A 30- by 50-foot screen erected at the Rockefeller Center skating rink will light up tonight and kick off an outdoor independent film series.

Through Friday, New Yorkers lucky enough to snag one of the 1,200 cinema-style seats can treat themselves to a free movie — although they’ll have to pay for popcorn — at the “Tribeca Drive-In at the Rock.”

Tribeca Enterprises, the parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival, made the selections. A preshow starts at 6 p.m., while the screening begins about three hours later.

A real estate developer, Tishman Speyer, has hosted this “drive-in” outdoor film event for the past three years. This year, the company teamed up with Tribeca Enterprises. “We are excited to show audiences these fun and diverse films that Tribeca has brought to us,” the managing director, Thomas Madden, said in a statement.

Tonight’s showing will feature two films, “Super Powers,” a narrative short about a young couple who, in an effort to save their marriage, dress-up as superheroes in the bedroom, and “Watching the Detectives,” starring Lucy Liu and Cillian Murphy, about a man who wishes his life was more like those of on-screen private investigators.

The event’s other selections include premiere screenings of “Arctic Tale,” a National Geographic-produced documentary about the lives of a walrus and a polar bear, and “Mo,” a feature about a child with a rare genetic mutation, starring Erik Per Sullivan from “Malcolm in the Middle.” The final evening features a showing of “Netherbeat Incorporated,” a vampire tale set in present-day corporate America. It stars Darrell Hammond of “Saturday Night Live.”