Cinema Under the Stairs: Secret Santa18

IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEEEEAAARRR!

Widely lauded as the greatest cinema experience ever created! The CUTS SECRET SANTA is so damn crazy that it works!

Here’s what happens:
– You vote for which of the 6 amazing Christmas movies you’d like to watch, buy your ticket (only £10!) and turn up on the night.
– Nobody knows what we’re showing until Jimbo starts the movie!
– Add to the mix mulled wine, presents, Christmas jumpers, crackers, photocopying your arse and snogging and you’ve got yourself the best Chrimbo party you could ever wish for!

Sure, there will be rapturous cheers and raucous boos when the film rolls but everyone will have best of times, guaranteed.

Will you get what you wished for this CUTSMAS?

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

And grab the most sought after ticket going in Oxford this Christmas!

Sorry - you missed it!

We showed Cinema Under the Stairs: Secret Santa between December 15, 2025 and December 15, 2025.

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What else is on?

Tomorrow (Thursday 30th July)
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15:15

The Invite 15
Descriptive Subtitles
1h 47m
Joe and Angela's shaky marriage faces its biggest test yet when dinner with their enigmatic upstairs neighbours takes a wild turn. Rashida Jones's razor-sharp script and Olivia Wilde's direction fuel this riotous relationship comedy, with Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton on scene-stealing form.

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18:00

The Invite 15
1h 47m
Joe and Angela's shaky marriage faces its biggest test yet when dinner with their enigmatic upstairs neighbours takes a wild turn. Rashida Jones's razor-sharp script and Olivia Wilde's direction fuel this riotous relationship comedy, with Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton on scene-stealing form.

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20:30

A Private Life 15
1h 43m | French w/ English subtitles
A patient's sudden death sends a renowned psychiatrist chasing murder, secrets and lies, with her charming ex-husband along for the investigation. Jodie Foster dazzles in fluent French and comic form in this stylish mystery thriller from director Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People's Children).

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Friday 31st July
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15:30

Birds of War 15
1h 25m
London-based BBC reporter Janay and Syrian cameraman Abd Alkader connect over footage from besieged Aleppo, their bond deepening as conflict reshapes the world around them. Built from intimate personal archive, this humane documentary asks what it means to build a life amid war.

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17:45

The Last One for the Road 15
1h 41m | Italian w/ English subtitles
Two broke, hard-drinking fifty-somethings, each swearing off their next drink, adopt a shy architecture student for a boozy bender through the Italian countryside chasing buried treasure. Francesco Sossai's award-winning film delivers bad advice, brutal hangovers and unlikely friendship along Northern Italy's back roads.

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20:00

Boogie Nights 18
2h 35m
American Odysseys
Busboy Eddie Adams is transformed into porn star Dirk Diggler, joining a surrogate family whose communal success unravels into 1980s excess and exploitation. Paul Thomas Anderson's swaggering rise-and-fall epic turns the porn boom into a sour American Dream.

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Plan your visit

Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road.We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We only show a few adverts – less than most cinemas – and we only play a couple of trailers, so please don’t be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!

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