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 THREE of Silverscreen & Cinematheque HERE.
El Topo
- Mon, Aug 3
- Tue, Aug 4
- Fri, Aug 7
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Run Time: 125 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 1970 Language: Spanish
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, David Silva, Mara Lorenzio, Paula Romo
The definitive cult spaghetti western
Fando and Lis
- Tue, Aug 4
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Run Time: 97 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 1972 Language: Spanish
Starring: Diana Mariscal, Juan José Arreola, María Teresa Rivas, Sergio Kleiner, Tamara Garina
In Jodorowsky’s debut feature film, Fando and his partially-paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar....
The Holy Mountain
- Wed, Aug 5
- Fri, Aug 7
- Tue, Aug 11
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Run Time: 113 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1973 Language: Spanish
Starring: Adriana Page, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Juan Ferrara, Zamira Saunders
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the...
Santa Sangre
- Mon, Aug 10
- Tue, Aug 11
- Fri, Aug 14
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Run Time: 122 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1989
Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Sabrina Dennison, Thelma Tixou
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen...
The Dance of Reality
- Wed, Aug 12
- Fri, Aug 14
- Tue, Aug 18
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Run Time: 130 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 2013 Language: Spanish
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Bastián Bodenhöfer, Brontis Jodorowsky, Jeremias Herskovits, Pamela Flores
In a little Chilean town, the son of an uprooted couple formed by a rigorous communist father and...
The Seventh Seal
- Mon, Aug 24
- Tue, Aug 25
- Fri, Aug 28
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 96 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1957 Language: Swedish
Starring: Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Nils Poppe
The story of a challenge to death.
Wild Strawberries
- Wed, Aug 26
- Fri, Aug 28
- Tue, Sep 1
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 91 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1957 Language: Swedish
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Jullan Kindahl, Victor Sjöström
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his...
The Magician
- Mon, Aug 31
- Tue, Sep 1
- Fri, Sep 4
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 102 min. Rating: MA15+ Release Year: 1958 Language: Swedish
Starring: Bengt Ekerot, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Max von Sydow, Naima Wifstrand
A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture,...
The Virgin Spring
- Wed, Sep 2
- Fri, Sep 4
- Tue, Sep 8
Director: Ingmar Bergman Run Time: 90 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1960 Language: Swedish
Starring: Axel Düberg, Birgitta Pettersson, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow
Ravished innocence... brings terrible revenge!
They’re a Weird Mob
- Mon, Sep 7
- Tue, Sep 8
- Fri, Sep 11
Director: Michael Powell Run Time: 108 min. Rating: G Release Year: 1966
Starring: Alida Chelli, Chips Rafferty, Claire Dunne, Ed Devereaux, Walter Chiari
Building the foundations for a new kind of Australian cinema – quite literally – as Nino (Walter Chiari)...
Starstruck
- Wed, Sep 9
- Fri, Sep 11
- Tue, Sep 15
Director: Gillian Armstrong Run Time: 96 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1982
Starring: Joey Kennedy, Margo Lee, Max Cullen, Pat Evison, Ross O'Donovan
A modern musical comedy.
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
- Mon, Sep 14
- Tue, Sep 15
- Fri, Sep 18
Director: Bruce Beresford Run Time: 114 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1972
Starring: Avice Landone, Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Dick Bentley, Peter Cook
The vicious snark of co-writer and co-star Barry Humphries fires on all cylinders as Barry McKenzie takes the...
BMX Bandits
- Wed, Sep 16
- Fri, Sep 18
- Tue, Sep 22
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Run Time: 92 min. Rating: G Release Year: 1983
Starring: Angelo D'Angelo, DAVID ARGUE, James Lugton, John Ley, Nicole Kidman
They're burning up the streets!
The Yakuza
- Mon, Sep 21
- Tue, Sep 22
- Fri, Sep 25
Director: Sydney Pollack Run Time: 112 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1974
Starring: Eiji Okada, Herb Edelman, Ken Takakura, Richard Jordan, Robert Mitchum
A man never forgets. A man pays his debts.
American Gigolo
- Wed, Sep 23
- Fri, Sep 25
- Tue, Sep 29
Director: Paul Schrader Run Time: 117 min. Rating: M Release Year: 1980
Starring: Bill Duke, Héctor Elizondo, Lauren Hutton, Nina van Pallandt, Richard Gere
He's the highest paid lover in Beverly Hills. He leaves women feeling more alive than they've ever felt before. Except one.
Cat People
- Mon, Sep 28
- Tue, Sep 29
- Fri, Oct 2
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.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Wed, Sep 30
- Fri, Oct 2
- 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.