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Federico Fellini's poetic fable of love and cruelty, the first-ever Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film.

Part of the 2026 Wicked Queer Film Festival!

A six week course taught by Kaj Wilson!

Mel Brooks's take on Hollywood Westerns starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.

Join us in celebrating the release of Love and Other Monsters with author Emily Franklin, in conversation with Owen Egerton, followed by a screening of Bride of Frankenstein.

Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the  Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production.

Screening & conversation with director Steven Jenkins, and acoustic performance by special guest Bill Janovitz!

The Super-Beast Battle of the Century!

Stupendous juggling! Amazing magic! Incredible unicycle tricks! Hilarious antics! Tons of audience participation! A rubber chicken! And accordion music!

Silsila, a landmark of Bollywood cinema, was monumental in its day for its portrayal of transgressive love.

Seven Latin American short films share a pulse, part of the 2026 Wicked Queer Film Festival!

Part of the 2026 Wicked Queer Film Festival!

The killer tomatoes are back! But this time around, they're going to have to contend with late '80s George Clooney and his wicked mullet... 

Oh, hi Mark.

Featuring a Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Thomas Doherty.

Post-film Q&A with filmmaker Abby Ginzberg, Judith Rosenbaum, and Shulamit Reinharz.

Post-film Q&A with NCJF Directors Sharon Pucker Rivo and Lisa Rivo.

Boston's one and only open mic night for filmmakers!

New England Premiere!

IN MEL WE TRVST

New England Premiere!

Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby's original 1951 adaptation of the novella that John Carpenter would later adapt in 1982 as The Thing.

Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams, and they all could come true.

Natalie Portman stars in Alex Garland's stunning adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed novel.

Massachusetts Premiere!

This seminar will explore the film through a lens of ambivalent spectatorship that considers both the benefits and limitations of auteurism, and as a reclamation for its star, Pam Grier. 

Six players on the trail of a half a million in Cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?

Alfred Hitchcock's masterwork creates a dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion, and murder. 

The Master of Comedy takes on The Master of Suspense!

Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste feature in the  acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove. 

Both in 35mm, presented by the Salem Horror Fest!

After the screening, join us for a discussion with filmmaker Ben McKenzie.

Imagine... you're gone and someone else is living inside your body.

40th anniversary screening!

Free screening!

Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Boston and The National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival. 

It’s Alive! How Young Frankenstein Brings Parody to Life

An all-star cast that includes Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr, and Cloris Leachman bring Mel Brooks’s uniquely riotous take on the classic Frankenstein story to life.

If ya got it... flaunt it!

The Pain-Addiction Loop: How Drugs Change the Brain 

Revenge of the Schtick.

Journalist Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) and Academy Award–nominated director Tia Lessin join us in person for a post-film discussion. 

Adam Sandler stars as the ultimate master of ceremonies who guarantees all a good time. 

Writer/Director Sam Raimi's relentless, gore-spattered debut is a landmark in horror cinema.

Screening on VHS!

PrePre-film seminar by Vernon Shetley!

A Blast of DRAMATIC Dynamite exploded right before your eyes!

He only needs three things to get through the day ... an espresso, an aspirin, and a miracle.

Your senses will never be the same.

In the darkest hour, there is a light that shines on every human being... but ONE!

In an age of darkness. At a time of evil. When the world needed a hero. What it got was him.

Celebrate the magic and mayhem of moviemaking in this Mother’s Day double feature!

Featuring guests from The Huntington's production of Oedipus el Rey, running May 7–June 7, 2026.

The documentary sensation of 1999.

This debut feature by Robert Townsend is an ingenious guerrilla satire that takes riotous aim at the typecasting of Black actors in 1980s Hollywood.

Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. 

They've worked hard all their lives, but they still can't afford the American Dream. Stealing it is even better.

Featuring a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers and local wrestlers!

The only witness to the crime was not even there.

From cult chaos to cinematic infamy, follow the lovable disaster behind the camera in films that prove ambition trumps talent.

Everything you've heard is true.

She rocks. She rules. She reigns.

A ragtag crew of underground filmmakers known as the Sprocket Holes, who abhor conventional cinema, rebel against the tenets of mainstream Hollywood.

Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead legacy continues in these two horrifying films.

In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the MCU unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before

Zoya Akhtar's popular road comedy. 

Writers obsess, dreams unravel, and art imitates life in this mind-bending double dive into creativity run wild.

An adventure 65 million years in the making.

Join professor Andre Puca of Emerson College as he explores the style and themes of Anderson’s films spanning all 3 decades of his noteworthy career

Olivier Assayas’s live-wire international breakthrough stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself.

He does wild and crazy things because he has nothing to lose... but his life.

Even nice people can go to hell.

She's the boss now.

Director Joscha Nongard joins us in-person for a post-film discussion, co-presented by the Goethe Institut Boston. 

Join us for two cinematic meditations on desire, ambition, and the art of making movies.

A worldwide smash hit, Rififi earned director Jules Dassin the Best Director prize at Cannes and set the standard for screen robberies for decades to come.

Nicola Coughlan joins Éanna Hardwicke and Siobhán McSweeney in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery

A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.

DEAL WITH THIS.

A film, by Sally Porter, based on the book by Vurginia Woolf. 

As P.T. Barnum put it, "There's a sucker born every minute."

Get ready to jam.

Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel.

In Laura Laabs’ debut feature, the history of Germany over the past nearly 100 years is the central theme all wrapped up in one glorious mess of a film.

Ease on down the road!

Questlove's powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion.

S-S-S-S-S-Smokin!!!

The unbelievably true story of one man, one movement, the music and madness that was Manchester.

Debonair. Defiant. Defrosted.

A Completely Cool, Multi-Purpose Movie.

It's hard to be cool, when your dad's Goofy.

A film by Jim Jarmusch.

Cherish the past. Enjoy the present. Because the truth is coming. Fight the future.

The movie that makes a scene of the crime.

Sex. Murder. Mystery. Welcome to the party.