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

Menace II Society

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

Presented by Chicago Film Society | CLICK HERE to Purchase Tickets At the age of 20, twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes became the youngest feature... Read more

Good Taste Tastes Good

***A Limited Number of Ticket Packages with Entrees from Our Restaurant Partners Available for Each Show | See Below for More Info***“How can I descri... Read more

Tampopo

Part of: Good Taste Tastes Good

Partner Restaurant - Steingold's Deli Serving Matzo Ball Scotch Egg PastRamen [THIS TICKET AND FOOD PACKAGE IS SOLD OUT]A truck driver stops at a smal... Read more

Music Box Staff Picks!

The most beautiful and demented pile of matinees and midnights you've ever seen will be on the big screen from July to November! Brought to you by the... Read more

Knock Off

Part of: Music Box Staff Picks!

Picked by Cameron Worden, ProjectionIn the White Martial Artist Movie Star canon, the high brow fav is almost certainly Jean-Claude Van Damme. Forget... Read more

Music Box Staff Picks!

The most beautiful and demented pile of matinees and midnights you've ever seen will be on the big screen from July to November! Brought to you by the... Read more

Knock Off

Part of: Music Box Staff Picks!

Picked by Cameron Worden, ProjectionIn the White Martial Artist Movie Star canon, the high brow fav is almost certainly Jean-Claude Van Damme. Forget... Read more

STOP! Motion: Matinees & Midnights

CLICK HERE To Watch The STOP! MOTION Trailer“For all the wonderful achievements of the computer, the process creates creatures that are too realistic... Read more

Jason and the Argonauts

Part of: STOP! Motion: Matinees & Midnights

Preceded by BURNT (Dir. Devin Bell, 2015, 6 min)After saving the life of his royal father's usurper, Pelias (Douglas Wilmer), whom he fails to recogni... Read more

ITHACA - Downton Abbey on Acid

Sunday, August 7th at 7pm British independent filmmakers Simon Blake and Colette Delaney-Smith return to Chicago, the city that embraced their first f... Read more

Ithaca

Part of: ITHACA - Downton Abbey on Acid

Featuring a Post-Film Q&A with Simon Blake and Colette Delaney-Smith | Sunday, August 7th at 7pm  Leda (a writer), arrives at the estate of ITHACA. Sh... Read more

Good Taste Tastes Good

***A Limited Number of Ticket Packages with Entrees from Our Restaurant Partners Available for Each Show | See Below for More Info***“How can I descri... Read more

Big Night

Part of: Good Taste Tastes Good

Partner Restaurant - L&M Fine Foods Serving Porchetta with Tiramasu [This ticket and food package is SOLD OUT]Chef Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and businessm... Read more

STOP! Motion: Matinees & Midnights

CLICK HERE To Watch The STOP! MOTION Trailer“For all the wonderful achievements of the computer, the process creates creatures that are too realistic... Read more

Q: The Winged Serpent

Part of: STOP! Motion: Matinees & Midnights

A fleeing gangland flunky (Michael Moriarty) finds the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent.*Please note, this ori... Read more

STOP! Motion: Matinees & Midnights

CLICK HERE To Watch The STOP! MOTION Trailer“For all the wonderful achievements of the computer, the process creates creatures that are too realistic... Read more

Q: The Winged Serpent

Part of: STOP! Motion: Matinees & Midnights

A fleeing gangland flunky (Michael Moriarty) finds the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent.*Please note, this ori... Read more

Good Taste Tastes Good

***A Limited Number of Ticket Packages with Entrees from Our Restaurant Partners Available for Each Show | See Below for More Info***“How can I descri... Read more

Ratatouille

Part of: Good Taste Tastes Good

Partner Restaurant - ParkSide Serving Parisienne Gnocchi [This Ticket + Food Package is SOLD OUT]Remy dreams of becoming a great chef, despite being a... Read more

Music Box Staff Picks!

The most beautiful and demented pile of matinees and midnights you've ever seen will be on the big screen from July to November! Brought to you by the... Read more

Marie Antoinette

Part of: Music Box Staff Picks!

Picked by Calla Flanagan, Front of House An electrifying yet intimate re-telling of the turbulent life of history's favorite villainess, Marie Antoine... Read more

Music Box Staff Picks!

