January Giallo 2026
Music Box of Horrors is thrilled to be back for another installment of January Giallo, in partnership with our friends at Cinematic Void! Th... Read more
Tropic of Cancer
Monday, Jan 19 - 6:30PM
Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck
Director Jacques Tourneur once said of Barbara Stanwyck: “She only lives for two things, and both of them are work.” With a career that span... Read more
Forty Guns
Saturday, Jan 24 - 11:30AM
The Chicago Film Society Presents
The Chicago Film Society comes to the Music Box for all-celluloid screenings of classic & underseen features, short subjects, trailer reels,... Read more
Lady Windermere's Fan
Thursday, Feb 12 - 7:30PM
Brothers from Another Planet
We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spid... Read more
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Monday, Feb 16 - 1:15PM
Recent Series + Festivals
The 42nd 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
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
Animation Adventures
Discover fantastic worlds, nostalgic favorites and arthouse gems with Animation Adventures at the Music Box Theatre! This recurring film series celebr... Read more
Music Box of Horrors Presents
The team at Music Box of Horrors collectively agreed we could no longer only celebrate all things horror & hang out with you sickos once a year! Every... Read more
Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long
Friday, November 28th - Sunday, November 30th + December 3rd & 4thFor over a decade, Thanksgiving has been celebrated at the Music Box Theatre with th... Read more
Merciless Mayhem: Martial Arts Midnights & Matinees
This November, the Music Box Theatre highlights the furious fists and feet of some of the world's finest martial artists unwilling to accept defeat in... Read more
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!
Happy Halloween 2025! Join us as we do the Time Warp again! In this Music Box Halloween tradition, the classic cult musical is screened with a cast of... Read more
Music Box of Horrors: Dead and Loving It!
Last year, MBOH: The Dream Child descended upon Chicago's ravenous horror community. And let's just say things got interesting. In the months since we... Read more
Music Box of Horrors 2025
This October, THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS rises from the grave with a 24 hour movie marathon guaranteed to drive you MAD! Featuring frightening flicks on... 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
Crucemos al Otro Lado
This September, join us for "Crucemos al Otro Lado”, a film series that embraces stories made by Latin American filmmakers, films about Hispanic prota... Read more
Hong Kong Cinema Classics
In partnership with Shout! Studios and GKIDS the Music Box Theatre is thrilled to present "Hong Kong Cinema Classics," a retrospective of essential ti... Read more
Clean Plate Club: A Food and Film Series
Looking for a delicious way to spend your Tuesday this Summer? Join us at the Music Box Theatre for the return of our Food and Film Series: Clean Plat... Read more
NOIR CITY: Chicago 2025
Femme fatales ignite the screen this year, with a focus on films that shine a spotlight on women whose cinematic legacy is entwined with the rise of f... Read more
The Music Box 70mm Festival 2025
70mm is frequently a format of “er’s”: bigger, brighter, crisper, sharper, wider, heavier, costlier, louder. These terms are often used to compare the... Read more
Akira Kurosawa: Something Like a Retrospective
Arguably one of history's finest and most influential filmmakers, especially on Western cinema, Akira Kurosawa's works were not only exquisite example... Read more
Sex, Love, & Liberation: The Films of Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.
“I wanted to be honest about gay life and gay sexuality. […] I think what you want to do is tell the truth, and by the particularity of the individual... Read more
2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Fest
2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival returns to the Music Box Theatre July 17–21. Celebrating bold new work by women and non-binary filmmakers, the f... Read more
Five by Fellini
“At the center of it all, there was one director whom everyone knew, one artist whose name was synonymous with cinema and what it could do. It was a n... Read more
Destination Ghibli: Celebrating 40 Years
To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Japan's most beloved animation studio, the Music Box Theatre is proud to present Destination Ghibli: Celebrating... Read more
The Films of Gene Hackman
“Even at their jauntiest, Mr. Hackman’s performances have volcanic undercurrents. It might be that the secret of his uniqueness is that his comfort zo... Read more
Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair
This June the Music Box Theatre is thrilled to present “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair” alongside the American Cinematheque. A weeklong festival that s... Read more
Sapphopalooza
From the island of Lesbos to the Music Box Theatre, sapphic culture has always found its way into hidden corners of cinema, visible to those who know... Read more
CHIRP Music Film Festival
CHIRP Radio 107.1FM presents its third annual Music Film Festival in its new home at the Music Box. The fest features seven music-focused films and re... Read more
The Chicago Critics Film Festival
THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Twelfth Year! The event, a six-time nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago R... Read more
MUBI Fest 2025
Join us for a weekend-long celebration of cinema featuring a curated selection of sneak peeks and rarely screened classics, alongside Q&As, workshops,... Read more
David Lynch: Moving Through Time
Curated by Daniel KnoxEach film will be preceded by a 20 minute pre-show of clips, interviews and David Lynch shorts cut together and selected by prog... Read more
Play Ball! A Baseball Series
“The only church that truly feeds the soul, day in and day out, is the church of baseball." - Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy in BULL DURHAM"Sitting the... Read more
Mud, Blood, & Marinara: Spaghetti Westerns
When Italian studios began to produce and distribute Western genre films in the 1960s, many critics quickly dismissed them as ultra-violent, nihilisti... Read more
Melanin, Roots, and Culture
Join us for a few of our favorite historic and luminous feature films by artists of the Black-African diaspora on the big screen this February, plus t... Read more
The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees
In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more
January Giallo 2025
Music Box of Horrors is thrilled to be back for another installment of January Giallo, in partnership with our friends at Cinematic Void! This year we... Read more