Parents' Movie day here for you.

Mother, Dads, Grandads and Grandmums!

You are all welcome to our familiy session.

Babies and toodlers go free!

Members sharing their favorite films! You can pop in to cinema find out about which films we are sharing. Pizza service will be included with your reservation.

If you do not fancy for pizza (vegan availble), you can get cake, beer/wine or ice cream. Pre-reservations recommended if you wish to get pizza please.

Every Saturday morning Kids AM Club will show films for families and children. Free entry to toddlers and babies. Reservations recommended via email admin@southseacinema.co.uk or you can get your 3 fims passcard from our boxoffice at the cinema.

Adult passcard for 3 film screenings £15

Child passcard for 3 film screenings £10

You can use your passcards anytime for Satrudays KidsAM

Please email us to learn what film is on.

This hidden documentary is about underground music, DJs and clubs in in Istanbul. The film production year is 2003 and it focuses on 1990s Club Sceen and life in Istanbul. The film director is Aysegul Epengin and be ready for your Q&As.

The screening will follow by Djs Networking event with local Djs.

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.

EO, a gray donkey with melancholy eyes, encounters good and bad on his journey through life, experiences joy and pain, and endures the Wheel of Fortune.

Social Seniors Screening : Classis film matinees for seniors and public. Included with free tea and biscuits , tickets available from our website as well as in person at the cinema , group bookings welcome .This is part of a longer season of classic hollywood films with screenings every week wednesday at 2pm - ( if there is no date indicated, it means we have private booking)

Two brothers embark on a journey to find their birth mother after their abusive father had lied for years about her whereabouts; along the way, they reconnect with their indigenous heritage and make a new friend.

The Artistry of Classic Filmmaking – FREE SCREENINGS  1pm-3pm Thursday afternoons at Southsea Cinema

Focussing on classic films between produced between 1937 and 1941

The extent of this list is not known due to the lack of print preservation in the early 20th century. The original prints are currently being preserved at CATHI archives.

Historical Context - Part of our new Art exhibition-

During the early to mid-20th century, art prints and posters were becoming increasingly influential, with artists like 'The Big-Head Man' specialising in striking hand-drawn character portraits using chromo-lithography. A key figure in the printing industry, his nickname stemmed from his distinctive style, specialising in drawing large, expressive portraits of the characters.

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

 The protagonist Cheryl, played by the director, is an aspiring Black lesbian filmmaker attempting to bring about the history of Black lesbians in cinematic history while attempting to produce her own work, saying "our stories have never been told." The mockumentary explores the difficulty in navigating ...

The core of Vanchango was formed five years ago. Everyone in the band approaches from different directions and perspectives; thus an eclectic mix. Blues, Soul, Rock, Funk, Punk and Latin are all inspirations which are poured into the pot. There are so many great musical forms, beats, sounds, spirits, genre and thus continuous interchange is irresistible. There is a chaotic methodology to the concept of 'Unity Through Diversity'. Songs, Variations and Improvisations is exactly what it says on the tin. Some reworked classics, some originals some never to be repeated. FREE ADMISSION

The Band includes:

Phil Smith: Bass,  Sara Vadacca: Vocals, Razvan Ionascu: Keyboards Nick Rudziak: Drums.Ken Devine: Guitar and Vocals

Welcome to our new independently run film club. This club runs once a month. Come and see some of the best cinema that celebrates LGBTQ+ artists and writers. We will blend a range of films that underscore the history of telling these stories and want to share them with everyone in our community who is interested. Please note: The doors open at 7:00pm, film starts at 7:30pm

23-year-old Franky is a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence. They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family. There, Franky finds the emotional shelter to deal with the grudges of the past.

After being released from prison, a man questions his repressed desires and sexuality in this uplifting British drama which honestly and sensitively explores themes of discrimination, self-expression and masculinity.

Free Entry for UoP staff and students - with campus card- obtain your tickets from our cinema box office please.

The screening will be followed by the University of Portsmouth Staff Network’s Valentine’s Party. Attendees are encouraged to wear red!

FREE PUBLIC screening! Just turn up and see what surprise film we are going to share with you. We have planned to share a new Italian film.  See you soon..

What is about the rise and rise of swimming? Enjoy an engaging forty-five minute film by Southsea artist and photographer Nick Silk.  

Over the course of nine months, Nick meets many of the cold swim groups and individual swimmers who swim bold, swim cold - from Southsea to Eastney beaches.

Gain an insight into the science and of cold water immersion on the human body - and how to cold swim safely.

Taking to the cold water, Nick documents his own journey into cold swimming and the personal reasons he started swimming.

Celebrating the spirit of cold water swimming and the swimmers in our city seaside home.

We invite you and your family to fun filled screening with us here at Southsea Cinema ,join us with all the family young and old for a Suprise screening of a well loved family favouite .

Group tickets are avliable as well as a pass to 3 family screenings

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.

Azra is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined; from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming- of-age in rural Canada.

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.

With John Barrymore as Sherlock Holmes.

Introduction talk from Matt Wingett

 The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy giant

monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan

Doyle’s 1912 novel of the same name. The film was

produced and distributed by First National Pictures,

a major Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace

Beery as Professor Challenger. It was directed by Harry O.

Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects

by Willis O’Brien, a forerunner of his work on the original

King Kong. Introduction talk from Matt Wingett.

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of another kind. Behind fences and cell walls, passions begin to play havoc with the need for liberty.

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.