Presented in partnership with Pride PEI. Dir: Luca Guadagnino, Italy/US, 2017, Drama, Romance. Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg. In English, Italian & French with English subtitles. Luca Guadagnino’s tender 2017 romance film is a summer fling unlike any other. It’s 1983, and 17-year-old Elio is spending the days with his family at their villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, who’s working as an intern for Elio’s father. They discover the heady beauty of awakening desire.

Dir: Martin Scorsese, US, 1990, Crime, Drama. Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci. 1991 Academy Award winner, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Joe Pesci). The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.

Presented in partnership with Pride PEI. Dir: Sidney Lumet, US, 1975, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen. Sidney Lumet’s progressive classic is presented in celebration of the PEI Pride Festival. Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

Dir: Laura Piani, France, 2025, Romance, Drama. Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly, Charlie Anson. In English and French with English subtitles. “Agathe Robinson is a quiet and intelligent bookseller with a strong love for literature, especially the classic works of Jane Austen... There’s tragedy in her past, she was in a car accident that killed her parents, but she survived. Keeping her father alive through her devotion to literature, Agathe aspires to be an author. When she gets accepted into a Jane Austen residency, Agathe finally has a chance to add some good excitement into her life. Old fashioned with a heart that yearns for classic romance…Her romantic life lives only in her writing, which she anxiously tries to hide from the people around her. But something’s got to change, and the residency is a big chance for something different… Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is the debut feature from writer and director Laura Piani, following Agatha’s journey as writer and lover. Early on, she meets Jane Austen’s young descendant Oliver, a prickly literature professor on leave from his university… But despite his lineage, Oliver doesn’t have much respect for Austen as a writer, butting heads with Agathe and her deep respect for the legendary novels. Though it’s evident that these two are meant to fall in love, Piani smartly puts the focus on Agathe’s writing struggles, giving her ambitions just as much space as her romantic prospects. It’s a parallel journey of both artistic discovery and a romantic awakening… Austen made women the protagonists of her stories, taking their romantic and financial concerns seriously, lending weight to what was then considered frivolous and inconsequential. Who cares which man a woman marries? Well, obviously, the woman does. And she often had to live with that choice, right or wrong… Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a romantic comedy for the quiet, thoughtful lovers who yearn for the sincerity of the past.” - Jourdain Searles, RogerEbert.com

Presented by Roving Picture Shows and The Comic Hunter. Dir: Kenji Misumi, Japan, 1972. Itto Ogami (a masterless samurai) wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child as the Shadow Yagyu clan plots to solidify its power. The inaugural film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series immediately thrust Itto Ogami into the ranks of the all-time great samurai movie icons. Based on the seminal manga series by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima.

Presented in partnership with Pride PEI. Dir: Céline Sciamma, France, 2019, Romance, Drama. Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel. In French with English subtitles. The lush and sensual queer-romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire is presented by City Cinema in partnership with Pride PEI. On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Dir: Eva Victor, US, 2025, Comedy, Drama. Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi. “Eva Victor has made an astonishing debut feature writing, directing, and starring in the jarringly humane comedy Sorry, Baby… More a trigger warning than a spoiler: Agnes has been sexually assaulted by a trusted acquaintance. This event plays at the center of the film, but is treated less like a shocking reveal and more like the gentle peeling back of an onion… The bad thing happens off-screen, with the camera waiting outside the house for Agnes as the sky goes from day to night… While all of this sounds grim, Victor weaves absurdist humor throughout, recognizing the deeply ridiculous moments that exist even in the midst of trauma. Through this complexity, she also showcases moments of grace, breadcrumbs that lead us to how a person might pull through a bad thing to find something beyond it…Agnes is deeply awkward, offering a hook-up to an open-hearted neighbor (Lady Bird's Lucas Hedges) then commenting carelessly on how his body. In these socially awkward moments of naked honesty, Victor allows us into the intimate world of a woman lost. Her underbelly is soft, and her impulses can be weird and messy. And in that, it's impossible not to fall for Victor's Sorry, Baby as it embraces the mess that is growing from hurt to healing… Bittersweet, brilliant, and heartwarmingly funny.” - Kristy Puchko, Mashable

Dir: Wes Anderson, US, 2004, Adventure, Comedy. Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe. Wes Anderson’s quirky comedy about a storied oceanographer comes to City Cinema! With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.

Dir: Mike Flanagan, US, 2025, Drama, Fantasy. Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Jacob Tremblay. “Adapted by Mike Flanagan from Stephen King’s 2020 novella, this meditation on the bittersweet beauty of the human condition is sweeping in sentiment and surgical in intent. Flanagan wants his audience to reflect on the passing moments of connection that carry outsize significance and the simple joys that make life worth living. Not saccharine but soulful, The Life of Chuck arrives at life-affirming profundity through a blend of surrealist wonder and humanist truth. It’s no wonder this marvel of a movie claimed the Toronto International Film Festival’s coveted audience prize last fall. Tom Hiddleston stars as the titular Charles Krantz, a dying accountant with a dormant love of dance, though we don’t properly meet him until the middle of three “acts” that unfold in reverse chronological order. But we do get enigmatic glimpses of him in “Thanks, Chuck,” an opening stanza that alternately unnerves and compels while posing a puzzle that’s pieced together in due time… In act II we meet Hiddleston’s Chuck as a genial fellow with a loving wife, a teenage son and an undetected brain tumor… As Chuck strolls past a drummer busking on a street corner, a dormant desire to dance takes over. Gleefully roping in a passerby fresh off a breakup, our startlingly loose-limbed protagonist struts up a storm in a euphoric jolt of live-life-to-the-fullest joy… While the horror auteur Flanagan is known for tapping into King’s disturbing side, The Life of Chuck marks an obvious departure. Now that he’s delivered an elegy in the vein of Stand By Me or The Shawshank Redemption. It’s a wondrous affirmation by way of Stephen King.” - Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post

Presented in partnership with Pride PEI. Dir: Lana Wachowski/Lilly Wachowski, US, 1999, Sci-Fi, Action. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne. Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s genre defining masterpiece comes to City Cinema. When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth—the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.