Glasgow loves cinema and offers a wide selection of entertainment to film goers and movie buffs alike. You can see all the latest big releases or catch an art house movie, participate in film quiz nights and enjoy special screenings.Home Alone GFT
15 – 21 December, 2023 When eight-year-old Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is accidentally left home alone by his family during the Christmas holidays, he has to use all his troublemaking skills to protect the family home from a pair of bungling burglars. Slapstick laughs and a heartwarming ending make this a perfect family film. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets
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Thursday, December 14, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
The Bishop’s Wife, GFT
15 – 24 December, 2023 Raising funds for a new cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham has his prayers for divine guidance answered in the form of a guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). When Dudley assumes the identity of a guest in their home over Christmas, Brougham’s life is turned upside down, as he believes the […]
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Gremlins, GFT
16 amd 20 December, 2023 An antidote to the artificial sweetness of the traditional Christmas movie, Gremlins tells the story of an inventor who inadvertently causes chaos when he purchases a cute creature for his son. When three vital instructions are ignored, a pack of mischievous gremlins are released on the town, causing mayhem and destruction. GFT, […]
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Cinemasters: Powell and Pressburger GFT
Friday 20 October – Saturday 23 December, 2023 Celebrate one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988). Bold, subversive and iconoclastic, their passionate collaborative artistic vision — spanning 24 films, including The Red Shoes (1948), A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and Black Narcissus (1947) — […]
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Preview: Priscilla 35mm at GFT
Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 December, 2023 Buy tickets GFT is the only cinema in Scotland showing Sofia Coppola’s Priscillabefore its release date and in all its 35mm glory. Coppola tells the story of Priscilla Beaulieu, who met Elvis Presley when she was just a teenager and became the superstar’s wife. ‘A transportive, heartbreaking journey […]
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Queendom at GFT
Friday 8 until Monday 11 December, 2023 Buy tickets Captions available Gena, a queer artist, protests the Russian government on the streets of Moscow. She stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism, with the goal of changing people’s perception of beauty and queerness and bringing attention to the […]
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Monday, December 11, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema
Those Roads of Fatsa CCA
Wednesday 13 December, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. CCA, Cinema, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Those Roads of Fatsa + Nurşen Bakir in conversation The inspirational struggle that took place in the Turkish district of Fatsa in the 1970s is remembered for all the women and men who strove to find collective solutions to the problems […]
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Maestro at GFT
Friday 1 – Thursday 14 December Buy tickets Captions and Audio Description available Bradley Cooper is back with this towering love story that chronicles the lifelong relationship of America’s first native born, world-renowned conductor Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and his wife Felicia (Carey Mulligan). Their love for one another weathered the highs and lows of his […]
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Sunday, December 10, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Arthur’s Christmas Tale in aid of Shelter Scotland
Arthur’s Christmas Tale is a heart warming stop motion animation based on a poem by AH Proctor that was created to raise funds in aid of Shelter Scotland. The animation will be showing in the trailers of cinemas across Scotland throughout December 2023, to help rasie funds for the charity. Donate to Shelter Scotland Giving […]
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Pressure 4K at GFT
Tuesday 12 – Thursday 14 December, 2023 – Captions and Audio Description available Pay What You Decide: Monday 11 December, 5.40pm Buy tickets The first feature film directed by a Black British filmmaker, Horace Ové’s Pressure follows a Black family in west London; from the parents who came from Trinidad as part of the Windrush […]
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Earth Mama at GFT
Friday 8 – Thursday 14 December, 2023 Buy Tickets Captions and Audio Description available Earth Mama follows the journey of a pregnant single mother in San Francisco. With two children in foster care, she embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family. The film will be followed by an exclusive recorded […]
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait 35 mm + Q & A
Tuesday 12 December, 2023, 6.20pm Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material, Luke Fowler’s new feature film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland’s most enigmatic filmmakers. Taking one of Tait’s unrealised scripts as its starting point, it considers Tait’s life and work grounded within the landscape of Orkney. Special screening will be followed […]
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Scarface 40 Anniversary 4K
9th and 14th December, 2023 Buy tickets One of the most influential gangster epics of all time, this action-packed crime classic stars Al Pacino in an unforgettable performance as one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film. Cuban immigrant Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana (Pacino), finds wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams… at […]
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Die Hard at GFT
Friday 8 and Tuesday 12 December, 2023 Buy tickets The most festive action film of all time, Die Hard is back at GFT for Christmas 2023. On Christmas Eve, NYPD officer John McClane (Bruce Willis in his prime) arrives in Los Angeles with the aim of reconciling with his estranged wife, Holly, at her work […]
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| Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Take One Action Film Festival at GFT
