Movies

Genre: Drama

Tel Visa

A Nepalese family navigate cultural differences in the US, and the complications social media can cause. Despite their struggles and fears, the family support each other. With Barsha Raut, Buddhi Tamang, Bipin Karki, Gauri Malla, Richa Ghimire, Frances Sherman, Pooja Chand. Tuesday, January 21 Doors 5:00

Maria

Completing a trilogy that follows kaleidoscopic portraits of Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana, filmmaker Pablo Larraín turns his keen cinematic eye to the renowned soprano Maria Callas with this stately biopic of the cultural icon. Portraying the epochal diva in her psychologically brittle final days, Angelina Jolie gives a Golden

Queer

Daniel Craig has turned in one of 2024’s most celebrated performances in prolific Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, CHALLENGERS) languid period drama QUEER, adapted from William S. Burroughs‘ 1985 romantic novella of the same name. Set in the 1950’s, Craig (perhaps best-known as James Bond) stars

Vermiglio

The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for VERMIGLIO, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This singular portrait of a sprawling

Oh, Canada

More than four decades after AMERICAN GIGOLO,  writer-director Paul Schrader and actor Richard Gere are back together in OH, CANADA. Fiery but feeling his years and his illness, ailing filmmaker Leonard Fife (Gere) wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of lauded documentary

The Girl with the Needle

A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world. Both eerie and exquisite, writer-director Magnus von Horn‘s latest film tracks young factory worker Karoline as she struggles to

Little Women (30th Anniversary Screening)

“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens

Kaljiga

In a small coastal town, where the lives of the residents revolve around the sea, the livelihood of a poor man’s family is entirely dependent on fishing. However, their peaceful existence is shattered when a dark shadow of evil, driven by greed and malice, threatens the life of his family.

Memoir of a Snail

Grace Pudel (voiced by Sarah Snook) is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee), she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued

Drive Back Home

The Rio Theatre is flying both our Made In Canada and LGBTQ+ pride flags with a screening of award winning, Canadian maritime born, filmmaker Michael Clowater‘s (‘Tenant’, ‘4 Eyes’), DRIVE BACK HOME. The film is based on

About The Rio

Voted the #1 Independent Theatre in Vancouver, the Rio Theatre is a multimedia venue featuring arthouse, mainstream and cult-classic cinemas as well as live entertainment. Built in 1938, the Rio has been fully restored with a state of the art digital projector, surround sound, a huge stage and 420 luxurious seats.

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