Not many places around the entire world have filmmakers (directors, producers, actors and more) available in its backyard or that will travel to it quite like New York City. With more independent cinemas than anywhere else on top of that, NYC has the best moviegoing experiences in the world. Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from March 27th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Mar 27 (7pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A jazz musician and his dancer wife Jasmine offer their artistic talents to help their nation after the October 7 attacks, with the musician tasked with composing a new national anthem.

Mar 27 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

After escaping her transphobic hometown, Anna meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen's tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom.

Mar 27 (7pm)

Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)

Eager to impress his activist crush, a wealthy New York teenager follows an online connection to Texas, where he’s convinced he can stop an act of extreme violence.

Mar 27 (7:15pm), Mar 28 (7:15pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

Explores the compelling depths of how baseball and faith intertwine in powerful and surprising ways.

Mar 27 (7:15pm), Mar 28 (7:15pm), Mar 29 (2:40pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

An actress (Amanda Peet) falls for the anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.

Mar 28 (4pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

After a drug-fueled car crash, ex-private schoolboys Ayden and Jesse escape into the Melbourne CBD and are plunged into a night of unbridled debauchery and rapidly escalating violence.

Mar 28 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

The foundations of Grayson Manor are shaken when an accident leaves Boyd Grayson handless and his mother invests in radical new technology to help him.

Mar 28 (7pm)

AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)

At a mall store, Apple leads a secret witch cult with coworkers Cherry and Fig. New hire Pumpkin questions their sisterhood, forcing them to confront inner darkness or meet violent ends.

Mar 28 (7:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

An outspoken psychologist rushes to Los Angeles with her best friend to stop her lovesick daughter's wedding, fearing the groom is a narcissist.

Mar 29 (1pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

The world learns that an earth-shattering meteorite will arrive in 72 hours.

Mar 29 (8pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

A hedge fund manager resorts to burglary after losing his job, targeting wealthy neighbors to maintain his family's lifestyle, but makes a fateful error breaking into the wrong home.

Apr 2 (6:45pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A reject city teenager follows some hot radicals and finds themself in the woods. An eco-parable produced by a mutual aid collective, shot on 16mm and portions hand-processed with plants.

Apr 2 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

Free Joan Little: tells the story of the landmark 1975 murder trial of the first woman in U.S. history to be acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault.

Always Tracy: After killing her abusive husband in self-defense, Tracy McCarter must fight for her freedom against a justice system that fails to protect victims of domestic violence.

Apr 2 (7pm), Apr 3 (7pm), Apr 4 (7pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

To maximize economic productivity, the Brazilian government orders elderly people to move to remote housing colonies. A 77-year-old woman refuses and embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.

Apr 3 (7:15pm), Apr 5 (3pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

At 79, sculptor James Grashow spends four years crafting his masterwork - an enormous, detailed wooden sculpture called "The Cathedral."

Apr 5 (12pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Adapted from the 14th-century memoir of mystic and philosopher Julian of Norwich, this account of religious ecstasy, plague, and revolt is the first book in English authored by a woman.

Apr 5 (7:30pm)

UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Queens)

This series of films favors ambiguity and resists resolution. The nearer the gaze, the more obscure the view. Illegibility here is not an escape from politics, but a way of inhabiting it differently: as a site of tension, friction, and possibility.

Apr 6 (8pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Elvira Notari, Italy's first female director, left only 163 minutes of surviving footage. Despite few records of her life remaining, her work is experiencing a renaissance, sparked by scholars' rediscovery in the 1970s.

Apr 7 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

Apr 8 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Selected scenes from across his celebrated body of work.

Apr 8 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

Four years after being shot with an AR-15 in her high school, Samantha Fuentes reckons with existential questions of hatred and justice as she prepares to confront her shooter.

Apr 8 (7pm, 9:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

UPS Teamsters build solidarity among 340,000 workers as a strike deadline approaches. The film follows a new California driver, a 1997 strike veteran in New York, and a part-time Kentucky warehouse worker as they organize and picket.

Apr 9 (7pm)

Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)

College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates. Through his new experiences, he struggles to understand the side of himself he has always turned his back on in order to fit in.

Apr 9 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

Two directionless siblings are blackmailed into the world of organized crime.

Apr 9 (7:30pm), Apr 10 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.

Apr 9 (7pm), Apr 11 (3pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Hamlet comes home for his father's funeral and finds his uncle Claudius marrying his widowed mother Gertrude. His father's ghost reveals Claudius murdered him, leading Hamlet toward revenge and introspection.

Apr 9 (6:30pm), Apr 10 (6:50pm), Apr 11 (1:30pm, 6:50pm), Apr 12 (1:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please. is a gripping portrait of a journalist whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history.

Apr 10 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

A cam girl navigates a toxic client relationship while reconnecting with her estranged, dying father, exploring complex relationships and family dynamics.

Apr 10 (7:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Citizens of Rijeka, which Italians call Fiume, retell, reconstruct, and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in 1919 by the Italian poet, a dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Apr 10 (6:45pm), Apr 11 (6:45pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

In a derelict Gothic mansion on the outskirts of London, we join eight actors – four Macbeths and four Lady Macbeths – for eleven days with Cheek By Jowl. Working in pairs, they investigate key scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy.

