rather than our usual venue. A white author is summoned by a Lakota Elder who asks him to write a book about his perspective. After a blundering false start, he is all but kidnapped…
On The Waterfront
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny’s thugs, and later meets the dead man’s sister and feels responsible for his death.…
A Man Called Ove
Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbours. There will be the opportunity to have your say in the film choices for our 2022/2023…
Shine
This wrenching true story chronicles the tumultuous life of Australian concert pianist David Helfgott, whose domineering, over-protective father drove him to madness. David is heavily burdened by emotional scars inflicted by his father — scars that when opened cause devastating tragedy for much of David’s adult life.
Eaten by Lions
Please note this will be a free ‘welcome back!’ showing at St. Michael’s Church, Teignmouth. Omar and Pete are half brothers. When their parents are eaten by lions they embark on a journey to find Omar’s real father. What follows is a funny, heart-warming journey of self-discovery for both boys…in…
The Handmaiden
In Japanese-occupied Korea, a conman operating under the sobriquet of “Count Fujiwara” plans to seduce a Japanese heiress named Lady Hideko, then marry her and commit her to an asylum in order to steal her inheritance. He hires a pickpocket named Sook-hee from a family of con artists to become…
The Guardians (Les Gardiennes)
With great regret, and after much debate, the Committe have decided to cancel this showing of “The Guardians”. This was not a step taken lightly but we feel it is the right one, given the current situation, including the many cancellations of public events, as we have a duty to look after our audience.…
The Shape of Water
Please note this film has been rescheduled from 21st Feb to 6th March due to the heating in Teignmouth Community College Arts Centre being out of action. At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being…
The Greatest Showman
The film is inspired by the story of P. T. Barnum’s creation of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the lives of its star attractions; telling of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
Journey’s End
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
Shoplifters
A Japanese couple stuck with inadequate incomes avail themselves of the fruits of shoplifting to make ends meet. They are not alone in this behaviour: the younger and the older members of the household are also in on the act. The unusual routine is about to change from care-free and…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A dark comedy crime-drama starring Frances McDormand as a woman who rents three billboards to call attention to her daughter’s unsolved rape and murder.
The Apartment
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
The Piano
A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation. Teignmouth Film Society’s AGM will be held tonight.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Distant Voices, Still Lives evokes working-class family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and early 1950s, paying particular attention to the role of popular music, Hollywood cinema, light entertainment and the public house within this tight-knit community. The film is made up of two separate films, shot two years apart,…
Lady Bird
Christine “Lady Bird” MacPherson is a high school senior from the “wrong side of the tracks.” She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that in her Sacramento Catholic high school. Lady Bird follows the title character’s senior year in high school, including her first romance, her…
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
An almost accidental romance is kindled between a German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They abruptly decide to marry, appalling everyone around them.
Annie Hall
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
Paddington 2
Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
Bhaji on the Beach
A group of Indian women, both immigrants and their British-born sisters, travel to the English seaside in this comic drama. The plot focuses on a trio of young women caught between tradition and independence. Film selection night. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
Loving Vincent
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
Witness
Tense, romantic thriller set in an Amish community. A young Amish boy is the sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in the Amish country to protect the boy and his mother until the trial. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
Bridge of Spies
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
El Olivo
Alma convinces her uncle and her friend to travel by truck from Spain to Germany to recover a 2000 year old olive tree that belonged to her family. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
Mostly Martha
Martha is the chef at a small gourmet restaurant in Hamburg who creates mini-masterpieces in every dish. When her sister dies in an accident, she is compelled to adopt Lina, her 8-year-old niece. The tensions between them mount until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood. Doors open for…
El Sur
El Sur (The South) is the story of Estrella, a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella’s father represents an unknown and fascinating world in her childhood. As she grows up, she learns that he once had a lover, and that he’s still in love…
Charade
A woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune that her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust? Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm. The society AGM will be held this evening.
The Eagle Huntress
The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. Doors open for refreshments…
Daughters of the Dust
At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off South Carolina – former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions – struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore. Doors open for refreshments at 7 pm.
The Kid With a Bike
Original title: Le gamin au vélo. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, this deeply moving film by the Dardenne brothers delves into the emotional life of troubled 11-year-old Cyril. When his father abandons him, Cyril obsessively searches…
Love & Friendship
Set in the 1790s, Love and Friendship centres on beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon, who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante…