{"title": "Spider", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "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/drama/psychological-drama"], "description": "A man known as 'Spider', born Dennis Cleg, returns from a psychiatric hospital to a halfway house in the East End, where he paces abandoned canals and towpaths holding his childhood memories and slowly realises what happened all those years ago. David Cronenberg adapted the film from Patrick McGrath's own 1990 novel of the same name, filmed across East, South-East and North London in pre-gentrified locations. Ralph Fiennes plays the title character in a riveting performance, alongside Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne and Lynn Redgrave. Genuinely haunting, it is an unsettling portrait of a psyche in freefall, where the borders between place and personality start to break down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spider-39244/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/london-review-of-books-london-reviewed-spider-2002-with-peter-suschitzky/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c440e03e58b21f9b2514c208776cd4888ee88e25380fb17b855a83563d0f4dc-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover", "start": "2026-11-02T15:25:00Z", "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/crime"], "description": "A screening of the film 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'. 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His wife Georgina begins an affair with a guest, and when Spica finds out, he plans a terrible revenge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-her-lover-64015/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617037/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-her-lover", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ab8737b4430a347fe8cd2296aa594bfdb75eb4333d0c54544ae00cb1f0a5fa7-1200.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": "Screening: Storm Damage", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:15:00Z", "place": "Victoria and Albert Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL London", "price": "£5.00", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/11/storm-damage", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film screening of Storm Damage, presented by UCL Community Cinema and taking place at UCL East Cinema in London. Written by Lennie James and directed by Simon Cellan Jones, the 2000 film follows Danny, a teacher who returns to the children's care home where he grew up after witnessing violent behaviour among his students. As he reconnects with the troubled teenagers there, he confronts his own past while trying to guide young people caught between neglect, anger and urban pressures. 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Cruise plays Dr William Hartford, who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage and may ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery after his wife's admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/eyes-wide-shut-64016/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/14138710/eyes-wide-shut", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b7516331524e698b140d4f4b5bfd14173a8a6089a3a3366bbd7ec27342755760-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween at The Garden Cinema", "start": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "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/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Halloween at The Garden Cinema is a season of Halloween screenings at The Garden Cinema, running into early November. The programme includes restored anniversary reissues of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and The Others, a screening of Donnie Darko introduced by film historian Ellisha Izumi, and Pay What You Can screenings of Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom for younger audiences. It also features a live score for F. W. Murnau's Faust by mutterichbindoom, Fruits on Film's inaugural vampire ball with live violin and cocktails, member-suggested films such as Ravenous and Theatre of Blood, a free members' screening of The Exorcist III, and Franken-BINGO on Halloween night.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-at-the-garden-cinema-39286/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75aec25b71f00730f9eadc790faf668bc467e2c948d6b0d57ad39ffc6856f2e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "City of Masks", "start": "2026-10-30T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/gothic-horror"], "description": "City of Masks is a drama set in a haunted West End theatre, where a disfigured composer, a rising star and a jealous rival fight for control of a mysterious musical and its masked legacy. Ambition, obsession and lost love collide as that legacy threatens to destroy them all. The film is inspired by Gaston Le Roux's The Phantom of the Opera. It is a screening at Genesis Cinema in Bethnal Green.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/city-of-masks-69822/", "official_url": "https://genesiscinema.co.uk/event/115428", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89ef8f8605021f76ab704259389a66ba04485fd1e2043be66aa29936fd368b58-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dogtooth", "start": "2026-11-04T15:25:00Z", "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/drama/psychological-drama"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Dogtooth [Kynodontas]\". Yorgos Lanthimos directs this psychological drama starring Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley and Angeliki Papoulia. It follows a controlling, manipulative father who locks his three adult children in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dogtooth-64024/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/10519845/dogtooth-kynodontas", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e883b494d76b59b8e3f8ec988ef9640140a95431d516e9208ed02a2077633c0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Autumn Season: Jekyll and Hyde by Evan Placey after Robert Louis Stevenson", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rose Bruford College", "address": "Burnt Oak Lane, DA15 9DF Sidcup", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A stage performance at The Barn Theatre of Rose Bruford College, running in the college's Autumn Season. It is Evan Placey's adaptation of Jekyll & Hyde, reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Gothic thriller for a modern audience, directed by Maisie Newman and performed by BA Acting and Actor Musicianship students. After Dr Jekyll's mysterious death, his widow Harriet searches for answers as rumours spread about the elusive Hyde, in a story blending Victorian London with today's digital world that explores identity, power and the suppression of who people really are.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-season-jekyll-and-hyde-by-evan-placey-after-robert-lo-64925/", "official_url": "https://www.bruford.ac.uk/event/jekyll-and-hyde/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b7ecc6ea2e9c115f2c9c9d8167194abb80aef27c4f3df3f69900a3bb6af32e96-2000.webp"}, {"title": "All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "nature/environment", "society/activism"], "description": "An evening screening of the documentary 'All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea', followed by an in-person Q&A. It was made by writer/director Jeanie Finlay, a Teessider, and features Joanna Scanlan alongside her at the talk. The film follows fisherman Stan Rennie, who has worked the same stretch of North-East England coastline where the river meets the sea for over fifty years, as his world is upended when a vast tide of poisoned crabs and lobsters washes ashore after a new development on that coast. Facing the ruin of his business and failing health, he becomes the unlikely figurehead of a grassroots campaign for the truth about the die-off, in a wry David and Goliath story about grief and finding power in community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/all-rivers-spill-their-stories-to-the-sea-37851/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018496/all-rivers-spill-their-stories-to-the-sea-jeanie-finlay-q-a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2662510b5f751f189626ca183257ac08650341f6a51f769b07eea242797daaf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "A feature film screening of '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple'. Nia DaCosta directs this continuation of the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in '28 Years Later', turning it on its head. Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship with world-changing consequences, while Spike (Alfie Williams) falls into a nightmare he cannot escape with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell). In this world, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival, as the inhumanity of the survivors can prove stranger and more terrifying.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/28-years-later-the-bone-temple-37875/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/004/HO00017385/28-years-later-the-bone-temple", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d560bfb98c849bf1b7e5a74f74f2956ecca000c2841e8f11985300509c5019d9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Cine Chat: Film Discussion Club:Guillermo Del Toro", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "£10 per person", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/fantasy/dark-fantasy"], "description": "Cine Chat: Film Discussion Club: Guillermo Del Toro is an informal film discussion session looking at the work of Guillermo del Toro. Cine Chat is a series of film discussion clubs hosted by film writer James Clarke, held on Saturdays between 2-5pm. This session marks the 20th anniversary of Pan's Labyrinth and considers The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth and Frankenstein.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cine-chat-film-discussion-clubguillermo-del-toro-37821/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/001/HO00018106/cine-chat-film-discussion-club-guillermo-del-toro", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99d8b166c587ebe5819c75dab1bbd8b1b7a991f13aa54ff6f22ba29c75b8d763-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "£13.50 – £19", "price_from": "13.50", "price_to": "19.00", "tickets_url": "https://theartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature/classics"], "description": "A gothic theatre piece staged inside Boston Manor House, running as an intimate thriller for ages 11 and up. The Arts Centre Hounslow presents Jack Fairey's new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. In London in 1886, Dr Henry Jekyll hosts a dinner while two brutal crimes point to the mysterious Edward Hyde, and as the evening unfolds his respectable world begins to fracture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-35026/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fea32b37b9d0cd12f3120dbc2f2221ca342a9da0dc0da64e98c54b238149ef46-1200.webp"}]}