When Benji encounters Jake at an airport gate, there is instant chemistry. Their relationship unfolds through monthly secret trips to Amsterdam. A must-see British comedy-drama that dissects a toxic relationship with humour and raw emotion. Inspired by real heartbreak. What begins as thrilling monthly getaways to Amsterdam soon unravels into a doomed relationship of convenience. Struggling to move...

Rio Forever: Opening Night launches the Rio Cinema’s 50th anniversary celebratory season of events with a special night combining film, music and Hackney’s creative spirit. At the heart of the programme is a community selection of films chosen by the Rio’s team, the people whose passion, knowledge and dedication have kept the cinema thriving for decades. Their picks reflect the eclectic tastes and...

Adapted from Virginia Woolf's inspired 1928 satire Orlando: A Biography, screenwriter-director Sally Potter's trailblazing fictional biopic stars Tilda Swinton in the role she was born to play: an Elizabethan poet and nobleman who, over a centuries-long existence, encounters important historical figures, inexplicably switches genders and ends up giving birth to a daughter. A triumph of dogged per...

RIO FOREVER: ASIF KAPADIA PRESENTS: THE GODFATHER: PART TWO, ON 35MM As part of our ongoing Rio Forever celebrations, we're delighted to welcome Oscar-winning film director and homegrown Hackney hero Asif Kapadia to introduce a rare 35mm print of one of his favourite movies: the greatest sequel ever told, the saddest gangster movie of all time and arguably the finest work by one of the all-time m...

RIO FOREVER: DIONNE EDWARDS PRESENTS BOUND ON 35MM With its scorching soundtrack and astounding performances - particularly from X-Factor star Alexandra Burke - writer-director Dionne Edwards’s Pretty Red Dress is one of the most confident and impressive British feature debuts of the decade so far. As part of our ongoing Rio Forever celebrations, we’re thrilled to invite Dionne to introduce a 35mm...

Winner of the Golden Lion Best Film prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is the eagerly-awaited new film from Jim Jarmusch. Funny, tender and astutely observed, this is an intimate exploration of the universal intricacies of family dynamics. Starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat. ...

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 ...

Pink Palace presents this under-the-radar queer trans coming-of-age comedy from 2019, as Adam and those around him experience love, friendship and hard truths, with an intro by Oona who self-describes as Writer, Artist? Content creator with a creative practice centred around cakes, holidays and older men. A historical researcher specialising in late-20th-century trans social history and procrastin...

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails... "The cringe-inducing observations about human behaviour when confronted with uncomfortable truths make for a skin-crawlingly fun time" Hannah Strong, Little White Lies.

Based on the improbably true story, CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’ follows two aspiring Scottish MCs who devise an audacious scheme to achieve their dream of a record deal, by posing as Californian hip hop artists. As fame beckons and the lies pile up, their friendship is put to the test.

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails... "The cringe-inducing observations about human behaviour when confronted with uncomfortable truths make for a skin-crawlingly fun time" Hannah Strong, Little White Lies.

NEVER WATCHING MOVIES x Kulraj Phullar present PRINCE: A PURPLE CELEBRATION Dearly Beloved, Never Watching Movies and Kulraj Phullar invite you to celebrate the life and legacy of Prince (June 1958- April 2016) with this special opportunity to catch his star-making PURPLE RAIN (1984) on the big screen! Follow The Kids (Prince) struggles with an unhappy home life, band tensions, burgeoning romance...

Pink Palace presents a loving tribute and analysis of the multifaceted careers of underground filmmaking legends George and Mark Kuchar (SINS OF THE FLESHOPOIDS, HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED). Exploring their vast bodies of work and assessing their legacies, the brothers and their collaborators give an invaluable portrait of low-budget ingenuity and unflappable creativity. “Long before YouTube, there ...

HAUNTED INDIANA + ATTACK OF THE 50FT WOMAN The opening night of late night horror film club Category H’s Rio Forever season, Rio Forever/Rio Never Ever invites you to celebrate the Rio turning 50 at our evening of public access, HAUNTED INDIANA X ATTACK OF THE 50FT WOMAN. Honouring all things hazy, low budget and strange, we take this as an evening to celebrate cinema, and images which lie beyon...

VARDA FILM CLUB X LA CINEMAÍZ PRESENT: MURS MURS Mur Murs Often dubbed "the mural capital of the world", since the 1930s Los Angeles, California has been home to literally thousands of outsized outdoor artworks, from publicly funded projects and graffitied depictions of popular sporting figures to world-famous examples of the so-called Chicano Art Movement: massive, colourful independent artworks...

Based on a true story, Surviving Earth follows Vlad, a Yugoslav refugee and gifted musician who fled to the UK in the 90s. Now rebuilding his life in Bristol, he longs to be the father his daughter Maria deserves, but the shadows of his past refuse to fade. When he forms a band to reconnect with his roots, music becomes his lifeline - a fragile bridge between who he was and who he wants to be. Bu...

We are excited to introduce Kino Polonia, our new Polish film club at your local cinema, the Rio. Our aim is to showcase the rich history of Polish film making, from cult classics to bold and compelling contemporary works. Opening with Three Colours White, Krzysztof Kieslowski's darkly comic portrait of Karol, a Polish hairdresser abandoned in Paris who returns to Warsaw to rebuild his life. A sto...

RIO FOREVER: DAILIES X ICO: UNCOMMON VOICES with TOMISIN ADEPEJU Exploring class in New British Cinema We’ve all got an image that pops into our head when we think about what a ‘working class film’ might look like, and for most of us, it’s a vision firmly drawn from the past. This selection of recent short films starts a conversation about how working class filmmakers are capturing working class e...

Pink Palace presents a challenging ground breaking sex thriller, a pre-AIDS era warning to those contemplating sexual promiscuity and gender norm deviation. After sexually frustrated housewife Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) has a session with her psychiatrist Dr Elliott (Michael Caine), she silently seduces a man in an art gallery, an assignation that ends in murder and the only witness, high-clas...

A small town near Kyiv. Taras and Olya spend their first night in their new apartment after a party with friends. At dawn, their lives change irrevocably. They don’t have time to leave on time, and squatters have already appeared under the house. The couple finds themselves trapped in their own apartment without electricity, water, or communication. Over the course of five days, everything superfl...