Directed by Anthony Asquith, written by Terence Rattigan, Produced by Anatole de Grunwald

Stars – Rex Harrison, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon and other famous actors.

Awards – At the 1996 Golden Globe Awards it won the Best Original Song and it was also nominated for many awards at the 1965 BAFTAs

Synopsis – A 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom is used to frame the stories of three very different owners: an English aristocrat, a Miami gangster and a wealthy American widow. It is set in the years up to and including the start of the Second World War.

Written and directed by Hilmar Oddsson

Stars – Leo Gunnarsson, Kristbjorg Kjeld, and Hera Hilmar.

Synopsis – This is an Icelandic, comedy drama, shot in black and white. Set in 1980, after the sudden death of his mother (Kristbjorg Kjeld), Jon (Leo Gunnarsson) takes his mother’s corpse in the back seat of his car and the family dog, Bresnef, on one last trip across the country to Eyrarbakki to bury her, as instructed in her will. Although dead, Jon’s mother has plenty to complain about as they drive across the wild landscape.

Directed by Christian Carion and written by Cyril Gely and Christian Carion

Stars – Line Renaud, Dany Boon, and Alice Isaaz

Awards – Beijing International Film Festival 2023 – won Best actress, nominee for Best Film.

Synopsis – Madeleine at 92 is moving to an old people’s home but along the way she asks the grumpy and penniless taxi driver to take her to all the places of her youth. We visit her youth in flashbacks and learn about the young Madeleine. During the taxi ride a friendship develops between the two.

Directed by Gerard Pires and written by Luc Besson

Stars – Samy Naceri, Frederic Diefenthal and Marion Cotillard.

Synopsis - Set in Marseille, this French film stars a scarily fast, customised Peugeot and its owner, a pizza delivery man turned taxi driver with outstanding driving skills. He is blackmailed into chauffeuring a local non-driving (and incompetent) police inspector in a battle of wits and humour against a Mercedes and a gang of German bank robbers. This is a fun cops-and-robbers tale with fast action, car crashes and a set-piece shoot-out.

Deal Film Club & Deal Music And Arts present…. EROICA

A stirring drama about the tumultuous first performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony — a moment that changed the course of music history. Starring Ian Hart as Beethoven with Tim Pigott-Smith, Fenella Woolgar and Clare Skinner.

Screening is introduced by scriptwriter Nick Dear.

Nick Dear is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and Deal resident, who wrote the National Theatre’s hugely successful Frankenstein. He has numerous other credits to his name - including Poirot! He will be joined in conversation at 3pm with film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. Followed by an interval and the film at 4pm

Please click HERE for tickets

DFC’s homage to the actor Gene Hackman who died in February this year

The Film Club’s May pop-up film is Mississippi Burning, a 1988 crime thriller directed by Alan Parker and starring Gene Hackman, Frances McDormand and Willem Dafoe. The film is based on the true story of the disappearance of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 and the subsequent investigation of their disappearance by two FBI agents.

Entry to this screening will be free to current members of the Deal Film Club.

Venue: The Lighthouse, 50 The Strand, Walmer, Deal.

Screening: 7.30pm

There will be an interval halfway through.

Please note: screening is on Wednesday 14 May.

In support of Earth Day 2025

In November 2024, DFC screened Soylent Green which at its end provided little hope for the future of the planet. 2040 reverses the outcomes and imagines a better future.

2040 is hybrid feature documentary by award-winning Australian director Damon Gameau, who created this documentary in 2019 to show what life could be like for his four-year-old daughter in 20 years’ time. The film offers brief but very clear depictions of the precariousness of our current carbon overload and its consequences. But it also offers practical solutions to environmental concerns, in the hope of finding ways to leave a better world for the next generation.

The evening will start at 6:45pm with our speaker, George Cooper, a local environmentalist with a wealth of wildlife knowledge, who heads up the ‘Save Minster Marshes’ campaign. George’s talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

2040 will be screened at 7:20pm,

Venue: Cleary Room, The Landmark Centre, Deal.

Doors: 6:20pm. Talk: 6.45pm. Film 7.20pm

There will be an interval between the Q&A session and the screening, with a cash bar and refreshments.

Finale of our Alain Delon tribute season.

This masterful 1976 cat and mouse mystery drama was directed by Joseph Losey (The Go-Between, The Servant). In Occupied France, Mr. Klein (Alain Delon) exploits the situation of the Jews by buying and selling their works of art. When a Jewish man of the same name surfaces in Paris, Klein comes under suspicion and experiences the persecution of his countrymen firsthand.

Venue: The Landmark Centre

Doors 6.20pm / Film 6.45pm

There will be an interval during the screening, with a cash bar and refreshments.

