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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 Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Wednesday 22 July 2026
11:00 am
Kenneth works as a tour guide dressing up as the town’s most notable historical figure, Sir Douglas Weatherford, who Kenneth proudly claims as his ancestor.
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Toy Story 5
Wednesday 22 July 2026
2:00 pm
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The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech.
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Charlie The Wonderdog (Parent & Baby)
Thursday 23 July 2026
11:30 am
The all-new animated family adventure, Charlie the Wonderdog: features Owen Wilson (the voice of Lightning McQueen from Cars) as the voice of Charlie, a lovable dog with superpowers! When Danny’s loyal, four-legged best friend is mysteriously abducted by aliens,…
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Cactus Pears
Thursday 23 July 2026
2:00 pm
Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with local farmer.
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Disclosure Day
Thursday 23 July 2026
5:00 pm
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?
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Pink Narcissus (4K Restoration)
Thursday 23 July 2026
8:10 pm
An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute.
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Familiar Touch
Friday 24 July 2026
11:00 am
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An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory.
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Nino
Friday 24 July 2026
5:30 pm
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Nino, a young man, explores the streets of Paris to reconnect with the world and himself, after being diagnosed with cancer.
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Strictly Ballroom (4K Restoration)
Friday 24 July 2026
8:00 pm
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A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
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Toy Story 5 (Relaxed)
Saturday 25 July 2026
11:00 am
The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech.
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Lesbian Space Princess
Saturday 25 July 2026
5:00 pm
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An introverted space princess is forced to leave her home planet on an inter-gay-lactic mission to save her ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.
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Toy Story 5 (Captioned)
Tuesday 28 July 2026
2:00 pm
The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech.
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Toy Story 5 (Parent & Baby)
Thursday 30 July 2026
11:30 am
Audio Description accessed via headphones and a body pack is available for this screening. The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the…
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WHAM! 10 Days In China
Thursday 30 July 2026
7:30 pm
In 1985, WHAM! crossed cultural divides as the first Western pop act in China. Previously unseen, beautifully restored archive footage reveals this landmark meeting of pop, politics and history.
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A Private Life
Friday 31 July 2026
11:00 am
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When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients, she is convinced it was murder and takes it upon herself to investigate.
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Space Jam (30th Anniversary)
Friday 31 July 2026
2:00 pm
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Michael Jordan makes his starring film debut opposite the celluloid skills of Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes. Jordan must help the Looney Tunes win a basketball game.
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Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day
Friday 31 July 2026
5:30 pm
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London 1910: a passionate astronomer does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage.
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The Furious
Friday 31 July 2026
8:10 pm
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A father fights fiercely against ruthless kidnappers to save his abducted daughter.
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Space Jam (30th Anniversary) (Relaxed)
Saturday 01 August 2026
11:00 am
Michael Jordan makes his starring film debut opposite the celluloid skills of Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes. Jordan must help the Looney Tunes win a basketball game.
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A Private Life (Captioned)
Saturday 01 August 2026
8:00 pm
When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients, she is convinced it was murder and takes it upon herself to investigate.
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The Last Viking (Captioned)
Tuesday 04 August 2026
2:00 pm
After serving fifteen years in prison, bank robber Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is determined to recover the stolen money his brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen) buried.
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The Last Viking
Wednesday 05 August 2026
11:00 am
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After serving fifteen years in prison, bank robber Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is determined to recover the stolen money his brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen) buried.
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Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day (Parent & Baby)
Thursday 06 August 2026
11:30 am
London 1910: a passionate astronomer does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage.
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500 Miles
Friday 07 August 2026
11:00 am
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500 Miles is a poetic, life-affirming road movie and celebration of the human spirit that follows a broken family forced to come together when two young brothers run away from home.
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Minions & Monsters
Friday 07 August 2026
2:00 pm
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This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.
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My Father’s Island
Friday 07 August 2026
5:30 pm
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A haunted young man travels to a remote island to reconnect with his father and confront the traumatic experience they shared ten years prior.
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The Invite
Friday 07 August 2026
8:10 pm
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Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.
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Andre Rieu: Viva Maastricht!
Saturday 08 August 2026
2:00 pm
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This year, André Rieu celebrates a spectacular milestone – the 20th anniversary of his iconic summer concerts on the magnificent Vrijthof square.
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Akenfield
Sunday 09 August 2026
2:00 pm
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Akenfield is a 1974 drama about a young man who dreams of getting away from his home town in Suffolk. As he prepares to move, voices of his recently deceased grandfather and father play through his mind.
