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From family films, world cinema, independent films and blockbusters to a range of live and encore screenings of theatre, opera and ballet performances, enjoy an eclectic range of films right in the heart of Colchester!
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The President’s Cake
Thursday 19 March 2026
5:10 pm
Lamia, a young girl from Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes, is chosen to bake The President’s Cake, to celebrating Saddam Hussein’s birthday, which she must do or face the consequences.
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“Wuthering Heights” (Captioned)
Thursday 19 March 2026
7:40 pm
Wuthering Heights tells a passionate and tumultuous love story of an intense and destructive relationship set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors.
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The Secret Agent
Friday 20 March 2026
4:00 pm
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A university professor discovers he’s being spied on by The Secret Agent, with no escape from corruption’s reach.
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London Recruits + Q&A
Friday 20 March 2026
7:30 pm
Comrade Tambo’s London Recruits is a documentary film about the true story of the young men and women who undertook clandestine missions for the ANC during apartheid South Africa.
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Little Amélie (Relaxed)
Saturday 21 March 2026
11:00 am
An enchanting tale about curiosity, courage, and the power of human connection based on Amélie Nothomb’s best-selling novel, Little Amélie.
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JFTFP26: The Real You
Saturday 21 March 2026
1:00 pm
With AI enabling people to virtually meet with the deceased, Sakuya finds himself uncovering more about his mother’s death in The Real You.
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MET Opera Live: Tristan und Isolde
Saturday 21 March 2026
3:45 pm
The electrifying Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles: the Irish princess Isolde in MET Opera Live: Tristan und Isolde.
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Captioned)
Sunday 22 March 2026
11:00 am
A sharply funny, deeply resonant, and electrifying story of Linda as her life crashes down around her in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
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Exhibition on Screen: Turner and Constable
Sunday 22 March 2026
2:00 pm
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, Exhibition on Screen: Turner and Constable explores their intertwined lives and legacies
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Wednesday 25 March 2026
11:00 am
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A sharply funny, deeply resonant, and electrifying story of Linda as her life crashes down around her in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Wednesday 25 March 2026
2:00 pm
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“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” is a science fiction action-adventure comedy about a man from the future who arrives at a Los Angeles diner.
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Little Amélie (Parent & Baby)
Thursday 26 March 2026
11:00 am
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Little Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family’s housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature….
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La Scala: Lohengrin – Wagner
Thursday 26 March 2026
6:15 pm
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The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, stages Lohengrin, Richard Wagner’s epic story set in mediaeval Brabant that explores the conflict between Christian faith and Germanic paganism.
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Hamnet
Friday 27 March 2026
11:00 am
From Award winning Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece.
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EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert
Friday 27 March 2026
2:00 pm
Elvis sings and tells his story like never before in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, a new cinematic experience.
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The Testament Of Ann Lee
Friday 27 March 2026
5:00 pm
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An epic fable about Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker Movement, hailed by her followers as the female Christ in The Testament of Ann Lee.
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Sirât
Friday 27 March 2026
8:00 pm
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Sirât follows a father, accompanied by his son, as he searches for his missing daughter in North Africa.
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JFTFP26: Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality
Sunday 29 March 2026
11:00 am
When novelist Bakin’s work reaches its climax, he is struck by tragedy, jeopardising his ability to continue in Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality
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EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert (Captioned)
Tuesday 31 March 2026
2:30 pm
Elvis sings and tells his story like never before in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, a new cinematic experience.
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GOAT
Wednesday 01 April 2026
2:30 pm
In GOAT, an original action-comedy, Will is determined to revolutionize the sport and prove once and for all that ‘smalls can ball!’
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EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert (Parent & Baby)
Thursday 02 April 2026
11:30 am
Elvis sings and tells his story like never before in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, a new cinematic experience.
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Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up
Thursday 02 April 2026
2:30 pm
Porky and Daffy are Earth’s only hope when they uncover a secret alien plan to control minds in Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up!
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Hoppers
Friday 03 April 2026
11:00 am
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An animal lover seizes an opportunity to use technology that places her consciousness into a robotic beaver, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could’ve imagined.
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Mother’s Pride
Friday 03 April 2026
1:30 pm
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A comedy drama about a failing pub, a divided community and a grieving family whose lives are changed by brewing real ale and entering the Great British Beer Awards.
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Sound of Falling
Friday 03 April 2026
4:30 pm
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In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory.
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The Bride!
Friday 03 April 2026
7:50 pm
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In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest.
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Hoppers (Relaxed)
Saturday 04 April 2026
11:00 am
An animal lover seizes an opportunity to use technology that places her consciousness into a robotic beaver, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could’ve imagined.
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The Voice Of Hind Rajab
Saturday 04 April 2026
1:45 pm
Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire. This is The Voice of Hind Rajab.
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The Bride! (Captioned)
Saturday 04 April 2026
5:00 pm
In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest.
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Hard Boiled (4K Restoration)
Saturday 04 April 2026
7:50 pm
A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shake down a sinister mobster and his crew.
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Bluey at the Cinema: Playdates with Friends Collection
Sunday 05 April 2026
11:00 am
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Bluey at the Cinema: Playdates with Friends Collection is an hour of fun that features eight episodes from across the TV show’s three series!
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The Royal Opera: Siegfried
Sunday 05 April 2026
2:00 pm
Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey in The Royal Opera: Siegfried.
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Sound of Falling (Captioned)
Tuesday 07 April 2026
2:00 pm
In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory.
