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!

05/29/2026

This June, FLOATING FEATURES is bringing TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR + MAMMA MIA! to San Francisco Bay! Join us in partnership with Red and White Fleet Red and White Fleet for a 2-hour twilight cruise on the world’s only sailing movie theater.

TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR
Friday, June 5, 8:30 PM

New York City drag divas Noxeema, Vida, and Chi Chi (played by Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo) take a road trip to the Miss Drag Queen of America Pageant in Hollywood—but hit a few major speed bumps along the way. This star studded hit comedy includes cameos by RuPaul, Lady Bunny, Flotilla DeBarge and, of course, Julie Newmar.

MAMMA MIA!
Friday, June 19, 8:30 PM

Donna (Meryl Streep), an independent hotelier in the Greek islands, is preparing for her daughter’s wedding with the help of two old friends. Meanwhile Sophie, Donna’s spirited daughter, has a plan of her own. She secretly invites to the wedding three men from her mother’s past in hopes of meeting her real father and having him es**rt her down the aisle on her big day.

There’s drinks, snacks, and beautiful views of the Bay – all aboard! 🚢

🎟 Tickets available at redandwhite.com/floating-features-tickets

Made on discarded film stock. Released the year of Hong Kong’s handover. Still feels like a punch to the gut.Fruit Chan’...
05/29/2026

Made on discarded film stock. Released the year of Hong Kong’s handover. Still feels like a punch to the gut.

Fruit Chan’s MADE IN HONG KONG (1997) captures the thrill of adolescence on the edge of collapse. Shot on a minimal budget with non-professional actors, it became a landmark of independent Hong Kong cinema — rough-edged, tender, angry, and unforgettable.

Join us for one of BLEAK WEEK’s most electrifying and unexpectedly tender films, co-presented by Amoment Books

Made in Hong Kong
Saturday, June 6 at 8:45 PM
🎟️ Tickets a roxie.com/film/made-in-hong-kong/

Part of Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair, a global series presented in partnership with American Cinematheque

After launching earlier this year, NIPPON VIBES: JAPANESE CINEMA WEEKEND AT NEW PEOPLE returns for its second edition, t...
05/28/2026

After launching earlier this year, NIPPON VIBES: JAPANESE CINEMA WEEKEND AT NEW PEOPLE returns for its second edition, this time built around the theme “Reframing.” Join us at New People, located at 1746 Post St. in historic San Francisco Japantown, this Saturday, May 30 & Sunday, May 31.

The program kicks off with two masterworks of Japanese cinema: Akira Kurosawa’s riveting psychological thriller RASHOMON and acclaimed auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda’s nuanced portrait of childhood, MONSTER. Sunday's lineup features two visionary anime films: Hayao Miyazaki’s profound and dreamlike THE BOY AND THE HERON and Michael Arias’s electrifying, genre-defying TEKKONKINKREET, celebrating its 20th anniversary with a stunning 4K restoration.

Saturday, May 30
RASHOMON – 5pm
MONSTER – 7:15pm

Sunday, May 31
THE BOY AND THE HERON – 1:10pm
TEKKONKINKREET 20th Anniversary (4K Restoration) – 4pm

Presented by Roxie @ New People. Co-Presented by Japan Society of Northern California.

🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com/series/nippon-vibes-japanese-cinema-weekend-at-new-people/

👂 Long before we worried our phones were listening, there was THE EAR.Banned for decades for its chilling depiction of s...
05/28/2026

👂 Long before we worried our phones were listening, there was THE EAR.

Banned for decades for its chilling depiction of state surveillance, Karel Kachyňa’s 1970 THE EAR opens BLEAK WEEK: CINEMA OF DESPAIR at The Roxie on June 5 in a new 4K restoration.

Over the course of one sleepless night, a government official and his wife spiral into paranoia, suspicion, and darkly funny marital unraveling as they begin to suspect “the ear” of the regime is listening to their every word.

Co-presented by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with a brief intro connecting the film’s themes of surveillance and privacy to today.

Join us to experience one of cinema’s great political nightmares together on the big screen.

