Orange County's Year-Round Film Festival

Streaming Cinema

Our Streaming Cinema program offers you an exciting new way to experience great films while supporting The Frida Cinema! In partnership with many of the independent distributors that we’ve worked with over the years, Streaming Cinema allows us to continue to share wonderful, diverse, and award-winning new releases and classic restorations to our audiences to enjoy safely in their homes, with a portion of proceeds from every rental directly supporting The Frida! Visit our Streaming FAQ page to learn more about renting and enjoying our streaming titles!

LIVE-SCORE SILENT CLASSICS

NOSFERATU with NEW LIVE SCORE!

From a radical live event organized by Horrible Imaginings’s LAURA VASQUEZ!

See FW Murnau’s shock classic silent film NOSFERATU with an all-new modern score!

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Coming to The Frida this Friday, January 28th! Acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar returns with PARALLEL MOTHERS, a powerful new drama starring Academy Award-winner Penélope Cruz. Showtimes and tickets at http://thefridacinema.org. “A ravishingly crafted work that again illustrates with ineffable beauty that no one uses the expressive power of color and design quite like Almodóvar.” - Hollywood Reporter

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Coming to The Frida this Friday, January 28th! Acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar returns with PARALLEL MOTHERS, a powerful new drama starring Academy Award-winner Penélope Cruz. Showtimes and tickets at http://thefridacinema.org. “A ravishingly crafted work that again illustrates with ineffable beauty that no one uses the expressive power of color and design quite like Almodóvar.” - Hollywood Reporter

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🎃TICKET GIVEAWAY!🎃 The Frida Cinema is proud to serve as a Media Sponsor for this year’s @creepIEcon, coming to Ontario Convention Center February 5th & 6th! We’ve got a pair of Weekend Passes for one lucky winner! For a chance to win, comment below and tell us: What is a horror movie that you absolutely love, but that everyone else seems to hate? We’ll pick a winner at random tomorrow (Tuesday) at 3pm! For info on CreepIE Con, visit creepiecon.com!

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Coming to The Frida February 4th - 10th! Radu Jude’s incendiary, riotous Golden Bear winner, BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN, is “an eye-ball slicing polemic by a bomb-throwing provocateur” (Austin Chronicle), and has been awarded the Best Picture prize at Berlin International Film Festival! Showtimes and advance tickets now available at http://thefridacinema.org!

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Coming to The Frida February 4th - 10th! Radu Jude’s incendiary, riotous Golden Bear winner, BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN, is “an eye-ball slicing polemic by a bomb-throwing provocateur” (Austin Chronicle), and has been awarded the Best Picture prize at Berlin International Film Festival! Showtimes and advance tickets now available at http://thefridacinema.org!

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Calling all #TalkingHeads fans! This Thursday night, join us for a #DriveIn screening of Jonathan Demme’s iconic concert film STOP MAKING SENSE at Tustin’s @messhallmarketoc! Tickets and info available at http://thefridacinema.org!

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Calling all #TalkingHeads fans! This Thursday night, join us for a #DriveIn screening of Jonathan Demme’s iconic concert film STOP MAKING SENSE at Tustin’s @messhallmarketoc! Tickets and info available at http://thefridacinema.org!

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RESCHEDULED! You Michael Mann fans out there are tenacious! Can’t say we blame you! By popular demand, we’re extending our Michael Mannuary series into February with rescheduled and much-requested classics COLLATERAL (February 1, 2 & 3) and MIAMI VICE (February 11 & 12)! HEAT will run as scheduled starting this Friday the 28th! Showtimes and tickets now available at http://thefridacinema.org!

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RESCHEDULED! You Michael Mann fans out there are tenacious! Can’t say we blame you! By popular demand, we’re extending our Michael Mannuary series into February with rescheduled and much-requested classics COLLATERAL (February 1, 2 & 3) and MIAMI VICE (February 11 & 12)! HEAT will run as scheduled starting this Friday the 28th! Showtimes and tickets now available at http://thefridacinema.org!

