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Rather than simply being an extended "I Think You Should Leave" sketch, Andrew DeYoung's feature debut FRIENDSHIP allows you to live within the sadness of its characters and doesn't shy away from interrogating the dynamics of male friendship, all while managing to pull off some of the biggest laughs you'll have at the theater all year.

FRIENDSHIP is now playing at Davis Theater

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Everyone is this movie is just so COOL!

Screened as part of our 'Big Screen Classics' series

"George Miller did WHAT in a children's film???" is a sentence that could be said for just about every single moment in this movie. Keeping taking swings, George.

Screened as part of our 'Coming of Age' matinee series

Made soon after the ing of his wife, writer/director David Cronenberg returns to the big screen with a haunting exploration of the intersection of grief and technology. No one does it like him.

THE SHROUDS is now playing at Davis Theater

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Screened as part of our 'Coming of Age' matinee series

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

More than just a movie with fast cars, SPEED RACER is about the duality of the people who make art and those who sell it. The Wachowski sisters present a path forward to being a working artist under Capitalism with a flashy, earnest and boundary pushing family film that has helped define Modern Blockbuster filmmaking as we know it today.

Screened as part of our 'Big Screen Classics' series

Brand new 4K restoration directly overseen by Studio Ghibli's own Atsushi Okui.

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Elevated by a great ensemble cast, DEATH OF A UNICORN is a fun and shocking ride that feels perfectly designed for a theater audience.

Now playing at Davis Theater

What else do we need to say? KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE is a good movie!

Screened as part of our 'Coming of Age' matinee series

Going beyond the metaphor of its titular pitch, EEPHUS freezes time and lets you create rich relationships with its characters and the game itself.

Now playing at Davis Theater

Presented by Doc10, with pre-recorded introduction by director Kevin Macdonald

The sole writing and directing credit from David Byrne, TRUE STORIES is a pretty pointed satire on hyper-consumerism and capitalism tearing apart the fabric of community in small-town America, but at the same time it's also a wholly sincere tableau of these achievements in every day products that shape our lives. Please keep making more movies David Byrne.

TRUE STORIES plays tonight at Davis Theater, the first installment in our new 'Big Screen Classics' repertory series.

Just two months after his last feature, director/cinematographer/editor Steven Soderbergh is back with a gripping spy drama made in the most Soderbergh fashion. BLACK BAG is your typical spy thriller intentionally stripped down to its most bare essentials, interrogating the conventions and audience expectations of the genre and pushing those elements to new heights. Electric performances, incredible score, lots of twists and turns, BLACK BAG is the kind of smart mid-budget genre film for adults that rarely get made anymore.

Now playing at Davis Theater

Back in theaters after 6 years, Bong Joon-ho has shown no signs of slowing down after his historic Oscar-win for PARASITE. Thankfully MICKEY 17 is just as widely entertaining and genre blending has his previous works, and a biting Capitalist satire that feels more relevant now than ever.

MICKEY 17 is now playing at Davis Theater

Stay jealous babe! Fresh from 5 Oscar wins, including Best Picture and Best Actress (Mikey Madison), Sean Baker's genre-bending anti-Cinderella Story returns to the Davis Theater.

Chicago Premiere presented by Doc10, featuring a post-show Q&A with director Paris Barclay

Following his incredibly unsettling and dour LONGLEGS, writer/director Osgood Perkins swings in the opposite direction with a deeply hilarious and absurdly graphic adaptation of Stephen King. THE MONKEY is a dark comedy like no other this year, and something that seems perfectly engineered for the late-night theater audience.

THE MONKEY is now playing at Davis Theater

A special "after dark" entry in our Trust Fall screening series, presented by Oscarbate and film scholar/author Samm Deighan

The latest entry in our Trust Fall screening series, presented by Oscarbate and film scholar/author Samm Deighan

Double Feature w/ Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter, presented by Oscarbate and film scholar/author Samm Deighan

Double Feature w/ Blind Woman's Curse, presented by Oscarbate and film scholar/author Samm Deighan

If you’re trying to win your work’s Oscar pool, this is your chance!

All three 2025 Oscar Nominated Shorts categories are now playing at Davis Theater

Watched on Friday February 14, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 14, 2025.

Reminder that this movie was inspired by Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO.

PADDINGTON IN PERU is now playing at Davis Theater

I'm Still Here (in the theater sobbing after the credits finish and the ushers are asking me to leave)

Now playing at Davis Theater

NICKEL BOYS pushes the boundaries of narrative filmmaking in ways that can only be seen on the big screen and cements itself as a film that will be studied and praised for many years to come.

Now playing at Davis Theater

Largely improvised and endlessly hilarious, HARD TRUTHS is an expertly crafted character study that is full of surprises.

Now playing at Davis Theater

With a scale and magnitude to match its 215-minute runtime, THE BRUTALIST is an epic American odyssey that feels more like a reflection of the present than a tale of the past. Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones both deliver career-defining performances, and the level of craft across all of the production team is incredibly engrossing on the big screen. This one isn't to be missed!

THE BRUTALIST is now playing at Davis Theater

The 6th entry in our blind screening series 'Trust Fall', programmed by the Oscarbate Film Collective

A special presentation of the film presented by Doc10, with virtual Q&A session from director Bruce David Klein.

