Picturehouse Central

Picturehouse’s flagship cinema, café, restaurant and exclusive Members' Bar in the heart of the West End. 🍿
Home to #SundanceLondon
📍 London, UK

Picturehouse Central is situated in the heart of London’s West End, a stone’s throw away from Leicester Square. The entrance is on the corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue at the centre of London’s famous theatre district. Home of Sundance Film Festival: London. We programme an eclectic mix of quality mainstream cinema, foreign language, indie, arthouse and a strong focus on docu

04/09/2024

Do you like Thai food, feminist prose, and angry girl music of the Indie Rock persuasion? 🤘✨ We're more than just 'whelmed' to be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the iconic 10 Things I Hate About You with a special screening of the film, plus an exclusive intro and Q&A with director, writer & producer Gil Junger!

📅 Thu 19 Sep
⏰ 18.30
🎟 Members' Priority Booking now open!

Photos from Picturehouse Central's post 03/09/2024

Big news! ✨ We're delighted to announce that we'll be bringing a preview of The Outrun to Central, where we'll be joined by Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, director Nora Fingscheidt and co-writer (and author of the book the film is based on) Amy Liptrot!

📅 Wed 18 Sep
⏰ 19.30
🎟 https://ow.ly/bJO050Te6q1

31/08/2024

We're SO nearly ready to open our doors for — all tickets to all screenings today are just £4! 💸

We're showing 27 (yes, you heard that right!) different films across the day: from Sing Sing to The Taste of Things, Challengers to Coraline, It Came From Outer Space to It Ends With Us, and Dune: Part Two to Didi!

See our full line-up over at picturehouses.com/NCD, and we'll see you at the movies! 🍿

30/08/2024

National Cinema Day takes over Picturehouse Central tomorrow, and we can count on one hand how many pounds you'll be spending on your cinema ticket (spoilers: it's £4!) 💸

Come along, support cinema, and see some of the best of film new & old on the big screen all day long without breaking the bank — we'll see you at the movies! 👋

Let us know what you'll be seeing in the comments — you might give somebody a brand new film recommendation! 👀

28/08/2024

Coming to our Members’ Movie Mixer tomorrow evening? 👊💥

As well as a ticket to see the new 4K remaster of The Terminator & entry to our ‘80s themed party, your ticket includes a complimentary drink: our party cocktail, the Bellini ‘84 😎 Come with us if you want to party!

📅 Thu 29 Aug
⏰ 18.00 for Party, 20.00 for Film
📍 Members’ Bar (AKA, Tech-Noir)
🎟️ Booking open to all London Members — grab your tickets via the Picturehouse Website, Mobile App, and at Box Office

27/08/2024

The Sing Sing stairs are IN, just in time for our Film Club Preview tonight! ✨

Grab a ticket (just £1 for Members!), pick up a limited edition behind the scenes programme, and be one of the first to see this incredibly moving, Oscar-tipped testament to humanity & the power of art to change lives ❤️‍🩹

⏰ 18.00
🎟️ Book now via the Picturehouse Website, Mobile App, and at Box Office!

26/08/2024

POV: You realise it's the last day you can save 40% off a West End Membership ☹️

On the bright side, you still have until the end of the day to make the most of our amazing deal! Membership is the best way to visit Picturehouse Central — earlier this month our Members saw a preview of the brilliant for just £1 a ticket! ✨ Head over to our website to buy your Membership today!

🎥 Kneecap (Curzon Film)

Photos from Picturehouse Central's post 26/08/2024

Mark your diaries! ✨ This Saturday (31 Aug) we’re celebrating — come in and see a film with us for just £4 per ticket all day long!

All that’s left to do is decide what you’ll be seeing! See what’s on and book your tickets now via the Picturehouse Website 🎟

Photos from Picturehouse Central's post 25/08/2024

Need another reason to take advantage of our 40% off Membership sale this Bank Holiday Weekend? ✨ West End Members get priority access to Q&As and special events at Picturehouse Central — here are just a few of the events we've had recently that our Members got first dibs at:

💣 Cillian Murphy & Emily Blunt for
🌳 Wim Wenders for
🎶 Carey Mulligan & Bradley Cooper for
🩸 Justine Triet & Sandra Hüller for
🎀 Sofia Coppola for
🟥 Jonathan Glazer & Tech Crew for

Sign up today at picturehouses.com/summersale!

