Three screens show independent Spanish and European films; if none appeals, its sister cinema, the Kaplan, is just a few blocks away and also VO.

Cinemes Méliès is a small, two-screen cinema that is the nearest that Barcelona comes to an art house theatre, with an idiosyncratic roster of accessible classics alongside...

Funded by the Catalan government, the Filmoteca is a little dry for some tastes, offering comprehensive seasons of cinema's more recondite auteurs, alongside better-known...

This, the more central of the Renoir cinemas, screens up to eight independent, offbeat American, British and Spanish films per day, though note that programming tends towards...

Under its young and dynamic director, Àlex Rigola, the Teatre Lliure's main and mini stage host an adventurous array of theatre and dance that occasionally spills on to the...

Run by private producers 3xtr3s, this once adventurous theatre now puts on predominantly mainstream comedies and musicals such as Monty Python's Spamalot, plus the odd piece of...

The Icària is a vast multiplex, which has all the atmosphere of the near permanently empty shopping mall that surrounds it, but what it lacks in charm, it makes up for in...