Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 21st September at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Hamnet will be screened.  A film starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal and Emily Watson.

William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes celebrate the birth of their son Hamnet.  But tragedy strikes and Hamnet dies of the plague at a young age.  Agnes, a healer must find the strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss and meanwhile Shakespeare is inspired to write his timeless masterpiece Hamlet.  Jessie Buckley won the Leading Actress BAFTA and Best Actress Oscar for her performance.

Entry is £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) and includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 20th July at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film The Choral will be screened. A film starring Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong.

It’s 1916 and, as war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral’s Committee engages a new chorus master and resolves to recruit local young men to swell their ranks. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together. Written by Alan Bennett.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 18th May at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Saving Mr Banks will be screened. A film starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson.

Spurred on by a promise he made to his daughters, Walt Disney embarks on what would become a 20 year quest to obtain the movie rights to ‘Mary Poppins’. The author PL Travers, proves to be an uncompromising curmudgeon who has no intention of letting her beloved characters become mangled in the Hollywood machine. However, when the books stop selling and she finds herself in need of money, Travers agrees to consider Disney’s proposition.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 16th March at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale will be screened. A film starring Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dochery.

The third and final film in the Downton Abbey franchise follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the centre of a public scandal caused by her divorce and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 26th January at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film The Ballad of Wallis Island will be screened.  A film starring Tim Key, Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan.

Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island, dreams of getting his favourite musicians McGwyer Mortimer back together.  His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island.  But old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 21^st July at 1.30 (doors open at 1.00) in the Bernard Hall, the film, Paddington in Peru will be screened.

A film starring Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Olivia Colman.

When Paddington receives a letter from the nun who runs the Home for Retired Bears in Peru, informing him that Aunt Lucy misses him dearly, he knows he simply must visit her as soon as possible. With his shiny new British passport in hand, Paddington is joined by the Browns and the ever resourceful Mrs Bird on an epic journey through the Amazon Rainforest that none of them will ever forget.

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5)

Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 19th May at 1.30 (doors open at 1.00) in the Bernard Hall, the film One Life will be screened.

A film starring Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn and Romola Garai.

The film is based on a true story of British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton, as he looks back on his past efforts to help hundreds of Jewish children in German occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938-39, just before the beginning of World War II.

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5)

Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 17^th March at 1.30 (doors open at 1.00) in the Bernard Hall, the film, The Great Escaper will be screened.

A film starring Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson.

In the summer of 2014 – the 70^th anniversary of the D-day Landings – octogenarian Bernie Jordan made global headlines. He staged a ‘great escape’ from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades. Bernie seemed to embody the defiant ‘can do’ spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing, and his adventure also marked the culmination of his 60  year marriage to Irene.

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5)

Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 18th November at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film A Man Called Otto will be screened.

A film starring Tom Hanks, Mariana Trevino, Rachel Keller.

Otto is a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticising and judging his exasperated neighbours. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5)
Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 16th September at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film The Lost King will be screened.

A film starring Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan.

The true story of Philippa Langley, the amateur historian behind the discovery of King Richard III’s remains in 2012 after they had been lost for 500 years. Langley spent years searching for the remains despite scepticism from friends and family and took on the country’s most eminent historians.   

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5)
Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 22nd July at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Ticket to Paradise will be screened.

A film starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts

David and Georgia are a divorced couple who hate each other and regret their marriage which ended 20 years earlier. But when their daughter Lily announces her intention to marry a seaweed farmer she has met while on holiday in Bali, David and Georgia reluctantly decide to team up to prevent their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

        Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5)

        Includes tea and cake at the interval.

        Subtitles will be shown

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 20^th May at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Summerland will be screened. A film starring Gemma Arterton, Penelope Wilton, Tom Courtenay.

Fiercely independent folklore investigator, Alice, secludes herself in her cliff top study. Consumed by her work, but also profoundly lonely, she is haunted by a love affair from her past. Her life is transformed however, when a spirited young evacuee from the Blitz is dumped into her care.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 18th March at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Dream Horse will be screened.