23/08/2024

💥 Bank Holiday Flash Sale 💥

Have you ever wanted to be a Picturehouse Member? Now's your chance: for the next four days you can get 40% off Membership — the best way to enjoy your local Picturehouse! You'll get...

🎟 Up to 10 free tickets, £3 off all other tickets + no booking fees!
🍷 Big discounts on food and drink
🎞 Priority booking on select special events
💸 Two hand-picked Film Club screenings per week for £1
✨ ...and much, much more!

Head over to picturehouses.com/summersale now to pick the Membership that's right for you & sign up this Bank Holiday weekend!

(Promotion ends at 23.59 on Mon 26 Aug. Online Purchases Only. Applicable on one off payment 12 month Memberships only. Not applicable on recurring annual subscriptions. Not applicable on gift Memberships. Full T&Cs available on our website.)

22/08/2024

We're so excited for our Members' Movie Mixer next Thursday — tickets include admit to an all-out '80s party, a complimentary cocktail, entry to see the new 4K restoration of Terminator, and if you're lucky, one of these stickers! ✨

🎟 Now open to all London Members!

Photos from Picturehouse Central's post 22/08/2024

Another week, another three icons of the '80s grace our screens as part of our ! See...

🪰 The Fly
✨ Fri 23 Aug (20.45) & Sat 24 Aug (16.00)

📺 Broadcast News
✨ Sat 24 Aug (16.00) & Tue 27 Aug (18.20)

⚔️ Excalibur
✨ Sun 25 Aug (Film Club, 16.00) & Mon 26 Aug (20.00)

🎟 Book now via the Picturehouse Website, Mobile App or at Box Office — tickets just £8 or £5/£1 Film Club for Members!

21/08/2024

This September, reDiscover The Bard as you've never seen him before — through six singular directorial takes on some of his greatest works made for the big screen! 📜🪶

Faithful or fast and loose, tragic or comedic, these six films may be worlds apart, but each plays a part in bringing this literary legend to life:

💸 The Bad Sleep Well
🚖 My Own Private Idaho
❤️‍🔥 Romeo + Juliet
🤖 Forbidden Planet
🎸 10 Things I Hate About You
👑 Chimes at Midnight

Kicking off from 8 Sep at Picturehouse Central! Find out about the season, read programme notes, and book your tickets 👉 picturehouses.com/shakespeare

20/08/2024

Are you coming to our special Q&A preview of The Mountain Within Me tomorrow evening? ⛰✨ You might be very lucky (get it?) and find a copy of Ed Jackson's brilliant and moving autobiography on your seat!

⏰ 18.30
🎙 w/ Ed Jackson!
🎟 Limited tickets still available via the Picturehouse Website & at Box Office

20/08/2024

Throwback to the last time Kneecap took Picturehouse Central by storm at earlier this summer! 🇮🇪

Join us to see a Film Club preview of the rip-roaring dramedy chronicling the rise of the Belfast-based hip hop trio tonight!

⏰ 20.30
🎟 £8 / £1 for Members!

📷 Joanne Davidson

18/08/2024

What a special evening celebrating the brilliant Sing Sing ♥️

We were joined by director Greg Kwedar for a preview of the film, a recorded intro from Colman Domingo, and an insightful (not to mention emotional!) Q&A 🎙️

is a testament to the human capacity to withstand the toughest circumstances, the power of art to transform lives, and the hope we find in one another & ourselves. Don’t miss it hitting our screens for Film Club previews on 27 Aug (Tickets just £1 for Members! and on wide release from 30 Aug!) ✨

Photos from Picturehouse Central's post 17/08/2024

Our is in full swing! 🪩🕺 Do not adjust your sets, and head over to Picturehouse Central this week to see three verified ‘80s classics:

🎶
✨ Sat 17 Aug (18.00) & Tue 20 Aug (18.15)

🪴
✨ Sun 18 Aug (16.00)

🚨 (Film Club)
✨ Sun 18 Aug, 16.00

17/08/2024

Just a handful of tickets left for our very special preview of Sing Sing tomorrow afternoon, with director Greg Kwedar joining us for a post-film Q&A! (Plus, we've heard there might even be a recorded message from somebody very special... 👀)

Be one of the first UK audiences to see one of the best films of the year 👉 https://ow.ly/ciQ450SZ6I0

Timeline photos 16/08/2024

At Picturehouse Central, everyone can hear you scream �

Alien: Romulus bursts onto the big screen today, the hotly anticipated interquel (set between the events of Alien and Aliens!) starring Cailee Spaeny.

