Lockjaw
Six weeks after a drunk driving accident that left her jaw wired shut, Rayna tries to have a fun night out with her friends. Over the course of a wild... Read more
Lifers: A Local H Movie
Written and directed by the band’s singer/guitarist, Lifers documents a Local H show shot in real time during a gig at Chicago’s revered music venue,... Read more
The Chaser
Na Hong-jin’s directorial debut, inspired by real-life serial killer Yoo Young-chul, inverts the thriller formula by revealing the murderer’s identity... Read more
The Man with the Golden Arm
Frank Sinatra is Frankie Machine, a hustler and recovering drug addict. Frankie decides to go straight and pursue his dream of becoming a musician, bu... Read more
NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026
From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From... Read more
Sweet Smell of Success
A box-office disaster upon original release, Sweet Smell of Success is now considered one of best films of the 1950s—as well as the definitive cinemat... Read more
To Have and Have Not
Humphrey Bogart is an aimless fisherman who gets drawn into the growing French Resistance in Martinique. Lauren Bacall is the American songbird who se... Read more
Hundreds of Beavers
In this silent supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness.Can he go from zero to hero, become North America'... Read more
Merciless Mayhem: Martial Arts Midnights, Matinees, & More!
Merciless Mayhem highlights the furious fists and feet of some of the world's finest martial artists, unwilling to accept defeat in the face of oppres... Read more
Nocturne
When Alfred Hitchcock protégé Joan Harrison landed at RKO in 1946, she pulled an abandoned script from deep in the archives to make her producing debu... Read more
Black Angel
Kirk Bennett is sentenced to die for the murder of gorgeous actress Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), but his wife (June Vincent) won’t give up tryin... Read more
Blues in the Night
The first noir film to delve into the jazz world, Blues in the Night details the rise and inevitable fall of a St. Louis band. They land their big bre... Read more
Harry and the Hendersons
Academy Award nominee John Lithgow stars in this big-hearted, big-footed family comedy. Everything changes with a crash for the Hendersons when they m... Read more
Swordsman
Initiated by legendary filmmaker King Hu though ultimately completed by a team of directors led by producer Tsui Hark, this dizzying wuxia whirlwind r... Read more
Kansas City
Jennifer Jason Leigh is a Jean Harlow obsessed housewife trying to free her loser husband from the clutches of a local gangster. She kidnaps the wife... Read more
Swordsman II
Virtually the entire cast of Part I was replaced for the sequel, one of the biggest successes of Tsui Hark’s Film Workshop. The story picks up a year... Read more
King Creole
Elvis Presley is the headstrong teen who can sing. Walter Matthau is the crime boss who wants to own him. The dance between these two makes up the cen... Read more
Pete Kelly's Blues
The lone Technicolor offering of the festival has Jack Webb as a Prohibition-era bandleader who refuses to bend the knee to a local bootlegger. The ac... Read more
Love Me or Leave Me
The tumultuous life of dancer-singer Ruth Etting (Doris Day, in a revelatory performance) gets a vivid retelling in this vivacious and vitriolic biop... Read more
Dog Day Afternoon
Director Sidney Lumet's 1975 films stars Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik, an unemployed schnook from Brooklyn whose failed attempt to rob a bank makes him... Read more
Gilda
Rita Hayworth created her Hollywood “Love Goddess” legend in this tailor-made romantic drama, which Eddie Muller has described as “more tango than mov... Read more
The Man I Love
As flinty chanteuse Petey Brown, Ida Lupino is at the apex of her big-screen glamour, offering a radiantly romantic vision of the post-WWII American w... Read more
Face the Music
A forgotten gem that inspired the name of this year’s festival, Face the Music teases a romance between an American trumpet player and a London singer... Read more
Hangover Square
In this moody gaslight noir, Laird Cregar, one of the most memorable character actors of the forties, had his first—and final—starring role as the tal... Read more
The Wrong Man
The only film by The Master of Suspense based on a true story. Henry Fonda plays real-life jazz musician Emanuel Balestrero, a bass player at Manhatta... Read more
The Wailing
As country bumpkin police sergeant Kwak Do-won investigates a series of murders that appear to be connected to a strange, sense-deranging sickness tha... Read more
Round Midnight
Round Midnight is a devastating chronicle of addiction inspired by the lives of jazz legends Lester Young and Bud Powell. The film blends the struggle... Read more
Hope
In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police outpost chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a my... Read more
The Crimson Canary
The Crimson Canary boasts two things that make B-movies so much fun: a great premise and a short runtime. A trumpet player gets locked up after the le... Read more
A Man Called Adam
Sammy Davis, Jr. like you’ve never seen him before! Sammy plays Adam, the cornetist whose prodigious talent is dwarfed only by his penchant for self-d... Read more
All Night Long
All Night Long redresses William Shakespeare’s Othello for pulp audiences. Patrick McGoohan is an ambitious drummer who tries to coax a famous singer... Read more
Mysterious Skin
Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama fro... Read more
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Since the beginning of time ‘twas written in the stones that one day a band would come. And come they shall. When a dragon-hearted dreamer with vision... Read more
Beethoven
Barely escaping from nefarious dog-nappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family—and promptly grows up into 185 pou... Read more
Swordsman III: The East Is Red
Jet Li and Chin Siu-ho are two young Shaolin monks unjustly kicked out of the monastery and forced to adapt to live in the secular world. The power-hu... Read more
DEVO: Restorations and Revelations - Collected Film Works 1976-1984
Formed in the wreckage of the Kent State shootings in 1973, where co-founders Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh were students during the massacre... Read more
Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time
TWIN PEAKS: Moving Through Time is a five-day journey through the complete original run of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking series, ending... Read more
Barbara Forever
BARBARA FOREVER is an expansive, immersive exploration of the life, work, and ongoing cultural impact of filmmaker Barbara Hammer – a pioneering artis... Read more
Twin Peaks Season 1 & 2
Not a marathon but a voyage through time. Between episodes, Knox’s newly assembled “commercial break” segments bring together deleted scenes, outtakes... Read more
In the Dark
Apathetic librarian Jane (Kim Garrett) is bored with the mundanity of her day to day life. That is, until a stranger leaves her an envelope containing... 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 in Japan + Scott Ryan's The Double R Dream
A screening featuring rare Japan-centric footage and The Double R Dream, followed by an in-person appearance by director Scott Ryan. Pie and coffee wi... Read more
Twin Peaks: The Pilot
The small northwest town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken up when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer, is discovered washed up on a rive... Read more
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
A feature-length compilation of deleted and alternate takes from TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the... Read more
Labyrinth
David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly invite you into a magical universe where nothing is what it seems! Babysitting infant stepbrother Toby on a weekend... Read more
Pete's Dragon
When Pete, an orphan, and his best friend Elliot, an invisible green dragon, wander into the seaside village of Passamaquoddy, the townspeople think h... Read more
Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency
Playing with Fire is a heartfelt, mythopoetic documentary born from the ashes of a massive, devastating forest fire. Long time lovers, Beth and Annie... Read more
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story is the true tale of ecosexual lovers, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle's journey from San Francisco t... Read more
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective.... Read more
Master of the Flying Guillotine
After becoming the face of the martial-arts sword-fighting movie (wuxia pian) craze with his legendary performance in Chang Cheh’s The One Armed Boxer... Read more
Ken Russell's The Devils
An enduring masterpiece of cinema, starring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obs... Read more
Music Box of Horrors 2026
24 Hours of Movie Madness!This October, THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS rises from the grave with a 24 hour movie marathon guaranteed to drive you MAD! Featu... Read more