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.

Join our mailing list and we'll make sure you always know what's on and when.

What else is on?

Today (Wednesday 1st April)
Find out more

18:00

Safe 15
+ Intro
1h 58m
In 1980s Los Angeles, a suburban housewife develops a mysterious illness that doctors cannot explain. As she becomes convinced she has severe environmental allergies, Todd Haynes’s Safe unfolds as a chilling meditation on illness and isolation. All tickets £6 each.

Book here

Find out more

21:00

The President's Cake 12A
1h 45m | Arabic w/ English subtitles
During 1990s Iraq, schoolgirl Lamia is chosen by her class to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein. With her pet rooster beside her she searches the town for ingredients in an award-winning debut about childhood resilience and life under dictatorship.

Book here


Tomorrow (Thursday 2nd April)
Find out more

12:00

Sinners 15
Parent + Baby Club
2h 18m
Twin brothers seek a fresh start in their 1930s Southern hometown but uncover an evil lurking beneath the surface. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite for this chilling supernatural thriller set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow-era South.

Book here

Find out more

15:00

The President's Cake 12A
1h 45m | Arabic w/ English subtitles
During 1990s Iraq, schoolgirl Lamia is chosen by her class to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein. With her pet rooster beside her she searches the town for ingredients in an award-winning debut about childhood resilience and life under dictatorship.

Book here

Find out more

17:45

Sirāt 15
1h 54m | Spanish, French & Arabic w/ English subtitles
Oliver Laxe’s intense, hallucinatory road movie follows a father and son through Morocco as they try to find a missing relative at various sprawling, illegal raves. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2025.

Book here

Find out more

20:30

Sound of Falling 18
2h 35m | German w/ English subtitles
Across the twentieth century four teenage girls spend their youth in the same farmhouse decades apart, yet their lives echo each other. German director Mascha Schilinski interweaves generations of girlhood, revealing loneliness and lost innocence across a turbulent century.

Book here


See all upcoming films

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!

Find out more