What are the opening hours?

Monday 5:30pm - 10:30pm Tuesday 2:30pm - 10:30pm Wednesday 5:30pm - 10:30pm Thursday 5:30pm - 10:30pm Friday 5:30pm - 10:30pm Saturday 5:30pm - 10:30pm Sunday 5:30pm - 10:30pm

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An independent cinema in Broadstairs for people who love independent film.

60 Years a Cinema 1965-2025 🎈

The Palace is small, welcoming, independent and family-run, offering a programme of quality mainstream, independent and world cinema for locals and visitors alike! It's usually open 7 days a week, offering at least two choices of film plus special events including 'Palace Sunday Silents', monthly silent films with live piano accompaniment Sept-June. The cinema is deceptively small from the street-

front; inside at street level there is a little foyer (with a lovely range of snacks and drinks, and fully licensed) and balcony. Stairs from the foyer lead down to the stalls, and we have step-free access at the rear of the building. The Palace is housed in a lovely Grade II listed building. Originally a shipwrights stood on the site until in the 1910s it was transformed into the more elegant, and solid, 'York Gate Hall' to house the armour collection of Sir Guy Laking, whose family holidayed next door in York Gate House. From the late 1910s-1960s the hall was hired out in the season for puppet shows and 16mm cartoon shows before being converted into a cinema by local cinema entrepreneur Jack Field, who originally named it the 'Windsor'. It was re-named the Palace in 2006 by the third owners, Colin Jay and Sean Mills, who undertook a large scale renovation and installation of larger screen plus digital sound & projection.

30/05/2026

Ramsgate, Margate, Broadstairs
CINEMA WALKS

June 2026

Our towns have been filled with places to see a film since the dawn of moving pictures.

Cinema Walks explore and celebrate them all, from converted sheds to glorious picture palaces, from buildings still standing to those of which all flickering traces are long gone. Taking in local characters and social history, archive images and film clubs happening next week, visit each town’s love for the sights and sounds of film from the 1890s to today.

Cinema Walk: Ramsgate
Sun 7 June, 10:30-12:00

Cinema Walk: Margate/Cliftonville
Sun 14 June, 10:30-12:00

Cinema Walk: Broadstairs
Sun 28 June, 10:30-11:45

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Palace / ?
Cameo / Labrokes
Grand / Westcliff Court

28/05/2026

From Fri 29 at the Palace!

👠 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 - More low key, fly-on-the-wall observation following the team and associates of Runway magazine.

🎻 PRIMAVERA - Life transforms for Cecilia, an orphan and violin prodigy in C18th Venice, when she meets her new teacher Antonio Vivaldi.

🌳 THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE - Wonderful adaption of Enid Blyton’s much-loved children’s story of a place of endless adventures.

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Coming up from Fri 5 June:

🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️MIROIRS NO.3 - Thrown together by circumstance, the connected lives of a young woman and a family that takes her in are slowly revealed

👩🏼‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 THE CHRISTOPHERS - Gorgeous tale starring Ian McKellan & Michaela Coel as painter and forger discovering an unexpected bond

🎞️ CINEMA WALK: RAMSGATE - Where were all Ramsgate’s cinemas, silent and sound?! Taking in local characters and social history, archive images and film clubs happening next week, visit each town’s love for the sights, sounds and sensations of film from the 1890s to today.

Later in June..

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: FRIDA KAHLO
UNDERLAND
EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC
GENERAL STRIKE 1926: A REVOLUTION BETRAYED? + Q&A
Special event for Refugee Week: EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET + Q&A with director Felipe Bustas Sierra
OUR LAND
MY MOTHER’S WEDDING
Sunday Silent: A HOOT & A HALF WITH LAUREL & HARDY + live piano accompaniment
SAVAGE HOUSE
TUNER
CINEMA WALKS: Margate/Cliftonville, Broadstairs

24/05/2026

June at the Palace 🎉

New films, classic films, filmmaker Q&As, Cinema Walks!

🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️MIROIRS NO.3 - Thrown together by circumstance, the connected lives of a young woman and a family that takes her in are slowly revealed

👩🏼‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨 THE CHRISTOPHERS - Gorgeous tale starring Ian McKellan & Michaela Coel as painter and forger discovering an unexpected bond

🌺 EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: FRIDA KAHLO - The extraordinary life and work of the great artist told by experts and in her own words

🔦 UNDERLAND - Robert McFarlane’s poetic deep dive into the world far below our feet

🤩 EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC - In Cairo, a star finds that his fame does not insulate him from state power

🪧 GENERAL STRIKE 1926: A REVOLUTION BETRAYED? + Q&A - Restored 1974 doc incl. moving interviews with those that took part followed by Q&A with Platform Films

🙋🏻 Special event for Refugee Week: Inspiring, award-winning doc re the community uprising in Glasgow EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET + Q&A with director Felipe Bustas Sierra. In partnership with ARK Cliftonville for Refugee Week

🍃 OUR LAND - Exploring the ‘right to roam’ with walkers, land owners, conservationists and activists

🥂 MY MOTHER’S WEDDING - A glass of bubbles, tears and laughs for 3 daughters and their mum on her 3rd wedding day

🎹 Sunday Silent: A HOOT & A HALF WITH LAUREL & HARDY + amazing live piano accompaniment by Lillian Henley

🪎 SAVAGE HOUSE - C18th aristos with everything except money & shame haul it all together for one big show of family glory

🎧 TUNER - Heist with heart for two piano tuners whose unlikely friendship leads to unlikely uses for their particular skills

🎞️ CINEMA WALKS: BROADSTAIRS, MARGATE/CLIFTONVILLE, RAMSGATE - Taking in local characters and social history, archive images and film clubs happening next week, visit each town’s love for the sights, sounds and sensations of film from the 1890s to today.

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23/05/2026

Sun 24 May 1.45pm!

Live piano accompaniment to Charlie Chaplin classics!

Kids’ tickets only £4!

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22/05/2026

From Fri 22 May at the Palace!

💙 THE BLUE TRAIL - Extraordinary, immersive, Amazon-set tale of Tereza who, approaching 70, refuses to let it mean that life is over.

🇷🇺 THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN - Chilling thriller set across two decades showing Putin’s rise from obscurity to absolute power.

🌳 THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE - Wonderful adaption of Enid Blyton’s much-loved children’s story of a place of endless adventure from the screenwriter of PADDINGTON and WONKA.

🤣 CHARLIE CHAPLIN COMEDY TRIPLE - A joyous afternoon of genius messing about with three 1910s classics from Lambeth’s finest export. Live piano by the incredible Lillian Henley!

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Coming up from Fri 29 May:

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2
PRIMAVERA

Coming up in June!

MIROIRS NO.3
THECHRISTOPHERS
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: FRIDA KAHLO
UNDERLAND
EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC
GENERAL STRIKE 1926: A REVOLUTION BETRAYED? + Q&A
Special event for Refugee Week in partnershio with ARK Cliftonville: EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET + Q&A with director Felipe Bustos Sierra
OUR LAND
MY MOTHER’S WEDDING
Sunday Silent: A HOOT & A HALF WITH LAUREL & HARDY + live piano accompaniment
SAVAGE HOUSE
TUNER

17/05/2026

CINEMA WALKS
Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate

June 2026

Our towns have been filled with places to see a film since the dawn of moving pictures!
Cinema Walks explore and celebrate them all, from converted sheds to glorious picture palaces, from buildings still standing to those of which all flickering traces are long gone. Taking in local characters and social history, archive images and film clubs happening next week, visit each town’s love for the sights, sounds and sensations of film from the 1890s to today.

Cinema Walk: Ramsgate
Sun 7 June, 10:30-12:00

Cinema Walk: Margate/Cliftonville
Sun 14 June, 10:30-12:00

Cinema Walk: Broadstairs
Sun 28 June, 10:30-11:45

🎟️ thepalacecinema.co.uk

15/05/2026

Drop in & discover Thanet & East Kent’s history and heritage!

All for free at Ramsgate Tunnels

Trust for Thanet Archaeology
RAF Manston History Museum
Canterbury Cathedral Archives
English Heritage
St Lawrence Clock Restoration Appeal
Powell-Cotton Museum
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Ramsgate
Kent Mining Museum
Kent History and Library Centre
Ramsgate Archive
Ramsgate Society
Royal Engineers Museum
Ash Heritage Group
+ us with local film heritage
+ many more!

