Midnight Movies at IFC Center

IFC Center opened in June 2005 in the renovated Waverly theater at Sixth Avenue and West 3rd Street, the original home of the audience-participation midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Today its five screens show new independent, foreign and documentary films, with frequent director Q&As, and it hosts DOC NYC, the country's largest documentary festival, each November. Its Waverly Midnights series keeps that history going with cult films and horror classics.

Check the site for Q&A screenings, which are listed with the film, and buy ahead. Waverly Midnights is the most fun way to use the place: a crowd that knows every line, a full house and the West Village still busy when you come out. Members get discounts. Visit in November to catch DOC NYC, when the whole building becomes a festival hub. Afterward, the late-night pizza and bar crawl of the surrounding blocks is right outside the door.