Film Club at the Roxy

02/09/2026

🎥 NEXT WEEK🍿

Please join us for our first screening of this season where we will be showing The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho.


🗓️ Thursday 10th September
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm
🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.

The film transports the audience to the oppressive atmosphere of 1970s Brazil. Marcelo, a university researcher, finds himself a marked man after refusing to allow corrupt officials to steal his department‘s research to enrich themselves. Fleeing to his hometown, he seeks refuge among political dissidents and an underground resistance network while trying to arrange an escape with his young son.

🏆 Winner – Best Director and Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 2025
🏆 Winner – Best Foreign Language Film, Critics Choice Awards 2026
🏆 Winner – Best Motion Picture Non- English Language, Golden Globes 2026

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Wagner Moura, Tânia Maria, Alice Carvalho, Robério Diogenes, Udo Kier
Country: Brazil 
Language: Portuguese (English subtitles)
Rating: 15
Running time: 161 minutes

31/08/2026

📣NEW PROGRAMME 2026/7 Sept-Jan 📣

Send to a friend and get some cinema dates in your diary!

The Secret Agent 10th September
No Other Choice 8th October
Rose of Nevada 12th November
The Last Viking 10th December
DJ Ahmet 8th January
Orwell: 2+2=5 11th February
On The Sea 11th March
My Father’s Shadow 8th April
Sorry Baby 13th May
La Grazia 10th June

All films start promptly at 8pm
Annual membership £8 (concessions £5)
Members £6 per film, non-members £7

21/08/2026

It’s that time of year again where memberships are up for renewal and we’re on the lookout for new members to join us! 🍿❤️

🎥 Did you know the Film Club is run by volunteers, supported by the incredible The Roxy Cinema and funded entirely by member subscriptions?

If you want to support the film club and the cinema and continue to help us bring excellent world cinema to Ulverston then becoming a member is the perfect way to do so. The good news is we’ve made it easier than ever for you to join, please click on the link in our stories and see how.

Film Club at the Roxy is a non-profit-making venture. It was formed in 1989 by a small group of Ulverston film enthusiasts, inspired by the late Gwyneth Walker. We retain the club’s original aim to show recent quality films from around the world – films you do not often find in mainstream cinemas – to a South Lakeland audience.

11/06/2026

📣 TONIGHT 📣

🎥 Please join us tonight for our last screening of this season where we will be showing Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.

🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm

What the critics said:

“This layered family-centric drama has an ability to find fresh angles on sentiments you’d think cinema would have exhausted by now.”

- Peter Debruge, Variety

“Like life, it is both sad and side-splittingly funny, strange and imperfect. In its precise understanding of modern life and its persistent questioning of it, it’s everything contemporary cinema ought to be.”

- Radhika Seth, British Vogue

04/06/2026

🎥 Please join us next Thursday 11th June for our last screening of this season where we will be showing Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.

🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm

The neglected and estranged daughters of once respected film director Gustav have no choice but to deal with him after their mother’s death, when they realise his name is still on the deeds of their much-loved family home. Their father has written an autobiographical screenplay about his own mother that he hopes will be his comeback film. He tries to cast his actress daughter Nora but she refuses, so he chooses an eager young Hollywood actress – this sets the stage for some very complex family dynamics set against the backdrop of the fading family home, an appropriate metaphor for the worn-out bond between father and daughters.

11/05/2026

🎥 Please join us this Thursday for our May presentation where we will be showing Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

10/04/2026

10/04/2026

🎥 We hope you enjoyed last night’s showing Mascha Schilinski’s The Sound of Falling (En Fanfare).

We wanted to share this interesting review from with you, beware of spoilers if you haven’t seen the film yet. If you watched it last night we’d love to hear your thoughts on the movie. Link below and in stories!

“Sound of Falling” is a movie about seeing and being seen, whether through the crack of a door, from a faraway window, or via reflection in a mirror. Someone is always watching and the identity of that person shifts, often so subtly that it goes unnoticed during a first viewing. Between the changing perspectives and timelines, it’s a film that forces attention from the viewer even when the pace feels excruciatingly slow.

After the year we’ve all had, I deeply relate to the 1910s mom (Susanne Wuest) who can’t stop gagging.”

09/04/2026

🎥 TONIGHT Please join us for our April screening where we will be showing Mascha Schilinski’s The Sound of Falling (En Fanfare).

🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm

🏆 Winner – Jury Prize (Mascha Schilinski, Director), Cannes 2025
🥇 Nominee – Palme d’Or (Mascha Schilinski, Director), Cannes 2025

What the critics said
“A drama of intergenerational trauma and genetic memories, visions and experiences suppressed and handed on to descendants and grandchildren in whom they can return as neurotic symptoms of the repressed.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“It’s not every day you see a movie that resembles nothing you’ve quite seen before, making you question the very notion of what a movie can be.”
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

07/04/2026

🎥 Please join us this Thursday, for our showing of Mascha Schilinski’s The Sound of Falling (En Fanfare).

🎫 Tickets £6 for members £7 for non-members.
🍿 Doors open 7:30pm film starts 8pm

🏆 Winner – Jury Prize (Mascha Schilinski, Director), Cannes 2025
🥇 Nominee – Palme d’Or (Mascha Schilinski, Director), Cannes 2025

A remote German farm harbours generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.