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 5/10/26 | Bitter Christmas (15) | After winning the Golden Lion for The Room Next Door at Venice in 2024, Pedro Almodóvar returned to the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year where this, his latest film, was nominated for the Palme D’Or and where it won the Soundtrack Award. Raúl is a cult filmmaker in the midst of a creative crisis. When tragedy strikes one of his closest collaborators, he draws inspiration from it to write his next film. Little by little, he imagines Elsa, a filmmaker in the midst of writing a script, whose journey begins to mirror his own. The two filmmakers become two sides of the same character, in a game of mirrors where the raw honesty of autofiction reveals as much as it destroys. But how far can one go to tell a story? |
| Monday 12/10/26 | La Femme Infidèle (15) | In our occasional series of classic masterpieces, we’ve selected this newly remastered domestic thriller from 1969 to coincide with London’s BFI Southbank recent Claude Chabrol season. The film is the story of a complex marriage in which the husband Charles suspects his wife Hélène is cheating on him. Charles hires a private detective to follow Hélène who, on the pretext of visiting her beautician, frequently goes to Paris. Described by one critic as “a brilliant ballet of repression and fear”, Chabrol’s mastery of tension and atmosphere is at its best as we witness the protagonists weave their way to a conclusion about the future of their marriage. Superb performances portraying complex characters. ★★★★★ The Guardian. |
| Monday 19/10/26 | The Cycle of Love (12A) | This moving film follows the extraordinary true story of PK, a 23-year-old street artist from Delhi who sets off with a handful of paint brushes and a second-hand bicycle on a 6,000 mile journey across Europe and Asia to find Lotta, the woman who captured his heart during her visit to India. Convinced their meeting was fate, reinforced by an astrologer’s prophecy that matched Lotta’s description, PK embarks on a leap of faith that becomes a journey of love, identity and transformation. With unprecedented access, the Oscar-winning filmmaking team partner closely with PK, Lotta and their families to bring this intimate, thrilling and life-affirming story to the big screen. |
| Monday 26/10/26 | Queen At Sea (15) | Receiving its world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, Queen At Sea won both the Silver Bear Jury Prize and the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance for both Courtenay and Calder-Marshall. The film follows Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, at odds over a moral quandary involving Amanda’s mother, Leslie, In the advanced stages of dementia. They quarrel over whether Leslie has lost all ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests, and, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination? As Amanda and Martin are forced to make increasingly difficult choices, the repercussions spiral out of their control. ★★★★★ "a lacerating movie...a startling portrait of intimacy" Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian |
| Monday 2/11/26 | Bad Apples (15) | A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured. |
| Monday 9/11/26 | Better Go Mad in the Wild (15) | Twin brothers Franta and Ondra share everything in Sumava Mountains. Though identical, their souls differ - Franta seeks freedom while Ondra needs routine. Their unbreakable bond faces the ultimate test. |
| Monday 16/11/26 | Mistura (12A) | A woman's life unravels after her husband's betrayal isolates her from elite society. Embracing disregarded communities, she embarks on a transformative journey, challenging norms through a daring culinary venture that redefines her life. |
| Monday 23/11/26 | tbc | |
| Monday 30/11/26 | Fatherland (12A) | FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) - actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family. With FATHERLAND, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled style - the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe. |
| Monday 7/12/26 | Wicker (12A) | Olivia Coleman stars in this cheeky comedy. An ostracised fisherwoman commissions the local basketmaker to weave her a husband, but when her wicker creation proves unexpectedly extraordinary, his presence ignites jealousy and upheaval that threatens their quiet village. |
| Monday 14/12/26 | tbc |