Changelog

Added Tibet Film Festival London, the London edition of what calls itself the only film festival featuring contemporary Tibetan cinema — founded in Zürich in 2009, brought here in 2019 by Kunsang Kelden and Dechen Pemba, and run by volunteers who have moved it from Deptford Cinema to the Genesis, the Rio and beyond. The 2026 edition runs 25 to 27 September.

Added Never Watching Movies, diaspora film curated by Zain Gibson, social media manager at the Rio Cinema and one of several clubs the Rio's own staff run out of the building.

Added The South London Film Festival, the not-for-profit that calls itself the official film festival of South London and runs at the Ritzy in Brixton from 12 to 27 September — an official awards showcase, UK premieres and live Q&As, programmed from open submissions that are free to enter for students.

Added Perivale Community Hive, Shoreditch Library, North Kensington Library, Whitton Library, Leyton Library and Leytonstone Library, six London libraries with a film club going on between the shelves — classic films and National Theatre broadcasts in Hoxton, heritage month seasons on Ladbroke Grove, a festival of shorts in Whitton, kids' clubs either side of Leyton, and Silver Screenings at the volunteer-run library Perivale rescued for itself.

Added Union Chapel, the Islington chapel that is a working church, an award-winning music venue and a homelessness charity at once, and where the Ocean and Banff mountain film festivals pitch up on tour.

Added Building Centre, the built-environment gallery on Store Street, where a new film club screens films about architecture and urban life — it opened with Tati's Playtime.

Added Algha's Plantroom, a cultural space on the second floor of Algha Works on Fish Island, home to Blackney Wick Film Club and its themed nights of film and sound system.

Added HKUK Kingston Community Centre, the old Kingston telephone exchange turned community centre by Hong Kongers who had recently moved to the area, screening Cantonese-language films with Q&As.

Added Greener and Cleaner and Morland Community Hall, a sustainability hub tucked into a Bromley shopping centre running an environmental film cafe, and a Hackney estate hall where the residents run their own film club.

Added Langthorne Park and Stoneydown Park, two Waltham Forest parks where Stow Film Lounge sets up its open-air cinema over the summer — an amphitheatre in Leytonstone named after a long-gone Stratford abbey, and Walthamstow's ornamental gardens off Pretoria Avenue.

Added Alexandra Palace Theatre, the Victorian auditorium on the hill in Haringey that spent a stint as a cinema, then eighty years shut and quietly decaying, before reopening with the decay left on show — films turn up there played to a live band.

Added Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club in South Kensington, open since 1939, whose KinoKlub shows recent Polish cinema in the ballroom with dinner beforehand.

Added The Well Walk Theatre, a 50-seat family theatre, bookshop and cafe in Hampstead, where the Cine Club runs vintage animation and silent-era films with live musical accompaniment.

Added The Mildmay Club, the Newington Green members' club that has been radical since 1888 and on screen ever since — the Krays films, Vera Drake, Made in Dagenham — and now shows the occasional film of its own.

Added Big Penny Social, the Walthamstow beer hall and events space in the old Truman's Social Club, where Deeper Into Movies puts on family screenings and music documentaries.

Added Bojangles Brasserie, Green Alley Studios, Orchard Dry Dock, Oslo Hackney, Polish Social and Cultural Association POSK, The Bedford, The Cyprus High Commission, The Griffin, Tower Bridge Collective and Upminster Windmill, ten more places whose screenings only ever surface on the ticketing platforms — among them a Grade II* smock mill running outdoor cinema under its sails, the largest Polish centre in Western Europe, a rediscovered dry dock at the mouth of the Lea, and the Cyprus High Commission's nights of Cypriot film in St James's Square.

Added Reel Talk, East Croydon Cool's sociable film club for locals who like bold movies and big conversations, run in partnership with the David Lean Cinema. Hosts Pilar Nalwimba and Louis Holder bookend the screening with a conversation about the film, and the audience carries it on afterwards over drinks — a one-word review board, a postcard collage station, and a video rental store where you crack open a tape with a stranger and answer the question inside.

“More Than a Screening” on the home page picks out the nights that are more than the film — a Q&A with someone who made it, a silent with a live score, a first UK showing. Cinemas only ever mention these in passing in a listing's small print, so they are read out of the listings themselves and ranked by how rare they actually are: an introduction is worth noticing at a cinema that rarely gives one and not at a cinema that always does, and one Q&A among a film's fifty showings is a genuinely different evening. Sold-out nights are left out — there is no point pointing at a door you can't get through.

Marathons and double bills now say which collection they belong to, the way a single film always has.

Added the Hong Kong Film Festival UK, the diaspora-led festival of Hong Kong and East and Southeast Asian cinema, whose fourth edition runs 25 September to 4 October across eleven London venues — its biggest programme yet, with seventeen UK premieres alongside restored classics and experimental work.

Added five more festivals with programmes coming up — Kino London Short Film Festival, a BIFA qualifier built around shorts by emerging filmmakers; Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, volunteer-run and free or cheap to get into since 2011; The Fighting Spirit Film Festival, one of the few festivals anywhere given over to martial arts and action cinema; Ukrainian Film Festival, the Ukrainian Institute London's yearly run at Curzon Soho; and Wine Dark Short Film Festival, London's first festival of shorts made by D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent teams.

Added Lucila's Film Club, a female-directors-only movie night run by fashion designer Lucila Safdie and her best friend June, which started out at the Genesis Cinema in east London.

Added Deeper Into Movies, which grew out of Steven T Hanley's VHS screenings in London dive bars into regular nights at The Haggerston and Screen on the Green — contemporary cinema and overlooked gems, often with a lecture or a live score alongside the film.

A film's page now shows its original title too (where that differs from the English one) — Amélie shows its original French title “Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain” too — along with the language it was made in.

Searching looks at original titles too so you don't have to reach for whatever it was called in English — “Fabuleux” finds Amélie.

Added Taste Film, an immersive dining experience that pairs a tasting menu with a screening, each course arriving as its scene does. Founded by former Film Studies teacher Amy Fernando, who had the idea watching the prison cooking scene in Goodfellas.

Started pulling in screenings from WeGotTickets, the independent ticket agency.

Added Poppy's Funerals, Raynes Park Community Church, Ruach City Church, St George's Garrison Church, St Leonard's Church Hall, The Carpet Shop, The Cavern, The Leather Bottle, The Man of Kent and The Manor Arms, ten more rooms taken over by this year's Free Film Festivals — four pubs and four churches and church halls, plus a railway-arch club on Rye Lane and a funeral director in Raynes Park.

Added All Saints Kingston, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, The cornerHOUSE Community Arts Centre, The Mud Room, The Rookery, The White Lion Pub, Tooting Bec Lido, Waterhouse Hall Theatre, Watson's General Telegraph and West Wimbledon Hall, and ten more after that — a volunteer arts centre in Surbiton, a community cinema in a Winchmore Hill church hall, and a summer's worth of screenings in a lido, a walled garden, a wild churchyard and a doggy daycare.

Added Lost Souls Pizza, Love Affair Basement, Oxford House, The Common Press Dalston and Wheatsheaf Community Hall, five more rooms that put films on between everything else they do — a vampire-themed pizzeria in Camden, a queer basement bar on Hackney Road, a volunteer-run hall in Vauxhall, the settlement house Bethnal Green has had since 1884, and a second Common Press in Dalston.

Now that there are two of them, The Common Press Shoreditch is grouped with its Dalston sibling. Its calendar file is now named "commonpress.co.uk-shoreditch" rather than "commonpress.co.uk", so anyone subscribed to the old URL will need to resubscribe.

A screening a venue lists itself no longer appears twice when a ticketing source turns up the showing. The Cinema Museum, The Horse Hospital and Rio Cinema all had duplicates — Eventbrite, Outsavvy, DICE — and these are now matched, preferring linking to the venue's page.

Started pulling in screenings from gel, a listings site for London's grassroots events — mostly gigs, club nights and talks, but with film scattered through it, from one-off screenings at cinemas to films put on in bookshops, studios and community halls.

Added Brenchley Gardens Community Centre, Buchan Tenants and Residents Hall, Christ Church Peckham, Cossall Community Hall, El Chico's, Fortune Green, Hillside Gardens Park, LEX2 Livesey Exchange, Love & Dye and Peckham Palms, ten more estate halls, parks, churches and neighbourhood businesses lending their rooms to this year's Free Film Festivals — a Mexican restaurant, a hair salon and a Black-owned beauty arcade among them.

Added Ibraaz, a Fitzrovia arts centre for culture and ideas from the Global Majority, whose screenings happen in Minassa, the cinema room in its basement.

Added the four Free Film Festivals with programmes coming up — Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival, Streatham Free Film Festival, Raynes Park Free Film Festival and West Norwood Free Film Festival. Each has its own page gathering that neighbourhood's screenings, wherever in the area they happen to be.

Added the London Latino Film Festival, whose first edition runs 2–6 October with sixty features and shorts from across Latin America and its diasporas, spread over multiple venues.

New Listings is a page per day now, rather than one long scroll of everything from the past fortnight.