Released: 2014

Director: Danis Tanović

Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014, Tigers is a story of a committed individual taking on a major international company: a pharmaceutical salesman versus the might of Big Business. The cause for concern at the heart of the film is baby milk, and ten years on, baby milk (formula) scandals are still in the headlines. Emraan Hashmi (Ayan) plays the original whistleblower Syed Aamir Raza Hussain, who enlisted the help of International Baby Food Action Network to release his report.

There will be a Q&A session after the film, with Patti Rundall OBE from Baby Milk Action / IBFAN UK.

Babies (more involved and probably more adult than the rest of us) are welcome.

Tickets: £10 including refreshments

Our Alain Delon tribute season continues with this sleek 1967 neo-noir crime thriller

Hit man Jef Costello (Alain Delon) goes through an elaborate set of rituals before carrying out a hit on a nightclub owner. Always thorough and cool in his job, Costello is disconcerted to discover a witness to the killing, the club's female piano player. But before he can act, the police arrest him in a sweep of suspects. Released when the main witness does not come forward, Costello goes from being the hunter to the hunted, trailed by the determined police as well as his crime bosses.

Director Jean-Pierre Melville wrote Le Samouraï specifically for Delon and the pair made three films together forming a partnership that changed the course of Delon’s career, establishing him as a worldwide action star alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Venue: The Landmark Centre

Doors 6.20pm / Film 6.45pm

There will be an interval during the screening, with a cash bar and refreshments.

One of the finest films by Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow Up), and the closing part of his trilogy preceded by L'Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961). This 1962 romantic drama follows the love life of Vittoria (Monica Vitti), a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo (Francisco Rabal), Vittoria meets Piero (Alain Delon), a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

This is the first in our Alain Delon tribute trilogy season. Continues 18 Feb and 18 March

Venue: The Landmark Centre

Doors 6.20pm / Film 6.45pm

There will be an interval during the screening, with a cash bar and refreshments.

Strictly Ballroom is the final film in the Deal Film Club Australian Trilogy and is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann in his feature directorial debut. The film is about the dreams of youth and tells the story of the love of two young dancers fighting for artistic freedom against a repressive regime. The film stars, Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice and Bill Hunter.

The film won many awards including the 1992 AFI Best Film Award and the Best Director Award. Also, at the Cannes Film Festival in1992 it won the Foreign Film Award and in 1993 the BAFTA award for Best Costume Design.

Venue: Cleary Hall, The Landmark Centre

Doors 6:20pm / 6:45pm.

£7 members / £9 non-members

There will be an interval during the screening, with a cash bar and refreshments.

Soylent Green (1973) is set in a dystopian future of dying oceans and a perpetual humidity caused by the greenhouse effect, with the resulting pollution, depleted resources, poverty and overpopulation. Directed by Richard Fleischer, the film stars Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G Robinson in his final film role. The film is loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel,” Make Room, Make Room”, by Harry Harrison, with a plot that combines elements of science fiction and a police procedural. In 1973, it won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.

This screening is the Deal Film Club contribution to COP29 which will take place from November 11 to 22 in 2024 at Baku Stadium, in Baku, Azerbaijan. This film will also be DFC’s contribution to the Deal Climate Action Day on Saturday 16th November 2024.

Venue: Cleary Hall, The Landmark Centre

Doors 6:20pm / 6:45pm.

£7 members / £9 non-members

There will be an interval during the screening, with a cash bar and refreshments.

Deal Film Club and The Lighthouse presents … a ‘Whip-Round Cinema’ Screening of …

‘Braindead’

Released: 1992
Director: Peter Jackson

The delightfully gonzo tale of a lovestruck teen and his zombified mother, Dead Alive is extremely gory and exceedingly good fun, thanks to Peter Jackson’s affection for the tastelessly sublime.

A young man’s mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbours.

Bar is open from 5pm

Film starts 8pm

Donation of £5 suggested

The Sapphires (2012)

Set in Australia in 1968, a quartet of talented Yorta Yorta (Aboriginal Australian) girls are discovered and transformed by Dave, a kind-hearted talent scout with very little rhythm but a passion for soul music. Plucked from obscurity, The Sapphires’ career takes off, and their destiny lands them in Vietnam to sing for the American soldiers. The film is directed by Wayne Blair and written by Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs. The Sapphires is loosely based on a real-life 1960 girl group that included Briggs’ mother and aunt.

Venue: The Landmark Centre (Cleary Hall)

Doors 6.20pm / Film 6.45pm

£7 members / £9 non-members

There will be an interval during the screening, with a cash bar and refreshments.

Samson and Delilah is a 2009 Australian drama film, written and directed by Warwick Thornton and starring Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson, both young first-time actors.

