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Mommie Dearest

Monday Matinee: Mommie Dearest

Monday, May 6, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

No wire hangers ever!  Just in time for Mother's Day, Faye Dunaway dominates in this cult classic about the relationship between Joan Crawford and her adopted daughter. Bio...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

No wire hangers ever!  Just in time for Mother's Day, Faye Dunaway dominates in this cult classic about the relationship between Joan Crawford and her adopted daughter.

Biography, 1981, R, 2hr 9min

all of us strangers

LGBTQ+ Underground Movie Night: All of Us Strangers

Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Our monthly series highlighting LGBTQ+ voices. This month, Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers (2023, R, 1h 45m). A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters...

Open
Encouraged
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Encouraged
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

Our monthly series highlighting LGBTQ+ voices. This month, Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers (2023, R, 1h 45m).

The Big Sleep

Film Noir Film and Discussion: The Big Sleep

Friday, May 10, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall ignite the screen in this classic film noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler's detective novel. When private investigator Philip Marlowe accepts the...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall ignite the screen in this classic film noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler's detective novel.

Boys in the Boat

Monday Matinee: The Boys in the Boat

Monday, May 13, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

This inspirational true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they are thrust into the spotlight, taking on elite rivals from around the world...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

This inspirational true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they are thrust into the spotlight, taking on elite rivals from around the world as part of the 1936 Berlin summer games.

Poster for Pixar's Turning Red

Animation Afternoons: Turning Red

Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Kids, Teens, Tweens, Adults, Parents
Event Details:

Animation Afternoons is a monthly movie series celebrating the art of animation!  Animation lovers of all ages are welcome at this family-friendly program. This Month: Turn...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Kids, Teens, Tweens, Adults, Parents
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

Animation Afternoons is a monthly movie series celebrating the art of animation!  Animation lovers of all ages are welcome at this family-friendly program.

This Month: Turning Red (2022)

Fanny: The Right to Rock

Film Friday: Fanny: The Right to Rock

Friday, May 17, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

The untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles. Documentary, 2021, NR, 1hr 36min *...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

The untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles.

Documentary, 2021, NR, 1hr 36min

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

MOVIES AT WEST: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (West End)

Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 3:00pm - 5:00pm
West End Meeting Space at West End Branch
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Following the death of the family patriarch, the Portokalos family decides to embark on a grand odyssey to his homeland in Greece for a no-holds-barred family reunion. Along the wa...

Library Branch: West End Branch
Room: West End Meeting Space
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

Following the death of the family patriarch, the Portokalos family decides to embark on a grand odyssey to his homeland in Greece for a no-holds-barred family reunion.

American Fiction

Monday Matinee: American Fiction

Monday, May 20, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

A frustrated novelist, fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes, uses a pen name to write his own outlandish "Bl...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

A frustrated novelist, fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes, uses a pen name to write his own outlandish "Black" book and is suddenly swept up in the madness he claims to disd

Documentary Screening - Harvey Weisenberg: The Voice for the Voiceless

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Local History, Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Please join Harvey Weisenberg and the Saint James of Jerusalem Episcopal Church for a special screening of Harvey's documentary, The Voice for the Voiceless. Refreshments will b...

Encouraged
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Local History, Movies
Encouraged
Seats Remaining: 175
Event Details:

Please join Harvey Weisenberg and the Saint James of Jerusalem Episcopal Church for a special screening of Harvey's documentary, The Voice for the Voiceless.

Refreshments will be served. 

Disclaimer(s)

Outside organization event

This is a meeting or program held by an outside organization and in no way constitutes Library endorsement.

In Harm's Way

Film Friday: In Harm's Way

Friday, May 24, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

A young WWII pilot, is saved by a young Chinese widow named Ying who risks her life to hide the injured American pilot in her house. Romance, 2017, NR, 1hr 37min *Movies may ...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

A young WWII pilot, is saved by a young Chinese widow named Ying who risks her life to hide the injured American pilot in her house.

Romance, 2017, NR, 1hr 37min

Star Trek / For the Love of Spock Double Feature (In-Person)

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 3:30pm - 7:30pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Come watch a classic Star Trek film and the documentary For the Love of Spock (2016) in anticipation of director Adam Nimoy's author talk on June 5th.

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

Come watch a classic Star Trek film and the documentary For the Love of Spock (2016) in anticipation of director Adam Nimoy's author talk on June 5th.

Carrie

Fright Night Feature: Carrie

Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

The Long Beach Library invites you to prom with Brian De Palma's definitive adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie (1976, R, 1hr 38m). Carrie White, a shy, friendless tee...

Encouraged
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Encouraged
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

The Long Beach Library invites you to prom with Brian De Palma's definitive adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie (1976, R, 1hr 38m).

Argylle

Film Friday: Argylle

Friday, May 31, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new book she's writing starts to mirror real-world events, i...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new book she's writing starts to mirror real-world events, in real time.

Midsommar

Fright Night Feature: Midsommar

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 at 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

It's summer, you know what that means - it's time to join a pagan cult with Ari Aster's Midsommar (2019, R, 2h 28m). A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural...

Encouraged
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Encouraged
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

It's summer, you know what that means - it's time to join a pagan cult with Ari Aster's Midsommar (2019, R, 2h 28m).

Studio Ghibli Mini Fest

Saturday, July 6, 2024 at 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Kids, Teens, Tweens, Adults
Event Details:

Join us for a double feature films from acclaimed Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli. -Kiki's Delivery Service -Howl's Moving Castle

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Kids, Teens, Tweens, Adults
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

Join us for a double feature films from acclaimed Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli.

-Kiki's Delivery Service

-Howl's Moving Castle

Jaws poster

Fright Night Feature: JAWS (1975)

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

It's a beach party of terror at The Long Beach Library with Spielberg's summer classic JAWS (1975, PG, 2h 10m). When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-di...

Open
Encouraged
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Encouraged
Seats Remaining: 70
Event Details:

It's a beach party of terror at The Long Beach Library with Spielberg's summer classic JAWS (1975, PG, 2h 10m).

Poster for Funeral Parade of Roses

LGBTQ+ Underground Presents "Funeral Parade of Roses" (1969)

Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Our monthly series highlighting LGBTQ+ films. This month, the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," Toshio Matsumoto's "Funeral Parade of Roses" (1969, NR, 1h 45m...

Open
Encouraged
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Encouraged
Seats Remaining: 70
Event Details:

Our monthly series highlighting LGBTQ+ films. This month, the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," Toshio Matsumoto's "Funeral Parade of Roses" (1969, NR, 1h 45m).

alien poster

Fright Night Feature: Alien (1979)

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auditorium at Main Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

At the Library, no one can hear you scream. Join us for Ridley Scott's classic, ALIEN (1979, R, 1h 57m). The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform af...

Encouraged
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movies
Encouraged
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

At the Library, no one can hear you scream. Join us for Ridley Scott's classic, ALIEN (1979, R, 1h 57m).