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THIS WEEKEND’S DRIVE-INS CANCELED — Due to this weekend’s High Wind Warning, and incredibly strong winds on the @messhallmarketoc parking lot rooftop, we will be rescheduling this weekend’s planned EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN screenings. New dates will be announced next week. Thank you, and please stay safe out there.

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THIS WEEKEND’S DRIVE-INS CANCELED — Due to this weekend’s High Wind Warning, and incredibly strong winds on the @messhallmarketoc parking lot rooftop, we will be rescheduling this weekend’s planned EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN screenings. New dates will be announced next week. Thank you, and please stay safe out there.

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Coming to The Frida next Friday, January 28th! Acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar returns with PARALLEL MOTHERS, a powerful new drama starring Academy Award-winner Penélope Cruz. Showtimes and tickets at http://thefridacinema.org. “A ravishingly crafted work that again illustrates with ineffable beauty that no one uses the expressive power of color and design quite like Almodóvar.” - Hollywood Reporter

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Coming to The Frida next Friday, January 28th! Acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar returns with PARALLEL MOTHERS, a powerful new drama starring Academy Award-winner Penélope Cruz. Showtimes and tickets at http://thefridacinema.org. “A ravishingly crafted work that again illustrates with ineffable beauty that no one uses the expressive power of color and design quite like Almodóvar.” - Hollywood Reporter

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TOMORROW, Thursday January 20th! Join us as we kick off CLASSICS ON FRENCH STREET - a new program featuring FREE outdoor screenings of family-friendly classics, presented right around the corner from The Frida on French Street - with THE WIZARD OF OZ! Screenings are free and open to the public, thanks to the generous partnership of City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org, and will happen the 3rd Thursday of every month through June! Capacity is limited — RSVP on our event page at http://thefridacinema.org!

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TOMORROW, Thursday January 20th! Join us as we kick off CLASSICS ON FRENCH STREET - a new program featuring FREE outdoor screenings of family-friendly classics, presented right around the corner from The Frida on French Street - with THE WIZARD OF OZ! Screenings are free and open to the public, thanks to the generous partnership of City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org, and will happen the 3rd Thursday of every month through June! Capacity is limited — RSVP on our event page at http://thefridacinema.org!

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Take a trip with us this Friday night as we kick off the return of DRIVE-IN DINE OUT nights at Tustin’s @messhallmarketoc, with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary psychedelic cult classic EL TOPO! If you couldn’t make it out to Joshua Tree when we screened it there in August 2020, now’s your chance! 🎟Tickets available at thefridacinema.org! 🎥🚗

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Take a trip with us this Friday night as we kick off the return of DRIVE-IN DINE OUT nights at Tustin’s @messhallmarketoc, with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary psychedelic cult classic EL TOPO! If you couldn’t make it out to Joshua Tree when we screened it there in August 2020, now’s your chance! 🎟Tickets available at thefridacinema.org! 🎥🚗

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We’re back on January 28th with Michael Mann’s 1995 crime classic HEAT, screening at 12pm, 4pm, & 7:45pm! Additional screenings through Monday January 31st - visit thefridacinema.org for full schedule and advance tickets!

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We’re back on January 28th with Michael Mann’s 1995 crime classic HEAT, screening at 12pm, 4pm, & 7:45pm! Additional screenings through Monday January 31st - visit thefridacinema.org for full schedule and advance tickets!

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Join us January 28th & 29th as we kick off CAGE MATCH with The Rock (1996) and The Wicker Man (2006)! Cage Match is a no-holds-barred movie tournament featuring 16 films from “The Patron Saint of The Frida Cinema” himself, the one-and-only Nicolas Cage. Every month, we will pair up two Cage classics against each other, and whichever film sells more tickets will move on to the next round. There will be a round of sweet sixteen, elite eight, final four, and then the Cage Match championship! May the most Cagey movie win! We’ll post up the full bracket soon!

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Join us January 28th & 29th as we kick off CAGE MATCH with The Rock (1996) and The Wicker Man (2006)! Cage Match is a no-holds-barred movie tournament featuring 16 films from “The Patron Saint of The Frida Cinema” himself, the one-and-only Nicolas Cage. Every month, we will pair up two Cage classics against each other, and whichever film sells more tickets will move on to the next round. There will be a round of sweet sixteen, elite eight, final four, and then the Cage Match championship! May the most Cagey movie win! We’ll post up the full bracket soon!

