Hawthorn’s Lido Cinemas Is Celebrating Its Tenth Birthday with a Week of $5 Tickets, Plus Ten Exceptional Movies From 2015 Onwards

A decade ago, Melburnians gained a new spot to see a movie. Elsternwick’s Classic Cinemas and Belgrave’s Cameo Cinemas also scored a sibling venue in Hawthorn. When Lido Cinemas opened in mid-2015, it did so by resurrecting the space that was home to the Glenferrie Theatre six decades prior, leaning into the boutique experience and also looking upwards, with sky-high setup Lido on the Roof showing films under the stars when the weather is warm.

Lido Cinemas launched by offering $5 tickets for a day, too. Consider the picture palace’s just-announced ten-year celebrations a blast from the past, then. To mark a decade of screening flicks to film fans, the Glenferrie Road venue is doing discounts, bringing back that $5 deal for a whole week. If you catch a movie between Thursday, August 7–Wednesday, August 13, 2025 — other than attending special events — that price is all that you’ll pay.

More discounts apply if you’re keen for something to eat or drink: there’ll be $5 choc tops, plus $10 medium combos featuring popcorn and a drink. That means that you can get your film and snacks covered for less than the cost of a ticket at Lido’s regular prices.

If you’re thinking that it’s the cinema’s birthday but film lovers are the ones getting the presents, you’re right. Here’s another: a ten-year anniversary retrospective season across the week that’s fittingly playing ten films from the past decade that Lido has been operating, all of which will only cost $5 to see (and every one of them is exceptional).

2015 is the year that not only Lido launched, but that the world gained the Australian sci-fi/action spectacular that is Mad Max: Fury Road, so of course George Miller’s fourth title in the franchise — and the movie that sparked 2024’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — is on the lineup. Then, 2016’s pick covers a feature that will always be remembered for its Oscars glory, no matter the mixup announcing its win as Best Picture: Moonlight from director Barry Jenkins (Mufasa: The Lion King).

From 2017, the program boasts a yearning dose of Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), and its first of two Luca Guadagnino (Queer) flicks, via Call Me By Your Name. 2018’s selection goes with horror thanks to Ari Aster’s (Eddington) unnerving debut Hereditary, while 2019’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire from Céline Sciamma (Petite Maman) is another title on the program to swoon over.

Rachel Sennott (Saturday Night)- and Molly Gordon (The Bear)-starring comedy Shiva Baby is 2020’s choice, then Joachim Trier’s (Sentimental Value) Renate Reinsve (Presumed Innocent)-led The Worst Person in the World from 2021. Paul Mescal (Gladiator II) makes an appearance on the lineup thanks to Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, the film that earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination, as 2022’s pick. Finally, two very different love triangles — 2023’s Past Lives from Materialists‘ helmer Celine Song, and 2024’s Challengers starring Zendaya and helmed by Guadagnino — round out the bill.

Gavin John

Find Lido Cinemas at 675 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn — with the cinema’s tenth-birthday celebrations, including its $5 tickets and ten-year anniversary retrospective season, running from Thursday, August 7–Wednesday, August 13, 2025. Head to the venue’s website for tickets and more information.

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