Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Closed Monday and Sunday
The Cinema and Box Office will be closed for Christmas and the New Year from 22/12/23 to 2/1/24 and will reopen at 5pm on 2/1/24.
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Independent Cinema for Everyone
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- Artist Moving Image
- Bringing in Baby
- Captioned Screening Available
- Classic Film
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- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Arab Film Festival
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- Virtual Cinema
Viewing Archived Events: Documentary
Exhibition on Screen – Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open its doors to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history. This film invites audiences to a private view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curator of t...
I Get Knocked Down + Q&A with Director Dunstan Bruce (15)
I Get Knocked Down is the untold story of Leeds-based anarcho-pop band Chumbawamba.
Exhibition on Screen – Tokyo Stories
Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and br...
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (18)
A deep dive into cinema history, using more than 175 film clips from Hollywood favourites and cult classics, from 1896 through to the present.
Plymouth Urban Tree Festival: The Hidden Life of Trees (PG)
Part of a national event celebrating the importance of urban trees. Branching off of his best-selling book, renowned forester and writer Peter Wohlleben guides us through his most precious ideas and understanding of how trees work in this enlightenin...
Meet Me In The Bathroom (15)
An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s, featuring never-before-seen footage of artists like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem.
Fashion Reimagined (12A)
‘This film will shock you, inspire you - and charm you. A must-watch not just for the fashion industry but for everyone who wears clothes’ - Jess Cartner-Morley, Associate Editor (Fashion), The Guardian
Exhibition on Screen – Mary Cassatt: Painting The Modern Woman (U)
Released to coincide with International Women’s Day. Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, curious and engaging, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in a...
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (18)
Oscar®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) presents a stirring portrait of renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin, focussing on her fight against Big Pharma.
The Felling (12A)
The Felling – An Epic Tale of People Power is a first-hand account of an extraordinary and shocking tale, where Sheffield citizens from 18-90 years old rise up to stop the destruction of their city's healthy street trees.
By Date
By Category
- See All
- Adventure Film Club
- Artist Moving Image
- Bringing in Baby
- Captioned Screening Available
- Classic Film
- Documentary
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Arab Film Festival
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- Virtual Cinema
Past Events
- See All
- Art
- Creative Learning
- Film
- Adventure Film Club
- Artist Moving Image
- Bringing in Baby
- Captioned Screening Available
- Classic Film
- Documentary
- Exhibition On Screen
- F Rated
- Festivals
- Free Events
- French Film Festival
- French Music and Film Evening
- Hidden Figures of Plymouth
- Iris On The Move
- LGBTQ+
- Live Cinema
- Local Interest
- MUBI GO
- Powell & Pressburger
- Programmer's Pick
- Reclaim The Frame
- Relaxed Screening
- SAFAR Arab Film Festival
- Talks
- The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023
- Virtual Cinema
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