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The UK's only film club dedicated to the folk and working culture of the British Isles

A volunteer-run charity screening world cinema in Wimbledon since 2004

Dark, transgressive, and enigmatic cinema — thematic screenings in London

The UK's only 16mm-only film club, screening rare prints in a 15-seat room in Clapton since 2011

The UK's only weekly queer cinema night, held every Wednesday in the basement bar of Dalston's Rio Cinema

Immersive album listening sessions in complete darkness at cinema venues

Late-night horror double bills with themed pairings at Rio Cinema, Dalston

A queer film society unearthing cinema's forgotten trans and queer histories, with a regular season at the Prince Charles Cinema

Late-night Hong Kong martial arts classics from Marlon Palmer, reviving the 1980s kung fu circuit

East London's trans film club, programming eclectic cinema with a discerning trans audience in mind at Dalston Superstore

Cult horror and exploitation film nights with informed introductions

A London film club for bold, surprising, and carefully chosen cinema

A film club dedicated to digital cinema, screening at The Castle Cinema in Clapton

Japanese cinema on the big screen at the Rio Cinema, Dalston

Monthly screenings of underseen and unstreamed cinema at The Castle Cinema, Hackney — with a quintessentially east London sensibility

A friendly film discussion group for older audiences at the Lexi Cinema, Kensal Rise's community-run social enterprise cinema

Bringing forgotten and unavailable films back to UK cinemas, curated by Geoffrey M. Badger

18+ queer horror nights with live shadow casts, drag, and Halloween Monsters Balls

Accessible horror screenings in London, run by and for disabled and chronically ill film lovers

A cult film collective bringing the weird, the obscure, and forgotten classics to London audiences

A membership screening club founded in 2009, covering silent films, world cinema, and cult movies in West London

A film club and podcast celebrating cinema from across the Arab world, curated by Sarah Agha

A weekly cult and B-movie film night with themed drinks, from the Token Homo collective

A film club championing emerging filmmakers with screenings, education, and industry connections

Curated independent film screening nights championing artists and unseen media in London

An affordable London film club screening independent films for £5, with Q&As and a welcoming community atmosphere

The Studio Ghibli podcast and live screening series from Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham

London's oldest specialist horror and fantasy film society, founded in 1966

Auteur cinema from Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia — a curatorial collective since 2014

A pop-up cinema screening classics and counterculture films, with a badge for every show

World cinema at The Exchange, Twickenham — a film society since 1963

Feminist film screenings continuing the Rio Cinema's feminist programming tradition since the 1970s

London's only monthly FLINTA film series, centring sapphic and queer storytelling with film, poetry and performance

Monthly screenings of cult and camp films in London

Themed film nights from Ranjit S. Ruprai — Turbans Seen On Screen, Bombay Mix, and Midnight Excess

A student-run film club at King's College London screening cult classics and gloriously disreputable cinema