The Tors Drive-In is an authentic, locally owned and operated cinema.
Screening movies under the stars, and entertaining generations since 1966.

Experience the EXCITEMENT MAGIC ROMANCE FUN of the drive-in movies

Please click on the relevant blocks below to see our cafe menu.
Keep scrolling for movies currently showing and other links.

*Please note that we screen in rainy weather unless there is a severe weather event, e.g. cyclonic or monsoonal/flooding.
Internet connection permitting, we will update this page to advise.

Opening Times & Nights

Gates and Cafe open @ 6:00 p.m.
MOVIES START @ 6:30 p.m.
(later start during the summer months) NIGHTS OPEN:
We are usually open Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights, with the addition of Wednesday nights during the school holidays. Please refer to the now showing section below for dates.

Café & Candy Bar

We serve a variety of hot, tasty meals, yummy snacks and drinks at unbelievable, affordable prices.

In fact dinner and 2 movies will cost you less than most takeaway!

PLEASE NO OUTSIDE FOOD to keep the drive-in experience alive!

Most of our ticket sales go back to the studios, and what's left doesn't cover our high operating expenses. We depend on cafe sales to remain open.

Movies

TORS Drive In Cinema in Charters Towers is home to the BIGGEST, BRIGHTEST screens and the BEST prices around!

We are the only local cinema to screen the latest movies in 4K Digital, and one of the few drive-in cinemas in the world to regularly show classic and cult movies on 16mm and 35mm film.

Proudly home of the biggest, and brightest screens around!

Please note that the programme may very  change due to circumstances beyond our control.  This is rare.

Which movies show on each screen may change on the night due to unforeseeable audience levels or technical issues.

Showing this week (please check dates)

Please note that SWITCHING SCREENS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED unless you purchase tickets for both due to copyright, thankyou.

Screen 1

Portrait (INCR2_001A_G - Teaser Poster)

The Roses (MA)

Start time: 7:00 p.m.
Finish: 8:45 p.m.

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.

Screen 1

Come for one or both movies, 
the price is the same!

 Screening first is 

The Roses (MA)

 Strong coarse language. 

 

Showing at 7:00 p.m.

PLUS

Throwback Nic Cage/

Coen Brothers classic: 

Raising Arizona (M)

Moderate in impact.
 

Showing at 8:50 p.m.

NIGHTS SHOWING: 

FRI/SAT/ SUN

Dates:  

Friday 12th September, 2025

Saturday 13th September, 2025

Sunday 14th September, 2025  

(then moves to screen 2 )

 Tune In

90.5 FM or if you’re worried about a flat battery, use our speakers!

TWO movies for the ONE low price!

Stay for one or two movies, 

the price is the same.

raising arizona

Raising Arizona (M)

Start time: 8:50 p.m.
Finish: 10:20 p.m.

When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family’s quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

Screen 2

caught steal

Caught Stealing (MA)

Start time: 7:00 p.m.
Finish: 8:45 p.m.

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s NYC…

Screen 2

Come for one or both movies, 
the price is the same!

 Screening first is 

Caught Stealing (MA)

 Strong injury detail, violence, coarse language and drug use. 

 

Showing at 7:00 p.m.

PLUS

28 Years Later (MA)

Strong horror themes, violence, coarse language and nudity.
 

Showing at 8:50 p.m.

NIGHTS SHOWING: 

FRI/SAT/ SUN

Dates:  

Friday 12th September, 2025

Saturday 13th September, 2025

Sunday 14th September, 2025  

(final)

 Tune In

90.5 FM or if you’re worried about a flat battery, use our speakers!

TWO movies for the ONE low price!

Stay for one or two movies, 

the price is the same.

28 years

28 Years Later (MA)

Start time: 8:50 p.m.
Finish: 10:50 p.m.

Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

About US

The Tors Drive-In has been enchanting audiences since 1966. Here you can enjoy immersive big screen movies under a gorgeous sky of twinkling stars in a relaxed, country atmosphere.

While we offer a retro, nostalgic experience, we are a blend of the old and the new between our two screens. We show the latest movies with the best 4K digital presentation around that delivers a bright, precise image, as well as 16mm and 35mm analogue film presentations of new releases and classic movies.

Gallery

The Tors Drive-In has a rich history that has touched many lives from near and afar. It’s our sincerest hope that it continues to evolve and entertain future generations.