The Cinema Museum, London

Upcoming Events

8th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend

Sat 5 Apr - Sun 6 Apr 2025 · Events

Our Silent Film Weekend will take place over the 5-6 April. There is the customary blend of archive treasures and mainstream entertainment, presented by an enthusiastic team of experts with, of course, the usual live music from our skilled accompanists.

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Screening of Vindication Swim (2024) plus Q&A with director Elliott Hasler

Thu 10 Apr 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

The Cinema Museum presents a screening of the award winning 2024 British film Vindication Swim, the true story of a remarkable British woman, Mercedes Gleitze, who in 1927 became the first British woman to swim the English Channel.

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Celebrating Peter Sellers: Never Let Go (1960)

Sat 12 Apr 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

Never Let Go (1960) is a 1960 British thriller film directed by John Guillermin with Sellers in the serious role of a crooked car salesman who buys log books from scrapped models and then gets similar cars stolen to order.

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Fundraiser screening of Kensuke’s Kingdom (2024) plus Q&A with directors Kirk Hendry and Neil Boyle

Sun 13 Apr 2025 @ 14:00 · Events

Kensuke’s Kingdom (2024) is the multi award-winning animated film based on the best selling novel by Michael Morpurgo, with a screenplay by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, and featuring the voices of Cillian Murphy, Sally Hawkins and Ken Watanabe.

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Kennington Noir presents Act of Violence (1948)

Wed 16 Apr 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

Fred Zinnemann directs this 1948 noir that shines a light on the aftermath of WWII on soldiers returning to civilian life, with Van Helfin the target of Robert Ryan's need to right a supposed wartime wrong.

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Some new kind of kick presents Code Two (1953)

Sat 19 Apr 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

An MGM B picture about three rookie cops who become friends at the Police Academy and then experience their first assignments on motorcycle patrol with the LAPD.

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Women and Cocaine presents As You Desire Me (1932)

Thu 24 Apr 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

In this MGM production, Greta Garbo plays a mysterious amnesiac woman,who is swept into a whirlwind of passion and intrigue when a man (Melvyn Douglas) claims she’s his long-lost wife.

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The Blinking Buzzards – 26 April

Sat 26 Apr 2025 @ 16:00 · Events

The UK Buster Keaton Society. Quarterly meeting of the society dedicated to the appreciation of the silent comedian.

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