Stray Cat Film Center

Stray Cat Film Center Established in 2018, Stray Cat Film Center is Kansas City's only non-profit microcinema! Stray Cat Film Center is located in Kansas City, MO since August 2018.

We are a fantastically funky DIY micro-cinema that makes provocative cinema accessible to underserved audiences in the Kansas City area. The theater hosts screenings of lost, forgotten or disenfranchised films, host educational programs and acts a screening room for prospective filmmakers. We are a platform for volunteer programing and bringing your voice to the silver screen. Wanna get involved or become a member? Contact us to become a Stray Cat Member today!

A troubled fashion designer wastes the day away as she, and her young female lover, confront the memories of relationshi...
07/16/2026

A troubled fashion designer wastes the day away as she, and her young female lover, confront the memories of relationships past. A seismic film in the gay canon, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT explores love and obsession in a way that only Rainer Werner Fassbinder can! Friday July 17th @ 7pm- presented by

“Presented by Death Gods Film” is a limited 4 part film series programed by Filmmaker Allison Lloyd for the month of July! Allison Lloyd (director of Stray Cat mug & tote bag commercails!) has selected four films that she has drawn inspiration from while writing her first feature film, Death Gods! Death Gods is currently in pre-production and will be shot on Kodak16mm film later this summer with Producers &

07/15/2026

CHALLENGERS (2024)

Thurs, 7/16, murder and mass transportation combine as Clio's Scroll Productions celebrate's Hitchcock in July with one of his more diabolical thrillers of chance, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.

A chance encounter between tennis champion Guy (Farley Granger) and psychopath Bruno (Robert Walker) on a train triggers an unstoppable race toward double murder.

Hitchcock’s classic thriller is a finely-tuned engine of suspense, taking barely a breath as it steams through a spine-tingling story of fate, coincidence, guilt and psychopathology – favorite themes of noir writer Patricia Highsmith, whose novel was adapted by the great Raymond Chandler.

🚪/pre-show @ 6:30
📽/intro @ 7pm

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

🔫📰🚂🍷👠🧛‍♂️THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: Murder, more murder, & height challenged vampires! Death Gods film series continues with...
07/13/2026

🔫📰🚂🍷👠🧛‍♂️THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: Murder, more murder, & height challenged vampires! Death Gods film series continues with the Coen Brothers' thrilling debut BLOOD SIMPLE and Fassbinder's haunting THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. PLUS: Soviet Animation, zine club, ANKLE BITERS on VHS, & Hitchcock's chance encounting thriller STRANGERS ON A TRAIN!

Mon @ 7 // BLOOD SIMPLE
Tues @ 6:30 // KC ZINE CLUB
Weds @ 7 // SOVIET ANIMATION
Thurs @ 7 // STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Fri @ 7 // THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
Sun @ 6:30 // ANKLE BITERS (on VHS!)

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com or

FIRST DATE...Thurs, 7/16, Classic Hollywood gets a little murderous as ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODLAND celebrates thei...
07/09/2026

FIRST DATE...

Thurs, 7/16, Classic Hollywood gets a little murderous as ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODLAND celebrates their annual tradition of Hitchcock in July with a chance meeting unfolding into a perfect engine for suspense with STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.

When two men casually discuss “swapping murders,” one takes the idea deadly seriously. Featuring some of Hitchcock’s most notable set pieces - including the legendary carousel climax - the film is a chilling study of doubles, guilt, and the terrifying ease with which violence can be set in motion.

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

The owner of a seedy Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of...
07/09/2026

The owner of a seedy Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered. BLOOD SIMPLE is a crackerjack crime thriller exploring the depths of American violence.
Monday July 13th @ 7pm- presented by

“Presented by Death Gods Film” is a limited 4 part film series programed by Filmmaker Allison Lloyd for the month of July! Allison Lloyd (director of Stray Cat mug & tote bag commercails!) has selected four films that she has drawn inspiration from while writing her first feature film, Death Gods! Death Gods is currently in pre-production and will be shot on Kodak16mm film later this summer with Producers &

07/06/2026

🚨 CALLING ALL KINO FREAKS! 🚨

Thursday 7/30, For the 3rd year in a row, we'll be particpating in ARTHOUSE THEATER DAY, a nationwide celebration of the independent art house theaters. Somehow, we are one. And after some back-to-back bummers, we'll be hanging out and screening one of our all time personal faves, David Byrne's surreal portrait of Tabloid Americana, TRUE STORIES! Boots Riley isn't in it, but he probably likes it

tix are only $7, so save the date!

🎟/more info @ straycatfilmcenter.com or

⛰️ 🌀🎸☢THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: Aussie eeriness, Riot grrls, and a mountainous screening from our friends at No Nukes KC!Tu...
07/06/2026

⛰️ 🌀🎸☢THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: Aussie eeriness, Riot grrls, and a mountainous screening from our friends at No Nukes KC!

Tues @ 7 // PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Weds // CLOSED FOR PRIVATE RENTAL
Thurs @ 7 // HER SMELL
Sun @ 7 // TO USE A MOUNTAIN

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com or

Coming NEXT WEEK:

Mon @ 7 // BLOOD SIMPLE
Tue @ 6:30 // KC ZINE CLUB
Weds @ 7 // SOVIET ANIMATION (Free!)
Thurs @ 7 // STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Fri @ 7 // BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
Sun @ 6:30 // ANKLE BITERS (on VHS!)

07/05/2026

FREE SCREENING JULY 12TH!

Next Sunday, July 12th join Peaceworks KC, No Nukes KC, and other local organizers in a free screening of the 2025 documentary To Use a Mountain. In the film, six rural American communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, a people’s history of resistance and stewardship emerges through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites.

Stick around after the film for a Q&A with the director, Casey Carter! Secure your spot online at the link in our bio or get your free ticket whenever our box office is open.

“I don't wanna quit, I just wanna be in control of it.” Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”, THE INVISIBLE MAN) gives ...
07/04/2026

“I don't wanna quit, I just wanna be in control of it.”

Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”, THE INVISIBLE MAN) gives 1000% as a fictionalized version of Courtney Love in Alex Ross Perry’s chaotic and cathartic HER SMELL. Becky Something is a volatile, narcissistic and self-destructive punk superstar who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio Something She. Now she plays smaller venues while grappling with motherhood, exhausted bandmates, nervous record company executives and a new generation of rising talent eager to usurp her stardom. With original music written by Alicia Bognanno from the rock band Bully sung by Elizabeth Moss herself!

Screening as part of our Get Punk’d series this Thursday, July 9th at 7pm! Get tickets at straycatfilmcenter.com or at the link in our bio.

During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls’ school vanish without a trace. Thei...
07/02/2026

During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls’ school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind. A landmark film in the Australian new wave, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is a masterpiece of dreamscape atmosphere!
Screening next Tuesday July 7th @ 7pm presented by

“Presented by Death Gods Film” is a limited 4 part film series programed by Filmmaker Allison Lloyd for the month of July! (director of Stray Cat mug & tote bag commercails!) has selected four films that she has drawn inspiration from while writing her first feature film, Death Gods!
Death Gods is currently in pre-production and will be shot on Kodak16mm film later this summer with Producers &

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