What’s On at ActOne: March 2026 Highlights from Acton’s Community Cinema

Showing in March: 

• “Wuthering Heights”: Already tipped to be the biggest and most delicious cinema scandal of 2026, this is Emerald Fennell’s take on the famous novel, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.
• The Secret Agent: Marcelo (Wagner Moura) is on the run from mercenary killers after becoming the target of a dictator amid the ruthless, political tumult of 1977 Brazil. Four Academy Award nominations.
• Sirāt: A profound meditation on the fragility of the human condition and the illusions of safety embedded in the Western worldview. Two Academy Award nominations.
• One Battle After Another: When a former radical’s evil nemesis resurfaces, and his daughter goes missing, he scrambles to find her as they both battle the consequences of their pasts. Thirteen Academy Award nominations.
• Hamnet: Agnes and William Shakespeare’s untold and utterly extraordinary love story that inspired his greatest masterpiece. Seven Academy Award nominations.
• Paul McCartney: Man on the Run: The intimate documentary about Paul McCartney’s private life and musical career focuses on the period between the end of The Beatles and the formation of Wings.
• Othello: Shakespeare’s play comes to life like never before in a compelling new production starring David Harewood OBE, Toby Jones OBE, Caitlin FitzGerald, Vinette Robinson and Luke Treadaway. Directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris OBE (War Horse, Dr Semmelweis, The Grinning Man) with music by PJ Harvey, this epic story of manipulation, jealousy and toxic masculinity explores the darker side of power, rage and desire. Filmed live at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, especially for the big screen. One-off screening on Wednesday 4 March.
• Marty Supreme: Marty Mauser, a young hustler with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
• The Age of Innocence: Newland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announced, Newland finds himself attracted to May’s older married cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska. Classic Matinee.
• Sentimental Value: A deeply resonant family drama that eschews melodrama for emotional authenticity and psychological nuance. Nine Academy Award nominations.
• The Voice of Hind Rajab: A daring hybrid of documentary and drama, anchored by the real voice of a five-year-old girl whose final, desperate call for help in Gaza becomes both testimony and indictment. Nominated for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award.
• Mother’s Pride: A comedy about a failing pub, a divided community and a grieving family whose lives are changed by brewing real ale and entering the Great British Beer Awards.
• The Testament of Ann Lee: A frenzied, wonderful, elegiac film that captures the ecstasy and agony of the Shakers’ sect leader who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers.
• The Bride!: A lonely Frank travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman, and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.
• EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert: A mix of a documentary and concert film made using unused footage that was found during the production of the 2022 Baz Luhrmann’s epic biopic, Elvis.
• Exhibition on Screen: Turner & Constable: Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.
• Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man: Birmingham, 1940: Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. The conclusion of the global TV phenomenon, Peaky Blinders.
• It Was Just an Accident: A fearless tour de force. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on. Two Academy Award nominations.
• The Tasters: A 26-year-old Rosa joins the group of tasters forced to taste a dish, responsible for checking that food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.
• Sinners: An ambitious, visually stunning film that blends horror, blues music, and historical themes. Record-breaking sixteen Academy Award nominations.
• Project Hail Mary: Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. He must solve the riddle behind a mysterious substance that’s causing the sun to die out. As details of the mission unravel, he calls on his scientific training and sheer ingenuity, but he may not have to do it alone.
• How to Make a Killing: Disowned at birth by his wealthy family, Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
• Hard Boiled: A fiery coalescence of electrifying performances, elaborate narrative and operatic gunfights, John Woo’s epic has rightly been exalted as the undisputed champion of Hong Kong action films, now ready to unleash a hail of bullets anew in this stunning restoration.
• Resurrection: In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld.
• My Father’s Shadow: Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. Akinola Davies Jr.’s Outstanding Debut BAFTA Award winner.
• Midwinter Break: Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam.
• Arco: A 10-year-old boy from a peaceful future accidentally travels back in time to the year 2075. Discovering a world in peril, he bands together with a young girl and her robot caretaker as he sets out on a quest to return home.
• A Pale View of Hills: Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow’s memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in the 1950s and England during the 1980s Cold War era, unravelling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.

Special Events: Top Picks 

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Breaking Social + live director Q&A – Sunday 8th at 5.00 pm

Royal Ballet & Opera Live, broadcast live for one night only

Siegfried – Tuesday 31st March at 5.15 pm

Live Music & Community Events in the lounge