Secret Movie Club
A Los Angeles based movie theater by movie makers for movie lovers.
Secret Movie Club celebrates community through movie culture. We offer curated movie programming, exclusive streaming event parties, film festivals, movie premieres, director q&a’s, filmmaker workshops, open mic short nights & more. Located in downtown Los Angeles's exciting Arts District, our flagship theater serves as a creative community space for movie lovers & movie makers. We host pop-up events at iconic movie palaces and theaters across Los Angeles and San Diego, bringing our unique cinematic experiences to you. Be a part of the movement.
Upcoming Events
SMC Screenings
The SECRET MOVIE Club THEATER
1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021
Events/screenings/series (on 35mm film as often as we can) at our Secret Movie Club Theater headquarters in downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District. Movie screenings, streaming events, film festivals, premieres, movie culture parties, private rentals, filmmaker workshops, special movie community events, and more.
Secret Movie Club “Pop Ups”
Our bigger movie events often hosted at downtown Los Angeles’s historic movie palaces. Secret Movie Club Signature Events: These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club Signature Events
These are our “special marquee” events of the year with filmmakers in person for Q&A’s, special film series of rare titles, and big movie community events/festivals/after parties etc.
Secret Movie Club, San Diego
Secret Movie Club brings the Secret Movie Club experience to San Diego.
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Podcasts
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SMC Pod #204: The Two Stevens-Steven Spielberg & Stephen King
Yes, they're connected by name. Yes, they're connected by being born within 9 months of each other. Yes, they're connected by their crazy talent to bring the best out of the sci-fi, horror, fantasy genres. But filmmaker Steven Spielberg and best-selling writer Stephen King are most connected by being in the rarefied extremely small subset of creative artists who have both climbed to the top peak of commercial AND artistic success. Spielberg movies like Duel, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. and King works like Carrie, The Shining, It, The Stand, Wizard and Glass have had blockbuster success while also being genuine explorations and expressions of their creators' obsessions. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill devotes the last podcast of 2025 to a deep dive into what traits and characteristics unite the two artists and what we might learn from them. (We'll be back with our next new pod, SMC Podcast #205-The Movies of 2025 on Friday, January 9, 2026). Happy holidays and happy new year.