Coming Soon
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Sun, Aug 16
Director: Marianne Elliott Run Time: 180 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Aidan Turner, Cat Simmons, Darragh Hand, Lesley Manville, Monica Barbaro
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Network – 50th Anniversary
- Tue, Aug 18
Director: Sidney Lumet Run Time: 122 min. Release Year: 1976
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, William Holden
Television will never be the same.
Sorry to Bother You
- Tue, Aug 18
Director: Boots Riley Run Time: 112 min. Release Year: 2018
Starring: Jermaine Fowler, LaKeith Stanfield, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Tessa Thompson
Destiny is calling.
Tony
- Thu, Aug 20
- Fri, Aug 21
- Sat, Aug 22
- Sun, Aug 23
- Mon, Aug 24
- Tue, Aug 25
- Wed, Aug 26
- Thu, Aug 27
Director: Matt Johnson Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Dominic Sessa, Emilia Jones, Leo Woodall, Stavros Halkias
"I was — to be frank — a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking."
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
- Fri, Aug 21
- Sat, Aug 22
- Sun, Aug 23
- Mon, Aug 24
- Tue, Aug 25
- Wed, Aug 26
- Thu, Aug 27
Director: Jane Schoenbrun Run Time: 112 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder
Blood. Lust.
The Sun Never Sets
Director: Joe Swanberg Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Cory Michael Smith, Dakota Fanning, Debby Ryan, Jake Johnson, Karley Sciortino
Wendy’s life is thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack, who is older and divorced with children, insists...
Norma Rae w/ The Iowa Labor History Society
Director: Martin Ritt Run Time: 110 min. Release Year: 1979
Starring: Barbara Baxley, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle, Ron Leibman, Sally Field
The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.
Matewan – A Free Screening in Partnership with the Iowa Labor History Society
Director: John Sayles Run Time: 132 min. Release Year: 1987
Starring: Chris Cooper, David Strathairn, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham
It takes more than guns to kill a man.
sex, lies, and videotape
- Tue, Sep 8
Director: Steven Soderbergh Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 1989
Starring: Andie MacDowell, James Spader, Laura San Giacomo, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter
the husband. the wife. her sister. his friend.
Reefer Madness
- Thu, Sep 17
Director: Louis J. Gasnier Run Time: 66 min. Release Year: 1938
Starring: Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles, Thelma White
Public enemy no. 1. Women cry for it… Men will die for it!
Resident Evil
Director: Zach Cregger Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Austin Abrams, Johnno Wilson, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry
No sweat.
Primetime
Director: Lance Oppenheim Run Time: 110 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Matthew Maher, Merritt Wever, Phoebe Bridgers, Robert Pattinson, Skyler Gisondo
Are you ready to make television history?
2026 MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival: You Be the Judge!
- Sun, Sep 27
- Wed, Sep 30
Run Time: 154 min. Release Year: 2026
Discover your inner film critic by casting your vote at the 29th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. You’ll join film lovers simultaneously in over 500 venues across the globe!
Silent Movie Day: Battleship Potemkin featuring a new score by Pet Shop Boys
- Tue, Sep 29
Director: Sergei Eisenstein Run Time: 75 min. Release Year: 1925 Language: Russian
Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Vladimir Barsky
Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun.
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Così fan tutte – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Oct 3
Run Time: 237 min. Release Year: 2026 Language: Italian
Starring: Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Federica Lombardi
The Met: Live in HD season kicks off with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Macbeth – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Oct 17
Run Time: 209 min. Release Year: 2026 Language: Italian
Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists star in Verdi’s thrilling take on Shakespeare’s immortal tale. Following past triumphs in...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Live Shadow Cast
- Thu, Oct 22
- Fri, Oct 23
Director: Jim Sharman Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 1975
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry
A different set of jaws.
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Samson et Dalila – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Dec 5
Run Time: 234 min. Release Year: 2026 Language: French
Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive...
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Jan 23
Director: Gary Halvorson Run Time: 195 min. Release Year: 2027 Language: Italian
Starring: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, Matthew Rose, Richard Bernstein, Željko Lučić
Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones,...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Silent Night – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Mar 20
Run Time: 180 min. Release Year: 2027
Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Manon – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Apr 3
Run Time: 264 min. Release Year: 2027 Language: French
Following her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette—which garnered raves for “high notes that spun like liquid...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Otello – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Apr 24
Run Time: 201 min. Release Year: 2027 Language: Italian
One of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Parsifal – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Jun 5
Run Time: 365 min. Release Year: 2027 Language: German
A profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for...