Too Much: Melodrama on Film
November 2025
A major UK-wide season celebrating the visual excess and dramatic potency of a form of cinema which champions emotional intensity over propriety and ‘good taste’.
This new season celebrating the vivid visual language, heightened dramatics and emotional pathos at the heart of melodrama, inviting cinema audiences to follow their emotions. United by their emotion-driven plots, vivid visual language and self-conscious audience manipulation, these films are designed to make you break down in tears, cause a scene, fall in love, feel something.
The season will explore the world of melodrama through the ages, with films ranging from cult classics to lesser-known international gems. Melodrama is steeped in contradiction. Swooningly romantic, people fall in love at first sight, sacrifice their lives in acts of devotion, find one another across space and time. Simultaneously they are grounded in the trappings of reality: rigid class boundaries, threat of punishment, and fear of scandal loom at every corner. The characters in these films are culturally diverse, from different generations and social backgrounds, but endlessly human and relatable. Their stories shed light on injustice and oppression.
Too Much: Melodrama on Film is a major UK-wide season supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
See Too Much for Much Less!
Make the most of our Too Much: Melodrama on Film season at Storyhouse with our special multibuy offer:
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Save 25% when you book 2 films
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Save 50% when you book 3 or more
Simply pick your films, choose your seats, and the discount will be applied automatically at checkout.
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