The Cinema Museum, London

Upcoming Events

8th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend

Sat 5 Apr - Sun 6 Apr 2025 · Events

Our Silent Film Weekend is on April 5th and 6th. And we’re busy compiling a wide selection encompassing the cinema of the US, Europe, Asia and our native UK.

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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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Robert Ross and Gemma Ross present a Write On Comedy event: Carry On Up The Cinema Museum VII

Sat 3 May 2025 @ 12:00 · Events

In what has become a sell-out bi-annual treat for devotees of the Best of British Comedy, in general, and the Carry Ons, in particular, Robert and Gemma Ross host another full day of hilarious anecdotes, rare clips from the vaults, and a roll-call of very special guests.

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