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Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone: 25th Anniversary Screening
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Rating: PG; Common Sense Media Age Rating 7+
Length: 2 hour 32 minutes
Bring your copy of the book or dress in costume for free popcorn!
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
I Love Boosters
Featuring a Meal and a Movie Option with Bayes Oyster Bar!
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Rating: R
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."
Free Artist Talk with Nathaniel Landry, the artist featured in the Gallery at Manship! Arrive at 6:00 p.m. for The Monsters we Sometimes Become Artist Talk and stay for the screening!
The Birdcage
Genre: Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ
Rating: R
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Proceeds from specialty cocktails sold at this event will go directly to Baton Rouge Pride.
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing, conservative parents.
The Hoodoos Premiere + Q&A
Film Premiere
Made in Baton Rouge
Stay after the film for a Q&A!
Genre: Horror
Rated: NR
Meal and a Movie Option!
THE HOODOOS follows career criminals Andre and Alyssa as they race to claim a hidden chest of Confederate gold, revealed by the mysterious Captain.
Funny Girl - $5 Movie + a MEAL and a movie option
Featuring a Lunch & a movie option with Capital City Grill!
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Rating: G; Common Sense Rating 10+
Year: 1968
Ticket Price: $5
In this bittersweet, classic musical drama, the vibrant and beautiful young Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) starts out as a bit player on the New York City vaudeville stage, but works her way up to stardom on Broadway. Valued for her vocal and comedic talents by the renowned theater impresario Florenz Ziegfeld (Walter Pidgeon), Fanny thrives, but her relationship with her suave, imprisoned businessman husband, Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), is another story.
ROAST NIGHT: Ghostbusters (1984)
Improv Comedy with Family Dinner Improv Comedy Troupe
Rating: R-ish
Genre : Supernatural Comedy
Comedic commentary during the film showing in Manship Theatre.
The 2026 Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival
Calling all Underdogs!
Find out all you need to know about the 2026 Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival. Details on all individual films, passes, and more!
Indepth Live! With Mark Mangini
Baton Rouge native Mike James Gallagher, an Emmy-nominated sound designer and creator of INDEPTH Sound Design, is bringing two-time Oscar winner Mark Mangini (Dune, Mad Max: Fury Road) to Baton Rouge to headline a live INDEPTH conversation at the Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival.
Individual tickets to this event are available, and all BRUFF Full Fest Pass and Saturday Day Pass holders receive free admission.
Walter Anderson - Free Screening, Panel, and Reception with LSU Museum of Art
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Year: 2026
A FREE EVENT!
Meal and a Movie Option Available!
Join the LSU Museum of Art and Manship Theatre for Walter Anderson: The Extraordinary Life and Art of the Islander, followed by a panel discussion featuring the filmmaker Anthony Thaxton, the artist’s son, John Anderson, and Mattie Codling, the Director of the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Film and panel in Manship Theatre. Reception and book signing to follow in the LSU Museum of Art.
Reserve your free tickets today!
2001: A Space Odyssey - $5 Movie
Genre: Sci-fi, Adventure
Rating: G; Common Sense Age Rating 12+
Year: 1968
Ticket Price: $5
Meal and a Movie Option!
An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
In Partnership with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library
PAGES TO POPCORN: Bring your library card for free popcorn!
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Rating: PG; Common Sense Media 13+
Year: 1975
A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen.
Cat Video Fest with Cat Haven
Genre: Cat Videos; Shorts
Rated: PG
Ticket Price: $12.50, including fees, call for discounts.
Meet your new best friend! Enjoy on-site cat adoptions with Cat Haven, and know that a portion of every ticket sold supports their mission of finding loving homes for cats in need.
Cat Video Fest is a compilation of the latest and best cat videos pulled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.
Manhattan Short Film Fest: You Be the Judge!
Showtimes: 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Discover your inner film critic by casting your vote for Best Film and Best Actor in the 29th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival screening. You'll join film lovers simultaneously in over 500 venues across the globe gathering to see the Ten Finalist in this year's event. With past finalists garnering Oscar nominations and short films continuing to move into the Hollywood mainstream, come see this entertaining program featuring the best short films in the world today! Ballots supplied upon entry.
Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul (Documentary)
Proceeds from ticket sales go directly to Live after Five!
Genre: Music, Documentary
Rating: NR
Length: 1 hr 36 min
This visionary music documentary traces the turbulent, transcendent life of Gregg Allman — from a childhood ruptured by his father’s murder to the soulful emergence that reshaped American music. Through archival recordings, candid interviews, and electric performances, the film follows Gregg’s musical awakening amid the blues he worshipped, the creation of the Allman Brothers Band with his brother, Duane, that would birth Southern Rock, and the grief that followed Duane’s fatal motorcycle crash.
