Rooftop Film Club, London 2019 summer season

The days are getting longer and the nights will hopefully start to get warmer soon – but there's no need to sacrifice the comfort of an immersive cinema trip with crystal-clear sound and wondrous vision. If anything, Rooftop Film Club is here to make that moviegoing experience even more attractive.

Across three alluring locations, the team has cooked up another season of outdoor screenings to rival even the most imaginative cinemas. Bottomless popcorn, wireless headphones and, naturally, the highest and arguably flyest views of the city in the corner of your eye. Sound good? Read on for a précis of the movies to book in for, offering some sky-high movie magic this May.

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Roof East, Stratford

45a Broadway, E15 1XD

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again will be screening in Stratford this May

The Stratford outpost of Rooftop Film Club has set itself up on the roof of the Stratford Shopping Centre, overlooking those twinkling E1 lights. By one title, the programme at Roof East boasts the highest number of screenings: 27.

The bar, operated by SFG Club, offers cocktails, street food from around the world and games – make sure to check out the brand new VR foosball experience House of Foos, as well as classics including shuffleboard, giant Jenga and table football.

In terms of the films, the Sing-A-Long screening to bookmark is Bohemian Rhapsody, which kicks off proceedings on the first date. Roof East is the place to go to catch seminal classics, including Casablanca and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, as well as the only venue showing more recent crowdpleasers Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Full programme of Rooftop Film Club screenings at Roof East:

1st Bohemian Rhapsody Sing A Long

2nd A Star Is Born

3rd E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

4th 10 Things I Hate About You

5th Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

7th Dirty Dancing

8th Grease

9th The Breakfast Club

10th Top Gun

11th Cruel Intentions

12th Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

14th The Greatest Showman

15th She’s All That

16th True Romance

17th Spice World

18th Casablanca

19th Mean Girls

21st Notting Hill

22nd Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

23rd The Greatest Showman (with Hard of Hearing subtitles)

24th Aquaman

25th Back to the Future

26th Bridget Jones’s Diary

28th Léon: the Professional

29th Clueless

30th Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

31st Romeo + Juliet

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Bussey Building, Peckham

133 Rye Ln, SE15 4ST

Pull up a deckchair for Bend It Like Beckham at the Bussey Building

Twenty-six film screenings, double armchairs and a glass of prosecco – Bussey Building is the only venue for this Rooftop Film Club experience. Get cosy only a stone's throw away from Peckham Rye in arguably the pop-up with the view that others could only dream of having. It's these sights that adorn the website front and centre, after all...

Food and drink-wise, Rooftop Film Club are keeping the full lineup under wraps for now, but promise craft beer, cocktails and fizz. Rockadollar Dogs will be on hand to take care of food, bringing some of London's finest posh dogs.

The films fuse reliable picks, old and new, with Raging Bull and Bend It Like Beckham as well as two of our favourite releases from last year: The Favourite and Crazy Rich Asians. You can also celebrate the 20th anniversary of 10 Things I Hate About You or finally discover the masterful follow-up feature of horror pro Jordan Peele, Us.

Full programme of Rooftop Film Club screenings at Bussey Building:

1st Pulp Fiction

2nd Raging Bull

3rd Crazy Rich Asians

4th Aquaman

5th The Favourite

7th Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

8th Withnail and I

10th Romeo + Juliet

11th Bohemian Rhapsody: Sing-A-Long

12th Us

14th Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

15th Love, Simon

16th Lost in Translation

17th 50 First Dates

18th The Godfather

19th Mary Poppins Returns

21st The Notebook

22nd An American Werewolf in London

23rd Pretty Woman

24th Bohemian Rhapsody

25th The Greatest Showman

26th The Lost Boys

28th A Star Is Born

29th Bend It Like Beckham

30th 10 Things I Hate About You

31st Dirty Dancing

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Queen of Hoxton, Shoreditch

1 Curtain Rd, EC2A 3JX

Coco will be playing under the stars in Shoreditch

Ah, Shoreditch – a place where only the kings of cool go, a place, more specifically, aptly called the Queen of Hoxton. This venue boasts a more compact programme of films, but swaps the standard lounge seats for 'Director's Chairs', adding a special touch of Spielberg to this experience.

Refreshments are provided by the Queen of Hoxton's in-house bar. No food here, but their cocktail menu is one to be rivalled – try a Green Hornet or a Popcorn Espresso Martini to really get in the mood.

While there are fewer screenings to choose from, if Pixar is what you're after, then look no further. This is the only place to catch Coco under the stars. But also, if summer loving is what you're after, seize the chance to sing along to all the best hits with an interactive screening of Grease.

Full programme of Rooftop Film Club screenings at Queen of Hoxton:

6th Grease Sing-A-Long

7th The Greatest Showman

12th Mary Poppins Returns

13th Top Gun

14th Pretty Woman

19th Coco

20th Aquaman

21st Dirty Dancing

27th A Star Is Born

28th Bohemian Rhapsody