A DOUBLE bill of films bring the fight for women’s votes to the big screen in Salisbury.

Suffragette (12A) and Make More Noise! (PG) are being shown at Salisbury Arts Centre on Saturday, March 19 starting from 5.30pm.

Suffragette is the story of working wife and mother Maud (Carey Mulligan) whose life is changed when she is secretly recruited by outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst into the UK’s growing suffragette movement.

The drama, based on real events, also stars Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst.

And Make More Noise! is a selection of newsreels, documentaries and early comedies from the BFI National Archive showing how suffragettes were portrayed on the cinema screen.

Other film offerings include The Lobster (15) on March 3, 7.30pm, which is set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts.

Oscar-nominated documentary Salt of the Earth is being screened on March 22, 7.30pm and Home on March 23, 6.30pm.

Comedian Andrew Lawrence will be on stage in Uncensored on March 4 at 8pm while there will be a West Country comedy special in Barnstormers on March 25, 8.30pm.

On March 5 there will be opera with Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, 5.55pm. while Band Yves Lambert Trio will be performing on March 11, 8pm. and the Phil Beer Band bring their cocktail of folk, rock, country and blues to the stage on March 17, 8pm.

The Live Lunch line-up features Fred’s House on March 5 and on March 26 Brandt Padron, a trio fusing Cuban, African and improvisational styles and melodies.

Girls Only Jazz Orchestra entertain in Big Band Brunch on March 6.

Altar Club: Road to Sausage Fest 2016 — a special South West themed music night celebrating Salisbury’s own and only music festival, Sausage Fest — on March 26, 8pm.

Theatre offerings include The Beanfield on March 24 and there will be fun for the family in Night at the Theatre, March 12.

On March 29, 8pm, there will be a dance performance from Neon Dance in Empathy. It reflects on what influences us to sympathise with others.

For more information or tickets call 01722 321744 or visit salisburyarts.co.uk.