Film Club Spring 2026

Membership includes a guest pass redeemable for one film screening

Location: Stonington Opera House

Opera House Arts is pleased to announce its third Film Club series. Film Club is a membership-based program that offers space for people to gather and watch classic films together on the Stonington Opera House big screen.

For the Spring of 2026, the films selected were made between 1934 and 1994 are acknowledged by the American Film Institute for the ways in which they demonstrate excellence in the art form. 

Screenings will be on Tuesdays at 6pm: March 10, 17, 24, 31 and April 7 and 14. The Lobby and Concession stand will open an hour before each screening and stay open for an hour after for discussion and gathering.

It Happened One Night

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

Run Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Rating: Approved
Year: 1934

Casablanca

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Run Time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Rating: PG
Year: 1942

On The Waterfront

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate’s victims.

Run Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes
Rating: Approved
Year: 1954

Dr. Strangelove

A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Run Time: 1 hour, 35 minutes
Rating: PG
Year: 1964

Annie Hall

Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

Run Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Rating: PG
Year: 1977

The Shawshank Redemption

A banker convicted of killing his wife forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.

Run Time: 2 hours, 22 minutes
Rating: R
Year: 1994