Phantom of the Paradise
After record producer Swan (Paul Williams) steals the music of songwriter Winslow Leach (William Finley) and gives it to one of his bands, Leach sneak... Read more
Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long
Friday, November 29th - Sunday, December 1st + Thursday, December 5thFor over a decade, Thanksgiving has been celebrated at the Music Box Theatre with... Read more
Heavier Trip
The world’s most ferocious death metal band, Impaled Rektum, is back and ready to unleash hell!Shackled by fate and locked up in a Norwegian prison, t... Read more
The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer star in the beloved American classic, based on the real life von Trapp family's escape from Nazi-annexed Austria... Read more
The Shop Around the Corner
Inspired in part by Ernst Lubitsch’s father’s experiences running a small tailor shop in Berlin, The Shop Around the Corner stars James Stewart and Ma... Read more
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers is no ordinary ‘fish out of water’ story. Holly Woodlawn plays Eve, who gets off the bus from New York City with am... Read more
Nosferatu (1922)
In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Tr... Read more
Flow
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with... Read more
You Are Not Me
Aitana returns home for the first time in three years, excited to introduce her wife and their adopted infant son to her extended family and celebrate... Read more
The Creep Tapes
THE CREEP TAPES continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job docume... Read more
It's A Wonderful Life
After George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an angel (Henry Travers) is sent to earth to make George's wish come true. George s... Read more
White Christmas
The touching story of two war veterans turned entertainers (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) who help save a winter resort, and meet a couple of lovely lad... Read more
Gremlins
Horror and humor combine seamlessly in this monstrous box-office hit Steven Spielberg and director Joe Dante. A small town is besieged by some furry a... Read more
The 41st Annual Music Box Christmas Sing-A-Long & Double Feature
Who could have predicted on that snowy Christmas Eve in 1983, when the operator of a vintage movie theater in Chicago decided to show two old holiday... 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
The Fall
Relive the adventure of Tarsem’s visionary fantasy epic THE FALL, as it returns to theaters in a stunning new 4k restoration, presented by David Finch... Read more
Found Footage Fest: 20th Anniversary Show!
Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show) have over 13,000 VHS tapes in their collection and have been taking viewers on a guided tour thro... Read more
Eyes Wide Shut
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star as a married couple entangled in an intricate web of jealousy and sexual obsession in Stanley Kubrick's final cinema... Read more
Alternative Christmas Features
For nearly four decades, the Music Box has celebrated the holidays with Jimmy Stewart and Bing Crosby. However, if those guys aren’t your cup of eggno... Read more
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michae... Read more
Scooby-Doo
Elizabeth says: In 2002, young millennials EVERYWHERE were starved for representations of queer youth culture to connect with until the live action Sc... Read more
35mm Mystery Screening
It's somebody's birthday. The print is 50 years old and so is the programmer.
The Tune
Legendary animator and cartoonist Bill Plympton’s first feature, THE TUNE is a wildly surreal animated musical comedy about a struggling songwriter na... Read more
Nosferatu (2024)
From writer-director Robert Eggers (THE WITCH, THE LIGHTHOUSE) NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifyin... Read more
Porcelain War
Winner of the 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary, PORCELAIN WAR is a stunning tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, embodying t... Read more
The Time Masters
Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius) The Time Mast... Read more
Dinner in America
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly fall in love and go on an epic journey together through America's deca... Read more
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
In the dozen years since the original massacre, countless more people have vanished without a trace and, despite fears from the locals that Leatherfac... Read more
House of 1000 Corpses
Love him or hate him, Rob Zombie came out of the gate with his gritty, self-consciously tasteless take on the horror genre fully formed. House of 1000... Read more