Stray Cat Film Center

Stray Cat Film Center Established in 2018, Stray Cat Film Center is Kansas City's only non-profit microcinema! Stray Cat Film Center is located in Kansas City, MO since August 2018.

We are a fantastically funky DIY micro-cinema that makes provocative cinema accessible to underserved audiences in the Kansas City area. The theater hosts screenings of lost, forgotten or disenfranchised films, host educational programs and acts a screening room for prospective filmmakers. We are a platform for volunteer programing and bringing your voice to the silver screen. Wanna get involved or become a member? Contact us to become a Stray Cat Member today!

We hope you like LOUD music.Next Thursday 7/30, we're celebrating Arthouse Theater Day with one of our favorite cult cla...
07/23/2026

We hope you like LOUD music.

Next Thursday 7/30, we're celebrating Arthouse Theater Day with one of our favorite cult classic musicals: David Byrne's idiosyncratic portrait of special-ness, TRUE STORIES

Inspired by tabloid headlines, music icon David Byrne stepped behind the camera for a unique blend of music, film, and art. When a mysterious visitor arrives the The town of Virgil, TX, he meets several eccentric citizens as they prepare for its Celebration for Specialness. Ace cinematographer Ed Lachman (with music by The Talking Heads) evokes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape or voodoo rituals, shopping malls, conspiracy theories, and pre-fab buildings in this tribute to extraordinariness of the ordinary.

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07/22/2026

7PM Tonight! Chris Huang’s ‘LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE’ a wuxia martial arts adventure told using entirely traditional budaixi glove puppets! A blend of classic Shaw Brothers, TEAM AMERICA, and Jim Henson’s ‘The Dark Crystal’ it’s an absolutely bonkers, non-stop action film fused with the beautiful craft of hand made miniatures, elaborate sets, and 17th century puppetry! What’s not to love?

Doors Open 6:30

07/22/2026

WHO'S ACTUALLY THE VILLIAN? IS IT ALL A DREAM? IS SHE RIGHT?

COMING WEDS 7/29 in a new 4K restoration! After South Korea’s film industry suffered under authoritarian rule throughout the 1970s, filmmakers in the following years were eager to make up for lost time. Enter SUDDENLY IN THE DARK a haunting, psychadelic, Korean genre treasure

When Kang Yu-jin brings in a housemaid to help around the house, his wife Seon-hee grows weary of Mi-ok's presence not only because she suspects an affair between her husband and their new guest, but mainly because Mi-ok carries around an old wooden doll that resembles her. As her suspicions grow, Seon-hee is thrown into a world of nightmares and madness as things spiral dangerously out of control.

Blending domestic drama, psychedelic visuals, haunted dolls, and truly insane ending - SUDDENLY IN THE DARK is a underseen granfather to the modern K-horror movement in a sizzling, new 4K restoration.

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Crew members on the set of a horror film suspect that staged murders for the camera may be real. Created by George Romer...
07/21/2026

Crew members on the set of a horror film suspect that staged murders for the camera may be real. Created by George Romero’s crew between projects, EFFECTS is unsung masterpiece in the world of regional, low-budget horror! Featuring a surprisingly tender lead performance from horror actor Joseph Pilato! Tuesday July 21st @ 7pm- presented by

“Presented by Death Gods Film” is a limited 4 part film series programed by Filmmaker Allison Lloyd for the month of July! Allison Lloyd (director of Stray Cat mug & tote bag commercails!) has selected four films that she has drawn inspiration from while writing her first feature film, Death Gods! Death Gods is currently in pre-production and will be shot on Kodak16mm film later this summer with Producers &

🩸🇹🇼🚲🗽🍿 THIS WEEK AT STRAY CAT: More murder, Taiwanese budaixi, Oscar nominated animation, sibling anger, and three festi...
07/20/2026

🩸🇹🇼🚲🗽🍿 THIS WEEK AT STRAY CAT: More murder, Taiwanese budaixi, Oscar nominated animation, sibling anger, and three festival favorite films for one!

