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The Frida Cinema

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TESTIMONIALS

If your tastes in film go beyond the Hollywood mainstream, I encourage you to check out Frida. We’re lucky to have this great organization in Orange County that supports independent cinema.

Joe L.

Went to The Frida Cinema today to see a 3 o’clock showing of The Void, which was listed on their home page. When I got there, I saw the marquee said the first show was at 5. I went in & asked what time The Void was playing and they said 5 — but they could run it for me at 3. That’s customer service above & beyond! Thanks to The Frida Cinema for making one very happy customer that didn’t have to go home & drive back 2 hours later.

Paul H.

The Frida Cinema is a force to be reckoned with! And a non-profit at that. A place that offers documentaries, the classics, foreign cinema, and everything else outside the mainstream world. This cinema is one of the only few running that do this. There is nothing like it.

Zaina H.

This theater is seriously awesome! If you ever need the perfect place to watch independent films, foreign films, cult classics, or basically anything interesting you won’t typically find in mainstream media, this is it.

Ruth T.

Went to see North by Northwest as a date night a couple weeks ago. I am a huge Cary Grant fan and yet had never seen this one so I knew I had to see it on the big screen so this was perfect! Cute little theater in Downtown Santa Ana near bars and restaurants. Will definitely be back for some more throwback movies or artsy films.

Sandra K.

This is such an amazing theater filled with nothing but love! I’ve been coming to this place for years and what’s nice is that I know I’m supporting a non-profit theater. They’re always helping the community, supporting local small filmmakers, proving something beautiful and wholesome and just being so well put together.

Lisset M.

‘A Blast from the Past’ are the words I’d use to describe this tremendous jewel contained within the artsy downtown Santa Ana. …These people aren’t selling the next best thing in Hollywood, they’re promoting COMMUNITY!

Allan O.

Great independent theater with a fantastic staff. Everyone was friendly and efficient. They had great seats and sound!! If your a popcorn lover grab it. They have vegan butter. Taste great and healthy! Without the guilt! Thank you for showing Mandy!

Dean D.

LOVE this theater..OMG. I’ve been here several times now for different events. I’ve attended 2 of the 3 Scott Pilgrim events thrown by Cinemattack. I was even the lucky winner of the Scott Pilgrim album on vinyl. I don’t have a record player..but may as well be a trophy for me because I never win anything! lol. I also attended “The Last Unicorn” event with Peter S Beagle- the author speaking and answering a Q and A afterwards. This was so awesome. I have always loved loved this movie and it was … Read more

Elizabeth A.

I love the Frida, as an avid movie watcher, it’s great to have a place to go where many classic, cult and underrated films are shown. I had the pleasure of attending “The Decline of Western Civilization” screening with director Penelope Spheres doing a Q&A. Her films are so historically important and impacted me at a very young age. I am forever grateful for the experience, like nowhere else would this be possible. I think it’s truly amazing what the staff and everyone involved is doing for the … Read more

Kim S.

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Our DRIVE-IN DINE OUT #DriveIn series is back! We’ll be hosting drive-in screenings on the rooftop of @MessHallMarketOC’s parking lot structure every Wednesday night, starting February 2nd! We’re kicking it off with four Frida Cinema audience favorites — SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (February 2nd), HAUSU (HOUSE) (February 9th), AKIRA (February 16th), and MANDY (February 23rd)! Tickets now available at thefridacinema.org! 🎬🚘

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Our DRIVE-IN DINE OUT #DriveIn series is back! We’ll be hosting drive-in screenings on the rooftop of @MessHallMarketOC’s parking lot structure every Wednesday night, starting February 2nd! We’re kicking it off with four Frida Cinema audience favorites — SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (February 2nd), HAUSU (HOUSE) (February 9th), AKIRA (February 16th), and MANDY (February 23rd)! Tickets now available at thefridacinema.org! 🎬🚘

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The Frida is back tomorrow, Friday January 28th with Parallel Mothers, The Wicker Man (2006), The Rock, and Michael Mann’s 1995 crime classic HEAT! Experience Heat on the big screen tomorrow at 12pm, 4pm, and 7:45pm. Additional screenings through Monday! Visit thefridacinema.org for full schedule and advance tickets.

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The Frida is back tomorrow, Friday January 28th with Parallel Mothers, The Wicker Man (2006), The Rock, and Michael Mann’s 1995 crime classic HEAT! Experience Heat on the big screen tomorrow at 12pm, 4pm, and 7:45pm. Additional screenings through Monday! Visit thefridacinema.org for full schedule and advance tickets.

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Coming to The Frida February 4th - 10th! Experience long-lost 1984 action epic NEW YORK NINJA, painstakingly constructed and completed by @vinegarsyndrome! Enlisting the voice talents of genre favorites Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Linnea Quigley, Michael Berryman, Vince Murdocco, Matt Mitler, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ginger Lynn Allen, and Cynthia Rothrock, this truly one of kind film experience has been restored in 4K from the original camera elements, and is finally available in all of its ridiculous over-the-top glory for the first time ever after spending nearly four decades in film obscurity! Tickets now available at http://thefridacinema.org!

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Coming to The Frida February 4th - 10th! Experience long-lost 1984 action epic NEW YORK NINJA, painstakingly constructed and completed by @vinegarsyndrome! Enlisting the voice talents of genre favorites Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Linnea Quigley, Michael Berryman, Vince Murdocco, Matt Mitler, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ginger Lynn Allen, and Cynthia Rothrock, this truly one of kind film experience has been restored in 4K from the original camera elements, and is finally available in all of its ridiculous over-the-top glory for the first time ever after spending nearly four decades in film obscurity! Tickets now available at http://thefridacinema.org!

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TOMORROW NIGHT! 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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TOMORROW NIGHT! 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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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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