National Anthem
Dylan (Charlie Plummer), a 21-year-old soft-spoken construction worker, is the de facto father figure to his little brother and works odd jobs to help... Read more
Ghostlight
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
The Holy Mountain
A Mexican master (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure (Horacio Salinas) and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men.
I Like Movies
Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more
2024 HUMP! Film Festival
HUMP! is a lovingly curated festival of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The filmmakers and stars show us hot and sexy, creativ... Read more
The Ship of Lost Men
A Frenchman who established his directorial renown in New Jersey in 1914 when the infant industry was still working out the grammar of feature-length... Read more
Apollo 13
Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon)... Read more
Roman Holiday
This Mother’s Day, take the woman who gave you everything on a Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck!The Music Box Theatre is pleased to... Read more
Mother!
A young woman spends her days renovating the Victorian mansion that she lives in with her husband in the countryside. When a stranger knocks on the do... Read more
The Bridges of Madison County + Gloria
In the world of being a mom, little is ever discussed about the inner machinations or secret desires of being a matriarch. Whether that's harboring a... Read more
Dawn of the Dead
Celebrate the 45th anniversary of DAWN OF THE DEAD at the Music Box Theatre special guest Ken Foree in person. Writer-director George A. Romero ups th... Read more
Relative
David and Karen Frank are retirement-age progressive activists and parents who have lived in the same Victorian home on the north side of Chicago for... Read more
Dawn of the Dead 3D
Celebrate the 45th anniversary of DAWN OF THE DEAD at the Music Box Theatre special guest Ken Foree in person. Writer-director George A. Romero ups th... Read more
Wildcat
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothi... Read more
The Handmaiden
From PARK Chan-wook, the celebrated director of OLDBOY, LADY VENGEANCE and STOKER, comes a ravishing new crime drama. PARK presents a gripping and sen... Read more
Liz & Monty Matinees
“I thought he was the most gorgeous thing in the world and easily one of the best actors.” – Elizabeth TaylorEternally beautiful and mesmerizing perfo... Read more
Hundreds of Beavers
In this silent supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness.Can he go from zero to hero, become North America'... Read more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (El... Read more
Songs of Earth
SONGS OF EARTH is a majestic symphony for the big screen. The filmmaker's father is our guide. Bringing us through Norway's most scenic valley, he gre... Read more
The Room
This “electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies” stars (and was directed, written and produced by) the mysterious Tomm... Read more
Stop Making Sense
Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by criti... Read more
From Here to Eternity
At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift... Read more
First Blood
Vietnam veteran and drifter John J. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into a small Washington town in search of an old friend, but is met with intole... Read more
Undivide Us
America is at a crossroads where politicians, traditional media, and social media fan the flames of toxic partisanship that have led many Americans to... Read more
Music Box Garden Movies
Summer is here and that means one thing: the return of our GARDEN MOVIES! Enjoy an outdoor movie on our Garden Patio, located right behind the Music B... Read more
For Your Consideration
The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star... Read more
Park Life
Having both found themselves alone in Chicago one afternoon, a consultant from New York and a writer from Los Angeles strike up a conversation on a pa... Read more
A Mighty Wind
In this hilarious backstage mockumentary, three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the deat... Read more
Solo
Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is a rising star in Montreal’s drag scene performing lively disco pop numbers weekly at his local club. Friendly with his fe... Read more
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
The Angels (Lucy Liu), (Drew Barrymore), (Cameron Diaz) are ready to go undercover to retrieve two missing silver wedding bands containing valuable en... Read more
The Misfits
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland (Clark Gable)... Read more
Desperate Living
A housewife (Mink Stole) murders her husband, runs away and ends up in a town ruled by an evil queen who wants to infect her kingdom with rabies.
Mommie Dearest
When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Cra... Read more
Feel the Base
An evening of original music videos made as part of a collaboration between The Base Chicago and Elmhurst University who teamed up to share their know... Read more
Cecil B. Demented
An insane action-comedy about a young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists who kidnap a movie goddess and force her to star in t... Read more
Godzilla vs. Music Box
The Music Box is partnering with the Japanese Arts Foundation to throw Godzilla a birthday party June 7 -13, and you're invited! Come celebrate 70 yea... Read more
Godzilla: The Complete Showa-Era Marathon
Join the Music Box on Saturday, 6/8 for an exclusive 24-hour marathon screening of all 15 Showa-Era Godzilla titles! There will be vendors, exclusive... Read more
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Riff Randell (P.J. Soles) is the biggest Ramones fan at Vince Lombardi High School, but her plans to liberate her dance-crazy classmates with tickets... Read more
Dazed and Confused
This coming-of-age film follows the mayhem of group of rowdy teenagers in Austin, Texas, celebrating the last day of high school in 1976. The graduati... Read more
Cruising
A psychopath is scouring New York City gay clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is ordered to don leather attire... Read more
Ask Any Buddy
Featuring fragments from 126 theatrical feature films spanning the years 1968-1986 ASK ANY BUDDY uses rare footage shot at dozens of real bathhouses,... Read more
Wild River
Eager to further his career, ambitious Tennessee Valley Authority administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) journeys to a small town to oversee th... Read more
Grey Gardens
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together... Read more
Quadrophenia
An angst-ridden London youth, Jimmy Cooper (Phil Daniels) escapes the drudgery of his postal job as a member of the Mods, a sharply dressed gang const... Read more
Crossroads + Morvern Callar
In the annals of pop and film history, 2002 remains a definitive year for the female-led road movie. It almost seems shocking now to realize Tamra Dav... Read more
The Birdcage
In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) sha... Read more
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Best friends Sunako (Michiko Oikawa) and Dora (Yukiko Inoue) attend a Catholic school together in the port city of Yokohama, a bustling gateway to Wes... Read more
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
History professor George (Richard Burton) and his boozy wife, Martha (Elizabeth Taylor), return late one Saturday night from a cocktail party at the h... Read more
The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl Dunye made cinematic history with The Watermelon Woman, the first American feature to be directed by a black lesbian as well as an incisive, hu... Read more
Repo Man
After being fired from his job, Los Angeles slacker and punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) lands a gig working for an eccentric repossession agent name... Read more
Kinds of Kindness
A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-a... Read more
A Place in the Sun
In this classic version of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy," George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the nephew of a wealthy industrialist, i... Read more
Free LSD
The film sees Keith (OFF!’s Keith Morris), an elderly sex shop owner, fall for a younger woman who visits his store looking for a gift. When their rel... Read more