The film depicts two Indigenous Australian 14-year-olds living in a remote Aboriginal community near Alice Springs. Samson is petrol-sniffing, mute boy living in a run-down shelter with his brother’s band who play ska music all day outside his bedroom. Samson is interested in Delilah who lives with her grandmother. When Delilah’s grandmother dies, she and Samson decide to steal a car and escape their difficult lives by going to Alice Springs.

There is a hard-hitting truthfulness to the film however its messages about racial inequality are never preachy or overt but a product of the unflinching bravery with which Thorton captures with his characters and their environment. At once a love story and a brutal portrait of poverty and addiction, this was a film only an indigenous filmmaker could have created. The film won many awards, including the Caméra d'Or at Cannes for best first feature.

Venue: Cleary Hall, The Landmark Centre

Doors 6:20pm / Film 6:45pm.

£7 members / £9 non-members

There will be an interval during the screening, with a cash bar and refreshments.

Our latest Members’ only FREE screening is a tribute to Donald Sutherland on what would have been his 89th birthday.

Sutherland became a countercultural icon with such films as The Dirty Dozen, Klute and Don’t Look Now, and subsequently enjoyed a prolific and wide-ranging career in films including Ordinary People, Pride And Prejudice and the Hunger Games films.

But it was his role in 1970’s comedy smash hit M*A*S*H, as anti-authoritarian, smart-alec surgeon Capt. “Hawkeye” Pierce turned the chameleonic Canadian actor into a major star.

Directed by Robert Altman and based on the novel by Richard Hooker, "M*A*S*H" follows a group of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital officers (led by Sutherland and Elliott Gould) as they pass the time with hilarity, pathos and chaos just miles from the front lines of the Korean Conflict.

Doors 6.30pm / Film 7.30pm

(there will be an interval / bar break)

FREE to Deal Film Club members

£10 annual membership available here or on the door

DARA ( Deal Area Refugee Aid ) in association with Deal Film Club will be screening The Old Oak as part of Refugee Week ( June 17-23)

This self-declared final film from 87-year-old British director Ken Loach (Kes; I, Daniel Blake), is a deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and finding hope.

The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the neighbourhood, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between within the community. However, the unexpected friendship that forms between The Old Oak’s landlord and a young Syrian woman opens up new possibilities for healing divisions.

Friday 21 June, Landmark Centre (Hollingworth Room)

Doors open: 6.30 pm / Film starts : 7pm

Tickets : £12 - to include 1 x glass of wine / soft drink + Cash bar

There will be a raffle with prizes and all proceeds will be donated to Care4Calais.

A special film+dinner screening presented with Deal for Peace

All profits will be donated to Médicins Sans Frontières.

GAZA MON AMOUR (2022)

Life in Gaza may be a lot harsher since this award-winning romantic comedy-drama was shot, yet the hopeful spirit of resilience endures: that love and laughter will, ultimately, survive.

Recently BAFTA-nominated for portraying Mohamed Al-Fayed in The Crown, veteran actor Salim Daw is Issa, a 60-year-old fisherman who develops a mid-life crush on a local seamstress (Hiam Abbass, best known as Marcia Roy in Succession). Effortlessly well-acted by the two charismatic leads, this gentle comedy packs some unexpected surprises

Twin Palestinian directors Arab and Tarzan Nasser give us an enlightening and authentic glimpse into their hometown and the Hamas-controlled strictures upon its inhabitants.

Given the war now raging, Gaza Mon Amour has become a poignant love letter to the city itself.

In Arabic with English subtitles.

Wednesday 22 May

Landmark, Hollingworth Room (NOTE - lift out of order. Stair-only access)

Doors (and dinner from): 6.15pm / Screening: 7.30pm

** Ticket price includes Mejadera (Middle Eastern pulse dish, WF) and one soft drink, served before the film. All profits will be donated to Médicins Sans Frontières. **

To celebrate Shakespeare’s anniversary on 23 April, we present this rarely-screened adaptation of Hamlet, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Rashamon, The Seven Samurai, Ran).

This masterful 1960 mystery noir sees ambitious illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi (Toshirô Mifune) climb to a high position within a Japanese corporation. He marries the daughter (Kyôko Kagawa) of the company’s vice president Iwabuchi (Masayuki Mori), but at the wedding reception (later an inspiration for The Godfather), the party are reminded of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father and Nishi unleashes a plan to avenge his father's death.

Japanese themed refreshments will be available in the interval… plus a cash only bar

Doors 6.30pm / Film 7pm

Venue: The Landmark Centre (Cleary Hall - ground floor)

A compelling historical adventure starring Klaus Kinski as Don Lope de Aguirre, a ruthless 16th century Spanish conquistador, on an expedition into darkest Peru to find El Dorado, the mythical cities of gold. Accompanied by his daughter, Flores (Cecilia Rivera), a volatile Aguirre faces off against his superior, Don Pedro de Ursua (Ruy Guerra) as he attempts to seize control of the group. As Aguirre presses deeper into the Amazonian jungle, he spirals further into madness.

