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THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
Official Selection of PFF34! January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
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MARTY SUPREME (BOURSE)
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
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HAMNET
Official Selection of PFF34! From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
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THE SECRET AGENT
Official Selection of PFF34! Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
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NO OTHER CHOICE
Official Selection of PFF34! From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Ax, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years.
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MARTY SUPREME
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
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COMING TO AMERICA
Eddie Murphy is electric as Prince Hakeem, an African royal who journeys to Queens in search of true love without the privilege of his immense wealth–discovering identity, humility, and the pleasures of ordinary life.
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THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (35MM)
Official Selection of PFF34 and presented on 35mm! From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (THE WORLD TO COME, THE BRUTALIST) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (VOX LUX) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (THE BRUTALIST).
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METROPOLITAN
It’s the end of an era for the Upper East Side debutantes of Whit Stillman’s directorial debut, as the young socialites discuss love, honor, and their inevitable deeply meaningful contribution to society.
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MAGELLAN
Official Selection of PFF34! In the 16th century, Ferdinand Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator, rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East.
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THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
Official Selection of PFF34! From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (THE WORLD TO COME, THE BRUTALIST) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (VOX LUX) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (THE BRUTALIST).
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SOUND OF FALLING
Official Selection of PFF34! A remote German farm harbors generations of secrets. Four women, separated by decades but united by trauma, uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.
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THE BOYS IN THE BAND
At a birthday party in late-1960s Manhattan, jokes hold back years of tension until the dam finally bursts, spilling confessions, cruelty, and unvarnished truths amongst a group of gay men in an early directorial outing from the late, great William Friedkin.
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AFTER HOURS
The “one crazy night” subgenre has never been better than in Martin Scorsese’s beloved cult classic about a seemingly banal moment of flirting that sends mild-mannered Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) on a citywide odyssey to get home.
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TIMES SQUARE
Long before he pumped up the volume or Rex Manning Day was made a national holiday, filmmaker Allan Moyle introduced us to two loveable punk rockers on the lam from the hospital, Tim Curry as an all-seeing DJ, and the greatest assembled soundtrack of all time.
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MANIAC
Not for the faint of heart, this deranged descent into madness finds a serial killer embarking on a murder spree across late-’70s New York featuring a terrifying central performance by co-writer Joe Spinell and splattertastic effects by the great Tom Savini. New 4K restoration!
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HUSBANDS
New York indie vanguard John Cassavetes’ unwieldy, challenging, and deeply personal story of three childhood friends (Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara) convening over the death of a friend. What follows is a brutally honest foray into the psyche of three different men on the other side of the hill, warts and all.
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SMITHEREENS
Susan Seidelman’s raucous debut finds an ego-driven grifter submerged in the NYC punk scene of the 1970s, who becomes accidentally (in)famous amongst the likes of punk legend Richard Hell, as she dreams of sunny Los Angeles.
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GUIMBA THE TYRANT
Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s mythic epic follows the ruthless tyrant, Guimba, whose cruel reign sparks a rebellion, leading to chaos, reckoning, and his inevitable downfall.
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THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
Both the model for every hostage movie that came after it and still completely unique in the genre blending of comedy and thrills, Joseph Sargent’s masterpiece follows four men who hijack an NYC subway and Walter Matthau as the no-nonsense Transit Lieutenant who must negotiate the release of several pedestrians.
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SURPRISE 35!
In 2026, PFS will be embarking on the 35th Philadelphia Film Festival with another year of presenting life-changing and brain-altering films throughout October. Before the anniversary arrives we’ve decided to search far and wide for coveted films on 35mm to project every month. The catch: We aren’t saying what it’s going to be. Seriously. Don’t ask.
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SUSPIRIA
Join PFS, Girls Like Horror, and MovieJawn at the Saturday, January 17th screening of Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA for a post-screening conversation with special guest author Payton McCarty-Simas surrounding her new book Landscape of American Conspiracy Culture and That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film.
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3 WOMEN
Robert Altman’s hypnotic portrait of fragile identity traces the gradual unsettling bond between two roommates (Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek), blurring the boundaries of self and other.
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A POET
Winner of Best Narrative Film at PFF34! Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto on Wednesday, February 4th.
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FIGHT CLUB
I am Jack’s misunderstood David Fincher thriller. I am Jack’s definitive Brad Pitt role. I am Jack’s FIGHT CLUB.
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PERSONA
A melding of divergent personalities occurs between a nurse and her troubled actress patient in the 1966 psychological, groundbreaking experimental drama hailed as Ingmar Bergman’s magnum opus.
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CAPE FEAR (1962)
Hollywood’s favorite world-weary bad boy Robert Mitchum plays an ex-con psychopath on a path of revenge against one of the attorneys responsible for locking him up: good old family man Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck).