The most beautiful and demented pile of matinees and midnights you've ever seen will be on the big screen from July to November! Brought to you by the... Read more

Marie Antoinette

Part of: Music Box Staff Picks!

Picked by Calla Flanagan, Front of House An electrifying yet intimate re-telling of the turbulent life of history's favorite villainess, Marie Antoine... Read more

Music Box Garden Movies

Summer is here and that means one thing: the return of our GARDEN MOVIES! Enjoy an outdoor movie on our Garden Patio, located right behind the Music B... Read more

John Wick

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack John Wick – a brilliantly lethal... Read more

Good Taste Tastes Good

***A Limited Number of Ticket Packages with Entrees from Our Restaurant Partners Available for Each Show | See Below for More Info***“How can I descri... Read more

Chef

Part of: Good Taste Tastes Good

Partner Restaurant - Bumbu Roux Food Truck [Food Truck Serving Before the Screening - Click Link for Menu] After a controlling owner (Dustin Hoffman)... Read more

Music Box Garden Movies

Summer is here and that means one thing: the return of our GARDEN MOVIES! Enjoy an outdoor movie on our Garden Patio, located right behind the Music B... Read more

John Wick

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack John Wick – a brilliantly lethal... 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 Nightmare

Part of: Music Box of Horrors Presents

Presented by Shudder Daniel Noah, Chicago native and Founding Partner of SpectreVision, the production company behind Mandy and a Girl Walks Home Alon... Read more

Music Box Garden Movies

Summer is here and that means one thing: the return of our GARDEN MOVIES! Enjoy an outdoor movie on our Garden Patio, located right behind the Music B... Read more

John Wick

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack John Wick – a brilliantly lethal... Read more

Noir City: Chicago 2022

NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box to celebrate Film Noir! Featuring 35MM screenings presented by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder... Read more

Thief

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Opening Night Tribute to the late, great James Caan! In this shot-in-Chicago neo-noir classic, James Caan plays an ex-con safecracker still hoping to... Read more

Flesh and Bone

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Opening Night Tribute to the late, great James Caan! James Caan delivers the most villainous performance of his career in this unjustly neglected noir... Read more

Music Box Staff Picks!

The most beautiful and demented pile of matinees and midnights you've ever seen will be on the big screen from July to November! Brought to you by the... Read more

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

Part of: Music Box Staff Picks!

Picked by Gabriel Wallace, Projection / Co-presented by Kokorokoko Vintage and Bric-a-Brac RecordsUrchins Windy Winston, Foul Phil and Messy Tessie he... Read more

Music Box Staff Picks!

The most beautiful and demented pile of matinees and midnights you've ever seen will be on the big screen from July to November! Brought to you by the... Read more

10 Things I Hate About You

Part of: Music Box Staff Picks!

Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is beautiful, smart and quite abrasive to most of her fellow teens, meaning that she doesn't attract many boys. Unfortuna... Read more

Noir City: Chicago 2022

NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box to celebrate Film Noir! Featuring 35MM screenings presented by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder... Read more

Among the Living

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Industrialist Paul Raden (Albert Dekker) returns to his ancestral home to attend his father’s funeral. He’s shocked to learn from the family doctor (H... Read more

Street of Chance

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

A man loses his memory after being struck by a falling beam; as he struggles to piece his life together, he realizes he’s lived the preceding year as... Read more

Dr. Broadway

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

This beguiling and breakneck B-picture about a crime-solving doctor on the Great White Way was intended to be the first of a series of films based on... Read more

Smooth as Silk

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Actress Paula Marlowe (Virginia Grey) is thrilled when her attorney fiancé (Kent Taylor) helps an affluent playboy beat a manslaughter rap—since the d... Read more

So Dark the Night

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Steven Geray, a familiar bit player in many Columbia noirs, gets a rare leading role in this clever and surprising B-film. Geray plays Henri Cassin, a... Read more

The Argyle Secrets

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Harry Mitchell (William Gargan) is your typical hardboiled noir newspaper columnist, eager for a front-page scoop and willing to do anything to get it... Read more

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

Part of: Music Box Staff Picks!

