A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

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An entirely ordinary day on the beds ward of a surgical department. The nursing team is understaffed due to a shortage of personnel. Despite the hectic environment, Floria cares for her patients with expertise and full dedication. Although she gives her all, the shift gradually spirals out of control – until it eventually leads to a dramatic outburst.

Original languages: German, Turkish, French

Presented with English Subtitles

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Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios’ “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they face their most daunting challenge yet. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.

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Accessibility:

The screening on Wednesday 20 August at 16:45 is a HOH Subtitled screening.

The screening on Thursday 21 August at 15:40 is a Relaxed/autism-friendly screening.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

When Papa Smurf (John Goodman) is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette (Rihanna) leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him.

With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.

SMURFS features an all-star voice cast including Rihanna, James Corden, Nick Offerman, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Hannah Waddingham, Alex Winter, Maya Erskine, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña with Kurt Russell and John Goodman.

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Screening as part of our season: Brazilian Summer Nights presented alongside CINE BRAZIL.

Afterparty at The Island from 8pm following the screening of Central Station on 21st August

Sunday's 17:15 screening of Central Station will include an introduction by Dr Giancarlo Gozzi.

A retired school teacher and young boy become unlikely travelling companions when the boy is suddenly orphaned and must find his estranged father. A success at the Berlin Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear award, the unassuming road movie thrust director Walter Salles into the spotlight for its naturalistic portrayal of longing and redemption. Embittered and living alone, Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), who transcribes letters for illiterate people and pockets the money without sending the notes, meets nine-year-old Josué (Vinícius de Oliveira) just before his mother is killed in an accident. After much deliberation, Dora reluctantly embarks on a journey through northern Brazil with Josué in search of his family. With striking cinematography and a rich portrayal of Brazil’s diverse landscapes, Central Station avoids sentimentality to become a moving study of connection between two strangers improbably joined together. We'll be screening the 4K restoration released by Curzon.

For more information on Cine Brazil visit their website here. Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

Original title: Central do Brasil

Original language: Portuguese

Presented with English subtitles

Speaker Bio:

Giancarlo Gozzi

Dr. Giancarlo Gozzi is a Film & Television Studies researcher at LAICA, University of São Paulo, currently doing postdoctoral research as an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.

Freakier Friday, a sequel to the beloved 2003 film with a multigenerational twist starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, will be released in theaters nationwide in 2025. In the film, Curtis and Lohan reprise their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman. The story picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Accessibility:

The screening on Thursday 28 August at 17:30 is a HOH Subtitled screening.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Everyone’s favourite felons are back, and this time, they’ve got company.

In the new action-packed chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed comedy smash about a crackerjack crew of animal outlaws, our now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.

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Marianne, a pragmatic doctor, and Tor, a compassionate nurse, are both avoiding conventional relationships. One evening, after a blind date, Marianne encounters Tor on the ferry. Tor, who often spends his nights there seeking casual encounters with men, shares his experiences of spontaneous intimacy. Intrigued by his perspective, Marianne begins to explore whether casual intimacy could also be an option for her.

Original language: Norweigan

Presented with English subtitles

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham). Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

Winner of no less than 8 Oscars® including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.

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Screening as part of our season: Brazilian Summer Nights presented alongside CINE BRAZIL.

Sunday's screening of Neighbouring Sounds will include an introduction by Malu Sa.

A dazzling ensemble drama, Neighbouring Sounds is set among a handful of residents in a middle-class street in the northern Brazilian city of Recife. Focusing on the appearance of a gang of private security guards who offer householders the promise of protection, writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho offers revealing fragments of a society frayed by paranoia. A young man wakes up to find his girlfriend’s car has been broken into. A mother struggles to sleep, disturbed by the barking of guard dogs next door. An ageing patriarch seeks refuge from the tumult of the ever-changing city in the rural peace of his one-time plantation hideaway. The results thrillingly defy categorisation. - Edward Lawrenson, BFI

Kleber's latest film THE SECRET AGENT won Best Director and Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival and we can't wait to screen that when it releases in the UK, in the meantime enjoy his astonishing debut!

For more information on Cine Brazil visit their website here. Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

Original title: O Som ao Redor

Original language: Portuguese

Presented with English subtitles

Speaker Bio:

Malu Sa

Malu Sá (Recife, 1989) is an actress, producer, and screenwriter. She has an MA in Acting from East 15 Acting School – University of Essex/UK and a BA in Media Communication from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE/Brazil. She has been working in front of and behind the cameras in films, TV, internet, and streaming, highlighting her acting credit on the Netflix series "Good Morning, Veronica" (Bom dia, Verônica, season 1, 2020). Her recent video work, "Film Locations", was created in London streets, combining her interest in urbanization and film. Later, it expanded to the streets of her hometown: Recife.

When all the ice creams go missing, Lolly the cow and Pinecone the hedgehog team up for a musical road trip to save the Empress of Storyland's Summer Send-Off! During their adventure, Lolly and Pinecone get to know the Storyland Rangers at Coconut Cove, learn some magical moves at Mermaid Falls and help a stressed-out caterpillar find his voice at the Summer Fruits Festival. Eventually, Lolly and Pinecone track down their main suspect, the rain-loving Professor Raindrop. But was he really the one who took the ice creams?

