Adelaide Cinematheque
Year-round timeless classics, cult favourites & contemporary masterpieces.
Access is exclusive to Mercury Members or via a Mini-Membership. Tickets for Adelaide Cinematheque screenings must be booked in-person at the Box Office.
Showing Mondays and Wednesdays 7:00pm, Tuesdays and Fridays 11:00am & 2:30pm
From Monday June 1, evening sessions commence at 6:30pm for Winter.
2026 Program FIVE of Silverscreen & Cinematheque HERE.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Tue, Oct 6
Director: Paul Schrader Run Time: 121 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1985 Language: Japanese
Starring: Bandō Mitsugorō X, Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Masayuki Shionoya, Toshiyuki Nagashima
On November 25, 1970, Japan's most celebrated writer, Yukio Mishima, shocked the world.
Detour
- Wed, Oct 7
- Fri, Oct 9
- Tue, Oct 13
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Run Time: 68 min. Format: 16mm Release Year: 1945
Starring: Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Tom Neal
He went searching for love… but fate forced a DETOUR to revelry… violence… mystery!
Two-Lane Blacktop
- Mon, Oct 12
- Tue, Oct 13
- Fri, Oct 16
Director: Monte Hellman Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 1971
Starring: Dennis Wilson, James Taylor, Laurie Bird, Rudy Wurlitzer, Warren Oates
no beginning... no end... no speed limit...
My Own Private Idaho
- Wed, Oct 14
- Fri, Oct 16
- Fri, Oct 23
Director: Gus Van Sant Run Time: 104 min. Release Year: 1991
Starring: James Russo, Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Rodney Harvey, William Richert
Wherever, whatever, have a nice day.
Cat People
Director: Paul Schrader Run Time: 118 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1982
Starring: Annette O'Toole, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski, Ruby Dee
They are something more than lovers who are about to become something less than human.
Through a Glass Darkly
- Wed, Oct 21
- Fri, Oct 23
- Tue, Oct 27
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 1961 Language: Swedish
Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgård, Max von Sydow
Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to...
Winter Light
- Mon, Oct 26
- Tue, Oct 27
- Fri, Oct 30
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 80 min. Release Year: 1963 Language: Swedish
Starring: Allan Edwall, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Ingrid Thulin, Max von Sydow
A small-town pastor faces a profound crisis of faith when he fails to comfort a suicidal parishioner, all...
The Silence
- Wed, Oct 28
- Fri, Oct 30
- Tue, Nov 3
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 1963 Language: Swedish
Starring: Birger Malmsten, Gunnel Lindblom, Håkan Jahnberg, Ingrid Thulin, Jörgen Lindström
BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!
Gilda
- Mon, Nov 2
- Tue, Nov 3
- Fri, Nov 6
Director: Charles Vidor Run Time: 110 min. Release Year: 1946
Starring: George Macready, Glenn Ford, Joseph Calleia, Rita Hayworth, Steven Geray
There NEVER was a woman like Gilda!
Murder by Contract
- Wed, Nov 4
- Fri, Nov 6
- Tue, Nov 10
Director: Irving Lerner Run Time: 81 min. Release Year: 1958
Starring: Caprice Toriel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Granger, Phillip Pine, Vince Edwards
Double rates for women... because a woman is always double-trouble!
To Live and Die in L.A.
- Mon, Nov 9
- Tue, Nov 10
- Fri, Nov 13
Director: William Friedkin Run Time: 116 min. Release Year: 1985
Starring: Debra Feuer, John Pankow, John Turturro, Willem Dafoe, William L. Petersen
A federal agent is dead. A killer is loose. And the City of Angels is about to explode.
A Simple Plan
- Wed, Nov 11
- Fri, Nov 13
- Tue, Nov 17
Director: Sam Raimi Run Time: 121 min. Release Year: 1998
Starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Brent Briscoe, Bridget Fonda, Jack Walsh
Sometimes good people do evil things.
Two Hands
- Mon, Nov 16
- Tue, Nov 17
- Fri, Nov 20
Director: Gregor Jordan Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1999
Starring: Bryan Brown, David Field, Heath Ledger, Rose Byrne, Tom Long
It was only one mistake, but it was a big one.
Animal Kingdom
- Wed, Nov 18
- Fri, Nov 20
- Tue, Nov 24
Director: David Michôd Run Time: 113 min. Release Year: 2010
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford
A crime story
Seconds
- Mon, Nov 23
- Tue, Nov 24
- Fri, Nov 27
Director: John Frankenheimer Run Time: 107 min. Release Year: 1966
Starring: Jeff Corey, John Randolph, Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, Will Geer
Who are SECONDS? The answer is almost too terrifying for words!
Dark City
- Wed, Nov 25
- Fri, Nov 27
- Fri, Dec 4
Director: Alex Proyas Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 1998
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard O'Brien, Rufus Sewell, William Hurt
They built the city to see what makes us tick. Last night, one of us went off.
Scenes from a Marriage
- Wed, Dec 2
- Fri, Dec 4
- Mon, Dec 7
- Tue, Dec 8
- Fri, Dec 11
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 150 min. Release Year: 1974 Language: Swedish
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Gunnel Lindblom, Jan Malmsjö, Liv Ullmann
This decade-long autopsy of a modern bourgeois coupling tracks the quiet resentments and explosive confrontations of a fracturing...
Fanny and Alexander
- Wed, Dec 9
- Fri, Dec 11
- Mon, Dec 14
- Tue, Dec 15
- Fri, Dec 18
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 160 min. Release Year: 1982 Language: Swedish
Starring: Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Jan Malmsjö, Pernilla Allwin
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who...