Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town...

Keswick Alhambra is proud to present ADRIAN DUNBAR (Line of Duty, Ridley) and Broadway royalty STEPHANIE J. BLOCK (Into The Woods, The Cher Show) leading a stellar cast in a sizzling new 5-star production of Kiss Me, Kate, filmed live at the Barbican in London especially for the big screen. ‘A glorious Golden Age spectacular’ (????? The Telegraph), Cole Porter’s legendary musical comedy has backst...

Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

The long awaited second instalment of Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR epic comes to the Alhambra from release on 15 November. Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now rule over Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of t...

Join us for a celebration of the life of George, a wonderful dog and certainly a man's best friend. Hear the story of local fellrunner Jacob Tonkin and his dog George, stunningly filmed over a number of years by local filmmaker James Appleton in and around Keswick and set in the mountains we all know and love. After two sold-out screenings with Q&As with Jacob and James, this is your chance to se...

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood. This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lov...

Written and directed by celebrated playwright Conor McPherson and featuring Tony Award-winning orchestrations by Simon Hale, Girl From The North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs of Bob Dylan as they’ve never been heard before, including “Forever Young,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “Hurricane,” and “Like A Rolling Stone.” It’s 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travellers wh...

Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo ( Harriet , Broadway’s The Color Purple ) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by pri...

The annual F3T Fly Fishing Film Tour is back in the UK and will be on the road from November with a top notch selection of short films that are sure to get you fired up for the season ahead! This year there will be films that take you into the science of the Costa Marlin Project, to the deep depths of the jungle for massive Peacock Bass and will have had a Steelhead story with characters as rare a...

Knepp is a beacon of hope for England’s wildlife. When Isabella and her husband inherited the estate to farm, they recognised how sick the land was. But a groundbreaking radical experiment has been nothing short of transformative. Now it’s a place where mussel-diving pigs, storks and butterflies find sanctuary, and where thriving flora and a vast array of animals have taken back the land. This is ...

In the twenty years from 1943-'63, Rome vied with Hollywood for the title of the Most Glamorous place on earth in which to be silver-screen-famous. And yet, in 1946, only 7% of the Italian population had running water, electricity or flushing loos. Within five years, Italian cinema would be exuding grace, charm, style and elegance, proposing a way of life towards which the world raced with open ar...

Filmed in 1970 during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, France. This fast-paced drama follows Michael Delaney (played by Steve McQueen), a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow (Elga Andersen). The minimal storyline focuses on Delaney...

Sustainable Keswick and Extinction Rebellion present THE OIL MACHINE. From the discovery of huge oil fields off the coast of Scotland to their mass privatisation during the Thatcher era, The Oil Machine highlights how oil became the invisible engine driving UK economic and public policy. In the wake of COP26 in Glasgow, demand for climate action has become a key societal concern and the pressure o...

Jodie Comer’s ( Killing Eve ) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of ...