Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Director Jacques Tourneur once said of Barbara Stanwyck: “She only lives for two things, and both of them are work.” With a career that spanned six de... Read more

Stella Dallas

Part of: Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Melodrama has rarely been so potent as it is in the final film of our Barbara Stanwyck series, King Vidor’s Stella Dallas. In the title role, Stanwyck... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films

ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS (Dir. Joshua Seftel, 33 mins, USA)In this moving short documentary, a journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bed... Read more

Starman (2025)

Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic qu... Read more

Masked and Anonymous

In a fictional America caught up in a civil war that is tearing the nation apart, a benefit concert is being organized. A traveling troubadour named J... Read more

The Book of Paradise Has No Author with Ross Lipman

In this eclectic spin on the concert film, Ross Lipman transforms footage of one of his celebrated live documentary performances into a new video essa... Read more

Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

Ever since the release of her debut feature SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN (made in collaboration with filmmaker and longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch... Read more

Seduction: The Cruel Woman

Part of: Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

“Your ticket to a masochistic wonderland…”Wanda (Mechthild Großmann) is a dominatrix who runs an S/M performance space in Hamburg. Cruelty is her prof... Read more

For Worse

A newly divorced mom attends a wedding with a much younger date. What starts as a fun fling and wild weekend reclaiming her youth leads to something m... Read more

The Right Track

THE RIGHT TRACK is a gripping documentary that shines light on the relentless fight to end sex trafficking and sexual exploitation across North Americ... 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

Battleship Potemkin

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

"I am a civil engineer and a mathematician … I approach the making of a motion picture in much the same way as I would the equipment of a poultry farm... Read more

Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

Ever since the release of her debut feature SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN (made in collaboration with filmmaker and longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch... Read more

Didn't Do It For Love

Part of: Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

“The adventurous life of Eva Norvind...”Eva Norvind was born Eva Johanne Chegodaieva Sakonskaja in 1944, the daughter of a Russian prince and a Finnis... Read more

Anything That Moves

An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, ANYTHING THAT MOVES is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago. Shot on... 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

The Wilted Flower

The World Premiere of The Wilted Flower, an experimental short film by Chicago filmmaker Remsy Atassi, presented alongside a curated program of contem... Read more

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are sensational as blonde sexpot Loreli Lee and brunette bombshell Dorothy Shaw, two showgirls traveling to France abo... Read more

Project Hail Mary - 70mm Early Access

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

Andre is an Idiot

Through comedic vérité storytelling and fantastical stop-motion interludes, André Ricciardi sets out to chronicle his fi nal journey after receiving a... Read more

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are sensational as blonde sexpot Loreli Lee and brunette bombshell Dorothy Shaw, two showgirls traveling to France abo... Read more

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets—but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television... Read more

Twin Peaks TV Night with Sheryl Lee

Music Box Theatre & The Horror House proudly present an evening celebrating the inimitable work of David Lynch and his deeply influential cultural tou... 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

Cannibal Orgy

Part of: Music Box of Horrors Presents

"Shot on Super 8 film and edited on decaying VHS tapes in Chicago, the experimental horror movies of late musician and filmmaker J.T. IV (aka John Hen... Read more

Banff Mountain Film Festival - Chicago, IL

Join us for the 50th anniversary of the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Chicago to celebrate the world’s best mountain films! This y... Read more

Banff Mountain Film Festival - Chicago, IL

Join us for the 50th anniversary of the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Chicago to celebrate the world’s best mountain films! This y... Read more

Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

Ever since the release of her debut feature SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN (made in collaboration with filmmaker and longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch... Read more

My Father is Coming

Part of: Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

"A cheerful cornucopia of kinkiness where genders and sexual preferences aren't simply bent—they're twisted into corkscrews.” - The New York TimesVick... Read more

Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

Ever since the release of her debut feature SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN (made in collaboration with filmmaker and longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch... Read more

Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

Part of: Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

“A journey through shifting identities”Made at the height of the tech boom of the late 1990s, Monika Treut’s Teddy Award-winning Gendernauts is a port... Read more

Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

Ever since the release of her debut feature SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN (made in collaboration with filmmaker and longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch... Read more

Genderation

Part of: Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

“[A] powerful and uplifting queer communion of intimate conversations … being witness to it feels like sitting in a quiet corner with all the most int... Read more

Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

Ever since the release of her debut feature SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN (made in collaboration with filmmaker and longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch... Read more

Female Misbehavior

Part of: Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

“Female Misbehavior is a totally accurate picture of my everyday life as a social and sexual alien.”- Camille PagliaControversial filmmaker Monika Tre... Read more

Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

Ever since the release of her debut feature SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN (made in collaboration with filmmaker and longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch... Read more

Virgin Machine

Part of: Female Misbehavior: The Films of Monika Truet

"An usual search for romantic love”Dorothee Müller (Ina Blum) is a German journalist researching an article about the nature of romantic love—somethin... Read more