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 December, 2023 Take One Action Film Festival Scotland’s global action cinema project Take One Action returns to GFT with two unmissable films that reimagine our collective future and build radical hope. White Plastic Sky is a gripping animated odyssey into life after climate apocalypse; a world where humans can only […]
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Thursday, December 7, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
White Christmas – Andre Rieu
2 and 3 December, 2023 The Grosvenor Cinema, 24 Ashton Lane, Glasgow G12 8SJ For many, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. This year it will come early with André Rieu’s cinema special White Christmas—a celebration you will never forget. From the first jingled bell, you will be immersed in the incomparable […]
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Friday, December 1, 2023 | Filed under: Christmas in Glasgow, Cinema
Eileen at GFT
Friday 1 – Thursday 7 December, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally haunted home and […]
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We Dare To Dream + Q and A at GFT
Saturday 2 December, 2023 7.50 p.m. Buy tickets From For Sama director Waad al-Kateab We Dare to Dream is the story of refugee athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who swim, run and fight their way to opportunity and safety in host nations across the world. Spanning a breadth of backgrounds, personal stories […]
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Preview: Earth Mama plus Q and A
Tuesday 5 December, 2023 8.20pm Audio Description available With a towering debut performance from rapper Tia Nomore and 3 BIFA nominations under its belt, Earth Mamafollows the journey of a pregnant single mother in San Francisco. With two children in foster care, she embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family. […]
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Fallen Leaves
1 December, – 7 December, 2023 Audio Description available A timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness – and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with this tender tragicomedy. Set in […]
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Elf at IMAX Glasgow and Glasgow Science Centre Galleries
From 2nd December, 2023 and various dates throughout December include 24th Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA Book Tickets Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn’t know he exists and is in desperate need of some […]
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Take 2: Trolls Band Together
Saturday, 2 December, 2023, 11.30 a.m. Captioned screening. Audio Description available. After two films of true friendship and relentless flirting, Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) are now officially, finally, a couple (#broppy)! As they grow closer, Poppy discovers that Branch has a secret past. He was once part of her favorite boyband phenomenon, […]
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Oppenheimer at GFT 70mm
Thursday, 7 December, 2023, 7.15 p.m. Not only did it win the Barbenheimer battle at GFT — Christopher Nolan’s epic thriller Oppenheimer is GFT’s best-selling film of the year so far.but they’re bringing you one last chance to catch it on stunning 70mm. Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan‘s latest epic thriller. Starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as […]
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The Tell Tale Rooms with Andrew Kötting
Tuesday 5th December, 2023 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre, 1445 Argyle Street Glasgow G3 8AW Artist Andrew Kötting will be presenting a selection of works contextualizing The Tell Tale Rooms project. By University of Glasgow, School of Culture & Creative Arts Prior to next year’s VR Installation at the Advanced Research […]
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Thursday, November 30, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
CinemARC: Winter Lights
Thursday 7 December, 2023 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Advanced Research Centre(ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW ARC’s big screen for the final CinemARC of 2023 – Winter Lights. This special selection of short films will explore the scientific and cultural significance of light at this time of year, helping you […]
Focus Hong Kong
Saturday 2 – Monday 4 December, 2023 Buy tickets Focus Hong Kong is a UK film festival dedicated to celebrating the amazing cinema and filmmakers of Hong Kong, from early works to the glory days of its reign as the Hollywood of Asia, through to new and exciting films. A chance to catch three films […]
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Thursday, November 23, 2023 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Savage Waters at GFT
Monday 27 – Thursday 30 November, 2023 A family of modern-day adventurers go on a journey to find and surf a spectacular wave in some of the most remote and dangerous waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Narrated by Charles Dance, this exhilarating documentary is an intimate and epic portrayal of extraordinary individuals who push the […]
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The Eternal Daughter at GFT
Friday 24 – Thursday 30 November, 2023 Captions and Audio Description available Tilda Swinton delivers a towering dual performance as both an artist and her elderly mother in Joanna Hogg’s chilling new film, executive produced by Martin Scorsese. The two women are confronted with long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now […]
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Is There Anybody Out There? plus Q & A
Thursday 23 November, 2023 8.30pm Captioned screening, Audio Description available ‘My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own.’ Groundbreaking documentary, Is There Anybody Out There? follows filmmaker Ella Glendining’s global search for someone with a body that looks like hers, and explores what it takes to love yourself fiercely as […]
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Black Narcissus at GFT
Sunday 26 November, 2023, 2pm and 5pm Experience Powell and Pressburger’s Technicolor classic on a whole new level at our special Atmosphere screenings from New Media Scotland and Storyhouse, supported by the BFI. A darkly grand film that won Oscars for Alfred Junge’s art direction and Jack Cardiff’s cinematography, Black Narcissus is one of the […]
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