{"title": "El Verdugo", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy/black-comedy", "history"], "description": "A screening of the film El Verdugo. Co-writers Rafael Azcona and Luis García Berlanga construct a razor-sharp evasion of Francoist censorship while confronting the dictatorship's contempt for human dignity. Timid José Luis marries an executioner's daughter and, trapped by economic insecurity and a housing shortage, reluctantly assumes his father-in-law's trade to secure a state-allocated apartment, convinced he will never have to perform an execution. Through escalating, merciless black humour, the filmmakers weaponise the mundane struggle for survival, exposing how poverty and bureaucracy can turn an ordinary citizen into an unwilling instrument of state violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/el-verdugo-37742/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018610/cff-el-verdugo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/29af37bcd22ff202583770e83d090a22290a2cbcaae860216f41391b9d72b6ed-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/world/flamenco", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening at The Garden Cinema. 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In Spain in 1932, a young man waits to learn whether he has secured membership of the local casino; in 1937, a young nationalist soldier guards a republican prisoner; and in 2017, an historian inherits an unexpected document from his grandfather. These timelines and a breath-taking cinematic audacity shape a dazzlingly constructed and performed triptych about communication, inheritance, silence and memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-bola-negra-preview-65416/", "official_url": "https://thearzner.com/TheArzner.dll/WhatsOn?f=368999", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3f606c227e2134232e592d3736b0d54c385d92d976bf03d7efc0e5180b9fb333-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Santa Sangre", "start": "2026-11-09T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/psychological-horror"], "description": "A screening of Santa Sangre, a film unlike anything you have seen before, a surrealist psychological horror tale that is visually extraordinary, inventive, tender and deeply human, with a cult queer following for its exploration of gender roles and androgyny. It follows circus performer Felix, whose traumatic childhood left him mentally disturbed: as a boy he witnessed his father cutting off the arms of his mother Concha, and after years in an asylum he returns to do her bidding, murdering every woman he comes into contact with until he chances upon his first love. Pink Palace is a super low fi, highly relaxed weekly queer film club that takes place in the basement bar as a safe space, where curator Andrew Woodyatt introduces each film and chatting afterwards is encouraged. Critics have called it a macabre, maximalist tale of blood and circuses where Hitchcock meets Fellini in Mexico City's most Freudian back alleys, extraordinary, and a grand work of art full of symbols and imagery that reach beyond language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/santa-sangre-49322/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc0afe9da1a56bdea5307c790e8e0b6e7aef61c8c2f6897c141e7e4c7b6cd128-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In-Edit Cine-Documental", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/disability", "music"], "description": "In her directorial debut, María Valverde follows Jennifer, Gabriel and José, three deaf musicians from Venezuela, as they take on a new challenge. The documentary film comes from Spain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-edit-cine-documental-39289/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/el-canto-de-las-manos-song-of-the-hands/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47fe66297a7979173f254a97f3e11759c69938ebd7fd0d457149c266407dda6b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Seduction: The Cruel Woman", "start": "2026-11-12T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/queer-cinema"], "description": "A screening of the film Seduction: The Cruel Woman, introduced by season curator Nico Hughes, an MA student in Film Studies at the National Film and Television School. Directed by Elfi Mikesch and Monika Treut, the film follows Wanda, a dominatrix and businesswoman who stages sadomasochistic rituals as spectacles in a Hamburg gallery. Inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, it places a woman's bisexual desire at the centre, starring Mechthild Großmann and Udo Kier. Banned for 18 years by the German Federal Board of Censorship, it is now a seminal work of queer cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/seduction-the-cruel-woman-74147/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/nfts-collective-visions-of-pleasure-the-cruel-woman", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d3c84bba642597223cff327ab9ba86766e52e9abf479488e55b8438c1fd15e37-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Omega Wants to Dance", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "dance", "music"], "description": "A screening of the documentary film \"Omega Wants to Dance\", a journey in search of individual and collective identity through dance, music, thought and spirituality. It is directed by Ramón Tort and made in Spain, combining personal testimonies, historical events, fiction and an electrifying audiovisual collage. The film explores the many dimensions of dancing, from entertainment and catharsis to seduction and ritual, seen as one of humanity's most fundamental forms of expression. It screens as part of the music documentary series \"Música para tus ojos\" presented by the Instituto Cervantes in partnership with the IN-EDIT festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/omega-wants-to-dance-39227/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/omega-wants-to-dance/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/784310b71979fc01cce11028ee16fb33ab0304d9182a218a0cc2eb22edd6d866-600.webp"}, {"title": "We, The Hated", "start": "2026-11-04T18:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_605.TcsWebTab_606", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/activism/climate", "film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the documentary 'We, The Hated', followed by a question-and-answer session with its director Rich Felgate, moderated by Mary Mitchell, a PhD in Media Arts who leads the Green Party Councillors in Brent and represents Willesden Green as a ward councillor. The film follows a filmmaker whose girlfriend helps start Just Stop Oil, one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory, and four activists—Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane—as they weigh the personal cost of action against the stakes of inaction while facing mounting repression. It asks how far ordinary people will go to stop oil drilling and how far the authorities will go to stop them. Felgate is a documentary filmmaker whose debut feature, 'Finite', won awards including the FIPADOC Impact Grand Prix; 'We, The Hated' premiered as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/we-the-hated-36996/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10232129", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d2f868e0388b40e9f56a2bcb09f485ea105e0d53ac4b8c730acd028eb5dca6ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dead Souls", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A screening of the film Dead Souls, followed by a live question-and-answer session with its director Alex Cox. Cox, director of Repo Man and Straight to Hell, stars as the drifter Strindler, who wanders the West offering to pay for the names of dead Mexican labourers, in a loose adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's novel. A meditative Western mixing picaresque humour and dark satire, with cowherds, outlaws and pistol duels, made with co-writer and Spaghetti Western legend Gianni Garko.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dead-souls-64045/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617548/dead-souls-alex-cox-qa", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cbc2cee6e86b67f5fcad20ce5c75642ae4888fbf7313e0ba9b0bc3ba2d351cc-1200.webp"}]}