The Rio Theatre

The Rio Theatre The Rio Theatre is Vancouver's favourite independently owned and licensed venue offering an eclectic If it can be done, we'll do it.
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Buttering your popcorn since 1938, the Rio Theatre is the cultural anchor of East Vancouver's historic Commercial Drive neighborhood. Movies, concerts, comedy, burlesque and so much more. See www.riotheatre.ca for our current calendar and showtimes. Steps away from the Commercial Broadway Skytrain and numerous buses, there is also ample street parking adjacent to this beautiful, art-deco artspace. Please note that as we are a licensed venue, minors are not permitted at some events.

COMING SOON! Love. Betrayal. Death. // AMORES PERROS (“Love’s a Bitch”) is Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s bli...
06/03/2026

COMING SOON! Love. Betrayal. Death. // AMORES PERROS (“Love’s a Bitch”) is Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s blisteringly bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash.

After 25 years, González Iñárritu‘s legendary feature debut returns to the big screen in a stunning restoration.

“If you haven’t fled the theater 20 minutes into the new Mexican film Amores Perros, you’ll be hooked until the end. It pulses with energy and wild style.” (LA Weekly)

June 13
5:30 pm

June 18
9:00 pm

Tickets available at 🎟️
www.riotheatre.ca

JUST ANNOUNCED! You only get one shot at fame. // The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO) and o...
06/02/2026

JUST ANNOUNCED! You only get one shot at fame. // The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO) and one of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto.

“Ferociously entertaining! Makes you realize just how simple (and simple-minded) the majority of biopics are by comparison.” (IndieWire)

June 18
6:30 pm

Tickets available at 🎟️
www.riotheatre.ca

COMING SOON! You’re the top! // In a unique, immersive, multimedia special event, classic film scholar MICHAEL VAN DEN B...
06/02/2026

COMING SOON! You’re the top! // In a unique, immersive, multimedia special event, classic film scholar MICHAEL VAN DEN BOS and the De-Lovely Vancouver jazz vocalist LAURA CREMA celebrate the works of legendary songwriter COLE PORTER.

This swellegant, elegant evening features a sensational collection of Cole Porter Broadway and Hollywood songs performed on stage live by THE LAURA CREMA SEXTET interwoven with classic film performances projected on the big screen. Get ready for a night that’s a musical flight . . . one of those crazy flings . . . a trip to the moon on gossamer wings!

June 12
7:30 pm

Showtimes and tickets available at 🎟️
www.riotheatre.ca

Well hey, ! Welcome to a fresh week. It’s just another Monday night here at ye olde Rio… Join us at 6:30 pm for filmmak...
06/01/2026

Well hey, ! Welcome to a fresh week. It’s just another Monday night here at ye olde Rio…

Join us at 6:30 pm for filmmaker Taratoa Stoppard’s critically acclaimed “Māori Gothic” horror drama MĀRAMA. Set in 1859, the story follows a young Māori woman who travels to a grand, remote manor in England where she takes a job for a wealthy landowner where she discovers horrifying truths about colonial violence, cultural theft, and ancestral survival. This feels like the mix of corseted, Victorian-era period drama mixed with mystical, ancestrally charged supernatural movie goodness we need to kickstart the week.

Final screening of Zendaya and R-Pats in Kristofer Borgli’s sharp satire THE DRAMA at 8:45 pm.

Complete showtimes and tickets 🎫 www.riotheatre.ca

COMING SOON! Now leaving Cape Breton. // Best friends Tracy and Martina have never been farther than Nova Scotia, but wh...
06/01/2026

COMING SOON! Now leaving Cape Breton. // Best friends Tracy and Martina have never been farther than Nova Scotia, but when they hear promises of big opportunities “out west,” the pair pack their clothes into garbage bags and hop a flight to Alberta. What starts as a dream trip quickly unravels: internal tensions, surprise expenses, and cousins who are nowhere to be found. With their return tickets unbooked and Martina’s credit card maxed, the girls are stranded, broke, and desperate.

They thought they’d make enough money opening for the band Slowcoaster at their three stops in Fort McMurray, Edmonton, and Calgary, but budgeting has never been their strength. Things go from bad to worse when old small-town tensions between the girls bubble to the surface. Through it all, Tracy and Martina discover that making ‘Berta Money isn’t as easy as they thought, but sticking together and relying on East Coast hospitality just might be their ticket back to Cape Breton.

“… serves as a prime example of Canadian comedy at its best.” (Exclaim!)

Filmmakers Justine Williamson, Greg Vardy and Brendan Lyle will be on site for an introduction and post-show Q&A.

July 6
6:30 pm

Tickets available at 🎟️
www.riotheatre.ca

06/01/2026

This Wednesday at 9:30pm! Australian director Alice Maio Mackay’s latest film with a post show Q&A 😉 Don’t miss out 🐍

TONIGHT! Takin’ the beat to the streets! // BEAT STREET helped introduce hip hop culture to the world at a time when it ...
05/31/2026

TONIGHT! Takin’ the beat to the streets! // BEAT STREET helped introduce hip hop culture to the world at a time when it was still a local movement centered in the Bronx, showcasing the four core elements DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti through real pioneers and crews like Rock Steady Crew and artists such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Melle Mel. The film gave international audiences a vivid look into 1980s New York street culture, inspiring generations of kids around the world to start rapping, breaking, DJing, and painting graffiti in their own communities, while also preserving an important snapshot of early hip hop history before it became fully commercialized.

“Holds up pretty well as one of the few hip hop musicals and a neat time capsule when hip hop was growing and still on the fringes of the mainstream.” (Cinema Crazed)

Presented in partnership with .hiphop, a local grass roots community focused on promoting cypher culture and unifying the elements hip hop through direct community engagement.

Featuring tonight too…

May 31
9:30pm

Tickets available at 🎟️
www.riotheatre.ca

TONIGHT! What a story… //Gather ye roses, footballs, and little doggies. And you better be bringing spoons. 🥄 🥄🌹🏈THE ROO...
05/30/2026

TONIGHT! What a story… //Gather ye roses, footballs, and little doggies. And you better be bringing spoons. 🥄 🥄🌹🏈

THE ROOM
10:15 pm
Tonight! (May 30)

With a special introduction from James Franco. (Whose cinematic adaptation of acclaimed author and actor Greg Sestero’s iconic memoir THE DISASTER ARTIST resulted in the Golden Globe winning 2017 film… Which we screened last night.)

Tickets 🎫 to (8:00 pm) are also available either online or at the box office (limited tickets available).

Tickets 🎫
www.riotheatretickets.ca or at the door.

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1660 East Broadway
Vancouver, BC
V5N1W1

Opening Hours

Monday 5:30pm - 12am
Tuesday 5:30pm - 12am
Wednesday 5:30pm - 12am
Thursday 5:30pm - 12am
Friday 5:30pm - 2am
Saturday 1pm - 12am
Sunday 1pm - 12am

Telephone

+16048793456

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