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Stoke-on-Trent's independent cinema est. 1974, screening arthouse, world cinema & indie film.📍Wade Centre, Hartshill Rd, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7NY

22/10/2026

We have two chances for you to watch the always brilliant Saoirse Ronan in her darkly funny new movie 🍎 BAD APPLES 🍏 (15).

📆 Saturday 24 and Tuesday 27 October
⏰️ 7.45pm. No adverts or trailers.
🎟️ www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk, or from the Box Office open at 7pm.

Saoirse plays a primary school teacher struggling with a chaotic classroom due to one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child’s behaviour spiralling, Maria makes a series of bad decisions that lead to her accidentally taking and locking this "bad apple” in her home. She is desperate to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament.As entertaining as it is provocative, Bad Apples challenges us to think about our society’s systems and how we justify them to ourselves.

20/10/2026

🎞️ ONE NIGHT ONLY 🎞️
DE GAULLE: RESISTANCE (15, subtitles)
Friday 23 October, 7.45pm
🎟️ www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk

The opening chapter of an epic story of French resistance in World War II, De Gaulle: Résistance is a powerful account of Charles de Gaulle's journey during the war, from his rise as a military leader to his emergence in French politics between 1940-1945. June, 1940. France capitulates and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom. French dialogue with English subtitles.

Part two, DE GAULLE: LIBERTE will be screened on Saturday 14 November.

19/10/2026

‼️RETRO VAULT‼️
😈 DEMONS (18, subtitles)
🗓 Thursday 22 October
⏰️ 7.45pm. No adverts or trailers.
🎟 Box Office opens 7pm. Buy tickets in advance from www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk

A group of unsuspecting cinemagoers attend a mysterious free screening in a grand, neonlit theatre – only to discover that the film itself is a gateway for a demonic plague that begins possessing the audience one by one. As chaos erupts and reality blurs into nightmare, the survivors must fight their way through the labyrinthine cinema to escape, if escape is even possible…

Head down early with any unwanted DVDs and find a new one in our 'Swap Box and check out our film poster sale.

18/10/2026

💥We have a fantastic line up of films this week including Retro Vault night on Thursday 💥

😈 DEMONS (18, subtitles)
Thursday 22 October, 7.45pm
An 1980s Italian horror cult classic. Head down early with any unwanted DVDs to pick some new ones from our swap box, or buy a film poster in our poster sale.

🇫🇷 DE GAULLE: RÉSISTENCE (15, subtitles)
Friday 23 October, 7.45pm
Part one of an epic biopic about France's WW2 leader Charles de Gaulle. Part 2 is screening on 14 November.

🍎BAD APPLES (15)
Saturday 24 and Tuesday 27 October, 7.45pm
Saoirse Ronan stars in this dark comedy as a primary school teacher struggling to manage a chaotic classroom, particularly one unruly student.

🎟 and ℹ️ www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk
🚫 No adverts or trailers

14/10/2026

🐑 Who doesn’t love a Shaun the Sheep movie? ❤️ Bring the whole family along this weekend for Shaun’s latest adventure! 🎬

SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM (U)

Join us for an evening screening, or bring the little ones along to our 11am matinee on Saturday.

🗓 Friday 16 October ⏰️7.45pm
🗓 Saturday 17 October ⏰️ 11am AND 7.45pm
🎟️ Book your tickets now at @[stokefilmtheatre.org.uk] or buy on the door.

12/10/2026

We are screening French comedy JUST AN ILLUSION (12A, subtitles) this Tue and Thu.

It's 1985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris, caught between an older brother who brushes him off and parents who never stop arguing. No longer a kid but not quite an adult, Vincent fumbles through life's big questions: identity, friendship, family, first love, and why adults don’t seem to have things figured out either.

Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, the duo of directors behind hit film Untouchable return with this comedy starring Camille Cottin, Louis Garrel and Pierre Lottin.

🗓 Tue 13 and Thu 14 Oct
⏰️ 7.45pm
🗣 French dialogue with English subtitles
📍 Film Theatre, Wade Centre, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7NY
🎟 www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk

11/10/2026

🎬 Screening this week at the Film Theatre 👀

JUST AN ILLUSION (12A, subtitles)
Tue 13 and Thu 15 Oct, 7.45pm

Set in 1985 suburban Paris, this warm and
witty coming-of-age comedy follows Vincent,
almost 13, as he navigates the challenges of
adolescence. Caught between family tensions,
evolving friendships and first love, he begins to
question who he is and why adulthood seems
so complicated.

SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM (U)
Fri 16 Oct, 7.45pm
Sat 17 Oct, 11am matinee AND 7.45pm

The residents of Mossy Bottom Farm are
looking forward to Halloween - until the
clumsy Farmer trashes the sheep’s beloved
pumpkin patch! But when Shaun turns mad scientist to try to fix the problem with a science experiment, things rapidly spiral out of control.

🎟 www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk (use the link in our bio)
📍 Film Theatre, Wade Centre, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7NY.

09/10/2026

A huge thank you to our wonderful volunteers who helped to recreate the iconic poster for our upcoming October Retro Vault movie DEMONS… get your tickets 🎟️ 🎟️ www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk (link in our bio)

08/10/2026

Three cult classics. Three trips into the Retro Vault. 🎬

Demons (18, 1985) / Thu 22 Oct
Dario Agento's movie about a group of unsuspecting cinemagoers attending a mysterious free screening, only to discover that the film itself is a gateway for a demonic plague.

RoboCop (18, 1987) / Thu 19 Nov
Police officer Alex Murphy is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived as the unstoppable cyborg law enforcer RoboCop.

Black Christmas (18, 1974), Thu 17 Dec
One of the first slasher films, a group of sorority sisters are terrorised in their home in the lead up to Christmas, by the mysterious ‘Billy’. This is definitely not going to be a white Christmas.

All movies start at 7.45pm.
Book tickets at www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk

04/10/2026

Pressure (12A) will be our only film screening this week, as unfortunately we’re unable to show The Death of Robin Hood 😩

Our final screening of Pressure is Thursday 8 October at 7.45pm – tickets are still available!
www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk

Address

Wade Centre, Hartshill Road
Stoke-on-Trent
ST47NY

Telephone

+441782411188

Website

http://www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk/

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