Started pulling in screenings from Free Film Festivals, the volunteer-run network behind neighbourhood festivals across London — every screening free to attend, in whatever hall, park or pub will have them.

Added AMP Studios, Batch & Co. Coffee, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Nunhead Cemetery, St Matthew's Church, Streatham Library, The British Home and The Woodfield Pavilion, a set of South London halls, cafés, libraries and green spaces that open up for free film screenings.

RAF Museum now has its listings read straight from its Propellers & Popcorn page, so its open-air screenings on the airfield are now included.

A film that has finished its run keeps its page. Until now, once the last screening had been and gone the film dropped out of the listings entirely and took its page with it, so an old link — or a search result, or a bookmark — landed on nothing with a 404. The page is still there now, with the poster and details. Where the showings used to be it tells you it's not currently screening in London, when it last played, and points you at what's on. If it comes back, the page fills back in with performances.

Every venue now has a calendar page, showing its whole programme laid out month by month or as an agenda. It's built from the same calendar file you can subscribe to from the venue page, so what you see here is exactly what turns up in your own calendar app.

Every page now carries the full navigation. There's also a footer on every page listing everywhere you can go, grouped the same way the menu is.

The navigation is grouped now, and a few things are renamed to say what they actually are. “Updates” is New Listings, since it's new films and showings rather than changes to the site — that's this page, which is in the menu now too, along with Home. “Collections” is Franchises & Series, which is what's on those pages and no longer reads as a synonym for Film Lists. And “Accessibility” is Accessible Screenings — it lists screenings you can go to, not a statement about the website.

When your search or filters come up empty, the page now suggests what would work instead of leaving you to guess — each suggestion saying how many results it would give you, and applying in one tap. It'll offer a correction when a title looks mistyped, point out when what you typed matches against a different value (the venue's own title for a screening, or a note on a performance) and name the filter that's actually in the way (which is usually the date window or a category you'd forgotten was narrowed).

Search suggestions also spot when what you typed is a filter rather than a film. Searching “70mm” offers both 70mm and IMAX 70mm as formats, with a count each; the same goes for genres, event types (like quizzes), and accessibility features (like subtitles).

There are now film collections — franchises like Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and The Godfather, laid out in release order so you can see the whole run at once: what you can still catch, and what you have already missed. A collection gets a page while two or more of its films are on, and a film playing inside a double bill or marathon counts too — its poster points at the event.

Film pages now say which collection a film belongs to, so one Star Wars film points you at the other eight without you going looking for them.

Added The Shortest Nights Film Festival, a BIFA-qualifying weekend of new British short films from Short Sighted Cinema.

Added Midweek Cinema, who put films on at 7pm from Monday to Thursday in pubs and bars around London.

Added Heathcote & Star, a Leytonstone pub whose upstairs Grove Green Room hosts screenings.

Added Canal Film Club, a DIY queer collective running pop-up B-movie screenings and DJ parties in a secret woodland by the East London canal.

The filters can now hide sold out showings. Some venues tell us when a performance has gone, and switching this on drops those, so what's left is what you can still get into. It sits alongside “Hide past showings”, since both are asking the same thing — don't show me screenings I can't go to.

The filter panel is easier to follow while you work in it. The count of what your filters match is now the biggest thing in it rather than fine print, the summary line flashes when it changes so you notice it rewriting itself, the collapsed sections say what they do (“Show Individual Venues”) instead of sitting there looking like headings, and sharing your filters explains what the copied link actually does — showing you the link to copy by hand if the browser blocks the clipboard. “Venues near me” also says so when it finds nothing in range, rather than quietly emptying your results.

There are now film lists — the great-films lists critics and audiences keep arguing about, matched against what is actually screening in London. Ten of them to start: the IMDb Top 250, Letterboxd's Top 500, Rotten Tomatoes' 300 Best Movies of All Time and its 100% Club, Empire's 100 Greatest, the Guardian's best of the 21st century, and every winner of Best Picture, Best International Feature, the Palme d'Or and the Golden Lion. Each page shows only the films you can still go and see, in the order they were ranked, and links back to whoever published the list.

Film pages now show the lists a film appears on, with its position where the list is ranked — so The Godfather tells you it is the Rotten Tomatoes number one and an Academy Award winner without you going looking.

Added the Waltham Forest Cinema Project, a community campaign to bring an independent cinema to the borough.

When a film is part of a festival, the film's page now says so with a proper card rather than a line of small print. The festival's logo, the dates it runs, and how many films and showings are in it, all linking through to the festival page.

