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Palace Nova is dedicated to bringing you the best in cinema. Featuring exclusive film previews, interviews and much more, this is the place for anyone slightly obsessed with cinema.

Girlfriends' Getaway: Love Actually M
Join us for a special Girlfriends' Getaway presentation of the holiday classic - Love Actually. Everyone will receive a drink on arrival and a gift bag filled with products and offers from great local businesses.
Rental Family - Advance Preview Event M
Enjoy a sake mojito on arrival and a special advance preview of Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser's touching new dramedy, Rental Family.
Sentimental Value - Award Season Preview with prosecco on arrival M
Enjoy a prosecco on arrival, and a special preview of the film that some are calling the best movie of the year - Academy Award nominee Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value.
Monday Doubles: Tokyo Godfathers + Paprika M
Two amazing anime titles from Satoshi Kon to put a little spice into your cinema going experience!
Avatar: Fire and Ash - 3D Advance Preview Night M
Be one of the first in Adelaide to see Avatar: Fire and Ash -- in 3D!
Avatar: Fire and Ash - Advance Preview Night M
Be one of the first in Adelaide to see Avatar: Fire and Ash! You won’t want to miss a single glowing ember or sweeping alien vista.
The Bonfire Horror Club presents: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 R18
It's GARBAGE DAY! You know the meme, now see the unhinged cult classic - the perfect pre-Christmas Bonfire Horror Club screening.
Monday Doubles: Edward Scissorhands + Brazil M
Don't miss the perfect Christmas Monday Double for the dreamer inside of all of us!
Christmas Double: Die Hard + Die Hard 2 M
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Watch this double and you tell me. Welcome to the party pal!
Big Screen Epics: Interstellar M
Christopher Nolan directs this sci-fi epic about a team of explorers who travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Monday Doubles: Alien + Aliens M
In space, no one can hear you scream... Palace Nova Cinemas Monday Doubles series presents Sigourney Weaver in Ridley Scott's moody and stylish original Alien AND James Cameron's action-packed follow-up Aliens, celebrating its 40th anniversary - ONLY $17!
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: Akira M
Akira, the crown jewel of anime and science fiction, returns to Palace Nova Cinemas with remastered visuals and remixed audio!
Monday Doubles: A Clockwork Orange + Full Metal Jacket R18
Two of Stanley Kubrick's darkest nightmares - for one night only!
The Essentials - Breathless PG
Jean-Luc Godard’s new wave classic celebrates 65 years of being hip and cool beyond words. There is simply no other film which demonstrates so perfectly what it feels like to be young and in love.
Monday Doubles: Suzume + Weathering With You PG
Two beautiful anime features from award-winning direct Makoto Shinkai!
Big Screen Epics: Inception M
This is your chance to experience one of the most visually stunning films of this century on the LARGEST screen in Adelaide – the ExiMax!
Monday Doubles: Casablanca + The Maltese Falcon PG
Humphrey Bogart Double - the iconic Casablanca and the original film noir The Maltese Falcon. Two great movies for only $17
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - 20th Anniversary PG
Mamoru Hosoda's thoughtful and engaging classic celebrates 20 years of mesmerizes anime fans around the world.
Monday Doubles: The Wedding Singer + Muriel's Wedding M
90s love, killer playlists, and two weddings you’ll never forget.
The Essentials - The Castle M
If someone tells you that they know a more Aussie movie, tell 'em he's dreaming!
Monday Doubles: Face/Off + Vampire's Kiss MA15
Cage at his Cagiest in this twisted double feature!
Filmmaker Q&A - Jimpa (with Sophie Hyde & Aud Mason-Hyde) CTC
Palace Nova is excited to welcome back director Sophie Hyde alongside Aud Mason-Hyde for a special advance preview Q&A. They will be answering your questions after the screening of their touching new film, starring Olivia Colman and John Lithgow.
Big Screen Epics: The Right Stuff PG
Philip Kaufman’s film about the birth of the space race still thrills with its expert casting and dazzling visuals.
