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 20th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Mar 20 (7:30pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

An intimate, unconventional portrait of Marc Jacobs, crafted by Sofia Coppola to capture the genius and singular universe of the iconic American designer.

Mar 20 (7:40pm), Mar 21 (7:40pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty's family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.

Mar 20 (7pm), Mar 21 (4:15pm, 7pm)

Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.

Mar 20 (7:20pm), Mar 21 (7:20pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

Young lovers Bebo and Lola, from different social worlds in Puerto Rico, escape to a remote area of the island after a murder occurs.

Mar 20 (7:45pm), Mar 21 (5:15pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.

Mar 20 (7pm), Mar 21 (7pm), Mar 22 (2:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Explores achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving the way for the next generation of female space explorers.

Mar 20 (7:30pm), Mar 21 (7:50pm), Mar 22 (2:50pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

The true story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and car after receiving a tow bill for $21,634.

Mar 21 (4:15pm)

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

After Liat Beinin Atzili is kidnapped on October 7th, her Israeli-American family faces their own conflicting perspectives to fight for her release and the future of the places they call home.

Mar 22 (3:30pm)

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

Tamar Manasseh, the charismatic rabbi and community activist from the south side of Chicago,wants African Americans and Jews to become closer allies. With one foot firmly in each of these two communities, Black Jews like Tamar are the natural bridge to help overcome decades of fear, misunderstanding, and lack of communication.

Mar 22 (5:45pm)

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

The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.

Mar 23 (6:30pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A struggling Hollywood actress returns home to Kangaroo Island, confronting the love triangle that tore her family apart.

Mar 23 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A certain atmosphere of horror is felt the week before the celebration of an unfortunate wedding.

Mar 23 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

A renowned actress and a celebrated dancer unite for a bold artistic collaboration, pushing boundaries and discovering themselves through an experimental stage production that challenges their comfort zones.

Mar 24 (6pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Every year the Florida government invites the public to compete in an invasive python removal contest in the Everglades. For 10 nights, an eclectic group of hunters confront the dangerous terrain, nocturnal creatures and their own desires.

Mar 24 (6:45pm)

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

A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai.

Mar 24 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A mobster's wife hates her lifestyle, but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed--if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her.

Mar 24 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Follows the life of brutally self-aware, promiscuous, love addict Stella Fox, who moves to New York after a devastating breakup, and all her disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer.

Mar 24 (7pm)

Mar 26 (6pm), 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 25 (6:30pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

From peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.

Mar 25 (7:30pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange battled extradition to the U.S., where he could've faced a lengthy sentence for publishing classified documents. His case, centered on press freedom, took unexpected twists as it unfolded.

Mar 25 (7pm), Mar 26 (6:45pm)

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 26 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Deep in the Choctaw Nation of rural Oklahoma rages a fight to preserve the Kiamichi River, reckoning with a cycle of land loss for the Indigenous diaspora and the community at large.

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 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), 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 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)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

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

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 (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 (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 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)

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)

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 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 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 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.