Tues @ 7pm - EFFECTS
Weds @ 7pm - LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE
Thurs @ 7pm - THE TRIPLETS of BELLEVILLE
Fri @ 7pm - GABI ON THE ROOF IN JULY
Sun @ 4pm (first film) - THE POPCORN LIST FILM FESTIVAL

Get tix and more at straycatfilmcenter.com or at the link in our bio!

07/19/2026

TONIGHT @ 6:30! THREE FEET TALL! TWO INCH FANGS!

It's SOV Summer series time once again Kansas City and we're kickin' off with a bang. This month, we're delving into a regional vampyric tale with a little twist. Ready the garlic and adjust your eyeline as Analog Sunday presents: Ankle Biters!

“A small town is overrun with ankle-biting-blood-sucking dwarf vampires. Things get complicated when the vertically-challenged coffin-creepers get their hands on a sword witht the blood of the last slain Tall Vampire. With this relic, they can create a super-race of Shaq-sized Dracula's out of any tall human. Now, the half vampire / half human, Drexel, is the town's – and the world's – only hope to stop the countryside invasion of the mini-demons. There are no short fixes to this tall problem.”

Hosted by Elijah of Magnetic Magic Rentals. Party kicks off at 6:30PM with a VHS Swap n’ Shop, followed by a Preshow Mixtape, Giveaways and the Feature Presentation at 7PM!

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A troubled fashion designer wastes the day away as she, and her young female lover, confront the memories of relationshi...
07/16/2026

A troubled fashion designer wastes the day away as she, and her young female lover, confront the memories of relationships past. A seismic film in the gay canon, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT explores love and obsession in a way that only Rainer Werner Fassbinder can! Friday July 17th @ 7pm- presented by

“Presented by Death Gods Film” is a limited 4 part film series programed by Filmmaker Allison Lloyd for the month of July! Allison Lloyd (director of Stray Cat mug & tote bag commercails!) has selected four films that she has drawn inspiration from while writing her first feature film, Death Gods! Death Gods is currently in pre-production and will be shot on Kodak16mm film later this summer with Producers &

07/15/2026

CHALLENGERS (2024)

Thurs, 7/16, murder and mass transportation combine as Clio's Scroll Productions celebrate's Hitchcock in July with one of his more diabolical thrillers of chance, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.

A chance encounter between tennis champion Guy (Farley Granger) and psychopath Bruno (Robert Walker) on a train triggers an unstoppable race toward double murder.

Hitchcock’s classic thriller is a finely-tuned engine of suspense, taking barely a breath as it steams through a spine-tingling story of fate, coincidence, guilt and psychopathology – favorite themes of noir writer Patricia Highsmith, whose novel was adapted by the great Raymond Chandler.

🚪/pre-show @ 6:30
📽/intro @ 7pm

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🔫📰🚂🍷👠🧛‍♂️THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: Murder, more murder, & height challenged vampires! Death Gods film series continues with...
07/13/2026

🔫📰🚂🍷👠🧛‍♂️THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: Murder, more murder, & height challenged vampires! Death Gods film series continues with the Coen Brothers' thrilling debut BLOOD SIMPLE and Fassbinder's haunting THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. PLUS: Soviet Animation, zine club, ANKLE BITERS on VHS, & Hitchcock's chance encounting thriller STRANGERS ON A TRAIN!

Mon @ 7 // BLOOD SIMPLE
Tues @ 6:30 // KC ZINE CLUB
Weds @ 7 // SOVIET ANIMATION
Thurs @ 7 // STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Fri @ 7 // THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
Sun @ 6:30 // ANKLE BITERS (on VHS!)

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FIRST DATE...Thurs, 7/16, Classic Hollywood gets a little murderous as ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODLAND celebrates thei...
07/09/2026

FIRST DATE...

Thurs, 7/16, Classic Hollywood gets a little murderous as ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODLAND celebrates their annual tradition of Hitchcock in July with a chance meeting unfolding into a perfect engine for suspense with STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.

When two men casually discuss “swapping murders,” one takes the idea deadly seriously. Featuring some of Hitchcock’s most notable set pieces - including the legendary carousel climax - the film is a chilling study of doubles, guilt, and the terrifying ease with which violence can be set in motion.

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