Coming Soon
Des Moines Underground Film Festival
- Sun, Nov 15
Run Time: 122 min. Release Year: 2026
Des Moines Underground Film Festival returns to Varsity Cinema in 2026. Money (Music Video) by Odd Pets, Serena...
The Work in Progress
- Tue, Nov 17
Director: Ian Cheney Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Robert Reich
A team of filmmakers, inspired by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, invited 30 and 80-year-olds to gather...
The Last Waltz
- Tue, Nov 24
Director: Martin Scorsese Run Time: 117 min. Release Year: 1978
Starring: Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson
It Started as a Concert. It Became a Celebration.
Bitter Christmas
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Run Time: 111 min. Release Year: 2026 Language: Spanish
Starring: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Patrick Criado, Victoria Luengo
You’re confusing fiction with reality.
Elsinore
Director: Simon Stone Run Time: 111 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Andrew Scott, Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, Olivia Colman
Live. Gloriously.
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...
George Michael: The Faith Tour
Director: Andy Morahan, David Austin Run Time: 113 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: George Michael
Experience the iconic 1988 concert.
Batman Returns
Director: Tim Burton Run Time: 126 min. Release Year: 1992
Starring: Christopher Walken, Danny DeVito, Michael Gough, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer
The Bat. The Cat. The Penguin.
Dune: Part Three
Director: Denis Villeneuve Run Time: 140 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Florence Pugh, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya
The epic conclusion.
Buena Vista Social Club presented with Des Moines Performing Arts
Director: Wim Wenders Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 1999
Starring: Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Joachim Cooder, Ry Cooder
In Havana, music isn't a pastime, it's a way of life.
Winters, Nebraska
- Sun, Jan 17
Sun, Jan 17 @ 7:00 pm: Q&A with the filmmakers.
Director: Eric K Delehoy Run Time: 93 min.
Starring: Andre Leben, Marc Singer, Michael Ridley, Niamh McHenry, Scott William Winters
Following a devastating loss, Jack returns home to the quiet homestead he fled years prior to care for his grandmother and repair the frayed relationships he left behind.
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...