{"title": "The Lunchbox", "start": "2026-11-09T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "£2.50 for over 60s", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "THE LUNCHBOX is a film by Ritesh Batra, led by performances from Nimrat Kaur and Irrfan Khan. Lonely housewife Ila prepares a special lunch for her neglectful husband, but Mumbai's lunchbox delivery system mistakenly delivers it to Saajan, an irritable widower approaching retirement. On discovering the mix-up, Ila slips a note into the next day's lunchbox, beginning an unlikely correspondence between two strangers who gradually share their hopes, disappointments and memories. It is a tender, funny and deeply human story about loneliness, connection and the unexpected possibilities of everyday life, which received a BAFTA nomination for Best Film Not in the English Language.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-lunchbox-38166/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/WhatsOn?f=2924978", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/662109b40e48bb4d26fe623f0abf38b8fdb8d0c083c047a5c97fdf25ed5bde6c-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "La La Land", "start": "2026-11-04T15:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.looge.co.uk/out/40ac2cd7-4c21-4538-8be6-7828ad33eadb?surface=event", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/musical"], "description": "A screening of the musical film La La Land. Directed by Damien Chazelle, it stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as Sebastian, a jazz musician, and Mia, an aspiring actress, two dreamers chasing love and ambition across Los Angeles. Their shared desire to do what they love draws them together, but as success mounts, decisions begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain threaten to rip them apart.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/la-la-land-64023/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/1787253/la-la-land", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/8af7ee81909dbb313a405390c55915414d0ad0c30b428c3354f5de0137dedd94-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Strawberries", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "STRAWBERRIES is a film about two young women who leave Morocco to work a season picking strawberries in southern Spain. Promised fair pay, they dream of a better future for themselves and their families. Their bond with other female workers helps them endure harsh conditions, until abuse and harassment shatter their hopes. With the support of a Spanish lawyer, they must decide whether to speak out against a powerful system, risking everything to seek justice.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/strawberries-38172/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437.TcsProgramme_2949849", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/567dc26b5e41c66b2c5f213938c7015d76132fc79b0f4036c104e27903f8f7c3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Invite", "start": "2026-10-29T20:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cinema in the Arches", "address": "Arches Lane 22, SW11 8AB London", "price": "", "price_from": "18.95", "price_to": "18.95", "tickets_url": "https://www.thecinemainthepowerstation.com/ticket-info", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy/dramedy"], "description": "A screening of the comedy-drama \"The Invite\". Directed by Olivia Wilde, it follows Joe and Angela, whose marriage is on thin ice; when they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours to a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. The film stars Penélope Cruz, Olivia Wilde, Edward Norton and Seth Rogen, and has been praised by critics as one of the year's funniest films, a wickedly relatable dinner-date drama.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-invite-39060/", "official_url": "https://www.thecinemainthepowerstation.com/film/the-invite", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/e368cc67ddb0c919e8e5c49ad829e3b832dd2f2859c753a93202bd4da6114f1c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "EGGBOX", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "£9.50", "price_from": "9.50", "price_to": "9.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/via/tickets/33%3A315366", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy", "film"], "description": "EGGBOX is a night of short comedy films and live script readings performed by a cast of comedy performers. It returns to champion the next wave of the UK's finest comedy writers and filmmakers. It is curated by Joz Norris (Comedians' Choice Award Winner) and Miranda Holms (BBC Comedy Collective), the team behind the BBC Radio 4 sitcom The Dream Factory. Its mission is to provide a platform for writers and filmmakers to showcase their work, connect with others, and spark new collaborations.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/eggbox-63919/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/eggbox", "image": ""}, {"title": "Taste of Cherry", "start": "2026-11-05T11:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Taste of Cherry is a screening of Abbas Kiarostami's Palme d'Or-winning Iranian film. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran, searching for someone to rescue or bury him. Starring Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri and Safar Ali Moradi, it is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/taste-of-cherry-64027/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31616912/taste-of-cherry", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/dc4897cbf92872500407fdb0d51e757be067b2182c9448b4f283c60c31b457f2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Of Times There Were Before", "start": "2026-11-03T17:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/historiography"], "description": "A documentary film screening, followed by a discussion with the director. 'Of Times There Were Before' is a portrait of Romila Thapar, one of the world's most influential historians and public intellectuals, filmed at her home in New Delhi. Directed and produced by Eshan Sharma and edited by Anant Raina, it began with the question of who the person behind the historian's name is. 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It brings together Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature ‘The Moon Over The Alley’, with an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford. Ambrosio’s film is described as a musical haunting and contemporary fairytale about a specific place poised between appearance and disappearance, seeking new forms of sanctuary and belonging; The Parlour Collective are artists working with site-responsive performance and film, exploring the psychological and somatic experience of landscape. Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film screening by Tsai Ming-liang, made in Taiwan and France in 2001, reuniting the director with Lee Kang-sheng alongside Chen Shiang-chyi and Lu Yi-ching. Hsiao-kang, a watch vendor in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Shiang-chyi before she leaves for Paris. As she wanders the unfamiliar city alone, Hsiao-kang becomes fixated on Paris, watching Truffaut's The 400 Blows and resetting clocks across Taipei to Paris time. Across the two cities, their solitary lives unfold in parallel, mirroring each other through absence, chance encounters and quiet gestures of connection.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/what-time-is-it-there-39230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/what-time-is-it-there/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/0feca1acfc99153f95b2b17f6fb36c383d8e194b16e07eeb5f71da6db3fb45db-600.webp"}, {"title": "In The Mood For Love", "start": "2026-11-04T20:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "In The Mood For Love is a romance film from 2000, shown at the Prince Charles Cinema. Directed by Wong Kar Wai and starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chen and Paulyn Sun, it tells of 1962 Hong Kong, where neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouses are having an affair; as they spend time together they develop feelings for each other, but their relationship remains chaste and unspoken, reflecting societal constraints and their own moral compass.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/in-the-mood-for-love-63987/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/19529988/in-the-mood-for-love", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/60d7ebec81903a0e6f4e973d385d5a94dbf46f23bcc651b71f1e4277382d8031-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/crime"], "description": "A screening of the film 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'. Directed by Peter Greenaway and starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren, it is a crime story from 1989. When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife Georgina begins an affair with a guest, and when Spica finds out, he plans a terrible revenge.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-her-lover-64015/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617037/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-her-lover", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7ab8737b4430a347fe8cd2296aa594bfdb75eb4333d0c54544ae00cb1f0a5fa7-1200.webp"}]}