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THE MOMENT
A rising pop star navigates the complexities of fame and industry pressure while preparing for her arena tour debut.
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BEST PICTURE WEEKEND
Join Philadelphia Film Society in celebrating the year in film with our Best Picture Weekend at the Film Society Center. Catch the Best Picture nominees on the big screen from Friday, February 6 to Sunday, February 8.
(BUGONIA will be screened on 35MM film)
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OPERATION AVALANCHE
Top CIA agents, Matt Johnson and Owen Williams, are assigned to infiltrate NASA to discover a mole in the space agency’s ranks, but end up uncovering a much more sinister game surrounding the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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POSSESSION
5th Annual Possession Valentine’s Day Screening! All it takes is one–possibly possessed–look from Isabelle Adjani to fall for this triumph of marital horror in Andrezj Zulawski’s unforgettable story of liberation amidst the paranoia and intrigue of ‘80s Berlin.
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"WUTHERING HEIGHTS"
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. (BYOB 21+ Screening 2/17 8:00PM)
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CASABLANCA
For our annual Valentine’s tradition, PFS will play it again, Sam.
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QUEEN OF EARTH
Filmmaker Alex Ross Perry’s searing drama observes two women (Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterson) at a lakeside retreat, where insecurity and resentment inevitably curdle into psychological warfare.
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MY DEAR KILLERS - EXHUMED 35MM TRIPLE FEATURE
Exhumed Films and PFS, in association with MovieJawn and Girls Like Horror, present MY DEAR KILLERS, a Valentine’s Day Killer Thriller Triple Feature!
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BLACKBERRY
The owners of Canadian tech startup Research in Motion, played by Matt Johnson and Jay Burachel, enlist the expertise of a fierce and desperate business hawk (Glenn Howerton) to launch the revolutionary BlackBerry. Wait, what’s a BlackBerry?
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GANJA & HESS
Kick off Black Cinema Week with the Philadelphia Film Society and Be Reel Black Cinema Club. Come early to partake in interactive fun ahead of the screening. This 21+ screening is a BYOB event.
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POSSESSOR
The psychosexual, techno-paranoia tendencies don’t fall far from the tree for filmmaker–and David Cronenberg’s son–Brandon Cronenberg in his sci-fi horror thriller about a near future where assassins possess other humans to carry out their high profile hits.
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DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
Carl Franklin’s neo-noir follows a Black American war hero whose search for a missing woman exposes the sociopolitical fault lines of 1940s Los Angeles.
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I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA
In this hilarious Blaxploitation satire, Keenen Ivory Wayans directs and stars as a returning war hero who rallies a worn-out crew to exact revenge on the crime lord responsible for his family’s tragedy. (BYOB Night | 21+ Event /// MONDAY | FEBRUARY 23 | 7:00PM)
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HARLEM NIGHTS
Bring your parent and/or adult children to this multi-generational watch of Harlem Nights in partnership with Greedy In the City. Join us ahead of this BYOB (wine and beer only) 21+ screening for movie-themed fun and friendly competition. Dressing in your best 1930-inspired outfit is encouraged, but not required, as we'll have plenty of photographic moments.
(BYOB Night | 21+ Event /// SATURDAY | FEBRUARY 21 | 6:00PM)
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HOODLUM
Bill Duke directs this gripping Prohibition-era tale, with Laurence Fishburne delivering a standout performance as Bumpy Johnson in a Harlem rife with violence, betrayal, and relentless power struggles.
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FENCES
Connect with Harriet's Bookshop and the Free Library of Philadelphia as we explore the intersection of writing, acting and filmmaking and present Denzel Washington's August Wilson adaptation FENCES.
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ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI...
Join us ahead of our screening of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI... for a pre-show activity and mingling with NExT Philadelphia.
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POSSE
Director and star Mario Van Peebles reclaims the Western in this thrilling period piece as Black American soldiers seek justice across a hostile frontier while evading the law.
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SOULEYMANE'S STORY
Join the Philadelphia Film Society, Alliance Française de Philadelphie and Drexel University Dept. of Global Studies and Modern Languages for a cinematic exploration of immigration from Africa to Europe and the USA as we consider what is left of the old colonial power. SOULEYMANE'S STORY provides a bridge for exploring Francophone debates on identity, inequality, and mobility—central themes in both the AFP Book Club and Drexel’s Global Issues in Francophone Africa course. This partnership connects academic inquiry with community dialogue, fostering conversations across Philadelphia about shared Francophone, African, and diasporic experiences.
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RIVERBEND
Steve James and Oscar® nominee Margaret Avery star in this long-lost 1989 action drama about three Black Vietnam vets confronting a racist Southern sheriff. Newly restored in 6K by Reelblack. In-person Q&A scheduled with director Sam Firstenberg and cast members.
