From acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, director of Neighboring Sounds and Bacurau, THE SECRET AGENT is a bold, immersive political thriller that entertains as much as it provokes. Thoughtful, tense and politically sharp, it confirms Mendonça as one of Brazil’s most vital contemporary voices, delivering bravura filmmaking that respects its audience and delivers tenfold. Brazil...

The cinematically visionary director of BOOGIE NIGHTS, LICORICE PIZZA, THE MASTER and THERE WILL BE BLOOD, Paul Thomas Anderson, unleashes an exhilarating comic blast based on Thomas Pynchon’s best-seller Vineland, the tale of a weird new America . Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil ...

A landmark concert film returns to the big screen in a stunning 2025 restored version, as SOUL TO SOUL captures a once-in-a-lifetime musical homecoming in Accra, Ghana. Filmed on March 6th 1971 in Black Star Square, the event marked the 14th anniversary of Ghana’s independence with a 14-hour celebration of soul, gospel and Afro-Latin sound. Before performing to a crowd of 100,000, artists inclu...

In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory. Germany’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with an...

From visionary filmmaker Oliver Laxe, SIRÂT is a Cannes Jury Prize-winning fever dream, a hypnotic, bass-thumping odyssey that fuses existential road movie and apocalyptic thriller into one of the year’s most startling cinematic experiences. A father travels with his son to a remote rave in southern Morocco searching for his missing daughter who vanished months ago. As geopolitical tensions ign...

From the fallout of 2024's Brat Summer comes THE MOMENT, a sharp, chaotic mockumentary from the mind of Charli xcx that skewers fame at its most self-aware. Blurring satire and pop spectacle, it captures a superstar at the peak of cultural domination, asking what happens when the party refuses to end. As she prepares for her arena tour debut, Charli finds herself stretched between relentless al...

Nigeria, 1993: Kid brothers Remi (Chibuike Marvelous Egbo) and Akin (Godwin Chimerie Egbo) get to spend an unexpected gift of a day with their estranged father Folarin (Sope Dirisu). Together, they voyage into Lagos for the first time, the boys taking in both the colossal city and the hoops Folarin must go through to get them there. Marking the feature debut of British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola ...

The most glamorous night in show business comes to the equally glamorous Kingsland Road…the annual Rio Oscars Party is BACK for the 98th Academy Awards being held on the 15th of March 2026, 22:30 onwards! Come dressed to impress and ready to stun on the Rio’s leopard print carpet for what is sure to be an Oscar’s to remember. Get the answers to the questions on everyone’s lips this awards season ...

RZA presents THE MYSTERY OF CHESSBOXING Doors 18:00 Start time 18:30 The Rio are thrilled to welcome The RZA, legendary founder of the Wu-Tang Clan for an unmissable screening of the cult kung fu classic THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING (1979), personally selected and introduced live in-person by RZA himself. A longtime champion of martial arts cinema, RZA has drawn deeply from these films in shaping ...

From Academy and BAFTA Award�winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, LA GRAZIA is a sweeping exploration of love, duty, and personal freedom. Toni Servillo � winner of the Best Actor Award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival � stars as Italy�s outgoing president, Mariano De Santis, navigating moral and personal crossroads with the help of his confidante and daughter, Dorotea (Anna Ferzetti). With Sorrent...

Anna, an artist, and Magnús, a fisherman, live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. As the fractures in their marriage come to the surface, the couple try to hold onto the afterimages of a life together and make sense of a deep and lingering devotion. Filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason (Godland) brings surprising humor and emotional weight t...

Directed by BAFTA nominees Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Broken English is a portrait of Marianne Faithfull, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Nick Cave, Suki Waterhouse and Courtney Love. Drawing on interviews, archival material and Faithfull’s final recorded performance, this genre-defying documentary traces a life shaped by fame and reinvention. Across 6 decades and 35+ albums, Faithfull ...

The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. �Tony� Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a �dead man�s wire� from the trigger to the Hall�s head. This is the true story of the stand-off that took the world by storm as Tony demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution, and ...

Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction� but an unexpected ...

Death Wish: An Invocation of our Demon Other Filmmakers include: Maya Deren / Curtis Harrington / Marjorie Cameron / Kenneth Anger / Standish Lawder / Ken Russell / Roy Andersson / JG Ballard / Alan Clarke Duration: 90min From the occult filmmakers of cinema’s very own modern-day Babylon, Hollywoodland, via the troubles of Northern Ireland and our final resting place in Greater London’s Borehamwo...

Featurette Film Show Special: Giger’s Necronomicon & Giger’s Alein. Hans Ruedi Giger the Swiss painter, best known for his nightmarish airbrush images of humans and machines linked together in a cold biomechanical fusion, worked on Alejandro Jodorowsky's unmade epic, Dune, before becoming the guiding visualist to the special effects team that won an Academy Award for Ridley Scott’s Alien. Giger w...

TV Party: The Documentary + Best of Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party We celebrate our spiritual inspiration, Glenn O’Brien and the cast and crew of TV, Party. From 1978 to 1982 a party in New York took over cable access television each week, taking the format and its viewers to places it had never gone before: to the very edge of civility and “sub-realism” as the shows presenter Glenn O’Brien put it. Co-...