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Alpha

Maverick French filmmaker Julia Ducournau (RAW, TITANE) returns to the body-horror genre with her latest film ALPHA, which made its debut in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Set during the 80’s/90’s against the backdrop of a coastal French town, the dystopian drama follows 13 year-old protagonist Alpha (Mélissa

Almost Famous (25th Anniversary Screening)

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” It’s all happening…! Writer-director Cameron Crowe‘s (SAY ANYTHING…, SINGLES) turned his own story as a juvenile rock critic who hit the road with some of the 70s biggest rock bands

All We Imagine As Light

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (the first Indian film to be selected for competition in 30 years!) for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on

All Things Must Pass: The Rise & Fall of Tower Records

Soundly constructed, briskly paced and, in the end, affectingly wistful. – Variety Filmmaker Colin Hanks spent seven years working on this nostalgic tale of the rise and fall of the once-behemoth Tower Records—which started in the back of a Sacramento family drugstore and became an international retail powerhouse before it

All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997)

In the late 80s and early 90s, the streets of downtown Manhattan were the site of a collision between two vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Narrated by Zoo York co-founder Eli Gesner with an original score by legendary hip-hop producer Large Professor (Nas, A Tribe Called Quest), ALL THE

All the Lost Ones

The Rio Theatre’s Rio Grind Film Fest continues on Saturday, November 23 with a screening of the Canadian science-fiction thriller ALL THE LOST ONES, directed by Mackenzie Donaldson. The film is a post-apocalyptic thriller centred on the aftermath of a North American civil war brought on by the effects of

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan

All That Jazz

It’s showtime folks! Slick your hair and wear your buckle shoes to the Rio Theatre on June 23, as we celebrate the birthday of the life and legend in the entertainment industry, and a man who changed the art of dance forever, Mr. BOB FOSSE. A, 5, 6, 7, 8!

All Shall Be Well

This summer, STArt Film Studio presents In the Spectrum of Love, a touring showcase of four iconic Chinese-language films. Across six cities, we invite you to rediscover these unforgettable portraits of intimacy, distance, silence, and resilience. Playing at the Rio Theatre over the course of August 30 & September 7.

All Quiet on the Western Front

It’s been nearly a hundred years since Erich Maria Remarque’s raw account of life in the trenches first shocked the world. Published in 1929, “All Quiet on the Western Front” was an instant bestseller, followed almost immediately by an epic Academy Award–winning Hollywood  movie in 1930. Despite its enduring legacy,

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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Email: info@riotheatre.ca

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