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Hoppers (Parent & Baby)
Thursday 09 April 2026
11:30 am
An animal lover seizes an opportunity to use technology that places her consciousness into a robotic beaver, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could’ve imagined.
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Arco
Friday 10 April 2026
11:00 am
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A 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril.
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The Tasters
Friday 10 April 2026
1:30 pm
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Based on the award-winning, bestselling book ‘At the Wolf’s Table’ by Rosella Postorino, The Tasters reconstructs the true story of the women coerced into being food tasters for Adolf Hitler towards the end of World War II.
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Project Hail Mary (Captioned)
Friday 10 April 2026
4:40 pm
Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there.
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The Love That Remains
Friday 10 April 2026
8:00 pm
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A year in the life of a family as parents navigate their separation.
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Project Hail Mary (Relaxed)
Saturday 11 April 2026
11:00 am
Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there.
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Project Hail Mary
Saturday 11 April 2026
7:15 pm
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Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there.
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The Love That Remains (Parent & Baby)
Thursday 16 April 2026
10:30 am
A year in the life of a family as parents navigate their separation.
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Broken English
Thursday 16 April 2026
1:05 pm
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Broken English is a bold documentary portrait of the inimitable singer, songwriter and icon: Marianne Faithfull.
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Resurrection
Thursday 16 April 2026
3:30 pm
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld.
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National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Thursday 16 April 2026
7:00 pm
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Cranston and Jean-Baptiste feature in a triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic National Theatre Live: All My Sons
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La Grazia
Friday 17 April 2026
2:00 pm
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A love story set in Italy.
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The Good Boy
Friday 17 April 2026
5:30 pm
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A razor-sharp psychological thriller about a delinquent teenager held captive by a strange family, starring Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough.
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Dead Man’s Wire
Friday 17 April 2026
8:05 pm
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On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis, entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun.
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Arco (Relaxed)
Saturday 18 April 2026
11:00 am
A 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril
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OTHELLO
Thursday 23 April 2026
11:00 am
Shakespeare’s OTHELLO rages to life like never before in a ‘compelling’ (★★★★ Telegraph) new production starring David Harewood OBE (Homeland, Best of Enemies), Toby Jones OBE (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of Sex), Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point) and Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob).
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Scarlet
Thursday 23 April 2026
4:15 pm
From visionary Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda (MIRAI) comes a powerful, time-bending animated adventure about SCARLET.
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La Scala: Cosi Fan Tutte – Mozart
Thursday 23 April 2026
7:00 pm
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Prepare to be enthralled by the brilliance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte, a masterful exploration of love, fidelity, and human folly, presented on the illustrious stage of Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
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Amelie (25th Anniversary Re-Release)
Friday 24 April 2026
11:00 am
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The lonely 23-year-old Amélie decides to become an active member of her community by doing good deeds for those around her.
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Splitsville (Captioned)
Friday 24 April 2026
2:00 pm
After Ashley (Arjona) asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey (Marvin) runs to his friends, Julie (Johnson) and Paul (Covino), for support.
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Two Prosecutors
Friday 24 April 2026
5:15 pm
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Soviet Union, 1937 Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination.
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Orwell: 2+2=5
Friday 24 April 2026
8:00 pm
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Acclaimed director, Raoul Peck, interweaves clips, readings from Orwell’s diary, cinematic references, and modern-day footage to craft not only a portrait of the writer, but a fresh take on how prophetic his work has become.
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The Magic Faraway Tree (Relaxed)
Saturday 25 April 2026
11:00 am
The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly (Claire Foy), Tim (Andrew Garfield) and their three children – a modern family forced to relocate to the remote English countryside.
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Splitsville
Saturday 25 April 2026
8:15 pm
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After Ashley (Arjona) asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey (Marvin) runs to his friends, Julie (Johnson) and Paul (Covino), for support.
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The Royal Opera: The Magic Flute
Sunday 26 April 2026
2:00 pm
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue in The Royal Opera: The Magic Flute.
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Orwell: 2+2=5 (Captioned)
Tuesday 28 April 2026
2:00 pm
Acclaimed director, Raoul Peck, interweaves clips, readings from Orwell’s diary, cinematic references, and modern-day footage to craft not only a portrait of the writer, but a fresh take on how prophetic his work has become.
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The Magic Faraway Tree
Wednesday 29 April 2026
3:10 pm
The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly (Claire Foy), Tim (Andrew Garfield) and their three children – a modern family forced to relocate to the remote English countryside.
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The Magic Faraway Tree (Parent & Baby)
Thursday 30 April 2026
11:30 am
The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly (Claire Foy), Tim (Andrew Garfield) and their three children – a modern family forced to relocate to the remote English countryside.
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MET Opera Live: Eugene Onegin
Saturday 02 May 2026
5:45 pm
After debuting in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Grigorian returns as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in MET Opera Live: Eugene Onegin.
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Funny Girl – The Musical
Thursday 07 May 2026
7:00 pm
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Funny Girl is the bittersweet musical comedy telling the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage and her tempestuous relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein.
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Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo; the Making of an Icon
Sunday 24 May 2026
2:00 pm
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Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist in Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo; the Making of an Icon.
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National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
Thursday 28 May 2026
7:00 pm
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Coughlan, Hardwicke and McSweeney in Synge’s riveting play of self-discovery, National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World.
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MET Opera Live: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Saturday 30 May 2026
5:45 pm
MET Opera Live: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
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National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Thursday 25 June 2026
7:00 pm
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Manville joins Turner in a striking new staging of Hampton’s celebrated adaptation in National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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