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Two maladapted young women, both part of the same internet gore enthusiast community, formulate a plan to meet in person with the intent that one will kill the other, film the killing, and then sell the cameras that “watched” to unsuspecting customers online in the hopes of spurring on a “new era of death.” Inspired in equal parts by mumblecore, shot-on-video horror, and a deep unease formed by t...

Bouchra, a 35-year-old queer Moroccan coyote living in NYC, is wrestling with writer’s block. Whilst finishing the script for her autobiographical film Bouchra has a phone call with her mother in Casablanca. Their tender yet complex exchange leads to memories resurfacing and sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, unreconciled conflicts and the thrills of love and r...

Doc’n Roll is delighted to be part of The Music is Black Festival from East Bank and to bring a special event to the Rio Cinema celebrating one of London’s most distinctive contemporary musicians, Hak Baker. The evening will include a special screening of Hakeem, live Q&A, and an intimate acoustic performance by Hak Baker, offering audiences a unique opportunity to hear directly from Hak about hi...

For our July Classic Matinee, we?re heading to Sheffield with THE FULL MONTY, the beloved British comedy that strips away pride, prejudice and plenty of inhibitions. After losing his job at the local steelworks, Gaz is desperate to raise money and prove himself to his young son. Inspired by the success of a touring male dance troupe, he recruits a group of fellow unemployed men to form their ow...

For our August Classic Matinee, we hit the open road with THELMA & LOUISE, Ridley Scott’s landmark drama and one of the defining American films of the 1990s. What begins as a weekend getaway for two friends soon becomes an unexpected flight across the American Southwest after a violent encounter changes everything. Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon are magnificent as the titular pair, whose journe...

For our September Classic Matinee, we’re heading to the windswept Scottish coast with LOCAL HERO, Bill Forsyth’s much-loved comedy-drama about place, belonging and the value of what cannot be bought... When an ambitious American oil executive is sent to a remote Highland village to purchase the land for a new refinery, he expects a straightforward business deal. Instead, he finds himself captiv...

SHOOT THE PEOPLE is a documentary capturing photographer and activist Misan Harriman?s journey documenting global protest movements that drive social change. Renowned for his wide-ranging work ? including powerful breakthrough images from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and capturing the Palestinian liberation movement on film ? Harriman also made history as the first Black man to photograph ...

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down? Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton are on unmissable form in this razor-sharp adult comedy from A24. Everything is on the table.

Pink Palace presents John Schlesinger’s taboo breaking masterpiece Midnight Cowboy, the first X rated film to win the Oscar for Best Film, and the kicked open the door for queer representation in mainstream cinema. Joe Buck a wide eyed innocent arrives in New York at the height of the freewheeling 60’s (and the time of the Stonewall Riots) and quickly gets drawn into its seedy underbelly, making ...

Pink Palace presents this ground breaking film, the first part of Cocteau’s Orpheus Trilogy. In an artist's studio, an unfinished statue comes to life. The lips of its androgynous face move, pressing a kiss to the artist's hand. At the statue's demand, he plunges into a mirror... “Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered.” Presented in four chapters, this avant garde experimental film...

Pink Palace presents a new 4k restoration of this landmark of gay and bisexual cinema. David Buckley's excursion into bisexuality, 70s relationship politics, and the historical importance of gay bathhouse culture is celebrated in this 1975 film Saturday Night at the Baths. When struggling pianist Michael lands a job at the legendary Continental Baths in NYC, his wife Tracy encourages him, even em...

Pink Palace in association with Lobotomy Room present one of the all time WTF train wreak of a movie: BOOM! the insane drunken cinematic atrocity that is John Waters favourite movie… ever! Elizabeth Taylor plays the wretched and dying millionairess Sissy Goforth, drunkenly dictating her memoirs in her spectacular cliff top house, visited only by her friend The Witch of Capri (Noel Coward) who del...

Come and join us for a cosy intro chat charting the history of the UK’s only weekly queer film club, the events, the premieres, the guests, the wonderful highs and (very) occasional lows over the past four years. Founder and curator Andrew Woodyatt will be in conversation with Darren Jones (BFI FLARE) in an illustrated fun chat about the joys and challenges of programming LGBTQI+ films, and a look...

Join us from 10.15am for craft activities, before the film screening at 11am! The Rio’s beloved and historic Saturday Morning Picture Club is back. This month we’re going to cool down as we heading to the Winter Olympics with COOL RUNNINGS, the feel-good comedy inspired by the true story of Jamaica’s first ever bobsleigh team! Before the screening, we will have arts and crafts activities in ...

