Movies showing in Knoxville this week. Want your event here? Contact us!

Bijou Theatre

August 27

The Invisible Mammal (2025, dir. Kristin Tieche) – Digital – 6:30 PM – FREE!

Chroma

Free experimental and arthouse cinema screenings.

August 27 – St. James Episcopal Church

Persona (1966, dir. Ingmar Bergman) – 16mm – 8:00 pm – FREE!

Un Chien Andalou (1929, dir. Luis Buñuel) – 16mm– 8:00 pm – FREE!

Central Cinema

Knoxville’s only independent movie house. Full calendar here.

August 24

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026, dir. Jane Schoenbrun) – Digital – 6:00 pm

Also showing 8/25-8/30

August 25

Hope Fund (2026, prod. Abortion Care Tennessee) – Digital – 6:30 pm

Screening & discussion hosted by Mountain Access Brigade

August 27

Idiots (2026, dir. Macon Blair) – Digital – 6:30 pm

Also showing 8/29-8/31, 9/3

Ijams Nature Center

Movies Under the Stars — takes place at Ijams Visitor Center, including food trucks!

August 28

Napoleon Dynamite (2004, dir. Jared Hess) – Digital – 7:00 pm

Tickets just $12 a person; register here.

Film Fest Knox

FILM FEST KNOX is an international film festival in hosted by Visit Knoxville.

August 26 – Regal Riviera

Nadja (1994, dir. Michael Almareyda) – Digital – 7 pm – FREE!

Reserve your free tickets here.

UTK Cinema Club

Student organization at UTK providing free public film screenings and discussions.

August 25

Pitch Perfect (2012, dir. Jason Moore) – Digital – 7:30 pm – FREE!

Outside the student union, on the 21st Mortgage Plaza. Bring a blanket and enjoy a movie under the stars!

August 27

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick) – Digital – 7:30 pm – FREE!

Art & Architecture Building Room 109

Regal Downtown West

Regal’s arthouse cinema.

Multiple screening times, all digital. Full schedule available online, but here are unique independent films being shown:

The Rivals of Amziah King (2025, dir. Andrew Patterson)

Castle in the Sky (1986, dir. Hayao Miyazaki) – 40th Anniversary Screening, 8/24-8/26

Hot Spot (2026, dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska)

American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story (2026, dir. Derek Watson) 8/25-8/26

Parkway Drive-In (Maryville)

August 28 & 29

Coyote vs. Acme (2026, dir. Dave Green) – Digital – 8:40 pm

The Odyssey (2026, dir. Christopher Nolan) – Digital – 10:40 pm