Screenings at 7:00 pm in the Valhalladrome in the Vikingar, Largs.
September 11: Les Quatre Cents Coups/The 400 Blows (France) 1959 Drama
Director: François Truffaut 99 mins 8.0 IMDb
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier
Misunderstood 14-year-old Antoine journeys through an oppressive life in 1950s Paris. All he wants is to break free and reach his personal ocean of possibilities. But will he?
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October 16: The Last King of Scotland (UK) 2006 Drama
Director: Kevin McDonald 123 mins 7.6 IMDb
Stars: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson
Scottish physician Nicholas Garrigan flies to Uganda to work at a missionary clinic and finds himself encountering Uganda’s new president, General Idi Amin. Amin invites the young doctor to be his personal physician, offering a chance to modernise Uganda’s health care system. Garrigan takes up the challenge but finds himself immersed in the moral complexities of Amin’s egotistical mind. Can Dr Garrigan rise above this – and live to tell the tale?
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October 23 Driving Miss Daisy (USA 1989 Period Drama
Director: Bruce Beresford 99 mins 7.3 IMDb
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy
A Jewish widow from the Deep South needs a driver and, in 1950s Atlanta, this means a male driver and a man of colour. Determined in her ways, Miss Daisy resists change in her life, but Hoke, the driver, is hired nonetheless. She refuses to allow Hoke to drive her anywhere, but slowly Mr Hoke wins her over with his charm, honest logic and good grace. Will their differences find a shared peace?
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November 13: Two Prosecutors (Latvia) 2025 crime/legal /drama/comedy
Director: Sergei Loznitsa 117 mins 7.1 IMDb
Stars: Alexander Kuznetsov, Ivgeny Terletsky
It’s 1937, Stalin’s Great Purges are in flow, with many of his prisoners pleading their innocence by letter, which are routinely burned in Soviet prisons. One letter survives, reaching Alexander Kornev, a young, idealistic prosecutor. The writer is from Stepniak, a loyal party member unjustly imprisoned. Moved by the letter, Kornev tries to reopen the case, encountering fear, silence and an intransigent bureaucracy system built to crush dissent.
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December 4: The Shop Around The Corner (USA) 1940 Drama/comedy
Director: Ernst Lubitch 99 mins 8.0 IMDb
Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart
Mr. Hugo Matuschek’s shop (Matuschek & Company) employs bachelor Alfred Kralik, the best and most experienced salesman. Klara Novak applies for the position of saleswoman and is hired. Kralik and Klara do not get along. The lonely and dedicated Kralik has an unknown pen pal that he intends to propose to very soon, but is fired without explanation on the very night he is to meet his secret love. He goes to the assignation point and is astonished to find that Klara is his correspondent! Is the romance over before it gets started?
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January 8: Cabaret (USA) 1972 Drama/romance
Director: Bob Fosse 126 mins 7.8 IMDb
Stars: Lisa Minnelli, Michael York
Cambridge student Brian Roberts pursues his German studies in Berlin. He plans to teach English to boost his income and finds low-cost digs, where he gets to know another tenant, American Sally Bowles. Flamboyant and perpetually happy, Sally works as a singer at the renowned Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret venue. She introduces Brian to her collection of friends and complex relationships, as well as the omnipresent Master of Ceremonies. Around them all, the Nazi uprising is bulldozing its way through Berlin, providing big life lessons that, in life, good and bad continue to happen to move amongst them.
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January 29: Everybody To Kenmure Street (UK) 2026 Docu/drama
Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra 92 mins 7.6 IMDb
Stars: Tabassum Niamat, Aamer Anwar, Henry Bell
Immigration, strong feelings and legal battles abound in the UK, reaching a peak on the south side of Glasgow. Residents, neighbours and supporters abandon daily routines to express their views about the UK’s plans for the deportation of local people, sparking an impromptu grassroots movement.
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February 19:La Vita é Bella (Italy) 1997 Drama
Director: Robert Benigni 116 mins 8.6 IMDb
Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
In 1930s Italy, Guido, a Jewish waiter-turned-bookseller, pursues a fairy-tale life, marrying Dora, a school teacher he adores. A son is the family live happily until the forced deportation of the Jewish population. Dora is not required to be deported, but volunteers to go with her family. They are forced into a concentration camp. Guido tries to hold his family together and survive the horrors of a concentration camp. Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
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March 12: Three Days of the Condor (USA) 1975 Drama/action
Director: Sydney Pollak 117 mins 7.4 IMDb
Stars: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway
A mild-mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. “Condor” must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.
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April 2: A Matter of Life and Death (UK) 1946 Action/drama
Director: Michael Power, Emeric Pressburger 104 mins 8.0 IMDb
Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote
May 1945, and pilot Peter Carter’s plane has been damaged on his return flight back to base. His parachute has ripped. He knows his crew have bailed out safely, but is certain his own chances are limited. Over his radio contact, he talks to June, a woman working for U.S. Forces. They’re struck by each other’s voices, but Carter decides to jump, preferring this to crashing with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. Was it his time to die?
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April 23: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France) 2007 Docu/drama
Director: Julian Schnabel 112 mins 8.0 IMDb
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze
Forty-three-year-old Elle magazine editor Jean awakens not knowing where he is. Turns out he’s been in a hospital for several weeks, in a coma. Cognitive faculties are intact, but he has ‘locked-in’ syndrome, resulting in almost complete paralysis. He has no verbal communication. His situation brings together many people in his life, including his ex-lover and mother of his children, his current lover and his ageing father. With the help of a speech therapist, he eventually communicates using a system that helps him spell out words through his functioning left eye. Jean wants to use this communication method to write a book.
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May 14: Niagara (USA) (+AGM) 1953 Thriller/drama
Director: Henry Hathaway 92 mins 7.0 IMDb
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotton, Jean Peters
A classic film noir brings a tale of honeymooning couples, complicated connections and unsatisfying marriages. A Niagara Falls motel brings two couples together, where they get to know things about each other that they maybe shouldn’t, not least that Rose Loomis wants to get rid of her husband and start life with her lover. Plot twists and spurned lovers mean that not everything goes according to plan, all under the powerful and dramatic backdrop of Niagara Falls.
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