Movies

Deconstructing the Beatles: The White Album (With Scott Freiman!)

The Rio Theatre welcomes the creator and writer of the acclaimed Deconstructing the Beatles series, Scott Freiman, to our stage on Monday, April 23 for a truly unique presentation – part film, part concert, part multimedia lecture – focused on the band’s iconic White Album. An internationally recognized

Decision to Leave

What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession? Winner of Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook (OLDBOY, THE HANDMAIDEN) returns with a seductive romantic thriller that takes his renowned stylistic flair to

Deathgasm

The Rio Grind Film Festival is pleased to present a very last minute – but so very welcome – late night addition to the Rio Theatre’s calendar on Friday, October 9. Following its World Premiere at SXSW 2015, New Zealander Jason Lei Howden’s DEATHGASM has become one of the “ones

Death Race 2000

Start your engines… The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 11 with the high-octane camp classic DEATH RACE 2000. In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road

Death Becomes Her

The Rio Theatre‘s series of spooky Halloween fare continues on Thursday, October 24 with DEATH BECOMES HER – a film that has been requested many times over many year, but has yet to be played at the Rio Theatre – until now! In this 1992 cult-classic horror comedy, a novelist

Dead Snow

Don’t steal gold. It always ends… Badly. After making a (bloody) splash following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, Norwegian writer-director Tommy Wirkola‘s Scandinavian CABIN FEVER-esque take on the zombie trope landed itself a cult following (and 2014 sequel) thanks to its fresh take on a well-worn

Dead Shack (Filmmakers in Attendance!)

On a weekend getaway at a rundown cabin in the woods, Jason, a cautious teen, his crude best friend Colin and his fearless older sister Summer are forced to work together, grow up and save their hard-partying parents from their predatory neighbor intent on feeding them all to her undead

Dead Ringers

Following the massive global success of THE FLY in 1986, audiences were properly primed for iconic Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg‘s DEAD RINGERS, an intimate and often uncomfortable psychological thriller that manages to both penetrate and dramatically elevate the body horror genre with its deeply disturbing, twisted love story. Elliot (Jeremy

De Palma

One of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma‘s career started in the 60s and has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way, and Mission: Impossible. In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving

Dazed and Confused (30th Anniversary Screening)

Alright, alright, alright! Why go cruising the strip or climbing the moon tower when you could spend it at your favourite indie movie theatre instead? Join us at the Rio Theatre for 30th Anniversary screenings of a slice of cult-classic nostalgia that celebrates the best day of

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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