Apr 10 (7pm), Apr 11 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

A documentary filmmaker depends on his friend's airline employee benefits for free flights. When the friend finds a girlfriend, he desperately tries to preserve his travel privileges.

Apr 11 (5pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer, Louis Batiste, is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.

Apr 11 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos reproducing death scenes from a film.

Apr 11 (7:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

Apr 11 (5pm), Apr 12 (2:45pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

After being bullied at school, a pregnant teen's family sets out to move from the city to the countryside, unexpectedly revealing a coveted secret of her past that threatens the fresh start they seek.

Apr 13 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Decades of industrial waste and raw sewage have turned Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal into one of the nation's most toxic bodies of water. The arrival of a billion dollar EPA cleanup and a massive city-led rezoning herald a new era, but what's of value in a neighborhood and who gets to decide?

Apr 13 (7pm), Apr 15 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Ben McKenzie explores cryptocurrency in his directorial debut, moving from curiosity to exposing harsh truths. His documentary both educates and entertains while delivering a powerful critique of the crypto world.

Apr 14 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

The portrait of a ten-year-old African-American boy with a warm personality, an infectious smile and full-blown AIDS.

Apr 15 (7pm with Actor David Jonsson), Apr 16 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Follows parolee Taylor whose fresh start hopes are jeopardized by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own parole chances.

Apr 16 (7pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, which triggers chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.

Apr 16 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Beach balls. Doctor boners. Farts. Snow. This film, starring Cocoon Central Dance Team, just might have invented its own genre: comedy-dance-sketch-fantasy.

Apr 17 (6:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In order to inherit his fed-up father Brian's hotel empire, immature and lazy Billy Madison must repeat grades one through twelve all over again. The further Billy progresses, the harder his hated rival Eric Gordon tries to stop him.

Apr 17 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue)

As a youth growing up in Harlem's Washington Carver Projects in the 1970s and 80s, Alaudin Ullah found himself through hip-hop and graffiti. He turned away from his Bangladeshi Muslim parents and rejected everything South Asian. Now, as an actor facing the most stereotypical South Asian and Muslim roles, he realizes he has nothing but stereotypes about his own father and mother; he knows nothing about who they were and about the lives they led.

Apr 17 (7pm), Apr 18 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Summer in The Bronx. He sells "nutcracker" cocktails, gets high, stays moving. Then she moves in. Two kids in a cramped apartment, playing house until the city reminds them how fast the streets make you grow up.

Apr 18 (5:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

When contaminated meat is placed in the freezer next to that used for a fast food chain's most famous sandwich, a marketing executive seeks to find out who did it and why, taking a journey through the dark side of American alimentation.

Apr 18 (6:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Daria Kashcheeva, whose short Daughter, a dialogue-free work tenderly exploring the strained relationship between a father and daughter, was nominated for a 2020 Academy Award, joins Metrograph to present that film and her lauded follow-up, Electra, alongside three of her carte-blanche picks.

Apr 18 (7:10pm), Apr 19 (7:10pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

The combustible chemistry between a Polish florist and a British tourist in this charming postcard of sapphic synchronicity.

Apr 19 (3:30pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Apr 19 (7:30pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Renowned social media influencer Dzanielle navigates fake friends among the Black card-swiping, workout-addicted Upper East Siders of New York. In her comedic quest for a million followers, she finds her first real new friend and her true self.

Apr 19 (8:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Macabee Cohen, whose heyday as a rock musician is long gone, travels the city in a beat-up VW bus, supplying records to local juke boxes. His beloved Lower East Side neighborhood is in turmoil: rampant real estate speculation, tenants on rent strike, art invading the bars

Apr 22 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

This is the story of 7 graff hunters, individuals addicted to photographing and sharing graffiti in NYC and the world. Relentless and passionate about their obsession, they discuss why they do it, and why they can't stop.

Apr 23 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

In a future, private underground prison/Fortress, the inmates are computer controlled with CCTV, dream readers and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife are inside but want to escape before birth.

Apr 24 (7:15pm), Apr 25 (7:15pm), Apr 26 (2:45pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Set in 1970, A BLIND BARGAIN reimagines the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name. A desperate young man strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.

Apr 28 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a quiet queer icon, captivated readers everywhere with her accessible celebration of nature, dogs, and life itself.

Apr 28 (6:30pm), Apr 29 (6:30pm), May 1 (6:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Conbody vs Everybody is the story of a tight-knit group of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who forge a pact for their mutual survival as they re-enter society after prison. Together they create a zone of acceptance for people reentering, in the form of an underground gym.

Apr 29 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

Before he went on to direct Jawbreaker (1999) Sparkler (1997) Darren Stein grew up making videos. Along with his friend 'Adam Shell' and the other neighborhood kids these young film makers touched on such adult subjects as jealousy, cruelty, and sexuality.

May 5 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A director and his mother document their Puerto Rican family over 20 years, facing loss. Through animation, they celebrate memories while realizing each creation involves a painful goodbye.