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Top independent cinema in Manchester, scroll down to see what’s on at HOME right now and what’s coming up including new releases, special seasons, director Q&As and foreign language films.

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Highlights: Cinema

Season

Merry 80s Christmas

Sat 11 Dec 2021 – Thu 23 Dec 2021

With action, adventure and horror, this year’s festive season brings back characters that inspired a generation and films...

Season

British Writers/ Nigel Kneale: Into the Unknown

Wed 5 Jan 2022 – Tue 25 Jan 2022

2022 marks the centenary of the birth of legendary screenwriter Nigel Kneale. To celebrate that fact, HOME’s annual...

Next 7 Days: Cinema

Film

Rebel Dykes (18)

Today 12.30, 17.40; Tomorrow 12.30, 17.40; Thu 12.30, 17.40

Rebel Dykes follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and went on...

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Weekly Calendar

Fri 3 Dec - Thu 9 Dec

Film

Boxing Day (12A)

Today 12.40, 17.50; Tomorrow 15.40, 20.30; Thu 12.35, 15.50

Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for the holidays to introduce his American...

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The Shop Around the Corner (PG)

Today 12.45; Tomorrow 18.00; Thu 20.40; Sat 12.40; Sun 12.45

Set in a Budapest shop in the run-up to Christmas, a pair of competing sales staff are also...

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Online Cinema

Can’t make it to HOME to see the latest new releases in the cinema? Don’t worry, we’ve partnered...

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C’mon C’mon (15)

Today 12.50, 15.30, 17.45, 20.30; Tomorrow 12.50, 15.30, 18.05, 20.25; Thu 12.45, 15.10, 18.15, 20.30 + more times

Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in...

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House of Gucci (15)

Today 13.00, 16.15, 19.30; Tomorrow 13.00, 16.15, 19.30; Thu 14.00, 17.15, 19.30 + more times

Inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house, Gucci. Spanning three...

Film

There is no Evil (15)

Today 14.35, 19.45; Tomorrow 14.35, 19.45; Thu 14.35, 19.45

Mohammad Rasoulof tells the stories of four men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice - follow orders...

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The Hand of God (15)

Today 15.00, 20.15; Tomorrow 12.55, 15.15; Thu 13.00, 17.35; Fri 14.15; Sat 14.15; Sun 17.15 + more times

Set against the febrile backdrop of 1980s Naples, a tight-knit Neapolitan family’s settled lives are beset by old...

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The HOME Film Podcast

Tune in to the HOME Film Podcast for discussions with experts on cinema new release highlights, as well...

Film

Blue Bayou (15)

Today 15.15, 20.20; Tomorrow 12.40, 20.20; Thu 15.00, 20.20

Antonio (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in the Louisiana bayou, must confront the ghosts of his past when...

Showcase

Filmed Up Dec 21 / We Are Parable Special

Today 18.20

Discover short films from all genre that are being produced in our region and meet the filmmakers.

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Nadja (15)

Tomorrow 18.20

Presented in 35mm format, Michael Almereyda’s stylised vampire film is a one-of-a-kind early nineties classic.

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Trailer wall

Can't decide what to watch at HOME or at home? Let the trailers help you decide.

Film

Lamb (15)

From Fri 10 Dec

María and Ingvar get along well enough on their remote Icelandic sheep farm, but the couple are haunted...

Film

Hope (CTBA)

From Fri 10 Dec

The relationship between artist-partners Tomas and Anja is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis...

Film

Don’t Look Up (CTBA)

From Fri 10 Dec

An astronomy grad student and her professor discover a comet orbiting within the solar system that just happens...

Film

The French Dispatch (15)

Fri 12.55, 17.45; Sat 15.00, 20.30; Sun 20.40; Mon 15.30, 20.30 + more times

The latest from Wes Anderson is another meticulously executed, visually sumptuous, all-star delight that offers an enjoyable riff...

Film

West Side Story (CTBA)

From Fri 10 Dec

Spielberg updates the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City with an...

Film

Die Hard (15)

Sat 17.20 + more times

Bruce Willis is John McLane, a New York cop who flies to Los Angeles to join his estranged...

Film

Chinese Film Forum UK Presents/ The Six (U)

Sun 15.30

Among the survivors of the RMS Titanic were six Chinese men. After arriving in New York they were...

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Parent and Baby/ The Shop Around the Corner (PG)

Starts Thu 16 Dec 2021 at 11.00

Parent + Baby Screening. A couple of driven sales staff are in competition, but they’re also unwittingly in...

Film

Gremlins (12A)

Starts Thu 16 Dec 2021 at 17.45

A sleepy American suburban town gets a rude awakening in this classic 80s comedy horror. Teenager Billy gets...

Film

It’s a Wonderful Life (U)

Starts Fri 17 Dec 2021 at 17.50

This ultimate feel-good, festive favourite, from Oscar-winning director Frank Capra stars James Stewart as despairing businessman George Bailey

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Cult/ The Lost Boys (15)

Starts Fri 17 Dec 2021 at 20.40

After moving to a new town, two brothers are sucked into the mysterious and dangerous world of bikers,...

