Secret Movie Club
A Los Angeles based movie theater by movie makers for movie lovers.
Secret Movie Club celebrates community through movie culture. We offer curated movie programming, exclusive streaming event parties, film festivals, movie premieres, director q&a’s, filmmaker workshops, open mic short nights & more. Located in downtown Los Angeles's exciting Arts District, our flagship theater serves as a creative community space for movie lovers & movie makers. We host pop-up events at iconic movie palaces and theaters across Los Angeles and San Diego, bringing our unique cinematic experiences to you. Be a part of the movement.
Upcoming Events
SMC Screenings
The SECRET MOVIE Club THEATER
1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021
Events/screenings/series (on 35mm film as often as we can) at our Secret Movie Club Theater headquarters in downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District. Movie screenings, streaming events, film festivals, premieres, movie culture parties, private rentals, filmmaker workshops, special movie community events, and more.
Secret Movie Club “Pop Ups”
Our bigger movie events often hosted at downtown Los Angeles’s historic movie palaces. Secret Movie Club Signature Events: These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club Signature Events
These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club, San Diego
Secret Movie Club brings the Secret Movie Club experience to San Diego.
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SMC Pod #194: Pixote, Come and See, and the real horror movies
It's one thing to be scared by a ghost story, vampires, or masked killers menacing horny teens in summer camps. It's another thing when you see a movie that forces you to confront horrors that happen everyday around the world. Movies like Hector Babenco's 1981 Brazillian neorealist Pixote about a 10 year old juvenile delinquent struggling in the corrupt reform schools and even more brutal streets. Movies like Elem Klimov's 1985 Come & See which follows wide-eyed Florya as he joins Belurusian partisans in World War II to fight invading nazis only to witness humanity's capacity for limitless atrocities. Movies like Lee Daniel's Precious about a teen girl who has to assert her own dignity in the face of rape, incest, and societal neglect. Movies like Lucas Moodysson's Lilya-4-Ever about how teens can suddenly find themselves being sex-trafficked. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill looks at these and other movies in a search to define what exactly makes these movies so powerful and unbearable.