Now Showing & Upcoming Films

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Highest 2 Lowest

Fri, Aug 22 - Thu, Sep 11, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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.

Boys Go to Jupiter

Fri, Sep 5 - Thu, Sep 11, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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

Fri, Sep 12 - Thu, Sep 18, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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

Sat, Sep 13 - Wed, Sep 17, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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)

Thu, Sep 18 - Sun, Sep 21, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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.

Three Stooges Festival

Sat, Sep 20, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Family
• Film

Our annual Three Stooges Festival is back for another evening of laughter and hijinks with the greatest comedy trio in history!

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Sun, Sep 21 - Wed, Sep 24, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

The Brothers Quay spin another fantastical stop motion yarn with this surreal story inspired by the work of Polish writer Bruno Schulz, about a young man on a ghostly train ride toward a sanatorium that may exist out of time and space.

Screenshot: Asia Film Festival - Winter In Sokcho

Thu, Sep 25, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

In Sokcho, a small seaside village in South Korea, Soo-Ha lives in a bit of a rut, when a French man arrives in the boarding house where she works. As winter settles over the town, a delicate bond develops between them.

Screenshot: Asia Film Festival - Mixed Modern (The Longing)

Thu, Sep 25, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

A restaurant-owning couple employs former juvenile offenders, aiding their return to society. Among them is 18-year-old Yuto, eager for a fresh start and determined to make the most of this opportunity.

Screenshot: Asia Film Festival - A Useful Ghost

Fri, Sep 26, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

After the passing of his wife, March is tormented by sorrow and also by the spirits that haunt his family’s crumbling household appliance factory. His late wife returns as one of those spirits, refusing to move on by possessing an old vacuum cleaner.

International Art House Classics: Linda Linda Linda (2005)

Sat, Sep 27, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

Days before a crucial festival appearance, aspiring teenage rock stars Kyoko and Nozomi find themselves without a band. Now, their only chance for superstardom lies in a new vocalist who has never been in a band and barely speaks Japanese.

Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Better Tomorrow (1986)

Sat, Sep 27 - Wed, Oct 1, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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)

Sun, Sep 28, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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)

Sun, Sep 28 - Mon, Oct 6, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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)

Mon, Sep 29 - Fri, Oct 3, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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)

Mon, Sep 29 - Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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)

Tue, Sep 30, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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 Better Tomorrow III - Love and Death in Saigon (1989)

Tue, Sep 30, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

In a prequel to the revered film series, Mark (Chow Yun Fat) travels to Saigon during the Vietnam War to join his cousin. The two start trafficking black market weapons with a beautiful female assassin, leaving the three in a complex love triangle.

Hong Kong Cinema Classics: A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)

Wed, Oct 1, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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)

Fri, Oct 3 - Tue, Oct 7, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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)

Sat, Oct 4 - Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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.

Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival: The Unholy Three (1925)

Sun, Oct 5, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

Three sideshow performers leave their lives of captivity and become “The Unholy Three.” The ventriloquist (Lon Chaney) assumes the role of a kind old grandmother who runs a bird shop. Soon an incredible crime wave is launched from their little store.

Hong Kong Cinema Classics: Bullet In The Head (1990)

Sun, Oct 5 - Tue, Oct 7, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

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.

Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival: The Gold Rush (1925)

Sun, Oct 5, 2025

Harris Theater

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Film

Brand new 4K restoration! In this classic silent comedy, the Little Tramp (Charles Chaplin) heads north to join the Klondike gold rush where prospectors, a blizzard, good fortune and a love interest await. One of the greatest films of the silent era.

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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.

Support the Harris Theater and Become a Member!

Help keep the projectors running at the Harris Theater by making a membership gift to support the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. We are excited to announce new membership benefits at the Harris Theater that you can enjoy all year long!

• Make a gift of $100 or more to receive $1 off each movie ticket at the Harris Theater (available online and at the door*), and other great benefits!
• Make a gift of $250 or more to receive one free popcorn at every visit*, and other great benefits!

*Must show membership card to receive these discounts on-site

Additional membership benefits available at other giving levels. Support the Harris Today!

Want behind-the-scenes information about Harris Theater programming? Check out these exclusive stories:

"The Kid" at 100: Q&A with Renowned "Chaplin" Choreographer, Dan Kamin

Check out this special Q&A with the renowned mimic, Dan Kamin.

2022 Oscar Shorts: A Message from the Curator

This Friday begins the final week of the 2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts, and there's still time to catch all three programs at the Harris Theater.

Drive My Car Extended at the Harris: A Message from the Curator

A message from the film curator on the importance of Drive My Car!

Januscary Film Festival: A Message from the Curator

Take a deep dive into the creation of the 2022 Januscary Film Festival!

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.

Directions

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

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