Corpse Bride - $5 Movie
Victor (Johnny Depp) and Victoria's (Emily Watson) families have arranged their marriage. Though they like each other, Victor is nervous about the ceremony. While he's in a forest practicing his lines for the wedding, a tree branch becomes a hand that drags him to the land of the dead. It belongs to Emily, who was murdered after eloping with her love and wants to marry Victor. Victor must get back aboveground before Victoria marries the villainous Barkis Bittern (Richard E. Grant).
The Room & Big Shark Double Feature with Greg Sestero
Double Feature + Baton Rouge Premiere
Stay after the film for a Q&A with Greg Sestero!
Genre: Drama
Rated: R
Experience the ultimate cult phenomenon on the big screen! The Room follows Johnny, a successful banker living what seems to be the perfect life in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. But when Lisa suddenly grows tired of Johnny and begins an affair with his best friend, Mark, a whirlwind of betrayal, melodrama, and unforgettable moments unfolds.
Stick around after the screening for the Baton Rouge premiere of Tommy Wiseau's latest cinematic adventure, Big Shark! When a colossal shark terrorizes New Orleans, three firefighters become the city's last hope in an outrageous action-comedy that only Tommy Wiseau could create.
New Orleans Film SOciety Presents: Louisiana Shorts On Tour
In Partnership with the New Orleans Film Society
Genre: Louisiana Short Films
Rating: NR
Year: 2026
Ticket Price: $20
Celebrate local filmmaking with a curated Louisiana shorts festival at Manship Theatre in partnership with New Orleans Film Society. Featuring the 2026 NOFS Louisiana Shorts selections, this special event includes screenings of outstanding short films, a panel discussion with participating filmmakers, and a lively reception in The Gallery at Manship featuring a New Orleans DJ.
Michalopoulos: The Art of Celebration + Art Exhibit, Reception, & Q&A
Art exhibit & reception, art documentary screening, and artist Q&A
Rating: NR
Length: 1 hour
Fans Also Like: Blue, the Life and Art of George Rodrigue
Produced by WLAE-TV, an LPB-affiliated station in New Orleans, and 6th Street Studios, the award-winning team behind Blue: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue, Irma Thomas: The Soul Queen of New Orleans, and Fats Domino: Walking Back to New Orleans, the film captures the evolution of Michalopoulos’ artistic vision and the profound impact his work has had on Louisiana’s cultural landscape.
16th Annual Irish Film Festival - feature film: once upon a time in a cinema
The Irish Film Festival returns with Irish made or themed films. Join us for the closing feature film: Once Upon a Time in A Cinema. A love letter to the Irish Film Cinema industry.
16th Annual Irish Film Festival - Wee Irish shorts
The Irish Film Festival returns with Irish made or themed films. Get your tickets to the Wee Irish Shorts!
16th Annual Irish Film Festival - Feature film: Horseshoe (2024)
The Irish Film Festival returns with Irish made or themed films. Join us for the opening Feature Film, Horseshoe.
16th Annual Irish Film Festival - Day Pass
The Irish Film Festival returns with Irish made or themed films, including the Wee Irish Shorts! A special Military Feature this year!
Backrooms + Tick Short film
This listing is for Friday, July 10, 6:30 p.m.
These films also have screenings on July 5 at 2:00 p.m. Those tickets are here.
Genre: Sci-fi, Horror
Ticket Price: $9.50, including fees.
Rating: R
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.
Spirited Away + Short Film- $5 Movie + Happy Hour set by DJ Buktooth
Genre: Anime, Fantasy
Rating: Rated PG; Common Sense Media Age Rating: 9+
In this animated feature by noted Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park. After her mother and father are turned into giant pigs, Chihiro meets the mysterious Haku, who explains that the park is a resort for supernatural beings who need a break from their time spent in the earthly realm, and that she must work there to free herself and her parents.
Arrive early for a free Happy Hour set by DJ Buktooth!
Backrooms + Tick Short film
This listing is for Sunday, July 5, 2:00 p.m.
These films also have screenings on July 10 at 6:30 p.m. Those tickets are here.
Genre: Sci-fi, Horror
Ticket Price: $9.50, including fees.
Rating: R
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.
Free First Sunday: A Pinkaperfect Birthday!
Free First Sunday!
Genre: Family/Adventure
Common Sense Media Age Rating: 3-5 +
This free PBS Kids movie screening is in partnership with LPB. Please register for free tickets.
Paris Is Burning - $5 Movie + A Short Film After the Screening
Rated R.
In Partnership with Baton Rouge Pride.