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Rosebush Pruning
Friday 14 August 2026
11:00 am
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Underneath the Catalonian sun, a rich white American family lives in hedonistic isolation, seeking love and validation through one another, their designer wardrobes and pop music. When an outsider infiltrates the family, buried tensions surface and blood ties are severed.
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Moana
Friday 14 August 2026
1:45 pm
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Moana answers the Ocean’s call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.
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Nirvanna: The Band – The Show – The Movie
Friday 14 August 2026
4:25 pm
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When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
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The Essex Ways + Q&A
Friday 14 August 2026
7:00 pm
Discover the many ways of Essex with this special screening of ‘The Essex Ways’, a feature length documentary by local filmmaker Thomas Winward.
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David Byrne’s American Utopia
Saturday 15 August 2026
8:00 pm
In his wildly popular Broadway show American Utopia, David Byrne reflects on human connections, life and how on earth we work through it.
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Nostalgia (4K Restoration)
Tuesday 18 August 2026
2:00 pm
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A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
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Animal Farm
Friday 21 August 2026
2:00 pm
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All animals are created equal… but some are more equal than others.
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Synthetic Sincerity
Friday 21 August 2026
5:30 pm
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Marc Isaacs makes a deal with The Synthetic Sincerity Lab, an AI research project affiliated with the University of Southern England.
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The Last One For The Road
Friday 21 August 2026
8:00 pm
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Two blustery 50-somethings, have an obsession: going for their last drink. One night, they run into Giulio, a shy architecture student.
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Letters From Baghdad
Saturday 22 August 2026
1:30 pm
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Letters from Baghdad is the story of a true original – Gertrude Bell – sometimes called the “female” Lawrence of Arabia.
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The Odyssey
Saturday 22 August 2026
4:00 pm
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Christopher Nolan’s next film, The Odyssey, is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX® film technology.
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On The Sea
Friday 28 August 2026
11:00 am
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Love, longing and desire in a beautiful, remote coastal community – On The Sea is a beautiful, sensual and at times, tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire.
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The Sacrifice (4K Restoration)
Friday 28 August 2026
2:00 pm
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At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Friday 28 August 2026
5:15 pm
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It’s a Brand New Day for Peter Parker. Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn’t remember him sparks a change he may not have the power to control.
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Ish
Friday 28 August 2026
8:30 pm
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Set and filmed in Luton, Ish follows 12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram, who wrestle to hold onto their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search.
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The Summer Book
Saturday 29 August 2026
2:05 pm
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Follows the inspirational tale of a young girl and her grandmother spending a summer on a small, uninhabited island in the Gulf of Finland.
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National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope
Friday 25 September 2026
7:00 pm
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Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.
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Royal Ballet Live: Manon
Sunday 01 November 2026
1:45 pm
A native of this hedonistic underworld, Manon is caught between twin desires when she falls in love with the student Des Grieux.
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Royal Opera Live: Carmen
Sunday 15 November 2026
1:45 pm
Under the oppressive heat of the Spanish sun, the fiercely independent Carmen attracts the attention of Don José.
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Royal Ballet Live: The Nutcracker
Sunday 13 December 2026
1:45 pm
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At a cosy Christmas party, young Clara meets the mysterious magician Drosselmeyer, who gives her a nutcracker doll.
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Royal Opera Live: Götterdämmerung
Sunday 07 February 2027
1:45 pm
Deception leads to treachery, then devastation, when Siegfried is tricked into betraying Brünnhilde.
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Royal Opera Live: Così fan Tutte
Sunday 28 February 2027
1:45 pm
Spurred on by a bet, two young men hatch a plan to test the fidelity of their girlfriends.
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Royal Ballet Live: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Sunday 28 March 2027
1:45 pm
At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit.
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Royal Ballet Live: Swan Lake
Thursday 22 April 2027
7:00 pm
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Princess Odette is bound by a curse, turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. The spell can only be broken by a pledge of eternal love.
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Royal Opera Live: Tosca
Sunday 09 May 2027
1:45 pm
Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and for their art. But when Cavaradossi helps an escaped prisoner, the lovers make a deadly enemy in the form of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police.
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Royal Ballet Live: Romeo & Juliet
Sunday 30 May 2027
1:45 pm
Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-crossed lovers is transformed in Kenneth MacMillan’s mesmerising ballet.
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