Legendary director William Friedkin brings together Al Pacino, the 70s New York gay scene and a searing punk-rock soundtrack in this one-of-a-kind serial killer thriller, finally restored to its long-unavailable original theatrical version in 4K.

New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city's underground gay scene. Young rookie cop Steve Burns (Pacino) is tasked with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows... but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.

Taking the premise and title from reporter Gerald Walker's novel, Cruising was the subject of great controversy at the time of its release and remains a challenging and remarkable movie to this day, with Pacino's haunted lead performance as its magnetic centrepiece. With hours of brand-new bonus features, including never-before-seen material from the deepest recesses of the studio archives, you've never seen Cruising like this.

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Friday, June 12

This film will be playing as part of a double feature event on June 13th in which the Oscar-nominated writer-director Nicholas Meyer will be in person at the Vogue to discuss his work shaping two of the most iconic San Francisco movies of all time (Time After Time and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Nicholas Meyer’s connection to the city first began in 1979 with his directorial debut adapting the story Time After Time, in which the science fiction author H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) travels to from 19th century England to 1970’s San Francisco to capture the illusive serial killer Jack the Ripper (David Warner) after he escapes their era with the time machine Wells invented. What follows is both an exciting race against time to find the Ripper before he can kill again, and a surprisingly charming fish out of water romance in which Wells explores the future he only dreamed of while falling in love with a bank employee named Amy (Mary Steenburgen) who assists the aloof stranger in his pursuit.

Post-screening conversation with the film’s writer and director Nicholas Meyer, and producer Steven-Charles Jaffe. Moderated by Jason Moore of Bay Area Movies on behalf of Western Neighborhoods Project.

Time After Time ~ 2:30 PM

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ~ 6:30 PM

$25 per movie/$40 for the double feature

Saturday, June 13

This film will be playing as part of a double feature event on June 13th in which the Oscar-nominated writer-director Nicholas Meyer will be in person at the Vogue to discuss his work shaping two of the most iconic San Francisco movies of all time (Time After Time and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Nicholas Meyer has worked on some of the most celebrated and beloved films of the Star Trek series (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). But he returned to the Bay Area when he co-wrote the Leonard Nimoy directed installment Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; in which The crew of the USS Enterprise (the whole ensemble of the original Star Trek cast including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, and Nichelle Nichols) must go from their distant utopia centuries from our own time to contemporary 1980’s San Francisco to bring back a long extinct creature whose the only key to solving a world ending problem in their own present.

Post-screening conversation with the film’s co-writer Nicholas Meyer, moderated by Peter Hartlaub (culture critic for San Francisco Chronicle)

Time After Time ~ 2:30 PM

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ~ 6:30 PM

$25 per movie/$40 for the double feature

Saturday, June 13

With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Bernadette journey across the Australian Outback in their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla", along the way encountering various groups and individuals.

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Sunday, June 14

Before they blew the world’s mind with The Matrix,Lana and Lilly Wachowski delivered a jolt of pure pulp pleasure with their hyperstylish debut, which puts a deliciously sapphic spin on a crackerjack caper premise. When butch plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) catches the eye of alluring femme (fatale) Violet (Jennifer Tilly), little does she know she’s about to be drawn into both a torrid affair and a high-stakes heist that will pit the pair against the mob. With crackling dialogue, luscious neonoir cinematography, and live-wire performances by Gershon, Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano, Bound is a genre-reimagining joyride that keeps both the tension and the erotic heat rising through each crazily careening twist.

Tuesday, June 16

Wednesday, June 17

Before they blew the world’s mind with The Matrix,Lana and Lilly Wachowski delivered a jolt of pure pulp pleasure with their hyperstylish debut, which puts a deliciously sapphic spin on a crackerjack caper premise. When butch plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) catches the eye of alluring femme (fatale) Violet (Jennifer Tilly), little does she know she’s about to be drawn into both a torrid affair and a high-stakes heist that will pit the pair against the mob. With crackling dialogue, luscious neonoir cinematography, and live-wire performances by Gershon, Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano, Bound is a genre-reimagining joyride that keeps both the tension and the erotic heat rising through each crazily careening twist.

Wednesday, June 17

Hailed as a landmark film that dazzles with deep emotion and exceptional acting, PHILADELPHIA stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington as two competing lawyers who join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. And as their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

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Thursday, June 18

Friday, June 19

Hailed as a landmark film that dazzles with deep emotion and exceptional acting, PHILADELPHIA stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington as two competing lawyers who join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. And as their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

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Friday, June 19

Winner of three Academy Awards®, including Best Director, Brokeback Mountain is a sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver emotionally charged, remarkably moving performances in "a movie that is destined to become one of the great classics of our time" (Clay Smith, The Insider).