Bursting with songs, laughter and all your CBeebies favourites, The Great Ice Cream Hunt is the perfect CBeebies summer treat! Plus, exclusive to cinemas, an additional song featuring a host of well-known faces! Cast including: Justin Fletcher, Andy Day, Maddie Moate, Alex Phelps, George Webster, Dodge the Dog.

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A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Jacob Tremblay, Mark Hamill and Mia Sara.

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Two men, both in heterosexual marriages, have an unexpected experience that challenges them to reconsider their understanding of sexuality, gender, and identity. One has a sexual encounter with another man, without considering it either as an expression of homosexuality or infidelity, and discusses it with his wife afterwards. The other finds himself in nocturnal dreams where he is seen as a woman, stirring confusion and leading him to question how much his personality is shaped by the gaze of others.

Original language: Norweigan

Presented with English subtitles

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Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.

Blending heartache, humour and healing, SORRY, BABY is the stunning and star-making debut from director, writer and actor Eva Victor, also starring Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges.

As sharp as it is tender, SORRY, BABY is a quietly powerful tale of seizing back your footing after pain, and of the friendships that sustain you along the way. An authentic, bitingly funny drama that marks the arrival of a brilliant new voice in cinema.

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Talking Pictures:

Please note the screening on Monday 01 September at 14:45 is a Talking Pictures screening with an informal discussion after the film with a member of the Lexi team.

Screening as part of our season: Brazilian Summer Nights presented alongside CINE BRAZIL.

The screening on Sunday 31st August, as well as an introduction by Ana Levisky, will have a panel discussion after the film, panelists tbc.

The Second Mother tell the story of Val, the kind of live-in housekeeper who takes her work seriously. She serves her wealthy São Paulo employers day in and day out while lovingly nannying their teenage son whom she’s raised since toddlerhood. Everyone and everything in the elegant house has its place until one day, Val’s ambitious, clever daughter Jessica arrives from Val’s hometown to take the college entrance exams. Jessica’s confident, youthful presence upsets the unspoken yet strict balance of power in the household; Val must decide where her allegiances lie and what she’s willing to sacrifice.

For more information on Cine Brazil visit their website here. Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

Original title: Que Horas Ela Volta?

Original language: Portuguese

Presented with English subtitles

Speaker Bio:

Ana Levisky

Ana is a film conservator who has worked in national film archives in Brazil, Ireland, and the UK. With a background in audiovisual studies, a Master’s in Creative Process, and specialised training in film restoration, she cares for analog film and is drawn to reflective storytelling. Her practice evolves from the documentary format and tends to explore the space between identity, belonging, and memory.

When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a

ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.

We're also screening Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods from Sat 02 August.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

THE ROSES contains several sequences with flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivities.

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing - as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. THE ROSES is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.

Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts. 

Accessibility:

The screening on Wednesday 17 Sep at 20:35 is a HOH Subtitled screening.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

Urška Djukić delivers a beautiful, sensitive portrait of a shy teenager growing up and her first experiences of adulthood. Lucia, an introverted 16-year-old, joins a choir at her Catholic school and befriends outgoing Ana-Maria. But the choir’s weekend trip to a countryside convent, where she meets a renovation workman, tests both that friendship and Lucia’s beliefs. This assured directorial feature debut from award-winning Slovenian director Djukić is reminiscent of Céline Sciamma’s early work, combining an intimate focus on female sexual awakening and a tender look at the complexities of teenage friendship, here set within a religious community. Winner of the FIPRESCI award for best film at this year’s Berlinale, Little Trouble Girls delivers a sensitive female coming-of-age story with universal relevance and marks the emergence of an exciting new voice in European cinema.

Original language: Slovenian

Presented with English subtitles

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Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant.

When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out…

Caught Stealing is directed by Academy Award® nominee Darren Aronofsky, screenplay by Charlie Huston, based on his book of the same name. The film stars Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Benito Martínez Ocasio, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane.

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The Dardenne brothers once again bring audiences a moving portrayal of real lives with their latest social-realist drama Young Mothers, which took home the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes earlier this year.

Following five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium, the film is a true-to-life portrait of the struggles faced by these young women living on or near the margins of society. The directors spent time in one of these state-run facilities in their home country to research how it runs, the people it helps and the social workers who make it possible, making sure to stay as true to reality as possible. Their in-depth knowledge of the topic and compassionate approach to the people they are portraying results in a film that is not only deeply affecting, but one that is also detailed, sympathetic and nuanced.

From drug addiction to precarious living situations, these women must face the challenges of their situation individually, but living together in this communal home gives them the tools, support and the community they need in order to do so.

Original language: French

Presented with English subtitles

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When young mum Molly (Posy Sterling) is released from prison after serving four months, she assumes it will be a matter of hours before she can pick up her children from foster care. Instead, Molly finds herself in the mother of all catch-22s: she can’t get housing because she doesn’t have her kids living with her; but she can’t get them back without a roof over her head. When Molly reconnects with her childhood friend, and fellow single mother, Amina (Idil Ahmed), the two women join forces and take destiny into their own hands.

Following the screening on Wednesday 17th September, we're delighted to welcome lead actress Posy Sterling to The Lexi for a Q&A. Don't miss this additional chance to see one of the underseen gems of 2025!

Inter Alia contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie.

Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent.

When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?

Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.

Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic.

Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost?

Filmed live from the West End, this new production reunites Staunton with director Dominic Cooke (Follies, Good), exploring the clash between morality and independence, traditions and progress.