Project Hail Mary

Based on Andy Weir’s (The Martian) novel of the same name, Project Hail Mary is an exhilarating space adventure set in the near future. Ryland Grace (... Read more

Late Shift

With a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Benesch, The Teachers’ Lounge) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she wo... Read more

Late Shift

With a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Benesch, The Teachers’ Lounge) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she wo... Read more

Beyond Chicago

Beyond Fest, the biggest genre festival in the U.S., and Chicago’s world-renowned Music Box Theatre have combined forces to create Beyond Chicago: fou... Read more

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

Part of: Beyond Chicago

This is the story of the Butthole Surfers, a band that defied every rule and redefined what rock could be. Emerging from Texas in the early 1980s, Gib... Read more

Project Hail Mary

Based on Andy Weir’s (The Martian) novel of the same name, Project Hail Mary is an exhilarating space adventure set in the near future. Ryland Grace (... Read more

Obsession

Part of: Beyond Chicago

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more

Rose of Nevada

Part of: Beyond Chicago

30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada disappeared at sea. Now, it has returned. Desperate to make ends meet, two men join its crew and set sail once again,... Read more

Beyond Chicago

Beyond Fest, the biggest genre festival in the U.S., and Chicago’s world-renowned Music Box Theatre have combined forces to create Beyond Chicago: fou... Read more

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Part of: Beyond Chicago

The most New York movie ever made, a time capsule of the Big Apple’s hellish Fun City days. A quartet of desperadoes led by Robert Shaw’s icy soldier... Read more

Camp

Part of: Beyond Chicago

Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life. She feels the weight of these accidents like a curse has been placed upon... Read more

Normal

Part of: Beyond Chicago

For Sheriff Ulysses (Odenkirk), his provisional posting to the quaint Midwestern American town of Normal was meant to be a welcome respite from both h... Read more

Silver Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler

Part of: Beyond Chicago

After thirteen years away, Nami (Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo determined to track down the man responsible for her father’s murder. En route, she inte... Read more

The Yeti

Part of: Beyond Chicago

When an oil tycoon and a famous adventurer vanish into the harsh winter of remote northern Alaska, a hand-picked rescue team endeavors to bring them h... Read more

Speed Racer

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"Born to race cars, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the b... Read more

Flush

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"Trying to win back his girlfriend in a shady club, Luke finds himself in the middle of a drug deal gone wrong.Left for dead with his head stuck in th... Read more

Beyond Chicago

Beyond Fest, the biggest genre festival in the U.S., and Chicago’s world-renowned Music Box Theatre have combined forces to create Beyond Chicago: fou... Read more

The Kid with the Golden Arm

Part of: Beyond Chicago

A criminal organization, headed by a kung fu master nicknamed the Golden Arm Kid, targets 200,000 gold taels being transported by a private security c... Read more

Blood Brothers (& Other Delights)

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"Infamous for his arrest, trial and conviction - in the 1990s for his self-published comic, artist Mike Diana also made a string of homemade films. St... Read more

Lady Snowblood + Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Part of: Beyond Chicago

LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973, 97 mins, DCP)Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning *Lady Snowblood.* A major inspira... Read more

Shorts Block 1: Strange Freqencies

Part of: Beyond Chicago

Something is getting in: or getting out! This collection of Lynchian vignettes lives in the liminal space between the grounded and the uncanny, where... Read more

Phase

Part of: Beyond Chicago

After being cast out from the pioneering space station Alexandria, pregnant Ursula sets out to find her child’s father in a harsh, futuristic world. A... Read more

The Furious

Part of: Beyond Chicago

When his daughter Rainy is abducted, humble tradesman Wang Wei is thrust into a deadly underworld of corruption and violence. His only ally is Navin,... Read more

Bulk

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"When an overzealous scientist pushes string-theory experiments beyond the fringe, his brane (not brain) explodes, leaving reality fragmented. Corey H... Read more

Imposters

Part of: Beyond Chicago

After a couple’s baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she retur... Read more

RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate

Part of: Beyond Chicago

RZA’S ONE SPOON OF CHOCOLATE follows Unique (Shameik Moore, “Dope” and voice of Miles Morales in the Spider-Verse films), a veteran and ex-convict see... Read more

Small Kill

Part of: Beyond Chicago

Children are being kidnapped and held for ransom. If the parents don't cooperate, the kids show up dead. An undercover cop gets involved in the case,... Read more

Flesh for Frankenstein

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"A delectably gory and cynical social satire from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Morrissey (BLOOD FOR DRACULA), FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN is among the most ori... Read more

Beyond Chicago

Beyond Fest, the biggest genre festival in the U.S., and Chicago’s world-renowned Music Box Theatre have combined forces to create Beyond Chicago: fou... Read more

Boorman and the Devil

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"In the wake of box-office titans POINT BLANK and DELIVERANCE, John Boorman was granted the opportunity of a lifetime: to direct the sequel to THE EXO... Read more

Sheila and the Brainstem

Part of: Beyond Chicago

Set in the west and southwest of the United States, this frantically-paced social satire with a science fiction twist is the story of Taz, a nutty vis... Read more

Shorts Block 2: And Then What

Part of: Beyond Chicago

Every catastrophe starts small. A toast. A dinner bill. A chair. A ride home. A crossing guard who's had enough. Another chair. In this block of wildl... Read more

Exorcist II: Heretic

Part of: Beyond Chicago

A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl’s exorcist.Print... Read more

The Kirlian Frequency

Part of: Beyond Chicago

In a sleepy little town where nightmares crackle through the airwaves, a late-night radio show becomes more than just spooky storytelling, it’s an ome... Read more

Over Your Dead Body

Part of: Beyond Chicago

A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.

