Movie Theater Movies

An affectionate and entertaining look at our nation's obsession with cinema from the early days of silent cinema, through the golden age of the...

In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki...

Inaugurated in 1930, the Capitol has been able to survive through 90 years of successive ownership by prestigious families such as the Namazies or...

Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios...

In the land of axé music, old punks resist and live independently.

Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by...

Old-time theater owners reminisce about the heyday of the drive-in and confront the reality of a dying business. Laced with unusual archival...

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories...

The employees of a local theater stay over night to watch movies, but it turns out to be their biggest regret! One by one they each fall victim to...

When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...

Jeff Towne revisited four years after the release of the original film.

Desperate to leave a camp for kids with disabilities, a young woman plots an escape with her potential suitor.

In a small town of 1960's India, where cinema is forbidden for women, a 14-year-old embarks on a quest to watch her first film.

Two family friends meet up after not seeing each other for awhile, but one thinks it's a date.

A woman goes to her safe place, the movies. She reflects on the ritual of understanding humanity in the darkness only to complete the unspoken...

In the age of multiplexes, a small Brazilian movie theater strives to survive with an alternative programming in the city of Maceió.

Paying tribute to some of America's only surviving drive-ins – and those who keep them running – this heartfelt documentary captures...

A trio of youngsters are tasked with reopening a long-closed, old-time theater at which, many years before, a shocking series of grisly murders took...

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...