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

Wondering what to watch this week in Knoxville? Here are some great movies lined up for you, all showing locally!

UTK Cinema Club

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

September 23

Nightcrawler (2014, dir. Dan Gilory) – Digital – 7:30 pm

Art & Architecture Building Room 109

Central Cinema

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

September 23

Matinee (1993, dir. Joe Dante) – Digital – 7:45 pm

Also showing 9/23

September 24

The Stunt Driver (2026, dir. Michael Dowse) – Digital – 6:00 pm

Also showing 9/25-9/26, 9/29-9/30

The Stunt Man (1980, dir. Richard Rush) – Digital – 8:15 pm

Also showing 9/26

September 25

Sunset Boulevard (1950, dir. Billy Wilder) – Digital – 8:30 pm

Also showing 9/26-9/27

September 27

Close-Up (1990, dir. Abbas Kiarostami) – Digital – 5:00 pm

Continuing their collaboration with UT’s Denbo Center, pursuing themes of identity and place with Abbas Kiarostami’s mold-breaking blend of narrative and nonfiction. The screening will be introduced by Mehrenegar Rostami from UT’s Natalie L. Haslam College of Music, with a discussion to follow. $5 screening.

September 29

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923, dir. Wallace Worsley) – 16mm – 6:30 pm

Celebrate Silent Movie Day with Universal’s 1923 blockbuster production THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, which set the studio (and star/makeup whiz Lon Chaney) on a trajectory that would help define the horror movie genre.

September 30

Secret Mall Apartment (2025, dir. Jeremy Workman) – Digital – 6:00 pm

Free for KMA members! $5 for the general public. Part of their ongoing series with the Knoxville Museum of Art.

Regal Downtown West

Regal’s arthouse cinema.

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

If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026, dir. Walter Thompson-Hernández)

The Paradise (2026, dir. Srikanth Odela) – Tegulu with English Subtitles

Charlie Harper (2025, dir. Mac Eldridge and Tom Dean)

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026, dir. Josef Kubota Wladyka)

You Had To Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (In a Canadian Kind of Way) (2025, dir. Nick Davis)

Month of Masterpieces 2 – Regal’s classic films all September, $7.99/ticket

12 Years a Slave (2013, dir. Steve McQueen) – 9/22

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, dir. Carl Franklin) – 9/23

Room (2015, dir. Lenny Abrahamson) – 9/24

The NeverEnding Story (1984, dir. Wolfgang Petersen) – 9/25

North by Northwest (1959, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) – 9/25

Boogie Nights (1997, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) – 9/26

American Graffiti (1973, dir. George Lucas) – 9/27

Tremors (1990, dir. Ron Underwood) – 9/28

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981, dir. George Miller) – 9/29

The Getaway (1972, dir. Sam Peckinpah) – 9/30

Parkway Drive-In (Maryville)

September 25-26

Heart of the Beast (2026, dir. David Ayer) – Digital – 8:00 pm

By Any Means (2026, dir. Elegance Bratton) – 10:00 pm