The Cinema Museum, London

Past Events Archive

Lost Reels presents Sitting Target (1972)

Wed 24 Sep 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

The Lost Reels season of great forgotten British Crime films continues with Douglas Hickox’s action-packed revenge thriller featuring Oliver Reed, Ian McShane, Jill St. John and Edward Woodward.

Some new kind of kick presents The Cramps and The Mutants: The Napa State Tapes (1978)

Sat 20 Sep 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

On June 13, 1978, the Target Video collective filmed a performance by The Cramps and The Mutants at Napa State Hospital to an audience of around 100 mental patients. Their recording of the show became an underground sensation.

Cinema Museum bookstall – September 20th

Sat 20 Sep 2025 @ 11:00 · Events

The Cinema Museum Bookstall is open to all between 11.00 and 16.00. Admission free.

Kennington Noir presents The Big Heat (1953) on 16mm film

Wed 17 Sep 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

The Fritz Lang film noir classic has Glenn Ford avenging the murder of his wife by a crime syndicate, locking horns with Lee Marvin's sadistic hoodlum and falling for his moll, played by Gloria Grahame.

Fringe! Queer Arts & Film Festival & Women and Cocaine present She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Mon 15 Sep 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

Fringe! Queer Arts & Film Festival joins forces with Women & Cocaine to celebrate the incomparable Mae West, one of the earliest camp icons and queer allies.

Misty Moon Presents The Sweeney at 50

Sun 14 Sep 2025 @ 16:00 · Events

2025 marks the 50th Anniversary of The Sweeney, which was first broadcast on Thames Television in 1975, and to celebrate Misty Moon is holding a special reunion at The Cinema Museum, which coincides with Old Gold Media releasing for the very first time the entire series restored on Blu-Ray.

Celebrating Peter Sellers: Being There (1979) – SORRY EVENT CANCELLED

Sat 13 Sep 2025 @ 19:30 · Events

In Hal Ashby's film, Sellers plays a simple-minded gardener who by accident becomes an unofficial advisor to the powerful in Washington.

French Sundaes: Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

Sun 7 Sep 2025 @ 14:00 · Events

Lacombe, Lucien is a 1974 French war drama film by Louis Malle about a French teenage boy during the German occupation of France in World War II, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.