The Rex Cinema and South West Silents presents another weekend of classic silent films this November Friday 28th – Sunday 30th

In 2025 Wareham Silent Film Weekender celebrates the incredible silent film world of the ‘Silent Sirens: Divas, Danger, and Desire.’

£50 for all 7 shows

This Silents Weekend is part of the BFI's 'Too Much Melodrama' Season.’ With support from the BFI Film Audience Network- a UK-wide initiative funded by the National Lottery funding to increase audience access to a diverse range of films and screen culture by supporting independent cinemas, film festivals and other venues.

Major silent film titles for this year include:

Friday Gala Night- Dress-up & Fizz! 7:30pm
CHICAGO 1927 Roxie Hart, a fame-obsessed housewife who kills her lover in cold blood and, after trying to coerce her husband into taking the blame, is put on trial for murder- long considered a lost film, but a perfect print survived in Cecil B. DeMille’s private collection.

Saturday 2:30pm
SHOW LIFE 1928 The story of Song (Anna May Wong), “one of Fate’s castaways,” who is attacked on a beach in Istanbul and is rescued by John, a music-hall knife-thrower. . .

Saturday 4:30pm
PICADILLY 1929 Chinese-American screen goddess Anna May Wong stars as Shosho, a scullery maid in a fashionable London nightclub whose sensuous tabletop dance catches the eye of suave club owner Valentine Wilmot. . .

Saturday 8:15pm
OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS 1928 The film that reputedly catapulted Joan Crawford to stardom fizzes with all the sumptuous elegance and gin-fuelled glamour any wannabe-flapper could hope for.

Sunday 2:30pm
SHOOTING STARS 1928 After her actor husband discovers actress wife Mae Feather is having an affair with a screen comedian he instigates divorce proceedings that could ruin her career. In despair, Feather decides to kill Gordon by putting a real bullet in a prop . . .

Sunday 4:30pm
UNDER-GROUND 1928 A classic British film Bert, a brash electrician, and Bill, a gentle underground porter, both fall in love with a shop girl, on the same day, in the same underground station. . .

Sunday 8:15pm
PANDORA’S BOX The downward spiral of a vivacious showgirl, brought vibrantly to life by a live-wire Louise Brooks, wreaking casual havoc on all she encounters through the sheer power of charisma. . .

SHOW LIFE will have a live piano accompaniment. All other films will have their motion picture scores.