Scavenging to survive, five year old Saroo and his older brother become accidentally separated, and he finds himself alone, on a train, travelling thousands of miles away to Calcutta.  After passing through a barely existent Social Welfare system, he is adopted and taken to Tasmania by a young couple for a life of love, education and comfort. 

Memories of his early life eventually fade, until a Proustian flash back, when a plate of jelabies at a party, initiates a longing to trace his original Indian family. 

A quite film debut for director Garth Davis.  A story with buckets of built-in emotion where the blurred images on Google Earth of a tiny village, leave us longing with Saroo to find out if he can be reunited with his past.

For more information click on the image to the left.  Tickets £4 will be available at May's Film "La La Land" May 17 or online on the green banner of our home page, or from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street from May 18.

With modern day Los Angeles as the backdrop, this musical about everyday life explores what is more important: a once-in-a-lifetime love or the spotlight.

For more information click on the image to the left.  Tickets £4 will be available at April's Film"THE EAGLE HUNTRESS" or online on the green banner of our home page, or from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street.

This is perhaps the most beautiful Docudrama we have ever shown.  The story defies 2,000 years of tradition, when 13 year old Aisholpan Nurgaiv inspires all around her with her skill, humour and persistence. This is both an incredible coming of age story and a reminder that we all should dream big. In the film, Aisholpan and her family introduce us to the incredible culture and tradition of the Kazakh nomadic herding people who live in the Altai Mountains region of western Mongolia, basically on the border of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China.  Prepare to have your breath taken away........

Tickets £4 available at "SULLY" on March 15th or from the 16th March at Shakespeare House Gallery, or online at Ticketsource clicking on the green banner at the top of the home page.  For further details and to view the trailer click on the image to the left.

The story of Chesley Sullenberger, an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew.  

If there's one thing you can count on Clint Eastwood doing well, it's directing an emotionally heartfelt story. Sully continues Eastwood's success by giving us probably the most human drama of 2016.  Starring Tom Hanks this is a brilliant film of how a man can become a hero by just doing his job.

Tickets £4 available at "Bridget Jones' Baby" on February 15th or from the 16th Feb at Shakespeare House Gallery, or online at Ticketsource clicking on the green banner at the top of the home page.  For further details and to view the trailer click on the image to the left.

Fortysomething and single again, Bridget decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack (Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch...she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father. The much-anticipated third installment of the Bridget Jones's franchise welcomes fellow Academy Award (R) winner Emma Thompson to the cast.

Tickets £4 will be available at the January film on 18th Jan or Online, or from Shakespeare House Gallery, High Street Dedham Films

"Love is not rational. You fall in love, you lose control." 

Bobby - Jesse Eisenberg - goes to work for his successful film producer Uncle, and falls in love with his secretary.  Unbeknown to Bobby is that this new love is also his uncle's mistress!  Allen uses the dynamics of the relationships, and the choices of these intertwined characters to make a clever film that leaves one's emotions oscillating.  Great casting, brilliant acting and lots of clever one liners to make us laugh out loud.

Tickets £4 will be on sale on October 19 at "Love and Friendship", or on Oct 20 from Shakespeare House Gallery in Dedham High Street, or online on the Green Banner at the top of the page.

This is a fantastic family show that is as intelligent as it is moving" ★★★★★ The Stage. 

“An extraordinary theatrical achievement [that] will justifiably delight audiences throughout the summer” ★★★★ Yorkshire Post

"...about as divine as family theatre gets." One & Other. Read the full review here.

“Tears flow, cheers break out, as The Railway Children works its theatrical magic once more” The Press.

"Do not miss this show." British Theatre Guide.

“This critic…recommends making tracks to the NRM right now.” York Mix.

“It will certainly live on in the memory long after station lights go out” Harrogate Advertiser.

“The kids will remember it forever and so will you.” Little Vikings.

“This production engaged and entranced the audience in a way not often seen in a theatre” ★★★★★ Your Local Link

Tickets are £4 and will be on sale from 1st October at Shakespeare House Gallery in Dedham High Street, and online on the Green Banner at the top of the page.  As there is no other December Film Season Ticket Holders come in free.

