The Prince Charles Cinema

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Come and See
1985 141mins Russia (15) War / Horror

This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s Joan of Arc) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camerawork and expressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors who took eight years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.

Rose of Nevada
2025 114mins UK (15) Sci-Fi / Drama

Shot on 16mm, Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin's film sees him return with a political folktale of two fishermen trapped in a time-loop. Thirty years after the Rose of Nevada fishing boat and its crew vanished without a trace, the vessel inexplicably returns to its old harbour in a small Cornish village, unchanged by time. Drawn by the promise of steady work and escape from hardship, two young men join its new crew: Nick, a devoted father struggling to provide for his family, and Liam, a drifting outsider living on the margins. When the Rose docks once more, the men realise they have slipped back in time. Trapped in the past, they are mistaken for the original crew and burdened with the expectations, fears and unresolved grief of a community desperate for answers, forcing them to confront their identity and fate, and the cost of survival.

The Truman Show
1998 103mins USA (PG) Comedy / Drama

He doesn't know it, but everything in Truman Burbank's (Jim Carrey) life is part of a massive TV set. Executive producer Christof (Ed Harris) orchestrates "The Truman Show," a live broadcast of Truman's every move captured by hidden cameras. As Truman gradually discovers the truth, he must decide whether to act on it.

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
1987 96mins USA (12A) Comedy

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Crude, grotesque, pint-sized aliens known as the Garbage Pail Kids® help a young boy (Mackenzie Astin)  exact revenge on his bullies and win the girl of his dreams, a fashion designer (Katie Barberi).

Kill List + Ben Wheatley Q&A
2011 95mins UK (18) Horror / Crime

Presented with a special 15th Anniversary Post-Film Q&A with Director Ben Wheatley, as part of BLEAK WEEK 2026.

Nearly a year after a botched job, a British soldier turn hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

Blackboards
2000 85mins Iran (PG) Drama

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

Christiane F.
131mins (18) Drama

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.

Katalin Varga + Peter Strickland Q&A
81mins Romania, UK (15) Thriller

Presented with a Post-Film Q&A with Director Peter Strickland, as part of BLEAK WEEK 2026.

In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder.