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Now Showing & Upcoming Films

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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The definitive tale of Jeff Buckley, rising young star with an otherworldly voice whose sudden death after the release of his critically acclaimed debut album "Grace," shocked the world. Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives.
Highest 2 Lowest
Highest 2 Lowest
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he faces a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for a modern-day reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller HIGH AND LOW.
Steel City Horror Show
Steel City Horror Show
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Host Sean Collier will tell you all about our surprise flick, while the mysterious Dr. Gielgud returns with in-theater scares and pre-show surprises — but which Dr. Gielgud will we meet this time?
International Art House Classics: Sanjuro (1962)
International Art House Classics: Sanjuro (1962)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
In a secluded temple, a group of painfully sincere young samurai meet in secret to plan how to save the day in their clan’s power struggle — then they hear this yawn. It’s Toshirō Mifune, repeating his role (with variations) as Sanjuro from YOJIMBO.
Boys Go to Jupiter
Boys Go to Jupiter
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
In this independently made animated feature—using the same software as the Oscar®-nominated “Flow”—hang out with Florida teenager Billy 5000 and his friends in their outrageous adventures through rideshare apps, sick beats, and an alien invasion.
Clemente
Clemente
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Explore the life, career, and legacy of Roberto Clemente. From his childhood in Puerto Rico, his years with the Pittsburgh Pirates, to becoming one of baseball’s most beloved and iconic players, CLEMENTE is a celebration of a man who gave his all.
Animation Mixtape
Animation Mixtape
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
An exclusive collection of animated shorts by talented artists from around the world, curated by legendary animator Don Hertzfeldt, featuring recent films from rising animators and classics that originally inspired Hertzfeldt to start animating.
International Art House Classics: Ikiru (1952)
International Art House Classics: Ikiru (1952)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Takashi Shimura stars as Kanji Watanabe, a bureaucrat as good as dead while living who suddenly struggles hard to live once he learns he is dying. He finds a ray of hope in one last act of kindness through his work that will stand as his legacy.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Two brothers, one a successful counterfeiter (Lung Ti) and the younger a fledgling graduate of the HK police academy (Leslie Cheung), find their worlds colliding and their loyalties tested when their father is murdered. Costarring Chow Yun-Fat.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, and Chow Yun-Fat return with the explosive sequel that out-guns the original! The action blasts its way from New York City to Hong Kong in a jaw-dropping showdown of brotherhood, loyalty, and bullet-riddled revenge.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: Peking Opera Blues (1986)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: Peking Opera Blues (1986)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
In the aftermath of China’s first democratic revolution, three high-spirited young women from very different backgrounds cross paths on a quest for liberation, elegantly blending action, comedy, and social satire into a colorful production.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
In this beloved cult classic fantasy, a traveling tax collector (Leslie Cheung), short on funds, opts to take shelter in a seemingly abandoned temple. He discovers a beautiful maiden (Joey Wang) there and falls for her ghostly beauty and grace.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: City on Fire (1987)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: City on Fire (1987)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Chow Yun-fat plays a cop who's deep undercover. A bunch of ruthless strong-arm bandits have been ripping off jewelry stores and Chow gets a chance: break up the job they have planned for Christmas, and he can come in from the cold.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
This vibrant sequel to the 1987 original finds our innocent tax collector hero (Leslie Cheung) falsely imprisoned. Upon escaping, he crosses paths with a pair of rebellious women only to face a new series of paranormal encounters and adventures.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The beloved series concludes with fresh characters in a new, haunting 4K restoration for another wild joyride where laws of gravity are jettisoned in favor of exhilarating kung fu involving flying monks, monsters and mixed with a kinky subtext.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: The Killer (1989)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: The Killer (1989)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
John Woo’s masterpiece stars Chow Yun-fat as a disillusioned mob hitman, responsible for the blinding of a nightclub singer. When his plan to make it right goes awry, he teams up with an obsessed cop to clean things up in this melodramatic bromance.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: Hard Boiled (1992)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: Hard Boiled (1992)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Violence as poetry, rendered by a master. Brilliant and passionate, John Woo tells the story of jaded detective, played with controlled fury by Chow Yun-fat, who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers and goes on a mission to catch them.
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: Bullet In The Head (1990)
Hong Kong Cinema Classics: Bullet In The Head (1990)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Cited by John Woo as his personal favorite of his films, where signature themes of brotherhood, loyalty, honor, and betrayal are explored to their maximum strengths. A brilliant anti-war film that doesn't retreat from the brutal side of conflict.

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About the Harris Theater

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Harris Theater is one of the most active arts facilities in the region showing art films nearly every day of the year.

Formerly known as the Art Cinema, the Harris Theater represents a milestone in the redevelopment of Liberty Avenue. The Art Cinema was the first moving picture house in Pittsburgh to commercially show art movies until competition from other city theaters led to its conversion to an adult movie house in the 1960s. As part of its mission to transform the Cultural District, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased and restored the facility leading to further conversions of run-down properties along the Liberty Avenue corridor. With a total of 194 seats, including a fully restored balcony, the Harris Theater officially opened to the public for movies and live performances on November 9, 1995. The theater is one of the few that has retained 35mm film projectors that are utilized regularly.

The Harris was named through a gift from the Buhl Foundation after John P. Harris, co-founder of the Nickelodeon—the first theater solely dedicated to the showing of motion pictures—and a Pennsylvania State Senator. The Harris Theater features contemporary, foreign, and classic films.

Films For All

The Harris Theater has installed the necessary equipment to provide closed movie captioning and audio description to patrons for digital films that offer these features. Films with captioning and audio description available will be noted when available.

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Concessions

Concessions are available for all screenings and the Harris Theater is now BYOB. Guests who bring alcoholic beverages must be 21 years or older and provide valid photo ID upon request, a $5 charge will be issued per guest.

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The address is 809 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Call the Harris directly at 412-930-8053.


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