No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, then she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

This film is to replace our November scheduled film "Cafe Society" which is now to be screened in January 2017.  We hope you will still want to come in November, as this is just one of the best romantic comedies every screened.

Tickets £4 online at Ticketsource or from Shakespeare House Gallery.

“Love & Friendship” is a world view in film of the early Austin story "Lady Susan";  it cleverly portrays a drastically changing society, through the bold but honest strategies of our protagonist, whose tactics show a determination of exactly what she’ll do to meet her very personal needs.

Costumes to die for, and a cast to match.  2016's answer to P&P and S&S - served up with charm, passion and a huge amount of humour.  Staring Kate Beckinsale.

Tickets £4 will be on sale at "Mustang" on Sept 21st or Sept 22nd at Shakespeare House Gallery in Dedham High Street, or online on the green banner at the top of the page.

Early summer in a village in Northern Turkey. Five free-spirited teenaged sisters splash about on the beach with their male classmates. Though their games are merely innocent fun, a neighbour passes by and reports what she considers to be illicit behavior to the girls' family. The family overreacts, removing all "instruments of corruption," like cell phones and computers, and essentially imprisoning the girls, subjecting them to endless lessons in housework in preparation for them to become brides. As the eldest sisters are married off, the younger ones bond together to avoid the same fate. The fierce love between them empowers them to rebel and chase a future where they can determine their own lives in Deniz Gamze Ergüven's debut, a powerful portrait of female empowerment.

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Tickets £4.00 will be available The Jungle Book on August 17 then on August 18 from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online at BOOK NOW.

In this reimagining of the classic collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, director Jon Favreau uses visually stunning CGI to create the community of animals surrounding Mowgli (Neel Sethi), a human boy adopted by a pack of wolves. The appearance of a villainous tiger named Shere Khan (voiced by Idris Elba) forces Mowgli's guardian, the panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), to shepherd the child to safety in the "man village." Along the way, the boy meets an affable, lazy bear named Baloo (Bill Murray), as well as a snake with hypnotic powers (Scarlett Johansson) and an orangutan (Christopher Walken) who wants to harness the power of fire. Click on the image to find further information and view trailer.

Click on the image to see more information and the trailer for the film.  We hope you will want to bring your children and grandchildren to this quality family event.

Tickets £4.00 (Under 18 £2) will be available at SPOTLIGHT on July 20 then on July 21 from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online at BOOK NOW.

Winner of the 2016 Academy Oscar for BEST FILM.

In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters Michael Rezendes and Matt Carroll interview victims and try to unseal sensitive documents. The reporters make it their mission to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

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Tickets £4.00 will be available at Brooklyn on June 15, then on June 16 from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online at BOOK NOW.

Due to a delay in release dates we re not able to show "A Bigger Splash" the DVD will be available to borrow in July.  We have therefore changed our June programme and will be screening this film version of Colm Toibin's best selling novel "Brooklyn".

Nick Hornby adapts this beautifully paced novel of an Irish immigrant finding love in New York, and the result will send shivers down your spine. 

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Tickets £4.00 on sale at West Side Story May 18 and then on May 19 at Shakespeare House Gallery or online at BOOK NOW.

As part of the BFI Shakespeare Anniversary Festival 2016 we are showing this remarkable Leonard Bernstein musical.  Shakespeare's ROMEO & JULIET provides the underlying story where the Gangs of New York City replace the feuding families of Verona.  

The songs have become legendary and the dance numbers are easily the most energetic and dynamic ever caught on film, marking a turning point in the history of the musical genre, with songs and recitative becoming seamlessly incorporated within the screenplay/script.   It was (partially) shot on location in NYC, helping the atmospheric color and vitality of this iconic classic film.

If only we could have found a Sing-a-long version!

The BFI Shakespeare Festival has partially sponsored this event.

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Tickets £4.00 (£2.00 for the under 18's) available at Bridge of Spies April 20, and then on April 21 at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online by clicking BOOK NOW.

In the cold war, A lawyer, James B. Donovan recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers that was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission- with a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel who was arrested for espionage in the US.

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Tickets £4.00 will be available at Lady in the Van on March 16, then on March 17 from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online at TICKETS on the Green banner at the top of the page.

