Who knew bike travel yielded so many entertaining short films? Now in its seventh year, the Ciclismo Classico Bike Travel Film Festival returns to the Regent Theatre in Arlington on June 1 at 7 p.m.

Highlights include the festival’s 2016 Grand Jury Prize winner, “Perceived Limits,’’ an 11-minute film by Charles Scott about his adventures while biking with his young son and daughter. Scott will attend the screening.

“Tandem USA’’ is British director Rob Lilwall’s five-minute account of how he and his wife, Christine, soaked in American culture during a comic romp from Southern California to Washington, DC. From Scotland is Sarah Grant’s “The Cyclist,’’ a four-minute comedy about a commuter who breaks free from his daily grind and stays on his bicycle for a tour of the inspiring Scottish countryside. Canadian Jennifer Hosek’s “Rodando en La Habana: Bicycle Stories’’ is a 29-minute documentary by a largely Cuban film crew about contemporary Havana, 20 years after more than a million Chinese bicycles were imported to deal with a sudden drought of Soviet petroleum.

Ciclismo Classico, by the way, is an Arlington company that’s promoted bicycle vacations since 1988. They say that this is the only film festival in the US that focuses specifically on bicycle travel. Sounds plausible.

For more information go to www.regenttheatre.com.

Idol-maker

Quick, what film marks the first collaboration between writer Graham Greene and director Carol Reed? No, not “The Third Man.’’ That came next, after 1948’s “Fallen Idol,’’ which was based on Greene’s story “The Basement Room.’’ If you haven’t seen “Fallen Idol,’’ which seems likely, note that it returns to the big screen for an exclusive engagement starting June 10 at the Kendall Square Cinema.

Both Reed and Greene received Oscar nominations for this Hitchcockian thriller about a lonely 8-year-old named Philippe (Bobby Henrey) and his attachment to Baines (Ralph Richardson), the household butler. Secrets and lies threaten both during a weekend when Philippe’s parents are away.

For more information go to www.landmarktheatres.com/boston/kendall-square-cinema.

Garbo swoons

Another classic headed to a local screen is the MGM silent melodrama “Flesh and the Devil’’ (1926), the movie that sparked the romance between stars Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. It screens June 5 at 2 p.m. at the Somerville Theatre with live music accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis as part of the “Silents, Please!’’ monthly series.

“Flesh and the Devil’’ is about a love triangle between two boyhood friends (Gilbert and Lars Hanson), who are soldiers in the German army, and the seductive Countess Felicitas (Garbo) who comes between them. It was the first collaboration between Garbo and director Clarence Brown, who’d go on to direct more of Garbo’s films than anyone else, including five of her “talkies,’’ among them “Anna Christie’’ and “Anna Karenina.’’

For more information go to www.somervilletheatreonline.com.

Earth day

The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society’s second annual Nature as Inspiration: MV Environmental Film Festival closes May 29 with two screenings. “Merchants of Doubt’’ (4 p.m.) is director Robert Kenner’s account of how a handful of scientists willfully obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Philip B. Duffy, president and executive director of the Woods Hole Research Center, will be on hand for a post-screening conversation.

At 7:30 p.m. the fest shows “Love Thy Nature.’’ Narrated by Liam Neeson, it’s described as “a cinematic journey through the beauty and intimacy of our relationship with the natural world.’’ Director Sylvie Rokab will chat via Skype after the screening.

For more information go to www.mvfilmsociety.com.

Loren King can be reached at loren.king@comcast.net.