Cinema
Independent Cinema Explorer
London's best non-multiplex cinemas: small rooms, strange programmes, and audiences that come because they mean it.
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Sign inThe multiplex will always show you what is popular. These places show you what is interesting. Each one has its own character, its own audience, and its own reason for existing. Start with one. Return to all of them.
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The home of documentary film in London. Small, independent, and essential.
A community cinema that programmes as if film still matters.
Independent cinema in Ilford showing Bollywood, world and independent film.
Occasional screening nights that feel more like events than showings.
A working Rotherhithe film studio and archive whose free cinema-club screenings feel closer to a private film society than a commercial cinema.
Independent film studio and cinema in Rotherhithe, specialising in period and art house film.