Fancy a film? Head to your local library!

A new season of ‘Films at the Library’ is being launched by Libraries Unlimited across Devon and Torbay in February.

The charity, which runs the 54 libraries across the county, has hand-picked a variety of big box office hits and less well-known movies for the latest season of screenings.

The new season kicks off on Friday 7th February and the films on offer include The King’s Speech starring Colin Firth, Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice and last year’s hit comedy Thelma.

Eight libraries will be running the screenings and each film costs just £3 plus a booking fee if booked online.

The season is organised by Libraries Unlimited with funding from Arts Council England.

Libraries Unlimited Creative Communities Producer Rae Hoole said: “We’re pleased to be able to roll out another season of films which are proving so popular in our libraries. We’re committed to keeping our prices low in comparison to standard cinema costs, so more people can enjoy a great film with their friends or family in a cosy setting. Bring your own popcorn and a blanket and relax!”

For more information and bookings: Films at your local library by Libraries Unlimited | Eventbrite

Friday 7 Feb 2pm

The King's Speech (2010, Tom Hooper)

The popular 2010 historical drama starring Colin Firth as the future King George VI who sees a speech therapist to help with his stammer.

Exmouth Library

Friday 7 Feb 7pm

Sweetheart

This 2019 horror film sees a castaway on a desert island trying to survive while being stalked by a sea monster.

Exmouth Library

Wed 12 Feb 2pm

Operation Mincemeat (2022)

It's 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe and plan an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect a massive invasion force from potential massacre.

Newton Abbot

Sat 15 Feb 2pm

DIDI

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Barnstaple

Sat 15 Feb 1.30pm

The Wild Robot

The 2024 animated science fiction film follows Roz, a service robot who is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. She meets local wildlife and becomes the adoptive mother of a little goose

Churston

Wed 19 Feb 2pm

The Apprentice

Donald Trump’s career as a real estate developer in New York in the 1970s and 80s and his relationship with controversial lawyer Roy Cohn.

Seaton

Thu 20 Feb 6.30pm

Living

Overwhelmed at work and lonely at home, a civil servant's life takes a heartbreaking turn when a medical diagnosis tells him his time is short.

Newton Abbot

Sat 22 Feb 2pm

Thelma

June Squibb, who did most of her own stunts in the film, plays Thelma Post, a feisty 93-year-old grandmother who gets conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson and sets out on a treacherous quest across Los Angeles to reclaim what was taken from her.

Barnstaple

Wed 26 Feb 2pm

The Little Stranger

This gothic drama tells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor until during the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked.

Crediton