This documentary focuses on drag queens living in New York City and their "house" culture, which provides a sense of community and support for the flamboyant and often socially shunned performers. Groups from each house compete in elaborate balls that take cues from the world of fashion. Also touching on issues of racism and poverty, the film features interviews with a number of renowned drag queens, including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija and Dorian Corey.
The Big Lebowski
Rated R
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for Jeffrey Lebowski, who is The Big Lebowski, which explains why he's roughed up and has his precious rug peed on. In search of recompense, The Dude tracks down his namesake, who offers him a job. His wife has been kidnapped and he needs a reliable bagman. Aided and hindered by his pals Walter Sobchak, a Vietnam vet, and Donny, master of stupidity.
Summer Intensive: Lights, Camera, Action! Film Production
Summer Camp: Film Production Intensive
Sunset Boulevard - $5 Movie
Rated PG; Common Sense Rating 13+
An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriters ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death.
The Grocery List Show (Free Screening and Panel)
Join LPB and Manship Theatre for The Grocery List Show followed by a panel discussion with representatives from international grocery stores in Baton Rouge. Attendees will be treated to food samples and have an opportunity to learn about the cultural culinary options in our area!
Get your free tickets today!
The Drama (Featuring a short film after the screening)
Rated R.
A happily engaged couple get put to the test when an unexpected revelation sends their wedding week off the rails.
The Drama (Featuring a short film after the screening)
Rated R.
A happily engaged couple get put to the test when an unexpected revelation sends their wedding week off the rails.
Free First Sunday: Beach Day!
Join us for a FREE beach-themed afternoon packed with summertime fun! Watch beachy episodes PBS Kids Pinkalicious’s Aqualicious and Donkey Hodie, and enjoy special themed crafts!
Spoof Night! with The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Comedic commentary during the film showing in Manship Theatre.
Love Acting Reelcase 2026: Showcasing short original film scenes
Baton Rouge film acting school, Love Acting, presents “Reelcase”— a premiere of 3 minute scenes written by local screenwriters to showcase their film actors’ talent. Come see the young, bright film actors of Louisiana shine on the big screen. Scenes were directed by local directors Jency Hogan, Bill Martin Williams, Alaina Canaday Durocher, and Toby Nichols
In the Mood for Love (25th Anniversary Screening)
Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a 4K restoration theatrical re-release! This special release features the iconic 2000 film alongside a rarely-seen 9-minute short film, In the Mood for Love 2001. The romantic classic stars Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026)
Never-before-seen footage and recordings feature Elvis Presley in concert at his Las Vegas residency during the later stage of his career.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Stars: Elvis Presley
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026)
Never-before-seen footage and recordings feature Elvis Presley in concert at his Las Vegas residency during the later stage of his career.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Stars: Elvis Presley
Science on Screen: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Rated R.
About Science on Screen: creatively pairs film with lively introduction lessons by notable figures from the world of science, technology, and medicine.
About the film: After a painful breakup, Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) from her mind. When Joel discovers that Clementine is going to extremes to forget their relationship, he undergoes the same procedure and slowly begins to forget the woman that he loved.
About the Speaker: Emily M. Elliott, PhD., is a Professor of Psychology at Louisiana State University. Throughout her career, she has studied the theoretical underpinnings of working memory and attention, as well as how attention and memory interact.
The Godfather (1972) - $5 Movie)
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.
Billy Idol Should Be Dead (2026)
Punk rocker Billy Idol's journey from underground star to pop icon: his fame, drug struggles, and powerful return to music.
Director: Jonas Åkerlund
Stars: Billy Idol
Billy Idol Should Be Dead (2026)
Punk rocker Billy Idol's journey from underground star to pop icon: his fame, drug struggles, and powerful return to music.
Director: Jonas Åkerlund
Stars: Billy Idol
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Rated PG.
Max the terrier encounters canine-intolerant cows, hostile foxes and a scary turkey when he visits the countryside. Luckily for Max, he soon catches a break when he meets Rooster, a gruff farm dog who tries to cure the lovable pooch of his neuroses.
Pulp Fiction (1994) - $5 Movie
Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) ; his actress wife, Mia (Uma Thurman) ; struggling boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) ; master fixer Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel) and a nervous pair of armed robbers, Pumpkin (Tim Roth) and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer).
The Librarians, screening presented by 10,000 Women
Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities.
Natchez (Featuring a Q&A)
NATCHEZ captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.
Sinners
Ryan Coogler’s 2025 supernatural horror film Sinners follows twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore (Michael B. Jordan), WWI veterans and former Chicago gangsters returning to 1932 Mississippi to open a juke joint. They seek a fresh start, but their plans are thwarted by supernatural evil—vampires—and the harsh realities of the Jim Crow South.