The third entry in our 'Coming of Age' series of matinees

Sorry folks, we will not be serving glasses of milk at the theater (or maybe we should?)

BABYGIRL is now playing at Davis Theater

If Robert Eggers can deliver one thing, it’s letting Willem Dafoe run wild.

NOSFERATU is now playing at Davis Theater

Updated weekly - tickets and more info can be found at davistheater.com

• Dogma

  New 4K restoration featuring 20 minutes of bonus footage after the feature // June 5

• The Phoenician Scheme

  New Release // Opening June 6

• All About My Mother

  Part of our ‘Big Screen Classics’ series // June 9

• Paris Is Burning

  Part of our ‘Big Screen Classics’ series // June 16

• Hairspray

  Part of our 'Not Quite Midnight' series // June 19

• Dirty Work

  U.S. premiere of the (once long lost) "unrated cut" // June 22

• My Own Private Idaho

  Part of our 'Big Screen Classics' series // June 23

• Pee-wee's Big Adventure

  Part of our 'Coming of Age' series // June 29

• Videoheaven

  Chicago Premiere! Additional details to follow // July 6

Updated weekly - tickets can be purchased at davistheater.com

• Friendship
• Lilo & Stitch
• Sinners

“Put your blind faith in us” - introducing a monthly “blind” movie screening, in collaboration with Oscarbate Film Collective. This series will span many genres, time periods, and continents, fulfilling beyond your wildest expectations and cementing what is sure to be a legendary film series for the ages - you won’t want to miss any of them.

Tickets and more information on our website

• So Close
• Mermaid Legend
• Full
• Lovers Beyond Time
• Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
• Murder by Decree
• A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
• Ōgazumu Mariko
• Naked Killer
• Narrow Margin

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A monthly series of matinees highlighting films that package complex themes and questions of human nature in ways that are palatable for all ages!

• Ponyo

  November 17 2024

• Where the Wild Things Are

  December 15 2024

• Matilda

  January 12 2025

• Kiki's Delivery Service

  March 23 2025

• Time Bandits

  April 20 2025 // Tickets on sale now

• Babe: Pig in the City

  May 11 2025

• Pee-wee's Big Adventure

  June 29 2025

Showcasing some of our favorite films, the way they were meant to be seen! Highlighting Hollywood hits, cult favorites, foreign films, and everything in-between.

• True Stories

  March 17 2025

• Speed Racer

  April 15 2025 // Tickets on sale now

• Ocean's Eleven

  May 19 2025

• All About My Mother

  June 9 2025

• Paris Is Burning

  June 16 2025

• My Own Private Idaho

  June 23 2025

Late-night favorites for those who aren’t night owls

• After Hours

  April 24 2025 // Tickets on sale now

• Hairspray

  June 19 2025

The culmination of everything you love: brunch with friends and horror movies. Introducing an all new series from the minds at Oscarbate, Bloody Brunch will feature stellar and off-the-beaten path slasher and giallo films, with each movie filling a special place within the converging genres, spanning the 1960s to the late 90’s, as well as many different countries. This series gives everyone a chance to catch lesser known but no less exemplary titles that have helped make the slasher/giallo genre the cause célèbre it is nowadays. In addition to the movies, there will be breakfast, coffee, and Bloody Mary discounts + deals to help make your matinee viewing a one-stop shop on Sundays – giving you a chance to chat with your fellow cinema-goers and hosts about the movie once it’s over!

• Opera
• The House on Sorority Row
• Death Smiles on a Murderer

August 2024 - In today’s cultural discourse, you may hear the phrase “you couldn’t make that movie today”. Well, often times, they’re wrong! Boundary pushing parodies and satires are still being made today, but the film landscape has changed so drastically that these new comedies fail to make a splash at the box office. us at the Davis to take a look at cult-classic comedies from past and present!

• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• UHF
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

June 2024 - In honor of Chicago heat waves, we’re inviting you to our A/C and watching some of the great summertime classics

• Wet Hot American Summer
• Stand by Me
• Do the Right Thing
• Boogie Nights
• Almost Famous

April/May 2024 - Celebrating the 25th anniversary of one the great years in film history

• Magnolia
• The Matrix
• The Iron Giant
• Being John Malkovich
• Girl, Interrupted

April 2024 — A series highlighting the very best of Nic Cage, coinciding with a Q&A and book g with Zach Schonfeld, author of How Coppola Became Cage

• Leaving Las Vegas
• Moonstruck
• Wild at Heart
• Adaptation.
• Vampire's Kiss

We're so thankful for everyone's over the past year. We've made a lot of big changes, and it's been amazing to see that you all have been along for the ride.

The Davis Theater is so excited to introduce our new hip program! This annual hip is a great way to show your and help keep independent cinema thriving. Annual hips directly our growing program of First-run releases, Repertory Series, Special Events and much more.

get exclusive benefits, such as $2 off tickets, a 15% discount on concessions, early access to select tickets, and much more! We have individual hip plans, as well as a dual one (perfect for couples, or could be used for a guest!)

You can learn more and sign up at davistheater.com/hips