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Howling in the Holidays! WolfCop + Another WolfCop Double Feature Hosted by GOWAN

This one’s for all the “strange animals” out there! Join us at the Rio Theatre for a  screening event that will leave all your “moonlight desires” completely satisfied this holiday season – a night of movies, music and holiday cheer featuring a double-header of the lupine body-horror comedy 

Howl’s Moving Castle

There is no better way to appreciate the magic of Studio Ghibli than on the big screen! Movie-lovers of all ages adore animated classics from Japan’s famed Studio Ghibli, and Hayao Miyazaki‘s HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004) is one of the famed director’s most beloved, a spectacularly visual and highly imaginative

How To Have Sex

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals

House of Gucci

Director Ridley Scott‘s highly stylized (and polarizing) HOUSE OF GUCCI  is inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga, in one of the most talked about performances of the year), an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci

House (“Hausu”)

The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on  with a screening of one of our favourite and most frequently requested titles – the bizarro 70’s Japanese cult-classic oddity that is HOUSE (“Hausu”). Some movies can’t be explained; they need to be experienced. HOUSE is one of

Hour of the Wolf

HOUR OF THE WOLF (“Vargtimmen“) is Ingmar Bergman‘s spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. Max von Sydow plays a painter who, while spending a summer in seclusion with his pregnant wife Liv Ullmann, is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. Before long, Ullmann is also experiencing

Hounds of Love

Following rapturous responses from festival critics and audience around the world, Ben Young‘s chilling crime thriller HOUNDS OF LOVE has quietly emerged be the breakout, must-see indie Australian film of 2017; “…the rarest of beasts: a directorial debut that’s not only tonally flawless but also manages to radically re-imagine

Hot Sugar’s Cold World: CANCELLED

MORE INFORMATION ON RE-SCHEDULING COMING SOON!

Hot Spring Shark Attack

The Summer of 2025 marks the year that cinema’s most famous shark (aka, JAWS) turns 50, and it turns out there’s blood in the water (or on the screen?) as movie-loving audiences the world over hunger for more of the terrifying ocean predator. Japanese filmmaker Morihito Inoue makes his feature debut

Hot Fuzz

Sandwiched deliciously between SHAUN OF THE DEAD and THE WORLD’S END, HOT FUZZ is the second installment of British filmmaker Edgar Wright‘s so-called “Cornetto Trilogy,” an anthology trio of cult-classic genre comedies that serve up action, laughs and… blood. As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) finds it difficult

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

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