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The Ultimate Survivor
Length - 59m
Country - UK
Year - 2011
Certificate - U
Documentary about the history of Oxford oldest and only independent cinema, Cowley Road's The Ultimate Picture Palace. Read more
The Velvet Queen
Length - 1h 32m
Country - France
Year - 2021
Subtitle notes - French w/ English subtitles
Certificate - 12A
A breathtakingly beautiful nature documentary set in Nepal and featuring an original score by musicians Warren Ellis and Nick Cave. Read more
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Length - 2h 1m
Country - Japan
Year - 2020
Subtitle notes - Japanese w/ English subtitles
Certificate - 15
Award-winning anthology of short films written and directed by Oscar-nominated Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car). Read more
Drive My Car
Length - 2h 59m
Country - Japan
Year - 2021
Subtitle notes - Japanese w/ English subtitles
Certificate - 15
Award-winning drama about an actor coming to terms with his past, based on a short story by author Haruki Murakami. Read more
Underground
Length - 1h 37m
Country - Canada
Year - 2020
Subtitle notes - French w/ English subtitles
Certificate - 15
A tense and remarkably intimate drama delving deep into the lives of a group of French-Canadian construction engineers during an ... Read more
The Offering
Length - 1h 51m
Country - Spain
Year - 2020
Subtitle notes - Spanish w/ English subtitles
Certificate - 18
A Hitchcockian psychological thriller about a man's perverse plan to try and win back the affections of his lover from 20 years ago. Read more
UPP News
News, blog posts, and announcements from The Ultimate Picture Palace
Soundtracks: Built to Last
The recent acclaim meted out to Hauschka (AKA Volker Bertelmann) for his Academy Award winning, incongruous but effectively doomy ... Read more
The Three Colours Trilogy and other missing pieces
As regular readers will know, I have been a Film and Media teacher for nearly 40 years and was, in fact, one of the very first ... Read more
Scorsese: Cinema’s Last Man Standing
There are not many film directors who have shaped my life since the early 1970s and still continue to do so to this day. ... 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!