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Saturday, June 20

Sunday, June 21

Winner of three Academy Awards®, including Best Director, Brokeback Mountain is a sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver emotionally charged, remarkably moving performances in "a movie that is destined to become one of the great classics of our time" (Clay Smith, The Insider).

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Sunday, June 21

If you’ve ever pined over a what-could-have-been relationship, this sapphic charmer is a must-watch masterclass in yearning. On one of her last nights in Shanghai, twentysomething Asher (Yvonne Shuyu Zhang) asks Tori (Shu-Yi), her dance teacher, to meet up for a meandering coffee date. As the pair wander the city streets, their casual connection deepens. But as their feelings grow, dawn nears — as does Asher’s flight back to Los Angeles. 

With a slow-burn wistfulness, Ephemera revels in the beauty of a profound connection that, although fleeting, holds a life-changing weight. Measured, tender, and unafraid to sit with its characters, writer/director Shan Jiang’s queer romantic drama echoes the most achingly satisfying elements of Richard Linklater’s beloved Before trilogy and Wong Kar-wai’s 90s classics. 

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Monday, June 22

Nate is on top of the world. With a cute partner, fun New York friends, and big writing dreams, Nate is ready to fly. Until he crashes. Suddenly dumped by his boyfriend and totally broke, Nate crawls to the only people that will take him: his sweet, offbeat grandparents (played by Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham and Caroline Aaron). Despite their own major life complications, Grandpa Saul and Grandma Miriam welcome him to their lovely Jewish old folks' home.

Searching for meaning amid the seniors, Nate discovers unexpected connections and unearthed emotions — not to mention an exciting new romance with his grandparents’  hunky doctor (Charlie Barnett, Russian Doll). Written by Noam Ash, who also plays Nate, and directed by Mike Doyle (whose feature debut Sell By / Almost Love at Frameline43), Bookends unfolds with a funny, realistic touch, but doesn’t shy away from real world hurdles, including the fragility of family bonds, the unsettling darkness of dementia, and the distress of being alone. With its amusing energy, colorful characters, and unique setting, Bookends digs beneath the surface to ask big questions about identity and belonging.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Monday, June 22

SHORTS PROGRAM

Sometimes there’s nothing better — or more cathartic — than films that hit you in the feels.

BIG BOYS DON’T CRY (DIR. ARNAUD DELMARLE, 24 MINS)

A scorching summer in a small village near Marseille. After a three-year absence, Lucas and his group of friends welcome back their best friend Hicham. This eagerly-awaited return quickly arouses conflicting emotions in the gang, but above all, new hopes in Lucas. Big Boys Don't Cry was nominated for a César (France's equivalent to the Oscars) for Best Fiction Short Film.

SHUTTERSPEED (DIR. JASPER DE MAESENEER, 25 MINS)

Fifteen-year-old Cas (an amazing Lou Goossens, Young Hearts, Frameline48) poses for his school’s trainee teacher and amateur photographer Jard. When he becomes painfully aware of the power imbalance between them, he seeks to reverse their dynamic.

TAXI MOTO (DIR. GAËL KAMILINDI, 21 MINS)

A filmmaker sees the shooting of his film cancelled and begins looking for what remains of it, elsewhere, with another actor. What they explore together is no longer just a film, but a reflection on the stories that are silenced and the ones people take back for themselves. Through their conversations, the boundary between cinema and life dissolves, and the film becomes a space of intimate resistance, where thinking, desiring, and speaking become one and the same gesture. Winner of the Teddy Award for Best Short at the Berlinale.

THREE TIMES MINA (DIR. NANS LABORDE-JOURDÀA, 27 MINS)

Mina is in Cannes to perform for three nights during the Festival. She drifts from glittery clubs to hotel rooms, from lovers' arms to those of friends. There's Mina the performer, Mina the lover but also Mina the Italian singer from the '70s, whom she evokes on stage every night.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Tuesday, June 23

You’d think a 16-year-old living on the sun-drenched Cote d’Azur would take advantage of his affluent family’s hilltop villa by enjoying a last carefree summer by the pool before the anxious prospect of university — and the future — looms. But in this richly insightful character portrait of a confused teenager figuring out who he is as an almost-man, Enzo decides to join a construction crew, defying his father’s loftier expectations of him… and bringing him into the magnetic presence of Vlad, an assured, handsome Ukrainian builder fleeing his country’s battlefront. As Enzo’s fascination with Vlad deepens into longing, the youth’s half-formed ideas about masculinity and privilege drive him to the brink of disaster, both with his family and with Vlad.

