Royal Palace, Historic movie theater in Nogent-sur-Marne, France.

The Royal Palace is a six-screen Art et Essai cinema on the Grande-Rue in Nogent-sur-Marne. Its cream stone facade keeps the 1921 look: a large round-headed arch inscribed "ROYAL PALACE" around a floral medallion and dark circular window, three rows of glazing, a black balcony railing and two lanterns on brackets. Two screens were added behind the historic building in 2012.

Albert Klein, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, bought a plot in central Nogent-sur-Marne in 1919 and gave it to his brother Bernard, who hired architect Milon; the Nogentais Palace opened in 1921. Between the wars it also hosted music-hall acts, including Fernandel. Renamed Artel-UGC, it was split into four screens in 1972, closed in the early 1990s, and reopened in 1997 as the Royal Palace.

The cinema hosts several film clubs, including those of the Cercle communautaire de Nogent, Cercle Beauté-Plaisance, the Maison de la culture juive and history teachers from lycées Édouard-Branly and Montalembert. Weekly slots set the rhythm: mardi cinéphile for adults and dimanche cinéjuniors for children. Classified Art et Essai, it holds the Jeune public label since August 2012 and takes part in École & cinéma, Lycéens & apprentis au cinéma and Connaissance du Monde.

The cinema stands in the Grande-Rue in central Nogent-sur-Marne, near the town hall, and is reached on foot from the RER station. Since 2012 a lift and renovated corridors and hall serve visitors with reduced mobility, and two of the six screens sit in a newer rear extension behind the 1920s facade.

The facade's white stone and multicoloured bulbs made it visible from beyond Champigny, as François Cavanna wrote in Les Ritals, where he nicknamed it "le gros rupin Royal". The cinema has held the Art et Essai classification for several years and received the Jeune public label in August 2012.