Monday Doubles: Shrek + Shrek 2 PG
25th ANNIVERSARY OF SHREK! Two ogre-sized adventures bursting with heart, humour, and swampy charm.
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: Spirited Away - 25th Anniversary PG
Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award®-winning masterpiece celebrates 25 years of enchanting audiences around the world with a special Neo-Tokyo Nights presentation!
Monday Doubles: Fight Club + Big Trouble in Little China R18+
You know what old Jack Burton says about Fight Club? Nothing. Unless you are talking about pairing it with the John Carpenter classic Big Trouble in Little China.
Monday Doubles: The Omen + The Innocents MA15
Two tales of the creepiest children you've ever encountered on the big screen celebrate big anniverseries this year.
Monday Doubles: A Fistful of Dollars + For a Few Dollars More MA15
Double helping of Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns for only $17!
Big Screen Epics: Eyes Wide Shut R18+
Kubrick's final film! A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.
Monday Doubles: Polyester + Pink Flamingos R18
John Waters double feature featuring the one and only Divine. The evening starts with Polyester PRESENTED IN ODORAMA and it only gets weirder from there!
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: Howl's Moving Castle PG
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard.
Monday Doubles: Get Out + Nope MA15
From the mind of Jordan Peele comes these award winning thrillers. Get comfy in your sunken place and enjoy the chills.
Monday Doubles: The Big Lebowski + Dazed and Confused MA15
Like, sit back and chill with The Dude and the Class of 76. The Coen Brothers and Richard Linklater make an excellent pair. Alright, alright, alright.
Big Screen Epics: The Dark Knight M
Send up the bat-signal, Christian Bale dons the cape and cowl to protect Gotham City against Heath Ledger's Joker and Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.
Monday Doubles: The Grand Budapest Hotel + Rushmore M
Twice the wacky world of Wes Anderson - for only $17!
Monday Doubles: Double Indemnity + Touch of Evil PG
Noir at its most lethal with Billy Wilder and Orson Welles at the helm of two of the most gorgeous thrillers of the classic Hollywood era.
The Essentials - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs G
Hi ho! Hi ho! Its off to the cinema we go with the film that sparked the imagination of children of all ages around the world in and launched the Disney empire.
Monday Doubles: Dumb and Dumber + The Mask PG
Peak Carrey chaos — slapstick, elastic faces, and endless laughs.
Big Screen Epics: The Unbearable Lightness of Being M
A doctor in 1968 Prague struggles with monogamy to his wife's frustration, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie M
25TH ANNIVERSARY! A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit. See you, space cowboy...
Monday Doubles: Shaun of the Dead + Hot Fuzz MA15
Edgar Wright directs as Simon Pegg and Nick Frost take on corpses and criminals in these two hilarious and action packed modern-classics.
Monday Doubles: Princess Mononoke + Laputa: Castle in the Sky M
Two amazing classics from Hayao Miyazaki and the legendary Studio Ghibli!
The Essentials - Do the Right Thing R18+
Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated feature about what happens when tensions flare up on the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Big Screen Epics: Barry Lyndon PG
Stanley Kubrick's winner of 4 Oscars tells the tale of an Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Big Screen Epics: Oppenheimer MA15
The story Oscar winning tale of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Monday Doubles: The Goonies + The Princess Bride PG
Adventure, heart, and pure delight — the stories that shaped imaginations of everyone that lived through the 80's is back on the big screen!
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: Steamboy PG
In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.
Monday Doubles: Suspiria + Eyes Without A Face R18
Beauty gets twisted into terror with these classic thrillers for the arthouse and horror fan in all of us.
The Essentials - Akira M
Easily the most breathtaking and kinetic anime ever made, Akira is THE essential anime film. Akira has gripped audiences since its original release in 1988 and has never let go.