Join us from 10.15am for craft activities, before the film screening at 11am! The Rio’s beloved and historic Saturday Morning Picture Club returns with one of the most beloved family films ever made: E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. Before the screening, we will have arts and crafts activities in the lobby led by Sophie, who as well as being a member of the Rio team has worked with children as a ...

Join us from 10.15am for craft activities, before the film screening at 11am! The Rio’s beloved and historic Saturday Morning Picture Club continues with MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND, a swashbuckling musical adventure packed with pirates, treasure maps and Muppet mayhem. Before the screening, we will have arts and crafts activities in the lobby led by Sophie, who as well as being a member of the R...

Join us from 10.15am for craft activities, before the film screening at 11am! The Rio’s beloved and historic Saturday Morning Picture Club is back with WALL•E, Pixar’s imaginative and heartwarming tale of friendship, adventure and caring for our planet. Before the screening, we will have arts and crafts activities in the lobby led by Sophie, who as well as being a member of the Rio team has ...

Set on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, Blue Heron follows eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family as they attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy. Drawing on her own memories, filmmaker Sophy Romvari shapes a deeply personal portrait of childhood, family fractures, and the fragility of recollectio...

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down? Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton are on unmissable form in this razor-sharp adult comedy from A24. Everything is on the table.

SHOOT THE PEOPLE is a documentary capturing photographer and activist Misan Harriman?s journey documenting global protest movements that drive social change. Renowned for his wide-ranging work ? including powerful breakthrough images from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and capturing the Palestinian liberation movement on film ? Harriman also made history as the first Black man to photograph ...

SHOOT THE PEOPLE is a documentary capturing photographer and activist Misan Harriman?s journey documenting global protest movements that drive social change. Renowned for his wide-ranging work ? including powerful breakthrough images from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and capturing the Palestinian liberation movement on film ? Harriman also made history as the first Black man to photograph ...

For seventeen years, aspiring musicians Matt and Jay have been trying, and failing, to book a show at Toronto’s Rivoli. Their latest wildly overcomplicated plan goes spectacularly wrong, accidentally sending them back to 2008. Face to face with their younger selves, the pair discover that changing the past is every bit as difficult as booking the gig. Ingenious, hilarious and unexpectedly moving, ...

Since October 2023, Gaza has been sealed from the world-except for one group, international doctors. While global media are barred from reporting and governments look away, doctors breach the blockade and what they find is not just a humanitarian crisis, but a calculated dismantling of life itself. Covering the entire two years of the genocide, their first-hand accounts and visceral footage offer...

Don your sandals and set sail for Ithaca. Following the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on a long and perilous voyage home, encountering the likes of Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, Circe and others along the way. Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's enduring epic reimagines one of the foundational stories of Western literature as a sweeping adventure of survival, temptation and homecoming. Led ...

BLOOD X BONES As part of Category H’s late night season Rio Forever/Rio Never Ever, you are invited to an evening of BLOOD and BONES. On Friday the 17th of July at 23:30, see two films which explore the house as a place of horror. Where strange inhabitants commit unspeakable deeds or where past inhabitants can’t quite seem to put their bad habits to rest, even from beyond the grave. BLOOD (1973)...

This fast-moving rom com set in London in 1593 follows the trials and tribulations of Will Shakespeare, a struggling young playwright, suffering from a dreadful bout of writer’s block. Inspired by new love, his creative powers are unleashed as his great love story, Romeo and Juliet is brought to life for the first time. Screening as part of SLACKER SHAKESPEARE, a season of 1990s indie cult movie ...

Category H’s Rio Forever/Rio Never Ever season continues with a night of Folk Horror, THE WICKER MAN X NOROI THE CURSE. This 21st August, starting at 20:30, experience two films which look at their countries' respective folklore and the myths which permeate their culture. With a full Category H themed lobby takeoverand special guest introductions, this is a summer screening that cannot be missed. ...

Poland, 1962. Anna, a novice nun preparing to take her vows, discovers a family secret that changes her understanding of her past. Together with her aunt, she embarks on a journey to uncover the fate of her family during and after the Second World War. Winner of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Ida is shown in Polish, with English subtitles.

Pink Palace joins forces with Contemporary Films to present this Oscar winning documentary, back on the big screen at the Rio. In 1978, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco city council, one year later, he and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Milk s fellow council member, former police officer Dan White. This powerful documentary recreates the tumultuous story of Milk’s grass-r...