Set during World War II, the Story focuses on the seductive Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge) who works in a parachute factory in North Carolina. She lures handsome GI Joe (Harry Belafonte) away from his sweetheart Cindy Lou (Olga James) when he is assigned to escort her to court after she's involved in a brawl in her factory.

Dorothy Dandridge became the first black woman to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in this critically acclaimed and popular adaptation of Bizet’s opera. 

From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some of the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Profondo Rosso - arguably the ultimate giallo movie.

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

Our preview screening of Santosh on Thursday 20th March will be accompanied by a Q&A with the film's director, Sandhya Suri and is being presented in associated with Reclaim the Frame.

When upcoming actress Peppy Miller meets George Valentin, the most celebrated silent movie actor in Hollywood, at a movie premiere, she is inspired to audition for and wins a dancing bit-part in his latest film. The year is 1927 and with the silent film era slowly fading away and with the advent of talking pictures, their fortunes and careers spiral in opposite directions.

This month Films at Heart’s regular monthly screening is being held at the Hyde Park Picture House (Screen One) and in collaboration with Irish History Month.

After premiering at the Director's Fortnight at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Sister Midnight is a festival favourite which begins with a newly arranged marriage. A pairing of an oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls.

They are awkward and alone-together. Unpredictable Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her total lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbours and her bumbling spouse until the nocturnal world of Mumbai and its inhabitants lead her to face her own strange behaviours.

Cellist Matthew Barley presents his acclaimed Light Stories, a multimedia performance that shares a personal narrative through sound and visuals.

Inspired by the classic storytelling structure of Voyage and Return, Barley has divided his own life experiences into 15 chapters, each represented by a piece of music. Some are drawn from his existing repertoire, while others were newly composed for this project.

In celebration of Irish History Month and in association with Irish Arts Foundation featuring a documentary about Irish immigrant labourers in the United States. 

"Men at Lunch" is a 2012 Irish English/Irish language documentary on the history behind the 1932 Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph, its Irish connections, and the story of immigration in New York at the turn of the century. Directed by Seán Ó Cualáin.

Guinness and other drinks will be served. 

Akerman’s landmark second feature follows the meticulous daily routine of its titular lead.

Jeanne Dielman is revolutionary in its bold experimental approach to narrative subject and structure. Charting the breakdown of its protagonist, a bourgeois Belgian housewife, mother and part-time sex worker over the course of three days, the film rigorously records her everyday life in extended time and hypnotic detail.