Roxie Theater

Roxie Theater San Francisco's iconic nonprofit cinema. Moving pictures since 1911. An arthouse in 1976. Nonprofit since 2008.
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The Roxie brings you the best/coolest/weirdest/rarest/most thought-provoking movies of the past, present and future!

09/04/2026

FILIPIÑANA is now playing at the Roxie, with several shows already sold out!

Rafael Manuel’s visually arresting Sundance prize-winner is a darkly funny, razor-sharp tale of class, power, and invisible violence in modern-day Manila, following 17-year-old “tee girl” Isabel as she uncovers dark secrets beneath the pristine fairways of the exclusive country club where she works.

“A masterwork… The film performs a scalpel-sharp dissection of the [luxury tourism] industry, laying bare a mad microcosm of power relations—political, sexual, economic, familial, cultural, even linguistic...” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Director Rafael Manuel joins us in person this Saturday — almost at rush.

🎟️ Tickets for remaining shows at roxie.com

09/03/2026

“There’s nothing sadder than a puppet without a ghost.”

GHOST IN THE SHELL, Mamoru Oshii’s landmark 1995 cyberpunk anime, is heading back to our big screen for its 30th anniversary with a first-ever 4K presentation!

In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, yielding to entropy and technocracy. Cyborg Major Kusanagi, a perfect specimen of human-brained computer engineering is on the case to track and destroy an omnipotent entity known as The Puppet Master—a hacker? a virus?—who threatens world order. Her physical and existential journey deftly detailed by Oshii’s animation, combining traditional hand-drawn cells and computer-generated graphics, creating a haunting, awe-inspiring magnum opus.

Friday, September 18 at 9:00 PM
Saturday, September 19 at 6:00 PM
Wednesday, September 23 at 6:00 PM
🎟️ Tickets at Roxie.com

Part of our series Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films from Before the Code!Virtually unseen for over 90 years, in a sparkling ne...
09/03/2026

Part of our series Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films from Before the Code!

Virtually unseen for over 90 years, in a sparkling new 4K restoration from Warner Bros!

In the high-stakes world of the 1930s social elite, LETTY LYNTON (Joan Crawford) is a woman seeking an escape from a toxic, suffocating life in South America. Haunted by a volatile affair with the possessive Emile Renaul (Nils Asther), she flees toward New York, finding a chance at redemption—and true love—in the arms of the wealthy, earnest Jerry Darrow (Robert Montgomery) during a glamorous transatlantic crossing. But the past refuses to stay buried. When the ship docks, Emile is waiting with a blackmail scheme designed to destroy Letty’s future, forcing her to take matters into her own hands.

Monday, September 14 at 6:00 PM
Thursday, September 17 at 3:30 PM
🎟️ Tickets at Roxie.com

09/03/2026

Dipping sauce, anyone?

Winner of the 2026 Q***r Palm, Jane Schoenbrun’s latest has the most glitter-drenched blood in the history of horror cinema, a soundtrack packed with bangers, and plenty of surreal wit.

Starts Friday, September 4 at your Roxie
🎟️ Tickets at Roxie.com

Oscar-winning director Orlando Von Einsiedel's uplifting doc, THE CYCLE OF LOVE, recounts the epic 6,000-mile journey on...
09/01/2026

Oscar-winning director Orlando Von Einsiedel's uplifting doc, THE CYCLE OF LOVE, recounts the epic 6,000-mile journey one man took from Delhi to Sweden to find the woman who had captured his heart.

Von Einsiedel joins us for an in-person Q&A on Wednesday, September 9.

🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com/film/the-cycle-of-love

One of the most influential animated science-fiction films ever made, the Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic FAN...
08/31/2026

One of the most influential animated science-fiction films ever made, the Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic FANTASTIC PLANET remains as visually astonishing and intellectually daring today as it was upon its release.

Get lost in the eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes.

Presented as part of Laloux’s Worlds, a celebration of René Laloux’s visionary science-fiction animation in honor of the new 4K restoration of GANDAHAR.

Thursday, September 3 at 6:00 PM
Thursday, September 10 at 4:10 PM
🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com/film/fantastic-planet

FREEWAY, writer-director Matthew Bright's twisted take on Little Red Riding Hood, returns as part of our Arthouse 50 ser...
08/29/2026

FREEWAY, writer-director Matthew Bright's twisted take on Little Red Riding Hood, returns as part of our Arthouse 50 series.

Emblematic of the bold and unique films championed by our film distribution company, Roxie Releasing, this pitch-black comedy crime thriller follows a serial killer (Kiefer Sutherland) who meets his match in teenage juvenile delinquent Vanessa, played by Reese Witherspoon in one of her most underrated roles.

“Rude in the way the truth is rude — only funnier. The movie seduces with its humor, all the while presenting a realized vision of a harsh, absurd world.” — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Wednesday, September 9 at 6:00 PM
Monday, September 14 at 8:10 PM
🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com/film/arthouse-50-freeway

Join us in celebrating the 20-year legacy of MAQUILÁPOLIS, a piercing look at globalization through the eyes of women wo...
08/28/2026

Join us in celebrating the 20-year legacy of MAQUILÁPOLIS, a piercing look at globalization through the eyes of women workers in Tijuana’s assembly plants, the maquiladoras.

An in-person Q&A with filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre and protagonists Lourdes Luján and Yesenia Palomares, moderated by Ximena Briceño, Stanford University will take place following our September 12 screening.

“Making explicit the slogan ‘knowledge equals power,’ MAQUILÁPOLIS is the rare activist documentary that really does empower the individual women at the heart of its story.” – VARIETY

Presented by RoxCine as part of Bay Visions.

Saturday, September 12 at 3:45 PM
🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com/film/maquilapolis

This screening is a benefit for Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, a Bay Area non-profit that partners with people who have sought refuge in the U.S. RIT employs strengths-based educational approaches and community support so newcomers may thrive in our shared communities.

🚀 Join us for a one-night-only screening of a rare 35mm print of Cory McAbee’s cult-classic space western musical THE AM...
08/27/2026

🚀 Join us for a one-night-only screening of a rare 35mm print of Cory McAbee’s cult-classic space western musical THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT (2001)!

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sundance-destroying cult classic.

Written, directed by, and starring Cory McAbee of the legendary cult band The Billy Nayer Show, THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT is a wildly original sci-fi musical western shot in stark black and white.

Hard-boiled interplanetary trader Samuel Curtis travels through a grubby frontier of derelicts, grease monkeys, strange planets, and stranger characters on a Homeric mission to deliver a suitable male to the all-female planet Venus—all while being pursued by the enigmatic killer Professor Hess.

Featuring music by The Billy Nayer Show and some of the most unforgettable rock ’n’ roll sequences ever committed to film.

“Emphatically perverse, a salute to the Midnight Movie, a cultural land mass that spawned John Waters and David Lynch.” — Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times

September 16, 2026� at 6:00 PM�
Tickets at Roxie.com

MYSTERIOUS SKIN, a modern classic of q***r cinema from indie legend Gregg Araki, returns with a new 4K restoration.Adapt...
08/26/2026

MYSTERIOUS SKIN, a modern classic of q***r cinema from indie legend Gregg Araki, returns with a new 4K restoration.

Adapted from Scott Heim’s acclaimed novel, this powerful coming-of-age drama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet offers a compassionate view into the lasting effects of childhood trauma.

“One of the great movies of the early 2000’s” - New York Times

Saturday, September 12 at 8:15 PM
🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com/film/mysterious-skin-4k-restoration

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