This film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's North London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

"Lady in the Van" has been given 5 stars by all the major film critics, and promised to bring Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Dame Maggie Smith (now as well known in the USA as the UK, for her Downton Abbey role).  The combination of Alan Bennett's screenplay, Maggie Smith's acting alongside Alex Jennings (who looks more like Alan Bennet than Alan Bennet) and the brilliant direction of Nicholas Hytner, this looks to be this year's "Philomena".  Ticking all the boxes of Best UK Films - it’s parochial, sweet and clever British comedy, delivering everything its title so bluntly promises.

For more information and to view the trailer, click on the image.

Tickets £4 will be available at the monthly screening of "Palio" on February 18, 2016 and from February 19 at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, and online by clicking on the Cinema and Ticket tag on the green banner at the top of the page.

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Twice a year the Italian city of Siena goes crazy for the oldest horse race in the world: the Palio. Not your average race: strategy, bribery and corruption play as much a part as the skill of the riders. Horses are allocated by lot four days prior to the race. This is when the madness truly begins. In the eye of the storm stand the jockeys. Loved and loathed by the districts they represent, they forge alliances and make deals promising large cash sums to try and get the best start. Legendary rider Gigi Bruschelli has won 13 Palios in 16 years and is accused by his critics of monopolizing the race. He works the system, paying off younger jockeys and fixing the race with average horses. Two races away from beating the world record, Bruschelli will do anything to win. But one jockey stands in his way, his former trainee, a handsome young Sardinian, Giovanni Atzeni, who is quietly determined to challenge his old mentor. Less interested in bribes and collusion, he rides for the love of the race. PALIO is the thrilling story of a young 'outsider' keen to break in to the dangerous but lucrative race and the corrupt 'insider' who has manipulated the city of Siena for a decade.

Their passionate and dramatic battle is an epic and cinematic tale of Italian life in microcosm.

This film is in Italian with English Subtitles.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "Suffragette", screening on 20 January, then 21 January at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online at CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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One wonders why this story has not made it on to the big screen before now, as an elemental part of recent British history.  Covering the received brutality and equal resistance of the Woman's Movement archive, this film does an important job in reminding us of their bravery and tenacity: a drama about human rights so recently and dearly won.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "Cinderella" screening on 16 December, 17 December at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online at CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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After her father unexpectedly dies, young Ella (Lily James) finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and stepsisters, who reduce her to scullery maid. Despite her circumstances, she refuses to despair. An invitation to a palace ball gives Ella hope that she might reunite with the dashing stranger (Richard Madden) she met in the woods, but her stepmother prevents her from going. Help arrives in the form of a kindly beggar woman who has a magic touch for ordinary things.

This is a magical combination of live and animated action, where every wish from our childhood expectations  of Fairy Tales comes true.  Come and be enchanted alongside Cinders.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "Testament of Youth" screening on 18 November, 19 November at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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Unlike the many films that have been made about both world wars, Testament of Youth explores emotional loss, not only of a young woman who loses everyone she has come to love, but the domestic view of those on both sides of the war: a charged view of the consummate despair that war can cause.  Beautifully directed, this film will touch your heart and act as a remembrance for us all, of those who experienced the tragedy associated with both World Wars - bring a very large box of tissues.

Tickets £4 will be on sale at "Woman in Gold" screening on 16 Sept, then on 17 Sept at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street, or online at the CINEMA AND TICKETS tag on the green banner at the top of this page.

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This true story stars Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann, a Viennese-born resident of Los Angeles, who in 1998 battled the Austrian authorities for ownership of the eponymous Klimt painting, stolen from her Jewish family by the Nazis. Woman in Gold takes us on an emotional heartwarming switchback, with exciting flashbacks to an escape from WW2 Nazi Austria.  

This event will be our Fifth Birthday - our first film in September 2010 was "The Last Station" also starring Helen Mirren - Thanks Helen and thanks to everyone who has supported us for the last 5 years - there may even be CAKE!

Tickets £4 available on August 19 at the screening of "What we did on our Holidays" or from August 20 at Shakespeare House Gallery in Dedham High Street, or online at CINEMA AND TICKETS on the green banner at the top of the page.