Monday Doubles: Beetlejuice + Little Shop of Horrors M
Two twisted comedies full of all-star talents that will make your head spin & toes tap. Feed me... feeeeed me...
Monday Doubles: Roman Holiday + Sabrina G
Its a double dose of the ever charming Audrey Hepburn, with her fantastic role in Sabrina and the 60th anniversary of Roman Holiday!
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: When Marnie Was There PG
A film of raw emotion, based on the beloved novel by Joan G. Robinson, and beautifully brought to the screen by Studio Ghibili.
Monday Doubles: Logan's Run + Soylent Green M
Dystopia at full tilt — the future has questions you don’t want answered. This double is PEOPLE! ITS PEOPLE!!!
The Essentials - 8½ M
Federico Fellini's classic about a harried movie director who retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Monday Doubles: Taxi Driver + Raging Bull R18
Two great Scorsese/De Niro movies for only $17, in honour of Robert De Niro's birthday!
Big Screen Epics: Gone With The Wind PG
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: From Up on Poppy Hill G
A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Monday Doubles: Beverly Hills Cop + Trading Places M
Eddie Murphy’s comic mastery is almost criminal in these two hilarious fan favourites from the 1980s.
Monday Doubles: My Neighbor Totoro + Grave of Fireflies M
Studio Ghibli titles can warm or break your heart with masterful storytelling and beautiful artwork, and these two films are proof of that fact!
The Essentials - Seven Samurai PG
Akira Kurosawa's iconic samurai film that set the template for action films for decades to come.
Monday Doubles: The Club + Don's Party (50th Anniversary) MA15
An Aussie double for only $17! What a night.
Big Screen Epics: The Godfather MA15
It's an offer you can't refuse.
Monday Doubles: The Substance + Pearl MA15
New nightmares take shape in Hollywood and in the Texas farmlands. Two of the best new horror films of the last decade collide for your ghoulish pleasure!
Monday Doubles: A Nightmare on Elm Street + Friday the 13th R18
The classic 80s slashers who wrote the rulebook return to hack their way through the teens of middle-America.
The Essentials - A Clockwork Orange R18+
Gather your Droogs and head to the Palace Nova filmedrome and viddy a bit of cine to shatter your rassoodock.
Monday Doubles: The Thing + Tremors MA15
Double the danger! The terror is beneath your feet and all around you with these two favourites of The Bonfire Horror Club together as a Monday Double.
Big Screen Epics: Lawrence of Arabia PG
The EPIC of all epics. One of the most beloved films of all time.
Monday Doubles: The 39 Steps + The Lady Vanishes PG
Twice the Hitchcock to kick off Palace Nova's Noirvember!
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: Paprika M
20TH ANNIVERSARY! When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it.
Monday Doubles: Vertigo + Notorious PG
Hitchcock makes our head spin with twice the thrills for only $17!
The Essentials - Psycho M
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Monday Doubles: Mulholland Dr. + Blood Simple MA15
Voyage down neo-noir’s strangest paths with David Lynch and the Coen Brothers.
Big Screen Epics: High and Low PG
Our final presentation as part of Noirvember is Akira Kurosawa's Akira Kurosawa's exemplary film noir, with Toshiro Mifune starring as a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a ruthless kidnapper.
Palace Nova Neo-Tokyo Nights: Tokyo Godfathers M
20TH ANNIVERSARY! When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it.
Monday Doubles: Singin' in the Rain + An American In Paris G
Dazzling dance and Hollywood charm of Gene Kelly pours from the screen in two iconic musicals.
The Essentials - It's a Wonderful Life PG
80th ANNIVERSARY! The quintessential Christmas movie about the true meaning of Christmas.
Monday Doubles: Re-Animator + The Stuff MA15
I scream, you scream, we all scream for this horror-comedy double feature that will give you chills as the summer heats up.
Big Screen Epics: Scarface R18
Say hello to my little friend! Brian De Palma directs Al Pacino & Michelle Pfeiffer, in a tale of crime, drug and greed.