Film Series + Festivals

Professor Pfinklepfunder’s $1 Films

Film Series + Festivals

Professor Pfinklepfunder’s $1 Films

Experience fantastic family entertainment at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s Browning Cinema! Get your tickets to these classic + seasonal films, soda, and popcorn, all for just a dollar each.

Fantasia (1940)

Composed of eight different segments featuring classical music, the anthology of animated shorts act as their own music videos of sorts--an odd way for Mickey Mouse to star in his first feature film, but a timeless example copied by many on how animation and music can be woven into inspiration.

Little Women (2019)

Louisa May Alcott’s timeless band of sisters has been adapted for film previously, but perhaps never with as much panache or splash as when Greta Gerwig.

Chicken Run (2000)

A rebel in the henhouse, Ginger, incites upheaval as she leads her fellow feathered friends on a mission to free and save their lives.

Disneynature: African Cats (2011)

This sweeping nature documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson follows majestic big cats as they strive to raise their young and teach them the ways of survival on the African savanna with toughness and love.

The Pagemaster (1994)

After seeking shelter from a storm in a mysterious library, an easily terrified kid is transported to an animated fantasy world.

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Sophie has an uneventful life at her late father's hat shop, but all that changes when she befriends the wizard Howl who lives in a magical flying castle.

Fantastic Planet (1973)

After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

A word to the wise: When a mysterious dark carnival arrives unexpectedly in your small town a week before Halloween, you probably shouldn’t ride that carousel.

Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999)

Enlisting the help of an imaginary friend named Larry Houdini to deal with the prank-playing Boogeyman, Frances must get the chicanery to stop before everyone turns against her.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

When Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, accidentally stumbles on Christmastown with all its bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life.

Coco (2017)

Celebrate el Dia de los Muertos with the Browning Cinema’s annual Pfinklepfunder screening of Coco.

Sister Act 1 Sing-along (1992)

After witnessing her racketeering boyfriend (Harvey Keitel) commit a murder, lounge singer Deloris (Whoopi Goldberg) evades capture.

Old Yeller (1957)

Walt Disney yarn about a stray dog that helps protect the homestead of a frontier family in the 1860s. Please bring your own Kleenex.

The Iron Giant (1999)

When a giant metal machine falls to Earth in 1958 and frightens the residents of a small town in Maine until it befriends a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth.

A Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

In this holiday classic, an old man going by the name of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) fills in for an intoxicated Santa in Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.

The Polar Express (2004)

When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.