Pillion18

Directed by Harry Lighton | UK | 2025 | 1h 47m | Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling, Lesley Sharp, Anthony Welsh, Jake Shears

Colin, a quiet and unassuming traffic warden who still lives with his supportive parents in Bromley, finds his world turned upside down one Christmas Eve when he’s drawn into an unexpected BDSM relationship with a towering, leather-clad biker. As he navigates this intense new dynamic, Colin discovers both the pleasures and the pains of love, and begins to understand his own desires and boundaries. Harry Lighton’s feature debut is a bold, funny, and surprisingly tender sub-dom-rom-com starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in fearless performances.

Reviews

‘Pillion is a wonderful film that’s heavy with purpose… All that and it’s also very, very hot.’
★★★★★
Leonie Cooper, Time Out

‘It’s knotty stuff for a first film but Lighton finds a delicate balance between disturbing, funny, sweet and sad.’
★★★★
Ed Potton, The Times

Book tickets

Friday 12 December

6.00pmBook tickets
Saturday 13 December

8.30pmBook tickets
Monday 15 December

Descriptive Subtitles

5.30pmBook tickets
Wednesday 17 December

6.15pmBook tickets
Thursday 18 December

3.30pmBook tickets
Friday 19 December

8.30pmBook tickets

What else is on?

Tomorrow (Wednesday 26th November)

15:15

Die My Love 15
1h 59m
Grace pursues her writing dream in a remote country house with partner Jackson, but motherhood’s isolation fractures her reality. Jennifer Lawrence delivers a mesmerising performance in Lynne Ramsay’s (We Need to Talk About Kevin) visceral, uncompromising portrait of a woman’s psychological unravelling.

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17:45

Springsteen: Deliver Me 12A
1h 59m
After The River’s success, Bruce Springsteen retreats to rural New Jersey, battling fame’s pressures and past traumas while forging the raw masterpiece Nebraska. Jeremy Allen White leads a powerhouse cast in this electrifying portrait of ‘The Boss’ standing at the cusp of iconic stardom.

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20:30

Bugonia 15
1h 58m
Two conspiracy-obsessed cousins kidnap a tech CEO they believe is an alien overlord. Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorgos Lanthimos’s darkly comic, unsettling satire about paranoia, misinformation, and the terrifying absurdity of the modern age.

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Thursday 27th November

12:30

Springsteen: Deliver Me 12A
Parent + Baby screening
1h 59m
After The River’s success, Bruce Springsteen retreats to rural New Jersey, battling fame’s pressures and past traumas while forging the raw masterpiece Nebraska. Jeremy Allen White leads a powerhouse cast in this electrifying portrait of ‘The Boss’ standing at the cusp of iconic stardom.

Book here

15:15

Springsteen: Deliver Me 12A
1h 59m
After The River’s success, Bruce Springsteen retreats to rural New Jersey, battling fame’s pressures and past traumas while forging the raw masterpiece Nebraska. Jeremy Allen White leads a powerhouse cast in this electrifying portrait of ‘The Boss’ standing at the cusp of iconic stardom.

Book here

18:00

Bugonia 15
1h 58m
Two conspiracy-obsessed cousins kidnap a tech CEO they believe is an alien overlord. Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorgos Lanthimos’s darkly comic, unsettling satire about paranoia, misinformation, and the terrifying absurdity of the modern age.

Book here

20:45

Die My Love 15
1h 59m
Grace pursues her writing dream in a remote country house with partner Jackson, but motherhood’s isolation fractures her reality. Jennifer Lawrence delivers a mesmerising performance in Lynne Ramsay’s (We Need to Talk About Kevin) visceral, uncompromising portrait of a woman’s psychological unravelling.

Book here


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!