To save paper, cut costs and give us flexibility in selecting films at short notice, we no longer produce printed programmes. All of our films are listed on the Buxton Opera House Cinema website as well as our own. If you’d like to receive a weekly alert for our Monday film please subscribe to our newsletter.
Here is our diary – we update it as soon as new films are confirmed. You won’t find a more varied and interesting programme anywhere!
| Monday 5/5/25 | Santosh | A widow-turned-police officer investigates a troubling murder in British Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri’s (I for India, Around India with a Movie Camera) fiction feature debut, screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2024. After her constable husband is killed on the job in remote northern India, Santosh reluctantly assumes his role. When a teenage Dalit (low caste) girl is found murdered and a Muslim boy is suspected, igniting protests in the local community, she is pulled into the case under the command of new female superior who skilfully navigates their police station’s misogynistic culture while remaining a fierce advocate against gendered violence. As the case develops, though, both women must confront their place within a corrupt (and corrupting) system, and Santosh’s personal ethics are painfully challenged by the realities of her world. A deft thriller interrogating hierarchies of gender, caste, religion and class in rural India, with superb performances from Goswami and Rajwar, Santosh combines a complex character study with searing social critique. |
| Monday 12/5/25 | Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | The 93-year-old Irish writer recounts her controversial life, novels, love affairs, and stardom through personal journals read by actress Jessie Buckley, with perspectives from writers like Gabriel Byrne and Walter Mosley. |
| Monday 19/5/25 | Misericordia (15) | Winner of the Prix Louis-Delluc for Best French Film of 2024, Misercordia initially seems to promise a low-key, straight-down-the-line French rural melodrama. But then it takes a few confounding thriller detours before showing its hand as a peculiar small-town tale of murder, desire, and repression with the macabre humour and underlying suspense of Hitchcock.Darkly sparkling, offbeat and the director’s best work to date. |
| Monday 26/5/25 | Two To One (12A) | Set in the long, hot summer of 1990, a family in Socialist East Germany hatch a plan to make a fortune when they find a bunker full of soon-to-be-worthless currency. With the help of their friends and neighbours they tackle progress and capitalism head-on. A light-hearted heist comedy about friendship, community, love and capitalism with a superb performance from Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller, the film has been a sell-out hit in Germany and came second audience favourite at the recent Glasgow Film Festival. |
| Monday 2/6/25 | One To One: John & Yoko (15) | On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon played his only full-length show after leaving The Beatles, the One to One Benefit Concert, a rollicking, dazzling performance from him and Yoko Ono. Director Kevin Macdonald’s riveting documentary ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO takes that epic musical event and uses it as the starting point to recreate eighteen defining months in the lives of John and Yoko. By 1971 the couple was newly arrived in the United States— living in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village and watching a huge amount of American television. The film uses a riotous mélange of American TV to conjure the era through what the two would have been seeing on the tube: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Cronkite, The Waltons. As they experience a year of love and transformation in the US, John and Yoko begin to change their approach to protest — ultimately leading to the One to One concert, which was inspired by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV. Filmed in a meticulously faithful reproduction of the NYC apartment the duo shared, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO also includes a wealth of never-before-seen material, including home movies and numerous phone call recordings of John and Yoko to offer a unique take on a seminal time in the lives of one of music’s most famous couples. |
| Monday 9/6/25 | The Marching Band (15) | Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music. Sensing his brother's exceptional talent, Thibaut decides to remedy the injustice of fate. Jimmy begins to dream of a different life. An authentic, funny and very moving drama that is a very entertaining and involving watch – scoring highest in recent previews for cinema programmers from all over the UK. It’s a story of identity vs destiny, nature vs nurture, full of thinking about the interplay of talent and opportunity that go into the making (or unmaking) of a creative life. Not to be missed! |
| Monday 16/6/25 | The Go Between (PG) | This tribute to Julie Christie, who is 85, was based on the 1953 novel by L.P. Hartley. Set in dreamy summery Norfolk at the turn of the century, 12-year-old Leo is invited to stay at his friend Marcus’s country manor where he soon develops a crush on Marcus’s older sister Marian. Running errands for Marian, Leo suddenly realises he is involved in secret intrigues between adults. With a screenplay by Harold Pinter, one of the all-time best film scores by Michel Lagrand and superb acting from the British greats of that era, you’re in for a nostalgic treat. The film won the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 1971. |