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FACE/OFF
John Travolta is Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage is John Travolta. Director John Woo goes off the deep end with this wacko cat-and-mouse thriller in which, thanks to a new experimental technology, age-old rivals—a cunning lawman and a ruthless criminal—steal each other’s faces and invade each other’s lives.
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WEND KUUNI
In Gaston Kaboré’s hauntingly tender tale, a mute boy enters a rural village where hardship and sorrow meet compassion, revealing the quiet power of community and survival.
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DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Soaked in ‘70s atmosphere, this moody erotic throwback follows a butterfly expert through her sultry, sadomasochistic journey with her lesbian lover.
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PERFORMANCE
Nicolas Roeg's first outing as a co-director with Donald Cammell finds a brutish gangster fleeing a murder scene and hiding out in the home of a reclusive rock star that happens to look a whole lot like Mick Jagger. Psychedelics are taken. Clothes and more are swapped. This is cinema.
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BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze’s ingenious Academy Award–nominated comedy follows a puppeteer who discovers a portal into actor John Malkovich’s mind, igniting a surreal spiral of obsession and ambition.
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THE LIGHTHOUSE
Join us, with drink of choice, as director Robert Eggers descends into madness with this claustrophobic tale of two intoxicated lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) trying to maintain their sanity in a cold 1890s New England winter. (BYOB Night | 21+ Event /// MONDAY | MARCH 2 | 7:30PM)
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THELMA AND LOUISE
One of the greatest Ride or Die duos in history take to the road to escape their bland home lives and discover a vast American landscape filled with beauty and danger.
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THE FOG
New 4K restoration! Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis and genre giant Adrienne Barbeau unite in this moody folk horror banger from John Carpenter about a mysterious fog that engulfs a sleepy northern Californian town–possibly linked to the centennial anniversary of a mysterious shipwreck and its vengeful spirits.
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FROM BEYOND
The great Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs reteam with RE-ANIMATOR’s Stuart Gordon in this outrageous, sci-fi B-movie about a new device that grants increased levels of pleasure in humans. The catch? It opens a portal to another dimension filled with blood-thirsty creatures that thrive on these same good, good, good vibrations. 35mm print provided by Exhumed Films. (SATURDAY | MARCH 14 | 10:00 PM screening will be shown on 35MM)
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TREASURE ISLAND
Walt Disney’s first ever fully live-action film captures the rousing spirit of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic in technicolor as it follows the journey of young Jim Hawkins and infamous pirate Long John Silver in search of treasure and adventure.
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CAPTAIN BLOOD
Director Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA) teams up with the legendary debonair Errol Flynn to deliver an all-time classic swashbuckling tale of adventure on the high seas in Flynn’s career-making role.
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QUEEN MARGOT
She is beautiful. She is Catholic. She is the King’s sister. She is Marguerite de Valois aka Margot (Isabelle Adjani). In an attempt to reconcile France after the bloody Wars of Religion, Margot is to be married to the Protestant Henri de Navarre, but a steamy, forbidden romance threatens to derail it all in this 4K uncut restoration.
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AMADEUS
New 4K restoration! Simmering with jealousy and admiration, hackneyed court composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) recounts the astonishing life of genius Mozart (Tom Hulce) in Milos Forman’s bonafide masterpiece.
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THE GUEST
The YOU’RE NEXT team returns with a genre-bending follow up in which a suburban family gets more than they bargained for (but perhaps exactly what each of them wanted) when a young man claiming to be an army buddy of their deceased son shows up at their door.
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IT FOLLOWS
In the year 2014, newcomer Maika Monroe was immediately crowned as a Scream Queen with THE GUEST and this unforgettable, dreamy descent into terror. In a mysterious land with no parents in sight called suburban Detroit, sexually-active teens are hunted by a deadly spirit.
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THE FAVOURITE
A battle of wits and foreplay engulfs the royal grounds of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) when her closest confidant (Rachel Weisz) and newly appointed maid (Emma Stone) vie for the frail Queen’s attention in Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurd costume comedy.
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DANGEROUS LIAISONS
The great Marquise de Merteuil herself, Glenn Close, conspires with her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) to humiliate the Marquise’s ex in a sexually-charged game of cruel intentions.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (DISNEY)
After rejecting the advances of Gaston for the hundredth time, the book-loving Belle finds herself to be a “guest” at the cursed castle of a selfish prince looking for love in this groundbreaking Disney animated classic.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (COCTEAU)
Celebrated surrealist and avant-garde pioneer Jean Cocteau reimagines the French romantic fairy tale with enchantment, desire and wonder in this imaginative, swoon-worthy, black and white masterpiece.
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SEVEN BEAUTIES
A satirical dark comedy, which garnered Wertmüller the first ever Academy Award for Best Director nomination for a woman, follows the increasingly chaotic trials and tribulations of a small-time crook determined to survive his sentence at a German prison camp during World War II.
