Movies
The Rio plays First Run Feature films, Independent film screenings as well as live Events. Every Friday night we feature Midnight Cult Classics (35mm when available) on the big screen. For the Midnight Movies we have live hosts and pre show entertainment. Dress up in costume for $1 off the $8 ticket price and join the fun! Check out our previously played and upcoming Films and Live Events!
Moonrise Kingdom
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A Clockwork Orange - (Midnight)
American Graffiti - (Midnight)
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
A Night with Josh Garrels and Mason Jar Music
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
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BLACK HISTORY in FILM FESTIVAL 2010
Burlesque: Oh! Limpixx - (Live)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - (Midnight)
Big Trouble in Little China - (Midnight)
Beyond Gay After School Special
Back to the Future - (Midnight)
Back to the Future Part II - (Midnight)
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives
Ben West vs. Ezra Levant - A Debate On The Ethics of Oil
BECKstravaganza: 20 *NEW* Beck Songs Performed by The Broken Mirrors and Friends
Blue Morris - Dirty Dancing Burlesque
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman
Best of the Rio Grind Festival Shorts
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Bring Your Boomers #3: Power and Energy Connecting the Dots
Busong (Palawan Fate) Premiere Screening
Burlesque Duos - Valentine's Day
Bring Your Boomers #4 : Election Forum
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Cosmic Slop (Midnight Double Bill)
Crna maka, beli macor (Black Cat, White Cat)
Charlie Is My Darling (rare 1966 Rolling Stones film)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Choose Your Own Adventure premiere
Crazy 8s Kick Off Party & Best of Screening
Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Finals
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Dazed and Confused - (Midnight)
Dead on Film: Zombie Short Film Competition - (Midnight)
Dean Hagland presents: The Truth is Out There
Doxa Film Fest presents: Hit So Hard
Dungeons & Dragons live on stage
Dead on Film Submission Deadline
Dungeons & Dragons Movie Riffing
Dinosaurs Will Die Team Video + Think Thank’s Mind The Video Man
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Escape from New York - (Midnight)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask - (Midnight)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
East Van Allstars Variety Show
East Side Spectacular: A Wet Spots Family Christmas
Emily Carr Film and Animation Grad Show
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off - (Midnight)
Found Footage Festival *One Night Only*
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - (Midnight)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - (Midnight)
Friends of Dorothy presents: The Ryan Steele Show
Friends of Dorothy - Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Friends of Dorothy presents Mean Girls
Friends of Dorothy presents: Scream
FREESTYLE The Art of Rhyme 2.0
Free Oscar Party: The Academy Awards LIVE Broadcast
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Live: Rae Spoon, Christopher Smith, Cris Derksen
Life Aquatic (Rio members only)
Live: Supernova: Battle of the Bands
Live: Sean McCann & Jeremy Fisher
Live: Tommy Wiseau Actor's Workshop
Live: Daniel Johnston with special guests
LIVE: 3rd Annual Battle of the Bands
Live: J Mascis with special guests
Live: Tommy Wiseau The Master's Class
Live Concert: Justin Townes Earle
Live Concert: Socalled + Katie Moore
Live Concert: Pandora and the Locksmiths w/DJ Teddy Smooth
Live Show: Patrick Maliha presents Legion of Stand-Up Comedians
Live Show: Tongue n' Cheek Spoken Word/Burlesque
Live Show: Valentines Sweet Heart Serenade
Live Show: Comedy Fest presents Mark Maron WTF Pod Cast
Live Music: Rio Music Fundraiser/Hell-raiser
Live Show: Patrick Maliha presents Champion of Champions!
LIVE : The Fungineers w/ Super Hero Boy Band & The Funk Hunters (w.Electrabelle)
LIVE: Brasstronaut with Utidur
LIVE: Manafest with Whosarmy and Facts
LIVE: Good for Grapes with Young Pacific and Derrival
Live Luciterra Dance Production: Velvet Smoke
LIVE: Justin Townes Earle with Tristen
LIVE : The Faceplants w/ Guests
LiveNation.com presents: Nneka
LIVE: MV&EE, Portage & Main, Capitol 6, Louise Burns
LIVE: Derrival / Shadows / Born in Uniform / The Bank Dogs
LIVE: Alpha Yaya Diallo "West African Summit"
LIVE: Said The Whale with special guest Rococode
LIVE: Hannah Georgas with The Belle Game
LIGHTS - Siberia Acoustic Tour
LIVE: Junip with guests On An On and Barbarossa
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Magical Mystery Tour - (Midnight)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
My Other Me: A Film About Cosplayers
MANIC MONDAY! Sixteen Candles (1984) & Pretty In Pink (1986)
Miriam Delicado Speakers Lecture
Movie Riffing: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
MPPIA Short Film Award Launch Event
Muse: A Contemporary Bellydance Showcase featuring April Rose
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One Million Years B.C. - (Midnight)
Oscar Party: Academy Awards on the Big Screen (Free Admission)
OPEN MIC NIGHT At the Rio! East Van's Got Talent!
OPEN MIC NIGHT At the Rio! East Van's Got Talent!
Olio Festival presents: Alone Up There
Olio Festival presents: FDR American Badass
Olio Festival presents: Do Something With Your Life
Olio Festival presents: Wall Writers
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Pink Floyd - The Wall - (Midnight)
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii - (Midnight)
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Prince of Darkness - (Midnight)
Premiere: No Numbers: Identity Beyond Measure
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Planet of the Apes: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
Pipe THIS! A Burlesque Benefit
Patrick Maliha's The People's Champ of Comedy
Perryscope Concerts and The Vogue presents: Royal Wood
Perryscope Concerts and Vogue Productions present: Wanting
Perryscope Concerts & The Vogue presents The Zolas & guests
Patrick Maliha's Champion of Champs #4
Pearls of the Far East Fundraiser hosted by SEACHS
Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home
Patrick Maliha's Champion of Champions #5
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Sweet Sweetbacks's Baadasssss Song - (Midnight)
Silent Films, Live Music (with Maria In The Shower and more!)
Saturday Night Fever - (Midnight)
Spike and Mike Sick N Twisted Animation Festival
SILENT FILM W/MUSIC feat. MARIA IN THE SHOWER
Spike and Mike New Generation Animation Festival
Sweet Heart Seranade - Live: Said The Whale
Spike n' Mike Sick n' Twisted Animation 2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Said The Whale: Listening party and video screening
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation
Saturday Night Fever + Disco Dance Party
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The Breakfast Club - (Midnight)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Midnight Double Bill)
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The Vancouver Aboriginal Comedy Show feat. Cliff Paul
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - (Midnight)
The Man with Two Brains - (Midnight)
The Vancouver Poetry Slam Finals
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - (Midnight)
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - (Midnight)
The Hills Have Eyes - (Midnight)
The Return of the Living Dead - (Midnight)
The Bones Video + The Search For Animal Chin presented by Powell & Peralta
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
The Room - with Tommy Wiseau IN PERSON
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Thinking Outside The Ballot Box For Social Justice
The Piano Has Been Drinking: A Tribute to Tom Waits
Tegan and Sara present: Get Along Films
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Champion of Champions $500 Variety Show #2
The Evil Bastard KARAOKE Experience
The Spectacular! Spectacular! Rio Theatre Variety Show!
The Wet Spots East Side Spectacular!
The Champion of Champions Variety Show #3
The Wet Spots' East Side Spectacular
TaTas and Tiaras Burlesque Beauty Pageant
The 3rd Annual Dead on Film Competition
Terminal City Rollergirls present: Derby, Baby!
The Yes Men Double Bill hosted by Mike Bonanno
The POST-Valentine's Day Break Up Show *LIVE DVD TAPING*
The 8th Annual Bloodshots Screening
The Georgia Straight presents Chilly Gonzales
The Wet Spots' East Side Spooktacular
The Georgia Straight presents Passenger
The Hockey Gods presents "GOON" Screening & Fundraiser
The Gentlemen Hecklers presents Yor, the Hunter from the Future
The Tragically Hip Live Rock-Doc "Bobcaygeon"
The Georgia Straight presents Sarah Slean
The Georgia Straight presents Martha Wainwright
The Georgia Straight presents Hayden
The Georgia Straight presents Lianne La Havas
The True Heroines: Red Carpet, Live Show, and Advanced Screening
Tongue N Cheek: Four Giants of Spoken Word ~ Four Queens of Sweet Soul Burlesque
The Story of Luke Premiere + The 4th Annual Big Picture Awards
The Gentlemen Hecklers present Hard Ticket to Hawaii
The Rio Theatre 5th Anniversary Party
The Gentlemen Hecklers present: Starcrash
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Victoria Park: A Generation of Bocce
VCF PRESENTS: DOUG LOVES MOVIES
VCF PRESENTS: LAFF HOLE w/GARFUNKEL & OATES
VCF PRESENTS: MARK MARON WTF PODCAST
Vancouver International Burlesque Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival presents Mia
Vancouver Folk Music Festival presents Pokey Lafarge and South City Three
Vancouver Queer Film Festival presents: Angel
Vancouver Queer Film Festival presents: Stock Characters
Vancouver Queer Film Festival presents: The Coast is Queer
Videograss The Darkside and Enlighten premiere
VIMFF: Ski Show with Eric Pehota and Ski Films
Van Slam Finals Night featuring Truth Is....
Vancouver International Burlesque Festival: Productions Night
Vancouver Folk Music Festival presents Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three
