The Prince Charles Cinema is located just north of Leicester Square in London's West End. With famously low prices starting from as little as £1 it shows a rotating program of cult, arthouse, and classic films alongside the best of recent hollywood releases - typically more than ten different films a week on a single screen. It also hosts the a popular sing-a-long version of The Sound of Music, which has been shown on a regular basis for over five years. The cinema has achieved a cult status amongst fans, due to it's great atmosphere and attitude, sticking out as the only independent cinema in the sea of multiplexes and chain cinemas elsewhere in the West End. Leicester Square (pronounced Lester Square) is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, United Kingdom. ... The West End of London is part of the city centre of London in England. ... The Sound of Music is a Broadway musical and film based on the book The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. ...

It offers annual memberships which entitle the card holder to a discount all films and money off drinks in the licensed downstairs bar, which you can take into the screen. It has also now re-launched the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which regularly sells out.

The cinema has an interesting history, having once existed as a theatre, and then as a porn cinema. A relic of it's past can be seen in the double 'lovers' chairs on the back to rows (these however are brand new clean versions which the management decided to reinstall after a recent refurbishment).

The cinema was famously used as the setting for a number of stunts in the cult British sketch show, Trigger Happy TV. Filming was facilitated by the cinema having a balcony from which aerial shots could be taken, as was the apparent willingness of the management to subject their patrons to some hilarious (and ultimately harmless) pranks. Various sketches involved the show's presenter, Dom Joly along with extras from the show annoying cinema-goers by dressing up as severely obese people trying to squeeze past whilst spilling pop corn from massively oversized buckets, sitting in front of them with enormous fake wigs, and dressing up as beefeaters taking up whole rows of seats. Other more bizarre incidents involved the use of animal costumes. In one scene 2 rabbits were seen simulating intercourse, and in another Joly dressed up as a snake and slithered around on the floor, as a supposed addition to a screening advising people to be vigilant about pick-pockets. Trigger Happy TV is a British hidden camera television show, created, produced and starring Dom Joly. ... Dom Joly (full name Dominic John Joly) is a British television comedian (born 15 November 1970). ...

Hosting a variety of special previews, premieres, cast and crew screenings and other events the cinema is also available for private hire.