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The Brattle

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40 Brattle St
Cambridge , MA , 02138
Phone: 617-876-6837
42° 22' 24.7008" N, 71° 7' 17.4936" W
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The Brattle shows the best in classic, cutting-edge, foreign, and art-house films. We also show first-run films and new releases of classic films, but our specialty is a repertory programming format consisting of films from a particular director, genre, or subject shown over the course of a week, or on the same weekday throughout the month.

The Brattle shows the best in classic, cutting-edge, foreign, and art-house films. We also show first-run films and new releases of classic films, but our specialty is a repertory programming format consisting of films from a particular director, genre, or subject shown over the course of a week, or on the same weekday throughout the month.

Movies have been shown at The Brattle Theatre since 1953, when Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey Jr. started things off with a screening of the German film, Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (The Captain from Köpenick). Haliday and Harvey later founded Janus Films for the purpose of distributing foreign films nationwide.

The non-profit Brattle Film Foundation has operated The Brattle Theatre since 2001. Learn more about the Brattle Film Foundation’s non-profit and fundraising activities here.