Movie Theater Movies

Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios...

Bea is an immature 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a suburb of a big city. One day a mysterious 7-year-old girl named Candela appears....

In the excitement of the roaring 20s, a new kind of movie palace was constructed by the Bay. More than 90 years later, Tampa Theatre has become known...

An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a...

Valentina is scared to go see the latest horror movie with her friends, but can Poppy McCorn, everyone's favorite hot-buttered movie mascot, help her...

When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...

A poop-shy film festival presenter finds himself trapped in a public restroom with a man who can only urinate if someone else is using the stall.

In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki...

Paying tribute to some of America's only surviving drive-ins – and those who keep them running – this heartfelt documentary captures...

A filmmaker celebrates his inspiration for movies by recreating what it was like for his 9-year old self in 1972 when he journeyed downtown to spend...

Before there were home video formats and the internet, the “Bahnhofskinos” (“Train station cinemas”) in West Germany...

Two family friends meet up after not seeing each other for awhile, but one thinks it's a date.

When returning to his hometown with his ill mother, Marlombrando meets again his father and the Drive-in cinema where he spent his childhood. Almeida...

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

Haruhiko and Yukihiko are childhood friends. In elementary school, their homeroom teacher, Mr. Kintama, taught them to be homosexuals, and they...

Two brothers start working as benshi narrators of silent films in a cinema in the early 20th century. This premise is the jumping-off point for an...

An affectionate and entertaining look at our nation's obsession with cinema from the early days of silent cinema, through the golden age of the...

Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super...

Desperate to leave a camp for kids with disabilities, a young woman plots an escape with her potential suitor.

A movie preview session for just nine spectators takes place in a large city hall. The movie starts playing and everyone gets ready to enjoy the...