Also hitting the screens at Picturehouse Central from today…
� Dark and twisty detective mystery Only The River Flows
� Undercover military doc Hollywoodgate
� 15th Anniversary screenings of stop-motion masterpiece Coraline, including 3D screenings!
� Neo-western classic Lone Star, beautifully remastered in 4K
� …and Tobey in all his web-slinging glory in Spider-man 3!

With all this choice, what are you seeing this week? �

� Book now via the Picturehouse Website, Mobile App, and at Box Office!

15/08/2024

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14/08/2024

Calling all West End Members! ✨📣

To celebrate our , we’re inviting you to join us for an all-out Members’ Party before a very special screening of The Terminator, newly restored in 4K!

Meet us at Tech-Noir (AKA, the Picturehouse Central Members’ Bar) for a free drink, ‘80s-themed fun, and the chance to mix with your fellow Members before watching one of the most iconic films of the decade back on the big screen. Don your sunglasses, and we’ll see you there! 😎

📅 Thu 29 Aug
🎟 Book now via the Picturehouse Website, Mobile App, and at Box Office

Photos from Picturehouse Central's post 13/08/2024

We’re absolutely delighted to be playing host to a special presentation of (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story in partnership with The Rob Knox Film Festival, with special guests Ray Winstone, Colin Knox & Aaron Truss, hosted by Paul McEvoy ❤️⚡️

(K)nox is a poignant documentary all about 18-year-old rising star Rob Knox, who was devastatingly killed just days after filming his breakout role in Harry Potter. Rob’s family & friends now come together and share their memories of him.

📅 Sat 28 September
⏰ 19.00
🎟 Book now via the Picturehouse Website, Mobile App & Box Office — all proceeds will be donated to the Rob Knox Foundation!

13/08/2024

Book a ticket to our Q&A with Ed Jackson for The Mountain Within Me on 21 Aug and be in with a chance of winning this incredible Berghaus bundle! 🏔✨

Book to win! 🏔✨ To celebrate the release of the brilliant new documentary The Mountain Within Me (screening from 23 Aug, with Q&As at The Little Theatre Cinema & Picturehouse Central on 20 & 21 Aug,) we’re giving you the chance to win a bundle of Berghaus goodies courtesy of our friends at Dogwoof!

Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/b45450SWGFt

12/08/2024

This week! ✨ We're counting down the days until we welcome director & screenwriter Greg Kwedar through our doors for a very special preview screening of his new film, Sing Sing - with a post-film Q&A!

Join us for the first public UK preview of this moving story about the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at the Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison, and how the community and escape it offers shapes the lives of those who take part. Starring Colman Domingo alongside many real-life RTA alumni, it's one of the year's most moving & hopeful films — don't forget to bring your tissues for this one!

📅 Sun 18 Aug
⏰ 16.00
🎟 https://ow.ly/knNr50SVFuq

11/08/2024

Terror returns to the big screen. Experience Alien: Romulus at Picturehouse Central from Friday 16 August. 👽

11/08/2024

Shot on 16mm film, Wei Shujun's Only the River Flows is a neo-noir thriller following a detective's desperate investigation into a series of mysterious murders 🕵🏻‍♂️ Showing from next Friday (16 Aug)

08/08/2024

Are you ready for an absolutely mental, unfiltered movie?? We can't wait for this!! Coming to Picturehouse Central from 23 August. 💚🤍🧡

Photos from Picturehouse Central's post 07/08/2024

T-minus 2 days until this HUGE 1950s classic returns to our screens, crash landing into our screen 3! 👽 Grab those 3D glasses and enter with caution - we are expecting reports of audience disappearances...
https://ow.ly/w7An50SSWFw

06/08/2024

This gripping crime thriller ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS will take you on a journey into one man's obsession with finding the truth whatever it takes.

Coming to Picturehouse Central on 16 August.

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Picturehouse’s flagship cinema, café, restaurant and exclusive Members' Bar in the heart of the West End.
Home to #SundanceLondon
London, UK

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