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This Thursday night in Downtown Santa Ana! Join us for the first of our CLASSICS ON FRENCH STREET events, featuring FREE outdoor screenings of family-friendly classics, presented right around the corner from The Frida on French Street! Screenings are free and open to the public, thanks to the generous partnership of City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org, and will happen the 3rd Thursday of every month through June! Capacity is limited — RSVP on our event page at http://thefridacinema.org!

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This Thursday night in Downtown Santa Ana! Join us for the first of our CLASSICS ON FRENCH STREET events, featuring FREE outdoor screenings of family-friendly classics, presented right around the corner from The Frida on French Street! Screenings are free and open to the public, thanks to the generous partnership of City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org, and will happen the 3rd Thursday of every month through June! Capacity is limited — RSVP on our event page at http://thefridacinema.org!

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The Frida’s DRIVE-IN | DINE OUT is back! We’re thrilled to be returning to Tustin’s @messhallmarketoc to bring you great nights of art house and cult favorites, plus great bites from Mess Hall Market’s family of restaurants, all enjoyed from the comfort of your car! We’re kicking it off next weekend with two psychedelic classics from one of our favorite filmmakers, Alejandro Jodorowsky — EL TOPO (Friday, January 21) and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (Saturday, January 22)! Tickets available now at thefridacinema.org! 🎥 🚗

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The Frida’s DRIVE-IN | DINE OUT is back! We’re thrilled to be returning to Tustin’s @messhallmarketoc to bring you great nights of art house and cult favorites, plus great bites from Mess Hall Market’s family of restaurants, all enjoyed from the comfort of your car! We’re kicking it off next weekend with two psychedelic classics from one of our favorite filmmakers, Alejandro Jodorowsky — EL TOPO (Friday, January 21) and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (Saturday, January 22)! Tickets available now at thefridacinema.org! 🎥 🚗

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In consideration of the incredible strain that our local OC hospitals are enduring due to Omicron, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily close our doors. By all accounts current numbers should be decreasing over the next two weeks, so we look forward to reopening on Friday, January 28th.

We will be hosting several outdoor events over the next two weeks, including a FREE outdoor screening of The Wizard of Oz next Thursday January 20th (with major gratitude to the City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org for their support!), and our #DriveIns return to @messhallmarketoc next Friday! Visit http://thefridacinema.org for updates, schedule and tickets, and more! Please stay safe out there. 🎥❤️

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In consideration of the incredible strain that our local OC hospitals are enduring due to Omicron, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily close our doors. By all accounts current numbers should be decreasing over the next two weeks, so we look forward to reopening on Friday, January 28th. We will be hosting several outdoor events over the next two weeks, including a FREE outdoor screening of The Wizard of Oz next Thursday January 20th (with major gratitude to the City of Santa Ana and Community Engagement @ce_org for their support!), and our #DriveIns return to @messhallmarketoc next Friday! Visit http://thefridacinema.org for updates, schedule and tickets, and more! Please stay safe out there. 🎥❤️

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Our final screening of THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH is tonight at 8pm!

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Our final screening of THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH is tonight at 8pm!

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TONIGHT! Flocker Flicks 21+ Movie Night powered by @tropicannasa and our friends @oldpal , @madebykiva and @clsics.official presents DAZED AND CONFUSED at The Frida!

Where: @thefridacinema in Downtown Santa Ana

21+ Screening - bring ID! Show your ticket purchase at Tropicanna from 1/8 - 1/13 show to pickup a Goodie Bag! Tickets still available at http://thefridacinema.org.

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TONIGHT! Flocker Flicks 21+ Movie Night powered by @tropicannasa and our friends @oldpal , @madebykiva and @clsics.official presents DAZED AND CONFUSED at The Frida! Where: @thefridacinema in Downtown Santa Ana 21+ Screening - bring ID! Show your ticket purchase at Tropicanna from 1/8 - 1/13 show to pickup a Goodie Bag! Tickets still available at http://thefridacinema.org.

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