Search is much less fussy about how you type a title. “Pomp and Circumstance” now finds “Pomp & Circumstance”, “The Godfather Part 2” finds “Part II”, and “101 Dalmatians” and “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” each turn up the other. Ampersands, roman numerals, spelled-out numbers, fractions like 8½, abbreviations like Dr and Doctor, and any stray brackets or punctuation sitting in a title are all handled now.

There's now an updates page, showing what's just landed in the listings — films appearing for the first time, extra showings for ones already playing, and newly added venues. It's grouped by each refresh, so you can see what changed and exactly when.

The updates page has an RSS feed, if you'd rather hear about new screenings without visiting the site. Each entry in the feed matches a section on the page.

Every refresh of the listings now publishes a record of what changed in it, alongside the listings themselves. That's what the updates page and its feed are built from.

IMAX 70mm is now tracked as a format in its own right, separate from 70mm. The 15-perf print running sideways through the projector is a different beast to a standard 70mm one, so the two are no longer lumped together — and you can filter for either on its own.

The formats page is now split into what a screening is played from and how it's presented, so it's clearer that an IMAX ticket tells you about the auditorium rather than what's in the projector. Closely related formats also link across to each other now, in case you landed on the wrong one.

Screenings at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX now come through more completely. Malformed links on BFI's own site caused some performances to be dropped. BFI Southbank data is now pulled from two of BFI's listing sources at once; anything omitted on one is caught by the other.

Added Angel Community Centre, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, The Brookmill, Camouflage Cafe, Conway Hall, EartH, Greenford Quay, Harris Institute of Teaching and Leadership and Ladbroke Hall.

Jumping into the film catalogue list from a format, genre or venue page now starts from a clean slate. Before, a filter picked up on an earlier page could quietly stick, so exploring — say — 35mm films just after browsing a single venue could leave you staring at an empty list.

The one-tap quick filters — “what's on near me today”, “what's on this week” and “show me everything” — now highlight when the current view matches one, so it's clear at a glance which you've got applied.

Every venue page now opens with a timetable of today's and tomorrow's screenings, listed by start time like a cinema's lobby board, so you can see what's on right now without hunting through a grid of posters. Venues that have added screenings in the past week also get a “just added” row highlighting what's new.

You can now filter by time of day as well as by date — morning, afternoon, evening, late, or a specific range you choose. It combines with the date filter, so “mornings over the next week” is now a single search.

Added a quick venue search to the filters, so you can type a cinema's name and toggle it on or off without scrolling the full list of London venues.

The side menu now scrolls on shorter screens, so its lower entries stay reachable on smaller phones.

The venues page now opens with an interactive map of every London cinema. Filtering the list narrows the map with it, each pin links through to the venue, and if you've shared your location a marker shows where you are.

The near you page now leads with a map of the cinemas within two miles, drawn with 1- and 2-mile distance rings around your location so you can see what's genuinely close.

Each deploy now pings IndexNow with the pages that changed, so search engines pick up new listings sooner rather than waiting to recrawl.

Added dedicated format pages, so you can browse everything currently showing in a given format — 70mm, IMAX, and more — all in one place.

Added Bush Theatre and Instituto Cervantes.

Started pulling in screenings from the Japanese Film Club and from Col Films Limited (via Ticket Tailor), who programme as part of the London Colombian Film Festival.

Added the London Colombian Film Festival (LCFF).

The film clubs and festivals pages now filter more accurately, so each one better reflects what's actually on.

Reworked the navigation and filter display on the film page so they adapt cleanly across phone, tablet, and desktop.

Clusterflick now records the format of each screening in its underlying data — including 70mm and IMAX presentations — and the site lets you filter films by format.

Added St Mary's Church Walthamstow.

Added ESEA Community Centre, La Camionera, Lordship Hub Co-op, MayDay Rooms and The Showroom.

Made searching and filtering on the films page quicker and easier, with new convenience filter buttons and better spacing for the search bar on mobile.

Added The Antwerp Arms, Centre 151, Reference Point, Shapes Lewisham and Spanners.

Added a “Built with Clusterflick” section to the About page, highlighting other sites that use our open data.

Added De Hems Dutch Cafe Bar, The Victoria Dalston, The Black Eel and The Winchester.

Added a new Ticket Tailor integration (and fixed its date parsing), which brings in a batch of independent film clubs and one-off events.

Enhanced the cinema group pages with a grid of film posters for what's showing across the group.

A round of website code improvements, including rendering a film's showings without needing JavaScript and standardising on a single list-virtualisation library.

Added genre pages, so you can browse what's on by genre.

Made film pages faster by virtualising the showings list, keeping long lists smooth to scroll.

Improved the “Venues near me” logic to exclude venues that have no upcoming screenings.