San Francisco Metro: Wed, Oct 21, 2026 · Film & Screening · 14 events · data version 20261021-173303
7:00 PM · Like Heaven Without God · Hillside Club (Berkeley) · Buy Tickets · film · rating 7
eventbrite.com · details Berkeley homeless community documented by filmmaker Luca Capponi
time TBA · THE BIG PICTURE · ACT Theater (Union Square) · film, workshop · rating 7
act-sf.org · details Join The Ringer's Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and friends, for a very special live recording of their movie conversation podcast, "The Big Picture," in San Francisco. Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm. All ages. Fully seated.
6:00 PM · The Big Picture Shorts · 4 Star Theater (Outer Richmond) · film · rating 6
4-star-movies.com · details Green Film Festival presents: FENCELINE: SHADOWS OVER THE RIVER PARISH For generations, families in Louisiana's River Parishes built communities along the Mississippi River. Many trace their roots to formerly enslaved people who settled the region after the Civil War, establishing churches, scho
7:00 PM · Marjorie Keller Films · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details The late Marjorie Keller’s films ranged from social and political critiques to intimate portraits of people who populated her world. Her intricate visual and sound editing is pointed while also being poetically suggestive. On the occasion of a new book about Keller’s films, contributor Steve Anker presents five of her films.
7:00 PM · Young Soul Rebels · Quarry Amphitheater (Santa Cruz) · film · rating 6
eventbrite.com · details The Quarry Amphitheater hosts a screening of 'Young Soul Rebels,' Isaac Julien's acclaimed 1991 film exploring British youth subcultures, soul music, and punk in late-1970s London.
7:30 PM · The Grove: Get Out Movie Showing · The Grove (SOMA) · $18 · film · rating 6
santacruz.org · details Bring your friends for a night of fun and frights! Experience the practical birthplace of performative liberalism and see Get Out, with a cocktail in your hand, in the historic […]
time TBA · Dario Argento’s Door Into Darkness · Roxy (Mission) · Buy Tickets · film · rating 6
roxie.com · details “ The Tram ” is easily the series’ best episode. A young woman is murdered one night on a busy commuter train without other passengers noticing. The case poses a challenge to Inspector Giordani, who decides to stage a re-enactment with the passengers. Expanded from a sequence originally written for The Bird With the Crystal Plumage , this lively mystery boasts a terrific climax and a slew of familiar character actors from Argento’s films to that point
time TBA · Even Just · Roxy (Mission) · Buy Tickets · film · rating 6
roxie.com · details Jerry Garanyan, an ambulance-chasing San Francisco lawyer, is a camera buff and a dogged collector of moving images. Though his legal career is a dead-end, he lives for the ordinary ghosts, extraordinary shadows, and fugitive moments he has preserved forever in his personal library of 8mm celluloid. As his dearest sister reckons with losing her hearing, he is targeted for an elaborate con by smooth film world scam artists who purport to represent the “real movies.”
time TBA · Kanal (4K Restoration) · Roxy (Mission) · Buy Tickets · film · rating 6
roxie.com · details “ Watch them closely, for these are the last hours of their lives, ” announces a narrator, foretelling the tragedy that unfolds as a war-ravaged company of Home Army resistance fighters tries to escape the Nazi onslaught through the sewers of Warsaw. Determined to survive, the men and women slog through the hellish labyrinth, piercing the darkness with the strength of their individual spirits.
time TBA · NAZA · Roxy (Mission) · Buy Tickets · film · rating 6
roxie.com · details What do the inner workings of such a system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call . The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence.
3:00 PM · Family Movie Matinee · Santa Cruz Public Library (Santa Cruz) · film · rating 5
santacruzpl.libnet.info · details Come join us in the Felton Branch Library Community Room for a movie matinee for the family with our partners at the California Film and Cultural Center. Bring your own snacks and get ready for fun!
7:30 PM · Star Wars: A New Hope · California Theatre (San Jose) · live_music, classical, film · rating 0 · no longer listed events.timely.fun · details Relive the epic adventure on the big screen as Symphony San Jose performs John Williams's iconic, Oscar-winning score live. This special concert event brings the beloved cinematic masterpiece to life with full orchestral accompaniment.
8:00 PM · Mini Movie Theater · El Rio (Mission) · $5 · film · rating 0 · no longer listed tockify.com · details Bitch, Get Up and Drag Your Ass to El Rio's Mini Movie Theater!
Short films. Tall drinks. One night of mingling, artsy-fartsing, and fundraising.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Filmmakers Yoko Tamada, Madison Mendes, Sydney Rincón, and Paola Zavala share their works in an indie micro-theatre style showcase bringing together locals in search of some art and lots of great company with fellow filmmakers and film enthusiasts.
time TBA · Being Human · Exploratorium (Embarcadero) · film · rating 0 · no longer listed exploratorium.edu · details Four short films offer diverse reflections through playful and visually expressive representations of the complexities of being human. Running time: 32 minutes