Events

Our Cult Classics calendar is all killer no filler.

We’re exploring the career of the great American cinematic maverick and provocateur John Cassavetes with a complete retrospective of his features, from his breakthrough Shadows through to his final film Big Trouble.

They had style, they had grace. Our Classic Matinees program showcases the greatest and most glamorous pictures from the Golden Age of Hollywood and beyond. Don't just stand there, let's get to it!

Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You'll leave our special preview screening of the most outrageous film of the year a changed person. Tickets include a 'Substance' cocktail at a post-film party with DJs in our foyer.

We’re making a song-and-dance of the movie musical, with another year-long celebration of the best and boldest films the genre has to offer.

Loveable leads, impossible predicaments, grand romantic gestures and happy endings. We're bringing the rom-com back to the big screen with a series of classics from everybody's favourite genre.

The fun times keep coming with host Zachary Ruane (Aunty Donna) presenting a specially curated selection of cinematic gems and rarities guaranteed to provide good times only. It’s Fun Time Film Club!

Lido Cinemas becomes an Ozploitation grindhouse of horrors on Friday 13th September with a screening of the newly released 4K remaster of Australian classic Dead End Drive In (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986) and eco-horror audiovisual collage TERROR NULLIUS (Soda Jerk, 2018).

The highly acclaimed Hundreds of Beavers is heading to the Lido for one screening only. A slapstick frostbitten battle between a drunken applejack salesman and hundreds of diabolical beavers who stand between him and survival.

Catch an early screening of the psychedelic French animation Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, a fantastical dive into the world of dreams and imagination from director Benoit Chieux.

We're excited to host a special event preview of NT Live: Prima Facie before it returns to the big screen for an Encore season. Tickets include a complimentary sparkling on arrival.

We're screening Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, a fantastical dive into the world of dreams and imagination.

After the hugely popular season in 2022, NT Live: Prima Facie returns to the big screen for an Encore season.

Lido monthly film trivia by Swinburne returns!

A Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. Join us for an advanced screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year-long self-funded passion project Megalopolis. This session will feature a special guest "journalist" ready to interview Cesar Catilina.

Filmed over four days at Abbey Road Studios in August 1974 Paul McCartney & Wings: One Hand Clapping captured a moment when the band had found and defined their signature sound.

Senior Cinephiles see it for less at our preview of The Critic, set in 1934 London. Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) the most feared drama critic in town finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper’s new owner.

Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of Edward Scissorhands has carved a place in the hearts of audiences worldwide since its premiere in 2005.

JIFF, the Jewish International Film Festival, returns to cinemas from Sunday 27 October to Wednesday 4 December 2024.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary Francis Ford Coppola’s (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) seminal 1974 neo-noir thriller The Conversation (1974) is back on the big screen in a new 4K restoration from Sunday 29 September.

Restored with a stunning new 4K transfer to commemorate the film’s 70th anniversary, experience Akira Kurosawa’s enduring masterpiece on the big screen like never before.

We would like, if we may, to take you one a strange journey. Dress for a trip to Transylvania with our fabulous interactive screenings, running on the first Friday of every second month. Includes sparkling on arrival. Hosted by fabulous Drag Queen Sam T.

We’re excited to screen the award-winning doc Your Fat Friend with a video introduction and a post-screening digital Q&A featuring Aubrey Gordon in conversation with body love activist April Hélène-Horton.

Panorama of Chinese Film presents a diverse collection of classic and new Chinese films, organised by the Chinese Independent Film Foundation (CIFF).

The most influential filmmaker of cinema’s first century, Akira Kurosawa’s heroic cinema of epic scope and intimate contemplation returns to cinemas, with new remasters of his greatest films.

The Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA) returns to Melbourne this October to bring an incredible selection of Czech and Slovak films to the big screen!

See a new side of Sebastian Stan at our special preview of A Different Man. Tickets include a complimentary drink on arrival.

We're excited to host a preview screening of Academy Award-winning animator Adam Elliot's new stop-motion feature Memoir of a Snail, the bittersweet chronicle of Grace Pudel, a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books.

Join Melbourne film auteur Saara Lamberg for a Q&A screening of feature Coma and mini-feature Conversations with Spithead.

Enter, if you dare. From Thursday 24 October to Friday 1 November, we’re bringing legendary horror back to the big screen for Halloween.

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - Gandalf

The best of British theatre on our cinema screens.

Experience the ultimate cutting-edge technology in cinematic sound at Lido.

We're bringing breathtaking real-life adventures and glorious outdoor vistas to the big screen.

Weekly open caption sessions for anyone who needs it.

The Lido Jazz Room boasts live music and comedy weekly.

Live stand-up comedy weekly in the intimate Lido Jazz Room.

$10 tickets for members daily, $12 tickets for non-members!

Crying, kicking, screaming is welcome, and that goes for the babies as well.

Lido on the Roof returns with an eye-popping lineup of blockbusters, arthouse gems and family favourites.

Presenting fine art and theatre on The Big Screen. 

One of the most influential and iconic films in French cinema history, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï returns to Australian cinemas in pristine 4K from Thursday 27 June.

Lido Comedy presents the best headline comedy from around Australia and the world live in cinema!