Regal has 30+ Movie Masterpieces Coming in September for Month of Masterpieces 2026

There’s watching a great movie at home, and then there’s watching Jurassic Park on a screen large enough to remind you that, actually, being chased by a T-Rex seems deeply unpleasant.

This September, Regal Cinemas is once again making the case that some movies simply deserve a theater.

Regal’s repertory series returns for Month of Masterpieces 2026, bringing a different critically acclaimed, beloved or culturally essential movie back to select Regal theaters every day from September 1 through September 30. And the lineup is insane in the best possible way.

We’re talking Hitchcock. Spielberg. Kurosawa. Fincher. George Miller. Paul Thomas Anderson. Billy Wilder. Plus dinosaurs, Pee-wee Herman, giant worms and one Truman Burbank slowly realizing his entire existence is basically reality television.

That's cinema, baby!

For non-Regal Unlimited members, general admission tickets are just $7.99, plus applicable tax, while us Regal Unlimited members folk can see the films as part of our membership. If you’re searching for showtimes in the Regal app or on the Regal website, look for the “MOM2” prefix.

And because apparently Regal knows that putting Rear Window, Jurassic Park, Zodiac and Boogie Nights into theaters in the same month is not enough temptation, there are also special concession offers throughout September for Regal Crown Club members attending Month of Masterpieces screenings.

Regal Month of Masterpieces 2 Concession Specials

The deal changes depending on the day of the week:

Mondays: 50% off candy
Tuesdays: 50% off popcorn
Wednesdays: $2 hot dogs
Thursdays: Buy one, get one soft drinks
Fridays: Buy one, get one soft drinks
Saturdays: Buy one, get one popcorn
Sundays: Buy one, get one popcorn

The daily offers are available to Regal Crown Club members purchasing eligible Month of Masterpieces tickets. Regal notes that its standard loyalty discounts still apply otherwise. 

So yes, you can watch Double Indemnity with discounted popcorn and call it cultural enrichment. I support this and now I'm wondering if I should see if my accountant considers this a work related expense.

Regal Month of Masterpieces 2 - September 2026 Schedule

The series kicks off September 1 with David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai and basically refuses to slow down from there.

Tuesday, September 1 — The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
David Lean’s sprawling World War II epic opens the month with exactly the kind of movie that benefits from being enormous again.

Wednesday, September 2 — Braveheart (1995)
Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning historical epic returns to theaters, where its massive battle sequences can once again be appropriately massive.

Thursday, September 3 — A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh. Tennessee Williams. One of the defining performances of Brando’s career. Enough said.

Friday, September 4 — The Searchers (1956)
John Ford’s landmark Western starring John Wayne remains one of the genre’s most influential films.

Saturday, September 5 — Double Indemnity (1944)
Billy Wilder, Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray deliver one of the foundational works of film noir. If you’ve somehow never seen this one, here’s your excuse.

Sunday, September 6 — The Truman Show (1998)
Some movies age. Others become increasingly unsettling documentaries about where society is headed. Jim Carrey’s The Truman Show somehow managed the latter.

Monday, September 7 — A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
The acclaimed Japanese animated drama brings something considerably more intimate to the lineup with its deeply human exploration of bullying, guilt and redemption.

Tuesday, September 8 — Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Hayao Miyazaki on the big screen. You don’t really need me to sell you on this one, do you?

Wednesday, September 9 — The Last Picture Show (1971)
Peter Bogdanovich’s gorgeous, melancholy portrait of a fading Texas town remains a defining piece of 1970s American filmmaking.

Thursday, September 10 — Hud (1963)
Paul Newman leads Martin Ritt’s morally complicated Western drama, and yes, Newman projected 30 feet tall seems like a perfectly reasonable use of cinema technology.

Friday, September 11 — Rear Window (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock turns James Stewart looking out a window into one of the most suspenseful movies ever made. Filmmaking is weird and wonderful like that.

Saturday, September 12 — Jurassic Park (1993)
There are movies that I will watch whenever they return to theaters, and Jurassic Park is permanently on that list. Spielberg. John Williams. That T-Rex sequence. Put it on the biggest screen available!!!

Sunday, September 13 — The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Humphrey Bogart stars in John Huston’s brutal examination of greed, paranoia and what happens when gold enters the group chat.

Monday, September 14 — Duck Soup (1933)
The Marx Brothers get their turn, proving that comedic chaos absolutely belongs beside the month’s prestigious dramas and sprawling epics.

Tuesday, September 15 — Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Terry Gilliam sends Bruce Willis through time in one of the strangest and most memorable science-fiction films of the ’90s.

Wednesday, September 16 — Strangers on a Train (1951)
Hitchcock returns with a seemingly simple proposition between two strangers that, shockingly, does not lead to healthy decision-making.

Thursday, September 17 — Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
Tim Burton’s feature directorial debut remains completely, wonderfully bizarre. Tell ’em Large Marge sent ya.

