Coming soon
Kicking the Bucket Festival presents: Birth
Showing from October 12, 2023
Kicking the Bucket Festival presents a screening of Jonathan Glazer’s under-appreciated metaphysical masterpiece starring Nicola ... Find out more
Past Lives
Showing from September 22, 2023
Celine Song's critically-acclaimed and deeply romantic feature debut about two childhood friends from South Korea who reunite for one ... Find out more
Love Life
Showing from September 29, 2023
An intricately plotted domestic drama following a Japanese couple whose marriage is thrown into question following a sequence of ... Find out more
Once Upon a Time in Uganda
Showing from September 29, 2023
Playful documentary looking at the world of “Wakaliwood”, Uganda's own DIY action movie industry, and the creative endeavours of ... Find out more
R.M.N
Showing from October 6, 2023
Award-winning director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days) returns with a gripping portrait of modern Romania, where tensions ... Find out more
Fremont
Showing from October 6, 2023
Heartfelt monochrome indie drama about an Afghan refugee who is torn between the desire to rebuild her life in America and the guilt ... Find out more
The First Slam Dunk
Showing from October 7, 2023
Thrilling Japanese anime, adapted from a best-selling manga series, following the highs and lows of a group of basketball underdogs. ... Find out more
Uptight
Showing from October 7, 2023
Socially charged drama set during the civil rights era, depicting the tumultuous journey of an African American activist who becomes ... Find out more
Stop Making Sense
Showing from October 13, 2023
Big songs. Even bigger suit. Filmmaker Jonathan Demme captures the intoxicating experience of New York art-rockers Talking Heads ... Find out more
Floating Clouds
Showing from November 5, 2023
Two lovers who meet in Indochina during World War Two return to Tokyo and strive to keep their affair alive in Mikio Naruse's poignant ... Find out more
Sansho the Bailiff
Showing from October 29, 2023
A brother and sister sold into slavery in medieval Japan seek to escape from their controlling master and reunite with their long-lost ... Find out more
Tokyo Story
Showing from October 22, 2023
The greatest film by one of Japan's greatest ever filmmakers, Yasujirō Ozu's timeless and emotional masterpiece about an ageing couple ... Find out more
Ikiru
Showing from October 15, 2023
The life of a middle-aged bureaucrat is turned upside down when he discovers that he has a terminal illness in Akira Kurosawa's ... Find out more
UPP News
News, blog posts, and announcements from The Ultimate Picture Palace
Serpico: Adult Entertainment
Whilst Hollywood’s second Golden Age (the 1970s) may well be rightfully derided for its politics (especially its attitude towards ... Read more
Vertigo: Pure Cinema
Regular readers will know that I took umbrage when the most recent BFI list of the greatest films proclaimed that Chantal Akerman’s ... Read more
On the Road…again!
With its memorable tagline “A man went looking for America...and couldn’t find it anywhere,” Dennis Hopper’s 1969’s “head classic” ... Read more
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 don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!