AUTUMN SEASON 2025
4TH OCTOBER - 29TH DECEMBER 2025
Join us this Autumn Season for an assortment of entertaining and varied films at the beautiful Electric Picture Palace. To book please email boxoffice@southwoldcinema.co.uk Bookings will be dealt with in the order we have received them on Monday 29th September.
THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
Saturday, 4 October, 2025
Spielberg's film of the bestselling crime novel with Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie as the amateur detective retirees who find themselves involved with a real murder.
Running Time:
12A minutes
Year of Release:
2025
Rated:
118
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Friday, 10 October, 2025
Faithful version of the great Oscar Wilde comedy brilliantly performed by Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Rutherford and Dame Edith Evans. "I am so glad you smoke, Mr Worthing.....I hate a man to be idle".
Running Time:
95 minutes
Year of Release:
1952
Rated:
U
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IL POSTINO
Saturday, 11 October, 2025
Michael Radford's classic film about the postal deliveries to the poet Pablo Deruda and the concomitant introduction of a postman to poetry. With Philippe Noiret and Massimo Troisi. Italian with subtitles.
Running Time:
108 minutes
Year of Release:
1994
Rated:
U
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BEST IN SHOW
Friday, 17 October, 2025
Christopher Guest's (Spinal Tap) comedy mockumentary featuring the American Crufts type Dog Show and the entertaining participants both human and canine.
Running Time:
90 minutes
Year of Release:
2000
Rated:
12
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THE GLENN MILLER STORY
Saturday, 18 October, 2025
Excellent biopic of the great man played by James Stewart and featuring all the songs - Moonlight Serenade, Chattanooga Choo Choo etc. With June Allyson.
Running Time:
115 minutes
Year of Release:
1954
Rated:
U
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FIELD OF DREAMS
Friday, 24 October, 2025
Kevin Costner as an Iowa farmer, a baseball aficionado, who is persuaded by a voice to pursue a dream. "If you build it they will come." Surreal and charming story. With Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster.
Running Time:
87 minutes
Year of Release:
1988
Rated:
PG
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THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
Saturday, 25 October, 2025
Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim are headteachers of a boys' school and girls' school obliged to share a single premises - with very funny results. The forerunner of the later St Trinians films. bw
Running Time:
81 minutes
Year of Release:
1950
Rated:
U
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THE GREAT GATSBY
Friday, 31 October, 2025
Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Toby Maguire in Baz Luhrmann's evocative film of the F.Scott Fitzgerald novel and a hymn to the Jazz Age.
Running Time:
143 minutes
Year of Release:
2013
Rated:
12A
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THE ROSES
Saturday, 1 November, 2025
Benedict Cumberbatch (an architect) and Olivia Colman (a chef) in a successful remake of the War of the Roses, a tale of an adversarial marriage.
Running Time:
105 minutes
Year of Release:
2025
Rated:
15
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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
Friday, 7 November, 2025
Hugh Grant and Meryl Streep in the true story of the New York heiress who wanted to be an opera singer despite not being er, any good at it. Comedy/drama. With Simon Helberg (Howard from the Big Bang Theory) as her pianist.
Running Time:
111 minutes
Year of Release:
2016
Rated:
PG
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HOTEL DU LAC
Saturday, 8 November, 2025
From the Anita Brookner novel, a great dramatic tour de force as a lady ponders her options in a lakeside hotel. With Anna Massey and Denholm Elliott. Also Irene Handl.
Running Time:
75 minutes
Year of Release:
1986
Rated:
U
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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Friday, 14 November, 2025
Compelling John Le Carre story in which the retired George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is tasked with identifying the mole enmeshed into the top of the British secret service. With John Hurt, Colin Firth, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Hardy and Toby Jones.
Running Time:
127 minutes
Year of Release:
2011
Rated:
15
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BARRY LYNDON
Saturday, 15 November, 2025
Stanley Kubrick directs Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson in Thackeray's 18th century story of the rise of an Irish chancer. Great story, acting and cinematography. Plus Leonard Rossiter performing a jig!
Running Time:
185 minutes
Year of Release:
1975
Rated:
A
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THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Friday, 21 November, 2025
Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. Entertaining classic tale in which an unlikely couple are obliged to make an intrepid journey in an ancient steam launch.
Running Time:
105 minutes
Year of Release:
1951
Rated:
U
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THE LAST OF THE BLONDE BOMBSHELLS
Saturday, 22 November, 2025
Judi Dench, Leslie Caron and Ian Holm in the story of a resurrected swing band from WW2. Written by Alan Plater.
Running Time:
83 minutes
Year of Release:
2000
Rated:
15
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LA CONFIDENTIAL
Friday, 28 November, 2025
Well told and gripping detective tale of the LA police department of the 1950s. With Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell and Danny De Vito.
Running Time:
138 minutes
Year of Release:
1997
Rated:
18
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WHITE CHRISTMAS
Saturday, 29 November, 2025
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen, two double-acts, assisted by the music of Irving Berlin, plan the restoration of their old general's venue in Vermont. Timeless Christmas story with the best version of the great song.
Running Time:
120 minutes
Year of Release:
1954
Rated:
U
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Monday, 29 December, 2025
No apologies for another Christmas oldie. The classic Alastair Sim version of the Dickens perennial yuletide tale. With Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns, Michael Hordern, George Cole. bw