Told with the same compassion and non-judgmental emotional truth as his ACT UP epic BPM (Beats Per Minute), director Robin Campillo (working from a screenplay by the late Laurent Cantet) has crafted a gay coming-of-age story that embraces more than just a sexual awakening, as Enzo must confront the complex realities of class, exile, war, and what courage really looks like.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Tuesday, June 23

A vivid snapshot of queer life in contemporary Japan, set beneath the blinding neon-lit bulbs of Tokyo, Tiger centers on a 35-year-old erotic masseur named Taiga (played by the equally sensitive and sensual Takashi Kawaguchi). While trying to revive his unsatisfying love life and navigate complicated family dynamics at the same time, Taiga is also attempting to parlay his massage skills into on-camera sex work — a task that sounded much easier than it ends up being.

On top of his romantic and professional exploits, complications arise around his ailing father and domineering sister, who threatens to cut Taiga out of the family inheritance. Writer/director Anshul Chauhan realizes his center’s purgatory with stunning detail, from the pulse-pounding beats that drive Tokyo nightlife to the nightmarish hum of hospitals. Tiger is the work of a confident and assured young filmmaker, one with a talent for presenting a portrait of the everyday life of dynamic individuals determined to live life on their own terms.

Director expected to be in attendance.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Tuesday, June 23

Soccer champion and women’s sports advocate Ashlyn Harris is telling her full story for the first time ever, in the new Roku Original documentary Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story. Sharing her triumphs and defeats both on and off the soccer field, Ashlyn bares all, leaving viewers heartbroken at times and inspired at others.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Wednesday, June 24

Like an uncanny fairy tale — by turns thrilling, mysterious, and erotic — Strange River casts a marvelous spell on its viewers as it unfolds a transformational week in the life of 15-year-old Didac. A handsome boy from Barcelona, Didac is somewhat reluctantly along for the ride on a camping trip with his close-knit family, as they bike along a scenic rushing river somewhere in Germany. But Didac is being disturbed by strange dreams (or are they apparitions?) of a beautiful boy water nymph, and to his sensitive parents (who are very aware that Didac may be pining for a boy back home), their adolescent seems distant and changing. As the trip continues, the spell of the river is revealed to be a powerful force in all of their lives.

Rich with capital-R Romantic moodiness (they’re in Goethe country, after all) and a score that doesn’t restrain itself from swelling into rapturous Ravel or haunting Bach, Strange River captures both the wonder and terror of sexual awakening.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Wednesday, June 24

Directed by Léa Pool (Lost & Delirious, Frameline25), We’ll Find Happiness is a passionate and sexually-charged romance between two immigrants, juxtaposing their past journey to the West with the fraught realities of their present in a new country. Moroccan refugee Saad (Mehdi Meskar from the French gay series Woke) lives in Canada with his lover Reza (newcomer Aron Archer), an Iranian asylum-seeker, but their bliss is short-lived: Reza suddenly faces deportation back to Iran. 

Having already witnessed the violence and persecution that face queer people in his homeland, he knows will likely be killed if forced to return. But after Saad has a casual sexual encounter with an immigration minister (Alexandre Landry, who can also be seen in Labrador — Autopsy of Silence at Frameline50), he sees an opportunity to save his lover’s life, even if it involves a dangerous deception. Capturing the precarious bureaucracy of the immigrant experience through an unflinching queer gaze, the film brims with complex emotion and desire as desperation begins to overtake their quest for freedom.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Wednesday, June 24

Tony Powell, a shaggy-haired star of 1970s UK futbol, disappeared from the public eye 40 years ago amid a swirl of salacious British tabloid rumors. “It was like he was wiped off the face of the earth,” says his sister; amateur sleuths declared him untraceable. Filmmakers Ramiel Petros and Nicholas Freeman found him, about to be evicted from a rundown West Hollywood motel, a gay man with a story to tell (once he has a drink or three).

Tony’s story delivers a rollercoaster of reactions. To his L.A. friends, he’s a loyal protector. To those he abandoned, he’s a stranger wrapped in mystery. Though Tony proves to be a tough nut to crack at times, The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel — an energetically edited documentary with a cheeky, sometimes dark sense of humor — turns out to be an unexpectedly emotional story of family reconciliation and a sharp portrait of the cost of homophobia on our gay elders.Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50.

Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Thursday, June 25

San Francisco’s own Joan Chen (Saving Face, Dìdi, Twin Peaks) delivers a powerful, award-winning performance in this romantic drama about a woman exploring her queer desire later in life. A dedicated mother, wife, and anchor in her community of Chinese ex-pats, Feng Xia (Chen) seems to have built the perfect life — though it has come at her own expense. That all changes when she meets Camille, a free-spirited, younger Québécoise woman played by a charming Charlotte Aubin.