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LOVE & ANARCHY
Director Lina Wertmüller spotlights a man’s volatile relationship with fascism as he prepares to avenge a friend by assassinating Benito Mussolini, all with the help of a sex worker with similarly vengeful motivations.
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ORLANDO
Tilda Swinton radiates as the mystifying Orlando in an illustrious, genderfluid journey spanning several centuries in Sally Potter’s Venice Golden Lion-winning sophomore feature.
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THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT
The great provocateur Peter Greenway concocts a devilishly witty and erotic mystery surrounding the appointment of a cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) commissioned to draw the extravagant landscape of an aristocrat in return for room, board, and sex.
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THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV
Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra imbues the final days of France’s long-reigning Louis XIV (Jean-Pierre Leaud, THE 400 BLOWS) with blood, guts, and bile as the Sun King slowly suffers in this painterly art house treasure.
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FRIDAY THE 13TH (35MM)
Now we’ve done it. We are finally playing FRIDAY THE 13TH on the holiest (horrorest? horniest?) of holy days for one night only. The ultimate PSA, this side of CARRIE, to show the damaging effects bullying can have on a child and their overbearing mother, FRIDAY THE 13TH is an unforgettable cornerstone of the Golden Age of Slashers. 35mm provided by Exhumed Films.
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FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (35MM)
Five years after the original film’s camp carnage, a visionary entrepreneur creates a retreat for aspiring teen camp counselors on the eerie shores of Crystal Lake as a bag-wearing-motherboy seeks his revenge. What could go wrong? Presented on 35mm.
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THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Director Richard Lester (A HARD DAY’S NIGHT) enlists a phenomenal troupe of players, including Oliver Reed and Raquel Welch, in the de facto Dumas adaptation about a young countryman falling in with the eponymous trio to take on the scheming Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston).
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
It may be over twenty years since the beloved Pirates series first set sail, but director Gore Verbinski’s maiden voyage remains a fantastical big screen thrill ride filled with adventure, daring rescues, heart, and a winking Jack Sparrow.
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THE FOUR MUSKETEERS
Now a full-fledged musketeer, D’Artagnan (Michael York) and the boys must team up to save Constance de Bonacieux (Raquel Welch) from the clutches of Richelieu and Milady de Winter (Fay Dunaway) in this rousing conclusion.
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SHOLAY
Widely considered one of the greatest and most defining films in Indian cinematic history, this propulsive action spectacular follows a cop who is forced to team up with two outlaws as he travels a bloodsoaked path of vengeance after the murder of his family. New 4K restoration!
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13th Annual Oscars Party
The PFS Oscars Party returns in 2026 for an unforgettable evening dedicated to cinema, community, and the thrill of awards season. Join fellow film lovers, industry insiders, and cultural supporters for a live Oscars® broadcast, themed cocktails, and festive fare—all in a vibrant theatrical setting.
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Stacked with unforgettable performances led by Scream Queen Lupita Nyong’o, Jordan Peele’s politically charged horror of doppelgängers turns a family vacation into a chilling confrontation with violence, privilege, and the self.
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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Arguably the most iconic–or at the very least most talkative–villain of the Golden Age of Slasherdom finds badly burned pedophile Freddy Krueger terrorizing the dreams of Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, and friends in Wes Craven’s masterpiece.
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WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE
Even before SCREAM’s Randy broke the fourth wall, Wes Craven was already cooking up a meta-tinged play on slasher films with this genius seventh entry in the series that finds Freddy Krueger haunting those responsible for making him a Hollywood household name, including Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund himself. Presented on 35mm.
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SOUL FOOD
Grab the family and join Greedy In The City, the Philadelphia Film Society, Brown Girl Space and Be Reel Black Cinema Club for our 4th Annual cinematic celebration of sisterhood. Join us for an unforgettable night-in and enjoy an evening of storytelling, conversation, and connection surrounding SOUL FOOD.
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LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH
An underseen early ‘70s psychological horror gem starring Zohra Lampert about a group of friends seeking the tranquility of the woods after Jessica’s (Lampert) recent stint at a mental institution has left her in a fragile state. Case in point: She believes a welcomed drifter into the group may or may not be a vampire.
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SWEPT AWAY
Sex and politics collide in Wertmüller’s controversial Mediterranean sojourn about a beautiful capitalist finding herself marooned on a deserted island with a staunch communist where a switch in their beliefs is more than just roleplay.
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THE MAHONING DRIVE-IN ROAD SHOW: BLACULA & SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM
The Mahoning Drive-In Road Show returns to the Philadelphia Film Society on Friday, March 27, 2026 with a 35mm Drive-In double feature of BLACULA (1972) and its sequel, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (1973)!
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FINZAN
Set against the backdrop of a Malian village, women push back against rigid traditions and male authority, igniting a quiet yet powerful struggle for dignity and self-determination.
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