Tuesday Happenings

Movies

-- Chop Shop (2007) is an overlooked gem of a film, exploring the coming-of-age of a 12-year-old Latino boy in Queens. Set in the gray world of the Queens junkyards and auto shops, it's a slice of the polyglot life that has come to characterize the borough. Directed by Ramin Bahrani, who will be on hand. Drinks and DJ provided. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 9 p.m. Free with RSVP.

Dancing Hipsters

-- The Hearthrob dance party is the place to go if you want creepy men in trucker hats to take pictures of you while you are drunk and post them on the internet. On the other hand, beats from Red Foxx, Morgan Louis, and Baltimoroder might make you forget your 401(k) balance. Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. $5.