Join us for our Sunrise Cinema series at the Onyx Theatre on Argall Way in Nevada City! This special series features classic movies shown on Saturday mornings before our regular programming.
Tickets are just $10, and we’ll have coffee, tea, and a selection of donuts available for purchase to make your morning even sweeter.
Specific movie times are listed on our calendar, so be sure to check it out for all the details. We’d love to have you join us for a cozy morning of cinematic classics!
SUNRISE CINEMA 2/8 - CASABLANCA - Join us as we kick off Sunrise Cinema 2025 with CASABLANCA, the greatest romantic drama to ever grace the silver screen! Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.
SUNRISE CINEMA 2/22 - DIAL M FOR MURDER - The famed Master of Suspense makes his Sunrise Cinema debut on February 22nd, with the thrilling DIAL M FOR MURDER. Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) wants to have his wealthy wife, Margot (Grace Kelly), murdered so he can get his hands on her inheritance. When he discovers she’s having an affair, he comes up with the perfect plan to kill her. He blackmails an old acquaintance into carrying out the murder, but the carefully-orchestrated set-up goes awry, and Margot stays alive. Now Wendice must frantically scheme to outwit the police and avoid having his plot detected.
SUNRISE CINEMA 3/8 - TOUCH OF EVIL - Orson Welles directs and stars, alongside Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Marlene Dietrich, in this film noir masterpiece coming to Sunrise Cinema on March 8th. When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Heston) begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Welles). When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan is planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into possible corruption quickly puts himself and his new bride, Susie (Leigh), in jeopardy.
SUNRISE CINEMA 3/22 - KING KONG - Join us on March 22nd for a special Sunrise Cinema presentation of one of the greatest monster movies ever made, 1933’s KING KONG. Actress Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and director Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) travel to the Indian Ocean to do location shoots for Denham's new jungle picture. Along the way, the actress meets and falls for rugged First Mate John Driscoll (Bruce Cabot). Upon arriving at a mysterious island, Ann is taken hostage by natives who prepare her as a sacrifice to an enormous ape who rules over their jungle. But when Ann is rescued and the ape is captured, the real trouble begins.