13/05/2026

From Fri 15 May at the Palace!

👩🏼‍🎨 COLOURS OF TIME - Astonishing step back in time to C19th ancestors for the heirs of an old family house in France.

🚤 ROSE OF NEVADA - From the director of BAIT and ENYS MEN, a haunting Cornish-set tale of a lost boat and the crew sent to bring it home.

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Coming up from Fri 22 May:

⛵️THE BLUE TRAIL - Extraordinary, immersive, Amazon-set tale of Tereza who, approaching 70, refuses to let it mean that her life is over.

🇷🇺 THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN - Chilling thriller set across 2 decades showing Putin’s rise from obscurity to absolute power.

🌳 THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE - Wonderful adaption of Enid Blyton’s much-loved children’s story of a place of endless adventure.

🎹 CHARLIE CHAPLIN COMEDY TRIPLE - A joyous afternoon of genius messing about with three 1910s’ classics from Lambeth’s finest export. Live piano by Lillian Henley!

Later in May… THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2, PRIMAVERA. June programme coming soon!

06/05/2026

From Fri 8 May at the Palace

🥃🥃 GLENROTHAN - A tale of family and forgiveness as two warring brothers (Brian Cox, Alan Cummings) reluctantly reunite at the family’s Highland distillery.

💍 THE DRAMA - A truth game becomes something much more serious for two newly weds (Zendaya, Robert Pattinson)

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Coming up from Fri 15 May:

👩🏼‍🎨 COLOURS OF TIME - Astonishing step back in time to C19th ancestors for the heirs of an old family house in France!

🚤 ROSE OF NEVADA - From the director of BAIT and ENYS MEN, a haunting Cornish-set tale of a lost boat and the crew sent to bring it home.

LOCAL HISTORY DAY - Visit us and lots more Kent organisations, venues and groups bringing local social history, architectural heritage and archaeology to life! Ramsgate Tunnels

Later in May at the Palace:

THE BLUE TRAIL
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN
THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2
PRIMAVERA
Sunday Silent: CHARLIE CHAPLIN COMEDY TRIPLE + amazing live piano accompaniment by Lillian Henley

02/05/2026

For the sake of purrfect clarity!

Visit the rest of the Festival of Cats programme in Margate and online 1-5 May!

29/04/2026

From Fri 1 May at the Palace!

❤️ FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER - Warm, witty portraits of parents and their adult children from great indie director Jim Jarmusch & cast inc. Charlotte Rampling, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver.

☀️ THE STRANGER - Dark, sultry take on Camus’ classic: A young man in ‘30s French Algeria, a hot sun, a gun.

🐾 CATVIDEOFEST - As part of Festival of Cats the world’s favourite cat-themed film show CatVideoFest leaps joyfully in through the Palace cat flap, plus a showreel of some of the finest cats of Thanet supplied by the audience, with 10% of ticket sales and raffle going to Cats in Crisis Thanet.
Please note: This special event is now SOLD OUT. Single seats may become available from cancellations and there may be returns on the door.

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Coming up from Fri 8 May:

🥃🥃 GLENROTHAN - A tale of family and forgiveness as warring brothers (Brian Cox, Alan Cummings) reluctantly reunite at the family’s Highland distillery.

💍 THE DRAMA - A truth game becomes something much more serious for two newly weds (Zendaya, Robert Pattinson)

Coming up later in May…

COLOURS OF TIME
ROSE OF NEVADA
THE BLUE TRAIL
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN
THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2
PRIMAVERA
Sunday Silent: CHARLIE CHAPLIN COMEDY TRIPLE

Address

Harbour Street
Broadstairs
CT10IET

Opening Hours

Monday	5:30pm - 10:30pm
Tuesday	2:30pm - 10:30pm
Wednesday	5:30pm - 10:30pm
Thursday	5:30pm - 10:30pm
Friday	5:30pm - 10:30pm
Saturday	5:30pm - 10:30pm
Sunday	5:30pm - 10:30pm

Website

http://www.thepalacecinema.co.uk/

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