Ikatan Darah

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"Mega is a gifted competitive martial artist whose career is cut short by an unfortunate injury. As she licks her wounds, danger comes crashing into h... Read more

Faces of Death

Part of: Beyond Chicago

A moderator on an internet video-sharing platform stumbles across a potential snuff film ring hidden in the depths of the site’s content. Are these gr... Read more

Cruel Hands

Part of: Beyond Chicago

Amid the worst bushfires in Australia’s history, Maria and her son Dai escape a violent and abusive husband and make their way to an abandoned farmhou... Read more

The Chicago Film Society Presents

The Chicago Film Society comes to the Music Box for all-celluloid screenings of classic & underseen features, short subjects, trailer reels, and other... Read more

Reds

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

"The curious notion that Hollywood or its European counterparts could produce a truly and unequivocally progressive spectacle…continues to be as much... Read more

Jurassic Park

In director Steven Spielberg's three-time Academy Award®-winning blockbuster Jurassic Park, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (... Read more

Sound of Silent Film Festival 2026

ACM’s popular Sound of Silent Film Festival, now in its 21st year, is a unique event featuring new short silent films – spanning comedy, drama, experi... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang... Read more

Music Box Bingo

Once a month, join us in the Music Box Lounge 7-10 PM for the infamous MUSIC BOX BINGO! Hosted by your good-time gals Gaudy God and Uncle Aunt. This 2... Read more

Exit 8

Based on the global hit eponymous video game created by KOTAKE CREATE. A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8.... Read more

Exit 8

Based on the global hit eponymous video game created by KOTAKE CREATE. A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8.... Read more

$POSITIONS

A Midwest worker risks his savings on crypto, spiraling into gambling addiction and straining ties with his girlfriend, disabled brother, and recoveri... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

Escape from New York

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

This bravura sci-fi actioner remains wildly enjoyable and beloved 45 years after its initial release. Set in a far-off dystopian future of 1997 where... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

Cool Hand Luke

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

"Natural-born world-shaker" Luke Jackson (Paul Newman, in the first of four collaborations with director Stuart Rosenberg) joins the barracks of a Sou... Read more

Exit 8

Based on the global hit eponymous video game created by KOTAKE CREATE. A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8.... Read more

Rocky Horror Picture Show

This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

Stir Crazy

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

"With Gene Wilder, it was no problem. We fell in love instantly." - Richard PryorWhen a case of mistaken identities lands two friends with big ambitio... Read more

Exit 8

Based on the global hit eponymous video game created by KOTAKE CREATE. A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8.... Read more

Music Box Movie Trivia

What makes Music Box Trivia Chicago's premier movie trivia?Six rounds of movie trivia, including audio and visual components. A beautiful community. P... Read more

Moulin Rouge!

Glitz and glamour abound in Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying spectacle, MOULIN ROUGE! Follow Christian (Ewan McGregor) as he joins a group of Bohemians in the... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

The greatest gore-soaked Hong Kong prison breakout love story of 1991—and STILL the Category III (HK’s equivalent to “NC-17”) mug melter that tops all... Read more

The Chicago Film Society Presents

The Chicago Film Society comes to the Music Box for all-celluloid screenings of classic & underseen features, short subjects, trailer reels, and other... Read more

Real Life

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

"I shouldn't be allowed to do this! Why did I pick reality? I don't know anything about it!" Albert Brooks, one of cinema's greatest comic minds and d... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

Holes

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“HOLES jumps the rails, leaves all expectations behind, and tells a story that’s not funny ha-ha but funny peculiar.” - Roger EbertBased on Louis Sach... Read more

An Autumn Summer

Kevin and his girlfriend, Cody, are two months into his family's annual trip at their Northern Michigan lake house. Time causes change..and this year,... Read more

Erupcja

A romantic vacation goes awry when a volcanic eruption strands Bethany (Charli xcx) and her soon-to-be fiancé, Rob (Will Madden) in Warsaw, Poland. Be... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

Black Mama White Mama

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

Before her iconic turn in Coffy, Pam Grier starred alongside Margaret Markov in a grindhouse spin on Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones, fusing the Wom... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

A Man Escaped

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in A Man Escaped.... Read more

Music Box of Horrors Presents

The team at Music Box of Horrors collectively agreed we could no longer only celebrate all things horror & hang out with you sickos once a year! Every... Read more

The House by the Cemetery

Part of: Music Box of Horrors Presents

The Boyles - Lucy (Catriona MacColl, The Beyond), Norman (Paolo Malco, The New York Ripper) and their young son Bob (Giovanni Frezza, Demons) - reloca... Read more

Animation Adventures

Discover fantastic worlds, nostalgic favorites and arthouse gems with Animation Adventures at the Music Box Theatre! This recurring film series celebr... Read more

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Part of: Animation Adventures

When THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED premiered in Germany on September 23, 1926, it was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seven... Read more

Welcome to the Show with Derek Bish

Welcome to the Show is a live, traveling talk show that highlights Chicago-based artists, entertainers, and public figures from all walks of life. Sin... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

Black Mama White Mama

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

Before her iconic turn in Coffy, Pam Grier starred alongside Margaret Markov in a grindhouse spin on Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones, fusing the Wom... Read more

Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more

Escape From Alcatraz

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“We don’t make good citizens, but we make good prisoners.” Based on the unbelievable true story of the 1962 escape of three men from the maximum secur... Read more

Road House (1989)

Once every century or so arises a work that offers a broad cross-section of humanity an all-encompassing text from which an entire worldview can be de... Read more