Film

Santa Claus: The Movie (U)

Starts Sat 18 Dec 2021 at 15.00

Complications surface when Santa Claus meets Patch, a misguided elf who gets mixed up with a business tycoon’s...

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The Goonies (12A)

Starts Sun 19 Dec 2021 at 12.45

In order to save their home from being repossessed, a group of friends set out to find a...

Film

A Christmas Carol (PG)

Starts Mon 20 Dec 2021 at 13.00

An innovative retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol that combines film and dance, set in a magical, stylised world influenced by Victorian toy...

Film

A Nightmare on Elm Street (18)

Starts Mon 20 Dec 2021 at 20.40

One, two, Freddy’s coming for you… The teens of Elm street are terrorised by recurring dreams of a...

Film

Ushers’ Film of the Year/ Sound of Metal (15)

Starts Tue 28 Dec 2021 at 17.45

The HOME Customer Service team select their must-see film of 2021. Sound means everything in drummer Ruben's life....

Film

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (CTBA)

Starts Wed 29 Dec 2021 at 17.40

Will Sharpe’s enlightening biopic of the Victorian-era artist whose widely published drawings of anthropomorphised cats transformed them from...

Film

Memoria (CTBA)

From Fri 14 Jan

Shot and set in Colombia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s meditative rumination on memory and the human condition is anchored by...

Course

Course/ Back to the 1980s

Wed 19 Jan 18.30

This course will explore the historical, industrial and social underpinning of multiple film genres that became popular during...

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NT Live/ Leopoldstadt (12A)

Starts Thu 27 Jan 2022 at 19.00

A new play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Patrick Marber. Stoppard'd critically acclaimed new play Leopoldstadt is a...

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NT Live/ The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (12A)

Starts Thu 17 Feb 2022 at 19.00

Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world...

Film

NT Live/ Hex (12A)

Starts Thu 17 Mar 2022 at 19.00

A vividly original retelling of Sleeping Beauty, a mythic, big-hearted new musical that goes beyond the waking kiss.

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Parent and Baby Screenings Sep – Dec 2021

Thu 23 Sep 2021 – Thu 16 Dec 2021

Our Parent and Baby Screenings take place on the third Thursday of each month

Film

The Story of Film: A New Generation (CTBA)

From Fri 17 Dec

Examining the most powerful movie images of the last decade, filmmaker Mark Cousins updates his classic The Story...

Film

Encounter (CTBA)

From Fri 17 Dec

A gripping fusion of speculative science fiction, paranoid thriller and unconventional road movie, it’s also gripping, and deeply...

Film

Lola and the Sea (CTBA)

From Fri 17 Dec

Just as Lola learns that she can finally have her life-changing surgery, she receives the news that her...

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The Lost Daughter (CTBA)

From Fri 17 Dec

Leda, a divorced professor on a solitary summer vacation, becomes intrigued and then oddly involved in the lives...

Event

A Nightmare on Elm Street + Introduction

Mon 20 Dec 2021

This screening will be introduced by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Senior Lecturer in English and Film at Manchester Metropolitan...

Film

Becoming Cousteau (CTBA)

From Mon 27 Dec

An inside look at Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s life, iconic films, inventions, and the experiences that made him the 20th...

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Licorice Pizza (CTBA)

Previewing from Mon 27 Dec

The film follows Alana Kane and Gary Valentine as they grow up, run around and fall in love...

Preview

Preview/ Licorice Pizza

Mon 27 Dec 2021 – Ongoing

We will be hosting preview screenings of this title from Mon 27 Dec from a 35mm print.

Film

The Tragedy of Macbeth (15)

From Mon 27 Dec

Joel Coen dazzlingly adapts this Scottish play for the screen with Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington mesmeric as...

Event

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain + Recorded Q&A

Wed 29 Dec 2021

The screening on Wed 29 Dec will be followed by a recorded Q&A with director Will Sharpe and...

Film

If I could name you myself (I would hold you forever)

Available Online until Tues 31 Aug

Notions of Black resistance and feminist ecologies are explored in this thought-provoking artist film.

Film

The Humans (CTBA)

From Sun 2 Jan

The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, The Humans explores the hidden dread of...

Film

Titane (CTBA)

From Sun 2 Jan

A young dancer, who suffered a terrible injury after a car crash when she was a child, embarks...

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Shoot the Pianist (CTBA)

Fri 20 Apr 2001 – Mon 3 Jan 2022

Based upon a novel by Noir fave David Goodis, it’s the shadowy tale of a lonely pianist with...

Film

The 400 Blows (PG)

From Fri 17 Jan

Francois Truffaut’s directorial debut tells the story of Antoine, a troubled 13-year-old whose grim trajectory is traced from...

Film

A Hero (CTBA)

From Fri 7 Jan

Rahim surprises his family with two days of leave, but they have no idea that he plans to...

Film

Minyan (CTBA)

From Fri 7 Jan

A young Russian Jewish immigrant, caught up in the tight constraints of his community, develops a close friendship...

Film

Ailey (CTBA)

From Fri 7 Jan

An immersive profile of ground-breaking and influential choreographer Alvin Ailey.

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La peau douce (CTBA)

Sat 8 Jan 2022

One of Truffaut’s subtlest and most richly rewarding films, this account of an extra-marital affair displays the influence...

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