No longer willing to suppress her identity for the sake of those around her, Feng Xia allows herself to explore her sexuality for the first time. And as her newfound relationship threatens to both enrich and unravel her life, Feng Xia grapples with the terrifying-yet-beautiful freedom of finally putting herself before others. An incredible showcase for Chen, Xiaodan He’s sophomore feature infuses slow-burn sapphic yearning with a nuanced and necessary coming-of-age-at-any-age story.

Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Thursday, June 25

When young gay drifter Veneno hitches a ride with lonesome, stoic trucker Muñeco, an unexpected, carnal bond emerges between the two along the dusty, desolate highways of northern Mexico. But the deeper they get into the dangerous, drug-fueled, hyper-masculine world of long-haul truckers, the greater the threat of their troubled pasts catching up with them becomes.

Sexually audacious and unapologetically brutal, On the Road deservedly won both the Queer Lion and the Horizons top prize at the Venice Film Festival this past fall. For his fifth feature film (and his second produced by Diego Luna), writer/director David Pablos (Dance of the 41) pairs professional actor and theatre veteran Osvaldo Sanchez (Pedro Páramo) opposite alluring newcomer Victor Prieto, making his acting debut here, with dazzling results. With their emotional urgency and boiling-hot chemistry, Sanchez and Prieto shared the Best Actor prize at the Morelia International Film Festival, which celebrates the best in Mexican cinema.

Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Thursday, June 25

Nate is on top of the world. With a cute partner, fun New York friends, and big writing dreams, Nate is ready to fly. Until he crashes. Suddenly dumped by his boyfriend and totally broke, Nate crawls to the only people that will take him: his sweet, offbeat grandparents (played by Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham and Caroline Aaron). Despite their own major life complications, Grandpa Saul and Grandma Miriam welcome him to their lovely Jewish old folks' home.

Searching for meaning amid the seniors, Nate discovers unexpected connections and unearthed emotions — not to mention an exciting new romance with his grandparents’  hunky doctor (Charlie Barnett, Russian Doll). Written by Noam Ash, who also plays Nate, and directed by Mike Doyle (whose feature debut Sell By / Almost Love at Frameline43), Bookends unfolds with a funny, realistic touch, but doesn’t shy away from real world hurdles, including the fragility of family bonds, the unsettling darkness of dementia, and the distress of being alone. With its amusing energy, colorful characters, and unique setting, Bookends digs beneath the surface to ask big questions about identity and belonging.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50. Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 and Monday, June 25.

Friday, June 26

It’s a dingy bar bathroom and a cis guy with huge muscles is fucking you doggy style against the sink… Or maybe not… In Al’s cartoons, anything is possible, even if it's the furthest thing from reality. In truth, Al (EJ Marcus) is an awkward trans guy who is completely in love with his oblivious best friend, Jesse (Morgan Sullivan of Here With You, Frameline43) who is also a trans guy. When the two are roommates at a queer cartoonist camp full of alcohol and hormones, midnight skinny dipping, and more than a few sprinkles of trans joy, who knows what could happen?

With trans folks in front of and behind the camera (executive produced by Lilly Wachowski!), this live-action/animation hybrid reminds us that authenticity, whether it be drawn or lived, is the key to living our best lives.

Playing as part of this year’s Frameline50.

Click here to look through Vogue’s program in the fest from Monday, June 22 to Friday, June 26.

Friday, June 26

When Val Goldman asks Barbara Keely to be his wife, he can't possibly envision the chaos it will create between their parents. Val's dad is gay nightclub owner Armand, and his `mother' is Armand's permanent life partner, Albert, better known by his stage name Starina.

This film can be used with loyalty cards or our 2026 annual CinemaSF passes

Sunday, June 28

The Vogue Theater presents the third annual SF screenings of Groove, with a brand new 4K remaster!

Doors At 9:00pm For Mingling And Grooving/Movie At 10:00pm

Writer/Director Greg Harrison In Person Both Nights!

On Friday, a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening, two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning, setting into motion a night that no one will forget. David Turner, his brother Colin and Colin's girlfriend, Harmony go to Groove and have a night that changes the brothers forever.

This film can be used with loyalty cards or our 2026 annual CinemaSF passes

Friday, July 24

Saturday, July 25

The Vogue Theater presents the third annual SF screenings of Groove, with a brand new 4K remaster!

Doors At 9:00pm For Mingling And Grooving/Movie At 10:00pm

Writer/Director Greg Harrison In Person Both Nights!

On Friday, a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening, two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning, setting into motion a night that no one will forget. David Turner, his brother Colin and Colin's girlfriend, Harmony go to Groove and have a night that changes the brothers forever.

This film can be used with loyalty cards or our 2026 annual CinemaSF passes

Saturday, July 25