Part of Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair, a global series presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque

🎟️ Tickets at https://roxie.com/film/the-ear-4k-restoration/

FILM NOIR’S VISIONARY GENIUS: JOHN ALTON, a two-night, four-film tribute to the legendary cinematographer, kicks off on ...
05/27/2026

FILM NOIR’S VISIONARY GENIUS: JOHN ALTON, a two-night, four-film tribute to the legendary cinematographer, kicks off on June 1 at The Roxie.

Don’t miss these criminally under-seen noir knockouts presented by former Roxie programmer Elliot Lavine:

Monday, June 1
RAW DEAL – 6pm
THE BIG COMBO (4K Restoration) – 8pm

Tuesday, June 2
HOLLOW TRIUMPH – 6pm
THE AMAZING MR. X – 8pm

Part of ARTHOUSE 50, a year-long series celebrating our 50th anniversary as an Arthouse cinema.

🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com/series/film-noirs-visionary-genius-john-alton/

05/26/2026

TIME AND WATER opens June 5 at The Roxie, with Academy Award–nominated director Sara Dosa (Fire of Love) joining us in person for a Q&A on June 6.

As Iceland’s glaciers disappear within a lifetime, acclaimed writer Andri Snær Magnason turns to memory — of family, landscape, and time itself — to hold onto what is slipping away.

Following the loss of his beloved grandparents and the death of his country’s glaciers, Magnason constructs a cinematic time capsule in this deeply moving, visually stunning meditation on climate grief, memory, home, and what we choose to leave behind.

🧊 Opens June 5
Q&A with director Sara Dosa on June 6
🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com

Because one Tony Leung is never enough.Back by popular demand, we’ve added more screenings of The Silent Friend and Wong...
05/24/2026

Because one Tony Leung is never enough.

Back by popular demand, we’ve added more screenings of The Silent Friend and Wong Kar-wai’s immortal Chungking Express. Both now playing Monday, May 25 & Wednesday, May 27.

“There’s a movie out...that’s 2.5 hours long and is primarily about Tony Leung befriending a tree. It’s extraordinary.” — Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri on The Silent Friend

“Tony Leung gives one of the most swoon-worthy performances in modern cinema.” — IndieWire on Chungking Express

Yes, that Tony Leung.

🎟️ Tickets at roxie.com

Everybody stay calm... our summer membership drive is here! 🎉From now through the end of July, you can get a Roxie membe...
05/23/2026

Everybody stay calm... our summer membership drive is here! 🎉

From now through the end of July, you can get a Roxie membership for 20% off the regular price (with 10% off our lowest-price membership.)

You'll get a year of free or discounted movies, cool merch, and a fun game to play, all while supporting your local nonprofit cinema!

Visit roxie.com/summer-membership-sale/ for more details!

🎬: A Confucian Confusion (1994)
Series: Silver Screen Club

BLEAK WEEK: CINEMA OF DESPAIR arrives at The Roxie June 5–11.Part of the global initiative from , our hand-picked lineup...
05/22/2026

BLEAK WEEK: CINEMA OF DESPAIR arrives at The Roxie June 5–11.

Part of the global initiative from , our hand-picked lineup journeys through surveillance, cruelty, alienation, displacement, and existential dread — with films from Chantal Akerman, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Béla Tarr, Pedro Almodóvar, Fruit Chan, and more.

But bleakness alone is not the point. These are films that devastate, haunt, provoke, and transcend. Join us for a week of communal moviegoing as we experience some of cinema’s bleakest, most visionary works together on the big screen.

🎟️ 3-film passes available while supplies last.

Featuring:
🖤 THE EAR (4K Restoration) Co-presented by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
🖤 JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
🖤 BLACK GIRL (+ BOROM SARRET) Co-presented by Francisco Black Film Festival
🖤 BAD EDUCATION (35mm) Co-presented by
🖤 MADE IN HONG KONG Copresented by
🖤 THE PLAGUE DOGS w/ intro by 's Mihaela Mihailova
🖤 THE TURIN HORSE

June 5–11 at The Roxie. Come stare into the abyss with us.

A classic story: a small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune. The gangster film that started them a...
05/21/2026

A classic story: a small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune. The gangster film that started them all, the picture that launched a million bad impressions of its leading man, Edward G. Robinson stars as Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello in Mervyn LeRoy's LITTLE CAESAR, based on the best-selling novel of the same name.

Part of our ongoing series Wild, Weird Wicked: Films from Before the Code! May 26.

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