Friday, September 18 — Zodiac (2007)
David Fincher’s obsessive procedural has only grown in stature since its release. It’s meticulous, unsettling and arguably even more effective when you can’t pause it because you suddenly remembered you need to check your email.

September 19 Is for the Replicants

Saturday, September 19 gets particularly ambitious with a Blade Runner double feature:

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982/2007)
Ridley Scott’s definitive version of his science-fiction landmark.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Denis Villeneuve somehow followed one of the most visually influential science-fiction films ever made with a sequel that expanded its world without simply photocopying it.

Seeing these two together theatrically is one of the highlights of an entire month full of highlights. It’s epic. It’s philosophical. It’s visually overwhelming. It will also consume a significant portion of your Saturday. Worth it.

Then we continue on.

Sunday, September 20 — Creed (2015)
Ryan Coogler took the DNA of the Rocky franchise and found a way to honor it while creating something emotionally and culturally distinct. Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone make this one hit far beyond the boxing ring.

Monday, September 21 — Out of Sight (1998)
George Clooney. Jennifer Lopez. Steven Soderbergh. Impossibly cool late-’90s filmmaking. I would like Hollywood to make approximately 47 more movies like this immediately.

Tuesday, September 22 — 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Steve McQueen’s Best Picture winner, led by Chiwetel Ejiofor, remains an extraordinarily powerful and difficult piece of American filmmaking.

Wednesday, September 23 — Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Denzel Washington leads Carl Franklin’s stylish neo-noir adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel, with Don Cheadle giving the kind of performance that makes you wonder why there weren’t ten Easy Rawlins movies.

Thursday, September 24 — Room (2015)
Brie Larson’s Oscar-winning performance anchors a film that could have existed entirely around trauma but instead finds its power in survival, parenthood and rebuilding a life.

Friday, September 25 — North by Northwest (1959)
Hitchcock again. Cary Grant. That crop-duster. Mount Rushmore. Basically two-plus hours of reminders that blockbuster filmmaking did, in fact, exist before CGI.

Saturday, September 26 — Boogie Nights (1997)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling portrait of ambition, found family and the adult-film industry features an absolutely stacked ensemble cast and remains one of the defining films of the ’90s and one of my favorite films of all time.

Sunday, September 27 — American Graffiti (1973)
Before George Lucas took us to a galaxy far, far away, he made this warm, funny and quietly bittersweet portrait of cruising, youth and an America already disappearing.

Monday, September 28 — Tremors (1990)
Giant underground monsters. Kevin Bacon. Practical effects. Somehow both legitimately good and endlessly rewatchable. This is art and I will not be taking questions.

Tuesday, September 29 — Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
George Miller essentially rewrote the visual language of post-apocalyptic action filmmaking, and decades later everybody else is still borrowing his notes.

Wednesday, September 30 — The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw close out the month with Sam Peckinpah’s crime thriller.

There Are Family Matinees, Too

Regal is also adding bonus family matinees on Saturdays and Sundays throughout September:

September 5 & 6 — Stuart Little (1999)

September 12 & 13 — E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

September 19 & 20 — Babe (1995)

September 26 & 27 — The NeverEnding Story (1984)

And E.T. in a theater with John Williams’ score filling the room? Come on. There are certain cinematic experiences every generation deserves to have at least once.

Why Regal’s Month of Masterpieces Works

What I love about Month of Masterpieces isn’t simply that Regal is screening older movies. Repertory programming can give us something streaming still can’t quite replicate: the opportunity to discover - or rediscover - a movie in the environment it was actually designed for.

A teenager who has only ever watched Jurassic Park on a television can suddenly see that T-Rex escape at theatrical scale. Someone who knows Hitchcock mostly because film people won’t stop talking about Hitchcock can finally see Rear Window or North by Northwest with an audience. And longtime fans get an excuse to revisit movies they’ve watched a dozen times in a way that makes them feel new again.

That's a game changer. Through Regal's repertory series, I've been able to see so many movies on a big screen that I wouldn't have gotten to otherwise. 

The lineup also refuses to define a “masterpiece” as one particular kind of respectable capital-C Cinema. The Bridge on the River Kwai is here, but so is Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure - which is a G.D. masterpiece to me! A Streetcar Named Desire shares the month with Tremors. 12 Years a Slave sits alongside Jurassic Park, A Silent Voice and Blade Runner 2049.

That’s a much more interesting convo about great movies than simply working our way through the usual, boring old film-school syllabus.

Regal’s Month of Masterpieces 2 runs September 1 through September 30, 2026 at participating Regal theaters, with a different film scheduled each day, bonus family matinees on weekends and special concessions offers for Regal Crown Club members. 

Thirty days. More than 30 movies. A giant bucket of popcorn that I will insist I’m sharing before eating most of it myself. My September is basically booked.

For participating theaters, showtimes and tickets, visit ⁠Regal’s official Month of Masterpieces page.