Picked by Gabriel Wallace, Projection / Co-presented by Kokorokoko Vintage and Bric-a-Brac RecordsUrchins Windy Winston, Foul Phil and Messy Tessie he... Read more

Music Box Staff Picks!

The most beautiful and demented pile of matinees and midnights you've ever seen will be on the big screen from July to November! Brought to you by the... Read more

10 Things I Hate About You

Part of: Music Box Staff Picks!

Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is beautiful, smart and quite abrasive to most of her fellow teens, meaning that she doesn't attract many boys. Unfortuna... Read more

Noir City: Chicago 2022

NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box to celebrate Film Noir! Featuring 35MM screenings presented by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder... Read more

Flesh and Fantasy + Destiny

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

FLESH AND FANTASY Synopsis: One of the greatest French directors (his Pepé le Moko launched the trend in “poetic realism” that informed film noir), Du... Read more

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

In one of the most rarely seen adaptations of a Cornell Woolrich novel, Edward G. Robinson as a phony vaudeville mentalist who is suddenly cursed with... Read more

Sorry, Wrong Number

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Heiress Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck), bedridden by psychosomatic symptoms, hears through crossed telephone wires of a murder being planned.  She... Read more

Southside 1-1000

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

This slam-bang crime yarn from the King Brothers (producers of 1950’s Gun Crazy) is highlighted by shot-on-location scenes in downtown L.A., Hollywood... Read more

Emily the Criminal

Emily (Aubrey Plaza) is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record. Desperate for income, she takes a s... Read more

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a spraw... Read more

Noir City: Chicago 2022

NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box to celebrate Film Noir! Featuring 35MM screenings presented by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder... Read more

The Sniper

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

San Francisco is the backdrop for one of the first Hollywood movies about a modern serial killer. Husband and wife writers Edward and Edna Anholt rese... Read more

Funny Pages

A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Music Box Garden Movies

Summer is here and that means one thing: the return of our GARDEN MOVIES! Enjoy an outdoor movie on our Garden Patio, located right behind the Music B... Read more

Space Jam

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

Swackhammer (Danny DeVito), an evil alien theme park owner, needs a new attraction at Moron Mountain. When his gang, the Nerdlucks, heads to Earth to... Read more

The Face Behind the Mask

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Peter Lorre is an immigrant watchmaker whose face becomes horribly disfigured in a fire and is subsequently shunned into a life of crime. A chance rel... Read more

Emily the Criminal

Emily (Aubrey Plaza) is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record. Desperate for income, she takes a s... Read more

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a spraw... Read more

Noir City: Chicago 2022

NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box to celebrate Film Noir! Featuring 35MM screenings presented by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder... Read more

All the King's Men

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

The definitive screen version of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chronicling the rise and fall of politician Willie Stark was nomina... Read more

Funny Pages

A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Music Box Garden Movies

Summer is here and that means one thing: the return of our GARDEN MOVIES! Enjoy an outdoor movie on our Garden Patio, located right behind the Music B... Read more

Space Jam

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

Swackhammer (Danny DeVito), an evil alien theme park owner, needs a new attraction at Moron Mountain. When his gang, the Nerdlucks, heads to Earth to... Read more

Scandal Sheet

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

After laboring in the trenches of Monogram, director Phil Karlson established his bankable noir credentials with producer Eddie Small with this taut a... Read more

Emily the Criminal

Emily (Aubrey Plaza) is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record. Desperate for income, she takes a s... Read more

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a spraw... Read more

Noir City: Chicago 2022

NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box to celebrate Film Noir! Featuring 35MM screenings presented by Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation founder... Read more

Detective Story

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

Sidney Kingsley’s hit Broadway play is brought to the screen with melodramatic verve by the great William Wyler. A day in the life of an N.Y.P.D. dete... Read more

Funny Pages

A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Music Box Garden Movies

Summer is here and that means one thing: the return of our GARDEN MOVIES! Enjoy an outdoor movie on our Garden Patio, located right behind the Music B... Read more

The Pagemaster

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available A storm forces frightened Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) inside a nearby... Read more

711 Ocean Drive

Part of: Noir City: Chicago 2022

The Horatio Alger parable receives the full-on film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmond O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves... Read more