A film starring Toni Collette, Damian Lewis, Owen Teale.

In this true story of triumph against adversity, a poorly paid cleaner and bartender recruits her husband and a local accountant to bring together a syndicate of local people to breed a foal that turns out to be a true working-class champion.

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5) Includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinee Cinema

On Monday 22nd January at 1.30 (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Mrs Harris Goes to Paris will be screened. A film starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert and Lambert Wilson.

In 1950’s London, widowed cleaning lady, Ada Harris thinks her lonely life might turn around if she can become the owner of a couture Christian Dior gown. A heart- warming story of how an ordinary woman becomes an extraordinary inspiration by daring to follow her dreams.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) Includes tea and cake at the interval.

If you need a lift to the Bernard Hall please phone Angela Wenham 01844 291932

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 20th November at 1.30pm (doors open 1pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Phantom of the Open will be screened.

The heart-warming true story of Maurice Flitcroft, who entered the 1976 Open despite never playing a round of golf before. The extraordinary story of an ordinary man, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN is an uplifting and moving comedy drama about pursuing your dreams and shooting for the stars, no matter what hand you're dealt.

The film stars Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins, Rhys Ifans.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) includes tea and cake at the interval

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 18th September at 1.30pm (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the film Fisherman's Friends: One and All will be screened.  A 2022 British film starring James Purefoy, Fiona Button and Richard Harrington. The sequel to the 2019 film Fisherman's Friends, the film follows their continued career, struggling with the pressures and pitfalls of their newfound fame up to their performance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2011.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 24th July at 1.30pm (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall the 1989 romantic comedy film Shirley Valentine starring Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia McKenzie and Alison Steadman will be shown.

Shirley is a middle-aged Liverpool housewife who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life.  She compares scenes in her current life to how she used to be and feels stagnated and in a rut.  But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a better light.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 22nd May at 1.30pm (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, the 2020 British comedy-drama film, The Duke will be shown. The film directed by Roger Michell deals with the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 27th March at 1.30pm (doors open 1pm) in the Bernard Hall, the poignant, romantic comedy “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” will be shown, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.  Hepburn’s captivating portrayal of Holly Golightly as the naïve, eccentric café-society girl is generally considered to be one of the actress’s most memorable roles and the well-known song “Moon River” won an Academy Award.

Entry £7 (£5 for Sunshine Club members) includes tea and cake at the interval. 

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 23rd January in the Bernard Hall at 1.30pm (doors open 1pm) the family drama 'The Railway Children Return' will be shown.  This nostalgic, amiable sequel to the 1970 film, 'The Railway Children' stars Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith, Tom Courtenay and John Bradley.

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5) includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 21st November at 1.30pm (doors open 1.00pm) in the Bernard Hall, 'Military Wives' will be shown.  This 2019 comedy-drama was inspired by the true story of Military Wives Choirs, a network of 75 choirs in British military bases across the UK and overseas.  Starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan, this feel-good film follows a group of women, whose partners are serving in Afghanistan, who, on the home front, form a choir and quickly find themselves at the centre of a media sensation and global movement.

Entry £7 (£5 Sunshine Club members) includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 26th September at 1.30pm (doors open 1pm) in the Bernard Hall, “Downton Abbey: A New Era” will be shown.  This popular period drama sees the Crawley family journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess’s newly inherited villa.  Beautiful scenery and a well-known cast, starring Dame Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael, make for a most enjoyable film.

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5) includes tea and cake at the interval.

Cuddington Matinée Cinema

On Monday 25th July in the Bernard Hall at 1.30 pm (doors open 1pm), the 2019 biographical comedy-drama 'Fisherman's Friends' will be shown.  Based on a true story about a group of Cornish fishermen from Port Isaac who achieved a Top 10 hit with their debut album of sea shanties, this feel-good film stars Daniel Mayes, James Purefoy and David Hayman.

Entry £7 (Sunshine Club members £5) includes tea and cake at the interval.