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Genre: Thriller

Victoria

One girl. One city. One night. One take. | One of the absolute must-see films of 2015, Germany’s Silver Bear for Best Cinematography winner VICTORIA manages to tell its kinetic, edge-of-your-seat dramatic narrative in a most impressive way: A single take. Sunday, December 13 Doors 5:30 | Movie

Vertigo

“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.” Join us at the Rio Theatre on August 13 as wetip our collective hat and raise an icy beverage to one of the absolute icons of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock (on his birthday!), with a

Vera

The dramatic thriller  VERA is based on the true story of Vera Pesic, a spy in World War 2, who was also called “The Serbian Mata Hari.” In the labyrinth of spy games in the Balkans, from Vienna to Istanbul, Vera Pesic survives amongst Yugoslav, German and British spies with

VBAFF Presents The Hollow Child

The Vancouver Badass Film Festival Presents THE HOLLOW CHILD *Director in attendance! Sunday, March 31 Doors 3:10 pm | Movie 3:30 pm *Please arrive on time! Advance tickets $10.50 HERE | $12.50 at the door VBAFF Day Pass $35 HERE *Must be 19+ w/ID

VBAFF Presents Knuckleball

The Vancouver Badass Film Festival Presents KNUCKLEBALL *Director in attendance! Left alone on an isolated farm, a 12-year-old boy must fight for his life when he becomes the target of a crazed psychopath. KNUCKLEBALL stars Michael Ironside (Starship Troopers, Scanners, Turbo Kid) and TURBO KID‘s Munro Chambers. “Helmer Michael Peterson effectively

V for Vendetta

“Remember, remember, the fifth of November…” In 2006, Alan Moore‘s cult-classic and politically-minded, subversive graphic novel ‘V for Vendetta’ hit the big screen with an electrifying script courtesy of THE MATRIX‘s Lana and Lilly Wachowski and a memorable turn from a freshly-shorn Natalie Portman. It goes without saying that

Us

Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide (Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o) feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their

Upgrade

After his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, PROMETHEUS) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure that will “upgrade” his body. The cure – an Artificial Intelligence implant called STEM – gives Grey physical

Unhinged

Rachel is a single mother whose bad day gets even worse when she beeps her horn at a fellow driver (Russell Crowe) during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of words, she soon realizes that the mysterious man is following her and her young son in his truck. The initial case

Under the Silver Lake

Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who’s swimming in his building’s pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal

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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