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Nickel Boys

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THURSDAY 23RD JANUARY 6PM

Film in Focus: Honouring Jean-Luc Godard

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Nosferatu

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SAT 25TH JAN 7.30PM

Byrne's Night! True Stories & Stop Making Sense

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COMING SOON

A Real Pain

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FRI 14TH FEB – WED 5TH MAR

Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025

Oxford’s home of independent cinema

The Ultimate Picture Palace is Oxford’s only independent cinema. Founded in 1911 and community-owned since 2022, we show a mix of independent, international, and classic films all in our cosy single-screen auditorium. Find us on the Cowley Road in East Oxford. 

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What's on

Tomorrow (Saturday 18th January)

14:30

Spirited Away PG
2h 5m | Japanese w/ English subtitles
A 10-year-old girl must find her way home after being swept into a magical world teeming with extraordinary spirits and enchanting creatures. Hayao Miyazaki’s stunning, Oscar-winning fantasy adventure returns to the big screen.

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17:30

Nosferatu 15
2h 12m
Evil plagues a small town in 1830s Germany as sinister vampire Count Orlok becomes dangerously infatuated with a young local woman. Director Robert Eggers (The Witch) breathes new life into one of cinema’s most iconic monsters.

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20:30

Nickel Boys 12A
2h 20m
In 1960s America, two young Black men form a friendship while in a corrupt reform school. Director RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as an immersive exploration of America’s buried history.

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Sunday 19th January

13:30

The Remains of the Day U
2h 14m
In 1930s Britain, the ordered life of a head butler is disrupted by the arrival of a housekeeper who develops feelings for him. Elegant adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Prize-winning novel starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

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16:30

Spirited Away PG
2h 5m | Japanese w/ English subtitles
A 10-year-old girl must find her way home after being swept into a magical world teeming with extraordinary spirits and enchanting creatures. Hayao Miyazaki’s stunning, Oscar-winning fantasy adventure returns to the big screen.

Book here

19:30

Nosferatu 15
2h 12m
Evil plagues a small town in 1830s Germany as sinister vampire Count Orlok becomes dangerously infatuated with a young local woman. Director Robert Eggers (The Witch) breathes new life into one of cinema’s most iconic monsters.

Book here


Coming soon

Nicholas Cage classic film screening Oxford cinema

We Live In Time

Showing from Friday 24th January
Almut and Tobias meet in an unexpected encounter that forever alters their lives. But a challenging truth threatens to upend everything they’ve built. Uniquely structured rom-com starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.

Mother and Son directed by Léonor Serraille

A Real Pain

Showing from Friday 31st January
Two cousins travel to Poland to honour their Jewish grandmother but soon recall why they’ve grown apart in the first place. Kieran Culkin stars in this moving road-trip comedy, directed by co-star Jesse Eisenberg.

Neil Harbisson Cyborg Documentary Screening Oxford University

A Complete Unknown

Showing from Friday 7th February
Timothée Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York in the early 1960s, takes the folk scene by storm, and controversially rips up the rulebook, reshaping the trajectory of American rock music.

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