The State Theatre Traverse City, Michigan Check out the Spring season 52 great movies in 52 weeks! A year-round festival of powerful, subversive, indie masterpieces made with the belief that cinema can save the world — and that one great movie can change your life. Buy 2025 Spring Season Tickets now

Upcoming Films

Jane Austin Wrecked My Life
A lonely bookseller, immersed in fantasy, must pursue her writing aspirations to improve her love life. She’s compelled to turn her dreams into reality to stop sabotaging a romance.
Friday, June 6th – Sunday, June 8th

1pm, 4pm, 7pm

NMC PRESENTS THE RIGHT STUFF

This film recounts the dangers and frustrations experienced by those involved with NASA’s earliest achievements.

Wednesday, June 11TH
$10 tickets
$6 students
NMC students free
Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm
JUNE IS PRIDE MONTH
PRIDE EXTRAVAGANZA
Thursday, June 12th
$25 Tickets
Doors 5:00pm
Event 6:00pm
18+ SHOW

Tuesday, April 15 – Tuesday, July 1st

This grittiest of cop dramas is one of the crown jewels of the golden era of 1970s New Hollywood style cinema. Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider star in breakthrough roles as a pair of crude, hardscrabble NYPD Narcotics Detectives who bring down an international heroin ring based on the real-life one whose bust inspired the Robin Moore 1969 book on which the film is based. THE FRENCH CONNECTION went on to win 5 Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Gene Hackman), Best Director (William Friedkin, whose next film was THE EXORCIST) and Best Picture. It also features one of the most memorable car-chase scenes ever filmed, replete with a hijacked NYC subway train and capped with a foot pursuit! In acting school, Hackman and his friend Dustin Hoffman were voted “least likely to succeed.” Instead of failing, the two moved to New York and became roommates with Robert Duvall. Hackman’s inimitable role as Popeye Doyle, earned him the third of his 5 Oscar nominations and the first of his 2 Oscar wins.
Tuesday, June 10th
1pm and 7pm

Thank You to Our Sponsors

TERRY LYNN CARRITHERS
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GRANT MICHAEL CARRITHERS

The Traverse City Film Festival is committed to showing ‘Just Great Movies’ and helping to save one of America’s few indigenous art forms — the cinema. We are committed to showing great movies that both entertain and enlighten the audience. We need movies that seek to enrich the human spirit and the art of filmmaking, not the bottom line. Our goal is for people to leave the theater with the feeling that they just watched something special.

Kids’ $1 Matinee!

The State Theatre offers family friendly movies every Saturday at 10 am.

All tickets are only $1

We also offer affordable snacks for both children and adults.

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