Werner Herzog directs Klaus Kinski in the first of their five, legendary, tempestuous, collaborations together. Definitely one to watch, or rewatch, on a big screen. [German with English subtitles]

‘Magnificent and mad’ - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Doors 6.30pm / Film 7pm

Venue: The Landmark Centre

A crowd-pleasing, Oscar-winning tribute to the magic of silent cinema, The Artist (2011) is a clever, joyous film with delightful performances and visual style to spare.

In the 1920s, actor George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring fans. While working on his latest film, George finds himself falling in love with an ingenue named Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) and, what's more, it seems Peppy feels the same way. But George is reluctant to cheat on his wife with the beautiful young actress. The growing popularity of sound in movies further separates the potential lovers, as George's career begins to fade while Peppy's star rises.

Doors 6.30pm

Film 7pm

Venue: The Landmark Centre

Deal Film Club and The Lighthouse (and Alfred Hitchcock) present … a ‘Whip-Round Cinema’ Screening of Rope

Brilliantly shot as if in one take, Rope is Hitchcock’s darkly ingenious 1948 crime thriller.

Just before hosting a dinner party, Philip (Farley Granger) and Brandon (John Dall) strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope. As you do. Hiding the body under the table, the pair welcome their guests, including the victim's oblivious fiancée (Joan Chandler) and the college professor (James Stewart) whose philosophical lectures inadvertently inspired the killing.

FREE entry - but a donation of £5 cash would be gratefully received

Doors 7pm / Film 8pm

A tribute to Georgian director Otar Iosseliani, who died in December 2023. ‘The true heir to Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati and Luis Buñuel’ - The Guardian

Monday Morning (2002) is a life-affirming comedy which won the Silver Bear in Berlin. Vincent (Jacques Bidou) provides for his family by working at an oppressive factory, finding escape only in painting. At home, his wife (Anne Kravz-Tarnavsky) constantly bothers him about chores, while his sons ignore him. One day Vincent decides to break free from his soulless nine-to-five life by spending a few days in Venice to visit his father's friend (Otar Iosseliani).

Doors 6.30pm

Film 7pm

Venue: The Landmark Centre

Our ‘alternative’ Christmas offering is Carol (2015) - ‘a must for sophisticated festive film fans’ [The Guardian]

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, and set in a snowy 1950s New York, this multi-Oscar-nominated romance follows the forbidden romance between the mid-divorce Carol (played by Cate Blanchett) and Rooney Mara’s Therese, an aspiring photographer who works on the toy counter at a Manhattan department store.

Beautifully directed by Todd Haynes, Carol was named one of the greatest films of the 21st Century by the BBC.

Doors 6.30pm / Film 7pm

The Landmark Centre (Cleary Hall)

This feel-good 2013 Australian drama is set entirely in Northern Laos, and spoken in the Lao language.

Ahlo's family moves after his village is cleared to make way for a new dam. They come across a rocket festival and Ahlo takes the opportunity to build his own rocket and prove his worth.

Saturday 18 November

The Landmark Centre

129 High St, Deal CT14 6BB

Doors 6.30pm / Film 7pm - note: SPECIAL REDUCED PRICE as we had to reschedule this screening

Deal Pride Presents The Rocky Horror Picture Show movie night, in association with Deal Film Club

A screening of this cult classic plus live performances along the way…

🫦 Dress as your favourite character and come and join the fun for our Halloween extravaganza! You’ll be full of antici…………..pation 🫦

Tickets £10 (+booking fee) available by clicking here

As a special event in memory of our patron, Derek Malcolm, we're putting on a film from his list of 100 greatest films of the 21st century and a members' party.

The details are:

Where: The Landmark, Hollingworth

When: Friday 15 September, celebration party in memory of Derek, 6.30pm, film 7.15pm

Film: Boudu Saved from Drowning / Boudu Sauvé Des Eaux , Director: Jean Renoir, 1932, black&white, subtitles (run-time 83 minutes)

The evening is free to members. Membership, at £10 per year per person, is available at the door, or in advance by clicking here

The story of the dad from Deal who gave birth.

As a transgender man, Deal local Freddy McConnell’s decision to carry his own baby took years of soul searching, but nothing could prepare him for the reality of pregnancy and how it would challenge society's accepted norms of parenthood.

Filmed over 3 years, this acclaimed documentary charts Freddy’s remarkable journey as he draws strength from the friends and family who stand by him.

★★★★ ”An astonishing, unmissable story” — Financial Times

Freddy McConnell will give a live onstage Q&A following the screening