Ipswich Film Society
Two screen independent cinema. Part of the Corn Exchange entertainment complex.
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A Real Pain (15)
15-09-2025 at 19:30
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Mismatched cousins embark on a trip to Poland in honour of their beloved grandmother, but their fundamentally different takes on the world threaten to jeopardise the whole venture. Eisenberg’s sophomore feature as director is an obvious vehicle for his neurotic persona, and the chemistry with Kieran Culkin works a treat. 90 minutes
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A Real Pain (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Three Colours: Blue (15)
29-09-2025 at 19:30
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In Kieslowski’s world, a life can hang by a brake fluid line. A bereaved woman fights her way from pain, through numbness, to complete her composer husband’s work. The first of a famous trilogy of films to celebrate the European Union, the others having been shown by the Society in 1994 and 2023. 98 minutes.
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Three Colours: Blue (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Ruggles of Red Gap (U)
13-10-2025 at 19:30
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The feature to celebrate our 90th birthday year has Charles Laughton as an English butler transferred to the Wild West when his employer loses him in a poker game. Laughton had appeared in a number of Hollywood films, but this was the first to exploit his comic gifts. Director Leo McCarey marshals several gifted bit players in supporting roles. 90 mins.
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Ruggles of Red Gap (U), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Black Box Diaries (15)
03-11-2025 at 19:30
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Shown on the BBC as part of its Storyville series, Shiori Itô’s documentary in which she writes, directs, and takes centre stage charts the progress of her own investigation and legal action when she is drugged and raped by a government official. This moving documentary sees one woman take on an entire system to challenge national attitudes. 102 minutes.
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Black Box Diaries (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Mississippi Burning (18)
17-11-2025 at 19:30
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To mark the passing of Gene Hackman this year, we revive one of the great films of his middle period, in which two FBI agents investigate the deaths of three Civil Rights activists in 1964 Mississippi. Events have been partly fictionalized, which led to some controversy, and it is a film certain to provoke a response one way or another. 128 minutes.
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Mississippi Burning (18), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
The Eight Mountains
01-12-2025 at 19:00
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Against the breath-taking beauty of the Italian Alps and Nepalese Himalaya, this is the story over four decades of two young men and their journey of friendship and self-discovery. Bruno and Pietro, each from very different backgrounds, meet as children and reconnect as adults, pursuing the Buddhist quest for oneness. 147 minutes.
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The Eight Mountains, King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (15)
15-12-2025 at 19:30
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A man starts to care for his terminally ill grandmother in the hope of a multi-million-dollar inheritance. However, winning her favour will be harder than he anticipates, as he is not the only one with his eye on the loot. This directorial debut comedy was a huge streaming sensation in the Far East. 125 minutes.
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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Rosalie (15)
05-01-2026 at 19:30
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Set in Brittany in the 1870s, this is the tale of Rosalie, the first commercially exploited bearded lady, who initially keeps her abnormality a secret, until her fiancé’s financial difficulties bring about a change in her situation. 115 minutes.
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Rosalie (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
That They May Face the Rising Sun (15)
19-01-2026 at 19:30
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Joe and Kate are artistic types living in a farmhouse in the West of Ireland in the 1980s. The film charts their interactions with the local inhabitants, particularly the elderly men, affecting their decision whether or not to relocate to London, the site of Kate’s gallery business. 111 minutes.
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That They May Face the Rising Sun (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Lost Highway (18)
02-02-2026 at 19:30
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The year has also seen the loss of the great surrealist director, whose folksy characters and disturbing sound world make such queasy bedfellows. In this his darkest film he again adopts the highway as metaphor for liminal spaces (cf. Wild at Heart, The Straight Story). 134 minutes.
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Lost Highway (18), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
All of Us Strangers (15)
23-02-2026 at 19:30
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A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a tentative relationship with his downstairs neighbour. This mysterious film begins as romantic drama and morphs into something far more uncanny, as the ghosts of Adam’s past return to haunt him. 105 minutes.
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All of Us Strangers (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Anatomy of a Fall (15)
09-03-2026 at 19:00
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In the French Alps a woman’s husband suffers a fatal fall from their loft apartment, and their half-blind son is the sole witness. With her old lawyer friend advising her, the court case that follows tests all the surviving relationships to the limit. 151 minutes.
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Anatomy of a Fall (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
The Pervert,s Guide to Idealogy (15)
23-03-2026 at 19:30
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Leaving aside its title, the film showcases the philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s beguiling theories on cinematic subtext. Whether it’s the mother superior’s singing of Climb Every Mountain, or Alex and the Droogs at the Korova Milkbar, Zizek has some fascinating angles on familiar, and not so familiar films. 136 minutes.
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The Pervert,s Guide to Idealogy (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
The Teacher Who Promised the Sea
13-04-2026 at 19:30
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This new Catalonian film follows Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers (shown in 2022/23) in its inquiry into the buried past of the Civil War. The personage of a charismatic teacher from Taragona surfaces through a woman’s attempts to discover what became of her great-grandfather. 105 minutes.
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The Teacher Who Promised the Sea, King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Close (12A)
27-04-2026 at 19:30
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The close friendship of two boys in a rural community is tested when they move to secondary school, where one more easily negotiates the passage to adolescence. A beautifully made film about the pains of growing up, which taps into current disquiet over male suicide. 104 minutes.
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Close (12A), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Puzzle (15)
11-05-2026 at 19:30
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Kelly Macdonald plays Agnes, a put-upon suburban mother who discovers a passion for jigsaw puzzles.Then she meets a charming Indian, played by Irrfan Khan. From the director of Loving and Little Miss Sunshine comes the perfect season closer. 103 minutes.
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Puzzle (15), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH