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Genre: Drama

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

Paris, 1930. The infamous surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is left penniless after the scandalous release of ‘L’Age d’Or’ leads to a falling out with collaborator Salvador Dalí. On a whim, Buñuel’s good friend, sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket and promises to devote his winnings to fund Buñuel’s next

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

As a result of the critical and commercial acclaim of THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO, triple threat Joe Talbot – who directed, wrote and stars in the breakout indie hit – has emerged as a talent to watch in 2019. Talbot stars as Jimmie Fails, who dreams of

The White Crow

Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of iconic Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. Inspired by the book “Rudolf Nureyev: The Life” by Julie Kavanaugh, the film charts the iconic dancer’s famed defection

Wild Rose

Fresh out of prison, a Scottish woman juggles her job and two children while pursuing her dream of becoming a country music star. She soon gets her chance when she travels to Nashville, Tenn., on a life-changing journey to discover her true voice. Featuring a breakthrough performance from star Jessie

Easy Rider

Join us on Saturday, August 19 for a screening of one of our most requested titles, Dennis Hopper‘s beautifully restored directorial debut EASY RIDER. A groundbreaking icon of counter-culture and cinema, EASY RIDER made stars out of Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Hopper, was hailed by Time Magazine as, “one

Eyes Wide Shut

In 1999, Tom Cruise and then real-life wife Nicole Kidman starred as a married couple exploring the possibilities of infidelity in master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick‘s erotically-charged, mysterious, psychological drama EYES WIDE SHUT. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 psychosexual novella ‘Dream Story,’ the film was famously shrouded in secrecy and

The NeverEnding Story

“Having a luck dragon with you is the only way to go on a quest.” As we near ever-closer to the series finale of Netlfix’s blockbuster series “Stranger Things,” we thought the time was right to revisit Wolfgang Petersen’s beloved 1984 classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY. A complete

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She’s known it since she was a young girl, when she would magically connect with distant voices on her father’s shortwave radio. She’s known it since college, when she chose the search for intelligent extraterrestrial messages as her discipline. She’s known it since she bargained for just hours a week

Framing John DeLorean

Mixing documentary and fictionalized re-enactment, FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN takes on the life and career of the mythic, controversial automaker, telling a quintessentially American story of ambition and greed – from his meteoric rise at General Motors Co. to his obsessive quest to build the world’s best sports car, to his

Velvet Goldmine

Set in the glittery Britain of the early 1970’s, director Todd Haynes‘ (CAROL, I’M NOT THERE, FAR FROM HEAVEN) sumptuous 1998 glam rock fantasia VELVET GOLDMINE epitomizes the sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll of the era, “an orgiastic celebration of high-camp fakery and gender-fluid sexuality, full of decadent dandies,

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.

1660 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC

Phone: 604.879.3456

Info Line: 604.878.3456

Email: info@riotheatre.ca

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