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An equally colourful follow-up to the "First Best", this breezy sequel again chronicles the various residents of a retirement community in India where an assortment of British seniors find their daily routines revitalized. In this installment, young owner Sonny (Dev Patel) is looking to expand to a second location. Director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) brings some bittersweet visual flair, and there’s plenty of chemistry among the superb veteran cast including Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, and the new arrival Richard Gere.  A happy-go-lucky classic of British entertainment.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "What we did on our Holidays" screening July 15, or from July 16 at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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It’s impossible not to enjoy this big-hearted and sweet-natured British family movie from Andy Hamilton.  David Tennant and Rosamund Pike are Doug and Abi, the troubled parents of three boisterous kids: they’re heading up to Scotland for the 75th birthday of Doug’s unwell dad, Gordy (Billy Connolly), which means staying with Doug’s uptight brother, Gavin (Ben Miller), and his depressed wife, Margaret (an excellent Amelia Bullmore). This means maintaining all the secrets and lies of families, and Gordy finds the only people he really gets on with are Doug’s young children. Very impressive and likable stuff, sending you home laughing.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "Theory of Everything" screening June 17, or from June 18 at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen's body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "Gone Girl" screening May 20, or from May 21 at Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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Fincher’s film Gone Girl, is based closely on Gillian Flynn’s best-selling 2012 novel which used a page-turning plot line – the sudden disappearance of a smart, pretty, married woman called Amy Elliott-Dunne (Rosamund Pike) – to unpick the modern mania for presenting a perfected version of ourselves to others, even as the truth roils and bubbles underneath.

But this story becomes something even wilder and yet perversely also more controlled – a neo-noir thriller turned on its head, where the homme, rather than the femme, has the fatale aura, and what comes out of the past only serves to further cloud the murky present.  

Rosamund Pike's performance earns BAFTA and ACADEMY nominations.  

Please be aware this film is Certificate 18.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "The Imitation Game" screening April 22, or from April 23 from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6, recruits the Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to hopefully crack Nazi codes, including Enigma, the German code which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing's team, including Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), analyze Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed and become heroes, but in 1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace when authorities reveal he is gay and send him to prison.

Multiple nominations for BAFTA and the ACADEMY have put this film at the top of the must see list.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "Mr Turner" screening March 18, or from March 19 from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

Tickets £4 will be available at the "Boyhood" screening Feb 18, or from Feb 19 from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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Boyhood is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past, and an ode to growing up and parenting. Shot in real time over 12 years, Its impossible to watch Mason and his family without thinking about your own journey.  A grown up movie about growing up with a soundtrack to touch all our recent memories.  

Enthusiasm for this film is reflected in the recent nominations for multiple Film awards with BAFTA and The Academy.  This is one of the few films to gain 100% 5 star ratings on all the online film review websites.  

Tickets £4 will be available at the "Pride" screening Jan 21, or from Jan 22 from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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Geoffrey Macnab, film critic at The Independent noted how Pride follows on from other  brilliant British films such as The Full Monty, Brassed Off and Billy Elliot as "a story set in a Britain whose industrial base is being shattered".  Giving the film a five-star review, he comments the screenplay combines "broad comedy with subtle observation" and notes how director Matthew Warchus "relishes visual contrasts and jarring juxtapositions" throughout the film.  

Pride remarkably retains its humour and accessibility without trivialising the issues addressed in the film.  Its one of those films we cannot recommend highly enough, renewing our faith in human nature and sending us all home with a skip in our step.

Tickets available from December 16 - £4 from Hood's Newsagents, Dedham High Street or online at  CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page.

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As our LIVE Broadcast of the ballet, ALICE IN WONDERLAND falls on Tuesday 16 December (the day before our usual screening on the third Wednesday in the month), we will not be showing our usual monthly film.  Because we realise the days leading up to Christmas are hectic, and filled with parties and preparations, Dedham Films will be showing just this one wonderful Christmas Event, suitable for all the family.

Regrettably we are restricted to a lowest price of £12.50 per ticket (this is dictated by ROH), and while we realise this is three times our usual film ticket, we still consider this is marvelous value for money, and easily comparable to other local venues in Colchester and Ipswich.

Tickets £12.50 are on sale now from Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham High Street or online at CINEMA & TICKETS on the green banner at the top of this page. 

Please click on the image to see further information and the trailer from ROH.